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The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Are Sound (2009)
| Quote: | The Dandy Warhols Are Sound is an album The Dandy Warhols, which is the release of the original Elavado mix of Welcome To The Monkey House album, aptly titled The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound, set for release on July 14, 2009.
Prior to the release of Welcome To The Monkey House, the band had been pressing for a version mixed by Russell Elavedo, a GRAMMY-award winning soul mixing engineer whose credits include D'Angelo’s Brown Sugar, The Roots’ The Roots Come Alive, Common’s Like Water for Chocolate, and Alicia Keys’ Songs in A Minor, among others. But contrary to the band’s wishes, the Elavedo mix of Monkey House was shelved by Capitol Records, and an alternate mix the label had arranged was put out instead.
As Taylor-Taylor describes it, "There are two different approaches to mixing. One is very slick and clean, and Welcome To The Monkey House fits more into that category. ARE Sound, however, has a sneakier profile. It seems very lo-fi and earthy, but the fact is, it’s extremely precise. |
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2 Svientist
3 We Used To Be Friends
4 The Last High
5 Wonderful You
6 The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone
7 I Am Over It
8 Heavenly
9 Plan A
10 Rock Bottom
11 I Am Sound
12 Insincere
13 Pete Int'l Spaceport
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Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist (2009)
Relase date July 21, 2009
| Quote: | Within days of Alternative Press including Censored Colors on its list of 10 Essential Albums of 2008, the members of Portugal. The Man were trudging through the Boston snow to start work on their fourth release in four years, The Satanic Satanist. As John Baldwin Gourley, named the year’s Best Vocalist in that same issue of AP, explains the pace at which his band has turned out any number of the decade’s more inspired moments, “Honestly, I think we should be putting out more music. It keeps you thinking, keeps you growing and progressing. If you stop and let it sit for too long, I feel like you start to lose track of where you were going.”
For 2008's Censored Colors, Portugal. The Man spent two weeks in Seattle with their friends in Kay Kay and the Weathered Underground making an album Gourley says he wrote in tribute to the music of a youth spent tuned to oldies radio as his parents drove around Alaska. One of his earliest musical memories, finding a tape of Abbey Road in a box of his parents’ cassettes, resulted in Censored Colors' second side where all the songs are strung together in an epic suite.
For The Satanic Satanist, Gourley and his bandmates - Zachary Scott Carothers/bass, and Ryan Neighbors/keyboards, and the drummer for the album, Garrett Lunceford - flew to Boston’s Camp Street Studios to work with Paul Q. Kolderie, whose previous clients include both the Pixies and Radiohead, with additional production help from Adam Taylor (The Lemonheads, The Dresdon Dolls) and Cornershop sitarist/keyboardist Anthony Saffery.
"People Say," the lead-off track, finds Gourley speaking out against the human cost of war. On “Lovers in Love,” the band works the groove like Isaac Hayes or Curtis Mayfield in their blaxploitation days, while “Work All Day” could pass for ?uestlove slowing down the beat to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise).” The Satanic Satanist also finds them working more with loops and samples than they have since their 2006 debut. |
1. People Say
2. Work All Day
3. Lovers In Love
4. The Sun
5. The Home
6. The Woods
7. Guns and Dogs
8. Do You
9. Everyone Is Golden
10. Let You Down
11. Mornings
