If you have been following the Best Songs of 2011 series, you know that we are in the midst of creating a total of 12 volumes of the best songs of 2011 - one for each month of the year. Unlike most 'best songs' lists, we are creating each volume chronologically by the month in [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As summer begins to melt away like a brilliant setting sun, the weather will soon turn more brisk, the leaves on the trees will die a flashy, colorful death and the air will become more crisp. The first week of September is a seminal time of the year - millions of kids are back in [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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Last week IRC presented the first springtime mix for 2011 (see 2010 and 2009) as part of the weekly Sunday 25 Mix. As we indicated then, there will be at least one, perhaps, two more springtime mixes, including today's mix, before it's time to unleash a new set of summer-themed playlist mixes. We doubt though [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Talahomi Way , with High Llama Sean O'Hagan and cohorts as your guides, is a thoroughly pleasant place to visit. But live there? This might perhaps be not so much a critique as an apology. You see, I genuinely wanted to like this disc more than I do. Sean O'Hagan -- for all intents, the mastermind behind the High Llamas -- has been someone whose work was always worth making time for. That he was a potentially major art-pop talent was evident all the way back to his days as composer and co-founder of (with singer/lyricist/force of nature...
Voilà bien un album de saison. Un vrai, un pur, gorgé de soleil, de mélodies entrainantes et d'harmonies légères ! Et c'est le neuvième et nouvel album des High Llamas qui sort trois ans après "Can Cladders". Alors bien sûr, pour apprécier les albums des The High Llamas , et en particulier[...]
3VOOR12:n kuuntelupisteeseen on kertynyt muutama suosittelemisen arvoinen uutuuslevy. Spotifysta löytyy toistaiseksi ainoastaan Yuckin levy. CAT'S EYES: Cat's Eyes Faris Badwanin (The Horrors) ja Rachel Zeffiran muodostaman Cat's Eyes -duon debyytillä kuuluu Morricone, Phil Spector, The Nuggets, 60-luvun tyttöbändit ja Twin Peaks. FLEET FOXES: Helplessness Blues Menestyneen debyytin, loputtoman kiertämisen ja hylättyjen sessioiden jälkeen Fleet Foxesin odotettu kakkoslevy on vihdoin täällä. Odottamisen arvoinen? Kyllä. Yhtye ei ole lähtenyt radikaalisti muuttamaan suuntaa, vaan [...]
Drake 's back! (And so am I.) -ed. Drake's Take: New Releases 04.19.11 I won't go pretending last week's releases weren't missed, especially a batch that included the latest from Panda Bear, TV On the Radio, The Feelies, Low, Jonny, Vivian Girls and Sonny & the Sunsets . Both vacation and laptop woes limited computer time, so it was necessary. But really, even with a shallower collection of releases, this week's might be better remembered, if only for the amazing sophomore release from Canadian shift-key killer tUnE-yArDs [...]
I won't go pretending last week's releases weren't missed, especially a batch that included the latest from Panda Bear, TV On the Radio, The Feelies, Low, Jonny, Vivian Girls and Sonny & the Sunsets. Both vacation and laptop woes limited computer time, so it was necessary. But really, even with a shallower collection of releases, this week's might be better remembered, if only for the amazing sophomore release from shift-key killer tUnE-yArDs. Playlist: New Releases 04.19.11 tUnE-yArDs - w [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from American Babies, Anti-Social Music, the Black Watch, Bombino, Breaking Laces, Conversion Party, d'Eon And Grimes, Dengue Fever, Eternal Summers, Former Thieves, the Head And The Heart, the High Llamas, I'm From Barcelona, Jeniferever, Joel Jerome, Kode9 & The Spaceape, Lanu, O'Death, the People's Temple, [...]
Label: Drag City Release date: 11/04/11 Link: Official Site Sean O'Hagan's contributions outside of his project The High Llamas have been most recognized in Stereolab. Duh. You all knew that, or at least should be aware of that if you're in a camp that, like myself, cares about/for High Llamas. Insert some historical information about Microdisney and his other briefer projects and huzzah, his career. Let's get back to business now. While his evocative, lounge inspired arrangements have long [...]
If you've read any High Llamas' reviews over their 21 years, then you'll recognise the writers' tendency to list the instruments used, as if that sums up the entire album. Well, Bowlegs can make this easy for you: they're all here. The glocks, the harpsichords, the marimbas, everything a self-respecting studio would have to hand in 1965. So listeners are treated to strings, strings and more strings, which at their best, like on opener 'Berry Adams', create elegant pop, somewhere between Jimmy Webb and The Beatles' 'She's Leaving Home'. Yet the band's adherence to string theory can, on [...]
(photo by John Knights) Sean O'Hagan's High Llamas have spent the last twenty years discovering a place in sound that relates brilliant, memorable melodies and lyrics with sharp arrangements and a sense of history rooted in music from all over the world. On an album like Gideon Gaye or 2007's Can Cladders , the Llamas provide such a sense of brightness and craft, it is nearly impossible to not feel enlightened upon listening. This month, the band will release their first album in four years, Talahomi Way . I am grateful to have interviewed [...]
Kysytty sovittaja (mm. Stereolab, Doves, Super Furry Animals) Sean O'Hagan näyttää palanneen kevään tullen emoyhtyeensä pariin. The High Llamasin yhdeksäs studioalbumi Talahomi Way ilmestyy 11. huhtikuuta. Luvassa jälleen 12 taidokkaasti ja huolella koostettua minisinfoniaa, joita kuunnellessa mieli toistaa sanoja kuten Beach Boys, Robert Wyatt, Morricone, 60-luku, bossanova ja tropicalia. Ensimmäisenä taidonnäytteenä Fly Baby, Fly :
new long_one from nodnoL based musical outfit the THE HIGH LLAMAS has taken a leak. TALAHOMI WAY D.O.B : April 11, 2011 Label : 1234 Tracklist : 1. Berry Adams 2. Wander Jack Wander 3. Take My Hand 4. Woven And Rolled 5. Ring Of Gold, The 6. Talahomi Way 7. Fly Baby Fly 8. Angel Connector 9. To The Abbey 10. Rock In May, A 11. Crazy Connector 12. Calling Up Ringing Down via : Rapidshare, Torrents wotyougot
starten wir heute mit einem jungen vermonter namens zach phillips, der bereits unter verschiedensten namen antrat, zum beispiel horse boys oder blanche blanche blanche und dabei für lofilectro und feinen piano getriebenen pop verantwortlich zeichnete, neuer moniker, neues tape, das es ab 29. märz für 7 bucks auf alchemist records geben wird, ein vorgeschmack: gdc - leur heure gdc - haut contre bas eine erste single gibt es aus dem album "venus flying trapeze" zu hören, welches am 05. april erscheinen wird [...]
It's 4 years since the last High Llamas record but next month Drag City will fix all that by releasing their 10th titled 'Talahomi Way'. I've always been intrigued by this band because on the face of it they display a clear Beach Boys infatuation but their sound is so tempered with distracting idiosyncrasies that the only song I've ever latched onto was 'Checking In, Checking Out' from way back in 1994. Sean O'Hagan, the band leader comes from from Cork and started out with Cathal Coughlan in Microdisney stopping off along with way to work with Stereolab amongst others. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amores Vigilantes : "You Can't Live Forever in Paradise on Earth (Without Me)" [mp3 from You Can't Live Forever In Paradise On Earth (Without Me) (out April 5th) search for more Amores Vigilantes posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Il prossimo 11 aprile esce "Talahomi Way" nuovo disco per i The High Llamas . Nuovo disco dei The High Llamas pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES
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