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[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

Death Cab For Cutie
The Photo Album

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=7e9d47b3a7647737d2db6fb9a8902bdaSeveral Pages back someone posted SomethingAboutAirplanes, saying it was the only dcfc album anyone needed to know.
While it IS in fact an excellent album, It is not the only "need to know" album.
They have many great albums. Although I cannot feel their newest album, there are a few really good songs but that's all.
This is their third album.
This is a piece of a review by Pitchfork:
Ben Gibbard has attempted to capture in his lyrics the verbal equivalent of amateur photography.
That's not to say there's anything amateur about the poetry in his lyrics-- quite the contrary, in fact-- but he captures those same little secondary emotions of the moment that cameras capture so well. Add to this the fact that every song here contains at least one vividly rendered image in its lyrics, and The Photo Album, rotten pun aside, seems a fairly appropriate title.
I don't know, it's really good and is one of my favorite dcfc albums. If you don't like it, simply, someone else will.

[thedudeoflife]

New coconut records out...anyone find it? It's called Davy

[Mr. Tool]

New coconut records out...anyone find it? It's called Davy

It's on Sordo

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[onewheelwizzard]

One more fantastic heavy-psych/post-stoner album for you guys ...

My Sleeping Karma - Satya



Pt.1

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Pt.2

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Best comparisons are to Ahkmed, Colour Haze, Thumlock, SubArachnoid Space, and other bands that subscribe to that brand of epic journeying through soundscapes of soaring fuzzed-out majesty.  Beautiful stuff.  I put up their debut self-titled a while back, if anyone missed it and would like it just give a holler.

Link fixed!

[thedudeoflife]

Wasn't really a request more like did anyone run over it...all i was looking for was a "yes it's out there". I could of found it on my own.

[Jackie Blue]

The obvious followup: why didn't you, and then post it here if you wanted people to know about it?

I think "Posts: 7" might have something to do with it.

[thedudeoflife]

Alright man your right...you win....

[Melodic]

My sister demanded new music, so I figured I could spread the wealth. Some of this is good/neat!


!!! - Myth Takes

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?cydmzci3niyThis is perfect party music! Upbeat and very funky.

Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?25zjlzjrznnI do not own any other Architecture In Helsinki albums. This one is fun though.

Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?jkmueyjyywfAbout as close as I could ever possibly get to country music.

Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?oyz14nywtylEiS is more like an audible season than a band. They are a crisp, cold winter day with a bright sun, where sound freezes in the air before dropping to the ground.

Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?nnw1wizzfvm(Ditto).

Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?aqfjzojitj1Sad music!

Justice - Cross

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?miyvz3q4zolBEEP BLEEP BLOOP.

Minos El Oso - Interpretaciones Del Oso

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mjimyyzzzydA whole bunch of remixes of the original Minus The Bear album. Some of them are pretty funky.

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?5dzzahmznzyLike every other Modest Mouse album ever.

Mogwai - Mr. Beast

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?rmm2gbninzyOh man this is so good.

[Melodic]

Mogwai - Young Team

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?z4dmnzymdmgI guess Mogwai hated this album but nobody else does.

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mmzzev0xm4wSO GOOD.

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Appendix

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Orba Squara - Sunshyness

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?4zymglj04jgReally light, fluffy, summer's-eve bedtime music. Pretty much every song is in a commercial somewhere.

Radiohead - Amnesiac

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?4mzmtnjfyzzIt's Radiohead.

Radiohead - In Rainbows

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zkjntdmnefzThis too.

Radiohead - Kid A

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?tjwmzg2myymUh huh.

Radiohead - OK Computer

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?woqt2qzjqvvThis is the best one.

Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zfem4mgezowReally beautiful music. The opening track is so uplifting.

Sigur Rós - Takk...

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?qyzyex4ioa0Beautiful, but less focused, music. Fewer strings, too.

[Melodic]

The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mnzbqhyznz0Really different from Funeral. Quiet and somber.

The New Pornographers - Challengers

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?o2mxuyymh4mAlso very good! Cute and goofy.

TV On The Radio - Dear Science

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?gxvmxytvtxqWay better than any other thing.

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?h2y3jd5ntjzNot as good as the original, but it has "The Grey Estates" so it makes up for things.

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Lose All Time

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ykomd3mlcymThe lead singer is really cute I swear!

[Dimmukane]

Man, I appreciate the megaposts that everyone's been making, but it's getting kind of hard to keep up.  I come home from work and find 10 albums, and nowhere near enough time to listen to them all.

What I'm saying is keep doing it because summer happens 25% of the year.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Bit of a random mixed-bag here.  First of all, to (almost) complete the Jawbreaker discography that Cire27 posted above, here's...

Jawbreaker - "Etc." (2002)

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Basically, all of their b-sides, compilations appearances, covers, and outtakes.  Consistently high in quality, both in terms of songwriting and recording quality, and it contains arguably their best song, "Kiss the Bottle."  Also, although I can't help with the live album, I do have a pretty good bootleg, apparently recorded live at CBGB, just before the release of "24 Hour Revenge Therapy:"

Jawbreaker - "Live at CBGB" (1992/1993 ??)

