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[Tom]

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.

[kaelling]

For my first post here's some danish pop/rock. Just check it out, it's excellent.

Diefenbach - Set & Drift

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?mewzjyx0izn

[pat101]

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"

it's the re-up anthem

Matt & Kim - Grand

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?hmnjwmn2g2e
also,

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (1995) Remastered (2008) I don't remember what bit-rate it's in but at least 192kbps

Pt1

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?yvt4o1zz0z4Pt2

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




Link to a worthwhile Coke Machine Glow review http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/4007/aguycalledgerald-blacksecrettechnology-2008

[the_pied_piper]

Some modern folk for all you people out there

Horse Feathers - House With No Home

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?yndjemzowyw
Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?wfz5ezkkkwn
Norfolk & Western - Dusk In Cold Parlours

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?nmyienmkm5n
My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me The Workhorse

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?5yuy0mzm2qw
EDIT: Sorry, code for My Brightest Diamond was wrong. Now fixed.

[onewheelwizzard]

More DJ Wally goodness.

DJ Wally - The Stoned Ranger Rydes Again

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GLSBQ2ND

[jimstark]

Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light In The West

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zljmd1lm15m
Ben Nichols of Lucero - this is his solo album, it's honestly amazing. It's different from Lucero, but just as good.

Along with those Horse Feathers albums!

[onewheelwizzard]

So I just found an artist in my collection that I hadn't really listened to before now, called Soul of the Phoenix.  I googled it, and it turns out that I got this stuff from the Sordo Music website God knows how long ago, because Sordo features artists every now and then as their own recordings.  I've listened to the first of these albums that I'm posting, and it's fucking dope as hell.  Part drone/ambient, part trip-hop, part dirty electronica, all awesome.

Links are not mine, they are the band's.  All of these links can be found on their MySpace, I'm just forwarding them.

Soul of the Phoenix - Release The Drones

From Sordo:
From the farthest reaches of space and the soul comes Release the Drones, a collection of various songs that go from psychedelic doomy to fun and groovy. Layers of guitar, drum machine, samples, effects, filters, and just general weirdness. Darkly psychedelic and dangerously hypnotic, emotionally charged and slightly neurotic. So stomp your feet, clap your hands, drink some booze, take some Shamanistic substances, and lock yourself in the darkest room in the house with a lampshade on your head. The main thing is, enjoy yourself.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yejb190ynjx
Soul of the Phoenix - Deconsecration

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http://www.mediafire.com/?rzlbqhmp1dt
Soul of the Phoenix - Release Through Smoke

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http://www.mediafire.com/?owbmxlmxsa5
Soul of the Phoenix - Hallow EP

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http://www.mediafire.com/?lntx125jhdl

[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

That Ben Nichols is sooo sweet.
I LOVE Lucero. Thanks like a trillion.
There is nothing wrong with it at all.

[thedudeoflife]

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?izthzwzwtwt
The Maple State - Say Scientist
Good.

[thedudeoflife]

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?omeygmywiwnTigers Jaw - Self Titled

Sweet Indie/Pop Punkish...not really bad from Scranton Pa. I hope you get to see them one day.

[thedudeoflife]

And I was wonder if the band   The Paper Tiger Sounds    is out there somewhere because i dk if i'm not looking hard enough or what but i have one song by them and can find any more.

!!!!THIS IS NOT A REQUEST IT IS A QUESTION!!!    !!!!THIS IS NOT A REQUEST IT IS A QUESTION!!!   !!!!THIS IS NOT A REQUEST IT IS A QUESTION!!!   !!!!THIS IS NOT A REQUEST IT IS A QUESTION!!!    !!!!THIS IS NOT A REQUEST IT IS A QUESTION!!!    !!!!THIS IS NOT A REQUEST IT IS A QUESTION!!!

[thedudeoflife]

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?gwzdhjvzwmmThe New Deal - S/T

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

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?lmtw3mx2zzzThe New Deal - Gone Gone Gone
Had to be chopped

Umm electronica meet house meet some beatboxing from the drummer. It's just all around awesome. Female vocal on the second album Gone Gone Gone....it's the more recent of the two.

[onewheelwizzard]

Dude, thanks so much for The New Deal.  I've been meaning to get into them for a while.

