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[Vendetagainst]

That Where the Wild Things link is down or something, can someone reup?

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Wait, we can't request re-ups anymore? When did that happen?

[scarred]

Rules:

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ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST ALBUMS. This includes requests for re-uploads; if you miss it, try looking for it somewhere else.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

[JD]

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Wait, we can't request re-ups anymore? When did that happen?

It seems like one of those rules people ignore.

[scarred]

Honestly the only rule enforced in this thread anymore is the code tags around the mediaf!re link.

[sean]

hey oh yeah rules dont be dicks guys use your own links and pictures and shit like that. also use the cool code tags function and dont request shit!

good rules.

[s42]

Hey I was at that show Scarred. It was fantastic wasn't it? Thanks a ton for the Deejay Ceelay, their set was really exciting. I was right about to go search for some.

[sean]

so here's a neat little thing thats been lurking around on my hard drive.

Edit the Sad Parts - The Rise And Fall of Otto Bangheart

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tm1m2mjtdgm
So this is actually just my cousin's and his friends little project. Big Tom plays acoustic guitar, and Ryan just spits out words over it. No really, the dude just makes shit up on the spot. It's actually rather amusing, but that just maybe cause, you know, he's my cousin. I dunno, you kids may get a kick out of this. It's only two songs, so its a quick download and you might get a giggle out of it. Try it!

edit what the tits why was there not a mediafire link in there what the hell

[minus_the_david]

So along with the actual albums, i'm also including the www.allmusic.com review. The Paramore album also includes like 6 bonus tracks, and the Relient K album includes one bonus track.

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With 2007's Riot!, Paramore proved that pop hooks and a killer set of pipes can still vault a band to platinum status, economic downturn be damned. Success comes with a price, though, and Paramore struggled as media outlets reserved most of their coverage for Hayley Williams, deemed by many to be the group's leader. Rather than calling it quits, the musicians sought therapy in the studio, where tales of self-doubt and frustration were captured on tape by mega-producer Rob Cavallo. The anthemic, celebratory songs that made Riot! so appealing were largely absent, but the band found a new way to rock during those sessions, prizing catharsis and nuanced arrangements above the hooks of albums past. Released in late 2009, Brand New Eyes presents Paramore as a stronger, leaner, and altogether more consistent band. "Careful" and "Ignorance" are two of the group's most aggressive tunes to date, and the rest of the disc follows suit, with the guitar interplay of Josh Farro and Taylor York (who makes his studio debut here, having joined the lineup after Riot! was recorded) receiving much of the spotlight. Drummer Zac Farro anchors the band with a flurry of snare hits and cymbal crashes, but the true MVP is none other than Ms. Williams, who sings with all the gusto of an angsty, 21st century Ann Wilson. She's fun, fiery, and altogether fantastic, a pint-sized powerhouse who attacks everyone from holier-than-thou naysayers ("Playing God") to egocentric space cadets ("Brick by Boring Brick"). Williams also tones down the sonic assault whenever it's appropriate, offering a beautifully understated vocal during the album's centerpiece ballad, "The Only Exception," and championing the band's longevity during songs like "Where the Lines Overlap" and "Looking Up." "God knows the world doesn't need another band," she sings during the latter track, "but what a waste it would have been...I can't believe we almost hung it up. We're just getting started." Riot! explored similar thoughts with its closing track, "Born for This," but "Looking Up" is made all the more convincing by the band's recent turmoil. Accordingly, Brand New Eyes is the band's most credible album to date, a blend of melody and muscle that packs a punch in spite of its tumultuous origin.

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Waiter: "You Vultures!" is an album decidedly of its time. Its pretentious title, punctuated as if ripped from a screenplay, should give most listeners an idea of what to expect. The album sees Portugal. The Man suffering or benefiting from an identity crisis. They seem unable to determine if they want to be a fractured art rock ensemble à la Blonde Redhead and Shudder to Think, a dance-oriented electro-indie act like Tahiti 80 and Phoenix, or a progressive-minded mood merchant like the Notwist. Along the way, piano ballads and screaming rants intersect, as the band rocks and stumbles like an uneasy mix of the aforementioned bands, crafting frequently catchy songs that rarely manage to satisfy. John Baldwin Gourley offers mostly pleasant 1970s dance vocals, but he constantly undercuts himself by affecting an ineffective falsetto. The falsetto combines with murky song structures and unconvincing dynamics to make for what some may find a terminally unhip listen. When Portugal. The Man stick to mellow post-rock, it's somewhat smooth if bland sailing, but they unfailingly take themselves too seriously. "Chicago," for instance, attempts aggression and features a cringe-worthy chorus of "Burn this motherfucker down" that alternates with passages of near balladry. Mingling in genres that are past their prime and not adding anything original or distinctive to the mix, Portugal. The Man try too hard and mimic too many better bands on Waiter: "You Vultures!" — and the result is merely mediocre.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?cym12g4lzmi

