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Archive for June 2008

The War On Drugs – Wagonwheel Blues

Posted by: mx on: June 27, 2008

As a refreshing break from the big releases comes this debut album from a band that sounds like Bob Dylan-fronted indie band inspired by late 80s shoegaze / drone rock. I particularly like reverbed keyboard-driven A Needle In Your Eye #16 and the ten minute gaze of Show Me the Coast. Nothing huge or anything, [...]

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The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

Posted by: mx on: June 26, 2008

At the moment The Beach Boys are my favourite old band, so I’m trying to find as much of their material on the web as possible. But no matter which compilation you find, it is never complete without the complete Pet Sounds album. It’s a classic, claimed by many to be their best ever, the [...]

Johannes Brahms – The Complete Symphonies

Posted by: mx on: June 24, 2008

Conducted by Wolfgang Sawalisch. This is a high quality release with CUE sheets and FLAC files. I’ve been looking for some more classical music which I enjoy exploring nowadays. It’s hard to comment, this is very complex and beautiful music which resonates peace and perfection.
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I read about it and decided to check out what the least anticipated rock album would sound like. Disappointing, but I’m still posting about it as it’s at least called GnR after all. Axl seems to have lost his mind long time ago. It’s a problem when you’re trying to come up with straight rock’n’roll [...]

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Syd Barrett – Peel Sessions

Posted by: mx on: June 21, 2008

It’s amazing how many people played a John Peel session. Even Syd Barrett.
‘Cause we’re the fishes and all we do
the move about is all we do
well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you…
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Fleet Foxes – s/t

Posted by: mx on: June 15, 2008

From the same city that brought us grunge, now come the Fleet Foxes with their fantastic debut album which blends together classic rock, 60s pop, folk roots and reverbed harmonies that often go to unexpected, yet so natural directions that you instantly feel this album like a familiar place you go to on sunday afternoons.
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Offspring – Smash

Posted by: mx on: June 15, 2008

What better way to revive the early teen times for a moment than to listen to Offspring’s Smash, their most consistently awesome album, for a while.
I guess I got a bad habit
And it ain’t goin’ away, yeah
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Sarkar Raj

Posted by: mx on: June 13, 2008

I saw Sarkar Raj listed on mininova the other day and downloaded it not knowing what to expect. It’s a Hindi movie, and I haven’t seen one ever, I think. So I was eager to see it. The story bored me a bit at first. It’s about a powerful family, minister of the Maharashtra region [...]

Xihilisk – EPTwo Special Edition

Posted by: mx on: June 10, 2008

Discovered this through a TorrentFreak article. Xihilisk says:
This is a Demonoid exclusive. I would describe the genre as experimental indie/electronica but it has elements of lots of other things including chiptune, post rock, metal etc.
It contains the original EPTwo(which was 6 tracks)remastered, and 3 new tracks which are probably the best i’ve ever done:
Tunnel Physics: [...]

Opeth – Watershed

Posted by: mx on: June 9, 2008

This is the first time I listen to Opeth, although it’s their ninth album already. Their songs are often longer than ten minutes, with variations going from death metal growling peaks to subtle acoustic arrangements for guitar, strings and piano. It’s clear that they’re very skilled musicians and the leader, Mikael Ã…kerfeldt, has many ideas [...]

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