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[bulldawg982]

As far as the Flaming Lips goes, this just might be my favorite album. i think it is a masterpiece.

Transmissions From The Satellite Heart

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pretty sure i've uploaded this before... but that was probably around page count 20... so here it is again for everyone who has joined since then.

another Flaming Lips album I am in love with is In A Priest Driven Ambulance. If anyone wants it i will upload it.

[ohwellwhatever]

I remember listening to underachievers pls try harder alot several years ago and I bought the album just because of the cover. I loved the girl's glasses. Though I don't find the band so spectacular now.
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Anyway, here's a awesome cute pop-band I've recently discovered, it's called thou.
A pretty much typical Belgium pop, really sweet and lovely, simply adorable.
Download it and support the band, it's cuter than baby bears and they are truly independent, so their songs are cheaper than Tenderloin whores.

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

here's The Black Keys covering some blues tunes.


The Black Keys - Chulahoma

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BONUS

The Black Keys - Attack & Release

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i just bought this today and i must say it is very very good. but beware, Black Keys purists, because this album actually contains *gasp* OTHER INSTRUMENTS!
i know i know. there's even some female backup vocals on a few tracks. The whole record was produced by Danger Mouse of Gnarls Barkley fame, which explains the deviation from form. But if you have any passing interest in The Black Keys, i recommend picking this one up.

[onewheelwizzard]

Here is all the Grails I have.  Grails are an instrumental rock band from Portland, OR.  I feel like it would be a bit too general to call them "post-rock," since they have quite a unique sound that isn't necessarily implied by placing them in that genre.  But post-rock is probably the genre that they fit into best.

I guess that since there's a violin in the mix, Dirty Three is a good reference point.  They also have fuzzed-out Dopesmoker-but-with-sitar moments.  There are quiet acoustic moments, majestic crescendos, and tripped-out instrumental jamming galore, but all with a much wider musical vocabulary than I'm used to seeing in post-rock bands.  This band is so consistently interesting and innovative that I think they'll have a pretty wide appeal among people frequenting this forum, despite being entirely instrumental.

Pretty much any of these albums is a pretty good starting point, as far as I can tell ... I haven't listened to some of them enough to be able to differentiate between which are more or less accessible.  I can say that they have consistently blown me away and I'm not sure I've heard a weak recording by these guys yet.

Grails - The Burden of Hope

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Grails - Red Light

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Grails - Interpretations of Three Psychedelic Rock Songs From Around the World (EP)

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Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2, and 3

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Grails - Burning Off the Impurities

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[Tom]

hey fuck you

Hey E., you want the 10th track from The Beginning Stages Of..

[thehollow]

tons of Grails stuff

I'm really digging the Grails so far. To me the sound seems almost like a version of Godspeed with normal song lengths and not as many instruments. Great stuff, thanks for the uploads!

[TheFuriousWombat]

Not sure if I'd compare Grails to Godspeed but they are quite good and they put on a killer live show. 'Burning off Impurities' was The Silent Ballets best album of '07 and while I certainly don't agree it's amazing nonetheless. Twelve-string guitars are sadly underused these days, if you ask me.

[Albatron]

Thanks so much for the Grails, yet another band I've heard a couple songs from, yet couldn't find their albums anywhere, then to have them show up here. This thread is beginning to cause problems on my hard drives.

[est]

This thread is awesome, guys.  Seems like we've really hit a stride with this thread now.

I'm thinking about splitting some of the old posts out of the thread, or splitting say, the last couple of months out into a new one and letting the old one fall away.  How long does M-F keep links alive for?  If it's just a couple of months then I'll split out whatever should be still active, but if they keep forever I could just split off '07 and '08.  Just that the thread is getting friggin' huge now.  It's really quite intimidating.

[GenericName]

Est, can we at least see what happens when it hits 100 pages?

[est]

Oops, too late, sorry.  Anyway, I can tell you what happens when we hit 100 pages: Everyone gets a free blowjob from a baby fur seal.

Sorry about that, everyone!

[thehollow]

As discussed in the other thread:

Dredg - Leitmotif

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Dredg - El Cielo

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[E. Spaceman]

oh shit i just deleted the other one when trying to move it

[TheFuriousWombat]

Meh, they were probably all dead links anyway.

[est]

Oh dang.  And there is no "undo this action" option in the Admin panel moderation log.  Dang.

Oh well, it was pretty much dead wood anyway.

[ashashash]

So the Grails sound like something I want to hear, but I don't know where to begin.  Suggestions?

[onewheelwizzard]

Pretty much any of these albums is a pretty good starting point, as far as I can tell ... I haven't listened to some of them enough to be able to differentiate between which are more or less accessible.  I can say that they have consistently blown me away and I'm not sure I've heard a weak recording by these guys yet.