Relient K's sixth studio album (and first with Mono Vs Stereo and Jive Records) represents the veteran alternative CCM outfit's official entry in the insufferable/cathartic (depending on where the listener is in his/her lives) "breakup album" category. Unsurprisingly, lead singer and songwriter Matt Thiessen's take on heartbreak is a genuinely hopeful one, a stance achieved by submitting to complete isolation in a remote Tennessee lake house during Forget and Not Slow Down's creation. Thiessen's penchant for machine-gun-fired torrents of both secular and non-secular self-discovery on top of impossibly catchy melodies makes for a remarkably upbeat listen, and the band's efficient, late-'90s alternative rock delivery feels far less stale than bands with a similar feel. That's not to say that its' all Matchbox 20 and Foo Fighters, as Relient K can deal out a jangle pop ("Candlelight") or adult alternative pop/rock ("Over It") gem when called for, but there's a certain fireplace familiarity to the whole affair (think Ben Folds without the snarky bits) that makes it all go down easy, despite the obvious emotional turmoil that spawned it.

[gospel]

Alela Diane feat. Alina Hardin - Alela & Alina EP

"Matty Groves" (youtube)
"Crying Wolf" (youtube)

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http://www.mediafire.com/?nymktmemm0m

It should be no surprise that shortly after releasing the fantastic To Be Still Alela Diane already has an EP in the pipeline, after all, her debut record was recorded at least three years before it was picked up by Rough Trade for official release this year. Now she and California singer Alina Hardin (whom I believe was the waif with the golden voice who was on tour with Diane earlier this year) are releasing Alela & Alina, a stripped down collection of new and old folk songs. The big surprise isn’t that it is good, it’s that it is actually good enough to rival the strongest work on To Be Still. All three of the EP’s original tracks, “I Have Returned,” “Amidst the Movement,” and “Crying Wolf” are pure loveliness, shrugging off the fuller instrumentation of To Be Still and leaving only raw emotion over an acoustic guitar. “Returned” is particularly spellbinding, with Hardin and Diane’s ethereal voices intertwining magically over the chorus, “You never know how the wind will blow/and you never know whose going with it when it goes.” It’s all yearning and melancholy, made convincing by the earnestness and purity of the young ladies’ voices. The EP also features three excellent covers. “Bowling Green” was originally made famous by folk legends the Weavers, and takes on an extra mournful edge in Diane and Hardin’s treatment. “Matty Groves,” is a 17th Century standard—a woeful tale of adultery straight out of the Highlands. Lastly the ladies round out the EP with a heartbreaking rendition of Townes Van Zandt’s “The Rake.” Diane and Hardin will likely be performing many of these tunes (as well as material from Diane’s first two solo records) on November 18th at the 7th St. Entry when their National tour stops there his fall. The excellent Marissa Nadler will be playing as well, making this a must-not-miss event

Alela Diane - To Be Still

"The Rifle" (youtube)
http://www.myspace.com/alelamusic

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8.0

Alela Diane's new record may come as a pleasant surprise to those who haven't checked in on the Portland-based singer-songwriter since 2006's The Pirate's Gospel. On that charming but demo-ish jumble sale of an album Diane sorted through familiar folk forms (sea shanty, blues lament, narrative ballad) with a couple of chords and some sleepy arpeggios. If neither her vision nor her musicianship changed the conversation about the then-full-flowering new folk scene, Diane's arresting voice-- simultaneously vehement and serene-- put plenty of people on notice, including, apparently, a sizeable chunk of France. (Her Blogotheque Take-Away Show illustrates why big in France isn't necessarily aspersive: With her mass of dark hair and chic short boots, the girl was born to busk Paris' boulevards.)

Still, Diane thus far has played in the shadow of better-known Nevada City, Calif., product (and childhood friend) Joanna Newsom. As inevitable the comparison, it's not a very sensitive tool for evaluating either artists' work. Newsom, after all, pens wildly idiosyncratic songs for the harp and sings them in... a voice that takes some getting used to. On the aesthetically focused, meticulously arranged To Be Still, Diane is a traditionalist, partial to broad, universal themes-- nature, childhood, family, friends-- and gentle, lilting melodies that recall traditional ballads. She's also ditched many of the vocal tics and lower-pitch ranges that lent Pirate's Gospel a haunting melancholy and drew adjectives like "eccentric" but, in retrospect, better suit someone like Jolie Holland.