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The Dirtbombs - If You Don't Already Have a Look (2005)
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (separate tracks) + LOG | 440MB + 472MB
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"The best albums are all compilations, anyway. Why? Because they're made up of SINGLES, duh," Mick Collins writes in his liner notes to the If You Don't Already Have a Look collection of various 7" sides, compilation tracks, and unreleased items, and you've got to admit that Collins walks it like he talks it. The Dirtbombs have released three albums and about twenty 7"ers (by themselves or as splits) during their first decade of doing the rock thing, and while the 2001 album Ultraglide in Black still stands as their most impressive sustained effort, if you're only going to own one Dirtbombs item during the course of your lifetime, If You Don't Already Have a Look may well be the way to go. Disc one features 29 Dirtbombs originals, disc two offers up 23 inspired covers, and if you want to hear Collins and his partners in crime letting loose with the full range of their sonic possibilities and influences, this set boasts a little bit of everything they do. You want punk rock? Cue up "Words That Hurt." You wanna hear some cool neo-Britpop? Try "Encrypted." Need a deliciously sleazy ode to the joys of summer, teenage style? "Cedar Point '76" fills the bill. How about some straight-up noise? "Brucia I Cavi" merits your attention. Gotta have a kick-ass car song? You need "High Octane Salvation." In the market for a glorious non-electronic Rolling Stones mash-up? The cover of "No Expectations" will make you smile. Solid '60s-style R&B your thing? "The Sharpest Claws" should be on your list. Wanna hear the greatest Lou Rawls cover ever? "A Natural Man" is track nine on disc two. Mick Collins has ruffled the feathers of a few fanzine writers here and there for loudly insisting the Dirtbombs are not a garage band, but while there's plenty of loud, fuzzy, sweat-soaked rock on If You Don't Already Have a Look, this set captures the group's almost schizophrenic eclecticism in grand style, and proves he's got a point -- this is band that can head out in five directions at once while still maintaining their sonic identity and rocking the house, and you can hear that on each track of If You Don't Already Have a Look. |
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01."Theme from the Dirtbombs" (Mick Collins) – 1:15
02."The Sharpest Claws" (Collins) – 2:17
03."Stuck Under My Shoe" (Collins) – 2:30
04."I'm Saving Myself for Nichelle Nichols (No. 3)" (Collins) – 0:57
05."Here Comes That Sound Again" (Collins, Pat Pantano) – 4:28
06."High Octane Salvation" (Collins) – 2:13
07."Cedar Point '76" (Collins, Jim Diamond) – 2:12
08."Little Miss Chocolate Syrup" (Collins, Diamond) – 3:03
09."Headlights On" (Collins) – 1:50
10."Never Licking You Again" (Collins) – 1:30
11."Don't Bogue My High" (Collins) – 2:15
12."Encrypted" (Collins) – 2:39
13."(I'm Not Your) Scratchin' Post" (Collins) – 2:15
14."Broke in Detroit (Again)" (Collins) – 2:41
15."Merit" (Collins) – 2:48
16."Trainwreck" (Collins) – 1:52
17."Infra-Red" (Collins) – 2:17
18."Jolene" (Ben Blackwell, Diamond, Pantano, Tom Potter) – 1:57
19."Candyass" (Collins) – 2:51
20."Pray for Pills" (Collins, Diamond) – 3:12
21."All My Friends" (Collins) – 3:00
22."She Played Me Like a Booger" (Collins) – 1:59
23."They Hate Us in Scandinavia" (Collins) – 1:36
24."They Saved Einstein's Brain" (Collins) – 1:50
25."Correspondence" (Collins) – 2:18
26."Tina Louise" (Collins) – 2:46
27."Brucia I Cavit" (Collins) – 0:57
28."Words That Hurt" (Collins) – 1:54
29."My Last Christmas" (Collins, Diamond) – 2:34
CD 2
01."Possession" (Dana Hatch, David Shannon) – 3:53 (original by Cheater Slicks)
02."Maybe Your Baby" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:26
