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[OndraL]

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (D.C. Baltimore, 2001)

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Sue Tompkins might be the most striking indie singer of the decade. She sounds like an internal monologue. She rattles out streams of words, repeating phrases and fragments like someone compulsively murmuring a list she's trying not to forget. She rolls and stretches words around in her mouth. She makes girlish exclamations and then whips around to chest-beating boasts, defiant dares, wounded questions. Her voice bounces and twirls acrobatically all around the music, then pulls itself up into passionate demands like lines ripped from an argument: "Look back and say that I didn't!" She does all this and yet sounds really normal and down-to-earth and awesome about it. Glasgow's Life Without Buildings backed up her gorgeous high-wire act with perfectly understated guitar work, and made just this one incredible, gem-like album-- lovable, beautiful, and moving, the kind of treasure with a mood and aesthetic entirely its own. Then they broke up. It's a good thing this one's so endlessly replayable, so worth poring over every tic, stutter, and syllable. (P4K)

and their live album (posted before) is even better.. this band was unique

Japandroids - All Lies EP (2007)

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Japandroids - Lullaby Death Jams EP (2008)

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Their Post-Nothing is my favourite debut of this year by a mile and these two EPs are almost equally amazing. The sound is rough, production is pretty fucked up (in a good way) and there is also very good cover of mclusky's classic To Hell With Good Intentions

The Naked Souls - Two and One EP (Lost, 1993)

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'Sleep' is perhaps the greatest song I've ever heard. Honestly, It's so amazingly majestic and glorious that every time I hear it I feel like I'm leaving the ground chest first; I don't know if that'll make sense to anybody.
The other two tracks don't manage to rise to the heights of the first, but they're still damn good efforts. 'White Rabbit' gets almost as beautiful once the drums kick in properly. Definitely worth the effort tracking down (probably on a p2p, as I imagine this has been out of print for years) for all the shoegazers, post-rockers and straight-up emotional music lovers out there. (rainshine87, RYM)

This is pretty amazing EP for everyone who loves Slowdive. They are from the Czech Republic (like me), nobody knows them but this EP is one of the greatest shoegaze/dreampop releases (and I'm usually not patriotic=)

[the_pied_piper]

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[JD]

VV Brown-Traveling Like The Light(2009)

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The debut album from VV Brown comes with the kind of albatross-round-the-neck pressure normally attached to a high-expectation sophomore effort. Already the subject of relentless tutting and tweeting from hordes of backseat A&R men, and having already been crafted her own pedestal as a style deity by the fashion press before most of them have even heard her sing a note, means there's a sizeable, cynical gaze to contend with. It's somewhat fortunate, then, that Travelling Like The Light boasts a rare kind of head-turning indie-pop magnificence more than capable of both remunerating anxious fans and silencing – if not fully converting – detractors.
The chequered-floor locale of debut track Crying Blood provides a slightly more accurate indication of Travelling Like The Light than the darker, more contemporary riffage of big-money launch single Shark In The Water. That's not to say we're talking a solid album of potato-mashing doo-wop lunacy – rather, Brown's largely-50s influence permeates each track with different approaches and to varying extents, creating an eclectic yet uniform collection of songs.
The Wurlitzer wonderment of Quick Fix and L.O.V.E. impart a refreshing demonstration of a pop simplicity lost on any number of electro-heavy buzz artists, a sentiment further echoed on the endearingly unpretentious Crazy Amazing.
And still, the surprises come thick and fast. Tales of gut-wrenching misery are camouflaged as beaming, uptempo numbers; the titular ballad is stripped back to little more than a temperate heartbeat rhythm; and the aforementioned Crying Blood drops everything for a fleeting burst of 1-up bleepery.
And yet, there's no feeling of any kind of gimmickry in this. Travelling Like The Light, with all its quirks and foibles and cheeky winks, comes over as an honest representation of Brown's form and talent. More than anything else, Travelling Like The Light tears through any hastily-assigned pigeonholes or fashion-focused stigma, and validates the authentic musician behind the gloss.

[karl gambolputty...]