Diane demonstrated her broad range and flexibility, interpreting songs by artists as disparate as Vashti Bunyan, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Daniel Johnston on 2008's The Silence of Love, which she recorded with some musician friends as Headless Heroes. To Be Still will never fire up any parties, but its emotional range is as wide as that covers project's-- from "Age Old Blue", a wistful duet with craggy-voiced troubadour Michael Hurley about Diane's sharecropping Scottish ancestors, to the flushed-cheek, string-surging "My Brambles". Lead track "Dry Grass and Shadows" sets a playful tone, the sigh of steel pedal underlining her languid, country-twangy come-on: "I like to look at your teeth lined up in perfect rows... Where the flatlands stretch inside your mouth/ And when you laugh all the star thistles tumble out." A little hippie-dippy, but also utterly enchanting.

The album's first single, "White as Diamonds", best showcases her expanded musical ambitions and the record's pristine sound (coproduced with her bluegrass musician father in his studio). Two years ago, accompanied by acoustic guitar, Diane previewed the newly hatched song for Daytrotter (second station of the cross for up-and-comers after Blogotheque) and claimed "Diamonds" is about silence and uh, snow. Disingenuous-sounding, for sure, but it's not like she's the first artist who'd prefer not to parse lyrics. She's also absolutely right: Simplicity is key to the song's stark power, and its uncluttered vocabulary of fiddle, cello, guitar and drawn-out, warbled "wooooahs" are as head-clearing as a cold February morning. Fill its white spaces with what you will.

When people speak of Diane's voice Sandy Denny's name comes up with increasing frequency, and the young American certainly shares her British predecessor's grace and gusto. But To Be Still is rooted in a different geography-- jagged California hills and faded towns that might be populated by doomed Steinbeck characters. In "The Ocean", the thick thump of bongos and a nervous flutter of mandolin sketch the numbing existence of a mountain woman who, landlocked by "dirt ditch paths and pine cones... old hubcaps on the picket fence,"  dreams of the sea. It's a hybridized folk idiom and undeniably American.

Working with material hog-tied to the past and performed with traditional trappings puts Diane at some risk for creative stagnation and worse-- the kind of anonymity and irrelevance enjoyed by vast swathes of the contemporary folk universe. To Be Still avoids these traps thanks to Diane's spectacular voice and, well, the little, mostly indescribable things. The record's best moment comes somewhere in the center of the cautiously joyful "The Alder Trees". As Diane, easy-swaying sings "girls clapping," a ragged clap-- hollow and a touch behind the beat-- emits from the back of the room. It's the kind of perfect little flaw that makes a record almost perfect, almost flawless.

Lacrosse - Bandages for the Heart

"You Can't Say No Forever" (youtube)
http://www.myspace.com/lacrossesthlm

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http://www.mediafire.com/?tkmjhmqj4m2

When it comes to Lacrosse's second full-length, 2009's Bandages for the Heart, any worries about the potential for sophomore blahs are blasted away with the opening strains of "We Are Kids." Between Nina Waha's pixie-like vocals and the sparkling synth and guitar work that just smacks of the Cure, it's the kind of tune that wedges itself into that weird border territory of adolescence, capturing that heady feeling of anxiousness ("We are kids and we can't decide") bound up with the thrill of discovery. Similar to fellow Scandinavians I'm from Barcelona, Lacrosse appear to be equipped with a magical, rainbow-tinted force field that gives them license to sound completely childlike and zany and to sound completely believable while they do it. Because honestly, it's just plain weird when "All the Little Things That You Do" suddenly dives into a caveman-style chant (yes, this really happens) -- but for some reason it works. Maybe it's just that Lacrosse seem so genuinely sunny, naïve, and sweet-hearted. They're pretty much irresistible even when they're at their most sappy and heartsick ("I See a Brightness") or painfully earnest ("Bandages for the Heart") -- heck, they even manage to pull off a love song about unicorns and robots ("It's Always Sunday Around Here"). If you're in the mood for some handclappy, glockenspiel-embroidered, bubblegum and synth pop-infused tunes reminiscent of the Shout Out Louds and the Golden Dogs, Bandages for the Heart might be just what you're looking for.