03."Brand New Game" (Elliott Smith) – 3:13
04."I'll Be in Trouble" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:11 (original by The Miracles)
05."Lupita Screams" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) – 3:21 (original by The Gun Club)
06."By My Side" (Fiorini, Heenan, Rowe, Van Burkel) – 3:22 (original by The Elois)
07."No Expectations" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 4:16 (original by The Rolling Stones
08."I Feel Good" (Rokko) – 2:31 (original by One the Juggler)
09."Natural Man" (Sandy Baron, Bobby Hebb) – 3:08 (original by Lou Rawls)
10."Noise in This World" (Roger Charlery, Andy Cox, Everett Morton, David Steele, Dave Wakeling) – 2:44
11."Kiss Kiss Kiss" (Yoko Ono) – 3:26
12."Refried Dreams" (Hatch, Shannon) – 2:53 (original by Cheater Slicks)
13."Insecure Me" (Marc Almond, David Ball) – 2:05 (original by Soft Cell)
14."Mystified" (Coz Canler, Wally Palmar, Mike Skill) – 3:24 (original by The Romantics)
15."My Love for You" (Libran, Scroggins) – 1:53 (original by ESG)
16."You Don't Mean It" (Ohio Players) – 2:48
17."I Want, Need, Love You" (Alan Oloman) – 3:41 (original by Black Diamonds)
18."Ha Ha Ha" (Flipper) – 2:33
19."Tanzen Gehn" (Hirschburger, Lohr, Zundel) – 2:18 (original by Hubert Kah)
20."Crash Down Day" (C. Phillips) – 2:30 (original by Cass Phillips)
21."Lost Love" (Nicola Kuperus, Adam Lee Miller) – 4:44 (original by ADULT.
22."What You've Got" (J. Ellison) – 3:21 (original by Soul Brothers Six)
23."I Started a Joke" (Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb) – 3:20 (original by The Bee Gees)
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La Roux - La Roux (2009)
mp3 VBR~256kpbs | 81MB | Synthpop, electropop, alternative dance, indietronic
| Quote: | | With commercially successful singles "Quicksand" and "In For The Kill" (latterly remixed by dubstep luminary Skream), red-headed, pale-skinned Brixton girl Elly Jackson and her "invisible" co-producer Ben Langmaid irrevocably established their love of 80s pop. This debut album continues the duo’s foray into euphoric retro-dance, nodding non-ironically to the likes of The Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Heaven 17 and The Human League while remaining impressively contemporary. Opening with a string of sassy tunes--the buzzing "Tigerlily", the synth-heavy "Quicksand" and the slick and fiery "Bulletproof"--it’s apparent that La Roux have colour, class and confidence in spades. The album tapers off a little during the second half--failed experiments like "Cover My Eyes" which features the London Community Gospel Choir don't help--but it still boasts way more in the shape of dynamic killers than sappy fillers. First class. |
1. "In for the Kill" – 4:08
2. "Tigerlily" – 3:24
3. "Quicksand" – 3:05
4. "Bulletproof" – 3:25
5. "Colourless Colour"– 3:28
6. "I'm Not Your Toy" – 3:18
7. "Cover My Eyes" – 4:32
8. "As If By Magic" – 3:51
9. "Fascination" – 3:41
10. "Reflections Are Protections" – 4:19
11. "Armour Love" – 3:53
12. "Growing Pains" (UK Bonus Track) – 3:27
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Arthur Russell - The World of Arthur Russell (2004)
mp3 VBR~224kpbs | 117MB | 73:13 min.
Avant-Garde, Experimental, Disco, Minimalism, Post-Disco, Club/Dance
| Quote: | Charles Arthur Russell, Jr. (May 21, 1951 – April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success in dance music, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano.
The World of Arthur Russell is a compilation album by Arthur Russell, released in 2004 on Soul Jazz Records. <Wikipedia> |
| Quote: | Arthur Russell was a formally trained cellist and composer with a background in Indian classical music, and a résumé highlighted by collaborations with Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass.
