Meandering around eMusic I found my way to this album because Los Lobos are on it, started listening to some samples, and Bam! Would have never thought this morning to find myself buying and loving a Johnny Thunders tribute album.
I was really looking forward to this one, but eMu's half-assed encoding ruined the album. It robbed the sustain of the piano, making every note decay unnaturally and sound a little more staccato than it's supposed to be.
ETA: I had to report all the tracks as defective. There's lots of low noises that make the whole thing hard to listen to, not to mention the compression issue which make it sound like a record from the 1950s.
Well, i got back $5.99 in my eMu account, but no explanation why. Presumably because I complained about Basically Bull, but I'd love to have confirmation that the rip does suck.
This is not their best-reviewed album, but I actually think it's pretty good. Either that or I was just in deep need of something to headbang to after all the drone/field recordings I've been listening to lately.
- "These songs evoke the experience of walking across wet cobblestones slick with rain, ducking under awnings of sidewalk cafes and antiquarian bookstores, aimless and annonymous in an unfamiliar city at night. The songs switch freely between spoken-word beatnik recitations and refrains sung in English or French. Reininger is fascinated by noir expressionism, and his paranoid, cinematic atmospheres perfectly capture this zeitgeist. Night Air 2 displays an intelligence and elegance so rare in modern pop music that at first listen it seems entirely foreign, but is all the more welcome for it" Brainwashed @ Les Disques du Cr
At the moment I have three sets of workmen at home, all trying to finish jobs two should have finished a few days ago, but of course, they started late! All three have their radios, all three on different stations. So one lot of music from the people laying the patio, another in the conservatory laying a floor, and a third upstairs from the decorator. Ugh!! I've tried listening to my choice through my headphones, but it just isn't working....
We're off on holiday to Crete tomorrow, so visits here over the next two weeks will be sporadic, although we do have a wireless connection in the middle for a week.
Greg, as one who works in a home office, I have no compunctions about asking workmen to turn off the frickin radio - much more so if I'm the one paying them. One summer day a couple years ago, tradesmen working on my neighbor's house had a boombox under my window...blasting the local Classic Rawk station so they could hear it up on the roof!
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Saw this local band at the West Michigan Bluegrass FallFest this weekend and bought their CD. Traditional bluegrass with a bit of country.
Catching up here - don't think this will be the last Matthew Halsall album I buy.
Highly recommended by No Depression. Good folk. NYOP.
I was really looking forward to this one, but eMu's half-assed encoding ruined the album. It robbed the sustain of the piano, making every note decay unnaturally and sound a little more staccato than it's supposed to be.
ETA: I had to report all the tracks as defective. There's lots of low noises that make the whole thing hard to listen to, not to mention the compression issue which make it sound like a record from the 1950s.
Soundcloud preview. (Album is out and on emusic)
- A preview of a new Constellation release.
From Jonah's recs.
- A solo album from the excellent Tuxedomoon violinist.
Field recordings of Greenland. Made underwater. Layered.
Pass the bottle.
(See mispriced box sets thread for details)
This is not their best-reviewed album, but I actually think it's pretty good. Either that or I was just in deep need of something to headbang to after all the drone/field recordings I've been listening to lately.
Streaming from Bandcamp page
- "These songs evoke the experience of walking across wet cobblestones slick with rain, ducking under awnings of sidewalk cafes and antiquarian bookstores, aimless and annonymous in an unfamiliar city at night. The songs switch freely between spoken-word beatnik recitations and refrains sung in English or French. Reininger is fascinated by noir expressionism, and his paranoid, cinematic atmospheres perfectly capture this zeitgeist. Night Air 2 displays an intelligence and elegance so rare in modern pop music that at first listen it seems entirely foreign, but is all the more welcome for it"
Brainwashed @ Les Disques du Cr
Breathtaking !
We're off on holiday to Crete tomorrow, so visits here over the next two weeks will be sporadic, although we do have a wireless connection in the middle for a week.
Greg, as one who works in a home office, I have no compunctions about asking workmen to turn off the frickin radio - much more so if I'm the one paying them. One summer day a couple years ago, tradesmen working on my neighbor's house had a boombox under my window...blasting the local Classic Rawk station so they could hear it up on the roof!