Elvis Perkins in Dearland - s/t

"Shampoo" (youtube)
http://www.myspace.com/elvisperkinsindearland

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http://www.mediafire.com/?dizmzq2oreg

Think of Elvis Perkins' music as a feat of structural engineering: Despite the massive weight of its cargo, it still manages to float, even cruise. His grief-drenched 2007 debut, Ash Wednesday, explicitly and covertly referenced the death of his photographer mother in the 9/11 attacks and his actor father's from AIDS complications a decade earlier. Yet the record wasn't really depressing. It was melancholy, ruminative, allusive, and droll perhaps but also amazingly light on its feet, thanks to the tasteful brass, strings, and percussion that skirted Perkins' reedy tenor and acoustic guitar. Lyrics are the sine qua non of the troubadour game, and Perkins has shown he has a skillful way with words. "I waited for the riddled sky to be solved again by the sunrise/ I've made a death suit for life for my father's ill widowed wife" he sang in "While You Were Sleeping," the exquisitely moving Ash Wednesday opener that earned him the "next Dylan" albatross for his troubles.

Track one is again the standout on second LP, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, an album that formally incorporates Perkins' three-piece touring band (among them, the trio play an impressive 10 instruments, including saxophone, harmonium, and clarinet). And if it wasn't already clear that the Dylan comparison is a nonstarter, Perkins proves an able bandleader, both charismatic and comfortable ceding the stage to his mates. Like a florescent bulb gradually growing to full vibrancy, "Shampoo" fades in on a dense swarm of whistles, strummed guitar and damp organ before a crisp, snapped snare kicks off the terrific folk-rocker proper. It's unambiguously a band, not a singer-songwriter, performance.

The lyrics' opacity make it hard to say for sure, but I like to think "Shampoo" cites director Hal Ashby's 1975 comic yet caustic referendum on 60s counterculture (set on the cusp of Richard Nixon's 1968 election win), a film that begins as a sexual morality tale and ends as a mortality one. "I don't want to die/ However dark tomorrow may be," Perkins sing-slurs from our own anxious political/cultural crossroads. Given his personal history, it's easy to imagine him, at that moment, as a sort of sacrificial lamb/prophet.

As "Shampoo" hints ("Black is the color of my true love's arrow/ Black is the color of my blood" inverts an amorous blues convention) Perkins has sloughed many of his earlier folk influences for the R&B base of nascent rock. On "Hey", the bopping upright bass, shadowy female harmonies (courtesy of Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark), and Perkins' strangulated basso profundo growl transport the song back half a century, or at least as far as the Fat Elvis era. "Hours Last Stand" is a straight-up Mississippi river-dredger (even if Perkins' voice will always sound more like Woody Guthrie's than Robert Johnson's); the bright and brassy "Doomsday" shoots for a New Orleans funeral vibe; and "I Heard Your Voice in Dresden" could be one of Buddy Holly's, replete with Lone Star hiccupped hollers.

Decent as these tracks are, the rest of the album never quite lives up to "Shampoo"'s potential. And songs like "I'll Be Arriving" and closer "How's Forever Been Baby", whose harmonica whine is more giggle-inducing than profound, are lead anchors. Fortunately, such maudlin moves are rare and Perkins' ability to air out material that continues to brood on death, abandonment and ordinary ol' breakups is a credit to his good songwriting and arranging. The guy's probably got a superb album in him; Dearland, however, isn't it.

The Brian Jamestown Massacre - Thank God for Mental Illness

Ballad of Jim Jones (youtube) - my favorite song of theirs, and it's on this CD.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?an2etnmhyrd[quoe=allmusic]At the risk of further belaboring a rather obvious point, with Thank God for Mental Illness, their third collection of absolutely stunning music in less than a year, the Brian Jonestown Massacre parallels the prolific and effortless brilliance of the Rolling Stones at their fevered late-1960s peak; the sheer scope of their achievements is stunning -- rarely are bands quite so productive, or quite so consistently amazing. Thank God is the BJM's down-and-dirty country-blues outing, all 13-odd tracks supposedly recorded on a single July day at a cost of just $17.36; while it lacks the blistering immediacy of their previous material, the album swaggers and struts with all of the group's usual attitude intact, coming complete with a loose, offhanded feel perfectly accenting the overall atmosphere of debauchery -- "Too Crazy to Care," "Sound of Confusion" and "Talk Minus Action Equals Shit" aren't just song titles, they're words the band lives by.[/quote]

[gospel]

Fever Ray - Stranger Than Kindness / Here Before

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jfzzmjzmmxzvery limited edition numbered tour 7 inch. Fever Ray with Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid. Contains two cover versions that Fever Ray perform on tour and new artwork by Mattias Nilsson.

