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[StaedlerMars]

Is this the actual record or the EP again?

[Weepie McGee]

all for real real...not for play play.

[Weepie McGee]

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[StaedlerMars]

sweet.

cheers!

[SirJuggles]

First Aid Kit works now. Thankee.

[Koremora]

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (2009)



This album is just beyond mindblowing. 38 minutes of gorgeously shifting and interlocking orchestral pop from the master mixer behind Wilco. Make sure you follow his request from the liner notes and "Listen on speakers, LOUD."

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[David_Dovey]

Sounds like really good crap?

Sounds like you're close minded and obsessed with being perceived as cool?

Meh, I say to you! Meh!

Sorry dude but the entire concept of nu-metal is corrupt and devoid of potential for good

[Sox]

you guys keep saying that, but you still haven't heard my cover band.
Nugazi.

[valley_parade]

Do you guys like Kyuss and Fu Manchu? Or at least people who played in those bands? There was only one that covered both of those categories. Brant Bjork played drums for Kyuss, and then spent a little while doing the same with Fu Manchu. After he left the Fu, he also contributed to the Desert Sessions (which were posted on here quite a while ago), and started up his own solo project, which is what I've been listening to all weekend. It's much more mellow than the two bands mentioned earlier, but still awesome.

320kbs, two parts.

Brant Bjork & the Operators - Brant Bjork & the Operators

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[Daft pun]

worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals

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Some records are made to be listened to in certain situations, sometimes regardless of their aim or conception but often because of it. Kraftwerk's Autobahn is an obvious example, and one which clicks, strangely enough, on almost deserted, dim-lamp lined motorways, deep into darkest night. Best of the recent examples of this would be Zombie Zombie's A Land For Renegades, which falls firmly into the mentioned aesthetic. Worriedaboutsatan's Arrivals should be filed here, too. Though a record which is lighter – less garish synth work, more delicate intricacies – than the aforementioned two, it's still one whose true character can only be shown when digesting at the right time, in the right place. It would be nearly a travesty and betrayal to absorb the minutiae of the Leeds electronica duo's début LP in anything close to daylight. At a watery dusk it still seems like an injustice is being done to a body of work which so clearly and ably soundtracks the nocturnal as much as it does the subconscious.

Throughout history, music – songs, albums, operas, concertos and every form otherwise – has mostly been about things that have happened. Arrivals is about things that don't happen, haven't happened and the anticipation of such – this is the crux. Elements of the post-rock ethos are present but don't fully infiltrate the sound. The art of tension building is one such element which does. The usual process which follows mounting tension is to then release the slack, cut back, do the staggeringly predictable – the quiet,quiet,quiet to LOUD ambience – but the experience of exaltation here is never anything but incremental.

'Pissing About' sees a Morse-code loop repeated to near-death with only the vaguest, slightest manipulations and additions to the surrounding sound. It's an incessant, almost musical metaphor for insomnia, as for six-and-a-half minutes the world seems to stop and allows you to refocus. Arrivals is not a confusing record but one which lets you to gather your thoughts rather than lose them.

Unlike close musical relatives and fellow eschewers of spacing, 65daysofstatic, nuances are what worriedaboutsatan rely upon. No such supersonic supernovae of crashing audio as a cloak against quality or variation of ideas. Nothing much happens on Arrivals, yet it is an album which is undoubtedly whole; more complete with each and every disconcerting listen. Drifting in and out of tension-inducing metallic sounding tracks is not novel but keeping a sustainable interest for an hour is done without ease. One thing which does fit to form of genre is the use of disembodied, distant voices which are horrifyingly clichéd wherever used, in any situation.

For reasons dipped into above, 'History Is Made At Night' is a fitting title. Elements of scatterbrain randomness a la Four Tet creep in before melding into 'You're In My Thoughts' elevating worriedaboutsatan to true purveyors of pulsating post-rock. The two genres remain well married throughout and are as much worriedaboutsatan's "sound" as anything.