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No Trigger - "Canyoneer" (2006)

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Pretty much the best melodic hardcore album I've heard in the last five years.  If you like Rise Against's earlier stuff, Strike Anywhere, A Wilhelm Scream, or anything in a similar vein, you need to hear this.


A - "A Vs. Monkey Kong" (1999)

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Hard to believe this is ten years old already.  Real upbeat pop-punk/pop-rock from the UK with quite aggressive yet high-pitched vocals, synths, and some of the catchiest melodies ever.  If lines like "The old folks are losers, they can't work computers" doesn't even raise a slight smile, then you're probably dead inside.


Drive Like Jehu - "Yank Crime" & "Bullet Train to Vegas EP" (1994) & (1992)

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Post-hardcore/math-rock/punk'n'roll/whatever CLASSIC.  Sounds like a mountain crashing down the side of a mountain, crashing down the side of an even bigger mountain.  On fire.  In space.  While screwing your mother.


Lights Out Asia - "Eyes Like Brontide" (2008)

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Atmospheric post-rock, some of the best I've heard in ages, with an almost poppy sense of melody in places.

[the_pied_piper]

Just recommended this in another thread so thought i'd post it here for everyone else.

Dananananaykroyd - Sissy Hits EP



Drowned in Sound Review

Dananananaykroyd were due to release their debut mini-album in early March. This has been scuppered by, apparently, a lack of money at Jealous Records. Seeing as this only happened a few days ago, it seems a little premature to be begging the band to hear it and writing a glowing review because you're scared that no labels will go after it and give it the release it deserves. But here we are.

Sissy Hits could be a very important recording, and not just for Dananananaykroyd. So concentrated and consistent is its brilliance that you wonder whether they'd be able to keep it up for a whole LP… but we don't have to think about that until it happens. Even if they did bugger it all up on a full-length release, we'd all still have this work to appreciate. Their clarity of musical expression is blinding, but with intricacies that suggest something far cleverer. This doesn't mean the whole changing time signatures instrumental wizardry thing, nor does it mean the whole lyrical-constructs-beyond-comprehension thing either. What it does mean is utterly delirious, insane fun with subtle touches in each corner to elevate these already-brilliant songs to a territory clearly marked 'genius'. This territory is located between other territories clearly marked 'stupidity' and 'ecstasy', obviously. Those are good too.

'The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash' takes delight in its struggle, the initial double-drummer marching insistency finally giving way to a demented acceleration and the kind of squealing guitars we haven't seen this convincingly since Siamese Dream. Vocalist Calum S. Gunn barks amiably about musical terminology ("dotted lines mean that you repeat it!") over a particularly tight din, and the overall effect is simple exhilaration. But the struggle,_ the struggle. Things reach optimum velocity, those squealing guitars are held, built, bred with so much percussion and finally released. Things are, you feel, stretched as far as they might go. But the struggle continues. A solemn hi-hat beats four and we're dragged by the teeth through a deformed version of earlier themes while Gunn's head explodes. Finally, _finally we can see the end in sight when the toms are beaten, oarsman-style, slower and slower and slower and slower and slower, accentuating the off-beats, until we're completely fucking dead.

That's the first song done.

Ha! Obviously it can't continue at such bollocking ferocity, and we kind of calm down after that. The light pomp of the verses in 'One After One' is a daintily perfect antidote to the grungy chorus and chant of "WE ARE THE PARTY!", for example (I think that's what they're shouting). Then we begin to realise all that stuff about these being astonishingly catchy pop songs. 'Cleaning Each Other' has a particularly righteous guitar-harmony-led chorus that, for all the world, is better than any of Thin Lizzy's. Similarly, '1993' is the right side of funky to retain its rock credentials in some completely, idiotically, carelessly colossal riffs. Another epic in the vein of the opening 'The Greater Than Symbol…', this closer (effectively, seeing as the last track is less than a minute's doodling) shows ample evidence that this band could survive on its melodies and nothing else. David Roy's carefully widdled guitar lines during the second section are beautifully played, and flanked by dinky xylophone and vocal scales. Then it blows your brains off again for a few seconds. After that, the final doodle, 'Infinity Milk' stomps around and finishes with wild and hilarious screams. Wicked, thanks. These are the best twenty minutes of music you'll hear all year, probably.

We could carry on and describe the glumly effervescent humour that pervades each track, or the idiosyncratic nods to music theory and tour bus larks, but you can discover those yourself. Treat!

As you, the readers of DiS, are fully aware, comments left after reviews tend to disagree with the review more often than they agree with it (that might just be mine). So, conversely, I'm personally appealing to anyone who may disagree with this review and asking them not to comment. If you agree with it (even if only partly) then leave a comment saying that you think Dananananaykroyd deserve a record deal and lots of money so they can take over the world in the most rocktageous way imaginable. It'll be right good.