In almost every other case, "The World Of" would be a careless, ill-suited phrase to use as the prefix of a compilation's title. "The World of [insert name of grunge band or substyle here]," for instance. In Arthur Russell's case, using "The World Of" is entirely appropriate. When you're listening to Russell -- whether it's one of his solo cello recordings or one of his peculiar disco productions -- you can feel as if you've been relocated to a place that you don't really want to ever leave. This is the common trait that each of his varied recordings shares. Russell and his collaborators are your friends, and the music they made is all the nutrition you need. It sounds silly, but it is 100 percent true. No one disc could possibly contain Russell's entire world, but this one samples from it rather well, emphasizing his mindbending club-oriented output and scattering three of his more private moments. The keen and curious could've rounded up the majority of the disc's inclusions on a number of various-artist compilations released within the past few years, in addition to paying princely sums for the handful of previously vinyl-only tracks; despite this, a compilation like this has been necessary for a very long time, since it provides a one-stop overview of one of dance music's innovators. The most-known track here is Larry Levan's mix of "Is It All Over My Face," a single that actually dented the U.S. club chart in 1980; it's Russell at his most straightforward, but it's also strange enough to be recognized instantly, thanks to its graceful electric piano line and singular vocals from a Loft regular. François Kevorkian's mix of "#5 (Go Bang!)" reshapes the relatively slick jazz-funk-disco of the original into dub-drenched dementia, throwing in woozy horn blurts to add further Kingston accents. A 13-minute version of "In the Light of the Miracle" is the most life-affirming inclusion; this left-field house precursor might as well be a sun dance or an offering, as you can visualize clouds parting once Russell's frail, slightly cracked voice joins to accompany a light 4/4 thump and one of the most elegantly layered collections of assorted percussion elements. Again, this all hardly shows the whole picture. Other places where valuable traces of Russell's club side reside include the Strut label's two Disco Not Disco compilations and David Mancuso's pair of Loft anthologies, released by Nuphonic. As is the case with most Soul Jazz releases, there's plenty of information included in the accompanying booklet. --
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1. "Go Bang" (Dinosaur L) – 7:36
2. "Wax the Van" (Lola) – 5:27
3. "Is It All Over My Face" (Loose Joints) – 6:57
4. "Keeping Up" (Arthur Russell) – 6:20
5. "In the Light of the Miracle" (Arthur Russell) – 13:21
6. "A Little Lost" (Arthur Russell) – 3:18
7. "Pop Your Funk" (Loose Joints) – 6:38
8. "Let's Go Swimming" (Arthur Russell) – 5:14
9. "In the Cornbelt" (Dinosaur L) – 5:57
10. "Treehouse" (Arthur Russell) – 2:17
11. "Schoolbell/Treehouse" (Indian Ocean) – 10:05
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The Minus 5 - Killingsworth (2009)
mp3 VBR~192kpbs | 56MB | 41:47 min.
| Quote: | Scott McCaughey is a man who has worn plenty of musical hats over the years, but he has a funny way of bringing his own personality to whatever project he's working on, even as his collaborators lend their distinct colors to the music. The eighth album from McCaughey's the Minus 5 is a fine example; for Killingsworth, McCaughey and his usual musical partner, Peter Buck, are joined by several members of the Decemberists, and when McCaughey's smart, slightly bent pop sensibilities meet Colin Meloy's arty grand-scale folk-rock, you get a curious but thoroughly compelling country rock album that sounds casual and epochal at once. McCaughey has brought a more somber set of tunes to this project than one might expect, and while there's an undercurrent of whimsy lurking in songs like "Vintage Violent," "Smoke On, Jerry," and "Scott Walker's Fault," the fiddles, steel guitar, and accordions that pepper the arrangements bring the sad side of these melodies to the surface, and the harmonies of the She Bee Gees walk a fine line between somber and playful. "Big Beat Up Moon" and "Dark Hand of Contagion" are sad songs that speak to a world full of sad people, while "It Won't Do You Any Good" and "The Long Hall" hold out little that things will improve anytime soon, but McCaughey's songs speak of a messed-up planet where we're all in it together, and that with a little compassion (and some cold beer), we can help carry one another's burdens. Killingsworth is an album a bit short on optimism, but there's a cock-eyed hope in the sweet sadness of this music, and for a guy who used to make like the class clown of the Pacific Northwest, Scott McCaughey shows again he's matured into one of the strongest and most distinctive songwriters of his generation. These 14 songs conjure up a musical vision that's very much his own, despite the A-list help backing him up. ---
