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Los Angeles tropical art punks Abe Vigoda have taken their lite Afro/world beat forays a few steps further with the breezy, immersive SKELETON. Like their friends in No Age, Abe Vigoda use fuzzy atmospherics to create a lazy, expansive feeling, much like dozing off after a long day of swimming and sun on vacation. Ethnic percussion and echoey, atmospheric guitars that chime like steel drums propel "Animal Ghosts," while the title track's urgent tempos and chanting cadences heat the blood through a haze of smoke. It all adds up to a heady new kind of urban tribal dance.
Photographer: Dan Monick.The Wire (p.43) - "[W]hen the group peaks, as on the note-perfect 'Cranes', they sound like they've discovered a new musical faultline -- one that courses through their music like excited blood through young veins."
CMJ - "A dreamy tropical beat pervades the soothingly lo-fi whizzing of the guitar, nicely filling out the skeletal punk shell..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "SKELETON's bustling rhythms are threaded with highlife guitars, chiming out writhing, hypnotic melodies, cutting a joyous calypso."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.66) - Ranked #39 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[B]alanced by AV's charm, charisma and gift for star-gazing melodies." Abe Vigoda Skeleton Songs Skeleton Review
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Purchase Skeleton CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | 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 the tower/make your peace"). However, at the end of "Price of Gas," when he proclaims "I can tell you how this ends/We're going to win this," one can hope that Okerere is expressing his confidence in a bright future for his extremely talented band.
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| | Knife Silent Shout CD (2006) (Import) Import
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| | Scott Walker Drift CD (2006)
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An utterly unique accomplishment, Scott Walker's THE DRIFT is the enigmatic British-based singer-songwriter's first official album since 1995's challenging TILT. Those looking for the Brechtian drama and crooner stylings of Walker's lauded late-'60s work will happily find them on these 10 haunting tracks, albeit in altered forms that often bypass melody to create what sometimes recalls a chilling sonic abstraction of Edgar Allan Poe's writings.
While two extended tracks, "Clara" and "Cue," wander down some frightening paths (occasionally calling to mind Kronos Quartet's BLACK ANGELS), and make up a considerable amount of THE DRIFT, the record also includes slightly less daunting pieces such as "Cossacks Are," which builds to propulsive rhythmic passages, and "Jesse," a brooding song seemingly rising up from some forsaken underground chamber. Far from accessible, yet mesmerizing in its bleak minimalist vision, THE DRIFT once again reinforces Walker's reputation as a fascinating and thoroughly unconventional artist.
Recording information: AIR Studios; Metropolis Studio, London, England.
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| | Explosions In The Sky All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone CD (2007)
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Back in the mid 1990s, when post-rock dominated the indie landscape, instrumental bands offered a sonic vision beyond what they saw to be the tired rock clichés of 4/4 time and G-C-D riffs, but very often negated the simple energy that makes rock so vital in the process. On their second full-length ALL OF A SUDDEN I MISS EVERYONE, Explosions in the Sky do not make such mistakes. The Austin quartet ...
| | 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 stop-on-a-dime surprises seem to be offered up at every turn. Tyondai Braxton's bizarre vocal gibberish--pitched up and looped in real-time--recalls similar experiments by the Animal Collective, while simple, repetitive note progressions give way to full-on guitar bombast (courtesy of Don Caballero's Ian Williams). But ...
| | No Age Weirdo Rippers CD (2007)
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Los Angeles-based art rock duo No Age make a joyful noise on their debut CD released on Fat Cat in 2007. Made up of five blink-and-you-miss-'em vinyl-only ...
| | Misha Trio Piatigorsky Pure Imagination CD (2007)
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This recording captures the sound of a very special trio. Both pianist Misha Piatigorsky and drummer Eric Harland are at the beginning of their musical journey. Here together with German bass player Peter Klinke, the three explore Piatigorsky's playful arrangements of American Standards as well as Piatigorsky's original compositions. Misha Piatigorsky, winner of the 2004 BMI Thelonious Monk ComposersCompetition, is one of the most innovative pianists on the music scenetoday. His unique marriage of powerful melodies with intensely drivingrhythms makes his sound a fresh voice that excites the heart and mind. Misha has produced many records both for himself and other musicians featuring his compositions and arrangements. He is the pianist and music director for singing legend Mark Murphy, and can be found performing with him in New York clubs such as Birdland, Iridium, and Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club, as well as internationally. Misha’s notable releases include the debut CD for Trio Del Sol, with guitarist Freddie Bryant and percussionist Gilad on Twinz Records, where the “piano and guitar create and exchange melodies like an intricate dance†(Bill Milkowski), and AYA, featuring his compositions. Misha’s new trio with bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Ari Hoenig is a fusion ofurban grooves with his non-traditional ...
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| | Keep Of Kalessin Kolossus CD (2008) Bonus DVD
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With 2008's KOLOSSUS, Keep of Kalessin once again invites brave listeners in from the cold for a dark, macabre set of Norwegian black metal. Highlights of this surprisingly dynamic outing include the acoustic-guitar-led "Origin," the thrash-like "Warmonger," and the sinister "Against the Gods," which features jackhammer drumming ...
| | Longplayers Intercom CD (2008) (Import) Import
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