1. Stranger than Kindness by Nick Cave and Anita Lane
2. Here Before by Vashti Bunyan.

[epoch]

Paramore Reliant K

I hope this was a joke.

[epoch]

Where The Wild Things Are (re-up)

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2hymmym3ejg

[JD]

Gospel's uploads are awesome though

[Vendetagainst]

Where The Wild Things Are (re-up)

Thanks a lot. Tracks ten and eleven are missing though, unfortunately.

[scarred]

Gospel's uploads are awesome though

Yeah, the Fever Ray alone would've made up for the shittastic Paramore/Relient K post.

I mean it's only two songs but it's Fever fucking Ray

/jizz

[scarred]

addendum: Lacrosse - Bandages for the Heart is great.

[SirJuggles]

guiltypleasure downloads Paramore and Relient K

[E. Spaceman]

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1/2

[playtheshovels]

Clubroot - Clubroot

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http://www.mediafire.com/?onglj3nmzmwI freely admit that this is not my mediafire link but it seems pretty stable. pm me if you need a reup.

Ridiculously solid dubstep. Kind of spacey - people are calling Clubroot the next Burial.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Paramore Reliant K

I hope this was a joke.

I hope this was a joke. 


There's nothing worse than an elitist.

[Professor Snuggles]

One of my favorites of the year. I shoudn't have posted the album art, because when you're listening to him there's no way you'd expect him to be a young white dude as opposed to an awesome black soul singer from the 60's/70's. Really awesome soul with a little bit of funk, tongue planted firmly in cheek, but not so much that it stops being awesome. Really, if you can listen to "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out", and "Your Easy Lovin" and not think this is awesome music you're doing something wrong. Get psyched on this record dudes.


hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nmgykyqym3d

[KvP]

Joel Plaskett - Three

CanCon favorite Joel Plaskett must have a pair the size of honeydew melons. Two years removed from wading into the piranha-infested waters of the concept album with Ashtray Rock (my fave recording of 2007), Nova Scotia’s preeminent pop balladeer chooses to proceed from that ambitious work with not a double but a triple album. Not only does Plaskett wallop his fanbase with three discs of songs, he further plies them with titular trifectas: 14 of Three‘s 27 tracks have titles that consist of a word thrice repeated. Upon first glance, the effect of all of these threes is a little exhausting, a bit too cute, and not entirely lucky.

Plaskett, late of the cult Maritime indie-rock band Thrush Hermit, has developed into an interesting but variable sort of songwriting marksman in his decade as a solo artist. He vacillates between peppier party-rock with his band the Emergency, and rootsier, more introspective singer-songwriter material on albums that bear his name only (Three is really a follow-up to the folk-rock of 2005’s La De Da from this perspective). He’s well-steeped in most major genres of American pop music and draws from them liberally. His lyrics, which are stubborn in their insistence on rhyming, either hit their target dead on or wobble and miss from the unbalancing weight of their own (sometimes excessive) cleverness.

All of these elements, positive and negative, bump against each other on the first disc. “Through & Through & Through” is buttressed by shuffling rhythm, enthusiastic backing vocals from Rose Cousins and Ana Egge, and Motown horns. Plaskett himself is nimble and likable as a self-effacing mensch who is helpless in the face of “A wrecking ball / In a summer dress”. But the lyric trips over wink-and-nudge cultural references and a cowardly self-censored f-bomb, to say nothing of “You be Israel / I’ll be Palestine”. Plaskett compares himself to the Berlin Wall here, as well; it’s a good thing that nothing rhymes with “Buchenwald”, or we might have been subjected to even more serious historical happenings as analogies for frivolous pop-song heartbreak.

Elsewhere, Plaskett gives us an over-the-top country vocal on “Pine, Pine, Pine”, a rather terrible cover of Halifax indie hero Matthew Grimson’s “Drifter’s Raus”, and the interminable “Wishful Thinking”. The latter boasts a promising lite-blues bass riff and infectious chorus, and was perfectly fun in pre-recorded live versions (such as the one embedded below). But here it careens off the road shortly after a laugher of a line about moose in New Brunswick, before further devolving into a completely random litany of disconnected melodic cues. Even when the first disc’s songs are solid, they feel more conventional than usual. It’s not an auspicious start to a record that demands some major commitment from its listeners.

