Don't forget to rate the album at the end of the post. Welcome back to Blinded By The Hype, the PMA feature in which we revisit albums once the hype has died down. In today's world, music is released at a machine gun pace. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-late ly type scene, and "lately" usually means this week. Rarely do we stop to smell the roses. Even good albums get overlooked as time passes. And we almost never – aside from year end lists – take a look backward. Hindsight is 20-20, and we'd like to apply that retrovision [...]
www.thyran.be/Mixes.html 01 Guy Moor & Brian Murray -Climbing With Clouds (Original Mix) 02 My My -Swiss On Rye (Original Mix) 03 Daphnia -In Depth (Original Mix) 04 Sascha Barth -Schrei Nach Liebe (Original Mix) 05 Norman H -Wrapped In Plastic (Mike Hunt's Special Agent Mix) 06 Ataneus -Glory (Original Mix) 07 Exoplanet -Zijdedwarrel (Original Mix) 08 Jay Sustain -Best Foot Forward (Kaanturker Remix) 09 [...]
This went up a few days ago, but HEY! better late than never. Our very own Chris Barth went on BreakThru Radio and chatted with the lovely Mimi on her Anatomy of a Blogger show and talked about how amazing PMA is. No really. It's a great concept. Anyway, you can listen to the interview right here . And here is a breakdown of what Chris talks about/the official PMA-BTR Playlist. 00:00 DJ Mimi (Casablanca – So Cow) 01:34 She Moves She – Four Tet [...]
BLK JKS After Robots Secretly Canadian out September 8th 48 /100 [ Rating Scale ] 4.8 out of 10 stars I really wanted to like BLK JKS. They have been described, by people who should [...]
CD giveaway, details at end of review Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 Roc Nation out September 11th 68 /100 [ Rating Scale ] [...]
CD and LP giveaway, details at end of review The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa Green Owl Records out October 6th 86 /100 [ Rating Scale ] [...]
CD and LP giveaway, details at end of review The Antlers Hospice Frenchkiss out August 18th 90 /100 [ Rating Scale ] [...]
Finally, After 4 long years of hard work, the masterpiece, Sven Barth & Induce are Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution in The Blow Sven Theory, is out now on The Wonderful Sound!!! To call this album an album seems an understatement. It is more than that, yet less, all at once. It's full of dirty snippets, lewd lyricism and blatant honesty, yet TBST is a tapestry. A tapestry full of sweat, semen, and wordplay that found it's way onto Perez Hilton's front page with nothing more than a tug on the proverbial sausage and a hook that [...]
Welcome back to Blinded By The Hype, the newly inaugurated PMA feature in which we revisit some of our top reviewed albums once the hype has died down. In today's world, music is released at a machine gun pace. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-late ly type scene, and "lately" usually means this week. Rarely do we stop to smell the roses. Even good albums get overlooked as time passes. And we almost never – aside from year end lists – take a look backward. Hindsight is 20-20, and we'd like to apply that retrovision to set the record straight. Hence, Blinded By The [...]
I'm psyched to introduce a new recurring feature here on Pretty Much Amazing, a little retrospective we'd like to call "Blinded By The Hype". In Blinded By The Hype, we'll take a look back at some of the most highly rated albums we've reviewed on this site, after some time has passed, to see if the albums were truly great or whether they were lifted up by buzz. We've all been there – everyone you know is talking about the new album, the single is great, and after a few spins you're convinced you're going to love it. [...]
http://www.theamesh.com/site/a mesh-mixes/Entries/2009/7/14_J uly_%40_rts.fm.html 1 Two Armadillos - Rattlesnake (Guido Schneiders Remix) - Motivbank 2 Franco Bianco - Planchete Lateral (Marek Hemmann Remix) - Dilek 3 Sascha Barth - Chinatown - VLabel 4 Layo & Bushwacka - Madagaskar - Olmeto 5 Andre Crom & Luca Doobie - Ebony (Ray Okpara Remix) - Off 6 DJ Emerson & Dubnitzky - Rolling Jack - Spinclub 7 The Glitz - Last Panther - Ideal Audio 8 Lemon Popsicle - Zavoaie (Tom Budden Remix) - Alive 9 Alex Flatner & Lopazz - Make Up Your [...]
In the past few weeks, I've heard the term "Supergroup" bandied about a lot more than usual. There have been debut releases from Dead Weather (featuring members of White Stripes, Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Kills) and Tinted Windows (featuring members of Hansen, Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne, and Cheap Trick). There have been announcements about the formation of new groups like Drummer (featuring members of Black Keys, Beaten Awake and Six Parts Seven) and The Almighty Defenders (featuring Black Lips, King Khan, and BBQ). There has been a Broken Social Scene Reunion (featuring members of Stars, [...]
A couple weeks ago I talked about the concept of the album in this space, and somebody by the handle of "Knatterjak" shared the tidbit that "The EP is the future". That got me thinking – is the EP the new album? Is orange really the new pink? EPs, loosely defined, are short albums. Strictly defined, Extended Play records are records made up of 4 songs (plus alternative versions) or 25 minutes of music. This strict definition, however, is often subverted – specifically through artists adding the letters "EP" to [...]
epic TV on the Radio photo by chasingfun . I have a pretty awesome week of music coming up this week. On Wednesday I'm off to see Here We Go Magic and Grizzly Bear play at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, followed by a Dirty Projectors and TV On The Radio show at the House of Blues on Thursday. Doesn't get much better than that, I'm psyched. But this isn't a column about my imminent back-to-back-night face melting. Well, not entirely at least. It's mostly [...]
I've talked to a lot of my music loving friends recently about transformations that are going on in music – a topic that I find completely fascinating. There are so many changes happening at such a rapid pace that it's nearly impossible to keep up with where music is let alone where it's going . But we know for sure it is going – CDs are nearly dead, digital formats are taking over, and vinyl is experiencing an oddly timed resurgence. Everything is all a-flutter. But the shifts go [...]
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest Warp out May 26th [89] [ Rating Scale ] 8.9 out of 10 stars Music fans today often toe the line between fans and junkies, looking for the [...]
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." - Andy Warhol Did you see Amy Winehouse on YouTube? OMG, she was all, "warble warble gibberish" and then the crowd was all "AMY! AMY! AMY!" and then she was all staggering around stage and showing too much skin and bumping into the microphone. That girl has a problem, man, somebody should get her some help. But first you should watch the video. SHE'S A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don't realize is that [...]
Passion Pit Manners Frenchkiss Records Out May 19th [85] 8.5 out of 10 stars The way I see it, Passion Pit is like the friend you have who's always excited about everything. When he talks to you about [...]
As promised, this week's Thinking Man article is all about the album – in fact, most people a couple weeks ago seemed to ignore the whole singles debate and move straight on to this topic, so it should be an interesting one. Sorry for the delay – I was in Puerto Rico soaking up some sun and catching up on good tunes that I've missed over the past 15 years. But now I think I've heard them all, so we're good to go. Let's start off with the biggest, broadest, and most impossible question – Is the album [...]
This past week's publishing of the Absolute Best Songs of 2009 (.25 of the way through) got me thinking about music releases today – particularly about the role of singles. Depending on who you talk to, singles are either dead, dying, or stronger than ever. So what's the deal? Where do singles fit into this blogosphere? This topic hints at about a thousand other topics - it's like one of those Russian nesting dolls: Where do singles fit into albums? Where do albums fit into the blogosphere? Where does the blogosphere fit [...]
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HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
