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Make no mistake -- the definitive article in the title of The Sebadoh is there for a reason. Where the group's previous albums frequently sounded like the work of a songwriters' collective, with each musician supporting each other on their individual songs, The Sebadoh was designed to be the work of a unified band. To the band's credit, Sebadoh achieves that goal. The Sebadoh sounds unlike any other of their records, largely due to the fact they (more or less) rehearsed and recorded these 15 songs as a band, giving their music a kinetic energy it has lacked in the past. It comes at the expense of their most charming quality: their intimacy. Often, listening to a Sebadoh record feels like eavesdropping, but here, the group is playing to the bleachers. Occasionally, that works -- Jason Loewenstein kicks off the record in grand style with "It's All You," and Lou Barlow's "Flame" turns the best of Folk Implosion inside out -- but it often sounds like posturing. Of course, that could be due to the fact that the songs simply aren't as strong as they have been in the past. The best of Loewenstein's material shows that he continues to improve, but he's still erratic; Barlow at times sounds immediate as ever, at other times sounding like a parody of himself; meanwhile, Bob Fay's replacement, Russ Pollard, offers one ineffectual number. Sebadoh has always been notoriously uneven, but their rough surfaces and loose ends ultimately made their records endearing and occasionally revelatory. Here, they've sanded down their rough edges and tied up their loose ends, which might make The Sebadoh the work of a unified band, but it ultimately makes for a record that is far less compelling than the average Sebadoh album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Engineers: Eric Masunaga, Jason Loewenstein.
Personnel: Rich Costey (programming).
Audio Mixers: Eric Masunaga; Rich Costey; Sebadoh.
Recording information: Negative Energy Company.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Jason Loewenstein; Lou Barlow; Russell Pollard.
Sebadoh: Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, Russ Pollard.
Additional personnel: Michael Herron (background vocals).
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Magnet (4/99, p.82) - "...Swaying back and forth between soft, acoustic-driven ballads ("Tree") to harder, rock-based tunes ("Bird in the Hand"), Barlow and Lowenstein's songs have acheived cohesion, a pleasing commonality typical of a band that has broken through to the other side..."
Mojo (Publisher) (2/99, p.99) - "...enjoy the sound of a great band tearing off the shackles of college radio cred and rocking out..." Sebadoh Review
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Purchase Sebadoh CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea CD (1998)
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Neutral Milk Hotel leader Jeff Mangum is a popster who hears interstellar sounds as natural ingredients of his "pop." He was weaned with the inevitable four-track in his bedroom, schooled on a record collection stacked with John Cage and Captain Beefheart as well as the Beatles and the Kinks. There is an instant emotional intensity to Neutral Milk's music, and the seeds that were sewn on '96's lo-fi masterpiece ON AVERY ISLAND, bear an evolving fruit on IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA.
Mangum's psych-folk songwriter musings dominate the album's landscape. Confusion streams out in hallucinatory phrases, trying to outrace a manic acoustic guitar, which in turn propels a band whose general sound is a four-track, punked-up version of Tom Waits' RAIN DOGS outfit. Brass-heavy instrumentals akin to ambient, bayou funeral dirges skitter by. At times, sunny pop emerges from the busy squall , as on the title track. Occasionally, the squall itself latches onto a melody, exploding with Flaming Lips-like ferocity. All of it suggests that while Neutral ...
| | Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin CD (1999)
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Recorded in Cassadaga, New York, New York between April 1997 and February 1999.
With their multi-disc opus ZAIREEKA (four CDs meant to be played simultaneously on four different players), the Flaming Lips radically expanded the scope of their melancholy psychedelia, as pop tunes became modernist soundscapes, part-Pink Floyd, part-John Cage. Obviously, the experience greatly influenced the band's direction, because on THE SOFT BULLETIN the Lips again scrap the guitar-bass-drum rock standard, sculpting instead a huge hi-fi record akin to a post-modern PET SOUNDS with the vision of a humanist OK COMPUTER.
Long-time producer and Mercury Rev studio savant Dave Fridmann helps with the completion of a Spectorian sonic canvas, full of epic gestures (glorious sweeping strings arrangements) and brilliant details (well-placed thematic samples). The music adds a context of grandeur to Coyne's lyrics of Zen and the cosmic joke. Songs like "Superman," "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" and a half-dozen others, hint at the hopelessness of life's outcome while maintaining a sense of faith (a common Lips theme). THE SOFT BULLETIN raises such pre-millennial realist/fantasy notions in the midst of a 90s "Tomorrow Never Knows," and in the process ...
| | Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret CD (1999)
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Principally recorded at Bear Creek, Woodinville, Washington in November 1997.