The whole “post-rock without guitars” (yes, worriedaboutsatan do have guitars...) thing can be like saying “post-rock without the rock” but it sums up significant portions – if not most – of Arrivals. Yet there are always exceptions to boundaries which seem cut and dry but are knocked and chipped at by pioneers. It would smack more than faintly on hyperbole to say that this is a pioneering album, regardless of its qualities. I shan't waste any more words on what genre the sea of sound that is Arrivals fits into. Let's just call it an hour's worth of creepy, organic, nearly always-tension-building electronic ambience which certainly owes as much, if not more, to the hidden influences as the obvious ones.

[pwhodges]

The Beatles - Kinfauns (Esher) demos

As a supplement to the Anthology disks, here is the best set of bootleg recordings from The Beatles, made at George's house in Esher.  A detailed account of these can be found here.  This file is complete except for a few tracks which appear on Anthology 3 (and which some suspect are from a different recording); there are also a couple of inconsequential tracks recorded in India, and the uncompleted third "Beatles" remake from 1996 of a Lennon demo which was planned to start Anthology 3, but was considered not good enough.

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[Daft pun]

This is the new Fuck Buttons album. It's called Tarot Sport and it's amazing.

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[michaelicious]

Nugazi.

This is a pretty amazing concept that I am surprised no one has explored yet. Is the awfulness of nu-metal enough to defeat the wonderous music of Fugazi, or will I be forced to like it because at the heart of the matter the songs are still Fugazi songs?

[Muffin_Buns]

This is the new Fuck Buttons album. It's called Tarot Sport and it's amazing.

Surprisingly good.  I saw them open for Mogwai about a year ago and thought they were terrible, so until now I've been avoiding their studio material despite all of the praise it's been getting.  Now I feel silly for not giving them a chance sooner.

[edwinalink]

how about this... do you really think  The Devil Wears Prada is better than Dry Kill logic?

not that  either will amaze you. but which is the lesser evil?

I'd go Nu before I went Shitcore... (you should see how shitcore is played... better yet. watch the youtube reactions!)

[sarcasticsmoothie]

How about you just listen to music you like and not worry too much about the genre? It's not like this is Metal-Archives  .

[sean]

no you must correctly classify every genre ever correctly or else

opeth is boring guys

they are not real metal

[KvP]

Do you guys like Stars?

[gospel]

If you like post-rock, experimental instrumentals; then definitely check this out. There are tracks off the new CD on their myspace.
Russian Circles - Geneva

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Incredibly beautiful, surreal music. Formally of Azure Ray, I believe. Her myspace.
Orenda Fink - Ask the Night

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Orenda Fink – half of the acclaimed duo Azure Ray – has stayed busy sculpting a diverse and heralded career on her own since Azure Ray released their last album in 2003. She has remained a consistently creative and inventive force, whether through the eclectic, spiritual and cultural examination of her solo debut, Invisible Ones (2005); the lush pop of Art In Manila’s Set The Woods On Fire(2007); or O+S’s art project-turned-album self-titled debut (2009). Orenda now returns with Ask The Night, her second solo album and second project of 2009, to be released October 6th on Saddle Creek.

Orenda was born and raised in Birmingham, AL, and lived in Athens, GA, for years before transplanting to Omaha, NE, and now Los Angeles, CA. Ask The Night is very much a reflection of and homage to her Southern roots–the cultural and familial upbringing that helped to shape her aesthetic. Inspired by traditional American folk music and Southern Gothic literature, the album is a mix of both her personal experiences and stories (often parables) told in character.

Orenda’s music always arises from a feeling and place at a particular moment or time. She had spent the past few years first releasing and touring around Invisible Ones and then with her bands Art In Manila and O+S, the latter of which sprung out of an art residency at Omaha’s Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts and was as much an experiment in technology as in art. Upon finishing the O+S album, Orenda was ready to venture out again under her own name and craved an altogether different kind of project. She sought to create something very personal, simpler in style but no less intricate in craft, and something that required no computers or electronics of any kind.

It’s fitting, then, that Ask The Night was primarily recorded live to 8-track by Stephen Bartolomei (Mal Madrigal) in Orenda’s former Omaha basement as well as by Andy LeMaster (Now It’s Overhead; production on Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Azure Ray) in his Athens, GA living room.