Circus Lupus - Solid Brass

The quartet's second and final album, Brass shows the band fully in thrall of the wound-up aggro/artpunk demons that made them create such thrilling music. 'Post-hardcore' was the term most often thrown around at them in print -- while an open-ended description, it does accurately imply the combination of sheer energy at play along with a desire to avoid the obvious strictures most hardcore and punk had long fallen into. Casebolt and Lorinczi make for a fine rhythm section, throwing in unexpected but sharp, brusque twists and turns throughout. They keep the beat going, but it's the addition of those quick changes that help make Circus Lupus really fun (inasmuch as said quartet were ever fun -- maybe 'gripping' is the better word). Casebolt in particular has some nice fills she tosses in from time to time -- not done to show off, but to increase the variety and texture. Meantime, Hamley's guitar runs from spindly, nervy feedback sheets to clench-yer-fists riffing -- the brilliantly titled "I Always Thought You Were an Asshole" captures both well. The musicians always sound like they're building up to one fierce climax after another, an approach that's less tiresome or rote than might be thought.

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Dinosaur Pile-Up - The Most Powerful EP In The World

So let's lay the bare bones out: Dinosaur Pile-Up sound a lot like their forebears. Influences are sewn pretty firmly onto the sleeves of their plaid shirts an' all that. Lemonheads. Nirvana. Foo Fighters. Erm, Weezer, even. There's no running from it, there's no hiding from it, there's not really a lot of weight in discussing it (as we have spent a good couple of hundred words doing here).

So we'll talk about the fun stuff. Like the fact that the title of the tracks that show up in iTunes (hah! Didn't have that in the '90s, did we.?) are completely different to the ones on the sleeve of the promo disc (which actually seem to bear some resemblance to the song lyrics). Cheeky scamps or incompetent bastards? Oh, nevermind. So, the song that I will call 'Opposites Attract' is the kind of song that makes you fall in love with a guy when the sun's out - it's the soundtrack to a picnic when the picnic basket contains nothing but cheap beer and cheaper gin: mid-speed self deprecation, continual build-up and breakdown, screeching guitars and shuddering drums. And 'Melanin', presuming it wasn't stolen from Brody Dalle's own personal songbook, is a box of Thornton's finest confectionaries, in sonic form. I won't labour the comparison.

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[pogonrudie]

1 - If I Had A Heart
2 - Triangle Walks
3 - Concrete Walls
4 - Seven
5 - I'm Not Done
6 - Now's The Only Time I Know
7 - Keep The Streets Empty
8 - Dry And Dusty
9 - Stranger Than Kindness
10 - When I Grow Up
11 - Coconut

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[David_Dovey]

Coliseum - Goddamage (2005)

Rad, I've been meaning to get in to these guys. Thanks man.

[ragnarjon]

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A mountain of one - institute of joy

chill-out psych, progressive, not bad.

[E. Spaceman]

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I was talking to one of the kids here the other day and he told me he didn't have this album. I'm fairly certain he was joking but just in case anyone seriously doesn't.

[pogonrudie]

Superior boarding, that's one of the all-time greats.

[JD]

7th track is corrupt though

[scarred]

(it exported fine for me)

[E. Spaceman]

Just in case

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[valley_parade]

CFCF - Continent

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[DrNil]

Here's the cover art for the CFCF album.

[valley_parade]

See, I downloaded a copy of the "Panesian Nights" EP, and that was the cover that came with it..hmm.

[DrNil]

You are right. I found the one I posted under "CFCF - Continent LP Album". Go figure.

Edit - To add the correct cover art.

[valley_parade]

Annnnd edited. Thanks!

[KickThatBathProf]

Fever Ray live

Yeah it says I can't download this because I am not Premium

[Scandanavian War Machine]

zombiedude, i think YOU are corrupt.

it seems like you are the only person having problems with these files constantly. maybe try using PeaZip or something else?


or maybe it's just that you are the only person who downloads every single album posted just to check for corruptions, in which case...keep up the good work?

[Joseph]

Fever Ray live

Yeah it says I can't download this because I am not Premium

Try again later.  It worked when I was downloading a different album yesterday.