Having led Built to Spill down the road of majestic guitar duels on 1997's PERFECT FROM NOW ON, group mastermind Doug Martsch decided to downplay (but not shelve) his six-string heroics here. Instead, the focus of Built to Spill's fourth proper full-length is the ensemble playing. Having for the first time in B2S' existence retained his rhythm section (bassist Brett Nelson, drummer Scott Plouf) for a second consecutive album, Martsch shows off what may be the strongest power trio in rock circa 1999. Consequently, KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET coalesces into a powerful classic rock band statement at a time when those are hard to find.
Lyrically, Martsch's concerns have retained the indie rock community's focus--its outsider status ("Carry the Zero") and ability to self-reference rock's long history to get its plaints across ("You Were Right"). Structurally, he has streamlined his songs into concise rock-pop nuggets that carry more crunch than his Up records ever mustered, fitting his epic way ...
| | Sebadoh Bakesale CD (1994)
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Principally recorded at Fort Apache, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sebadoh was designed as a modern version of the WHITE ALBUM-era Beatles: three singer-songwriters operating under one umbrella, using each other as their respective backing bands. Starting with homemade cassettes and moving on to CDs without bothering to up the recording technology, they became lo-fi heroes, largely on the strength of Lou Barlow's bitter odes to romance.
With BAKESALE, their fourth full-length album, Sebadoh start playing by more traditional rules, and subsequently reach a much bigger audience. Eric Gaffney, the founding member responsible for the noisiest and most outre songs, has departed (although he still shows up as the drummer on four tracks), leaving the band with a more consistent sound. And this time, it's a punchy guitar sound that seems to emanate from a lot more than the usual four tracks.
What hasn't changed is the writing, and this time around Barlow--who contributes the Nirvana-ish "License To Confuse," the tuneful "Magnet's Coil" and "Skull," among several others--is nearly rivaled for excellence by Jason ...
| | Sebadoh Harmacy CD (1996)
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These indie-rock pioneers generally adhere to two songwriting formulas--heartwrenching ballads of love lost, and punked-out guitar freakouts. They keep getting better at both. HARMACY is their first album since frontman Lou Barlow (he of many heartwrenching ballads) danced his way onto the airwaves with his other band, the Folk Implosion, and it's their most accessible album to date. If the airwaves are ready for Sebadoh themselves, then Sebadoh sound like they're ready, too.
With their ballads, Sebadoh are somehow able to write bona fide tearjerkers without seeming melodramatic. These songs are intensely personal tales delineating the fragilities that come with falling in love. The band plays exquisite and beautiful folk-rock, and the vocals are positively tragic. But Sebadoh also know how to have fun. On the other half of HARMACY, Sebadoh play rumbling, cacophonous rock songs. These are where the trio's playful lo-fi roots are most apparent. Songs like "Hillbilly II" and "I Smell A Rat" leave little distance ...
| | Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out CD (2000)
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Principally recorded at Alex The Great, Nashville, Tennessee and The Pigeon Club, Hoboken, New Jersey.
On its 10th, and undoubtedly sexiest album, Yo La Tengo creates a smoky, sonic novella to love and lovers, a lonesome pop record as beautifully stark as it is happy, and as full of detailed nooks and crannies as its riddling title implies. Songs like "Our Way to Fall," "Last Days of Disco" and especially "You Can Have It All" are simple pop love notes destined to become standards in some brave romantic world better than ours (if they are diary entries from the Kaplan/Hubley marriage, that is one happy union).
The farfisa/guitar combo still propels most of these songs, but as Yo la Tengo has evolved as a band, its appetite for studio creations has been greatly broadened. Soft but thick sonic textures adorn nearly all these tracks, particularly the bookends--the opening drone-pop mantra "Everyday" is fine indie-dub, and "Night Falls on Hoboken," the 13-minute guitar space-out that closes the record, is hued psychedelic ambience for people with long attention spans.
