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Silje Nes: Ames Room (Fat
Cat) - Norwegian multi-instrumentalist / songwriter Silje Nes’s debut album Ames
Room is intimate and revealing.
Her hushed vocals are woven into diverse homespun layers of guitars,
vintage synth, cello, drum kit, vibes and more; all captured and colored via
laptop. It’s as though she’s invited
you into her own private world. A
world where timid dream-like pop in entwined with treasured music-box
abstractions. Highly Recommended. [she may be |
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Tall Firs: Too Old To Die
Young (Ecstatic Peace) – Refusing to be cut down, the sophomore album from Tall Firs outgrows their
"underground electric folk" understory and reaches for the Sonic Youth sun. With an experimental, post rock sound akin
to the Youth’s Thurston Moore (leader of Ecstatic Peace), they’ve
developed a sturdy, melodic canopy of dynamic heavy guitar & rhythms with
mushroom covered roots.
Recommended. |
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Bombadil: A Buzz, A Buzz
(Ramseur) - Hailing from [See them at Twisted Branch Tea
Bazaar in |
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Head of Femur: |
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Neon Neon: Stainless Style
(Lex) - Neon Neon is a duo project
of LA producer Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals). Stainless
Style is themed on the life of 80s automobile playboy John DeLorean. Cars, clubs and coke come together in these
slices of euphoric dancefloor pop that’s slicker than Astroglide and poppin’
with dirty electro pulses. Sweat shop
takes on a whole new meaning.
Recommended. |
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Kaki King: Dreaming of
Revenge (Velour) - Best known as an intricate guitar player, Kaki King focuses more on melody and
vocals on this, her fourth album. Warm voice, but the lyrics are a
little formulaic. Still, her guitar work really shines through on most
of these tracks, and the purely instrumental songs are beautiful. This
sounds like a songwriter still getting her craft down, but overall it is a
really nice album. Recommended. |
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Excepter: Debt Dept (Paw
Tracks) - Though un-confirmed, NYC ensemble Excepter’s latest LP Debt Dept. may represent a nod to the
more experimental sides of [This is their first record
for Animal Collective's Paw
Tracks imprint] |
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Man Man: Rabbit Habits
(Anti-) - After two discs for Ace-Fu, hiladelphia based experimental
rockers Man Man join the Anti-
label. It makes totals sense, because
these guys really defy all label pidgin-holes. Serpentine though twisted vignettes of
troubled urban life. Facets of life
are captured in the jaunty blends of swamp-rock, gypsy-punk and vaudevillian
jazz. Horns, vibes, accordion, toy
piano, Moog, junkyard percussion and much more are paired with equally
diverse boy-girl vocal styles – solo, harmonized, call-response and sing
along. Think- Tom Waits on steroids.
Recommended. [WDCE presented their on
campus outdoor show - September 2007] |
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Jealous Girlfriends: s/t (Good
Fences / Last Gang) – The sophomore, self-titled LP from Brooklyn four-piece Jealous Girlfriends delivers your
melodic indie rock fix with finesse.
Stylistic signposts of shoegaze and downtempo provide guidance as the
quartet navigate toward |
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Various: Our Side of Town-
A Red House Records 25th Year Collection (Red House) - If you have
a hankering for some fine roots music, its hard to go wrong with the roster
of Red House Records. Though
its somewhat puzzling why they chose to celebrate their silver anniversary
material that only encompasses the last three years, there is over 67 minutes
of music that embraces the
many facets of roots, be it folk, blues or singer/songwriter. Color liners feature succinct bios and
detailed track info. Explore at will. |
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