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[Dimmukane]

The Lost Boy? stuff...ain't my cup of tea.  I don't listen to a lot of punk/noise as it is, but that was kind of grating.

[Patrick]

Ted Leo/Rx - The Tyranny of Distance

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Ted Leo has basically yet to surpass this.  It is way cool.

God himself has yet to surpass such a perfect record. Absolutely no lie.

[Dimmukane]

Man, I have every Silkworm album except Firewater and Slow Hands.


*cough*

[David_Dovey]

I know someone posted Firewater a few pages back. Do a search. And maybe that archive of every album except Firewater is still live, or maybe not. Do a search.

[De_El]

ToD is on the Perfect Record list, right between Entertainment! and The Low End Theory.

[stereobreadstick]

I've been a longtime lurker who has taken advantage of a few of the posts here from time to time and thought I should contribute a little something, especially since I'm no longer in the US and my irrational paranoia of the RIAA is now more or less baseless.

Seke Molenga & Kawo Kalongolo with Lee "Scratch" Perry - From the Heart of the Congo

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Two Congolese musicians are brought to Jamaica by a fly by night record company and abandoned on the streets of Kingston when the label goes bankrupt.  Not speaking any English they somehow manage to find their way to Lee Perry's Black Ark Studio and make an amazing Congolese/reggae record under his tutelage.  The story's almost as good as the record.

[David_Dovey]

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[David_Dovey]

Rules:

No hot-linking images or albums. You can re-host images at http://imageshack.us.

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.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

Here is a mixtape that I made! It is my first mixtape that I have ever made, it is in fact the first time I have recorded a mix ever. So go easy on me.

DJ Ohm-Ohm Among the Gum Trees

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Performed entirely live in one take using two turntables, a mixer, and Serato Scratch Live into Pro Tools. It's by no means perfect or even good but here goes anyway.

Tracklist:

0:00- Scenario Rock- Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix)
2:37- Kavinsky- Testarossa Nightdrive
5:27- MSTRKRFT- Bounce (Mansion Remix)
7:03- Digitalism- Idealism (A-Trak Remix)
9:41- Gossip- Standing In the Way of Control (Soulwax Remix)
12:42- MSTRKRFT- Street Justice
15:42- Kanye West- Stronger (A-Trak Remix)
17:36- Boyz Noise- &Down
19:47- Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band- A Fifth of Beethoven (Soulwax Remix)
21:09- Hervé- Cheap Thrills (Detboi Remix)
22:48- Fake Blood- Mars
23:59- Crookers- Love To Edit
26:29- Feist- 1 2 3 4 (My Gay Husband! Get Up Kid Remix)

Sometime soon I hope to have another mix that I have been working on recorded. It is nearly twice as long and doesn't have so many tracks by the same few artists (although I will admit there is still quite a bit of Soulwax)

[De_El]

A surfeit of Soulwax can probably be forgiven. I will give your mix a listen when I'm not struggling to get papers done at the last minute.

Have people heard of A.R. Kane? I don't hear people talk about them ever. They are nice dream pop with little noisy bits thrown i between.

In retrospect, "i" now seems like a crystal ball prophesying virtually every major musical development of the 1990s; from the shimmering techno of "A Love from Outer Space" to the liquid dub of "What's All This Then?," from the alien drone-pop of "Conundrum" to the sinister shoegazer miasma of "Supervixens" -- it's all here, an underground road map for countless bands to follow. Breathtaking in its scope and positively epic in its ambitions, the album is loosely organized into four sonic suites containing four tracks each, broken up by a series of wild-card noise interludes; the music shifts and mutates constantly, growing progressively deeper and darker with each passing song. Largely overlooked upon its original release, "i" is still an underappreciated masterpiece, but it's inconceivable to imagine that electronica and post-rock could ever have blossomed without it.

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[Koremora]

I had to make some edits to this to make it fit in Mediafire, but honestly, the album is better for it. I present to you:

Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... (sans Craig Owens) by The Sound of Animals Fighting

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http://www.mediafire.com/?wqne4nwlzjq 

The songs I removed are Un'aria, Horses in the Sky, and Un'aria Uncore. The first and third of these being Craig Owens singing like a girl for about a minute in his terribad voice, and the second being what sounds like a shitty Chiodos song with odd electronics. Trust me, the record is better off without them. Enjoy! 