    * Dananananaykroyd 10 / 10

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[snakes]

I saw that Wes Anderson's soundtracks were posted, so I decided to upload Seu Jorge's full album of Bowie tracks recorded for Life Aquatic.

Seu Jorge - Life Aquatic Studio Sessions

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Here are some other things:

Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts

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Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

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The Word - The Word

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Totally fucking sweet could-be-confused-with-a-jam-band album, but don't let the jam-band thing put you off if that's not your cup of tea. All the musicians are excellent, and it's apparently a gospel album, which guides it in the direction of being a very cool groovy, bluesy affair. Highly recommended.

[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

  LOTS of good stuff got put up. My ears will be bleeding for ages.
I want to thank the person who put up the Modest Mouse album,
someone stole my copy out of my car a while ago and I never bothered to get it back.
Here,
Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?zjgymzmdnyjThe Lonesome Crowded West

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?j2jgogzzziyThe Moon and Antarctica

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?23khxm1cnzlThree of my favorite MM albums, if you don't have them, get them. If you do then keep on looking dowwnn.
If anyone wants, I know someone does, I can put up basically all of Bright Eyes albums??

[Jughead5267]

New M. Ward album, courtesy of Sordo


M. Ward - Hold Time

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Oh, and go ahead with the Bright Eyes. And in the future, up whatever you'd like, if nobody likes it, oh well, you tried

[the_pied_piper]

Indie band from Leeds, England currently on indefinite hiatus.

¡Forward, Russia! - Give Me A Wall

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¡Forward, Russia! - Life Processes

Despite being a cliché of the laziest type, the idea of the ‘difficult’ second album is one that has endured simply because so many bands seem to be unable to avoid falling into its trap. Leeds’ ¡Forward Russia! launched themselves into so many people’s hearts two years ago with Give Me A Wall, an album so tightly coiled that every one of its enigmatic songs seemed to be bursting under the force of its own tension. It was a collection of songs defined by the whip-crack of drummer Katie’s snare and hi-hat, which meant that while it was instantly recognisable as part of the post-DFA dance/punk buzz it stood out enough for it to be a still-stunning work that can justifiably be called of the best debuts of the century so far.

And Life Processes is by no means a sequel; it feels more like the work of an entirely different band. Where …Wall was concise and focussed this sprawls and swirls, with a new label (Cooking Vinyl) signifying their break with the past in the form of no longer working as closely with Dance To The Radio. Sod Joe’s Well, this is a record pitched at Brixton Academy: every note drips with a laudable ambition and vision that is lacking in so many bands around nowadays who simply want to retread some half-arsed scene or exist in a lineage that immediately bestows upon them some kind of credibility. And while ¡FR! aren’t wholly successful – Life Processes is flawed, but agreeably so – at least they’re trying ridiculously hard.

First, the bad news. ‘We Are Grey Matter’ is symptomatic of the album as a whole, anchored as it is by a horribly tacky synth line and a mawkish “Call… response!” lyric that is so poorly executed it’s impossible not to question what they were thinking. Despite the song soon progressing beyond the aberrant opening into something recognisably ¡FR! (riffs that slice over one another in rigid straight lines, Tom’s histrionic, earnest vocals, a real punchy energy), it’s not until ‘A Prospector Can Dream’ that the album starts to fall into place. But even this is handicapped by the lyric “Did you ever study the Israelites? / They made a new life for themselves with such a peculiar change” – is anyone really going to be able to reply in the affirmative? Again, it’s hugely impressive that they’re trying to hard to gain such an epic scope in their music when, arguably, no one would have expected them to move in such a direction, but they fall short of unequivocal success. And ‘Fosbury In Discontent’ is a fine attempt at real emotional nakedness, populated by just Tom and an airy piano that does battle with the singer for domination of the upper register, but has none of the raw power or rawness you’d expect from such a stripped-back song.

But while it undeniably takes a few listens before everything clicks into place (first-time ¡FR! listeners will be able to approach the album quicker – fewer expectations, y’see), it’s the most outwardly inaccessible song that proves the real gem of the album. ‘Spanish Triangles’ has already been unveiled – all nine minutes of it – but it demonstrates a stunning calmness and fluidity. It builds slowly, powerfully but effortlessly, growing organically into itself. It’s worth noting that ‘Gravity & Heat’, for example, is almost three minutes shorter but feels much longer – ‘Spanish Triangles’ is the real culmination of their work post-…Wall and stands as the impressive, brilliant centrepiece. And ‘Don’t Reinvent What You Don’t Understand’, one of the shortest songs on the album, managed to move from one-two dance-punk to something undeniably epic, helped no end by Whiskas’ chiming guitars that seem air-lifted in direct from Explosions In The Sky’s Those Who Tell The Truth… era. And ‘Some Buildings’ is a three-minute lament stretched gloriously out for almost seven minutes, again given the chance to breath and mutate on its own. It doesn’t cut right to the feet like their earlier material but instead takes up residence in the gut, and by the third time you hear it all doubts will be blown away.

