Talk Talk gave birth to post-rock with this album. Absolutely essential. Seriously this album is perfect, download it immediately.
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Laughing Stock
Talk Talk gave birth to post-rock with this album. Absolutely essential. Seriously this album is perfect, download it immediately.
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Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Algernon Cadwallader is a sweet math rock band that kinda rips off Cap'n Jazz but if you like Cap'n Jazz it's great stuff. You may not like the singer in this band either, but like Snowing, it grows on you quickly.
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Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
This band is really fucking cool, they combine post-hardcore and math rock music and then add on emo(as in fugazi) lyrics to make this really unique sound. You may not like the singer at first but it definitely grows on you. Get this, it's awesome.
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Aim and Ignite
Fun. is a new band combing Nate Ruess of The Format, some guy from Steel Train, and then another guy from some random band. It's basically a new format album and really, it's a logical progression from Dog Problems.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Pinkerton
Oh Pinkerton. I love you dearly. Every song on here is Weezer at their best. Before Cuomo decided he was a bitch and started making awful shit. There was only perfection in the form of Pinkerton and The Blue Album. Seriously, listen to this and The Blue Album and then their later work and the only question you're going to have is "What the fuck happened?". Unfortunately Pinkerton did not sell well at all and a lot of the critics hated it simply because it wasn't a sequel to The Blue Album. This drove Cuomo to a depression and he's become terribly afraid to put himself out there and make awesome music again. This makes me sad that such talent is put to waste because he cares that much about what people think. Regardless, this is Weezer's best album and one of the best "emo" albums ever. I can't recommend this album enough. It's about as catchy as you can get.
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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Lol. I'm just going to quote the 10.0/10.0 Pitchfork review.
Aeroplane doesn't have the near-consensus of top-shelf 90s rock artifacts like, say, Loveless, OK Computer, or Slanted and Enchanted. These records are varied, of course, different in many ways. But in one key respect Aeroplane stands apart: This album is not cool.
Shortly after the release of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Puncture magazine had a cover story on Neutral Milk Hotel. In it Mangum told of the influence on the record of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. He explained that shortly after releasing On Avery Island he read the book for the first time, and found himself completely overwhelmed with sadness and grief. Back in 1998 this admission made my jaw drop. What the hell? A guy in a rock band saying he was emotionally devastated by a book everyone else in America read for a middle-school assignment? I felt embarrassed for him at first, but then, the more I thought about it and the more I heard the record, I was awed. Mangum's honesty on this point, translated directly to his music, turned out to be a source of great power.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a personal album but not in the way you expect. It's not biography. It's a record of images, associations, and threads; no single word describes it so well as the beautiful and overused "kaleidoscope." It has the cracked logic of a dream, beginning with "King of Carrot Flowers Part 1". The easiest song on the record to like on first listen, it quietly introduces the listener to the to the album's world, Mangum singing in a muted voice closer to where he left off with the more restrained On Avery Island (through most of Aeroplane he sounds like he's running out of time and struggling to get everything said). The first four words are so important: "When you were young..." Like every perceptive artist trafficking in memory, Mangum knows dark surrealism to be the language of childhood. At a certain age the leap from kitchen utensils jammed into dad's shoulder to feet encircled by holy rattlesnakes is nothing. A cock of the head; a squint, maybe.
Inside this dream it all begins in the body. Moments of trauma, joy, shame-- here they're all experienced first as physical sensation. A flash of awkward intimacy is recalled as "now how I remember you/ how I would push my fingers through your mouth/ to make those muscles move." Sometimes I hear this line and chuckle. I think of Steve Martin in The Jerk, licking Bernadette Peters' entire face as a sign of affection. Mangum here reflects the age when biological drives outpace the knowledge of what to do with them, a time you're seeing sex in everything ("semen stains the mountaintops") or that sex can be awkward and unintentionally painful ("fingers in the notches of your spine" is not what one usually hopes for in the dark). Obsessed as it is with the textures of the flesh and the physical self as an emotional antenna, listening to Aeroplane sometimes seems to involve more than just your ears.
Then there's the record's disorienting relationship to time. The instrumentation seems plucked randomly from different years in the 20th century: singing saws, Salvation Army horn arrangements, banjo, accordion, pipes. Lyrical references to technology are hard to fix. Anne Frank's lifespan from 1929 to 1945 is perhaps the record's historical center, but the perspective jumps back and forth over centuries, with images and figures sucked from their own age and squirted out somewhere else. When "The King of Carrot Flowers Part 3" mentions "a synthetic flying machine" our minds leap to something like Leonardo da Vinci's 15th Century drawings of his helicopter prototype. The image in "Two-Headed Boy" of a mutant child trapped in a jar of formaldehyde is pulled from Dr. Moreau's industrial age island. The radio play powered by pre-electric pulleys and weights, the nuclear holocaust in the title track. What's it all about? Mangum offers an explanation for these jarring leaps in a line about Anne Frank in "Oh Comely," where he sings, "I know they buried her body with others/ her sister and mother and 500 families/ and will she remember me 50 years later/ I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine." If you can move through time, see, nothing ever really dies.