[KvP]

Right now I am listening to an old album by a friend of mine. He recorded it back in the late 90's, using Reason 2 (I believe) and whatever materials he had on hand, with his wife (a cellist / keyboardist) and engineer friend. I like it. I don't know how to describe it, exactly. It's fairly downtempo, with a bedrock of electronics and live instrumentation spread on top. It doesn't sound too polished but it's not terribly rough either.

Here 'tis. It's all one big mp3, but it flows pretty well.

Matthew / Melissa Dunphy and friends

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[snakes]

Hello all,
I've taken my fair share of albums from this thread, and I feel that it's about time that I contribute something, so:

Neil Young - On the Beach
I'm sure a good deal of you have heard this before, but if you haven't, you probably should take a bit of time to learn it. Neil sounds bitter, broken, paranoid, and restless, resulting in what I think is the best album. I could go on all day about how much I love this album, but I couldn't do it justice, so hear for yourself.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=c2dce81d667d3ed4ab1eab3e9fa335ca8818858bd45e2ec9
Piebald - All Ears, All Eyes, All the Time
I saw these guys on their final tour (three shows) in New York last April. It was ridiculous. The crowd was the happiest group of people I've ever encountered. Anyway, their music is great. The only way I could describe it is fucking good rock music.

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Miles Davis - On the Corner
Wild fusion. I think the bass player only hits about three different notes in the first track.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=c2dce81d667d3ed4ab1eab3e9fa335ca8ff347212a5bd915

Sorry about the blunder, won't happen again.

[Dimmukane]

Read the rules, put the codes in quotes.

[wespeakinmidi]

can you make those links available so that you can download the whole album instead of one song at a time?

[Harun]

this thread needs some holiday cheer...

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?gm32gyuyymn

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?onm5md1j1my

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?mnmybggzzq3

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[KvP]

could we get a reup of the Lovecraft Christmas album? I lost my copy

[snakes]

can you make those links available so that you can download the whole album instead of one song at a time?

yeah, i could. that wouldn't really be a problem, but i'm not quite sure how to do that. i've only really used mediafire once before this, and that was to get a friend an album about a year ago. i was able to do it then without even thinking about it, but i can't remember how i did it, so if you could give me a run-through, that would pretty much clear up the situation.

[Oqtober]

Don't hassle the hoff: http://is.gd/1U8H

[Catacombs]

Ted Leo/Rx - The Tyranny of Distance

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?l3tzidyqtay
Ted Leo has basically yet to surpass this.  It is way cool.

God himself has yet to surpass such a perfect record. Absolutely no lie.

I guess I'll check this out then; people on these boards are always all over him, but i've never checked it out. 

this thread needs some holiday cheer...

That "Charlie Brown Christmas" is a repost from a few pages, but its still excellent if you haven't checked it out yet.

[stereobreadstick]

How about a little international psychedelia?

First up from Turkey:


Edip Akbayram

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From South Korea:


San Ul Lim
Part 1:

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?lygomwmly0oPart 2:

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From Zambia:


Amanaz - Africa

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From Peru:
Can't seem to find any cover art for this one, unless the album title I have it under is inaccurate, which is possible.

The Best of We All Together

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And on a completely unrelated note, the best album by the best zydeco/Irish/English/Gypsy/klezmer/punk band you've ever heard:


The Zydepunks - ...And the Streets Will Flow With Whiskey

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[Dimmukane]

Some of you may have been wondering where SirensSound went, it's moved to www.thesirenssound.com.  Just lettin' ya know.

[michaelicious]

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http://www.mediafire.com/?tizhzuzffnd
Hell yeah.

[trr005]

And on a completely unrelated note, the best album by the best zydeco/Irish/English/Gypsy/klezmer/punk band you've ever heard:


The Zydepunks - ...And the Streets Will Flow With Whiskey

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mgiiyzznw1n

This is the most rediculous music I have ever heard in my life.

[stereobreadstick]

This is the most rediculous music I have ever heard in my life.

I have two more albums by them if you're interested.

[Bowers]

There is a God

[stereobreadstick]

Eh, I'm sure someone's interested.



