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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: Middleman]
#8355746 - 05/02/08 09:35 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well anyway, it should be back in the Music Forum.
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: TrippinTeddy]
#8355749 - 05/02/08 09:36 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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<img src='http://www.shroomery.org/forums/images/moved.gif'> This thread was moved from Off-Topic Discussion.
Reason: I'm moving this back so you fools will know it wasn't me who originally moved it.
Someone should just edit out the spam...
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Middleman

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NO I DID NOT DUMP THIS THREAD. 
I was working on editing out the spam when it was trashed by someone else.
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: TrippinTeddy]
#8355764 - 05/02/08 09:40 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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I declare myself entirely responsible for the reinstatement of The Indie Album thread in MA&L.
-------------------- Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man in Washington; it belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican; it belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow; it belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. - Andrew Ryan
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I wish there was a way to just delete the last few pages, but they would have to be trashed one post at a time.
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Le Narrateur said: I declare myself entirely responsible for the reinstatement of The Indie Album thread in MA&L.
I beg to differ.
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: Middleman]
#8355884 - 05/02/08 10:12 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Middleman said: I wish there was a way to just delete the last few pages, but they would have to be trashed one post at a time.
I wouldn't worry about it. People interested in the thread will manage.
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: Redstorm]
#8355984 - 05/02/08 10:40 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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YAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
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Le Narrateur said: I declare myself entirely responsible for the reinstatement of The Indie Album thread in MA&L.
lulz
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: TrippinTeddy]
#8356630 - 05/03/08 02:49 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Awesome 
Now to download what I can before Middleman trashes the thread again
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: Cameron]
#8357109 - 05/03/08 09:56 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cameron said: Awesome 
Now to download what I can before Middleman trashes the thread again
i'm pretty sure it wasn't him, special thanks would go to automan
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: Middleman]
#8357283 - 05/03/08 11:10 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ok ok so it was not you. Automan is the bastard!
Anyways Let the downloading begin!
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: Tangerines]
#8358478 - 05/03/08 05:26 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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it said i trashed it, but i trashed another thread. there was some hickup that took this thread with it. this is a fine thread. i would never move it out on purpose. i'll ask Ythan to track down the hickup.
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: automan]
#8358691 - 05/03/08 06:47 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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welp back to the music
Round 2

strange post-rock, dark at sometimes
Silver Mount Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons

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This four piece multi-instrumental outfit fuses Gypsy, Greek, Slavic, and Mariachi influences with American punk and folk roots. In 2006, they scored "Little Miss Sunshine", garnering four Academy Award nominations, and earned a Grammy nod for Best Soundtrack. Their stage set up is fortified by sousaphone, accordion, piano, violin, bouzouki, upright bass, percussion, trumpet, drums and Theremin. They've toured with similar maverick acts such as Calexico and Flogging Molly. The live experience includes trumpeters appearing out of the crowd, the band climbing offstage and playing in the center of the audience, and trapeze aerialists suspended from theater ceilings.
DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: AgroCrag]
#8358711 - 05/03/08 06:56 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sleigh Bells. Multi-tracked, bombastic drums. Gentle falsettos. Flutophone. Flutophone? Just some of what you'll encounter in the first few minutes of Andorra. For those unaware, Andorra is a small country nestled between Spain and France, and Caribou is one Don Snaith, formerly known as Manitoba (he switched names after threat of lawsuit by ex-pro wrestler Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba. No joke.). Andorra continues Snaith's trajectory since 2003's Up in Flames, when he shed the IDM and electronic cocoon of his earlier work for the sun-soaked psychedelic maelstrom (and live band) that continues to date. Snaith has found a new level of focus within the confines of his swirling laboratory and the result is an exhausting slab of avant-pop. '60s grab-bag comparisons here are inevitable. "Melody Day" is remarkably like The United States of America in its soft, falsetto melody and freakbeat drums. The Silver Apples robotic bass line pop of "Sandy" gives it a mechanical propulsion that cuts through its curtains of noise. "After Hours" is Soft Machine reincarnate. "Irene" is a melancholy drum machine-backed pop tune, until it gives way to white noise (literally--or is that pink noise?). The unifier of Snaith's compositions remains the ubiquitous, multi-tracked drum onslaught, but the confidence in his vocals (and subsequently, the melodic appeal) increases with every release. The few missteps, like "Desiree," which falls flat in its meandering, do not deter the overall success of this outing. Half a century of studio experimentation has informed and enhanced the recipe for blissing out, and Caribou cooks up another batch here for your immersion.
Caribou - Andorra
No Picture
The Dodos - Beware of the Maniacs
Jazzy/Pop folk indie rock, this is their earlier album I'll put the newer one up later down the list.
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: AgroCrag]
#8358724 - 05/03/08 07:02 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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With Detrola, His Name Is Alive brainchild Warren Defever finally combines all his musical interests on one album! Whether it's soulful heavy soul, gurgling electro-pop, smooth confessional indie-folk, or strange bedroom croon tunes--they're all here. It's not exactly "cohesive." In fact, the whole thing sounds more like a mix tape or a collection of career-spanning demos. But when Lovetta Pippen's impressive voice collides perfectly with Defever's eerie, pretty, and downright sexy production--as it does on more than half this album--the results are wonderful. Thank goodness H.N.I.A. has returned from semi-retirement! No one else could make music that sounds like this, no matter how hard they tried. On a parallel world, these guys have sold at least as many records as the Eurythmics or Tatu. One can remain hopeful that one day their blues will indeed cover the earth. Until then, there's no harm in letting it wash all over you.
His Name is Alive - Detrola