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01. Dark Hand Of Contagion ( 3:23)
02. The Long Hell ( 3:04)
03. The Disembowelers ( 3:10)
04. The Lurking Barrister ( 3:05)
05. It Won't Do You Any Good ( 1:50)
06. Vintage Violet ( 2:40)
07. Scott Walker's Fault ( 3:08)
08. Big Beat Up Moon ( 3:11)
09. I Would Rather Sacrifice You ( 2:58)
10. Ambulance Dancehall ( 2:51)
11. Gash In The Cocoon ( 3:57)
12. Smoke On, Jerry ( 3:13)
13. Your Favorite Mess ( 2:18)
14. Tonight You're Buying Me A Drink, Bob ( 2:51)
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The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (2009)
| Quote: | 2009 release from the Portland-based former Alaskans. Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well is a much more complete work than their debut, showcasing the bands full potential. On Salvation, the Builders worked with producer Chris Funk from the Decemberists who brought with him a throng of expertise, patience, instruments, and some of the best musicians in Portland. In the vein of the Southern Gothic tales Ryan [Sollee, songwriter] weaves stories of struggle with the usual cast of characters God, the Devil, soldiers, branches, wind, rain and hell fire. The story of Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well is that there's joy and celebration through the darkness, there's light in the hardest of times, and when you reach the bottom may salvation light your way.
http://www.amazon.com/Salvation-Deep-Dark-Builders-Butchers/dp/B00284G2FI
The Builders and the Butchers add strongly to the long list of “indie-folk” bands coming out of Portland with their newest album, Salvation is a Deep Dark Well. The Builders and Butcher fit in quite well with other burgeoning ‘indie-folk’ acts from this region including Horsefeathers, Norfolk and Western, and Blind Pilot. But, their closest sonic kin has to be the Decemberists. Ryan Solle’s voice is strikingly similar to Colin Meloy’s.
The lyrics are similarly dark and depraved and Solle’s songwriting is lush and vivid. My favorite tune Down in this Hole opens with “Nothing lasts forever in a god-forsaken town. The pocket books are empty ‘cause the priest has left the town. He’s giving all his dollars to the girl that works the square, who never get a dime because there’s murder in the air”. The haunting indie-folk ballads are spread over rough, frantic, and ramshackle tunes thick with the harmonica, and banjo of the Deep South and hills of Appalachia. This album makes me think of bourbon, sweat, fog, and moss hanging from old, dead oak trees.
If Tom Waits and Johnny Cash took over a southern church choir, littered it with mandolins, banjos, acoustic bases, hand-made drums, and summoned a dance party, they might call the whole phenomenon The Builders and the Butchers . No other band will make you feel so blissfully compelled to make deals with the devil. |
Ryan Sollee: vocals/guitar
Ray Rude: percussion
Paul Seely: percussion/trumpet
Harvey Tumbleson: mandolin/banjo
Alex Ellis: acoustic bass
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1. Golden And Green (4:48)
2. Devil Town (2:47)
3. Short Way Home (4:19)
4. Barcelona (3:41)
5. Hands Like Roots (2:20)
6. Down In This Hole (3:55)
7. Raise Up Your Weary Hands (4:11)
8. Vampire Lake (2:59)
9. The Wind Has Come (3:37)
10. In The Branches (5:12)
11. The World Is A Top (3:54)
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Florence and the Machine - Lungs (2009)
| Quote: | Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock since the beginning of the year, you’ll be aware of Florence and the Machine. Before even releasing an album, the first lady and her revolving band have been championed by BBC Introducing, invited to play Glastonbury and support Blur at Hyde Park, and won the Critic's Choice Award at this year’s BRITs. Now they're being tipped for Mercury Prize glory. How can an album possibly live up to the pressure of all that expectation? I don't quite know… but it does by the gallon.
