Review: The cute and cryptic Icelandic múm ditches most of the electronic blips and glitches and goes for a more organic sound. “Sing Along” is the strongest track on the album.
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Review: Most of you already heard “She’s Got You High” either at the end of 500 Days of Summer or on the radio. Here’s the rest of the album for your listening pleasure. It’s pretty damn good right from the melancholic acoustic guitar and lament in Now and Never till the epic build-up in last track Down Down Down.
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Review: No time to write a proper review or choose some interesting lyrics right now, so I’ll be brief. Ramona Falls is a decent indie rock project by a member of Menomena (less experimental) with a few great tracks and a great video. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
Favorite tracks: Russia, I Say Fever
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Directed by Arev Manoukian. Winner of LG’s $100,000 Filmmaking contest. WTFIM? isn’t about film, but it’s posted here because it’s definitely worth 4 minutes of your time.
You are a book for me to read
Line after line I read on and on
You are a film for me to see
A string of frames that just goes on and on and on
And of all the places that I’ve been
Name after name, it just goes on and on
You are a song for me to sing
A string of verses that goes on and on and on
(Know by Heart)
Review: The American Analog Set is one of the few bands that manages to be simple, but sounds like no other band out there. They’re also one of the few bands I bought real hard-copy CDs of. Most critics complain that after six albums, they still haven’t done anything to their sound. For me, that’s a good thing. “Know by Heart” can be considered as their breakthrough record, combining their post-rock/shoe-gaze/kraut-rock influence with pop sensibilities and memorable songwriting. For the rest of us, AmAnSet weaves long dreamy passages with moving melodies that have a seamless progression. Check out the beautifully done video. (Taken from their fifth album “Promise of Love”)
Favorite Songs: Punk as Fuck, Know by Heart
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Those blankets in your bed
So tattered and sad
They’ve seen enough sleepless nights
Both good and bad
(Use Your Words)
Review: To me, listening to Owen is like drinking a warm cup of coffee on a quiet rainy day. It’s both comfortable and familiar at the same time. Perfect introspective music. I first listened to Mike Kinsella’s solo material about seven years ago, and still love his songs even though he has the tendency to sing ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’ in places they do not belong. “I Do Perceive” is my favorite album from him, but “At Home with Owen” is the one I’d recommend people to start off with.
Favorite songs: Use Your Words, The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi
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The sound of water makes her dream
Awoken by a cloud of steam
She pours a daydream in a cup
A spoon of sugar sweetens up
(Her Morning Elegance)
Review: I hereby declare the clip of ‘Her Morning Elegance’ below as one of the best music videos in the last five years. It’s made of exactly 2096 still photographs, shot and sequenced to create the sense of movement using stop motion technique. You can see all 2096 stills here. The “filming” and editing is extremely difficult to pull off this flawlessly, so a big round of applause to that! Furthermore, the girl is amazing in bed.
But what about the album? It starts off promisingly, with epic string arrangements in “The Man Who Isn’t There” and “The Opposite Side of the Sea” that is akin to The Divine Comedy. After that, in the second half of the album, it just feels like I’m listening to Kings of Convenience B-sides and outtakes. Get this for the first few tracks.
Favorite Songs: Her Morning Elegance, The Opposite Side of the Sea
Parody:
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You would look a little better
if you just wore less make up
(Eat That Up, It’s Good For You)
Review: Punchy straight-forward British indie rock with a breath of fresh air. It’s nothing revolutionary, but the songs are great. So just believe the hype. At times, I feel the album is quite juvenile, harking back to the days of high-school. Anyways, the music video pretty much confirms my suspicions. I wanted to close the video a couple of seconds into it, but I’m posting it here because the theater’s stage performance is very nice. Get it before you hear it on the *cough* radio.
Favorite Songs: Eat That Up It’s Good For You, Do You Want It All?, Undercover Martyn
Get it here. (MU)
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