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av phloam » 2010-04-07 00:54
Stort tack för ovanstående post, jag behöver verkligen lite vägledning 
Betyder mycket!
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-08 15:27
Ja, han är grymt bra! En av få som lyckas fånga det klassiska Warp-soundet och samtidigt låta modern.phloam skrev:Av en ren slump satt jag och lyssnade på Clark igår, det är en ny favorit! Tack för länkandet där!!
Kairos is an Ancient Greek word that describes a particularly fortuitous moment in time. It’s also the title of Casey Dienel’s third release as White Hinterland, the album where this Massachusetts-born, classically-educated singer-songwriter comes into her own.
Her 2008 album Phylactery Factory – following 2006’s debut Wind Up Canary, recorded under her own name while she was studying at New England Conservatory Of Music, and a rather overly-precious curio she’d now rather forget – was a painstakingly-etched, winningly offbeat set that suggested Dienel was, like Joanna Newsom, another Freaked Folkie in love with old-time orchestration and tangled songcraft. She thwarted such attempts at pigeonholing with the same year’s Luniculaire, an EP sung entirely in French, and including a delirious cover of J’ai 26 Ans, originally recorded by Brigitte Fontaine for Comme a la Radio, her 1971 collaboration with avant-jazz weirdniks the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Dienel throws a further curveball with Kairos, doing away with piano, guitar, strings – the acoustic instruments that previously made up her palette – in favour of synths and sequencers, a brave move that entirely pays off. Scoring her songs with electronica, Dienel is making no vain play for the dancefloor – rather, Kairos offers hypnotic digital chamber-pop, the minimal orchestration brilliantly foregrounding her playful and joyous vocals. This contrast, between the machine music and her most-human vocals, is particularly delicious on the sublime Begin Again, as sub-bass smudges and percussive clicks and whirrs play off Dienel’s swooning, lilting voice, pirouetting through effortless pop hooks. On Amsterdam, industrial clanking builds a mood of grey melancholy, Dienel’s multi-tracked yowls and yelps puncturing the gloom. No Logic, meanwhile, strings together loops of percussion and scratchy guitar to cook up a loping trance-pop somewhere between Eno and Byrne’s Bush of Ghosts and Konono #1’s Congotronics.
It’s impressively ambitious, experimental stuff, a brave leap on the part of a young artist. It’s an album that, in translating her Freak Folk into digital 0s and 1s, finds for Dienel a true, unique voice. It’s her golden hour, and you should bask in it.
-- http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wwx2
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-08 15:45
It's easier to seem resourceful when you're working with slender means, as any glo-fi upstart could tell you. But this Swedish ensemble, centered around the LK's Fredrik and Lindefelt, is sophisticated and ingenious. Trilogi, a collection of three limited-edition EPs doubling as a sophomore LP, has a sneaky, consistent sound that's immediate and yet full of surprises. The glinting guitar and twisty vocal harmonies of opening track "Vinterbarn" establish the album's gusty cadence, but piano ornaments keep it from stagnating. The songs finally begin to run together in the final third or so, but it's gorgeous and clever throughout.
Massed, ethereal singing dominates, half the time in wordless harmonies; the other half in winsome folk-pop verses. It's indebted to Scandinavian folk music, but might remind North American listeners of Thom Yorke, or Neil Young at his most otherworldly-- especially on the lingering "Milo". Fredrik rely heavily on finger-picked arpeggios, textured finely with reverb effects. Minimal electronic rhythms pulse through lean, cavernous arrangements. There are waltzes and ballads, chased with trip-hop and synth-pop. The songs come together like puzzles, the pieces scattered on the floor and gradually snapped together in way that feels both meticulous and organic.
Fredrik's best songs have the haunting depth of medieval folk and the towering, evolving feel of post-rock. The sound quality is always pristine-- you can tell they slaved over each part to get it just right. Their guitars plink and ripple like thumb pianos. Mournful horns and cellos blur into eerie digital loops. A couple of songs seamlessly turn folk into Notwist-style electronic anthems: "Holm" does so by cranking up epic bass synths, "Flax" with pillowy beats and aquatic themes. It's forceful, sensuous music with a refreshing clarity of intention. And if you don't mind an emphasis on tone over hooks, it's very rewarding.
-- http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13939-trilogi
av shifts » 2010-04-09 11:23
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-09 15:40
shifts skrev:Håller på att gå genom tråden och tänkte posta de skivor jag än så länge är mycket tacksam över att jag fått tips om.