[medicatesleep]

Coliseum - Goddamage (2005)

Rad, I've been meaning to get in to these guys. Thanks man.

You are most welcome my good man. Rock on.

[JD]

zombiedude, i think YOU are corrupt.

it seems like you are the only person having problems with these files constantly. maybe try using PeaZip or something else?


or maybe it's just that you are the only person who downloads every single album posted just to check for corruptions, in which case...keep up the good work?

Well maybe WinRar holds these files up to a higher standard.

[JD]

On another note, The Sneaky Mister is awesome.

[scarred]

So awesome.

I'll up some of her full-band stuff later.

[Touch Me Im Sick]

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Wanna Buy a Bridge?: A Rough Trade Compilation of Singles (Released 1980)
Awesome...some classic rough trade artists on here...THANK YOU!

No problem. 

[valley_parade]

I have been listening to this all morning on repeat. If you're going to The Fest in Gainesville, FL this weekend, try and check these guys out.

The Knockdown - Test/Retest

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[ALoveSupreme]

YES played a show with the Knockdown and they are SO good. 

[scarred]

Pretty Balanced - Conical Monocle [2008]

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Judith Jewcakes Shimer's full band, Pretty Balanced, releases their sophomore LP pre-name change. "Conical Monocle" is a sporadic and schizophrenic blend of piano chamber-rock and glitchy alt-tronica. Highlights include "Amtrax," "Station Waggin," and "Acid In[di]gestion." An underappreciated gem.

[valley_parade]

File under: surfy, hangin' out at the beach style lo-fi indie-pop.

Real Estate - Fake Blues EP

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[KickThatBathProf]

CFCF - Continent

Yeah this is really good

[kwintpod]

Soo underated and sooo good
Dez Mona-Moments of Dejection or Despondency

Dez Mona starts as a duo between double bass player Nicolas Rombouts and vocalist Gregory Frateur. They find themselves in their mutual roots of jazz, drama, experimental and spirituals. The surprising unique experience of their first concert at Recyclart in 2003 convinces them to continue working together. Shortly after Gregory and Nicolas start writing their own songs. Dez Mona is born.

They choose a path of intense playing and create a strong live-reputation in the belgian underground. This results in three concerts at belgium’s most famous concerthall, Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. Dez Mona becomes the first band ever to do this without having published any album. Acclaimed by critics and fans, Dez Mona records its first album “Pursued Sinners” in a church. It is a live duo album with the occasional collaboration of trumpetplayer Sam Vloemans and accordionplayer Roel Van Camp. Nicolas and Gregory continue performing and writing new material where they choose for larger arrangments and more percussive power.

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

The Joint Chiefs of Math - You Are Here




no album artwork because i don't think that there is any. as far as i can tell, these two guys recorded and mixed all this stuff themselves and then put it on the internet.

Two dudes who love to get loud on the daily.

Basically, it's kind of like if math-rock and shred had an emo baby but that baby was actually The Flash...with rabies.
To put it another way: If good music is like sex, then this album is like rape. But not real-world rape because that is never good. It's like anime rape where at first it hurts and you don't want anything to do with it but then after a while...you kind of like it.

Okay, i know that was tasteless and probably uncalled for but I have been listening to this pretty much nonstop for the last week and it may have taken over my brain.

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[JD]

Math-core?

[Scandanavian War Machine]

i call it math-shred.

your results may vary.

[wespeakinmidi]

this is a really solid album.. check out all the people on this, this is a well worth download, but really i think anything i upload is..



2 parts..

part one :

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get into it.

[bahhhhh]

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2009)

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MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mumfordandsons
Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/Mumford%2B%2526%2BSons
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[lauraelise204]

a little halloween treat for you guys.  this was up as a free mp3 a while ago on 30 Rock's website, but i missed it (and thought others might have too) while it was up.  and if you haven't seen this episode/video, go youtube it now or if you have netflix, 30 Rock Season 2, Episode 2 is up for instant watch.

happy halloween!


