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With 2005's GODS AND MONSTERS, I Am Kloot follows up its well received self-titled album. While the results aren't quite as adventurous as the former offering, the Manchester, England-based trio is clearly more focused here, streamlining its sound with more straightforward arrangements. Like fellow hometown heroes Doves, I Am Kloot specializes in driving, moody rock, using the typically spare trio format in service of surprisingly dense, sharply crafted tunes that seem to be the work of a larger ensemble. Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Johnny Bramwell, with his Robyn Hitchcock-like vocals and dynamic guitar playing, is the group's primary creative force, but, on much of GODS AND MONSTERS, drummer Andy Hargreaves proves to be the band's MVP, with potent and intuitive percussion that energizes numerous songs, including the fierce opener, "No Direction Home," and the keys-heavy title track.
Audio Mixer: Joe Robinson .
Recording information: Moolah Rouge, Stockport, England.
Personnel: Robert Marsh (trumpet).
Additional personnel: Norman McLeod (pedal steel guitar); Robert Marsh (trumpet).
Spin (p.103) - "[S]pare, cracker-crisp Britrock not unlike Spoon's musings." - Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly (No. 836, p.61) - "...[W]ith angular arrangements and a darkly romantic wit that's all his own." - Grade: B+ I Am Kloot Gods And Monsters Songs Gods And Monsters Review
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Rainy days were made for melancholic, textured, and gorgeously conceived albums like I Am Kloot's self-titled disc. Leaping ahead of the mellow folk-rock of the band's debut, NATURAL HISTORY, this follow-up not only expands the group's sonic palette, it raises the bar on the overall quality of songwriting and performance. Alt-country shuffle ("Untitled #1"), heavy psychedelic rock ("Life in a Day"), dark jazzy noir ("A Strange Arrangement of Colour"), and ghostly ballads of self-reckoning ("Mermaids") are only a few of the styles wrapped in I Am Kloot's sophisticated guitar/bass/drums ...
| | Bloc Party Silent Alarm CD (2005)
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On this immensely appealing debut, SILENT ALARM, the London-based quartet Bloc Party fulfills the promise of their barnstorming 2004 singles "Banquet" and "She's Hearing Voices." Led by magnetic frontman Kele Okereke, the band extracts the most fascinating aspects of the previous 25 years of British indie rock and fuses them into a new entity--complete with smarts and heart--never delving into retro-kitsch or slavish imitation.
Okerere's urgent yelp most often recalls a fired-up incarnation of the Cure's Robert Smith, but the sounds the group creates echo everything from Gang of Four's staccato militarism ("Banquet") to the reverberating guitars of the Chameleons ("Price of Gas"). At times, Bloc Party also recalls the ecstatic soundwashes of early-1990s cult pioneers like Ride ("Plans") and Slowdive ("Compliments"). Lyrically, Okerere tilts toward an endearing adolescent pessimism that, even when the music is less than mopey, gives him away as a goth at heart ("and the ravens are leaving ...
| | Sufjan Stevens Illinoise CD (2005)
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The second entry from sui generis singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens in his absurdly ambitious project to make a record for every state in America outdistances even 2003's superb GREETINGS FROM MICHIGAN in scope and beauty. A sweeping paean to the Lincoln state, ILLINOIS weaves together history, personal confession, and detail-filled scenarios with chamber folk, expansive orchestral pop, and back-porch pastoral settings for a stunningly progressive indie gem that sound like Brian Wilson, Stereolab, and Neil Young holding hands in heaven.
Remarkably, in its intricate, gorgeously crafted surfaces, ILLINOIS lives up to its aims. In addition to its symphonic grandeur, the album also showcases Stevens's heartland folk, and some of the album's most shimmering moments are its most spare. "John Wayne Gacy, Jr.," for instance, is an absorbing narrative that features Stevens's sweet tenor ...
| | Death Cab For Cutie Plans CD (2005)
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Sonically, the disc has a Beatlesque anything-goes attitude and attention to arrangement details. "Summer Skin" is driven by a military-style snare pattern and elliptical bass line but sprinkled with atmospheric sound effects. The throbbing dance-rock beat of "Different Names" is offset ...
| | Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye CD (2006)
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| | Swan Lake Beast Moans CD (2006)
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| | Cher Behind The Door: 1964-1974 CD (2000) 1964-1974
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This 25-song CD might properly have been called "The Best of the Rest" of Cher, comprised as it is of tracks from her first ten years in music that are usually left off of the "best-of" Cher compilations that are out there. The first 15 songs consist of material from her years on Liberty Records, including oddities such as her mid-'60s cover of Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep," the ornate "Song Called Children," with its "Eleanor Rigby"-like arrangement, her ultra-cool, Phil Spector-ish version of Bob Dylan's "I Want You," and "Reason to Believe." Some of the material here, such as her recordings of Graham Gouldman's "Behind the Door" and Sonny Bono's "Magic in the Air" (which, one could suspect, was the model for Neil Young's "Broken Arrow"), has been compiled elsewhere, most notably on Bang Bang: The Early Years, although at the time this disc was devised that was not the case -- additionally, assembling all of these odder early Cher sides together makes for a much more interesting and diverting way of hearing them, and a keen appreciation of the sheer range of producer and sometime songwriter Sonny Bono's talents and sensibilities. The tracks 16 through 25 are of somewhat less interest, dating from Cher's 1970s period on Kapp Records, where she was doing what amounted to pop music with a beat -- good stuff, but not with the same urgency and sense of searching for a new sound. Peggy Clinger's "I ...
| | King Crimson Space Groove CDs (1998) (Import)
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| | English Customs And Traditions CD (2000) (Import) Import; United Kingdom
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| | Ska-P Planeta Eskoria CD (2001) Enhanced CD
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| | Hard To Find Orchestral Instrumentals, Vol. 2 CD (2003)
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Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals, Vol. 2 gathers up 20 lush, rich, and string-filled songs played by a wide variety of big orchestras both well-known, ...
| | Ay-Kherel Music Of Tuva CD (2004)
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| | A-Mei Star CD (2008) (Import)
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| | Erica Wilkins The Shield Of Faith CD (2009)
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