Florence Welch's distinctive voice intertwines beautifully with harps, strings and drums as she sings her inimitable 'soul inspired indie' and 'Tim Burton-style fairytales'. The gothic pop of Lungs has been excellently produced by a crack team - Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Jack Penate, Maximo Park), James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Last Shadow Puppets) and Steve Mackay (Pulp, M.I.A.).
There's so much brilliant stuff it's difficult to know where to begin. The soaring crescendo of new single Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up), the achingly beautiful Howl and a breathtaking cover of The Source classic You Got The Love. Drumming is a fabulous nail-on-the-head song about what it feels like to be in love.
There are touches of Mama Cass on happy clappy debut single Dogs Days Are Over and at the other end of the energy scale, the twinkly loveliness of Hurricane Drunk. The low points are few – perhaps that I'm Not Calling You A Liar falls a bit flat between choruses, and the lyrics to Girl With One Eye are closer to disturbing than kooky. But mostly it's sheer gleeful bliss listening to Lungs.
Florence says music is, ''at best a kind of magic that lifts you up and takes you somewhere else''. With vocals building from breathy almost-nothings to soaring, arching crescendos and the accompanying harps, strings, hopes and dreams, this album takes you somewhere you'll never want to come back from. When news gets out that she writes her best stuff, ''when drunk or hungover'', Florence's transition from unknown to British classic will be complete. --
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1. "Dog Days Are Over" - 4:16
2. "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" - 3:45
3. "I'm Not Calling You A Liar" - 3:08
4. "Howl" - 3:37
5. "Kiss With A Fist" - 2:15
6. "Girl With One Eye" - 3:37
7. "Drumming" - 3:43
8. "Between Two Lungs" - 4:12
9. "Cosmic Love" - 4:19
10. "My Boy Builds Coffins" - 2:56
11. "Hurricane Drunk" - 3:13
12. "Blinding" - 4:43
13. "You've Got The Love" (Bonus Track) - 2:48
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My Morning Jacket - Celebración de la Ciudad Natal (2009)
mp3 VBR~192kpbs | 69MB | 47:19 min.
| Quote: | | Celebración de la Ciudad Natal (in english means "Celebration of the hometown) is a live album by the My Morning Jacket, release exclusive for the Record Store Day and sold only in exclusive independent retail stores. The band release some songs of the first albums and the new album Evil Urges. The audio was taken from two concerts held in two record stores, Ear-X-Tacy, and Waterfront Park. Later in May Ist the band re-release the album as a digital format, also sold exclusive in an independent record site. <Wikipedia> |
| Quote: | | Although they first emerged in 1998 as devotees of Neil Young's country-tinged classic rock, My Morning Jacket steadily widened their sound throughout the following decade, embracing everything from neo-psychedelia and Americana to funk, prog, and reggae. By the time Evil Urges arrived in mid-2008, they had successfully molded themselves into Kentucky's answer to Wilco, with unexpected detours and sonic experiments adding complexity to the band's alt-country roots. <AMG> |
1. 'Evil Urges'
2. 'Highly Suspicious'
3. '(Interlude)'
4. 'Gideon'
5. 'Where To Begin'
6. 'Librarian'
7. 'Phone Went West'
8. 'Dondante'
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1. Tracks 1, 2 and 6 taken from "Evil Urges".