"The Black Tar Prophecies" completely blew me away just now so it's the immediate reason why this music is even here.  I'll be honest, though, you could just flip a few coins and you'd be fine.  They're all good, and I don't think there's any one that defines their sound better or in a way that is easier to get into than any of the others.

[KickThatBathProf]

What onewheelwizzard said.  I, myself, started with Redlight and that blew me away when I first heard it. But really any one of them are a good starting point

[pinkpiche]

I am a WHORE for The Burden of Hope. I listen to it almost every day. I swear.

[canadien_ride]

you guys are going to love me


leakedddd

wolf parade - call it a ritual [2008]

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[CamusCanDo]

Grails!

Wikipedia tells me the drummer is in OM. If your rec of this band isn't enough, that is. Seriously dude, you post some high end stuff that is constantly good.

Also, I'll upload some MF DOOM albums later tomorrow.

[onewheelwizzard]

I know I probably shouldn't post more than one upload post on a page but this totally deserves its own post to itself and a lot of you are going to totally love this one if you get it.  I'm listening to it for the second time straight as I write this and it is so crushingly, desperately beautiful that it almost hurts.

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic

"Gavin Bryars' 'The Sinking of the Titanic' is, and I say this with confidence, one of the finest pieces of music you could ever wish to own. Written in 1969 it has journeyed through the lands of modern classical, experimental and electronic music netting dedicated followers on its way, and each and every time I hear it I become more convinced of its genius. Bryars wrote the piece to mirror the last moments of the doomed voyage, when the Titanic sunk and famously the band played on. According to survivors the music being played was a rendition of 'Autumn', an Episcopal hymn which forms the basis of Bryars' composition. The notes and phrases from the hymn are worked in and out of the piece, sinking through the waters, effected by time, nostalgia and the cavernous reverberations of the ship itself with each scrape and hiss worked into Bryars' incredible vision. For this special performance of the piece we see Bryars (on double bass) alongside Italian ensemble Alter Ego (not to be confused with the German electronic duo of the same name) and experimental turntablist Philip Jeck, and the result is arguably its most stunning rendition to date. The most noticeable addition is Jeck, whose expertise and unique style seems to fit like the final piece of the puzzle as his crackles and motifs melt into the architecture of the recording as if they had always been there. This additional layer of nostalgia brought forth by these found sounds adds a significant sense of history , forcing the mind back into hazy film footage and decomposed photos, a perfect match for the subject matter. Also of note are Alter Ego, who surprised me with their stunning renditions of Philip Glass recently, and work comparable magic here on Bryars' composition, with their ensemble bringing in the sounds of bottles, tape recorders, laptops and percussion on top of more traditional instruments. The sounds are merged together effortlessly to form a fog of harmony and memory, perfectly melting the themes which Bryars intended his piece to convey in the first place. Really words can't do justice to 'The Sinking of the Titanic', like William Basinski's 'The Disintegration Loops' there is a timelessness, a patience and an ineffable beauty to this music that almost impossible to describe. Unique, flawless and totally essential music." -- Boomkat

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This is absolutely stunning ambient stuff ... it's a single track, an hour and 12 minutes.  It felt to me like the soundtrack to a cloud's life ... it materializes slowly out of a static-y background, drifts around at impossibly slow speed for a while (picking up the odd cell-phone signal or church bell every now and then), and fades as smoothly as it arrived.  It sounds like whale song at times.  It's really, really beautiful.

I remember there was a stir over a Stars of the Lid album earlier, and more recently with The Disintegration Loops (which I didn't pick up, should I go back and get those?) ... everyone who liked either of those will almost certainly love this.  It's only really safe to say that fans of ambient stuff will like this recording, but I have a feeling that anyone who has ever devoted a full hour to a single piece of music (Dopesmoker comes to mind) will be able to put this through the headphones and get a lot out of it.

EDIT: CamusCanDo, I was so sure that Chris Hiakus WASN'T a part of Grails that I went back and checked and realized that I was right and OM just has a new drummer.  THAT IS AWESOME.  I wouldn't know that if you hadn't pointed it out.  Just the fact that OM is still a thing made my day.  And I have full trust in the Grails drummer will carry the torch well ... I mean, I'm skeptical of any kind of claim that Al Cisneros is capable of making anything but incredible music, so I was never really worried, but it's good to know that the project is still up and running.

[Caspian]

This is some Palestrina (top quality monk chant stuff) that I uploaded for a friend. Enjoy, I personally think it's freaking awesome. Best when played at a loud volume in a very reverberant room.

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[valley_parade]

you guys are going to love me

Not with that fucking avatar I won't.