Tracy Jordan - Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

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[Sacretis]

Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra - Performing Parades

I LOVE YOOOOOOOOOU

HOLY FUCKING I DONT EVEN KNOW THIS IS SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD

[David_Dovey]

Tracy Jordan - Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, Spooky Scary
Boys Becoming Men, Men Becoming Wolves

[valley_parade]

The first album after the return of Pest and Tormentor.

Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt

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[gospel]

Alasdair Roberts
Neo-Traditional / Folk / Contemporary / Celtic
MySpace

Scottish songwriter Alasdair Roberts' career as a recording artist sprung into a critically lauded, cult-praised profession when a demo he made with his group Appendix Out found its way into the hands of intimate nouveau folkie Will Oldham. Oldham identified with Appendix Out's similarly calculated sound enough that he released their first recording, the 7" titled Ice Age/Pissed with You, on his own Palace Records label in 1996. The momentum from this release's affiliation with Oldham sparked not only a series of split 7" releases (with the likes of Songs: Ohia and Policecat), but also to a recording contract with credible Chicago indie label Drag City. After Appendix Out's third release for the label, released in February 2001, Roberts immediately recorded and released his first solo album, released on Secretly Canadian and titled The Crook of My Arm. While his output with Appendix Out always referenced the influences of folksingers such as Alex Campbell and Shirley Collins, The Crook of My Arm embraced them via sparse readings of 12 traditional numbers with Roberts only accompanied by his acoustic guitar. For his third release of 2001, Roberts teamed up with Oldham and songwriter Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia under the moniker Amalgamated Sons of Rest, and the three contributed and backed up each other's songs. In 2002, Roberts returned his attention to Appendix Out for the EP A Warm and Yeasty Corner, a handful of well-chosen covers that appear oddly side by side, including a tribute to British folk cult artist Vashti Bunyan with her tune "Window Over the Bay" and a tip of the hat to the Magnetic Fields by way of "Josephine." Roberts followed this a year later with his second solo release, Farewell Sorrow, which garnered more critical acclaim and showcased the development of his songwriting growing tendrils around the roots of the British and Scottish folk traditions. The stark and beautiful No Earthly Man arrived in 2005, followed by the more band-oriented Amber Gatherers in 2007.

Alasdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow (2003)

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From the mid-'90s into the 2000s, the world of indie pop obsessed over the '60s pop production and arrangements pioneered by the Beach Boys and the Beatles, and for a decade it seemed that the culture at large was revisiting the '60s and '70s without much in the way of innovative updates. One can only assume that part of the reason for lack of noticeable advances is that 30 years isn't really enough time to have elapsed for these themes to be revisited from a truly different angle, which is what made Alasdair Roberts' take on indie pop so striking. Farewell Sorrow, Roberts' second solo departure from his band Appendix Out (which this album features members of), highlights his admiration of traditional Scottish folk music along with his involvement in the realm of indie pop, which served to transcend the '60s revival trend by pointing out the relevance and influence of traditional melodies within the annals of modern pop music. He's tracing the same steps that brought Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span into the history books as the innovators of the folk-rock movement of the late '60s, but instead Roberts is integrating those rich elements into the sparse world of indie pop subtly, instead of creating a wild juxtaposition of folk and rock in the way the aforementioned groups chose to do. Immediately, Farewell Sorrow shows its accessibility, its eccentricity, and its innovation with the title track, but it is on track two with Roberts' invitation to "Bring me the fine ale, the cider, and the wine/Link arms and join our lusty chorus!" that seals the necessity for undivided attention throughout the conclusion of the album. Farewell Sorrow is built on the art of restraint and elastic delicacy provided by Roberts' band to bring together the traditional institution of melody and the advance into unmarked territory, and they are wonderfully successful at transforming that steady artistic bridge into a refreshing package.