So it’s a second album, and it’s certainly difficult. But it’s also an album peppered by moments of brilliance and not held back by its few brave failures and one that no one can have reasonably expected the talented quartet to have come up with. It’s not the instant adrenal injection some were hoping for, but it is certainly more than worth your time.

    * ¡Forward Russia! 8 / 10

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[marktwainaster]

Here's the new Coconut Records
   

 http://rapidshare.com/files/182997131/CoREDa_Vic.zip

[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

Thanks, I think it's already up though, like up above us. haha

anyway BRIGHT EYES! This isn't all of his stuff, It's enough though. I regret not being able to put up Noise Floor, It's too big.
I don't feel like chopping it in half right now, I think it's on Sore-dough.com if you really want it.
A Collection of Songs-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zzmiyywmqeyDigital Ash In A Digital Urn-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?h2nzyo3ttkzEvery Day and Every Night EP-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nbygxn2y2mgFevers and Mirrors-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jjw4lemujjjI'm Wide Awake, It's Morning-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zcumymyem1gLetting Off The Happiness-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ogmmfdwmqzwLifted Or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep your ear to the Ground-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zay2nfmxkyiBright Eyes and Neva Dinova: One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels EP-

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hdwnygrgyzmWell that's all the Bright Eyes I have. I have some Conor Oberst solo cd but I think I got it from here.
 
Oh man, Thank you sooo much for the new M. Ward.
You're the man, I've been looking for more of his albums I think I have 4,now 5, but I can't find anymore.

[David_Dovey]

Hella Mogwais

Noooooo Mediafire is down right now why must I be taunted like this

(thanks though Melodic)

[Melodic]

What the hell MediaFire he is trying to music.

(no problem though dude)

[pat101]

Radiohead - Kid A
THIS is the best one

[onewheelwizzard]

So, um, anyone here like smoking weed?  Because this post is about music that is really good to smoke weed to.  I mean, like, really, really good.

Ott - Skylon

And where do we find The Ott (yes, this is the only name he provides; them studio techies love their pseudonyms) in this year of 2008? Not moving that far, to be honest. Much of his psy-dub execution remains unchanged, within his sonic scope and the genre as a whole; anyone who’s had a passing familiarity with this kind of music since even the Megadog era won’t find much innovation. Reggae rhythms, trippy atmospherics, cultural-fusion, ethnic samples... stop me if you have heard this before.

What Skylon lacks in inventiveness, however, Ott more than makes up for in musicianship. Mellow melodic moments that move the mind and soul? Yep. Catchy chants that hook into your mind? You bet. Intriguing effects-play that tickle the ol’ psyche in imaginative ways? Ya’ guy. Beats and bass giving your feet a case of the funky shuffles? F’sure. There may not be many songs offered on this album, but each one delivers in a way that is quite satisfying as the CD plays through.

In case that broad stroke of a description isn’t incentive enough for you to check Skylon out, here are some highlights to pique your curiosity further: The Queen Of All Everything, after lazily cruising along with melody, hits a lovely little synth climax -not to be outdone, dub-cut Signals From Bob pulls the same, with results that are thrilling for the ears; Daisies And Rubies is quite the free-flowing bit of spacey dub, with musical indulgences to spare -but the theremin towards the end is a delight to hear; if Ott was ever given the opportunity to cross over, the bhangra-influenced Rogue Bagel proves he definitely has the chops to pull it off; just as potent a dancefloor weapon is Roflcopter, where dubby breaks, cheeky samples, and trippy effects make this track a potent weapon for those outdoor parties.

Lowlights, then? None, really. About the only fault one could be nitpicky about is sometimes Ott’s production can come across as too polished. While it never seems as though he’s unintentionally stripped the soul of his music in the way other studio-obsessives have, nor does Skylon really have any of those pure unpredictable psychedelic moments that some of the best psy-dub albums of the past contain.

Of course, there’s also the argument this isn’t the kind of music that everyone will enjoy, but if psy-dub isn’t your bag then chances are you haven’t even read this far to begin with. Besides, Ott has managed to produce an album that should be appealing to those looking to get their feet wet. Although long-time connoisseurs of the genre may come away somewhat underwhelmed, Skylon offers more than enough infectious rhythms, pleasing melodies and engaging harmonies to please all parties.