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Ensure your tags are correct and that you have specified both Artist/Album in your post.

Upload your files in either a .zip or a .rar archive to mediaf!re.com, in multiple parts if the album is over 100mbs. The reason for this is that we know mediaf!re is safe and efficient and allows multiple downloads. The ads on other sites, such as Sendspace, are known to contain viruses on the page. Get yourself checked out.

Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

Also, please do NOT request albums.

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[Daft pun]

Efterklang - Springer

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Efterklang - Tripper

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While the literal translation of ‘Efterklang’ is ‘after noise’ (and thus ‘reverberation’), the term more loosely translates as ‘remembrance,’ a more fitting meaning given the yearning character of the Copenhagen group’s sound. Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg formed Efterklang in 2001 and, augmented by Rune Mølgaard Fonseca’s piano and Thomas Kirirath Husmer’s percussion, recorded the EP Springer on the group’s own Rumraket label; Efterklang has since expanded to include trumpeter Nils Karlsson, trombonist Kristina Schjelde and Hildur Ársælsdóttir and Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir from Iceland’s Amina string quartet. Tripper, the EP’s auspicious successor, adds guest vocalists and choirs to that ensemble. If this description revives disturbing memories of bloated prog spectacles of yore, rest assured that Efterklang exercises judicious restraint in its handling of said elements. Tripper strains to match the kind of sonic grandeur associated with Sigur Rós’s Agætis byrjun; if doesn’t quite reach that level, it comes awfully close.

The album is consistently excellent and best broached as a complete fifty-minute work, given the connecting threads that run throughout. Aside from an overall uniformity of sound, motifs like an Ovalesque rippling pattern (made more memorable by a subtle hiccup) and electric piano sprinkles intermittently re-appear. The group deftly merges digital and organic sounds, with electronics mainly used as a base for natural sounds (vocals, piano, trumpet, strings). Much like a requiem, the mood is mournful, even funereal, and the work includes passages one could label classical and minimalist.

It takes mere moments for the album’s sound to crystallize. In the opener “Foetus”, glitchy crackle and synth atmospheres give way to gentle electric piano playing, followed by lush strings and a choir. While such a grand opening establishes Tripper’s orchestral sweep, the rustic harmonium that follows dismisses any taint of pretension. As stated, the album is best confronted as a whole yet individual tracks deserve mention, “Collecting Shields” a case in point. In an arrangement that finds choir singing merged with clanking beats and clicking patterns, what stands out most of all is a boy’s haunting tenor heard behind Linda Drejer Bonde and Thomas Sjöberg’s hushed vocals.

Tripper’s primary influences are Múm and Sigur Rós, but traces of Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt can be heard too. The album’s rackety, rumbling drum beats will be familiar to fans of Finally We Are No One, “Doppelgänger” replicates Sigur Rós’s signature bowed guitar and the piano repetitions in “Collecting Shields” suggest Glass. Like Reich’s Tehillim, Tripper builds upon interwoven layers of syncopated voice and instrument patterns. Don’t conclude that derivativeness reduces the album to pastiche: its formidable compositional strengths more than compensate; bearing in mind that it’s the group’s full-length debut, Tripper impresses as a remarkably poised and accomplished work.

Efterklang - Under Giant Trees

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Efterklang - Parades

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The only thing that fits into a pigeonhole is a pigeon,” my colleague told me last week. I’m not really sure what that means, but if it means that labels aren’t always helpful in describing things such as music, then he was right. Efterklang are post-rock, so they say. The simple definition of post-rock, courtesy of Wikipedia and Simon Reynolds, is “using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes.” That definition works fine for Slint and Mogwai and Godspeed and the like, but “rock instrumentation” must surely include guitars, and there’s barely a hint of guitar on Parades—well, there is a little acoustic at the end, but that might even be a banjo. (Rock was not built on the power of the banjo.) Besides, any guitars that are here are swamped by the more prominent use of about four hundred other instruments, various wind or stringed-objects, and just as many unidentifiable creations of robot, machine, or computer. Do violins and wind chimes and oboes and mechanical seagulls count as rock instrumentation?

So let’s leave labels aside just now and just focus on the music. Parades is an exquisite sounding record, with so much intricate sonic detail that it demands a good pair of headphones. Initially I wondered whether it might suffer from the same problem as Björk’s Volta—being beautifully rich in sound, but lacking in things like melody. Luckily, it’s a real grower and, after a while, the post-rock tag actually does make some kind of sense. Parades has the complex time-signatures and shifting movements of Slint; it has the genuine dynamic force of moving from really quiet to really loud, like Mogwai; it has the building melodrama of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It just doesn’t have the guitars.