The Zydepunks - Exile Waltz

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The Zydepunks - Finisterre

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They have another album, their first, entitled 9th Ward Ramblers which I haven't been able to track down unfortunately.

[KvP]

How can this not be brilliant?

[Patrick]

Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jiotlmtl3yj
Link not mine, but it was upped in like March or so, so it should be good a while longer. Still working for me though, grabbing it right now.

I only had "Big Dipper" from here, but it's one of my all-time favourite tunes.

[De_El]

Gang of Four Peel sessions

yesyesyes woo

[timmykillah]

Zydepunks are amazing, in fact your entire post was amazing, stereobreadstick

[TheFuriousWombat]

Hood - Cold House
This is an album by Hood, a British band. Think of a glitchier, prettier and sadder version of Why? with less emphasis on "clever" lyrics per se and you'll have, in my mind, a decent idea of what to expect from these guys. Shades of American Analog Set and Arab Strap as well. A really great album. Good for winter too. I have more by them if people would like it.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1c6a09d97221cd8291b20cc0d07ba4d267cbe96ccda9cfbd

[rynaln]

What sort of file is that? 7z? Whaaat?

[Dimmukane]

Maybe we should include something about 7zip in the rules?

7zip is a free archiving tool that works on just about every important OS (Linux included).

[Prof.Positron]

this thread needs some holiday cheer...

Agreed!

Sinatra Christmas Album

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Beatles Christmas Collection

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(from wikipedia: Each year from 1963 to 1969, the Beatles had recorded a short Christmas message for their fans, comprised of carols, skits, jokes, and thanks to the loyal "Beatle People". Each recording was pressed onto a 7" flexi disc and mailed free to the British members of the Fan Club. In 1970, in the wake of the band's break-up, Apple released the compilation of all seven. Despite the album's popularity with fans (through bootleggers), it has not been officially released since. )

[Patrick]

Duuuude, otherwise entirely unavailable Beatles recordings? Sweet, I'm sold.

[_yoda]

And a big thank you to the poster above who introduced me to Gotye. Mixed Blood is a remix album, so it's not going to be more brilliance straight from Gotye, but it's worth grabbing just for the first track, mixed by Joe Hardy.

Whoa... I go away for a couple of weeks, come back to catch up on the thread and find this comment about my remix - completely bizarre. Thanks AdAstra, whoever you may be. I'm really glad you liked the track!

[Genbot2500]

Voltaire- Almost human

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Voltaire’s music has strong roots and connections to European folk as well as other influences such as the goth scene. However, many listeners find his music hard to classify. Voltaire describes his own music as- 'Music for a parallel universe where electricity was never invented and Morrissey is the queen of England.' He claims that bands and artists who influenced his music are Rasputina, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Cab Calloway, and Danny Elfman.

Kinda darkwave cabaret

[MrBlu]

Here’s a double disc collection by a criminally overlooked band. I know you’ve never heard of them before but you really should give this a shot.

Pearl Jam – Lost Dogs



For the tracklisting and more info, check the Wiki page

Disc 1:

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Who's never heard of Pearl Jam?

[stereobreadstick]

I'm in the mood for klezmer, anyone else?


Cracow Klezmer Band - The Warriors

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The Klezmatics - Possessed

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Chava Alberstein & The Klezmatics - The Well

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De Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Limonchiki

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Budapest Klezmer Band - Le chajem Rebbe

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[Clintaga]

MrBlu, I know it's the Internet and everything, guy, but c'mon, don't you have a Sarcast-o-Meter or something? (unless you were being ironic, but that's so Meta I think I need to lie down)

Anyways, So With all this X-Mas Music, I was thinking of ways I could contribute to all this red and green, and decided that while I fucking LOATHE X-mas and X-mas music, I do have something that is genuinely what makes me happiest when red & green come to mind.



Aww YEAH!

Starting with their 1997 EP Alive Behind the Green Door

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It sounds so good, especially the never-recored-in-a-studio "Never Met a Girl Like You Before", Which is #3 of my top Flogging Molly songs ever, totally awesome and romantic.

Here is their breakout 2000 album Swagger:

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What can I say about this Irish-American Punk/Trad rock masterpiece? It's totally indomitable, electric, and powerful. Holding "Black Friday Rule", "Devil's Dance Floor", and the heart-wrenchingly somber and beautiful "Far Away Boys",  it's a wonder this album doesn't regularly stand up and start fights with all your other CDs.