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Qaballah Steppers - Dub In Fusion

From AMG:
The debut album from this Brooklyn-based dub-and-downtempo collective helped define the architecture of a sound that would come to be uniquely identified with the Brooklyn scene: a dark, slow and almost mystical fusion of dub reggae rhythms, Middle Eastern textures and sophisticated jungle elements, all of it leavened with a sometimes explicit religiosity that teeters between Islam and Rastafarianism. The approprately-titled Dub in Fusion blends all of those different styles and elements quite nicely, though not always completely successfully. "Ancient of Days" takes the ethereal and wordless vocals of Divaship and weaves them through a rich mix of hip-hop beats, North African stringed instrument samples and treated electric bass and guitar; "South Side" features the Brooklyn Jungle Sound System, which appears to be primarily a vehicle for the dubwise junglisms of Dr. Israel. "The Conqueror and the Mute Sea" is a nice piece of dark exotica that would have been much better if Dr. Israel had contributed more than grunts and yelps. The album's only real misstep comes with a contribution from former Last Poet Umar bin Hassan, whose "Trust" consists of 6 minutes of cliches delivered in his typically overwrought and arrhythmic rapping style. Highly recommended overall.

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DJ Wally - The Creepy Crawlies

From Dusted:
Somewhere between the modern noir that DJ Shadow perfected in the suburbs of San Francisco and the Gallic stonerism of DJ Cam lies New York's DJ Wally, except he's significantly weirder than both and he knows it. He'd like you to know it, too. Compared to other DJs who ooze understated coolness, Wally is an oddball, having worked with David Byrne's misfit Luaka Bop imprint and also collaborated with Luscious Jackson on the Titan A.E. soundtrack (?!). Recognizing this, the idea of his recent signing with a small Belgian label for some reason doesn't seem too strange, nor do the two costumed Children from the Corn on the cover of The Creepy Crawlies, his latest album.

Picking and choosing among his obviously deep collection of vinyl, Wally serves up a huge blend of music slathered on top of straight-ahead hip-hop drum beats. Sometimes the breaks are perky, sometimes they're foreboding, but then sometimes they're just ill. The boundaries for sound sources run as far and wide as reggae, Bill Haley and the Comets and porno orgasms, all fair game for DJ Wally's mixer. Running throughout The Creepy Crawlies are liberally used samples of tight-assed Wonderbreads saying corny things for comedic effect. It's an entertaining smorgasbord, perfectly designed for those who choose to smoke the reefer (one sample on the last cut, entitled "Out There in Dub Minor," features some guy yelling "I'm stooooned!" in case you didn't get it over the previous 11 tracks).

"The Crawlies," the third track, is probably the most exemplary of the album. Warbling strings melt on top of a very thick heard-it-before drum beat and then the whole mix is slashed with a heavy guitar riff until the kitschy Hollywood finale suddenly appears and simmers away. But wait! Those are only the main parts and there are easily half a dozen other minor things going on in the background. You could either take a Ritalin and listen to it again in case you missed something or kick back in preparation for "Walk With Limp," a mellow, psychedelic chunk of Saturday afternoon. Acoustic guitars, dub synths and loopy tracers abound on this one like so many curls of smoke. "Hybrid Sermon" is a good demonstration of DJ Wally's skill at sound manipulation. The opening beat grinds down into nothing and is then followed by more sluggishness. It's ugly and discordant but the humorous payoff comes halfway through the track when, during a momentarily pretty switch, a voice informs the listener "In fact, it's so beautiful, it has many magical powers," presumably referring to the track itself.
DJ Wally's ability to paste together disparate sounds into something clever and new deserves respect but the best aspects of The Creepy Crawlies tend also to be its problems. DJ Wally has a healthy sense of humor and he is too eager to show it off. The many, many ironic soundbites from TV shows and movies become repetitive at times. He also has a good ear for what sounds dope but too soon his attention wanders elsewhere, often leading to inexplicable alterations in his tracks just when a nice groove is being built. Maybe it's all part of having a little short-term memory.

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Broadway Project - In Finite

Though Dan Berridge is not a hardcore veteran producer, he is quickly becoming one of the most accomplished. As much as there was stylistic improvement from Compassion to The Vessel, so is the improvement from The Vessel to In Finite. Even the most inattentive listener could hear this, as Dan himself said, "It's my 3rd album, but at the same time my first. I've found a sound that I've been looking for." Relevant to this continuing evolution is the complete lack of vocals on this album, instead placing focus solely on aural construction. Far less noticeable sampling takes place here as James White returns from Vessel with several new guest musicians to give BP's chamber cinematics a more visceral, live atmosphere, with less of a static approach to the record pop loops which come standard on almost every Broadway Project track produced.

"Raga" basks in Capitol K's "City" territory with that trip-hop filtered guitar reminiscent of the distorted guitar-like vocal sample from the peak of Blockhead's "Insomniac Olympics," but the advancing aptitude of Berridge's production and white noise/picture show style, obvious and distinct to anyone who hears all three projects, is present throughout. He just keeps getting better. Album highlight "Blood In The Temple" may be the darkest and hardest BP song yet, matching a hard-hitting DJ Shadow growl beat with his own delicate layering of menacing organic sounds. Simply put, In Finite is more intelligent and better mixed/mastered than BP has ever been.

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[Tyler]

I don't know if this has already been posted. New Matt and Kim.

Matt and Kim - Grand

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[the_pied_piper]

Right, after 3 mediaf!re cock ups time to be indiecredible...