Instead, listen to the voices in your headphones. Efterklang use the hushed lead vocals of Thomas Sjöberg or Linda Drejer Bonde, sometimes together, as well as all-male and all-female choruses, and the grand orchestration of Sigur Ros. Of all the memorable moments on the album—and it is an album of moments, rather than tunes—one of the most affecting is on “Blowing Lungs Like Bubbles.” Over shuffling brushes, a morose accordion, and a quivering violin, a whispered lead vocal is balanced by an unbearably sad, gentle wail by another singer who seems to be on the verge of a breakdown. It doesn’t last long, thankfully, because it’s heartbreaking. Although Sjöberg and Bonde do appear to be singing in English, it’s never clear enough to decipher the story behind each song. More often, the voices are used like another instrument, as in the intro to “Illuminant” where multiple choruses of aahing and yawning swell together into a massive, rumbling wave before giving way to quietly tinkling piano and the promise of another swell. Frequently I imagine these quiet periods are played by small animals, like mice, let loose over the piano top.

Similarly, “Horseback Tenors” begins with little birds hopping all over the strings. Then the chorus joins in and the reclaimed string section builds into an epic mid-section, which becomes even more epic when the brass players awaken and a marching beat arrives, melding everything into a joyous, striding finale. Except it’s not a finale because it fades and disintegrates and is parachuted back to earth by a foghorn bassline. This is what saves Parades from being a predictable journey where every rise and fall is anticipated. It really has to be played as a 49-minute album in full because the peaks and troughs are distributed across that timeline, not the timeline of each individual track. “Frida Found a Friend” peaks after three minutes of meandering, and then spends a minute and a half recovering from the shock. Quieter periods may last 20 seconds or four minutes, building momentum or easing tension, climaxing or not and then building again.

For the actual finale, closer “Cutting Ice to Snow” starts with Sjöberg and a backing vocalist imitating whalesong so slowly that you have to remember to breathe before the album dies. It’s rejuvenated by the high-end of a piano and that aforementioned banjo, which conspire to finish the album with a sense of contented resolution. Parades, both restrained and wildly dramatic, gently touching and warmly enveloping, is not a record that sits comfortably with convenient labels. Instead, let’s just say that it’s as compelling as a winding ride through an unexplored mountain range: with scenery of size, light and dark skies, and a map that no one can read.

[karl gambolputty...]

More punx!!

Cottage Cheese From The Lips Of Death - A Texas Hardcore Compilation

This album really displayed what the great old south of the United States of America could produce. From backwoods cowboys and worthless rednecks came a brewing pot of truly sawed off sounds. Bands like the Big Boys, Offenders, Really Red, Butthole Surfers and D.R.I. gave the south a new sound, enough to burn down your parents Freebird collection. A good eccentric compilation of what was happening in Texas at the time. Truly historic stuff.

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The Wipers - Youth of America

A grizzly, furious beast of a 30-minute record, Youth of America saw Greg Sage and his Wipers lengthening some of their material to very unfashionable lengths; many a hardcore punk band of the time could tuck a dozen songs about Reagan and fisticuffs inside the title track alone. Opposed to the compromised Is This Real?, Youth of America was engineered and recorded in-house; Sage's time spent in a professional setup for the debut LP frustrated him, and the fact that he's gained complete control here makes it seem as if a cork has been pulled from a bottle. The shackles are off and the group's own personality hits full bloom. Vocally, Sage sounds like a sleepless outcast loaded on an unhealthy amount of caffeine, fraught with a magnified level of paranoia and angst that needs immediate purging -- often, his life seems to be depending on it.

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The Wipers - Is This Real?

The production leaves much to be desired with its tinny-sounding drums, but, fortunately, the negatives don't outweigh the positives on this album. Guitarist/vocalist Greg Sage writes fairly simplistic songs with power chords, but each melody infects your brain like a fever. Even though Sage is from Oregon, he sings in a New York-style slur not dissimilar to Joey Ramone. Throughout the album, there is a very dark and ominous feel to the material (e.g., "D-7"), but it's made interesting on tracks like "Alien Boy," which changes from 4/4 time to 2/4 time. Sage also has a unique guitar style where he strums chords and lets them sustain into feedback, which creates rich textures in the songs (e.g., "Potential Suicide" and "Don't Know What I Am").

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[roulettescars]

its not so much that the wolf parade doesn't work, but that its only one song. Still cool though.

[valley_parade]

Cottage Cheese From The Lips Of Death - A Texas Hardcore Compilation

I see that and raise you

This Is Boston, Not L.A.