BreakBeatBuddha - Mind Bombin'

From Tribe:
Mind Bombin’ is a nice mixture of glitchy breaks and heavy down-tempo with some good guest vocals/ MC work mixed over a sonic palette that very much leans towards the low end. The tracks here ooze with ridiculously hefty bass and beats that completely embrace the digital realm of musical expression and totally ignore convention when melding their influences. I mean seriously, in theory it’s easy to think that combining hip-hop, dancehall, IDM glitch, digital funk, down-tempo and breakbeats would work, but in execution it’s no small feat. And 3B makes it look silly easy here.

BreakbeatBuddha’s latest offering is a great attempt at interjecting a bit of social awareness into the dance scene via breakbeat and come-down-tempo. Mind Bombin’ presents the ideals of collective consciousness to crowds who, let’s be honest here, sometimes have a difficult time even grasping its simpler, more marketable little brother – PLUR. But too few have made the effort to positively influence dance culture and 3B has to be applauded in this regard.

The point here is made with a solid musical backdrop and playfully accessible titles like ‘Buddha Bounce’ and ‘Sleezy Geeza’. The tracks ably blend a large array of influences (musical and otherwise) into one very cohesive thump, and on the dancefloor the outcome is more than a good effort - it’s a good time. As a whole, this album manifests its artists’ passions and lets the message mix with the music and makes them both bump.

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If you like BassNectar you are basically guaranteed to like this.  Outrageously bumpin' bass and glitchy breaks are a good formula in my book!

[devomedes]

Because we have seen a lot of The Boss on this forum lately:

Bruce Springsteen- Working On A Dream [2009]

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http://www.mediafire.com/?23ylyjwjqdm


[the_pied_piper]

Aargh! Mediafire refuses to upload. I hate everyone who has posted in the last 12 hours



So now that thats out i will be posting:
Rosie Thomas - These Friends Of Mine
                   - If Songs Could Be Held
                   - Only With Laughter Can You Win
                   - When We Were Small

Page France - ...and the Family Telephone
                  - Come, I'm A Lion
                 - Hello, Dear Wind

Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love

The Innocence Mission - Befriended

when i can finally upload again.

[Dimmukane]

Everyone should get that Kid Beyond album.  Like I was telling OWW, the dude is like DJ Frane except that the turntable is his mouth.  It is really impressive stuff.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i fail to see how posting "THIS IS NOT A REQUEST" with a blatant request makes it not a request.  if you really must break the rules, at least have the stones to do it blatantly.  or better yet, here's a tip:

"INSERT ARTIST NAME HERE"+"INSERT ALBUM NAME HERE"+"INSERT NAME OF UPLOAD SITE HERE"

^ put this in google.  not really that difficult.  i do this all the time and it's rare there'll be anything i can't find within a few minutes.

[RedLion]

Awesome devomedes, Thanks for the new Bruce!

[thedudeoflife]

Alright spoon.....sorry i asked some advice about if anyone knows if a band is out there...so fuck off....yeah i can find music all day on google doesn't mean the shit is able to be downloaded

[Melodic]

i fail to see how posting "THIS IS NOT A REQUEST" with a blatant request makes it not a request.  if you really must break the rules, at least have the stones to do it blatantly.  or better yet, here's a tip:

"INSERT ARTIST NAME HERE"+"INSERT ALBUM NAME HERE"+"INSERT NAME OF UPLOAD SITE HERE"

^ put this in google.  not really that difficult.  i do this all the time and it's rare there'll be anything i can't find within a few minutes.

You're like a page and a half late mang.
(Don't have a flamewar in this thread, fuckers).

[thedudeoflife]

Not trying to. It's not like there is a list somewhere of every music forum every created that uploads albums. I was asking to see if there is one that someone knows about that has thats band. All i was looking for was a website name...all i could come up with is streaming files and their myspace stuff.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

request or not, this is not really the place for that.

[thedudeoflife]

Alright i'm going to go back to being a lurker peace.....

[Tyler]

a lurker peace.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

i fail to see how posting "THIS IS NOT A REQUEST" with a blatant request makes it not a request.  if you really must break the rules, at least have the stones to do it blatantly.  or better yet, here's a tip:

"INSERT ARTIST NAME HERE"+"INSERT ALBUM NAME HERE"+"INSERT NAME OF UPLOAD SITE HERE"

^ put this in google.  not really that difficult.  i do this all the time and it's rare there'll be anything i can't find within a few minutes.