Please don't maim me 

This band released 1 single and are now defunct.

Elle S'appelle - Full Collection

Dance indie band from Liverpool, England. Self-described as writers of "Hyperactive Nursery Rhymes". Similarities to Los Campesinos! are well-founded through quick paced guitars and playful synths while lyrics are slightly under par. However, well worth a listen.

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[RedLion]

The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Really different from Funeral. Quiet and somber.

Also really much better than Funeral!

[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

Yeah Neon Bible is really good.

More MM. The two crucial ones, Building Nothing out of something and Long Drive, I couldn't upload.
When a file is too big for mediaf!re do you guys just seperate the file into two and upload them separately?
That's what I'm thinking. Let me know.

Modest Mouse-Sad Sappy Sucker

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MMGood News For People Who Love Bad News-

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MM The Fruit That Ate Itself-

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Now I've molested this site enough to know that I CANNOT request items, specific albums, to be posted to the forum.
So now,
I'm not asking for something to be posted, I'm asking for someone to point me in the direction of Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again.
I can't find it anywhere, there's a few places I still have yet to search but maybe someone knows?

[Harun]

Architects - Hollow Crown

for those who are fond of: Converge, Meshuggah, 8-string guitars, G# tuning, diminished scales. This also has a lot more melody than their previous albums, like more clean singing (see: title track), pretty ringing and tapping leads, and melodic hardcore rhythms.

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[Melodic]

The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Really different from Funeral. Quiet and somber.

Also really much better than Funeral!

It took a while for Neon Bible to get good. It was such a departure from the energy of Funeral that I sat down, played it a few times, and said it was garbage. But now it's pretty okay.

[Blue Kitty]

I don't know if this has already been posted. New Matt and Kim.

Matt and Kim - Grand

I don't know if it may not be for everyone else, but for me it says that it won't play because, "the file is corrupt or invalid"

[Albatron]

yeah now i'm getting invalid file page, can we get a re-up? Im excited bout this

[AdAstra]

you are all the bomb, so i'm posting the Octopus Project discography for you.

those who posted the Lake, Night Beds, and Pretty Lights are more human than human. I was also enjoying the Fabric updates a ways back.

Hello, Avalanche 2007 (Originally posted by Beast)

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The House of Apples and Eyeballs 2006 w/w Black Moth Super Rainbow

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One Ten Hundred Thousand Mililon 2004

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Identification Parade 2002

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[onewheelwizzard]

OK guys I know I'm triple-posting on this page but HOLY FUCK THIS SHIT IS INSANE.

Kid Beyond - Amplivate

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This album is ENTIRELY BEATBOXED, with fantastic singing laid over top.  Kid Beyond is a single dude with a microphone, a MIDI foot pedal that controls looping, and Ableton Live.  I've heard some pretty insane beatboxing but nothing on this level before.  You literally wouldn't even know it's a guy's mouth and not some high-quality production at work.  It's seamless.  Here is a video of Kid Beyond explaining his setup:
http://www.ableton.com/_common/downloads/pages2/artist_kid_beyond/kid-beyond.mov
Once you watch this video, you will almost certainly want to hear the album.  And you will absolutely not be disappointed.  It's mindblowing.

Edit: correction!  This album is not entirely beatboxed.  There are some remixes of the songs as well that are actually produced, as in by other people with non-beatboxed loops ... I think.  If every sound on this album is actually beatboxed, Kid Beyond isn't even human.

I've got another DJ Wally album I want to put up, two more by Broadway Project, an album by Juno Reactor that's really impressing me, and this other stuff by someone called Stylus Rex that's really really good, but I'll give it a break for a bit so people can absorb what's already there.  I just found a gold mine of a blog (I Killed The Darkness) and I'm milking it for all it's worth.

[Spluff]

Man you triple posting is not a bad thing

[EDIT - The My Sleeping Karma Link doesn't appear to be working ]

[onewheelwizzard]

Wow, yeah, the link for the first half of the album is already down.  Weird.  Working on that ...

Edit: Done!  Both halves should be active links now.

Edit: I don't know what the hell's up with mediaf!re, the Kid Beyond is already down.  I think the site might just be flubbing my files.  Either that, or some member of mediaf!re's police team has found my account and decided to start removing my shit.  Re-ups are forthcoming ...

Kid Beyond fixed.  Apparently Qabbalah Steppers and DJ Wally pt.1 are down.  I'm going to bed though, so I'll reup them later.  Sorry guys!  Blame mediafire!  Oh, and most of these I got from I Killed The Darkness, so if you're impatient (or you want a wider selection) hit that blog up, yo.

