Photo by Joe Mangat . Well, after a trip up to Portland, Oregon and a bout with a still-lingering illness, I'm finally back up in this. Perfect timing too, because there's a lot goin' on right now. Most notably, you can now stream a song from the most exciting effort still waiting to see an official release this year - Animal Collective 's Fall Be Kind . "Graze" opens this stunning EP with a languid interplay of sounds and soaring vocal trade-off between Avey Tare and Panda Bear before transforming into [...]
Here are the crib notes to what's been happenin on the Free Music Archive (if you haven't been keeping up on the Free Music Archive via twitter , facebook , RSS , or the regular ol' home page . Feel free to chime in with more FMA rec's in the comments! :: The FMA's Anti-Pop Consortium Remix Contest kicked off on Monday, and we've already received some pretty cool entries that we can't wait to share. The contest ends Dec 20th, go here to grab multitracks and get [...]
Dean & Britta are not Galaxie 500, just like Luna were not Galaxie 500 and sometimes that makes it hard for me to be rational. Nothing is better than Galaxie 500 were and if I try and measure anyone up against that yardstick they're all going to come up a bit short. I just need to stop measuring. The Dean & Britta show last night was a gem. There were flaws but those were caused by the venue and me not by Dean & Britta (and support Cheval Sombre) who put on a great show. Firstly [...]
Icy dark-ambient and drones from Beard Closet a mysterious artist from the North of Canada. Free download on the The Vegetable Kingdom netlabel. Glacial. Kanada'dan drone,dark-ambient. Pocahaunted,Barn Owl severlerin keyifle dinleyebileceği az bilinen yeni bir sanatçı, TVK netlabel'ından çıkma Amputated Orchestra albümünden. Beard Closet - Amputated Orchestra Free DL from Archive.org Beard Closet on Myspace Beard Closet - Catholic Beard Closet - In bed with the crystal healer
For ramblings on how I came to compile this list go here . And for commentary on previous selections: [ #50-46 ] [ #45-41 ] [ #40-36 ] 35. Ys - Joanna Newsom (2006) I get an amazing number of hits to my site from people googling the phrase " I Hate Joanna Newsom ", simply because the word ' hate ' is in the title of this here blog, and I've talked about Ms Newsom [...]
Haven't done a real time review in a while, and hey, Fall Be Kind just leaked. Let's see what's up. Here's a live blogging of my thoughts, revisited only for editorial clarity or to fix grammatical errors... Graze (5:22) - Dang, kinda sounds like a Disney film. Like, this fits in well in Aladdin specifically. A ballad sung by Jafar. Dreamy piano drops in at the 2-minute mark. Kinda John Tesh-y. The synth swells and whispy vocals a minute later is similar to Mercury Rev, but like, kinda bad [...]
There's something ultimate about London's The Big Pink. It's as though they've compressed everything that's great about post-war music into their sound. They're as accessible as a pop group, with almost folkishly warm melodies, the spiritual quality of soul and gospel, the rhythmic propulsion of rave, the white noise of punk, the glitchy textures of electronica, and the heavy drones of your
Attack of the drones The London electro-pop trio have moved on massively from their first kitchen sink gig at a friend's house in the spring of 2008, to being among the first slew of bands announced for next year's SXSW festival. The band have been among the 'ones to watch' lists for some time. However, the limelight that shone on the majority of solo female electro acts (La Roux, Little Boots) in 2009 is set to radiate their way in 2010. The band - which describes their sound as "8-bit [...]
When the night slowly start to suck away the daytime as winter approaches, we all need something to make cold nights as beautiful as the day. So here is Bell Orchestre , and I think they will help me do just that. Their music is as epic as a great film score, listenable and heart-string jerking, a perfect blend between pensive drones and textural beats. This is memory making music, and its about to become the soundtrack to my life. Stripes- Bell Orchestre Water, Light, Shifts- Bell Orchestre [...]
photos by Lori Baily , words by BBG Krallice at Union Pool, replete with stage invaders Almost no music is more ripe for renovation than black metal, with its hyper mannerisms, its flamboyant obscurantism, its single-mood monotony. Some recent American bands have been doing just that, without Satanism, face paint or bad aesthetics. Krallice , a New York City band with an excellent new record, "Dimensional Bleedthrough" (Profound Lore), takes some of black metal's conventions - its blast beats and guitar [...]