You're like a page and a half late mang.
(Don't have a flamewar in this thread, fuckers).

really? maybe i've got different posts-per-page or something, but it's only up there *points up a bit*.  anyway, yeah you're right, i'm done with the anger-age.

also...

Soul of the Phoenix - Release The Drones

^ this is pret-ty fucking awesome, i'm'a get downloading the others you've posted there too!

[Tyler]

This is a very fun and lovely band from Cambridge, Mass. Their sound varies a lot from track to track, but it is all rather spectacular pop/rock.

Bon Savants - Post-Rock Defends the Nation

If Broken Social Scene had come not from Toronto, but from the brainy enclaves of Cambridge, MA (where leader Thom Moran is a research scientist at MIT), they would have sounded quite a bit like the Bon Savants. With tongue in cheek lyrics heavily informed by Moran and guitarist Kevin Haley's day jobs -- the title track is about their time working in Germany after the end of the cold war, "I Am the Atom Bomb" concerns the conflicted feelings of the scientists who split the atom, and as a local in-joke, the title of "Mass Av and Broadway" namechecks the east-west boundaries of MIT itself -- and a with name that means "good scientists" in French, the band has the potential come off as a sort of clique-ish giggle, not unlike, say, hockey-themed pop-punks the Zambonis. However, Moran has an unexpectedly appealing voice and conversational singing style that's far removed from the angsty whine of so many contemporary indie rock singers and a perfect vehicle for his smart, funny lyrics. Similarly, the band takes the placid atmospheres and slow-building dynamics of post-rock and sharpens them into concise three-minute pop songs with prominent hooks and actual choruses. A deeply satisfying debut, Post Rock Defends the Nation proves that bands can be book-smart and musically accessible at the same time.

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[Hyperbowl]

And I was wonder if the band   The Paper Tiger Sounds    is out there somewhere because i dk if i'm not looking hard enough or what but i have one song by them and can find any more.

Not what you're after, but thank you for reminding me to post this.


Paper Tiger - While You Are Gone

Indie pop from a fantastic Adelaide group who only put out the one EP before they split up in 2005. They played with The Lucksmiths and Architecture In Helsinki (Fingers Crossed era) and would not have sounded out of place on Candle Records . Boy/girl vocals, glockenspiel, a soundtrack to a sunny summer afternoon.

Oh god, I feel an Indie Pop renaissance coming on, with Paper Tiger being just the band to herald it in. Folk infused pop, or vice versa - While You Are Gone showcases five intricate and predominantly acoustic tracks that unravel in the melding of the musical minds and instrumental diversity of this Adelaide sometimes four piece. Think melodica, viola, glockenspiel, Hammond, dual vox and the intelligence to contextualise them perfectly in endearing melodies; it's bound to rival your favourite Candle records release as a trademark of Oz indie pop gods [think Lucksmiths et al]. Hell, there are even pop sensibilities here to rival the kings and queens of that department, Belle And Sebastian, with the same lyrical naivety and discovery of the quirky banal.

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[valley_parade]

This is a very fun and lovely band from Cambridge, Mass.

DEAR THIS BAND,

come hang out with us tonight?

[Tyler]

Paper Tiger - While You Are Gone

Sogood.

[thedudeoflife]

Paper Tiger and The Papertiger Sound is not the same...the one i'm looking for is a UK band

[Clapyourhandssaywhhaatt]

Paper Tiger is still quite quite good. 

[medicatesleep]

spoon_of_grimbo: Almost everything you've posted in this thread is sickie gnar gnar. Thank you.

You like Toadies? I make post for you.


Rubberneck

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oyeztzr0iti

Hell Below/Stars Above

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dy1exmztmyv

Feeler (shelved by Interscope Records in 1998)

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mjnnq33mtz1

No Deliverance

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tkr2apkcbux

[medicatesleep]

Oh and here is a Fucked Up album I have been meaning to post for sometime.


Epics In Minutes

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Listen to the song "Generations" and try to tell me punk is dead.

