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Wilco
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Noting a new Wilco album as I’m busy preparing for my August trip. See you guys in September! Check out the music and feel free to drop some comments about it.
Tal Farlow – Trinity
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Would this blog be worth anything if I didn’t throw you some hard to find jazz? Of course not! Here’s an awesome guitar / piano / bass + drums trio. Tal Farlow is a great jazz guitarist.
Maybeshewill
Filed under: music | Tags: experimental, instrumental, post-rock
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But maybe she will…
A friend introduced me to this band. There’s nothing particularly awesome about them in fact, they’re just a very good post-rock band, that can remind you of many others but thinking, hey these guys have some variety. And they did make The Paris Hilton Sex Tape song worth its title.
download Sing The World In Four-Part Harmony (latest album)
download Japanese Spy Transcript EP (debut, should be yout first listening) + Not For Want Of Trying
Experimental Aircraft
Lately I’ve been exploring a few shoegaze bands, sometimes when it works it hits me like an ocean wave. Experimental Aircraft can make one; this is their debut from 2000.
Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper
There are always only a few rock singers that can sing something like “Shake me… shake me… skyscraper” and have us listen like it’s not really important because you really feel the music and perhaps it’s more about the background or something. In any case, Paul Banks of Interpol has become one of those. Some of these songs remind me of the band, not so much on the surface because this is largely a solo experiment, there are finger picking acoustic guitars crossed with atmospheric beat loops, but the way he sings and the song flow and layout. And it works, because he is really good at making simple sound great.
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Filed under: music | Tags: ambient, electronica, experimental, folk, funk
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To me previously unknown British artist Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio made one excellent album that’s, as all good ones, kinda hard to describe – it’s largely electronic music but at the same time it floats back and forth between folk and funk let’s say. Mellow but experimental, it grows on me on each listen. I don’t associate the music to a perfectly ordered street with identical cars parked on the side… rather to an afternoon out on a hill.
The Rumble Strips – Welcome To The Walk Alone
Don’t let this album pass you by. Seriously. It’s probably the best typical British album in a long time – strings, trumpets, piano, bittersweet melodies with the accent. And unexpected, at least judging by how little there is about the band on the web. We’ve been listening a lot to it in the office, and you always feel like you need to play it one more time. Thanks, Strips.
Mumakil – Behold The Failure
I think this is the first grindcore album that I ever listened to. Hmm Six Feet Under don’t count right? How to explain the genre? It’s something that I listen to when something’s really wrong, or I just feel like I wanna hear something ultimately badass. 27 tracks people. Mumakil are always to the point.
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
There is a light that never goes out in the world of alternative rock music, and it comes from Sonic Youth, their constantly unusual compositions filled with details that they have invented so long ago. If you like them, it’s just such a pleasure to have them always return and deliver another snapshot of unique creativity.
Eels – Hombre Lobo
Mark E and twelve songs of desire. If you’ve been following what he’s been doing with Eels, it has always been about it in most of the songs. It is what has kept me going back to these albums – I sensed the blues and sincerity. The music is often so simple, I can often figure out how to play them on guitar in two takes. But it rocks. And when it’s a ballad, it’s like he sat down next to us and expressed it from the bottom. It’s also why I sometimes have to make a step away.
All songs on this album are what he imagines would be a soundtrack to the emotions of Dog Faced Boy, being a grown up werewolf, as he seeks the affection of a girl he’s in love with. It’s the longing and fresh blood of an ordinary man whose timing may be off.
the band’s myspace page contains interesting text and videos