Less than a year after the critical acclaimed release of “421 Wythe Avenue” the indie collective Alcoholic Faith Mission is ready with the follow up; “Let This Be The Last Night We Care”
2009 was a crazy year for Alcoholic Faith Mission – with 3 tours in Europe and recorddeals in Japan and in the USA. Thousands of bloggers and international music journalists took Alcoholic Faith Mission to their hearts and wrote a lot of fantastic reviews.
2010 will see the release of the 3rd album and even more touring. In spring the band will play live in France, England, Benelux, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. At the moment a USA tour is in the planning too.
“Let This Be The Last Night We Care” will continue where “421 Wythe Avenue” left us. Still with the intensity know from bands like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene mixed with the more soft tunes from acts like Bon Iver and Iron & Wine.
Alcoholic Faith Mission is a melting pot; synth, samples, trombone, guitar, bass, drums and amazing voices – and a lot of other surprises, mixed together and it sounds better an better for each record and for each live gig.
-- http://www.anost.net/Alcoholic-Faith-Mi ... -Care.html
av phloam » 2010-04-13 03:23
FalloutBoy skrev:Mer elektronisk pop, dock inte från Warp:
White Hinterland - Kairos (2010, Dead Oceans)
http://open.spotify.com/album/0yn7BU5tx7VGI8EVGDR5GS
Tack av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-14 00:33
Bra att veta att det iaf är några som lyssar.phloam skrev:Försöker lyssna ordentligt så det tar lite tid men bara så du vet att det lyssnas
The Sight Below’s debut full-length Glider (2008) established the reclusive Seattle-based artist’s singular sound—a haze of treated guitar, a steady electronic pulse, and little else—and his similarly gloomy visual aesthetic. In the year since Glider’s release, The Sight Below honed his craft and traveled the world, toting his equipment to distant cities and festivals, playing breathtaking audio/visual performances, and wandering off into the night. Evidently, this was time well-spent. With his new album It All Falls Apart, The Sight Below expands upon his strengths at every turn, crafting a paean to impermanence, an ambient meditation that uses the sounds of sadness in the service of sweet emotional catharsis.
Unlike Glider, with its loose, semi-improvised feel, It All Falls Apart was carefully plotted from the first note, as the The Sight Below struck up a long-distance collaboration with Simon Scott, former drummer of legendary UK shoegazers Slowdive. (“Never in my wildest dreams would I have guessed that I’d be working with a former member of a favorite band,” glows TSB.) The pair work together like old friends, their respective styles intertwining effortlessly—the veteran Scott even brings out a little color in The Sight Below’s dour soundclouds. On It All Falls Apart, The Sight Below’s overcast moods give way to a rainbow (such as it is) of brooding, melancholy textures, incorporating strings, brass, samplers, synthesizers, and vocals into the mix alongside the usual guitars and beats.
And yet, for all their darkness, the best moments of It All Falls Apart—the time-release rush of “Stagger”, the serene discord of “Through the Gaps in the Land”, the snowy-day techno of “Burn Me Out from the Inside”, and the aching cover of Joy Division’s “New Dawn Fades” (featuring vocals from Jesy Fortino, aka Tiny Vipers)—provide a simultaneous uplift. Maybe it comes from The Sight Below’s evident enjoyment of his time alone, his clear comfort in solitude; and maybe It All Falls Apart is just too damn beautiful to be depressing.
-- http://ghostly.com/releases/it-all-falls-apart
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-14 00:41
Hade helt glömt att Seabear var på gång med nytt album. Tackar för påminnelsen!Ton skrev:Islänningar må suga på ekonomi, men Musik , det kan dom
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-14 00:48
Koffe skrev:hehe!
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Natalie Merchant is poised for the release of Leave Your Sleep, her first studio album since 2003’s The House Carpenter’s Daughter. Out April 6 [update: now April 13] on Nonesuch Records, this release is the culmination of seven years’ research and collaboration and is, in Merchant’s words, “the most elaborate project I have ever completed or even imagined.”
A two-disc set, Leave Your Sleep is a collection of songs adapted from poems selected by Merchant including pieces by both well-known and obscure writers. Featured are works by British Victorians, early- and mid-20th century Americans and contemporary writers as well as anonymous nursery rhymes and lullabies. Among the authors included are Ogden Nash, e.e. cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Edward Lear, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Graves. Visit the album page for a complete track listing.