[valley_parade]

spoon_of_grimbo: Almost everything you've posted in this thread is sickie gnar gnar. Thank you.

And I thought Cicero was hard to understand.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

sickie gnar gnar

this means good, right?

[toxic shock]

Oh and here is a Fucked Up album I have been meaning to post for sometime.


Epics In Minutes

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Listen to the song "Generations" and try to tell me punk is dead.

pretty hot compilation. colour removal's the best track on there though. everyone should check out career suicide - the drummer from FU is the guitarist, and as FU have got worse CS have got better. i'll upload one of their records later when i have full use of my bandwidth.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Samiam played emo in the original sense.  Proper emotional post-hardcore/rock, in a similar vein to Jawbreaker, but with cleaner and more soaring vocals, and a little more straightforward in terms of song structure.  Still an amazingly catchy album though (and for the fella who was after Beatles stuff a few pages back, you might be interested to hear the cover of "Cry Baby Cry" on here too).

Samiam - "You Are Freaking Me Out"

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?x2kkioq5kbj

Dark, tortured, whiskey-soaked, nicotine-stained, self-loathing, fucking nasty rock, with a hint of post-hardcore (that's getting to be a recurring theme with my posts here...).  Depressing as fuck, but impressive and gripping throughout.

Planes Mistaken for Stars - "Mercy"

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?gznzi2zyjyj

More post-rock, but with a much more experimental electronic edge.  The emphasis here is on weird mechanical soundscapes full of strange synth textures, programmed drums and the occasional appearance of vocals, courtesy of ex-Earthtone9/The Blueprint/current-Twin Zero vocalist Karl Middleton.

Princess - "Superstructure of an Era"

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?dwi2m1fomm3

[valley_parade]

Wasn't there an NN2S strip where they said Samiam is just punk rock for grown ups?

[eddie]

Oh and here is a Fucked Up album I have been meaning to post for sometime.


Epics In Minutes

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?ezmwmyw0mdi
Listen to the song "Generations" and try to tell me punk is dead.

pretty hot compilation. colour removal's the best track on there though. everyone should check out career suicide - the drummer from FU is the guitarist, and as FU have got worse CS have got better. i'll upload one of their records later when i have full use of my bandwidth.

How the hell have FU got worse? Oh generations has no meaning whatsoever the band wrote it as a joke. Smiam is punk rock for old people

[spoon_of_grimbo]

the songs i've heard off their newest one are kinda punk-for-oldies.  a bit too laid-back for my liking.  but that album i've posted is (mostly) sheer brilliance.  seriously, check it out.

[eddie]

I've got on CD and I agree it is awesome.

[Clintaga]

basssssssssssssneeeeeeeccccccccctttttttaaaaaaarrrrrrr commmmin yoooooo wayyyyyy

Is Bassnectar comin my way? JSYK Mesmirizing the Ultra and the Heads Up EP are both in this thread already, so if you got something more to share I will basically run around West Philly singing the praises of VSnaresFreak for a while.

Also, Onewheel and I had a ballin' party at his frat last night, and he turned me onto an absolute treasure trove of Dubstep and DnB websites, one of which had the absolutely most amazing selection of free Dubstep downloads, including this EXCLUSIVE Caspa (As in Fabriclive 37 Caspa & Rusco) gotdarker.com mix set. It's the Hawt Sauce.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?ndyndedmlmn An absolute perfect way to break it down for 23 Minutes and 28 Seconds.

Oh whatever, here's the Distance "Dubpressure" Mix

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http://www.mediafire.com/?0eyhzdjehlc This is where the Vex'd Remix came from, I believe.

Uhhh.... Hmmm, oh yeah, he's a Skream Mixset from Rinse FM, Early 2007

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http://www.mediafire.com/?3rwemmjfqn4 For those not in the know, Skream is like Benga, but less "I'm gonna make you shake your body cause you just gotta move" and more "Music so dark light cannot escape it's touch" while still being totally danceable, IMO.

Oh by the by, Enduser's "Calling the Vultures" was totally frickin' bawls out incredible, is that the only track he's released?
oh, and 'nthing Amplivate, shit was ridiculous.