Fortunately, Three gets clear of the rocks early on the second disc with haunted Celtic-derived folk shanties like “Shine On, Shine On, Shine On” and “Sailor’s Eyes”. Plaskett keeps things acoustic and whispery and does much better, ringing truer with considered minstrel wisdom than he does with tossed-off parlor wit. “Heartless, Heartless, Heartless” (co-written by his musician dad Bill) approximates Harvest-era Neil Young with eerie ease, and “Down, Down, Down”, “Beyond, Beyond, Beyond”, and “New Scotland Blues” are the sort of hesitant recollections of his Nova Scotian youth that serve Plaskett so well.

The final disc synthesizes the first two’s best qualities in a mostly successful way. The bossa nova beat on opener “Rewind, Rewind, Rewind” is a bit too precious, though the brief country-pop grenade “Precious, Precious, Precious” ironically isn’t. “Deny, Deny, Deny” saws its fiddle irresistibly, “Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’” is an impeccable bluegrass hoedown, “Lazy Bones” is beautifully lackadaisical, and “All the Way Down the Line” is just beautiful. Even the endless album-closer “On & On & On” works; Plaskett’s abiding faith in rhyming is redeemed with a road-weary melody worthy of similarly lengthy Young classics like “Thrasher” or “Ambulance Blues”, and leaves our ears ringing with a ditty about his “little white fang”.
 
Though Plaskett weaves in repeating lyrical references throughout Three‘s songs, the record is too rambling and inconsistent in quality to match the thematic heft of Ashtray Rock. Still, it’s as focused and as coherent as a triple-album is likely to get. Plaskett’s underappreciated gifts continue to impress, even when his more irritating habits undermine them. To paraphrase the proverb Plaskett himself employs early on: decent to above-average things come in threes.

Disc 1

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http://www.mediafire.com/?zcr33nyezqbDisc 2

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jzjez3idytoDisc 3

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http://www.mediafire.com/?1nzmmylnlyz

[Weepie McGee]

It's my day off and it's half-raining outside.  I'm a little surprised this hasn't already been posted, but...it's one of my all-time favorite records, ever.  Feeling down and out?  Sulk around with this one.

Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?avqt5yifacu
EDIT:  that last link was uploaded crappily.  new one should work.  and while we're at it...

Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

[img ] silly white boy [/img ]

One of my favorites of the year. I shoudn't have posted the album art, because when you're listening to him there's no way you'd expect him to be a young white dude as opposed to an awesome black soul singer from the 60's/70's. Really awesome soul with a little bit of funk, tongue planted firmly in cheek, but not so much that it stops being awesome. Really, if you can listen to "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out", and "Your Easy Lovin" and not think this is awesome music you're doing something wrong. Get psyched on this record dudes.

hxxp://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?nmgykyqym3d

this is fucking sweet as hell

[MrDorman]

Paramore Reliant K

I hope this was a joke.

I hope this was a joke. 


There's nothing worse than an elitist.

Fun fact: When I posted Lady Gaga as a joke it got about 50 downloads.

[minus_the_david]

Paramore Reliant K

I hope this was a joke.

I hope this was a joke. 


There's nothing worse than an elitist.

Fun fact: When I posted Lady Gaga as a joke it got about 50 downloads.

There really is nothing wrong with Relient K and Paramore. Not only is Hayle Williams hot as hell, but she also has the voice of a higher being! lol. and This is a great Relient K album, doesn't sound like their really poppy stuff.

[SirJuggles]

Eh I'm finding the Relient K a bit hit-or-miss on this album. But some of these have a great choppy texture to them, and it's interesting as something of a longtime fan to hear about what their lead singer is going through while listening to the album.

[pogonrudie]

Another for the Mayer Hawthorne love, that albums been in my constant rotation since it leaked. That's one soulful motherfucker.

[Professor Snuggles]

I tried to buy the vinyl at his show (he's fucking great live) but I spent too long shooting the shit and the merch table closed.

The LP cover is alligator skin.

[MrSteevo]

Caravan Palace - S/t

"Suzy" on youtube

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?elttwhmyd1w(Only review not in French)
Not only do Caravan Palace combine classic electro with swing perfectly, but the catchy We Can Dance, Bambous and Je m'amuse will have you dancing for days. There are no weak songs on this album. Each song is able to stand alone, whilst still blending immaculately as a whole collection of music. The mix of bass, percussions and violin is so unique and so fresh, I doubt anybody besides a collaboration of "Zazou" inspired musicians could pull it off. Caravan Palace serve up festive, frantic music, an improbable futuristic and melodious Charleston fit for the dance floor.