For many punk rock enthusiasts, Boston isn't the first city that comes to mind when thinking of American cities that boasted a strong punk scene in the late '70s and early '80s. While Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco were famous for their punk scenes, Boston's punk scene didn't enjoy nearly as much publicity. But make no mistake: Boston was a punk hotbed back then, and Modern Method Records tried to spread the word with this obscure but excellent compilation. Released in 1982, This Is Boston, Not L.A. spotlights seven Boston punk bands of the late '70s and early '80s: Jerry's Kids, Gang Green, the F.U.'s, the Freeze, the Proletariat, Decadence, and the Groinoids. While the Proletariat -- a very political band with Marxist/socialist leanings -- is heavily influenced by British punk, most of the other bands have more in common with L.A. residents like Black Flag and the Circle Jerks. But whoever their influences are, all of these bands have very substantial, hard-hitting lyrics -- the subject matter ranges from alcoholism on the Freeze's "It's Only Alcohol" and war on Gang Green's "Kill a Commie" to the excesses of slam dancing on Decadence's "Slam." This Is Boston, Not L.A. isn't the last word on Boston's late '70s/early '80s punk scene, but it paints an impressive picture of the Beantown punks who were active during that era.

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I probably should have fixed the tracklistings..they seem a little off..but fuck it. What the hell do you think I am, L.A.?

[bulldawg982]

Hey Pat, I have been listening to The Silver Jews - American Water lately, and been totally digging it. I remembered you posted a bunch of silver jews before, so if you could recommend where to go from here, that'd be cool. you don't have to reup anything i can find it myself, just the name of an album would be good.

also, i had a request to reup a pinback ep, so i will edit it into this post

Pinback - More Or Less LIVE In A Few Different Places Tour EP

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i kept wondering why my bookmark was not taking me to the "sendspace thread" as it says on my bookmark bar... and i just realized, there has been a great deal deleted. now im back down to one star... oh well.

[valley_parade]

Dawwww, I lost like 60 posts. NOW I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO RE-PASS LINDS.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

bunch of Efterklang stuff

i need a good starting point here. i've never heard Efterklang before. what would you recommend?

[TheFuriousWombat]

'Under Giant Trees' first then 'Tripper,' 'Parades,' 'Springer.' That's the order I would go in anyway. 'UGT' is pretty short but has some of the bands best work. All of it is recommended though. Can't wait to see them live come May!

[valley_parade]

There goes my internet fame.

It was nice. I felt like Joe Hocking for a few minutes!

[Daft pun]

bunch of Efterklang stuff

i need a good starting point here. i've never heard Efterklang before. what would you recommend?

I'd go for Springer first, that's their debut EP, so you understand where they're coming from. After that Tripper, it still has the feel of Springer, just more fleshed out.

Under Giant Trees and Parades are somewhat different from the first two. The electronic beats are gone, the overall feel is a bit warmer.

'Under Giant Trees' first then 'Tripper,' 'Parades,' 'Springer.' That's the order I would go in anyway. 'UGT' is pretty short but has some of the bands best work. All of it is recommended though. Can't wait to see them live come May!

They are so good live, really can't recommend them enough.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

Why? - Oaklandazulasylum

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Why? - Elephant Eyelashes

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[Tom Violence]

De La Soul  - Buhloone Mindstate

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The last album of De La Soul's creative prime, Buhloone Mindstate was also their last with producer Prince Paul. After the claustrophobic De La Soul Is Dead, Mindstate is a partial return to the upbeat positivity of 3 Feet High and Rising, though not its wildly colorful invention. Instead, Buhloone Mindstate takes a calmer, more laid-back approach -- the music is often more introspective, and the between-song skits have been jettisoned in favor of a tighter focus. The surrealism of Buhloone Mindstate's predecessors has largely evaporated, and the production, while still imaginative, doesn't quite dazzle the way it used to. Then again, it's admirable that the group is trying to mature and progress musically, and they would never experiment quite this ambitiously again. There's quite a bit more live instrumentation here, with extensive, jazzy guest work by the JB Horns. In fact, the guests threaten to overpower the first half of the album; "Patti Dooke" and "I Be Blowin'" are both extended showcases for the horns, and the latter is a full-fledged instrumental led by Maceo Parker. They're followed by a group of Japanese rappers on "Long Island Wildin'," and it isn't until the terrific single "Ego Trippin', Pt. 2" that De La really takes over. Many of the record's best raps follow: the reflective old-school tribute "Breakadawn," the jazzy "I Am I Be" and "In the Woods," and the Biz Markie collaboration "Stone Age." If Buhloone Mindstate is a great deal more straightforward than De La's earlier work, its high points are still excellent and well worth the time of any fan. In fact, many De La diehards feel that this album is hugely underrated.