Following Swagger we have much less face smashingly energetic album, 2002's Drunken Lullabies:

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The album title gives you an idea of the slowed down and melodic direction this record takes, focusing more of Mike King & COs Irish Traditional slow rock roots. An excellent album for hanging in the dorm/Apt. chilling and knocking a few brews back.

Moving along,here's the 2004 album that hit #20 on the US top 200 charts and was a #1 on the Independent Music charts, Within a Mile of Home:

^ For some reason this is not the cover art I have, but it's what google says it the right one, so whatever...

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I picked up this CD on their release tour (which they had tied in with the semi-successful 'Punk-Voter' tour) in NYC, and the show they put on for it was INTENSE. It has a slightly more political connotation on a few tracks, but it's not obnoxious or ham fisted, and they find a really nice blend of Irish Trad-Rock and straight drunken punk on this CD, very pimpin' indeed. During the show, he tripped over a chord and didn't stop singing, the band didn't miss a beat, it was awesome, and after the song he said "That's what happens when an Irishman messes around with Sake', I was made for stout, not Rice wine or whatever the fuck it is *hiccup*. It's the Devil's way of reminding me not to forget who I am, ha ha." and then the Tin Whistle comes in, heralding Devil's Dance Floor, and everything went nuts.

Lastly, their last studio album to date, contained elsewhere on this thread but for convenience's sake, 2008's Float:

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http://www.mediafire.com/?wolwiinzl5wWhatever you do, don't let Mike King's disinterested mug shot in the middle of that cover scare you away, this album is, to my ears, their most energetic since Swagger, and it comes the closest to capturing their 'Lightning in a Bottle' sound that they had back like seven years ago. Not that their other albums are bad, far from it (keep in mind I'm a huge FM fan), its just that this one keeps the energy up, keeping my foot tapping and my head banging, so to speak. I like it a lot, my favorite track on here is probably the titular track "Float", or the extremely quick and dirty punk energy of "The Lightning Storm".

So the only two Flogging Molly records I don't have are 2007's Complete Control Sessions, which are live recordings of songs that do appear on all their other albums, so I never bothered, and 2006's Whiskey on a Sunday, which is a CD/DVD combo pack. The DVD is a Flogging Molly documentary, and the CD has a bunch of live recordings of some of their best stuff, including a nearly twice as long live version of "Black Friday Rule", and a bunch of acoustic tracks, which I'll admit to wanting really badly. Merry X-mas dudes.

P.S. Dear Santa, All I want for X-Mas is for someone to please RE-Up to Slint albums onto this thread, I searched for em, but all the links are dead =(.

[Lhefriel_Medies]

Just a quick question out of curiosity. Is there a script available for fixing the mediafire links within the browser? While it's certainly not a huge deal of effort to change a single character, it does get a bit arduous after doing it time after time.

[MusicScribbles]

Honestly, you kids and your Christmas music.


Low - Christmas

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The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - A Very Scary Solstice

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[Blue Kitty]

Thanks for all the good music, here are somethings I haven't seen posted yet.


Honeycut-The Day I Turned to Glass

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Honeycut hail from California's Bay Area and are signed to Quannum Projects. These three individuals are successful in their own right, but together they produce a tantalizing aural experience that reflects their hip hop, soul, funk and indie influences. Listen to the sound of Honeycut.

TSAR-The Band, The Girls, The Money

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[De_El]

Low - Christmas

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - A Very Scary Solstice

The links are the same; they're both for the Low album.

[MusicScribbles]

Well shit. Let me get on that.

A Very Scary Solstice has been fixed.

[epoch]

some one said about porcupine tree. i need lightbulb sun.

[Catacombs]

some one said about porcupine tree. i need lightbulb sun.

Funny thing about the title of this thread is the line 'no requests!' is in it.  Also, use better grammar.

[Ballard]

Catacombs, don't be a dick. Not everyone's first language is English.

BK, I heard TSAR because their single came on a ready-made XBOX 360 playlist and they were pretty good. I'm presuming that's how you know of them as well?

