These are some of what I've been listening to in the past week. For all of them, reviews are pending... I'm lazy. Lukid - Foma Part dubstep, part instrumental hip hop, part glitch, an understated electro-acoustic venture that has been ruling my lazy days of late. Try [via bolachas gratis] [...]
And then, there were ten. For a recap, 20 - 11 20. Hotel, Hotel - The Sad Sea 19. Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements 18. Little Joy - Little Joy 17. Hatchback - Colors of the Sun 16. M83 - Saturdays = Youth 15. [...]
Finally, the moment our 5 readers have been waiting for... NAOH's favorite albums of the year that was 2008. My list has seen a departure from the electronically synthesized towards a more organic sound, and much of it either contains no words at all, or words in foreign/inscrutable tongues, signifying my deep hatred of the English language. So, without further ado, I'll kick it off with... Honorable Mentions: [...]
More News! A short while ago, Gil Mantera's Party Dream announced an upcoming EP, Ballerina. You can listen to a good portion of it, including the amazing title track, on their myspace. Ballerina is the heaviest material I've heard them put out yet, utilizing a synth chord progression and distorted guitar work that sounds as if its dripping with tasty, [...]
I work at the Chicago Reader , usually surfing the web for potential advertisers or consolidating marketing data into nice, pretty spreadsheets, and as such fill most of the time between my tasks with endless and quite fruitless journeys into the blogosphere. Today, I'll share with you a few Ditties from my journies : Pitchfork released tracks 50-1 of their top 100 tracks of 2008 list , and [...]
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel Review This record has been available in some way or another for almost half a year (though it still was not on iTunes, last time I checked), but in the past few months its been on high repeat for me, so I figure its about time I 'review' it or something. The new millennium has seen no shortage of British dance/synth-rock, with such bands as Bloc Party and Klaxons making sure the genre pervades all types of [...]
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Sylvain Chauveau - The Black Book of Capitalism This 2008 re-release (originally 2000) has been my introduction to the French 'neo-classical-ist/electronic- ist/avant garde-ist' Sylvain Chauveau. On this album he crafts a delicate (though evidently more dynamic than his other works, according to most blogs) and subtly intriguing series of 'songs', or rather 'landscapes of sound'. Brooding piano lines, haunting and inscrutable vocals, quietly droning synths, and sometimes the understated strumming of a guitar /churning of an organ combine to produce pieces that, neither alone or as [...]
Justice - A Cross The Universe Review Justice has recently released a documentary about their latest tour around the world, and this CD is the audio accompaniment--nothing unexpected, just an hour-or-so long recording of their live set. That's not to say it's in any way a replica of that live experience--an experience which can only be described as a 'drunken, electrofried, euphoric orgy'. Listening to this CD (a process more analogous to 'armchair philosophy' than 'sweaty-dancing-empiricist-phi losophy'), however, finds the incongruity and [...]
TIDE BROS The ubiquitous cleaning detergent company 'Tide' has recently introduced a clever marketing/philanthropy gimmick, in which they are able 2 help poor people while simultaneously strengthening their brand, thus making themselves richer. Basically, we can just donate some amount of $ (which helps fund their 'free laundry charity' in New Orleans), and we receive a 'sweet vintage Tide tee'. I first thought that maybe Tide had a stockpile of shirts left over from the 70s or 80s, but found [...]
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2 lazy 2 write anything substantial, so here's some brief thoughts, and of course RATINGS, on these three musical works. Shinichi Osawa - The One Push a little bit louder, yall. Push a little bit stronger. Push a little bit harder, yall. Push a little bit faster. I saw Mr. Osawa DJ live in Tokyo at Womb, basically the best club in the [...]
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms Review One day, suddenly, time took a turn that once felt so brief. I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly. Paging through the leaflet accompanying School of Seven Bells' debut album Alpinisms , one is immediately baffled, being confronted with a psychedelic swirl of nature images, tribal warriors, and explosions of light, while simultaneously encountering understated pages of [...]
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit Review Though clocking in at around only 31 mins, Shugo Tokumaru's Exit offers its listener a full grab-bag of sounds/goodies, each (usually) combined masterfully to bring anyone to smiles/sadness. Each song seems to sample countless noise-making-objects, all popping and zinging incessantly yet harmoniously, that one pictures Tokumaru as a musical toy-maker playfully testing out his works of art, privately in his workshop. This jerky and bubbly musical spontaneity is typical of Japanese artists (probably exemplified in Cornelius' [...]
Little Joy GorillavsBear has currently been raving about this trio 'Little Joy,' most recently posting this music video (?) of their track 'Unattainable,' a pleasant and simple folk-tune perfect for a Sunday morning afternoon. If you find yrself amongst the lonely ones, I will be waiting here with open arms. [...]
Quantum of Solace Review To start with an un-clever, tagline-like synopsis: Bond's back with a vengeance. The film begins with an adrenaline-fueled chase scene (complete with the necessary Aston Martin and, as an added bonus, an Alfa Romeo), and before we even begin to understand why Bond is driving so fast, blowing up so many cars, and causing so much wreckage, we feel one thing upon viewing the first sharp glimmer of his cool, electric blue eyes: his injured spirit thirsting for retribution. It's a sentiment [...]
I can only dream of being at this performance: and this is my Obama-Song this YR!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I Muzak sono "l'altra faccia di una medaglia", la faccia rivolta verso il basso, quella celata alla vista. Spuntano dal sottobosco musicale con un lavoro che è un piccolo scrigno contenente 13 gemme di rara bellezza. E come ogni tesoro che si rispetti, sono ben nascosti, bisogna saperli scovare nel marasma di gruppetti usa & getta. Ad ascoltare i pezzi del loro esordio "In Case Of Loss, Please [...]
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