Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (2008)

Track Listing:
1. Bone Chaos In The Castle
2. Life Being What It Is
3. Sad American
4. Pull Me Out Alive
5. Montreal
6. Open Mouth
7. So Much For So Little
8. Saving Days In A Frozen Head
9. Air And Kilometers
10. Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?
11. 2 O'Clock

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Colour Revolt - Plunder, Beg, and Curse (04/2008)



Genre : Indie/Rock

1. Naked and Red
2. A Siren
3. Elegant View
4. See It
5. Moses of the South
6. Swamp
7. Ageless Everytime
8. Innocent and All
9. Shovel to Ground
10. What Will Come of Us?

(PR) Oxford, MS gloominaries Colour Revolt are extremely excited for the release of their long-awaited full-length debut, Plunder, Beg, and Curse on new label home, Fat Possum on April 1st. For this album, the band has collaborated once more with producer and friend Clay Jones (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello) at Sweet Tea Recording studio in Oxford. Plunder is the followup to the band's self-titled EP, released by local label Esperanza Plantation, with a re-release by Tiny Evil, an imprint of Interscope (Nine Black Alps, Jimmy Eat World) in October, 2006.

Colour Revolt's name is derived from Edwin Abbott's 19th century social commentary, Flatland, an exploration of life in two dimensions. But Colour Revolt is far from two-dimensional, eschewing Fletchers familiar sonic assault of unorthodox song structures and time signatures for a more melancholic though equally guitar-driven aesthetic of the post-grunge Southern gothic. The band's thematic impulse reflects the literary heritage of their native Oxford, Miss., channeling the jagged emotionality and moral ambiguity of the locales forefathers, William Faulkner and Barry Hannah.

Colour Revolt has toured with Dinosaur Jr., Brand New, Black Lips, Okkervil River, Menomena, Explosions In the Sky, Malajube, and Manchester Orchestra among others and will be performing at several showcases at SXSW before heading out on the road again in 2008.

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Get Shakes - Sister Self Doubt EP/12




Genre : Indie/Electro/Dance


Tracklisting:
01. Sister Self Doubt
02. Sister Self Doubt (Alternative Version)
03. Air (Instrumental)
04. Disneyland (Part1)
05. Disneyland (Part2)


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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Secret Crush EP (2008)

Tracklisting:
1. Slow Motion Tagteam
2. Sophisticated Sideways Ponytail
3. Holding Hands In The Shower
4. La Noir
5. Beard Lust
6. Iceage Beardland

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The Complete Stone Roses Demos 1985 - 1989

01 - Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums (1986 Acoustic Bedroom Demo)
02 - Stone Roses - Waterfall (1986 Acoustic Bedroom Demo)
03 - Stone Roses - Hardest Thing In The World (1986 Bredbury Manchester Demo)
04 - Stone Roses - Elephant Stone (1986-12-12 Chorlton, Manchester Demo)
05 - Stone Roses - The Sun Still Shines (1986-12-12 Chorlton, Manchester Demo)
06 - Stone Roses - Going Down (1986-12-12 Chorlton, Manchester Demo)
07 - Stone Roses - Sugar Spun Sister (1986-12-12 Chorlton, Manchester Demo)
08 - Stone Roses - Where Angels Play - Manchester Int'l 1987
09 - Stone Roses - Your Time Will Come - Manchester Int'l 1987
10 - Stone Roses - Shoot You Down (1988 Manchester Demo)
11 - Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums (1988-05 Suite 16 Studios Demo)
12 - Stone Roses - Waterfall (1988-05 Suite 16 Studios Demo)
13 - Stone Roses - Made Of Stone (1988-05 Suite 16 Studios Demo)
14 - Stone Roses - This Is The One (1988-05 Suite 16 Studios Demo)

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Band of Horses - Everything All The Time



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Science For Girls - ST (leaked) 2008

My personal favorite, Album of the month...

Artist: Science for Girl
Title: Science for Girl
Country: New York, USA
Release Date: 2007.10.01
Genre: Electronica / Down-tempo / Trip-Hop
LABEL: NA
SOURCE: CDDA
QUALiTY: VBR kbps avg vbr kbps / 4410kHz
Link: Myspace Web Site

1. 14 Days Science for Girls with Bronwen Exter 05:46
2. Northern Lights Science for Girls with Boots Ottestad
3. You'll Never Know Science for Girls 05:33
4. Sweet Life Science for Girls with Jean Rohe 04:41
5. Australia Science for Girls with Paul Brill 05:06
6. Violets Science for Girls with Renee Cologne 04:58
7. Pattern Recognition Science for Girls with Trevor Exter 05:21
8. Peace Heart Science for Girls with Alexandra Slous 04:24
9. Sonnet 96 Science for Girls with William Rottman 04:59
10. Sleepwatching Science for Girls with Hugh Wilson 06:51

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I am X - Kiss + Swallow (2004)


Country: UK
Size: 86.7 mb
Bitrate: VBR (256 kbit/s)

Tracklisting:
01. I Am X - 0:15
02. Kiss + Swallow - 5:16
03. Sailor - 5:13
04. Naked But Safe - 5:23
05. Simple Girl - 4:42
06. Mercy - 6:02
07. Your Joy Is My Low - 5:18
08. I Like Pretending - 5:16
09. You Stick It In Me - 4:20
10. Skin Vision - 5:12
11. Missile - 3:36
12. White Suburb Impressionism - 5:06
13. Heatwave - 5:10

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Hauschka - Versions of the Prepared Piano [2007]

Sam Amidon - All is well

Icelandic label Bedroom Community gets off to a flying start in 2008 with this mightily impressive full-length from American songsmith Sam Amidon, who here reinterprets a selection of traditional Appalachian folk songs with help from friends like Valgeir Sigurthsson, Ben Frost, Eyvind Kang and Nico Muhly. This follows on from the Plug Research/Birdwar-released But This Chicken Proved False-Hearted, but finds Amidon's own performances (on guitar, banjo and fiddle, in addition to his singing) resituated within a sprawling, orchestral context. Consequently, there's an argument to be made that Amidon himself isn't really the star of the album: these traditional songs are transformed by Muhly's incredible arrangements - and the remarkably lavish, hi-fi productions are so huge, you could quite happily get lost in them, with only Amidon's voice to guide you out at the other end.

About that voice: it's something that's bound to divide opinion. In some ways it sounds a little lazy, a little under-annunciated, but the folksy simplicity of his delivery functions as a counterpoint to the symphonic wall-of-sound backdrop supplied by the supporting cast. It's worth pointing out that these songs don't simply feel as though they've been swollen up by all this extra instrumentation, but that they've been rewritten to some degree, with pieces like 'Saro' and 'Wild Bill Jones' taking on the upscaled sophistication of a Nick Drake recording or a Jimmy Webb ballad. A lovely piece of work that's HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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