By SR and DL Followed By Static / Little Teeth (Hot Box Pizza located at 214 E Hickory in Denton): Pretty sure this is the same Little Teeth I saw play in an Austin backyard last year, and their challenging music, specifically the vocals, should make for a pretty interesting time at this pizza place this evening. Show is free and starts at 7 PM. (DL) Blues Control / Silver Shampoo / Darktown Strutters / Fungi Girls / Wild In The [...]
Released this past January 5, indie psych-pop progresso-masters Animal Collective 's Merriweather Post Pavillion may have been pretty much first out of the gate but as the year closes it's hard to argue that any other album has surpassed it in near-euphoric critical acclaim. We said: "The band's future-primitive music draws much of its mystical energy from opposing forces: beautiful melodies paired with abrasive noise and found sounds, acoustic folk instruments layered over electronic drums and samples, tribal dance beats tempered by long patches of beatless ambiance." Rolling Stone raised the chin-stroking ante gushing "A [...]
The Australian Independent Record (AIR) Awards have unveiled the full line-up of performers for the ceremony on November 22 in Melbourne. That line-up includes a full set from Midnight Juggernauts to close the night, plus performances by Dappled Cities, Bridezilla, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Bertie Blackman, country artist Kirsty Lee Akers, and Indigenous electronic act Tjupurru. Tickets to this Sunday's ceremony are only $28.70, but we have ten passes to give away via our mailing list. Make sure you're signed up to the list ASAP, as we'll be announcing winners before this Friday. Nominees after [...]
A three-CD compilation that does a nice job of sampling the space music genre, opening with a fairly rare Hawkwind remix. Rather than stay with the crunchy end of the space music genre, however, the compilation wanders off into ambient productions, drones, electronic experiments, techno, trance and more, taking in the well-known and the obscure (it's nice to see Alien Planetscapes wandering
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after the awesome single coasting ghosts comes the full length debut on TVK by the mysterious composer from the north of canada known only as beard closet icy drones and haunting spectral landscapes... www.archive.org/details/BeardC loset-AmputatedOrchestra www.myspace.com/tvknetlabel Posted in Ambient, Audio, Drone
This is getting silly. Half of the bands I review now are from Brooklyn. Perhaps it's a lot bigger place than I thought - or maybe there really is a raft of great new bands all emerging at once. I hope it's the latter. Ribbons are the latest Brooklynites to emerge, panting, from the mad cluster of bands that presumably forms the social make-up there. They have a loud, simple stripped-down sound - rock cut to Ribbons, if you will. No Clouds ' guitars peal quasi-automatically, a half-mechanical, half-alive looping chime [...]
○○○○● LOUGHBOROUGH band Kerfuffle may have subtitled Lighten The Dark as "A Midwinter Album", but we all know what that means - Christmas! And if you're a fan of trad folk, yule love it. The album is a reworking of well-known tracks like The Holly And The Ivy and Three Ships and lesser-known numbers such as Lullay My Liking and Gower Wassail in the English folk style, meaning there's hardly a sleigh bell in sight. Not that any fake snow and tinsel and baubles are needed [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official release of the eagerly awaited sophomore album by American post-ambient craftsman Wes Willenbring . Close, But Not Too Close sees Willenbring develop on the gorgeous palette of tones explored on acclaimed debut Somewhere, Someone Else . As with Willenbring's debut, Close, But Not Too Close is all about time in both it's broadest and most discrete sense. There is a [...]
want to know what kinda place this freaky skeletal shit is coming from? read erika anderson's liner notes: listening to this recording evokes a time when we were barely holding on by our fingernails. ezra had broken bones in his foot, which the cold and rain didn't help. there were points during that tour where i just kind of lost my mind, and during the recording of heaven there was a moment where i completely forgot where i was, who i was, and what i was doing. [...]
Ripping on to store shelves and tearing through sales records faster than slugs from a M4A1 assault rifle, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has arrived. Modern Warfare 2 is developer Infinity Ward's successor to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The game is a first-person shooter that picks up five years after the events of the previous game and chronicles the blood-soaked tale of a new conflict between the multinational military squad Task Force 141 and Russian Ultranationalists under the leadership of an evil terrorist named Vladimir Makarov. To describe MW2 simply: it's a balls-to-the-wall, [...]
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Vampire Weekend - Cousins
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