2. Tracks 4, 8 taken from "Z".
3. Track 7 taken from "At Dawn".
4. Track 3 is an audio interlude with the audience.
5. Track 5 appears in the Elizabethtown (soundtrack)
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The Dead Weather - Horehound (2009)
| Quote: | The Dead Weather is an American alternative rock supergroup that formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. Comprising vocalist Alison Mosshart (of The Kills), guitarist Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age), bassist Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes) and drummer/vocalist Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), the band is due to release its debut album Horehound in July 2009. The Dead Weather was revealed at the opening of Third Man Records' new headquarters in Nashville on March 11, 2009. The band performed for the first time at the event, before immediately releasing their debut single "Hang You from the Heavens". --
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1. "60 Feet Tall" 5:33
2. "Hang You from the Heavens" 3:39
3. "I Cut Like a Buffalo" 3:28
4. "So Far from Your Weapon" 3:40
5. "Treat Me Like Your Mother" 4:10
6. "Rocking Horse" 2:59
7. "New Pony" 3:58
8. "Bone House" 3:27
9. "3 Birds" 3:45
10. "No Hassle Night" 2:56
11. "Will There Be Enough Water?" 6:20
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The Popes - Outlaw Heaven (featuring Shane MacGowan) [2009]
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| Quote: | Chaos has surrounded The Popes, ever since Shane MacGowan created them as his backing band in 1994 after he’d been thrown out of The Pogues for "unprofessional” behaviour. They made a couple of studio albums with MacGowan in the Nineties before the singer wandered off into drink-sodden limbo. The Shane-less Popes then scored a critical triumph with their 2000 debut album, Holloway Boulevard, but since then fans have had only a live album and the reissue, Release The Beast, to sustain them.
But at last a second studio album is wrapped and ready to go. Outlaw Heaven is a stirring and cathartic collection of songs which run the gamut from punk to country, delivered by a new band assembled by original Pope-in-chief Paul “Mad Dog” McGuinness. The disc resonates with echoes of The Clash, Bo Diddley and a whole history of Irish balladry, but thanks to the influence of new collaborators Charlie Hoskins and Will Morrison, there’s a punchy experimental edge to it too.
Raw, for instance, is a ferocious bellow of rage lifted by a throbbing electronic groove, while McGuinness’ lurid tale of self-martyrdom in Crucified is buttressed by a sonic cathedral of crunching powerchords, gospel voices and horns. The title track’s exuberant singalong is led by Shane MacGowan himself, making one of three guest appearances on the album. |
01.black is the colour [04:34]
02.angels [04:17]
03.raw [04:08]
04.back in your heart [03:49]
05.outlaw heaven [04:03]
06.boys don't cry [05:11]
07.let the bells ring out [04:53]
08.shine [05:07]
09.crucified [04:40]
10.bastards [04:03]
11.underneath the blue sky [03:33]
12.slip away [06:24]
13.loneliness of a long distance drinker [04:03]
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Yonlu-A Society in Which No Tear is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (2009)
| Quote: | Until 2009, the music of Yonlu lived only in the virtual world on MySpace and on Luaka Bop's Three Inches of Music series. Yonlu was born Vinicius Gageiro Marques, and he hailed from Porto Alegre, Brazil. The difficult part of the story is that Yonlu was a very serious and sensitive young man who found life in this realm unbearable. He took his own life via carbon monoxide poisoning while signed on to a suicide forum on the internet, and remained online to the end, just 36 days before his 17th birthday, and after writing a long letter absolving his parents of any responsibility whatsoever. He left his parents a CD of his music before he died, but it was later, while going through his computer, that his father found most of the songs on A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre. To his astonishment, he also discovered that Yonlu's music had made its way to many corners of the world and had been commented upon by various friends, DJs, and critics.
