Songs
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Do Not The Clothes Make The Man? - Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound
Nice complex sound with elements of goth’s high drama, electronic gurgles, very psychedelic/ritualistic and the California desert the band calls home.
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Maria - Blasfemea
Electronic pop from Portugal.
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Third of Life - A Weather
Pretty indie rock song from Portland indie rock band A Weather, hailing from Portland, Oregon. Pretty male/female vocal mix.
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Waking Shadows - Primal Static
Catchy psyche/garage rock sound on top of cheap drum machine beats. Really unique infectious sound from this Baltimore duo consisting of a self-describe American acid-garage guitarist and a classically trained Chinese pianist/bassist.
Films
Gothkill
You know how – generally speaking – low budgets lead to much more interesting storylines and script, when it comes to movies, tv, etc? I mean, realistically, the director has to make up for the...
Chieftains - Live at Montreux 1997
A DVD of the Chieftains live is a bit of a tough thing to review for me. Because? Well, for starters, I think fans of the Chieftains know who they are and what they are about, and probably p...Features
Six Organs Of Admittance, Bush Hall, London, 04-12-09
With two diminutive Christmas trees illuminating either side of the stage of the vaudevillian interior Bush Hall, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the music and style of Ben Chasny seemed a li...
John Darnielle Interview
Why these bible verses? It’s back and forth, case by case - there isn’t one “why these taken together”; each one has its own relation to the so...
Albums
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The National Gallery
Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee
Fallout
Okay so this album originally came out in 1968 and was composer Chuck Mangione and arranger Roger Karshner’s little attempt at some sort of amazing studio wizardry. Apparently an attempt at m...
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Father Murphy
...and he told us to turn to the sun
Boring Machines
No wave noise, yeah that is what Father Murphy does. With a little jazz thrown in just for emphasis. Maybe I should say post-rock no wave, because it has these long drawn out dirges of ambienc...
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The Human Quena Orchestra
The Politics of the Irredeemable
Crucial Blast
Metal -industrial-drone. Yeah that is the best way to describe The Politics of the Irredeemable. It is like a textured nuance of metallic blasts of ambience. Using elements of noise ...
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Invisible System
Punt- Made In Ethiopia
Harper Diabate
Punt has this tagline of “live Europeans meet live Ethiopians singing and playing together”. So I suppose that is what you get here. Weirdly dubby, dancey, trippy music crossed with...
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The Strangers
Souvenir Album
Shadoks
The Strange were an underground art-rock band from Olympia, Washington and Souvenir Album is a re-release of the 1974 release. This is all very interesting, but what it all means I don...
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Bran Flakes
I Have Hands
Illegal Art
While I Have Hands has some really interesting songs and samples on it, I can’t help but feel there is something missing from the album. Like some sort of central concept or basic id...