The songs on Ask The Night vary in tone and style, often defying simple categorization. Subtle genre hints emerge such as old-time waltz (”Sister”), country (”Alabama”), folk (”The Garden”) and haunting bluegrass (”High Ground”), while the instrumentation includes acoustic and slide guitar, mandolin, banjo, accordion, violin, upright bass, pump organ… even saw. From the plaintive, melancholy opener “Why Is The Night Sad” to the evocative “That Certain-Something Spring” to the sweetly doleful closer “The Moon Knows”, Ask The Night is a true collection of folk music, translated through Orenda’s unique perspective, woven and intertwined by her distinctive, heart-rending vocals.

The album features a wide variety of players and singers, including producers Stephen Bartolomei and Andy LeMaster, Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Dan McCarthy (McCarthy Trenching), and Adrianne Verhoeven (Dri, The Anniversary, Art In Manila), among others.

Four songs on Ask The Night are collaborations with Birmingham, AL-based artist and poet Chris Lawson, who provided creative inspiration during the writing process as well as album artwork.

“Ask the Night” is a narrative journey that is rooted in memories (both personal and collective) and charts geographies (literal and metaphorical).

Orenda’s stories are woven across gothic southern landscapes where shadows from the past intercept with living voices and emotions.

Fink’s new songs are unique in their ability to distill moments of heartfelt loss and pain transcended through observation, knowing, even joy.

These are songs created from an unusual and deeply satisfying merging of real and dream worlds.

Interesting folk-ish music. their myspace.
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

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A lot of weight seems to have been put on the shoulders of these already established young gentlemen. Five of the twelve songs on ‘Sigh No More’ have already had their little rhythmic sounds pressed on three limited releases by the Londoners, and with the recent shows they’ve played and radio airings they’ve had, the expections are somewhat high.

We already know the heartbreaking sound of ‘White Blank Page’ and the soon to be released lead single ‘Little Lion Man’, a song that has been played at their shows and been in rotation with fans for quite a while now, and who could blame them for putting them on their debut? But we’re not here to go over what we’ve already spoken about before.

Beginning the album are the incredibly uplifting vocal harmonies that we have all grown to love since the ‘Mumford & Sons’ EP. ‘Awake My Soul’ is along the same lines, whilst ‘Sigh No More’ creates a different take on an already proven formula and ‘I Gave You All’ resembles the sound Marcus created with Laura Marling on her debut, which continues into ‘Dust Bowl Dance’. On this last song Mumford create a Nick Cave-esq aggressive tone over the bluegrass folk that gives them their charm, ensuring it all finishes with a roar. A perfect album for the Autumn months.

[edwinalink]

NEW Russian Circles!?!?!? SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[RaZe42]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Indeed.

[scarred]

Some Seattle gold here.

First off, a lovely eight-piece orchestral pop group. The review excerpts are from their second album, which was released this year, but they apply to the band as a whole, so I've included them anyway. Mostly because I can't find the second one anywhere and I have no money with which to buy it.

Grand Hallway - Yes is the Answer [2007]

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Delusions of Adequacy:
"With extraordinarily varied instrumentation that includes violin, vibraphone, banjo, mandolin, as well as the omnipresent guitars and drums, Grand Hallway specializes in fragile and achingly gorgeous chamber pop that is just as transcendent as anything the Arcade Fire can pull off.  But unlike Win Butler’s crew, the music of Grand Hallway is rarely, if ever, theatrical; never has vulnerability seem so coolly assured..."

A Slice of Fried Gold:
"While frequently associated with other baroque pop stalwarts such as Sufjan Stevens, (Grand Hallway) create a sound that is really and truly their own..."

Secondly, a fucking ridiculously good debut by foursome Tea Cozies, who basically sound like the second coming of Sleater-Kinney. Indie pop/rock at its finest.

Tea Cozies - Hot Probs [2009]

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If the sound of blistering guitars on the opening track, "Boys at the Metro," doesn't get a listener's attention, the "hey!" shouts will make it clearly known that Seattle's Tea Cozies are not willing to go unnoticed. Following a 5-song EP, which received airplay on Seattle's KEXP and numerous Internet radio stations, Tea Cozies continue to deliver an enticing mix of '60s girl pop and swirling garage rock on their full-length debut, Hot Probs.