Alasdair Roberts – The Wyrd Meme EP (2009)

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For those still digesting Spoils, Alasdair Roberts’s oft-impenetrable album from earlier this year, the prospect of another Roberts release so soon is kind of intimidating. In my review, I pegged Spoils as “simply another engrossing chapter in an incredible story,” but after spending a few months with it, it’s lyrical tangles and structural shifts still haven’t settled. Unlike the comparatively breezy The Amber Gatherers and the straightforward, brilliant ballad collection No Earthly Man, Spoils remains stubbornly locked within itself, its moments of clarity and emotional connection lost in the storytelling fog. The joy in Roberts’s work is in struggling through the thicket and meeting him at the end of the road, but I have to admit that, with Spoils, I’m still not there, which either makes it his richest work or his first overstep. I’m of the sort that won’t tire of trying to crack the album, but I haven’t been able to think of it with the same fondness as I do the others.

I approached The Wyrd Meme with some trepidation, thinking that Roberts might attempt to further confound, but it’s actually a perfect complement to Spoils. It distills the album’s sprawl into four tales that offer footholds and entry points. Rather than lose himself, Roberts seems more willing to guide.

This isn’t to say that The Wyrd Meme is accessible. No Earthly Man remains the best entry point into Roberts’s world, for it offers both context and the thrill of pure narrative. His other works, The Wyrd Meme included, heavily subject those narratives to myth, dreams, modernity, metaphors, allegories and stark emotion, all with a lightly disorienting psychedelic touch. It’s difficult and tricky listening, but when the fog clears and a track hits, Roberts is untouchable.

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Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (2009)

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4/5

The problem with most contemporary folk artists performing in the British Isles tradition is that they often sound a little too, well, traditional, in the most literal sense of the word. If you’re someone who prefers your folk steeped in the no-frills approach of Appalachian roots or the canyon-crawling evocations of the West Coast, the whimsical imagery of this breed from the motherland can make you feel like dancing around a maypole at a renaissance fair — an uncomfortable and sometimes embarrassing sensation if jousting and chowing on legs of mutton are not among your favorite activities. Patriotic leanings aside, it’s refreshing to hear someone like Alasdair Roberts — who, on Spoils, his fifth solo offering — continues to deliver tokens of reverence for his Scottish predecessors while managing to reinterpret the genre into an accessible record that’s sure to please even the most fervent American folk enthusiasts.

The story goes that the omnipresent Will Oldham discovered Glasgow-based Roberts in the mid 90s, when the latter handed Oldham a demo of his then-band Appendix Out at a show. Oldham and Roberts soon became labelmates on Drag City, which issued three albums by Appendix Out (of which Roberts was the sole constant member) before eventually releasing music under his own name in 2001, starting with his debut, Crooks of My Arm. A year later, the two collaborated with Jason Molina to release a lone EP entitled Amalgamated Sons of Rest, and in the seven years since, he has presented the world with four additional albums, vacillating between original compositions and recitations of long-established ballads and shanties.

This time around, Roberts chose to pen his own words and music for Spoils, and the result is his finest album to date. It starts the journey with a seven-minute story song, “The Flyting of Grief and Joy (Eternal Return),” which describes the pilgrimage of the two personified emotions with “a ragged band of Crusaders” in tow, losing one to the Devil at the end of each verse. In “You Muses Assist,” the brogue-tongued singer engages us in a rousing work song where, in Roberts’ strange pasture, it is “sterile rams and simulacra” to which we are tending. “So Bored Was I (Dark Triad)” has Roberts encountering three incarnations of himself — infancy, young adulthood, and old age — one of which sees him masturbating in a beer vat: "Then coming from an old mash tun/ I heard the sound of a young man cum/ I paused awhile and gazed inside/ The cum was mine, the man was I." “Unyoked Oxen Turn” unravels a yarn about a cripple running around in search of his legs, only to be moralized by a mystical savant that he should be looking for his knees instead. (Here’s hoping that’s meant to be open to interpretation.)