Meat Puppets - II

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The Meat Puppets' second album, 1984's appropriately titled Meat Puppets II, has since gone down in the rock history books as an all-time classic, and rightfully so. The Meat Puppets were one of the first punk acts to inject different musical styles into their sound, something that was an absolute no-no at the time -- especially the sparkling sounds of country. The trio resembles a more conventional band than on their white-noise self-titled debut; the songwriting had improved dramatically, and you could even clearly decipher the playing and singing this time around. As many '90s alt-rock fans know, Meat Puppets II reached a whole new generation of fans when Nirvana covered the album's three best tracks on their MTV Unplugged special from 1994 -- "Plateau," "Lake of Fire," and "Oh, Me." But this was an incredibly consistent recording from beginning to end; other highlights included the instrumentals "Magic Toy Missing," "Aurora Borealis," and "I'm a Mindless Idiot," the rockers "Split Myself in Two" and "New Gods," plus such mellower fare as "Lost," "We're Here," "Climbing," and "The Whistling Song." An essential recording that sounds as fresh and inviting as the day it was released.

[KvP]

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic

The Aphex Twin had a quite good remix of (part of?) this song on his 26 Remixes for Cash compilation. I'll have to dig that up later on.

[pat101]

Hey Pat, I have been listening to The Silver Jews - American Water lately, and been totally digging it. I remembered you posted a bunch of silver jews before, so if you could recommend where to go from here, that'd be cool. you don't have to reup anything i can find it myself, just the name of an album would be good.

Probably my second favourite Silver Jews album: (next to American Water)

Silver Jews - Natural Bridge [1996] - 320 kbps

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[inmostleaf]

God damn does Bowie suck!! He is at the very most a horrendous musician - artist. It is frightening that people idolize him.

[Beast]

Alopecia is the best.

[KickThatBathProf]

new Spiritualized

Oooh yes that was me who wanted the re-up.  Thank you so much!

[sean]

I have a band that I feel like the lot of you should listen to. I actually discovered them via this thread, but it was through that blog onewheelwizard posted and it could have easily been overlooked.

They are called the Pax Cecilia. They could be classified as post-rock, metal, post-metal, something like that, though I feel like a simple post-rock tag does not do them justice. They write both gorgeous passages with minimal instrumentation and quiet vocals and loud thundering metal passages. They have come out with some of the most beautiful music I've heard in recent memory. They are also giving out their record for free on their website (which means you should donate to these nice people). I'm afraid they are probably out of hard copy CD's by now (I think I nabbed one right before they said they were reserving the rest for their friends. You could send them an e-mail about it but I'm not sure if it will do you much good.) There is a download though and you all should probably give this record a listen. It is absolutely beautiful. Expect some great stuff from these guys in the years to come.

The Pax Cecilia - Blessed are the Bonds

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[theoryC]

Ladytron - Velocifero

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MRAST00J
EDIT:  Aw, damn, someone already posted this.  Looks like I suck.

[scraggg]

Thom Yorke - Spitting Feathers (EP)

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Can't seem to find a review of this one; however, if you've heard The Eraser, you get the idea.



Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum

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Pitchfork (8.0) - It's interesting to hear this record after 2001's The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid, which found Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie coming into their own as studio composers. Knowing what came after, Avec Laudenum sounds a bit like a transitional record, capturing the duo at a point where they were reaching a plateau with their instrumental set-up, and just before they added the acoustic instruments that gave The Tired Sounds its unique feel. Everything here is so much more carefully recorded and layered than earlier releases like The Ballasted Orchestra, and yet the same elements are present.

During the first of three parts of "The Atomium", the gently modulating drones have the piercing clarity that occasionally approaches sine wave territory. This track also has one of the few instances of any sort of percussive sound on Avec Laudenum-- in this case, a sort of faint scraping that adds texture to the crystalline sheen. One doesn't normally associate the word "rhythm" with this band, but a couple tracks work up some tension through the repeated use of gradual swells of sound. The rising and falling feedback loops that make up "The Atomium"'s second part accumulate over time like darkness in room at dusk. The third track in the suite sounds quite Fripp & Eno, and the contrast provided by the ethereal keyboards and the snarling reverse tape of feedback makes it clear that this music comes from the collaboration of two distinct personalities. Avec Laudenum was composed through the mail as Wiltzie and McBride lived in different cities, and with the third part of "The Atomium", you can almost see a split screen of the two lonely men trotting out to their respective mailboxes.

Two fine tracks close out the record. I thought the title of "Dust Breeding" sounded familiar, but it turns out it wasn't the first track from Christian Marclay's Records compilation I was thinking of, it was "Gas Farming" from The Tired Sounds. Title aside, "Dust Breeding" does sound more like the two-disc epic that followed than any other track here, in its use of constantly shifting, shorter phrases that sound as though they were recorded in a cavernous space. The closing "I Will Surround You" uses a similar technique but dries the reverb just a bit, sounding even more lonesome and forlorn in the process. And then, in a characteristic move, the tone changes halfway through and the drones begin to ascend, ending on a note of uplift. Avec Laudenum is not much of a departure, but it stands as perhaps Stars of the Lid's most focused and precise record. And Stars of the Lid in The Zone can only be a good thing.