With sweet harmonies and 3/4ths of the band being female, Tea Cozies possess the raw sound similar to that of bands like Vivian Girls, but the energy is at a much higher level and more likely to provoke people to dancing. While there are plenty of angelic seesaw rhythms and cute lyrics, such as, "I had a boy and he had a bike and we got along real nice," vocalists Jessi Reed and Brady Harvey are also witty and sharp-tongued. Pop culture icons Steven Spielberg, Oscar Wilde, Fred Astaire and Mary Shelley find their way into songs among words of wisdom, which reveal, "Even pretty pages crack in old books/ You can't rely on your good looks."

The music arrangements are just as interesting to listen to as the lyrics. Tea Cozies have a standard rock set-up -- with two guitars, bass, drums, and the occasional organ -- but they manage to incorporate unexpected twists and turns into songs. "Like Luca Brasi" switches back and forth from an upbeat pace to a dreamy stride, which happens a bit sudden but still sounds seamless. The song, which is about a girl who is hesitant to go swimming while on a trip with friends, but is convinced to do so and ends up drowning, summarizes the band pretty well. However, unlike the girl in the story who did not listen to her instincts, Tea Cozies are very instinctive. The band members are loud and forceful when they feel the need and slow it down if they get the urge, which adds a lot of diversity to the album.

For every straightforward pop track on Hot Probs, there is one rocking garage or soothing psychedelic track to counteract the sugary goodness. "Corner Store Girls" can be best described as bibbity bop as images of bunnies hopping in meadows, bees buzzing in gardens, and couples rollerskating at the boardwalk come to mind. The song is followed by "The South Turned Him Sour," which contains rich and gritty sounds of roller derbies and hot rod racing.

Toward the end of the album, the music loses a bit of momentum as songs become slower and more psychedelic. There are some instances where the vocalists sound bored, but that could be mistaken with bravado. Even as the songs slow down, there is a strong aura of confidence, but it is never pretentious.

[theoryC]

NEW Russian Circles!?!?!? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN

fixed

[barista.babe]

Thanks for the Mumford & Sons album. I had never heard of them before and am currently finding myself in love. It's some rad indie folk with what sounds like dueling banjos.

[E. Spaceman]

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[edwinalink]

NEW Russian Circles!?!?!? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN

fixed

WOW, thats bigger than I thought... meh... I'm to lazy to resize.

[sean]

man your opinions are sooooooooo cool

[JD]

Grand Hallway - Yes is the Answer [2007]

track 12 is corrupt

[JD]

Kid Cudi- Man on the Moon re-up

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[scarred]

track 12 is corrupt

son of a whore

Grand Hallway - "As A Tower"

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[JD]

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This is pretty sweet.

[minus_the_david]

that kid cudi album up there is great! just saying. it may not be as great as the new Jay-Z, but it's really fucking good.

[epoch]

Cage The Elephant- Cage The Elephant

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[JD]

Who the hell are these people? tell us

[SirJuggles]

Matt and Brad Shultz, the brothers behind this Kentucky-bred garage-punk quintet, grew up in cramped confines with a pious dad who didn't like secular music — a good recipe for acting out later. Despite callow lyrics and what sounds like an unfortunate Nineties rock-rap influence — "In One Ear" sports G. Love and Special Sauce-style rhyming — Cage the Elephant make a fine mess on their debut: Singer Matt Shultz, a vocal dead ringer for the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, conjures white-blues forebears and barks with abandon on songs like "Free Love," a skronk-y cut about a lady who "like(s) it rough" that rocks so enthusiastically you wonder if the band thinks it's breaking new ground.

Their single "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" got a bit overplayed on the radio in my hometown over summer, but they have some rock to them. It's fairly unoriginal young-adult-angry-rebellion rock, but it's there.

[Touch Me Im Sick]

Who the hell are these people? tell us

I saw these guys open for Silversun Pickups. It's basically indie with lots of punk energy, judging by the show.

