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Get Up - Sleater-Kinney
Sleater-Kinney's 1999 record "The Hot Rock" tends to be overlooked when people talk about the dearly departed band, which is a shame, 'cause this album has some great songs - case in point, this track.
Carrie brownstein is really a great guitarist and Corin and Janet are in top form here too (of course), but what really makes this song for me is Corin and Carrie's vocal interplay, lines building on top of one another, leading higher and higher, right up to that triumphant yell of "Get up!" near the end.
#Sleater-Kinney#Get Up#The Hot Rock#music#Carrie brownstein#Corin Tucker#Janet Weiss#indie rock#indie#Kill Rock Stars
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This belongs on this blog, too.
“In the Same Room” — Julia Holter
From the album Ekstasis (RVNGNL14).
Available March 8th, 2012 from RVNG Intl. Available for pre-order now: www.igetrvng.com/shop/122
So yeah, this is really really good. I read the thing with her on Pitchfork just by chance, and it’s one of those times where they’re right about a new(ish) artist.
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The Medication Is Wearing Off - Eels
Let’s talk about “Electro-Shock blues” for a bit.
Loss and depression as its’ result is a theme across all types of music - and why shouldn’t it be? It’s a universal theme all of us can relate to (if you can’t, then you’re either lying or have had a truly blessed life).
As such, you’d think it’d be fairly easy to transfer that into music - in a sense, it is.
In theory, all you really have to do is take some 6th grade-level poetry about the time your goldfish “Goldie” died (and how you regretted never coming up with a better name for her) and place that on top of a couple of minor chords and bam, one hearty serving of emotional resonance coming right up!
However, it’s much harder to translate these themes into music effectively.
We can all name a few famous examples - most of Elliott Smith’s output, “Pink Moon” from Nick Drake, etc.
However, “Electro-Shock blues” is one name we don’t hear often enough.
Eels are usually pigeonholed as one of the many, many radio-friendly alternative (often in name only) groups that gained popularity throughout the 90s. Most of these bands were, to put it lightly, pretty meh.
If you only judged from the singles from Eels’ first record, it’d be easy to come to the same conclusion with these guys.
Look past the preconceptions that come with the group, though, and you find a great record.
Musically, it’s not that inventive. The beats practically have a “Use by 2002” expiration date on them.
However, the music comes from such a sincere place, from someone who really understands emotions like these (the lead singer, E, lost his mother and sister in the two years leading to this album, making him the sole surviving member of his immediate family), that you can’t help but overlook its’ faults.
This is a place where all the shouting at the world in rage, the rage that comes with losing those so close to you, has finished. That phase isn’t over necessarily, yet it’s stopped for the time being.
This is the part where you pick up that life that death unceremoniously dropped to the ground, and try to fit everything together - like fixing a china vase with Elmer’s Glue.
“Sunrise on the corner of Sunset and Alvarado, I think ‘What the hell do I do now?’”
Eels don’t pretend that everything gets resolved - in a way, these things never do. However, the album takes the role that many LPs we hold close take: a shoulder to cry on or a sympathetic ear. Just catchier and more well-produced than other ears.
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"God Save the Queen" -- The Audacity of Youth
This is something I'm really excited to post, because it's the work of somebody actually in my age range, who I talk to on here (and who I'll even be doing a remix for before too long). The Audacity of Youth is the project of Indiana teen Joey Wanczyk, who makes beautifully produced, very melodic tunes which are grim, but not hopeless. His first full-length album, Departed, will be released on Bandcamp in the second half of this year, and I urge all of you to check it out.
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"Phrygian Gates" -- John Adams
Looked this up on a whim because I wanted to post it, and come to find out, there's a version with sheet music!
Fuck yeah.
That's John Coolidge Adams, btw, not the founding father, or the other composer, John Luther Adams.
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"Ancient Questions" -- Mount Eerie
There are some nights where you just have to throw on some Mount Eerie and lose yourself in it. Tonight might be one of them.
Though it does inspire me to grab Phil Elverum, shake him violently, and scream "YOU'RE ONLY 33 HOW THEY FUCK HAVE YOU MADE SO MANY RECORDS".
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Please just go look at the news feed on Pitchfork from today. Even if you hate Pitchfork.
There's so much exciting shit coming out this year.
Aside from the new Cloud Nothings and new Of Montreal, which I've already heard, there's also gonna be new Liars, new Lower Dens, Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music album, new Die Antwoord, and Heems' from Das Racist has a new mixtape that came out today.