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[wespeakinmidi]

Nirvana :: Bleach ( Deluxe Edition )

Bleach is the debut album by the American grunge band Nirvana. It was released on June 15, 1989 through the independent record label Sub Pop. Bleach originally sold a mere 30,000 copies, but following the enormous success of the band's second album, Nevermind (1991), fans discovered Nirvana's obscure debut. It has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, making it one of only two albums released on Sub Pop to have received platinum certification.
A twentieth anniversary edition of the album will be released on November 3, 2009 on Sub Pop. The release will be accompanied by a previously unreleased 1990 concert, recorded live in Portland, Oregon.[

01. Blew ( 2:54)
02. Floyd the Barber ( 2:18)
03. About a Girl ( 2:48)
04. School ( 2:42)
05. Love Buzz ( 3:35)
06. Paper Cuts ( 4:05)
07. Negative Creep ( 2:55)
08. Scoff ( 4:10)
09. Swap Meet ( 3:02)
10. Mr. Moustache ( 3:24)
11. Sifting ( 5:22)
12. Big Cheese ( 3:42)
13. Downer ( 1:43)
14. Intro (Live) ( 0:52)
15. School (Live) ( 2:36)
16. Floyd the Barber (Live) ( 2:16)
17. Dive (Live) ( 3:42)
18. Love Buzz (Live) ( 2:57)
19. Spank Thru (Live) ( 2:59)
20. Molly's Lips (Live) ( 2:15)
21. Sappy (Live) ( 3:19)
22. Scoff (Live) ( 3:52)
23. About a Girl (Live) ( 2:27)
24. Been a Son (Live) ( 2:00)
25. Blew (Live) ( 4:31)

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Set Fire To Flames :: Sings Reign Rebuilder

pretty sure this band has members of GSYBE!... anyway, dig it.. heres a descrip :: set fire to flames are a collective of thirteen musicians from the musical community of Montreal. Brooding and beautiful, haunted and haunting, sings reign rebuilder is so stunningly / lovingly played and skillfully assembled, infused throughout with a massive sense of slow-burning tension and periods of weighty, rousing release.

Initially the idea was to gather a group of folks together in a members montreal apartment and record as much as they could over a five day period. As set fire to flames explains, “…[we wanted] to conduct the whole five day recording session like a series of experiments… to get lost in the sound as it was actually happening… to make the whole recording an exploded intense event… to push tolerance levels and limitations with a group of people sonically… to become shut-ins… to operate on no sleep/confinement/ intoxication… some of us were interested in seeing what would actually happen if we attempted to record improvised drones and textures under those conditions… and what impact that might have on yr. head… how individual/collective tension would play out… and what the end result would sound like… so a lot of experimentation with tolerance, repetition and duration… drones…”

“And so these set fire to flames recordings happened… we piled all of the gear into the first floor (kitchen/living room) of this old, falling down apartment in montreal (the place has a crazy history to it…built in 1878…used to be a 10¢ shoe shine parlour and a brothel in the forties)… the control/mixing room was in a bedroom on the second floor (up a rickety wooden staircase)… you can hear the house all over the recording… (the staircase/ groaning floorboards/creaking chairs/traffic and police cars outside/men coming out of the mosque downstairs)… all of these sounds became an important part of the final recording…”

“Five days of continuous recording netted us roughly twelve hours of raw sound… all of it was hacked apart and later rebuilt… and the final document of that five day period (which was magic and the fucking house was levitating…..) now makes up ‘sings reign rebuilder’… the record is about 60% improvised and 40% composed… the five-day recording stint turned into something more than originally intended… it wasn’t just thirteen people droning aimlessly to infinity… things worked out somehow and we got lucky…”

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The Velvet Underground :: Loaded

DUH... The Velvet Underground was an American art rock band formed in New York City, New York. First active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although never commercially successful while together, the band is often cited by many critics as one of the most important and influential groups of their era and to many future musicians.

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Heatmiser :: Mic City Sons

In retrospect, the third and final full-length by defunct Portland, Oregon, band Heatmiser, 1996's Mic City Sons, is not just the sound of a band pulled in two directions and on the verge of breakup, it's a blueprint for the late-'90s Northwest "emo-core" sound. This pop-punk act always showed a love for refined-sugar-sweet pop music and Big Star-derived melodies, but it really comes to the fore here--both on renowned singer/songwriter Elliott Smith's songs and those of Neil Gust. (Sam Coomes of Quasi plays bass and sings on the record, as well.) This is a schizophrenic album. Songs veer from peppy anthems to total-downer white-guy angst; luckily, both are pulled off with finesse and real emotional investment. Fans of folkie Smith working backwards through his catalog will be surprised to hear Smith rock out so hard on tunes such as "Get Lucky"; other songs have since become staples of his solo sets. Mic City is among Smith's best records and functions as a swell swan song for this under-appreciated grou

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enjoy.