Neutral Milk Hotel (Just Jeff Mangum by himself, but, same thing) - Little Birds

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The only song Jeff Mangum was known to have written after In the Aeroplane Over the Sea that exists outside of Jeff Mangum's house.

[turboswami]

Oh, How We Climbed...

I traveled 8 hours into the sub-tropical region of China, to the ancient garden city of Suzhou. Six centuries ago, Marco Polo described the city as Heavenly, both great and noble. I spent 5 days there, exploring gardens and crowded market streets that were sometimes only 2 feet wide, but wind and weave into neighborhoods. It is a water city, like Venice, with many areas accessible only by way of the old canal systems. On the second day, I caught a ride on a little junk boat and explored this maze of canals that are the streets of Old Town. I floated lazily through green water, beneath arched foot bridges of carved stone. The boatman sang to me. It was surreal...

Once I stopped fumbling with my fucking field microphone, trying to capture the boatman's beautiful folk song, and actually looked around, I realized how amazing the moment was. So his voice and song may fade from memory over time, at least I was THERE and listening to him, instead of hunched over, pushing buttons and untangling cords trying to capture something I was missing.

The following day I climbed Tiger Mountain. This man-made mountain was the inspiration of one of my favorite albums, "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)" by ENO.  If you have not heard this album,<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/100986544/brian_eno_-_taking_tiger_mountain_by_strategy.rar.html>I HAVE UPLOADED IT HERE [/url]so that you may hear where I was.

While looking for a certain hotel, I began asking around for directions. An old Chinese woman was kind enough to stop and help me. She was probably nearing 80, a bit hunched over, but had beautiful kind eyes and smiled warmly, eager to help me out. She went far out of her way, leading me through underpasses and down smaller streets, speaking to me in Chinese the whole time. I nodded and smiled back, mostly oblivious. When we finally came to the hotel I had been told about, I was so thankful to this cute old lady for going so far out of her way to help me. Over the extent of our long search, I had almost started to think of her as a sort of caring grandmother figure, in a way. As I was thanking her and saying goodbye, she pointed to my penis and made a blowjob motion with her hand and mouth... My cute Chinese grandmother then made a loud suckling sound with her tongue, as if my cock was already in her mouth at that very moment. She smiled up at me with a questioning tone. I did my best to reject her offer with courtesy and walk away, but this was not easy to do as my cock had actually receded deep into my abdomen, where it hid and trembled in fear.

ALBUM INFO:

Personnel: Brian Eno (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Polly Eltes (vocals); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Portsmouth Sinfonia (strings); Andy MacKay (brass); Brian Turrington (bass guitar); Phil Collins, Freddie Smith (drums); Robert Wyatt (percussion, background vocals); Randy & The Pyramids, The Simplistics (background vocals).

Recording information: Island Studios, London, England (09/1974).

TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY), Brian Eno's sophomore solo outing, is a grab bag of freaky, science-fiction-dipped confections. Filled with a battery of innovative, unsettling effects, the album is darker and more complex than HERE COME THE WARM JETS. The artist shows an increasing willingness to experiment with texture, as on "The Great Pretender," whose whirling, oozing keyboard line and synthesized vocals approximate delirium tremens or a hatching hive of maggots, or on "Put A Straw Under Baby," which features the Portsmouth Sinfonia, whose members have no knowledge of their instruments.

Yet Eno's grasp of melody and songcraft is everywhere: on the bouncing, absurdist/philosophical "Burning Airlines (Give You So Much More)," and on straight-out rockers, like the deliciously intense "Third Uncle" (which is propelled by the churning guitar of Roxy Music's Phil Manzenera, and is, arguably, the album's highlight). Concurrent with David Bowie's ALADDIN SANE-era alien aesthetic, Eno's tunes are even more otherwordly and warped than his glam cohort, making use of the full palette of bizarro synthesizer effects and creepy-cheeky postures. The songs, however, are as inventive and appealing as their treatments, and make for Eno's most solid--and experimental--pop album. TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN holds up magnificently, even years on in the artist's brilliant career.

http://rapidshare.com/files/100986544/brian_eno_-_taking_tiger_mountain_by_strategy.rar.html

[KickThatBathProf]

hey turboswami

Rules:
Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

however, points for uploading a good album

[roulettescars]

uhh... yeah, I'm not so sure about bowie sucking. In fact I'm fairly certain of the obvious. You must be hearing the wrong songs, or just have very very different taste from most people.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic

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Everyone should listen to this! I saw it performed live in NYC a while back and it was really mesmerizing. A fantastic piece of modern ambient composition.

