Posted by: mx on: December 24, 2009
To me, HEALTH are a beautiful, wild pulse. Hear Die Slow, then proceed as you wish.
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Posted by: mx on: December 19, 2009
Following Merriweather Post Pavillion, Animal Collective give us another treat this year in a form of a new EP. In their possibly most accessible record, Graze starts with the usually beautiful Noah Lennox’s singing and Indian folk dance in between. What Would I Want? Sky has been in my head for days, while On A [...]
Posted by: mx on: July 30, 2009
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.
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Posted by: mx on: July 30, 2009
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 [...]
Posted by: mx on: July 30, 2009
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 [...]
Posted by: mx on: January 11, 2009
A great release from The Aliens, whose members stem from Beta Band. The album goes on for more than an hour, two songs over ten minutes, but this album is in fact a constant stream of different musical ideas – sometimes they’re pieced together in one song, sometimes they split, lose the focus a bit [...]
Posted by: mx on: January 7, 2009
Merriweather Post Pavilion is one of those albums which, after you’ve listened to it for the first time, you don’t really remember a lot, it leaves you overwhelmed with sounds but you just know that you’re gonna love it as you listen to it again and again. My ticket to the strange world of Animal Collective [...]
Posted by: mx on: December 5, 2008
Oh finally I get a chance to check out the ten Scandinavian jazz outcasts Jaga Jazzist. I love it! This is awesome, probably as good as it gets at the moment when you mix jazz with one or two rock people in a band exploring electronic sounds. And it fits the winter time.
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Posted by: mx on: December 5, 2008
An album that sounds like a human response to whales. A soundtrack to a transformation, a texturized loop into eternity. Will keep an open eye on Fennesz from now on, happy to have discovered him.
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Posted by: mx on: November 16, 2008
Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka is a pianist and composer from Germany exploring the possibilities of prepared piano – where one plays a piano that had its sound altered by placing objects between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers. So what he’s doing is:
Clamping wedges of leather, felt or rubber between the [...]