I look back on the last year of my life, and I can safely claim my personal discovery of Dubstep and Glitch/Break as two very tall Highlights, like, top 3 and 4 "Things I wish i'd done 5 years ago" of 2008. For anyone who feels that way, in the PA Region, there's now a monthly dubstep party at the Barbary in Philadelphia, which sadly jives with me, seeing as I'm not 21 yet *Sadface*.

And because this doesn't get said nearly enough, thank you everyone on the QC Forums musical community for your selfless acts of unabashed big pimpitude (ladies is pimps too). I honestly don't even read this comic, never have, but this music share jazz is basically off the hook, as anyone who like me has probably download 100+ albums, even if you only keep a third of them, probably doesn't want to think of their lives without some of the amazing gems we got crawling around up in this bandwith /gush.

[imapiratearg]

Album dump!

Here is something by a member of The Olivia Tremor Control!

The Sunshine Fix - Age of the Sun

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?owv2nnrlxkh
Here is a pretty good album by an indie pop band!

French Kicks - One Time Bells

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?bayztbcxpln
This is a mighty fine debut album by a psychedelic pop (psychedelia?) band!

Apollo Sunshine - Katonah

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http://www.mediafire.com/?pznaxcjcljb
Also, here is an EP released last year by a band from my state which I cannot stop showering with glowing compliments.  They make excellent tunes.  The EP was released for free on their website and Myspace and is their finest (if shortest) collection of songs yet.

The Year's Best - 2007 EP

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Highlights: "I Had a Friend," "Where It Hurts" and "The Day You Let Down Everyone."

[the_pied_piper]

Well, finally mediaf!re works for me again so here is part of what i promised.

Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love

Becky Stark's vocals soar and dive from whispery soprano to somewhere deeper and darker, backed up by pianos, violas, violins and cello. It's no longer anything new to blur the line between the musical worlds of classical and pop but rarely are they brought together as well or as beautifully as they are here.

The band do fast and furious on Oh No and Side Of The Lord; slow and heartbroken on Garden Rose, I'll Never Lie Again, Bring Me A Song and the lullaby-like closer When You Wake For Certain; pure pop on Open Your Heart and Here Comes One. Add in tribal beats on Like An Arrow, while on Dance Until It's Tomorrow, you can almost hear the glass beginning to shatter as Stark's voice reaches higher than any human should be allowed to before My Shadow Is A Monday wanders through a bar where the moonshine flows freely, sweetly and illegally.

And so it goes on, across 12 tracks of pure musical perfection. Forced at gunpoint to pick a favourite, it would have to be the piano tip-toe and brass reply of Bring Me A Song or perhaps Find A Way, which channels the ghost of Nico and teaches it to sing, but in truth there's not a single duff track showing its face anywhere remotely close to here.

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The Innocence Mission - Befriended

As with their 1995 breakthrough, Glow, the Innocence Mission's Befriended is an album of small gifts rendered with a craftsman's touch. Karen Peris has an endearing and pure voice, her refined intonations glide over the music like a brave bird singing on an cold autumn morning. She and guitarist (and husband) Don and bassist Mike Bitts, works in ethereal atmospheres on such songs as "Sweep Down Early" and "Tomorrow on the Runway." These songs revolve around past lives, families, and reminiscences -- sort of an emotional scrapbook of music and memories.

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Page France - Hello, Dear Wind

There is an edge of melancholy throughout: the jangly guitars, ringing bells, and joyous keyboards betray talk of fear, of being blown away by the wind—and lead singer Michael Nau admits that we are all dogs, begging for scraps from the divine. In “Junkyard,” the most cryptic, and the darkest track, Nau tells us that this Christianity not only requires us to "lie there patiently" but to have life "shake us like a bad dream," even if the dream was about "the truest song that was never true."

If all of this sounds oddly intense, it should. Hello, Dear Wind feels like people talking quietly in a circle, a collection narratives of confusion and shame. Things you would hear at retreat centers, AA, the confessional booth, bible studies, and the like. It is easy to mock lo-fi emo boys with their four-track, singing love songs to girls who will never really love them—now imagine finding that girl who will love them forever: all of that trepidation about adolescent desire remains, but there is a surety amongst the doubt.