2012 is going to be such a kickass year for music, I can't stop saying it, it's just gonna be great.
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meant to post this on this blog to begin with, oops.
“Simple Song” — The Shins
In other music news today, The Shins released their first song in almost 5 years (with a radically altered lineup). So if you were having doubts about whether James Mercer’s songwriting could still kick the ass of most other indie bands out there, this should set your mind at ease. It definitely is a different sound for the group, but the identity is still there — it doesn’t sound like a completely new project, and it doesn’t sound like a repeat of anything that Broken Bells has done. Just a nice, summery indie rock anthem, right when we need one. Their next album, Port of Morrow, comes out in March.
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At The Drive-In are reuniting after being broken up for... 11 years? Something like that.
And I'm excited enough about it that I actually remembered to post on this blog again. Good shit.
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Fever - Neko Case
One of my favorite voices in music right now, Neko Case has become one of the most compelling singers and songwriters working today in my opinion.
The term “singer-songwriter” has become this blanket term for bland solo folk/pop for the past decade or so, but look beyond that misconception (and some artists that prove that stereotype true) and you’ll find great musicians like Case.
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"Parallel Timeline With Alternate Outcome" -- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack is really just too beautiful... it's much better than the movie itself, actually. It's not for the faint of heart, however -- at 2 hours and 53 minutes, it's 15 minutes longer than the movie itself, and is generally pretty bleak and barren sounding. Just really, really great stuff though.
#trent reznor#atticus ross#trent reznor and atticus ross#trent reznor & atticus ross#the girl with the dragon tattoo#parallel timeline with alternate outcome#nine inch nails
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In case people weren't aware, there's a new xx demo out, entitled "Open Eyes". It's just Romy singing and playing guitar, but it's absolutely beautiful -- her singing has evidently improved a lot since the first album, and I already loved it on there.
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My favorite albums/EPs of the year (post by detectivework)
I still haven't listened to everything I meant to this year, which means that this will probably keep changing until about this time next year, but still, here it is.
1. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
2. The King of Limbs — Radiohead
3. Strange Mercy — St. Vincent
4. undun -- The Roots
5. Slave Ambient -- The War on Drugs
6. David Comes to Life — Fucked Up
7. James Blake (Deluxe Edition) — James Blake (this is a cop-out so I can count James Blake and the Enough Thunder EP in one spot)
8. Parallax -- Atlas Sound
9. Burst Apart — The Antlers
10. Take Care -- Drake
11. Nine Types of Light — TV on the Radio
12. Downtown Battle Mountain II — Dance Gavin Dance
13. Pop Music/False B-Sides — Baths
14. Meyrin Fields EP — Broken Bells
15. King Krule EP -- King Krule
So yeah. That's what I've been into this year.
#bon iver#radiohead#st. vincent#the roots#the war on drugs#fucked up#james blake#atlas sound#the antlers#drake#tv on the radio#dance gavin dance#baths#broken bells#king krule
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This is pertinent to this blog as well.
Me: Why the fuck do people use autotune?
Me: Autotune sounds like shit. No, actually, it sounds like somebody trying to have sex with shit.
Me: Just fucking learn to sing, for fuck's sake.
Bon Iver (autotuned): ♪ ♫ ♪ I'm up in the wooooooddssss. I'm dooownnn on my miiiiind... ♫ ♪ ♫
Sufjan Stevens (autotuned): ♪ ♫ Alllll I loooved, Alll that matterrrredddd... I couldn't be at ressttttt. ♪ ♫
James Blake (autotuned): ♪♪ ♫ ♪ Treated wallllllls, care for meee, when crossings call outtt one of thrrrreeeee... ♪♫ ♫♪
Me: Hey, have you guys ever heard of this thing called autotune?
Me: It sounds pretty cool, have you ever heard of it?
Me: I wish more people would use autotune, it sounds pretty cool.
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Okay, so maybe I'll have to stop shitting on modern-day Death Cab, too. I'm halfway through Codes and Keys and I really like it, turns out.
Not like "top 10 of the year" like, but "I could imagine throwing this on for a long drive" like.
It definitely sounds different, but I think that the atmospheric synth thing is actually really good for the songs that they wrote for it.
And the weird distortion effect on Ben Gibbard's voice actually makes him sound cool for the first time in 8+ years. Normally I get kind of bored with it when people do stuff like that for a whole album (see: The Strokes), but he needed to shake up his style somehow, and this worked.
Anyway, that's my capsule review of the first half of the album.
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