[pebaker2]

Here is a gem in the world relating to Modest Mowse: Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth. Its too bad that this album never received a follow-up. Sharpen Your Teeth is an achievement, a junk folk classic by a super group comprised of Isaac Brock (MM), Brian Deck and Tom Rutili (both of Califone and Red Red Meat), John Orth (amazing printmaker, designer and musician, also known as Holopaw), Paul Jenkins (Black Heart Procession and Three Mile Pilot). I have no idea what the dynamic of Ugly Casanova would have been like in the studio, but as UC is all over the internet as a Brock side project, I imagined Isaac Brock as the main songwriter. The album sounds like more of a Holopaw/Califone album than one would expect though. What Im trying to say is that Ugly Casanova is awesome, cooler than Modest Mouse, and its a dissapointment that there wasn't more output from them. In light of that, the closest thing to a follow-up has to be Holopaw's self titled album...many of the same synth sounds, banjos, and flimsy guitar (much like the incredible "Smoke Like Ribbons" from Sharpen Your Teeth).

Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop - 2002)

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[spoon_of_grimbo]

Liars Academy - "Demons"

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Liars Academy boasts powerfully crafted rock n roll layered with poignant melodies, irresistible hooks and earnest lyrics - a combination all too rare in "underground" music today. For its sophomore album Demons, Liars Academy joined forces with producer J. Robbins (Promise Ring, Jets to Brazil, Jawbox, Government Issue), bringing forth a mature and honest display the band hardly knew they had in them. Vocalist/guitarist Ryan Shelkett gives a particularly cathartic performance, exorcising ghosts and confiding innermost secrets throughout. Autobiographical themes of despair, regret, hope and redemption abound, complementing a superlative musical performance, making Demons Liars Academy's defining release.

Generally just really well-written, fairly laid-back, but still kinda rocky indie-rock.  Pretty cracking record I reckon.  Bit of trivia: this band featured Matt Sherwood of Strike Anywhere, although the two bands sound nothing alike.  He left shortly after the release of this album and although they found a replacement, Liars Academy split shortly thereafter.


This one's been ripped directly from the original vinyl by a mate of mine, and considering the general quality of vinyl rips I've previously come across, this sounds pretty amazing.

Masters of Reality - "Masters of Reality" (1988)

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Led by singer/guitarist Chris Goss, Masters of Reality were something of an anomaly on the late-'80s/early-'90s rock scene, playing a strongly Cream- and Zeppelin-influenced brand of hard rock with modern touches. Their original members included bassist Googe, guitarist Tim Harrington, and drummer Vinnie Ludovico.  Because they took their name from the title of a scorching Black Sabbath album, some assumed they were a heavy metal band. But in fact, their forte is a bluesy approach with a late-1960s/early-'70s type of appeal. Though subtle traces of Sabbath can occasionally be heard on a few of their songs, their sound owes a lot more to Ten Years After and the Doors. This impressive offering was produced by Rick Rubin and has the markings of a Rubin production.  Goss broke up the band shortly after their well-received, self-titled debut album in 1989; he reformed the group as a trio a few years later with Googe and legendary ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker.  However, Masters of Reality never quite fit into prevailing hard rock trends, and they remained a well-kept secret to most of the listening public. In hindsight, their retro obsessions and warm, spacious guitar sound set a clear precedent for the '90s stoner rock movement; while the Masters' less metallic sound wouldn't have been a perfect stylistic fit, the link was reinforced by Goss' acclaimed production work on three of the four Kyuss albums.

You can definitely hear where Josh Homme got some of his influences when you listen to this, especially when you hear Goss' singing style.  Despite a couple of slightly pub-rock missteps, this is a solid album.

[Catacombs]

That Kid Beyond album isn't working for  and it sounds so cool too.

[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

I don't know if Mediaf!re is slutting it up or what but like Catacombs said,
That Kid Beyond isn't working and neither are any of those Octopus Project albums?
I do want to lay a slip and slide in my backyard and rock out with that guy who put up Ugly Cassanova. Soooooooo gooood.

[michaelicious]

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They've been takin' this down pretty quick so get it while it's hot because I probably won't re-upload it unless I like you.

[Christophe]

Dogg I think they took it down already.

Clever naming, though.

[michaelicious]

Naw it's still up there.

[Christophe]

When I try to download it, it says that the file is no longer stored on Mediafire.

[Tyler]

I literally posted that Kid Beyond album two pages ago. I am quoting it here. The link should still work

I was playing on youtube and realize I never posted this last year. Kid Beyond is a livelooping beatboxer who more or less builds a song then sings over it. The EP includes a Portishead cover and is truly astounding.

Kid Beyond - Amplivate

Beatboxing -- using only one's voice to create often highly intricate and funky drum patterns -- is a well-respected art in the hip-hop community. But if the ability to beatbox well commands respect, the ability to do so at a virtuosic level commands something more along the lines of disbelief and can give rise to suspicion that the beatboxer has crossed the line into mere gimmickry. Kid Beyond goes one step further than virtuosity, not only creating beats and sounds that seem humanly impossible, but looping and layering them with his sung vocals and thereby creating complete musical compositions. If he could beatbox in a manner that would have you disbelieving your ears, that would be interesting for about three minutes. But because he invests his amazing skills in the creation of fully realized music, the result is music that is interesting in and of itself, regardless of how it was made. Kid Beyond's debut release is an eight-track EP containing three original compositions, a jaw-dropping arrangement of Portishead's "Wandering Star," and four remixes, all of which are fun enough but (ironically) none of which is as interesting as the original on which it's based. Highlights include the frenetically jungly "Mothership" and the more meditative and dreamy "Deep Inside." There's a deeply human sweetness to Kid Beyond's attitude, yet another aspect of his art that tends to set him apart from the hip-hop mainstream. The full-length follow-up can't come soon enough.