[snakes]

None of this is really obscure, but it's all very good, and I haven't seen it on this thread:

Radiohead - Com Lag: 2+2=5 EP

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Radiohead - Knives Out single #2 (UK) + Itch EP + Go to Sleep single #2

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Radiohead - My Iron Lung (UK) EP + Amnesiac B-Sides (about 8 or 9 of them) + 2 Fake Plastic Trees singles

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Sonic Youth - EVOL

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sonic Youth - Made in USA

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Sonic Youth - Sister

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Sonic Youth - Murray Street

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Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

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Mates of State - Team Boo

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Chad Vangaalen - Skelliconnection

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Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast

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Sorry, no time for descriptions or images. Most are probably very familiar with the material, but for those who aren't...

[Ballard]

These may already be in here but I threw them up for a friend so I may as well.



Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

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Iron and Wine's debut record, The Creek Drank the Cradle, is written, produced, and performed by Sam Beam and features only Beam's voice, a gently strummed acoustic guitar, some slide guitar, and the occasional banjo. Iron and Wine creates intimate and emotional songs, recorded bedroom-style but never letting the lo-fi get in the way of the tune. The obvious comparison has to be Lou Barlow/Sebadoh/Sentridoh, as they share the same breathy voice, melancholy outlook on life, and devotion to Nick Drake. The difference is that there are no traces of punk rock or noise for the sake of noise in Iron and Wine's music. Beam isn't interested in rocking out or obscuring the beauty that bursts from within his simple songs; he embraces it and lets his sadness twist in the wind for all to see. Besides, his vocal harmonies are more soft rock than punk rock. "Lion's Mane" opens the record and immediately takes your breath away as Beam's voice is so beautiful and his hooks are razor sharp. Every song that follows is just as memorable, Beam sounding positively angelic as he harmonizes with himself. "The Rooster Moans" is a chilling side trip into Appalachian folk; "Southern Anthem" a falsetto-led indie-gospel track with an absolutely soaring chorus. The simple musical backing never gets boring either, as there are musical hooks to match the vocal hooks — the banjo in "Lion's Mane," the double-tracked repeating slide at the end of "Faded from the Winter," the gently chugging rhythm of "Upward Over the Mountain." As soon as the almost jaunty, Neil Young-esque album closer, "Muddy Hymnal," ends, you'll want to hit repeat and start again. The Creek Drank the Cradle is a stunning debut and one of the best records of 2002.

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

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On Our Endless Numbered Days, the follow-up to 2002's stunningly good Creek Drank the Cradle, the sound of Iron & Wine has changed but the song remains the same. No longer does Sam Beam record his intimate songs in the intimate surroundings of his home. Instead he has made the jump to the recording studio. As a result the record is much cleaner, less cocoon-like, certainly more the product of someone who has become a professional musician and not someone who just records for fun on a four-track. However, all Beam has sacrificed is sound quality. The sound of the record is still very intimate and simple, with very subtle arrangements that leave his voice and lyrics as the focal point. Luckily all the technology in the world can't affect Beam's voice, which still sounds like it comes right from his lips into your ear as if he were an angel perched on your shoulder. His songs are still as strong and memorable as they were on Creek, no drop off whatsoever in quality. "Naked as We Came" with sparkling melody lovely background harmonies by his sister Sara; the aching folk ballad "Radio War," which wouldn't sound out of place on Prairie Home Companion, only it would be the best thing you ever heard there; the sad and sweet "Each Coming Night"; the crystalline acoustic guitar ballad "Fever Dream," which has the kind of vocal harmony between Beam and his sister that seems to be the exclusive domain of siblings; and the soft rock CSNY "Sodom, South Georgia" are the equal of anything on Iron & Wine's debut and match up well with anything Palace, Smog, or their ilk have done lately. A definite plus to recording in a studio and enlisting the help of outside musicians is that there is much more variety to the album and there are lots of small production touches that liven things up like the Native American chants at the close of "Cinder and Smoke," the pedal steel guitar on "Sunset Soon Forgotten," and the drums and tambourine on the bluesy "Free Until They Cut Me Down." Our Endless Numbered Days is very subdued, thoughtful, melodic, and downright beautiful album and the new sound is more of a progression than a sudden shift in values, production or otherwise. Anyone who found the first album to be wonderful will no doubt feel the same about this one. Heck, you might even like it more.