[DarkAvenger]

Okay guys, I've been on a Sleater-Kinney binge all week. So I bring these albums to the table.

For Carrie Brownstein fans:


Excuse 17 - Excuse Seventeen

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Excuse 17 made it perfectly clear that the band was inspired by the rabble rousers in Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Heavens to Betsy, and sure enough, those groups' influences show up all over the Olympia, WA, trio's first full-length. Which isn't to say that the album's 11 jagged 'n' ragged tracks are little but riot grrrl ripoffs. On the contrary, the defiantly unpolished Excuse 17 is an impressive debut, surging forward with a live-wire energy and stark honesty that helped make the riot grrrl scene so compelling in the first place. And though the album can sound tinny and dated at times, tracks like "Carson" and "Imaginary Friend" -- as well as the emotionally resonant "Hope You Feel Bad" and "Code Red" -- have wonderfully withstood the test of time.

Excuse 17 - Such Friends Are Dangerous

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For its second and final full-length, Excuse 17 recorded a glorious punk rock racket far more polished and catchier than the band's promising, self-titled debut. Nearly every track here simmers with an overwhelming sense of urgency, and from the opening whiplash crash of "5 Acres" to the more subtly moving "She Wants 3-D," it's an album full of violently emotional catharsis (check out the startling centerpieces "This Is Not Your Wedding Song" and "The Drop Dead Look"). Often mesmerizing in the chaotic call and response between vocalists Carrie Brownstein and Becca Albee -- a rudimentary version of Brownstein's vocal interplay with Corin Tucker in Sleater-Kinney during the years to come -- Such Friends Are Dangerous is a swan song that only hints at what could've followed. Of course, as many fans of the Pacific Northwest scene know, what would follow for guitarist Brownstein is the wildly successful and talented Sleater-Kinney trio.

For Corin Tucker fans:


Heavens to Betsy - Calculated

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Before her days in Sleater-Kinney, Corin Tucker was belting out screams with her riot grrrl duo, Heavens to Betsy. Along with drummer and bassist Tracy Sawyer, Tucker crafted 12 songs of pissed-off, bitter confusion. As with much material in the genre, the lyrics focus on failed relationships and the hurt feelings having emerged as a result. However, one glaring exception is the song "White Girl," which is a rare introspective look by someone in the indie scene addressing the audience directly about the topic of racism. The rest of the album benefits from a guitar-driven garage music that is paired up with the riot grrrl sound of the Northwest from the early '90s. Intensely fierce, even when the tempo slows down, Sawyer keeps the beats tight and Tucker is always brimming over with passion and the kind of power of which many bands in the hardcore scene aren't even capable. Not so much in an overtly masculine manner, but through intelligently refined viciousness transmitted via the appropriate musical spectrum. While Heavens to Betsy wasn't as well known as Bikini Kill or Bratmobile (largely due to their short career), it hardly means they didn't have the potential to stack up. That being said, Calculated should be included as essential listening for all fans of riot grrrl.

[Harun]

Katatonia - Night Is the New Day



Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt on the album: "Katatonia's Night Is The New Day Is Possibly The Greatest 'Heavy' Record I've Heard In The Last 10 Years"

I wouldn't go as far as ten years - but's it's definitely the best I've heard all year. RIYL beautiful melancholic hard rock/metal, Mikael Åkerfeldt's clean singing voice (similarity to Katatonia's singer Jonas' voice is pretty uncanny - I'd even say Jonas is better because he has more range), Crystal clear, balanced production, top-notch-songwriting.

also: those of you who are turned off by harsh vocals will be delighted to hear that this album has none, so there are basically no excuses for anyone not to download this album unless you don't like amazing music

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[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

YOU sir, are an awesome human being.

Edit: I can't get the file open.  Darn.