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Page France - Come, I'm A Lion

One of Come, I'm a Lion's biggest strengths is its ability to be full without being stuffed, to sound uncluttered but never sparse. Every sound and word contained herein comes across as necessary, and in most cases it is. Michael Nau and his band of musical collaborators has forged a real gem with this album. They've managed to pull off poetry without pretentiousness, and without sacrificing a solid musical backbone. Both are vital organs, and on Come, I'm a Lion they combine beautifully.

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Page France - ...and the Family Telephone

This braiding of the unconscious with the Unknown, as crookedly rendered as it might be, is Telephone's greatest charm-- an inventive intertwining that gives the record a woozy, playful charisma. Like Danielson's Daniel Smith, Nau creates a loopy musical world concerned with the extratextual elements of organized religion, with any converts he attracts along the way merely interested in playing along. Like religion, music only exists inasmuch as it is performed, and on Telephone's closer "Casting Day", Nau seeks to recruit a new crop of participants for his next show, asking: "Who do you wanna be? In that crooked afterlife, at the bottom of the sea?"

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[memann]

Circulatory System - Circulatory System

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=0e1a52e4b7c149f691b20cc0d07ba4d21efc59881449c390

From Pitchfork
This, the self-titled debut from Olivia Tremor Control mastermind Will Cullen Hart, is one of the few albums I've heard that can effectively blur the line between real-world time and dream-world time. With its illusory, ethereal production, wistful melodies, and oft-funereal pace, this is one of those rare albums that can completely absorb you in such a way as to almost dissolve the world around you, and make you feel like you've been transported to another realm of existence within the course of 58 minutes.

While not an Olivia Tremor Control release by name, there are very few elements here that will be unfamiliar to fans of the band. Aside from Bill Doss, just about everyone who's ever contributed to an OTC release is present, making for a grand total of 21 musicians involved in its making. Given the sheer volume of people contributing, and Cullen Hart's history with layering sound, it's no surprise that Circulatory System is a sonically dense album. But here, more than on any Olivia Tremor Control record, Cullen Hart displays an almost supernatural talent for melding these sounds into a single entity that is absolutely enveloping, and for shaping that entity around a powerful melody. In some ways, the absence of Bill Doss seems to be a blessing, turning the once-Olivia sound inward as Hart is left to explore his own lyrical and sonic ruminations on time, death, and the nature of humanness.
9.5/10

[the_pied_piper]

Here is the rest of what i promised plus a bonus

Rosie Thomas - These Friends Of Mine

These Friends of Mine doesn’t feel quite as hurried as her last two records, especially 2003’s Only with Laughter Can You Win. “Whether you are a musician, painter, or whatever, there is a passion that sometimes gets lost because all of the sudden you have to clock-in or have deadlines”, she says in her press literature. “I sort of wanted to get back to that time when I played music for nothing”. She seems to have found the right vibe: there’s a lot of joking between tracks, and the songs have a very pleasant, comfortable air that works well with Thomas’ childlike voice and the spare instrumentation. Stevens’ banjo shows up on “Why Waste More Time” to great effect and there are a lot of songs built around simple, finger-picked guitar. Thomas is in fine form, and songs like “Kite” and “Much Farther to Go” and “If This City Never Sleeps” are as good as anything she’s done.

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Rosie Thomas - If Songs Could Be Held

When Rosie Thomas isn’t careening through adorable acoustic songs, she’s a stand-up comic. Her alter ego is named Sheila. This, along with her previous album title (Only With Laughter Can You Win), leads us to believe comedy plays an important role in her artistic existence. On her latest musical venture, If Songs Could Be Held, we find her music is no laughing matter. No chuckles, giggles, cackles, or guffaws.

As Rosie Thomas grows older, it seems her main struggle remains in the department of love. Her songs reflect her frustration, lost and rediscovered hope, and desire to find companionship and reliability. The songs on this album are full of remorse and regret, as well as a shot or two of encouragement. Thomas, through her simple and clean arrangements, aims to make sense of her problematic relations. As she presses on, trying to keep cheerful, we think back to Sheila. A sad clown situation comes to mind. The victims in Rosie Thomas’ songs are pained but try to mask grief with unconvincing hope. Her vulnerability pries through the gentle instrumentation and gains our sympathy.

