Got sent this in an email the other day, and having not heard of the band was intrigued at being told it was "creepy at times". Needless to say, they were right - this track from Linfinity is emotional, unsettling and interesting, a sort of Arcade Fire / Interpol / National mix of sounds, suffocating and dark, yet musically pleasing. I'm not even sure if that makes sense, but it's some thoughts off the cuff for this holiday Monday. Linfinity seem to have a really bizarre mix of influences that jump from [...]
Arkansas is home to the latest singer/songwriter to show a full rainbow of Chameleon colors, Chase Pagan . On his forthcoming album "Bells & Whistles", Chase displays everything from a soulful honk-tonk to a vibrant folk troubadour to a soaring falsetto. Complete with marching band horns, piano, pysc guitars, this album is diverse, but still simple at its core. Listen to: Life Garden ( mp3 ) Much like Chase Pagen, Linfinity displays many different styles while they jump through eras, show their influences, [...]
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You'd be hard-pressed to find any mention of Linfinity that doesn't devote a few sentences to analyzing frontman Dylan von Wagner's voice, which has been compared to John Cale, David Byrne, and...Eddie Vedder? Evidently the "Mournful Vibrato" Rolodex doesn't roll very deep. "Seasaw Love", from Linfinity's new EP Songs of the Weeping Willow , is a compelling showcase for von Wagner's distinctive approach. On the first play, it sounds like Antony ditched the Johnsons and ran off with a jug band, but subsequent listens [...]
linfinity old love letter 2007 (française version) Linfinity ? la première fois ? le contrast podcast. Cet épisode-là . Rapidement suivi par un mail annonçant l'EP, A manual for free living installation . Les chansons "Tycoon" et "Molly Mar of Rome". Ont cheminé. De mes oreilles à mon cerveau, de mon cerveau à mon coeur. Surtout Molly. "Companero" et "Chu chu train to Venice..." sont allées se loger dans [...]
Linfinity "Chu Chu Train To Venice" - I'm imagining this guy as a frazzled old prospector , and that he's playing the crude, manic piano part by jogging in place on the keyboard. Ideally, a video for this song would feature grainy, sepia-toned footage of a punk band comprised entirely of hobos kicking out this jam on a freight train. ( Click here to buy it via Linfinity's MySpace page.) International Pony "Gothic Girl" - Ha, okay, [...]
... and who am I to argue. Hit shuffle this morning while stuck in the mother of all Jozi traffic jams. I thought the mix was good enough to share... Listen: Blonde Redhead – Publisher Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel Linfinity - Tycoon The National – About Today The French [...]
Today's installment of MySpace Mondays features Dylan Von Wagner, a.k.a. The Screaming Pelican, as Linfinity. As with last week's featured artist , Dylan resides in NYC, which has now created a continuous streak of two weeks at A Blog Soup's MySpace Mondays! featuring practically unheard of musicians in the big city that really deserve your attention. With only 1202 views of his MySpace page, it appears that you prolly haven't yet heard his music. I'm pretty sure once you listen to the two tracks included with this post, with their epic sound, you too will be looking [...]
Themed album anthologies are like tattoos. Some people are lucky enough to find a combination of beauty and meaning that they are happy to let adorn their outer selves to the last, but for the majority, our tastes are too fickle, our politics too shallow and our loves too fleeting for a particular image to retain it's significance for very long. It's for similar reasons that I'm wary of artists, particularly obscure ones with few obligations, who release the first in a four, six or fifty-part series of albums amidst dubious fanfare. The latest of these is Dylan [...]
Dylan Von Wagner , the big man behind Linfinity , a NYC project, mailed me yet another MP3: Red Carpet Dream . Subject matter: Liverpool FC. From his forthcoming album A Manual For Free Living Volume I: Sedition : I'm a Liverpool man, I'm a Liverpool man, I'm a Liverpool man to the end I'll speak it again, I'll speak it again, I'll speak it again my friends, So if you see me out in a pint and stout, You'll sing and shout again, and again, and again, [...]
Dylan Von Wagner , the big man behind Linfinity , a NYC project, mailed me yet another MP3: Companero . Subject matter: a general had a few too many. From his forthcoming album A Manual For Free Living Volume I: Sedition : Take your pages take your rue Take all the news let it seep through Take your city take your zoo Take all the doom let it be through Cause I'm the supersixteen machine gun dream Gotta free what it is what it is you see I'm [...]
Dylan Von Wagner , the big man behind Linfinity , a NYC project, mailed me yet another MP3: Delta Shea . The kind of that can ruin your whole day ... From his forthcoming album A Manual For Free Living Volume I: Sedition : I saw a man and he move to the street and he burn baby burn! I saw a man and he stormed in preach and he run baby run! Oh an army of one an urban bullet he run gun run! Oh he juke like a [...]
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