[Harun]

dang 100mb upload limit (it let me upload to mf!re though without saying anything though what the heck) give me a minute or ten - k should be fine now

[variable_star]

I stumbled upon an old vinyl version of this recently. Definitely worth a good high-volume play (especially "The Creeper"). And come on, why don't you have it already?

The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run Vol. 2

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Love this, excellent post!

[gospel]

Ramona Falls - Intuit (2009)

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"I Say Fever" (YouTube)

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Ramona Falls is beautiful. Seriously, check it out on Google Earth some time. A multi-tiered waterfall in a dark glen on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, it's one of those endlessly photographable landforms that makes you want to be there any time you see a shot of it. As a sort of shorthand for the natural majesty of the Pacific Northwest, the name works well for Portland's Ramona Falls, aka Brent Knopf of Menomena and a huge cast of his friends. In fact, of the various Menomena side projects, this is the one that most matches that band in terms of both sound and quality, paying meticulous attention to sonic and compositional details to emerge with a record full of memorable surprises.

Sometimes it's just an unexpected element that mails a song all the way home, like the impromptu choir that suddenly emerges from the acoustic guitar and spaciously recorded drums of "Bellyfulla" or the unbelievably gorgeous violin part that shines like a vibrant light from the center of "Russia". The violin melody interacts with the chord sequence to grow more aching by the second and turns a decent song into one you can't forget. Knopf is piano player and programmer for Menomena, and he comes up with some wild stuff here, especially on "Always Right", where he sticks you with these bizarre, stuttering phrases for the odd-metered verses. It's offset by big choruses and a strange Eastern European-ish bridge with a carnivalesque atmosphere. More simple is "Boy Ant", a short piano instrumental with a sense of melody derived more from traditional European songs like "Edelweiss" than anything in contemporary pop sphere.

Any Menomena fan will recognize Knopf's voice, which is a delicate instrument-- it's not rangy, but he knows his capabilities and uses them. He gives himself a bit of electronic assistance on "I Say Fever", falling down a processing rabbit hole on the title refrain, which precipitates a sudden downpour of heavy guitar. Sleater-Kinney's Janet Weiss provides the song's pounding rhythmic floor, but Knopf's own piano gives it its funky stride. Knopf's solo songs share with Menomena an ear for contrast--"Going Once, Going Twice" swings between easy-flowing passages and lurching sections that build tension for the next rhythmic release.

Intuit, a word that nicely serves as a homophone for "Into It", works as a title for the album because it so neatly seems to describe the writing process-- very few of the odd shifts and unexpected turns in the songs sound contrived or forced. Down to the cover art, it feels like a strong echo of everything great about Knopf's primary band. There are no cut-outs or flipbooks, but Theo Ellsworth's elaborate, grotesque illustrations are worth taking in-- they're like a combination of Where the Wild Things Are, a fever dream, a pagan woodland ceremony, and a notebook doodle. The music is worth taking in, too, over and over again.

Old Canes

When a European record shop asked Appleseed Cast to give an acoustic in-store performance, frontman Christopher Crisci wrote a series of new songs for the occasion. Such material formed the basis of Old Canes, a lo-fi project spearheaded by Crisci and performed by a loose group of backing musicians. The band's debut album, Early Morning Hymns, appeared in 2004, and Crisci issued two albums with Appleseed Cast (2006's Peregrine and 2009's Sagarmatha) before putting the finishing touches on Old Canes' second release, Feral Harmonic.

Old Canes - Feral Harmonic (2009)
Feral Harmonic Assembly (YouTube)
"Both Falling Bright" (YouTube)
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Xiu Xiu/Parenthetical Girls – Morrissey/The Smiths Split EP (2009)

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[kwintpod]

In Gowan Ring-Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home(2002)

In Gowan Ring is the musical endeavour of American composer and multi-instrumentalist B’eirth. Started in the early 1990’s, In Gowan Ring plays acoustic songs with strong roots in folk, medieval, and psychedelic music.
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Godspeed you!black emperor/fly pan am-aMAZEzine! #4 split(1998)

A split from the well known gy!be and the also Montreal based experimental rock project Fly Pan Am, only for fans of this kind of stuff
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