Unlike her labelmate Sam Beam, Rosie Thomas suffers from a lack of mysticism, folklore, and grit, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; but her safe approach and noble pursuits of happiness may keep her in the coffee house. There is obviously something deeper brewing here. Behind the funny girl and simple, cozy-sweater ballads, there must be some sort of filth or corruption. Granted, Thomas does handle her songs well — the nursery rhyme innocence of "Pretty Dress" and the airy rendition of "Let It Be Me" are both intriguing and captivating. But with the bare bones approach of song and singer, there must always be an additional "something." An error, a secret, a myth. Rosie Thomas is just a little too ordinary, despite her concealed alter ago.

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Rosie Thomas - When We Were Small

I stand steadfast. I will not be shifted. It may have taken six months for this undeniable feeling to bloom, but now it's here and will not budge. If you told me a debut concept album about childhood, written and performed by a female stand up comic would be my favourite, most dearly loved album of the year at the beginning of 2002, I would have laughed and sneered at you. With derision. But then again life isn't a linear path, shaped by your own solid rock sense of predestination. It constantly surprises, shocks and disappoints. When We Were Small is a beautiful surprise.


Rosie Thomas was born into a family of musicians in Detroit, yet she first gained some popular currency as a stand up comic in the guise of a neck braced uber-geek called Sheila. She started playing her solo scripted songs (she served time in a Detroit band called Velour 100) to live audiences as well as starting an association with fellow troubador Damien Jurado. Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop, a man not known for his appreciation of melancholic folk pop, caught her act and signed her up without due hesitation. Set free in the studio she was told she could do what she wanted. Well, as long as it was the same array of affecting delicate songs he had seen her hypnotise audiences with.

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Rosie Thomas - Only With Laughter Can You Win

Mostly, the contradictions that Thomas deals in are still the contradictions that have pained—and secretly pleased—knowingly sensitive souls with instruments since the 1970s. Though narcissism from the likes of Joni Mitchell (from whom the album title is drawn) leaves Thomas’s own feeble self-involvement eating dirt, there remains the faint hint at times of someone pleased at finding out what delightful playthings her own emotions make. When that happens, and it happens too often, the album is reduced to mere prettiness, perfect music for self-reflecting—cup of tea in hand, of course—at the end of a tiring day.

In theory, I believe that art should do more than simply giving its audience that easy, reassuring feeling. But for those who have no problem with art doing “only” that, they could do much worse than making a home for Rosie Thomas’s humane, unsmug optimism. And even if you agree that art should inspire more than a nice, toasty feeling, “Sell All My Things” and “Red Rover” (and “Tell Me How” in its lines about death and God) make a compelling case for this album indeed doing more.

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Bonus of solo album from lead singer of Idlewild

Roddy Woomble - My Secret Is My Silence

When Idlewild lead singer Roddy Woomble turned up on Kate Rusby's last album, his low tones jarred with her sweet singing, so it comes as a surprise to find that when it's Kate supplying the harmonies, it works brilliantly.

With due respect to Woomble's songwriting, it's the harmonies of Rusby, along with the production and violin of her husband John McCusker, that make the solid bed to build his beautiful songs on.

That said, it's a close call whether the epic "Waverley Steps", sung with Rusby, or the heart-bursting title track, which sees the fantastic Karine Polwart on harmony duties, is the real show-stealer.

Tender and epic, enormous yet touching, Woomble's secret may not be his silence, but the brilliance of his musical friends.

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[Tyler]

Try to remember to add descriptions for your albums.

[the_pied_piper]

Sorry. All previous albums now contain reviews.

[toxic shock]

Oh and here is a Fucked Up album I have been meaning to post for sometime.


Epics In Minutes

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Listen to the song "Generations" and try to tell me punk is dead.

pretty hot compilation. colour removal's the best track on there though. everyone should check out career suicide - the drummer from FU is the guitarist, and as FU have got worse CS have got better. i'll upload one of their records later when i have full use of my bandwidth.

How the hell have FU got worse? Oh generations has no meaning whatsoever the band wrote it as a joke. Smiam is punk rock for old people

progressionally not as good live and on record really really fuckin disappointing with the most recent one. who gives whether generations has no meaning? isn't it obvious from the lyrics. irrespective it's still a really good song.

[Tom]

progressionally not as good live and on record really really fuckin disappointing with the most recent one.

How so?