That's the myth, sad though it may be. The 14 songs that make up this collection are something else, however. They're infused with a freshness, innocence, and musical vision that is singular in scope and breadth. Yonlu's inspirations were myriad: they ranged from Radiohead and Elliott Smith to Gilberto Gil and the entire Tropicalia movement to classic bossa nova. Indeed, if this music can be called anything at all, it is 21st century bossa, infused by lo-fi and post-rock aesthetics. Yonlu was a musical and cultural polymath (he was an accomplished visual artist) whose sensitivity was matched only by his ability to realize his creativity. Check the tape manipulation skullduggery in "A Boy and a Tiger," where new acoustic, indie rock, samba, hip-hop, and spoken word all take their place in a mix that is dazzling in its reach yet utterly breezy in its space. "Humiliation" weaves together the tenderness of Caetano Veloso with the emotional pathos of Smith and Badly Drawn Boy. His cover of the Kings of Convenience's "Little Kids" is brief, but draws equally on shimmering bossa rhythms, overdubbed acoustic guitars, what sounds like a harp, and a rather complex bassline. Likewise his reading of the great gaucho artist Vitor Ramil's (another big influence on Yonlu) "Estrela Estrela," which is done reverentially and tenderly, carrying within it all the honest, open emotion of the original and adding intricately woven acoustic and nylon-string guitars. But the true wealth of this material lies in Yonlu's own songs. Of course it is tempting to read this through his tragic biography, but to do so would sell this music short. Check the primitive bossa meets futuristic MPB of "Ole Por Nos," with its delicately layered vocals, the messed up folktronica of "Q-Tip," or the glitchy edited loops on "Deskjet Remix with Sabrepulse," directed by the sounds of a charango. The set closes with "Waterfall," an utterly gorgeous and haunting folk song where layers upon layers of vocal harmony are chanted, sometimes in falsetto, sometimes in basso, and fall around an acoustic guitar treated with lacey reverb, sparse keyboards, and an atmosphere so thick its beauty is almost Baroque -- and all this before the rhythm loops kick in. It is as celebratory, innocent, and unremittingly beautiful as anything you are likely to ever hear. This may be the only recording we ever get to hear from Yonlu, but as such, it is a treasure trove of complexity, mystery, and redemptive art. Indeed, this is bedsit music elevated to the realm of high art. |
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Jónsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps (2009)
| Quote: | | “Riceboy Sleeps” is the upcoming debut album by duo Jónsi & Alex, an artistic collaboration between Sigur Rós’s singer Jón Þór Birgisson and Alex Somers. It will feature only acoustic instrumental music and the collaboration of the string quartet Amiina (who are Sigur Rós’ official string quartet), and the Kópavogsdætur Choir. |
| Quote: | Jónsi (Jon Thor Birgisson) and Alex (Alex Somers) worked on the album that became Riceboy Sleeps on and off for almost five years. After taking a month to finish and mix it, the result is an album that sounds remarkably like the band Jónsi fronts, Sigur Rós. A lot of times side projects serve as outlets for music that the band would never attempt; Riceboy Sleeps sounds like it's made of stray Sigur Rós moments the group spent tuning orchestras, warming up vocal choirs, or checking levels. Fortunately, even stray moments by Sigur Rós prove to be lovely and transcendent. The songs on the album drift on shifting waves of strings (provided by longtime SR collaborators Amiina, children's choirs, treated pianos, and underwater soundscapes. The music Jónsi & Alex create is ambient but not boring, quiet but not sleepy (despite the name); the combination of sounds and the way the duo manipulates them manage to hold interest even though the songs are lengthy and have a very consistent tone. It's really less of a tone and more of a spell -- the introspective, meditative songs take hold quickly and leave you feeling the album long after it stops spinning. That the pair managed to make such a captivating record while using Jónsi's remarkable vocals only once (they make a stunning cameo at the conclusion of "Indian Summer") is a testament to their skill and vision. Riceboy Sleeps has all the majestic calm of Sigur Rós with none of the dramatic storm, all of the lull and none of the squall. --
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01.Happiness
02.Atlas Song
03.Indian Summer
04.Stokkseyri
05.Boy 1904
06.All The Big Trees
07.Danell In The Sea
08.Howl
09.Sleeping Giant
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Jónsi & Alex - All Animals EP (2009)
| Quote: | | Bonus EP from the deluxe edition of Jónsi & Alex's Riceboy Sleeps. |
01. All Animals - Chapter One
02. All Animals - Chapter Two
03. All Animals - Chapter Three
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