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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
VSnaresFreak:
alright i just uploaded an album but apparently now you cant post direct links unless your a Pro member? whats up with that?
pulpfiction21:
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - Picks Us Apart (2005)
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--- Quote ---The California/Washington quintet's third full length finds the band's music moving towards the up-tempo side of the spectrum while the subject matter becomes bleaker. "A sonic universe gently compressed into a moody snow globe," swoons the SF Bay Guardian, "Picks Us Apart is the Jim Yoshii Pile-Up's finest moment, and clearly one of the best albums of 2005."
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velveteen - Home Waters (2007)
This was the band that was part of the whole "Narrow Stairs" Death Cab april fools joke. They sound a lot like death cab, but there are a couple of songs on this album that are constantly being played on my mp3 player.
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From Punknews
--- Quote ---German indie rock band Velveteen received a ton of press when blogger Jerome Holeyman leaked what the public thought to be Death Cab for Cutie's new album, Narrow Stairs, earlier this year. It was actually Velveteen's 2007 full-length, Home Waters, but Charlatantric's prank worked because Velveteen carry enough similarities to make such a joke believable.
Here's the thing: Home Waters itself, regardless of the devastating parallels to Death Cab, is a really, really good album.
One of the deciding factors is vocalist Carsten Scheauff, whose hushed voice is often a dead ringer for Ben Gibbard's, perhaps circa Something About Airplanes or The Photo Album. Besides that, his lyrics also employ the occasional scene with picturesque reality. In lo-fi opener "Prologue: Plastic Cups," he softly narrates: "I held your hair while you threw up / and dragged you down the stairs. / And outside we cracked plastic cups / and I drank from your can."
Musically, Velveteen are treading similar ground as well, but one can certainly see elements of Built to Spill or Appleseed Cast -- after all, Velveteen seem to be masters here at pairing plaintive vocals with sparkling backgrounds. Everything is understated, even when they lightly create buildups or splash their songs with atmosphere; in any event, it's fairly gripping.
Like Death Cab's "Styrofoam Plates," there's a candidness and emotion here that hits its peak in tracks like "After the K.M. Tapes" and the record's late practical masterpiece, "Firework Special." You look forward to hearing Scheauff's somehow restrained urgency delivered in couplets like "So it's all captured on your four-track / and I can still recall all the fun we had." "Summer of 88" is a potential college radio hit, and its followup, the aforementioned "Firework Special" is an extensive, explosive and overwhelmingly emotive affair.
When you get past the fact that Velveteen is potentially cribbing a number of ideas from the current American giants of the style, you realize that they've nonetheless fashioned them into a delicate, arching and impressive way themselves.
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Uzi & Ari - Headworms (2008)
Great Indie/Electronica stuff
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--- Quote ---This Salt Lake City based band is a project spearheaded by Ben Shepard - no, not the GMTV presenter, this is a talented, unique multi-instrumentalist. Named after Ben Stiller’s kids in The Royal Tenenbaums, one would expect this to be another one of those twee indie-pop girl/guy groups. In reality, they are a determined five-piece outfit that melds shoegaze sensibilities with electronica and layered melodies. Recent times have been harsh for the band. Shepard was recently hit by a couple drunks who fled the scene and left him with a busted car. Then $4,500 worth of equipment including instruments, processors, and synthesizers got stolen from his house. Thankfully the band has chosen to soldier on and these mishaps did not delay the release of Headworms.
Uzi & Ari have already been gaining acclaim in Europe — which isn’t too much of a surprise, especially with Shepard’s Thom Yorke-esque vocals and the band’s Mum-reminiscent electro-tinkering. Shepard is a writer and musician of considerable talent, making an indelible mark with the rousing strings and guitar chug of Missoula, following up with the Radiohead-meets-Beirut brilliance of Wolf Eggs. From this point onwards the album seems to switch between poignant chamber pop composition (populated by violins, glockenspiel and piano) and twanging romps, often changing mood within the space of a single song. Shepard’s instrumental configuration isn’t too far from Sigur Ros-style grandeur, but the band always manage to keep a lid on the scale, maintaining a sense of intimacy on tracks like Magpie’s Monologue and Thumbsucker. Elsewhere, you’ll find highlights in the staccato brass and skittering electronic beats of Comforts, which makes for a highly successful and very unusual combination of sounds, putting a lightly experimental slant on the band’s chamber pop stylings.
While Headworms garners an “electronica” tag, it is as much pop — melancholic, sadly trodding and homespun pop music of and for people who like to stay at home and dream up their own world. And while this kind of approach to pop music is paradoxically quite unpopular at the moment (the majority seem to want drug addicted girl singers with strange voices and Sixties soul beats), this kind of music needs time and that is probably the scarcest resource nowadays, even rarer than crude oil and fresh air. These songs need time to evolve until they are ready to be recorded, time to hone their arrangement to a crude sort of perfection and finally, but probably most important, time to be listened to.
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Lifestory:Monologue - Hold Me In The Wind, My Friend (2007)
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Not my words
--- Quote ---Simply beautiful to both the ears and the eyes, give these guys one listen and you'll be hooked on flawless musicianship, and the prettiest, most sincere heart felt vocals ever sang.
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kanavazk:
--- Quote from: VSnaresFreak on 16 Feb 2009, 18:30 ---alright i just uploaded an album but apparently now you cant post direct links unless your a Pro member? whats up with that?
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That's direct links to the files, not to the download page...
Lwize:
--- Quote from: kaelling on 16 Feb 2009, 01:05 ---Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
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For the uninitiated, if you can get past the vocals, Joanna and this album are awesome.
youthcant:
--- Quote from: Oqtober on 09 Feb 2009, 14:03 ---I hope this isn't too mainstream:
Justice - A Cross The Universe
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the dvd is really good.
you posted this the exact date i bought stumbled across the album/dvd at a record shop.
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