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| | For The Masses CD (1998)
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As one of the prime innovators of synth-pop, Depeche Mode has influenced an entire generation of knob-twiddling, mousse-wearing devotees. Since 1981, their dark, scientific sound has defined the genre, moving the synthesizer into edgy, aggressive realms. FOR THE MASSES finds that generation paying overdue tribute to the men in black, combining a wide variety of bands who've followed in their footsteps in one way or another (with the exception of the Cure, whose recorded output predates DM's but who contribute a sonically rich version of "World In My Eyes" nonetheless).
FOR THE MASSES sticks to Depeche Mode's more aggressive and mostly later work--the soft pop of "New Life" or "See You" is eschewed for more hard-edged themes. Some of the covers show a very direct lineage to the band--Rammstein's gut-wrenching "Stripped" and Meat Beat Manifesto's breakneck "Everything Counts" inject an over-the-top element of aggression, while Hooverphonic's "Shake the Disease" displays this band's talent for giving a song breathing room without compromising its intensity. Smashing Pumpkins even deliver an inspired, beefed-up take on "Never Let Me Down Again."
FOR THE MASSES is a tribute album to Depeche Mode.
Depeche Mode Tribute Album.
Producers include: Ted De Bono, Gary Dobbins, Robert Smith, Jack ...
| | Britney Spears Overprotected CD (2001)
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| | K U K L Eye CD (1984)
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With its scattered guitar squalls, blood-boiling squeals, and scattershot rhythms, this record may strike casual Sugarcubes/Björk purveyors as practically impenetrable. Indeed, although assembled as a sort of Icelandic indie supergroup, Kukl never made music that could be deemed in any way accessible; on first listen, The Eye is a patently ...
| | Viktor Lazlo Begin The Biguine CD (2007) (Import) France
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| | Inexacta Previous Trick Us CD (2007)
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ENGLISH:It is difficult to determine the exact moment at which this band like official project began, we agreed whereupon it was in summer '2004 (January, February and March in Chile)... Our influences do not speak by us, are quite diverse but always bound to the metal, Inexacta is something we never thought to reproduce, we simply arrived to this and it surprises us at any moment, certainly is some kind of a creature greater than our added forces.Our discographic career began in 2005 with the recording of a pair of demo records (6 tracks) which we didn't give any commercial use but to open us a passage in the heavy metal music scene and to get shows, those works have had very good acceptance and excellent critics.Inexacta's "Previous Trick Us" was recorded at 15hz Sonido studio by Cristian "15" Rodriguez.SPANISH:Inexacta se inicia a comienzos del 2004 con su única formación de Carlos MartÃnez, Sebastián Riquelme, Alfonso Celis y Alberto Cabezas. La banda se arma y desarrolla lejos de la ciudad en la provincia de Talagante, influenciados por diversos géneros musicales lo cual amplia la visión musical de los integrantes generando un sonido que camina por variadas derivaciones del metal, y por lo cual se mantiene el concepto abierto constantemente para seguir alimentando el camino.A los pocos años de existencia Inexacta ha compartido escenario con grandes bandas de la escena nacional logrando asà darse a conocer dentro del circuito y logrando credibilidad dentro de esta.Como corporación se entrega un mensaje de resistencia y lucha constante en un mundo donde gobierna el mas fuerte ya que las reglas no existen o se aplican solo a algunos, se crea música como estimulo a ayudar a las personas a levantarse con la mirada en alto.Durante el 2005 fue grabado el primer demo “Sentidos Densos†el cual contiene seis tracks con un sonido crudo, lo cual contribuyo a abrir mas puertas a la banda.El año 2006 se prepara el disco “previous trick us†Independiente, en el cual se plasma la historia de la banda ...
| | Soulafide Dusty Southwest EP CD (2009)
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Comin straight out of the Dusty SouthWest, SOULAFIDE is an original Rock-Hop & Reggae band building up momentum to make a run on the music scene. Based out of Tempe, Arizona, SOULAFIDE has been saturating the Phoenix area with their innovative sounds, also performing in nearby Southern California. Rock-Hop & Reggae incorporates heavy rock and reggae guitar alongside funky bass grooves, all laid down over the steady pulse of hip-hop beats. The vocals are a collaboration of rhythmic rhymes and flowing island melodies, with the force of pure unadulterated hard rock. The final touch is achieved with the addition of eclectic trombone leads and sultry blues harmonica. The finished product: a righteous blend of the finest aspects of Rock, Hip-Hop, and Reggae. Of course you’ll ...
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