[teecomb]

I've been lurking and leeching for quite some time and today I decided that I couldn't let that 'Bowie sucks!!!' comment go. I pity you for not realizing the true greatness of Bowie and thank the person who upped his discography for helping me complete mine. I'm going to post Diamond Dogs, because he didn't and maybe it will change your mind.


David Bowie- Diamond Dogs

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because this is my first post i'll up this cocorosie album. I noticed their latest two on here already, but in my opinion this is their best. Think harps, feminist lyrics, wavering voices, beatboxing and the crowing of roosters blending into a beautiful psychadelic folk/trip-hop album


CocoRosie- La Maison De Mon Reve

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I got the next album for the name of the band and the artwork. Experimental meets classic acousitc flemenco and subtle finger-style techiniques. Really is quite beautiful atmospheric music that I always listen to when I'm riding my bike. Seriously, download this and you won't be sorry. REALLY ENJOYABLE LISTEN! If you like Campfire Songs by Animal Collective it's a must have.


Twi the Humble Feather- Music for Spaceships and Forests

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The next group may have been posted on here, I didn't check. My bad. 'Neo-Tribal', expiremental, electronic music. Think the most intense video game you played, if it had suitable music it may be Gang Gang Dance. This EP only has three tracks. The first with crazy strings and a beautiful voice. The second reminds me of being chased by James Bond. It's pretty bad ass. The third, an apocolyptic 12 minute track lures you in with the mournful cry of a siren before she sucks you under and you enter hell. It really scares me, but is fabulous.


Gang Gang Dance- Rawwar

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and some Bill Hicks just for kicks


Bill Hicks- Rant in E Minor

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now I can sleep easy knowing I've contributed something

[gardenhead_]

Melt-Banana - Scratch or Stitch (1996)

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Beware: Scratch or Stitch is the sort of Japanese noise rock that could prove highly unsettling. Imagine rampaging drums, guitars even more gnarled and noisy than those on Sonic Youth's Dirty, a female vocalist screeching in monotone, and bass a funk metal band could be proud of, and you're about halfway there. This may sound like a racket -- and it is -- but it's such a tight, organized, and intense racket that you can't help but be awed by it; the band tears through 22 brief songs without ever leaving highest gear, and the production assistance from Steve Albini and Jim O'Rourke really capture the insane energy of the group. (And trust me -- the "insane energy" you may imagine while reading this is nowhere close to what you'd hear on the album.) It's hard to imagine anyone sitting down and listening to this album in its entirety, but that certainly doesn't mean it's not good -- the thrill here is the same sort that comes from the Boredoms' more ridiculous romps and the cascades of noise Merzbow passes off as albums. Among Western audiences, Melt Banana requires a very unique type of listener -- they're a very unique sort of band.

Bambi's Dilemma (2007)

allmusic:

Even when at their most accessible, Melt Banana is still one of the more challenging punk rock outfits in recent history, and with their seventh full-length studio album the band that harnessed chaos to perfection in 2003's Cell-Scape continues to make music that is as thoroughly outrageous and dizzyingly hilarious as ever. While Bambi's Dilemma may not cohere as a whole quite as effectively as Cell-Scape did -- at times it feels like the missing link between that album and their previous release Teeny Shiny -- it does have moments of manic brilliance that are sure to please longtime fans and perhaps even win over a few converts. Whereas Cell-Scape operated on an almost sci-fi level thanks to the introduction of more electronic elements into the band's sound, Bambi's Dilemma largely goes back to the basics by stripping the sound back down to its roots (with the notable exception of the hypnotic "Type: Ecco System" of course). It seems that by previously experimenting with their sound the band was able to grow and expand, but don't mistake maturity for selling out because despite the "Rock Banana" moments scattered throughout Bambi's Dilemma, the band never misses a chance to catch the listener off guard with a little well-placed insanity. Perhaps nowhere on the album is this point better displayed than in "Dog Song," a tune that's sure to have listeners tapping their toes before it explodes into one of the most ear-splitting verses ever recorded. A decent introduction for newcomers and a somewhat unexpected surprise for longtime fans, Bambi's Dilemma proves without question that while they may well have the ability to craft the catchiest pop song imaginable, Melt Banana will never miss an opportunity to twist that perfection into something wholly unexpected. As with most of the releases in Melt Banana's catalog Bambi's Dilemma will likely take a few listens to truly sink in, but when the album finally clicks most will likely agree that it was well worth the effort.

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