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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, ... Full Descriptionmuch 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.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."
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." Hide Description Abe Vigoda Skeleton Songs 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 ...
| | Pink Mountaintops Axis Of Evol CD (2006)
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The Pink Mountaintops are the solo brainchild of Vancouver musician Stephen McBean, who is also a member of ramshackle rockers Black Mountain. The Mountaintops' second album expands on the lo-fi promise of its predecessor, with nods to sonic explorers like the Velvet Underground on "Cold Criminals," post-punk outfits like Sonic Youth on "New ...
| | Shoplifting Body Stories CD (2006)
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With a renegade, exploratory feel that recalls European bands like A Certain Ratio, Delta 5, and the Ex, Seattle's Shoplifting drape tightly arranged, atonal guitars and half-heard, chanted vocals over a muscular framework of percolating bass and extrovert drums. Tracks like ...
| | 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 (yes, there are only four of them generating all this sound) take cues from the post-rock era but apply an energetic, improvisational rock approach full of relentless tension and bursts of beauty. The sound ...
| | 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 to Wilson are remarkable, as evinced on the percussive opener "Comfy in Nautica.")
Anchoring the record are two extended tracks that each break the 12-minute mark--"Bros," a mesmerizing, echo-laden number that gives way to a toy-monkey-like beat and energetic acoustic-guitar strumming, and "Good Girls/Carrots," an electronics-oriented mini-suite. While Lennox's ambition ...
| | 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 the Battles-plan ...
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Track Listing of songs: Daphnis And Chloe: Suite No. 2/ A. Daybreak/ B. Pantomine/ C. General Dance; Pavan ...
| | Keep Of Kalessin Kolossus CDs (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 and demonic vocals.
Keep Of Kalessin are THE masters of epic extreme metal! On their Nuclear Blast debut, the band take their unique and unmistakably progressive sound to a level that goes far beyond their raw, black metal roots. Mainman Obsidian C. is a former live guitarist for the legendary Satyricon and the band once counted drummer Frost and Mayhem frontman Attila Csihar ...
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