In addition to a new method of lyricism, Merchant stretches out musically on Leave Your Sleep by collaborating with a broad spectrum of artists—some old friends, some she has admired from afar—including the Wynton Marsalis Quartet, Medeski Martin & Wood, members of the New York Philharmonic, The Klezmatics, Lúnasa and Hazmat Modine. “The sessions were recorded in live ensemble settings to capture a fresh and spontaneous energy,” notes Merchant. “They were some of the most magical experiences I’ve ever had making music.”
Having sold millions of records worldwide over the course of her recording career, Merchant has remained busy in the time since her last studio album by curating compilations for both 10,000 Maniacs’ Campfire Songs and her own Retrospective. Additionally, Merchant performed live to the accompaniment of Philip Glass, Dr. John, Pete Seeger, and Wynton Marsalis and collaborated with British composer Gavin Bryars as part of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works series.
-- http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/natalie ... 2010-01-21
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-16 16:40
In late 2008, Beck wrapped up recording his latest solo full-length, titled Dialogue. Unlike previous efforts, which have featured appearances from Saul Williams, Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta), Subtitle, and many more, the only voice on Dialogue is Beck's own. Across fifteen tracks, including two instrumentals, Thavius cleverly critiques many of America's ills with a dry, satirical wit that never falls into preachiness. "I think an MC should be able to draw on their life experiences and translate them into meaningful songs, maybe even grow a bit after reflecting on it during the song writing process. The writing and recording of Dialogue was a very therapeutic process for me for those very reasons: I took what I was going through in my life and put it on paper; I released my demons and let them dance over my beats."
Sonically, the album reaches new heights for Beck. Taking months to mix, Dialogue is Beck's biggest sounding album to date. Every track bleeds immediacy with warm bass kicks and aggressive highs that sound something like if the Bomb Squad had called Miami home. On his production influences, Beck notes: "I really like prog-rock, weird jazz/rock fusion hybrids, heavy metal, industrial stuff, etc., but I also like soul and funk, older hip hop, grime, some roots reggae. There was an earlier period when I was really influenced by drum-n-bass, and the more pretentiously named Intelligent Dance Music."
Beck's longtime roots in the Los Angeles underground music do manifest in the graphic design of the album, which was created by Sonny Kay, owner of GSL Records, the legendary label that spawned such acts as the Rapture, !!!, the Mars Volta, The Locust, Out Hud and a host of others. The two first worked together when Thavius was producing for GSL's first and only hip-hop signee, Subtitle - who would team up with Beck as Lab Waste for 2005's Zwarte Achtegrond.
For fans of iconoclastic music of any stripe, Thavius Beck presents Dialogue, and proves that the only musical boundaries he sees are ones he has already left behind.
-- http://bigdada.com/release.php?id=1595
av petersteindl » 2010-04-20 00:39
av phloam » 2010-04-20 03:35
frisky records - year001
av TCM » 2010-04-20 23:00
). Albumet innehåller även ett samarbete med Jens Lekman, som det låter att hon sjunger om i den här sången
Oh Jens, oh Jens
Your songs seem to look through a different lens
You're still so young
Love ends just as easy as it's begun.
av zidanefromhell » 2010-04-22 14:25
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-22 14:29
phloam skrev:Det är riktigt kul att "Samlingssurfa" på potStify; man hittar en en samling med bra techno av diverse obskyra "grupper"
av phloam » 2010-04-23 03:25
av phloam » 2010-04-23 03:55
FalloutBoy skrev:phloam skrev:Det är riktigt kul att "Samlingssurfa" på potStify; man hittar en en samling med bra techno av diverse obskyra "grupper"
Ovanstående samling var ganska trevlig. Dessutom lite workout för baselementen.
av Alexi » 2010-04-23 13:31
Tack för tipset! Den skivan har rullat konstant i mina hörlurar i en veckas tid nu, fantastiskt bra!FalloutBoy skrev:Här är en annan bortglömd pärla från förra året. Givetvis från Kanada.
Vacker, drömsk indie-pop av högsta kvalitet. Missa inte!
Lightning Dust - Infinite Light (2009, Jagjaguwar)
http://open.spotify.com/album/5PTdCZy0c4gCTAugiIIgYg
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-24 17:08
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-24 17:21
Ja, den är mycket bra. Deras självbetitlade debut är också ganska trevlig:Alexi skrev:Tack för tipset! Den skivan har rullat konstant i mina hörlurar i en veckas tid nu, fantastiskt bra!
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-24 17:36
av FalloutBoy » 2010-04-26 15:25
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