[JD]

One Download! 3 EP's! What fun!
Unicorn Kid-Wee Monsters SUGARFEST! Lion Hat

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Unicorn Kid is Oliver Sabin, a 17 year old artist from Leith, Scotland. He makes chiptune-influenced, electro-pop songs with discarded childrens toys, keyboards and FL Studio.

His first release, the five-track ‘Sugarfest! EP’ came out on April 20th, 2008 and is available to purchase digitally from his MySpace page.

His EP ‘Lion Hat’ was released in January, 2009 on Euphonios Records.

[scarred]

Do you like electronic music? Do you like dancing like a maniac in a crowd of sexy ladies and men? How about if some of those ladies took their shirts off and all the men had funny beards? Do not be alarmed by these things! They are just French. This is normal for them.


Sexy Sushi - Tu l'as bien mérité [2009]

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I know the art is awful but if you like electropop of any kind, you need this album. Especially Starfucker fans - I could see these two bands touring together.

There's not much more to say, so here's some pics of their live show:






EDIT: Unicorn Kid is suprisingly good, I admit from his art I wasn't expecting much but he's right up there with Bit Shifter in terms of great chippy.

[Daft pun]

Turns out Anoraak did a remix for them, so I guess I'll give 'em a try.

Also, hipster tits.

[David_Dovey]

hipster tits.

would see

[culhog]

Hey everybody... I'm culhog aka groucho. Long time lurker, first time poster.

Here's an EP from one of my favorite local bands. The best way I can describe them is to imagine if Roald Dahl was in an indie folk band. They just released a full length that I have around here somewhere, when I find it I'll post it.

Here's a short article on the band and some of their music
http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/el-olio-wolof-the-wizards-are-here-concert/20030392-3737724.html

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Thanks btw for all the good stuff you guys have been posting... I wouldn't have heard about half of my favorite bands if it wasn't for this forum.

[Tom]

Dude, you forgot the link to the daytrotter article.

El Olio Wolof

[culhog]

Noticed it and fixed it, but alas it was too late.

[pat101]

that kid cudi album up there is great! just saying. it may not be as great as the new Jay-Z, but it's really fucking good.

*Mr. Burns style shudder here*

[pogonrudie]

Yeah, I really don't care for it either. The first couple tracks are embarrassing. It's a shame because I like "Make Her Say" and love, love, love "Day 'N' Nite".

[JD]

Sexy Sushi - Tu l'as bien mérité [2009]

Oh man the opening to this album

[pogonrudie]

Dengue Fever is a psychedelic garage-pop band from Long Beach, CA comprised of a bunch of Americans and a wonderful (and gorgeous) Cambodian frontwoman, Chhom Nimol. Their style is a mix between traditional Khmer pop songs, B-52's space-surf, pumping Farfisa organs, and lo-fi 60s psychedelia nuggets. While their debut and sophomore release are sung entirely by Chhom in her native language, their third release Venus On Earth finds the band incorporating English lyrics and duets with bandleader Ethan Holtzman. In short, a fucking blast. Click the images to download.

[JD]

Which one should I start with?

[culhog]

Saw Dengue Fever in SF. That girl is HOT.

A Story

When Groucho was a young pup, he wanted to record music more than anything. The thought of being in Abbey Road Studio while Abbey Road (Groucho's favorite album) was being recorded was a topic of many a drunken rant. During this time Groucho started using college monies for equipment monies and started building hiis dream. Sunshine Recordings.

Groucho's vision was to record musicians wherever they played rather than in a studio - getting the true sound of the band, a skill which is becoming a lost art due to protools, autotuners, and digital effects. Instead, Groucho ended up getting high all the time and recording whoever happened to be around getting high as well.

The result is Quality Smoking Music. One of only two officially released albums from Sunshine Recordings, it is a review of most of the recordings made by Groucho and friends. This is not a finished work. The majority of the tracks on this album were started by people who wanted to make a great work, and finished by people who wanted to go get nachos.

Je presente vu

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[pogonrudie]

Which one should I start with?

I'd say Venus On Earth, it's probably their most accessible. The track "Tiger Phone Card" in particular is amazing.