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Dan Snaith's project, Caribou, has always displayed a great reverence for the splashy opulence of '60s psychedelic-pop. If earlier albums, UP IN FLAMES and MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS, borrowed liberally from his influences--sounding much like a ... Full Descriptionpanoply of carefully crafted snippets from the most blissed-out moments of pop music's past 30 years--ANDORRA polishes out the rough edges to reveal actual songs. Despite the newfound emphasis on songwriting cohesion, the album revels in deep layers of textural embellishment. Mixing in sound-collages, symphonic passages, and layered vocals, the music recalls the bold pop experimentation of George Martin and Brian Wilson. The opener, "Melody Day," combines a big-beat drum pattern with a dense but melodic wall-of-sound--rippling electronics and guitar cascade around Snaith's wispy falsetto, sounding like a throwback to both '60s garage pop and '90s shoegaze. On the album's closer, "Niobe," Snaith's perfectly constructed pop utopia unravels slightly, unveiling a fractured, inchoate wash of sound--almost as if he is trying to disclose the music's own underlying illusionism.Rolling Stone (p.90) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Layers of flute loops, bells, drum fills and warped strings cushion Snaith's blissed-out harmonies on organized-chaos jams like 'Eli' and 'Sandy'..."
Spin (p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]ull of lithe vocals, swooping keyboards, distant drums, and assorted benign flashbacks."
Entertainment Weekly (p.130) - "[H]is latest plunges into the rich, organic psychedelia he's explored tentatively on past efforts." -- Grade: A-
Uncut (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lead single 'Melody Day' is the most striking result of Snaith's immersion in psychedelic soft-pop: it's an ultra-vivid dream of a Zombie song, blown up to epic dimensions." Hide Description Andorra Music | List Price | $14.97 (You save $2.48) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Electronica CDs, Rock | | Label | Merge | | Orig Year | 2007 | | All Time Sales Rank |  17562  | | CD Universe Part number | 7473550 | | Catalog number | 308 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 21, 2007 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Dan Snaith; Jeremy Greenspan | | Recording Time | 42 minutes |
Purchase Andorra CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Band Of Horses Everything All The Time CD (2006)
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EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME benefits from strong songwriting, and the winding, yearning tenor of Bridwell, while the synthesis of introspective folky intimacy, immediately accessible melodies, and ...
| | Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass CD (2006)
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With 2006's cheekily titled I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS, the beloved indie-rock trio Yo La Tengo presents a dynamic set of songs that echo the band's past, while notably downplaying the soporific atmospherics of preceding discs (the lauded AND THEN NOTHING and SUMMER SUN). The New Jersey-based group opens with "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind," a feedback-drenched guitar workout anchored by pulsing, insistent rhythms, which is followed by the jaunty "Beanbag Chair," a charming pop ditty that percolates under Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley's ...
| | Panda Bear Person Pitch CD (2007)
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On 2007's PERSONAL PITCH, Animal Collective's Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) ambles out on his own once again with an album that includes a number of tracks from his 2005-07 singles and EPs. Influenced in part by married bliss, new fatherhood, and a move to Lisbon, Portugal, this bright, buoyant album was recorded largely with samplers, creating a highly textured sound that cements Lennox's status as the Brian Wilson of the freak-folk set. (In fact, his vocal similarities ...
| | Battles Mirrored CD (2007)
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If modern day indie music appears to consist of an endless queue of groups that are either bland emo retreads or glitzy disco punkers, it is then that much more refreshing to encounter a band like Battles. With a lineage that consists of some of indie rock's most accomplished musicians, Battles is a veritable neo-prog supergroup, though one that embraces the possibilities of technology used in tandem with instrumental virtuosity.
MIRRORED, the band's debut full-length makes its intent clear from the onset--to ingest 50 years of rock history and regurgitate it as fractilized micro-symphonies. Rhythms bounce whimsically from motorik krautrock beats to glammed up T. Rex shuffles; such ...
| | National Boxer CD (2007)
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And while his presence isn't immediately apparent, indie hero Sufjan Stevens contributes piano to two tracks ("Racing Like a Pro" and "Ada"), adding to the National's increasingly expansive aesthetic, which also incorporates strings and horns. Though BOXER is more subdued than ALLIGATOR, it will likely appeal to those won over by the earlier outing.
On 2007's BOXER, the National's second full-length album for the venerable ...
| | Burial Untrue CD (2007)
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If most musical projects aim for at least a measure of popular notoriety, the clandestine U.K. producer known as Burial seems to thrive on self-imposed anonymity. In interviews, the London-based dubstep artist explains his willful obscurity as an effort to draw a formal boundary between underground and pop--to effectively become "untrackable, unreadable, just a distant light." Whether this is pure hype-sheet driven strategy or a bona fide lob at the music business's cult of personality makes little difference; the immersive, emotive music found on his second album, UNTRUE, evinces a true perfectionist's touch. Drawing upon the euphoric "feminine pressure" vocals of 2-step garage and the malevolent bass rumble of darkside drum & bass, UNTRUE both elaborates upon and conflates genre clichés with a mix of irreverent deconstruction and reverential homage.
As in his eponymous debut, UNTRUE is daubed in a grainy, lo-fi ambience that casts a sinister fog over the rhythmic foreground. Ominous creaks, pops, and drizzles lurch furtively from some void, creating crackly accents or yawning, metallic squeaks. On "Ghost Hardware" the staccato syncopations of garage are either distended into growling bass undertow, or crumpled into shards of asymmetrical flourish. Against the metronomic clack of a woodblock-like rimshot, female voices coo seductively ...
| | Fred Schneider Kess Kiss Bass CD (2006) (Import) Import
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Fred SCHNEIDER is a bass prodigy. As he was 19, this French musician got increasingly interested in jazz and related musics: he got trained in ball bands, then he became a bass-player of the alternative jazz fanfare TOXICOMOON. His first solo album was recorded in 1996 under the ...
| | Buddy Holly Peggy Sue CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Alan Vega Station CD (2007)
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| | Candie Payne I Wish I Could Have Loved You More CD (2007) (Import) Bonus Track
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| | Ramones Leave Home CD (2007) (Import) Bonus Tracks; Japan; Mini LP Sleeve
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| | Immortal Soul Winterreich CD (2007)
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| | Explosive Little Richard Plus CD (2007) (Import) England
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| | Aquaria Shambala CD (2007) (Import)
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