Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Explosions In The Sky
Won't know for a few listens how this one holds up. I found All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone a bit disappointing after the previous two - it just refused to lodge in my mind. Part way in, this one sounds promising.
(Pet peeve, reading several reviews of this: reviewers falling back on "they've done this before" (which, ironically, has been done before about as often as any music review move). I don't care how many times something similar has been done before; I care if this one is good. Novelty is overrated.)
Edit: on a first listen through, very positive impression. Sounds to me like it gets back to what they do well.
First play, just downloaded. Amazed it is available on emusic in UK!
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Added by Dr. Mutex: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness streaming on NPR but maybe not much longer (is out on 5/3)
With last year's striking album The Traveller, young Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma not only declared a clear personal signature, but also that she was a big enough deal to engage the best collaborators American drummer Terri Lyne Carrington played on that set, and Esperanza Spalding guests on the single vocal track here. Dawn of Light is even better, with Postma's supple and softly blown alto and soprano lines, her ingenious but lyrical compositions, and the creative attentions of a superb Dutch piano trio contributing to its magnetism. Postma's mix of preoccupied, glancing phrases and pushing swing on Falling Scales a theme that could turn into a little classic manages to be advanced without being inscrutable, and Spalding's vocal handling of Postma's Pablo Neruda arrangement is as light yet guilefully telling as everything she sings. On The Observer, the leader's soprano sax twists effortlessly between free-time and swing over the urgent buffetings of pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Frans van der Hoeven and drummer Martijn Vink, and Postma initially builds the melody in doodles and casually dropped clues on the only cover, Thelonious Monk's Off Minor. It's a set with barely a flat moment.
"This bad boy's subtitled 'A Rework of Gustav Mahler's Symhonic Poem' and that pretty much tells the story: Mahler's 'Titan' (aka 'Symphony No. 1') plays while Petit and chum Kumo sprinkle the classical 99 with their electronic hundreds and thousands. It's certainly a hugely respectful treatment with the original piece always audible and generally quite prominent despite the drones and effects pasted over the top, collage style. The press release mentions 2001 and Forbidden Planet and it's certainly very sci-fi soundtrack-y sounding, particularly when it kicks in with some proper B-movie theremin twiddles. I guess superficially the overall schtick might seem somewhat similar to those Indignant Senility records from a little while back that were based around Wagner's stuff but this is done with a far lighter touch and I'm probably enjoying it more for the fact."
- Norman Records
Got a bunch of used CDs the other day. Had some recent adventures going to actual record stores lately. Even bought some vinyl - right from the freakin' artist!
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Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Explosions In The Sky
Won't know for a few listens how this one holds up. I found All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone a bit disappointing after the previous two - it just refused to lodge in my mind. Part way in, this one sounds promising.
(Pet peeve, reading several reviews of this: reviewers falling back on "they've done this before" (which, ironically, has been done before about as often as any music review move). I don't care how many times something similar has been done before; I care if this one is good. Novelty is overrated.)
Edit: on a first listen through, very positive impression. Sounds to me like it gets back to what they do well.
First play, just downloaded. Amazed it is available on emusic in UK!
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Added by Dr. Mutex: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness streaming on NPR but maybe not much longer (is out on 5/3)
Guardian 28th April http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/28/tineke-postma-dawn-of-light-review
Available on emusic at http://www.emusic.com/album/Tineke-Postma-The-Dawn-of-Light-MP3-Download/12400841.html As is often the case they have attributed it to the wrong artist!
(url=>Bandcamp)
NYOP (free)
Available free at http://www.pondlifestudios.com/detail.asp?id=18 for an email address. I think it was Kez who led me to this. Thanks.
(url=>amz)
First time hearing the Fleet Foxes and enjoying riding on the bandwagon at the moment.
(url=>amz)
Someone here mentioned Talk Talk a while back and I just finally got around to picking up one of their albums.
(url=>boomkat)
(url=>amz)
Way too much coffee at this point....
After:
Craig
map map - for friends this winter.
Nice. Thanks, Brighternow.
Borrowed from my local library - not sure what to expect!
As wonderful as ever.
Craig
(url=>amz)
Picked it up on eMu for $4.40 USD.
On my cloud player! I'm so 21tht century!
$8.99 at 7digital. I'm so 13th Century!
Got a bunch of used CDs the other day. Had some recent adventures going to actual record stores lately. Even bought some vinyl - right from the freakin' artist!
Seven Tales of The North Wind by Rhian Sheehan
Streaming from bandcamp.
Very, very nice. Dreamy orchestral ambient. New release. Cheaper on emusic than bandcamp.
I really can't get enough of these guys.
"13 song japan import" by We all inherit the moon
Enjoyable ambient with some post-rock-ish moments. NYOP. Will add to bandcamp thread.