Seven years it's been, and whether Mangum has had personal trouble or somehow lost his way with music, it's not unreasonable to think that we've heard the last from Neutral Milk Hotel. I hope he does, but he may never pick up the guitar he set down after "Two-Headed Boy Part Two." Even so, we have this album and another very good one, and that to me is serious riches. Amazing to think how it started, how at the core of it all was guts. I keep thinking of "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding," and one of Dylan's truest lines: "If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine." Aeroplane is what happens when you have that knowledge and still take the risk.
Now if you didn't just die from all the pretentiousness then you should download.
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LSD and The Search For God
I really like this even if it just a rip-off of My Bloody Valentine. It's still excellent shoegaze that can definitely rival MBV but it's a shame it's so short. Hopefully they come out with a new release that's longer then 5 songs but for now, this is just fine.
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Looks like track 3 is corrupt, grab it HERE until I reupload the album.
Blood On The Tracks
Its motherfucking Bob god damn Dylan, do I actually need to describe this to you? If I do I recommend just downloading it anyway, because its motherfucking Bob god damn Dylan. Seriously it's one of his best, if not the best, album(s) and quite possibly the best folk album of all time.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Icky Mettle
Archers of Loaf and Pavement practically paved(lolpun) the way for indie rock in the 90s. This album is so perfect its crazy. The hooks are awesome, memorable lyrics, and the energy, for lack of better word, all combine to create something that so many bands to this day still try to imitate. I'm not articulating correctly but I don't give a damn.
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San Diablo EP
Amazing doom drone post-rock. Only 15k listeners spread across 8 or 9 different bands. I'm a top listener with only 129 listens so I'd be willing to bet that there's less than 1000 listeners. So fucking good.
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Carpe Omnium
Amazing doom drone post-rock. Only 15k listeners spread across 8 or 9 different bands. I'm a top listener with only 129 listens so I'd be willing to bet that there's less than 1000 listeners. So fucking good.
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I Get Wet (ITS TIME TO PARTY! PARTY! GONNA BE A PARTY TONIGHT!)
NOW ITS TIME TO PARTY AND WE'LL PARTY HARD. YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
WE DO WHAT WE LIKE AND WE LIKE WHAT WE DO
Turn On The Bright Lights
Obviously Joy Division was a huge inspiration. Definitely doesn't tread new ground but they manage to find their own brilliant sound. Cannot recommend this enough.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Fixed the cover!
I dunno how I feel about this record, its definitely a departure from the other albums and is much more "poppy", if you will, than anything else they've done. Still some great tracks but it feels like it could've been much better if they worked on it longer or something. It's not bad by any means, but it just isn't as good as the other albums.
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Ágætis byrjun
icelandic post-rock band thats fucking awesome. the lead singer plays a guitar with a cello bow. seriously. a god damned cello bow. game over.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
The Unseen
Conceived and recorded by Madlib during a week long psilocybin mushroom binge. It's awesome.
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Train of Thought
Talib Kweli's first album after Black Star(I'll upload that shortly) and it is gooooooooooood.
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Reasonable Doubt
Jay-Z's first album. Nearly rivals Illmatic which means it still shits on everything which means you need to have this in your collection.
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Illmatic+ReissueTracks
Does this really need a description? Get it if you don't already have it(seriously if you don't have this, download it immediately even if you don't like rap). This is the perfect hip-hop album.
it sucks that they got some random producers to remix songs that already had perfect beats. It would of been interesting if they got the original producers to do their modern take on the song but instead we get producers trying to make the songs club bangers and it just doesn't work. The 2 extra tracks(On The Real and Star Wars) are definitely worthy of being on the actual album and make the download worth it.
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Temporary Forever
Busdriver, fuck yeah. This guy is the master of rhyming, he actually raps with the melody instead of just the beat like so many other rappers. Seriously I really don't know how to describe him better so just download and get ready to be blown away.
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Fear of a Black Tangent
Busdriver, fuck yeah. This guy is the master of rhyming, he actually raps with the melody instead of just the beat like so many other rappers. Seriously I really don't know how to describe him better so just download and get ready to be blown away.
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Dr. Octagonecologyst
Keith's first solo album and the first one released under the alias of Dr. Octagon. Produced by The Automater and featured DJ QBert's turntable work. Introduces the character of Dr. Octagon, an extraterrestrial time traveling gynecologist and surgeon from the planet Jupiter. Yeah. Jupiter.
if you want to read more about the character; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._octagon
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Below The Heavens
Oh Blu, you're my favorite rapper. Everything about this album is on point, the lyrics, the beats, the atmosphere, its all great. The only modern day rapper I honestly have faith in to not fuck up. Highly recommended.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me
Brand New's best album, hands down. This is great, amazing, super, whatever you want to call it. It's good.
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Deja Entendu
Brand New's second album, retains the pop chorus' of the first album while maturing lyrically and musically.
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Your Favorite Weapon
Brand New's debut album, its catchy and has some good hooks but if you expect more then you're going to be disappointed.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
EP
The Format's first EP. Contains At The Wake, quite possibly the best format song ever.
you know its such a drag to live your life for a heart attack.
Dog Problems
Ridiculously catchy indie-pop from the now defunct The Format . One of my guilty pleasures, but it's still good. Grab it if you liked Fun.'s album, which was made by the same lead singer in this band. I'll upload Interventions and Lullabies if I ever find it in higher quality than 128.
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