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: April 10, 2009
This man deserves respect.
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Posted by: mx on: March 22, 2009
My only fear before hearing this album for the first time was that perhaps The Decemberists‘ Colin Meloy has run out of good ideas, that the poetic moments such as those on Picaresque, which was my first encounter with the band, will begin to repeat in a parodic familiarity. None of this is fortunately the [...]
Posted by: mx on: March 6, 2009
Being in some fuss lately, I mostly spend time listening to old and familiar albums, however there has been something new that I found and keep returning to, and it’s this one from Vetiver, Tight Knit. They’re a folk/country-rock band, one dude named Andy Cabic writes all the songs, almost exclusively in a laid-back mid-tempo [...]
Posted by: mx on: January 27, 2009
Zach Condon aka Beirut returns with two short EPs, one recorded with a brass funeral band from Oaxaca, another being, er, indie synth pop. I think the first is more interesting, although to me it actually sounds like a second-rate Balkan brass band playing without a few members by the end of a wedding/funeral. This [...]
Posted by: mx on: November 22, 2008
Of all Belle and Sebastian, I only listened to If You’re Feeling Sinister a few times before, but now I think I properly get their music. A nice companion to feeling … quietly awesome in a november fog.
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Posted by: mx on: October 24, 2008
Dunno why I never posted about this; I often return to it these days. It’s such a juicy beat box with psyched vocals and vintage collage sounds. Yet it’s all very modern. It often happens with Beck, but I haven’t been into none of his albums this much. The important factor this time must be [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 18, 2008
Giant Sand have been making music for more than two decades without me ever noticing. Americana at it’s best, trasmitting sounds of human desires down the desert wind. All 13 songs deserve returning full attention.
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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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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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