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British Sea Power return with their third and finest full-length. Here they reintegrate the rock with a slew of blistering guitars and unpredictable studio noisemaking worthy of their visceral live performances. Witness fist-pumpers like "No Lucifer" or the Bonzo-styled drumbeat bashed out under a climactic synth-string section on "Waving Flags." Better yet, "Down on the Ground" and "A Trip Out" both feature guitar riffs worthy of the Judas Priest songbook, before they're enveloped in the vast expanse of their accompanying songs. The sound here is raw and spacious. Guitars remain largely drenched in reverb, and various acoustic instruments grace the arrangements, along with various random noises and happy accidents. On "Canvey Island," vocalist Yan describes the fatal 1953 floods on the Thames estuary from the viewpoint of a football fan decrying the loss of memorabilia rather than lives. On "Atom" he decries the "bright but haunted" modern age through the apt metaphor of the split nucleus: "Oh caveat emptor / Open the atom's core." Brainy explorations like that, along with BSP's notoriously clever sense of humor, make the self-conscious title no surprise, but there's really no better way to describe it. This is what rock music can and should be.
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: AgroCrag]
#8358757 - 05/03/08 07:09 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk-rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment on David Crosby's "Laughing" where Cros, Joni, and the whole gang hit a harmony that might be the most gorgeous moment in the history of recorded music. The Fleet Foxes know that moment and they go for it. This EP is a precursor to the band's debut, "Ragged Wood", out in June.
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP

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Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers. The subject matter ranges from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves.
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: AgroCrag]
#8358783 - 05/03/08 07:17 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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It would be reaching to equate Kaki King's new direction with Dylan's electric debut at Newport. Yet there's no doubt the New York-by-way-of-Georgia musician has taken a sharp left turn with her third full-length. After two discs composed primarily of acoustic guitar, Everybody Loves You and Legs To Make Us Longer, King has added vocals to her arsenal (something she first experimented with on her last album). It could have been a disastrous move. Fortunately, King, who actually started out as a drummer, hasn't morphed into a standard issue singer/songwriter--just as Dylan didn't abandon his folk roots when he plugged in. Rather, her minimalist musings add texture to the atmospheric, post-rock proceedings. And just as her fret work has been described as "singing," her fragile voice is but one ingredient in the mix, which includes bass, bells, and brushes. On the eight-minute "You Don't Have to be Afraid," for instance, she only sings near the beginning and the end of the track. Most vocalists would surely do the opposite. While previous recordings garnered comparisons to axe-slingers Michael Hedges and Preston Reed, the John McEntire-produced Until We Felt Red more closely resembles the sweetly melodic sounds of Lush or Asobi Seksu. McEntire (The Sea and Cake, Tortoise) also provides drums and "things" (synth, vibes, programming, etc.). Once described by National Public Radio as "The Queen of Acoustic Guitar," Kaki King could use a new slogan. How about "The Queen of Lap-Steel Shoegaze Pop"?
Kaki King - Until We Felt Red