[JD]

Whoa this is awesome^^^

[Kyros]

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster - 2009

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?knydmjzjhtm

Ridiculously fun and consistent new one from Thao.  Listen Now Thank Later.

[gospel]

Alec Ounsworth – Mo Beauty

MySpace

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After suffering one of the earliest cases of bloglash after the release of their so-so sophomore album, Some Loud Thunder, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have gone on something of a hiatus. That hiatus has allowed lead singer Alec Ounsworth to record his solo debut, Mo’ Beauty, a 10 track album he recorded in New Orleans with a bevy of New Orleans session veterans like George Porter Jr. of the Meters, Stanton Moore of Galactic and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson. I suppose the backing musicians indicate that you should expect a jazzy album, capitalizing more on the Tom Waits influence that has long been simmering within CYHSY’s sonic soup.

No. 9 Orchestra - http://9-9-9-9-9.com

no.9 orchestra live @ UNIT ♪Friend comes from east
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http://www.mediafire.com/?ijfzm2jyt2uRidiculously upbeat, cheery music. Sorry about the broken track (can't seem to find a copy with it).

New Found Land - We All Die

Live on YouTube
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Between the mournful voice singer Anna Roxenholt and and Karl Krook’s gently strummed guitar, occasionally the Spartan melancholy tilts towards painfully beautiful–as with album highlight, “By Your Side”–which plays like a paean to the ghosts of relationships past, or like the perfect Once b-side.

Simple, but never boring New Found Land also shows the sort of musical variety that makes waiting and wondering about their sophomore album a interesting exercise. “By Your Side” may show the sort of direct sadness and delicate finger-picking that could make Jose Gonzales green with envy, but “Leave it All Behind” find them rocking like a two-person I’m From Barcelona. Meanwhile, album opener “It Would Mean the World to Me” finds Roxenholt tapping into her inner El Perro del Mar, coupled with an almost Concretes-like breezy musicality.

Of course, comparing them to fellow Swedish acts is only a start. With their natural charm, sweet chemistry, and musical grace, New Found Land can move in any direction–musical or geographical–they might choose…and probably capture a few hearts along the way.

The Fugitives - Find Me

"Shiny Plastic Bags" on YouTube
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The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, Brendan McLeod, and Steve Charles. A group of multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, poets and novelists, each with their own burgeoning solo career, they’ve won individual accolades as diverse as the Canadian SLAM poetry championship, CBC poet laureate, and a place in the Peak performance songwriting series. But their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk.

Formed four years ago on Vancouver’s East Side, The Fugitives have trod their instruments and words numerous times through Canada and Europe. Performances that began in abandoned bank vaults and small vegetarian restaurants in England have turned into mainstage appearances on the Canadian folk festival circuit and sold out headlining shows at venues as diverse as the Vienna Literary Festival, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Chutzpah Dance Festival. Like most young bands The Fugitives have weathered poverty, missed trains, and a few line up changes (parting amicably with upcoming folk talents Mark Berube and CR Avery), while honing their live act into a versatile mix of story and song. As the CBC has it, “whether you go for the poetry, the music, or both, this show is simply brilliant.” The Fugitives last release, In Streetlight Communion, was nominated for a 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award for pushing the boundaries of contemporary folk music. They’ve returned with a five song EP, ‘Find Me’, to be followed by a full length release in March of 2010. Featuring orchestration by Veda Hille and production by Matthew Rogers, ‘Find Me’ will be supported this October by a tour across the country. Check for them in your town; their live act keeps on improving, and they’ve gotten much better at catching

I am pretty sure this is the soundtrack to peoples' nightmares.
christian naujoks – untitled

"Untitled (showcase)" on YouTube
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A very strange album from Christian Naujoks, flipping from modern composition influenced by the likes of Steve Reich and Terry Riley (perhaps filtered through Hauschka) to strange cover versions – New Order’s ‘Leave Me Alone’ is serviceably re-imagined as ‘Off The Rose’, while Bob Dylan’s sublime ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ is degraded by what might be the worst cover in the history of musical reinterpretation. This is a grand claim without doubt, but seriously take a listen; it’s transcendentally awful, providing a comprehensive scourging of the ears. The album can be salvaged If you miss this final track off and simply pretend it never happened, but even so this genre-hopping home listening album is still fairly strange and brandishes its influences boldly throughout.

[Eris]

I uploaded this for Rob, and he suggested I put it in here, so I might as well.

Bluejuice - Head of the Hawk

bluejuice is a rock band based in Sydney, Australia. The group consists of Jake Stone, Stavros Yiannoukas, Jamie Cibej, Jerry Craib and new drummer James Hauptmann. Original drummer Ned Molesworth left in December 2008 to move to New York.