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[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

Yeah I just listened to that Abe Vigoda, quite good indeed. Thanks

I was a little upset that no one put this up yet sooo naturally,
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-Some Loud Thunder

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-S/T

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?uu3jzt5iwtmHere's what I have to say:
Their lyrics are amazing. You'll find random catchy nonsensical things and then you will find philosophical tendencies dancing around every crash of a cymbal and scrape and scratch of a guitar string. leaving lines like "We can do the Zarathustra!" stuck in your head and leaving you wondering what exactly is a Zarathustra? Until you realize it wasn't a 'what' but a 'who' and that who was a Prophet conjured up by the 19th century philosopher by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche. Once you've realized that, you know you've found someone to be stuck in your zune, ipod, or sony mp3 player or just gracefully dustless on your dusty computer's hardrive.
The music is very catchy, you'll find yourself moving in irregular ways in no time, unable to understand how you got from your computer chair to the smooth kitchen floor doing circles, clapping your hands, and burning holes in your socks.
His voice at first is like huh? then you're like..Fuck yeah I wish I could sing like that!
There is no need to really explain any band because that band can explain itself and that's what they are there for.
We only explain for fear that someone will not wish to experience them and potentially lose out on something great.

Then there is Pitchfork's more subtle and proper approach for trying to hook you to a  great band.

Maybe no one told Clap Your Hands Say Yeah that first impressions are important. Or maybe they've just got massive sack. Either way, their self-released, self-titled debut CD opens with the weirdest, most potentially grating bit of snake-oil salesmanship you're likely to hear until Tom Waits puts out another record. I happen to dig the song, entitled "Clap Your Hands!" (a theme is emerging), but a maniacal carny barking over a stuttering calliope isn't for everyone. Those who persevere, though, will quickly discover that this garish foyer gives out onto spacious, elegant chambers of clean lines and soft lights.
Clap Your Hands are a five-piece from Brooklyn who're known to break out both harp and harmonica. They've recently been garnering rave press in their home city, and, over just the past two weeks, burning up the internet like a vintage Lohan nipslip. The pundits are saying Wilco (not hearing it), Talking Heads (okay), and Neutral Milk Hotel (getting warmer), but if it checks in with a number of modern and classic new wave referents, the music sings for itself: Clap Your Hands traffics in melodic, exuberant indie rock that pairs the shimmering, wafting feel of Yo La Tengo with a singular vocal presence that sounds like Paul Banks attempting to yodel through Jeff Mangum's throat. Or imagine the Arcade Fire if their music were more fun-loving and less grave.

A little long, but a lot of worth it.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

I'm guessing at least a few of you are familiar with UK folk/acoustic singer/songwriter fella Frank Turner, yes?  Well he used to be in a post-hardcore band called Million Dead and they rocked giant balls.  Hear fer yerself:

Million Dead - "A Song to Ruin" & "Harmony No Harmony"

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Despite having possibly the worst band name EVER, upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start make some of the most beautiful and epic post-rock around, but it's busy and intricate enough that it'll never just blend into the background.  Got some interesting percussion and electronic doohickeys in there too.

upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start - "Embers"

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[Tyler]

It drives me nuts that there are bands both named "upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start" and "up up down down left right left right b a start"


****About Matt and Kim. I just successfully downloaded it and played it in Winamp. Unfortunately this version is the only active one I can find out there.

[onewheelwizzard]

I literally posted that Kid Beyond album two pages ago. I am quoting it here. The link should still work

Wow, I didn't even check.  I've been getting a ton of new music over the past few days from a bunch of different sources, and (of course) this forum is one of them.  They all get thrown together, I lsiten to them all eventually, and this one blew my mind enough that I went straight to "post this on QC forum!" without passing "did I get this from QC forum?"  Sorry for seeming like I tried to take credit or something?  Also, thank you!  Everyone get that album.

I'm fed up with mediafire until I know it's back to reasonable status so I'm'a change the links for my uploads that are down to megaupload links.

[Catacombs]

Tyler, thanks for pointing that out.  I remember reading your original post and thinking 'wow, i need to come back and download this' but i forgot.  But it downloaded fine!  And I also had no trouble getting that Embers album, I think (hope) mediafyre figured it self out.

[VSnaresFreak]

basssssssssssssneeeeeeeccccccccctttttttaaaaaaarrrrrrr commmmin yoooooo wayyyyyy