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For just two guys, the Helio Sequence can generate a serious racket. With the effusive drumming of Benjamin Weikel (who also plays keyboards), and the nimble use of effects pedals from guitarist/vocalist Brandon Summers, their 2000 debut Com Plex leaned toward My Bloody Valentine-like daydreamy noisescapes. Their output since then has evolved, with a deepening commitment to pop melody and structure. Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the truest expression so far of that trait. Summers maintains a grainy quality to his singing, but he's added sweetness and a lighter sense of tone. That shift toward lightness extends to the songwriting, which on Eyes is consistently catchy and focused. "Can't Say No" uses a double-time cadence in the verse to make the song's hook burst like the sun through a hurricane’s eye. Not that they’ve forgotten how to bring the shoegaze; "Hallelujah," for one, flies off into space on a wave of epic, bliss-fuzz guitar. Still, the record is short and cries out for one last big scream. Instead, they end with the whisper of "Broken Afternoon" and the folksy, Dylan-esque "No Regrets." Their increasing subtlety has cost them some grandeur, but their melodious gifts are more seductive than ever.
^Awesome album
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: AgroCrag]
#8358803 - 05/03/08 07:21 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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When your debut record breaks musical rules faster than the world can make them, what do you do next? For Liars' singer Angus Andrew, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Hemphill, and drummer Julian Gross, the immediate answer came in the form of narrative experiment (2004's They Were Wrong...) and multi-media exploration (2006's Drums Not Dead). On the heels of these, Liars' eponymous record dives headlong into digestible, radio-length pop and rock structures, made all the more listener-friendly courtesy of mixing touches by longtime Erasure/Depeche Mode producer Gareth Jones. The blistering riff of lead single "Plaster Casts of Everything" opens into danceable electro-workouts ("Houseclouds," "Freak Out") and straightforward rock numbers ("Cycle Time," "Clear Island") galore. Make no mistake: Liars retains every last acrid drop of the feral energy that made the band famous, but replete with ubiquitous pop elements--verses and bridges and choruses, oh my!--Liars' new aesthetic bares an approachable underbelly with a surprisingly humane, almost welcoming, sheen. Floating along on Andrews' falsetto, the organ-drenched closer, "Protection," sounds almost tender, leaving the impression that the future may yet unmask the fact that Liars' veneer of misanthropic noise was, from the outset, always the band's ultimate deception.
Liars - Liars

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The combination of meandering acoustic guitar, mournful vocals, post-punk rock, crisp electronica, flutes, dub bass, sax, occasional breakbeat, and banjo could've turned the tender tunes on Notwist's sixth album into chaotic and indulgent noodling. The 15 months spent in the studio putting the unlikely components together, however, pays off with a collection beautiful and dreamy lo-fi lullabies in which hazy pop melodies drift by on an eccentric flow of sensual bleeps, whooshes, and crackles. Even when Neon Golden strays toward more traditional rock, Markus Acher's downtrodden yet hopeful vocals and achingly sweet melodies hold up, as do the sumptuous atmospheric add-ons that link the New Order-like "Pilot" and "One with the Freaks" to the title track's ambient electronic pulses. Yet nothing is more magical or odd than "Trashing Days," where Notwist manages to make pneumatic space-age sound effects rubbing against scraping beats, woozy horns and a quietly plucked banjo, sound like the most natural thing in the world.
The Notwist - Neon Golden
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Re: The Indie Album Thread (moved) [Re: AgroCrag]
#8358822 - 05/03/08 07:28 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Girl Talk (a.k.a. Gregg Gillis) is back with his third album on Illegal Art! With each release getting closer to his notorious semi-naked live show, Night Ripper is focused less on beat-fuckery and more on bringing heat to the party. It bangs as a continuous mix packed with wildly disparate Top 40 genres and eras. Current hip-hop hits, soft rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers and rock anthems are all layered and pieced together into one nonstop celebration of pop and excess declared "a plunderphonics party record" by Mark Hosler of Negativland.
Girl Talk - Night Ripper

A Dub/Reggae tribute to Radioheads "Ok Computer"
Easy Star All-Stars - Radiodread
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