The musical style of bluejuice has variously been described as "punk-hop", "downtempo hip hop, ska-tinged pop and pounding disco" and "too straight for funk, too groovy for indie rock and too sweaty for pop".

Head of the Hawk is their second album, and a bit more poppy than Problems (I can upload that too, if people want it), which is a bit more hip-hoppy.

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Here is Problems as well

Bluejuice - Problems

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[scarred]

Sometimes this thread moves way too fast. I blame gospel. Quick, everybody start uploading metal so I can ignore this thread for a few pages and catch up!

[JD]

Bluejuice is so wacky

[edwinalink]

Sometimes this thread moves way too fast. I blame gospel. Quick, everybody start uploading metal so I can ignore this thread for a few pages and catch up!

I agree! only... start uploading Metal so i can ignore this thread less!!!

[kwintpod]

Sometimes this thread moves way too fast. I blame gospel. Quick, everybody start uploading metal so I can ignore this thread for a few pages and catch up!

Well, I did notice no one posted the new Peste Noire....

Peste Noire-Ballade cuntre lo anemi francor
Black metal

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Genius release; easily as good as Sanie, lot's of interesting interludes and raw as fvck

Edit: and Sanie, for you uncivilised peasants
Peste Noire-La Sanie des Siècles: Panégyrique de la dégénérescence

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[valley_parade]

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster - 2009

Downloading this now..I came across a TwtGDSD/Thermals split 7" a few months back, but still haven't listened to it. Damnable lack of turntable.

[pulpfiction21]

empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) - What It Takes To Move Forward (2009)
RIYL: 90's Emo, especially bands like Mineral and The Get Up Kids

I posted their EP a while ago and it got less than 50 downloads, which is really sad cause these guys are awesome. I highly recommend this album. Not a bad song on the entire thing. Easily top five favorite album of the year.

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Check out their Myspace

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the album is only 11 tracks long, the last two tracks that are in the folder are from their summer tour EP.

And also for any Look Mexico fans, yes that is their lead singer, Matt Agrella, singing on the 11th track.

[sean]

wait you have posted empire! empire! before? shit man i will give that a download. emo respect!

[Down623]

Caravan Palace - S/t

"Suzy" on youtube

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Not only do Caravan Palace combine classic electro with swing perfectly, but the catchy We Can Dance, Bambous and Je m'amuse will have you dancing for days. There are no weak songs on this album. Each song is able to stand alone, whilst still blending immaculately as a whole collection of music. The mix of bass, percussions and violin is so unique and so fresh, I doubt anybody besides a collaboration of "Zazou" inspired musicians could pull it off. Caravan Palace serve up festive, frantic music, an improbable futuristic and melodious Charleston fit for the dance floor.

Oh hell yes. They had my favorite song on that Electro Swing album I posted. Never thought to check for a full-length. Great post

[Joseph]

The Fugitives - Find Me

Great band.  I strongly encourage anyone in Canada to try to see them live.  They tour constantly across the country, and they have never failed to deliver anything less than an excellent show.  Really friendly people to boot.

[the_pied_piper]

New Johnny Foreigner album leak:

Johnny Foreigner - Grace and the Bigger Picture



Quote from ilikemusic.com

...Grace is a mature, euphoric, exciting and sprawling record, in part documenting their last year of being together in a band, on the road and away from loved ones. From recording and gigging in New York: 'we're back seat taxi traffic taking over Times Square' (Custom Scenes...) to festival experiences across the world 'we drink for free in cold marquees (Ghost the Festivals)', front man Alexei recounts tales of ambition and failure, love and loss, as well as including all the amazing/awful/annoying/necessary/unnecessary/regretful/unforgettable things that happen around it all...

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[Kyros]

Downloading this now..I came across a TwtGDSD/Thermals split 7" a few months back, but still haven't listened to it. Damnable lack of turntable.

GASP! You have the Thao/Thermals Record Store Day split?! I am incredibly envious, and also have a record player.

[DavidGrohl]

No. 9 Orchestra - http://9-9-9-9-9.com

Corrupt track 9 :*|

The Fugitives - Find Me

Corrupt Track 5 :*|


Thanks for the uploads, though -- all are great.

[Professor Snuggles]

Listen to Mayer Hawthorne you FUCKS!

[JD]

I am

[MrDorman]

Hymie's Basement



Pretty much the most perfect album I've ever heard.

EDIT: Link updated

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[zoidbergslo]

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