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Showing posts with label alternative. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Red Cosmos (2012) -There and Back
Artist: Red Cosmos
Albums:
There and Back
Release
date: 2012
Quality: mp3
CBR 320
Size: 157 MB
“Released a month or so ago, this is an album that is overflowing with ideas
and originality mixing as it does folk with pastoral psychedelia, sound
samples, ambient electronics, and hazy, woozy vocals. Throughout, the record is
underpinned with a nonchalant humour and sly insouciance including one song
inspired by holier-than-thou TV presenter Philip Schofield’s inherent
insincerity (Do Geese See God?).
Songs
switch from tripped out to tripped up to just plain trippy, creating the kind
of feel that you get with a Tim Burton inspired nightmarish nursery rhyme. Take
England’s Glory, the tale of a mother visited in the middle of the night by the
pale spectre of her son dying alone, somewhere far away on a battlefield.
Elsewhere, it calls to mind such psychedelic greats as Syd Barrett as well as
more contemporary MM faves such as Damon Moon, Mathew Sawyer and Benjamin Shaw.
The album
has the kind of wilful, single-mindedness and surreal vision that so many
strive for and yet fail to achieve, and which is so essential in creating a
unique voice. By the end of the record, we are left with the suspicion Red
Cosmos might be the kind of band to drown fish just for the perverse pleasure
of seeing if they can.”
~
©
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2013) -Push The Sky Away
Artist: Nick
Cave & The Bad Seeds
Albums:
Push The Sky Away
Release
date: February 2013
Quality: mp3
CBR 320
Size: 99 MB
Describing
Push the Sky Away in the album's press release, Nick Cave said: "if I were
to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The
Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny,
trembling heart-beat." The songs on the album were written over the course
of twelve months and "took form in a modest notebook" kept by Cave.
The notebook contained notes on the album's songs, which were composed from
"Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries 'whether
they’re true or not'. "According to Cave, the songs illustrate how the
internet has influenced "significant events, momentary fads and
mystically-tinged absurdities" and "question how we might recognise
and assign weight to what's genuinely important."
©
Thursday, November 8, 2012
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Those Poor Bastards (2012) -Behold The Abyss
Artist:
Those Poor Bastards
Albums:
Behold The Abyss
Release
date: 2012
Quality: mp3
VBR
Size: 73 MB
“Tribulation
Recording Company proudly presents its first ever album-novel set! The book
(sold separately) is entitled "The Terrible Tale of Edgar
Switchblade," and tells the story of a religiously obsessed and mentally
disturbed bounty hunter born with cloven hooves. Together with his faithful
horse Old Red, they befriend and destroy werewolves, ghosts, prostitutes and
other strange creatures.
The accompanying album, "Behold The
Abyss," explores the themes of the novel and expands upon several key
events. The instrumentation is sparse, broken and filled right up to the brim
with misery and ugliness.
When combined, the book and album present a
brutal and hopeless picture of humankind's lonely pursuit of spiritual and
earthly desires.” ©
Monday, June 4, 2012
The Cubical (2009) -Come Sing These Crippled Tunes
Artist: The Cubical
Album: Come
Sing These Crippled Tunes
Released: 2009
Quality: mp3
CBR 256
Size: 78MB
”The
Cubical's gritty, growly swamp blues has already earned some attention in
circles where people place a premium on gritty, growly swamp blues. It really
is quite a striking sound, and certainly if you're a fan of gruff, grumbling
vocals a la Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart, and you like your rock'n'roll
primal and pounding, then you will definitely go a bundle on this lot. They're
vaguely in that blues-rock ballpark occupied by fellow Scousers the Coral and
the Zutons, only straighter and less psychedelic, like the original punks on
the legendary Nuggets compilation. Dan Wilson, the son of an army sergeant and
a performer prone to "stalking the stage like a malevolent tramp begging
for the crowd's attention as if asking for change and a spare ciggy"
according to one innocent bystander, has a voice that fits perfectly in this
setting, and its only drawback is its distinctiveness – the low, menacing way
in which he chooses to grumble and roar is so obviously reminiscent of
Waits/Don Van Vliet it can often sound as much like an affectionate homage as a
straight pastiche.”
~ read the full review by Paul Lester, The Guardian
The Cubical (2011) -It Ain't Human
Artist: The Cubical
Album: It Ain’t Human
Released: 2011
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 133 MB
”The Cubical's gritty, growly swamp blues has already earned some attention in circles where people place a premium on gritty, growly swamp blues. It really is quite a striking sound, and certainly if you're a fan of gruff, grumbling vocals a la Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart, and you like your rock'n'roll primal and pounding, then you will definitely go a bundle on this lot. They're vaguely in that blues-rock ballpark occupied by fellow Scousers the Coral and the Zutons, only straighter and less psychedelic, like the original punks on the legendary Nuggets compilation. Dan Wilson, the son of an army sergeant and a performer prone to "stalking the stage like a malevolent tramp begging for the crowd's attention as if asking for change and a spare ciggy" according to one innocent bystander, has a voice that fits perfectly in this setting, and its only drawback is its distinctiveness – the low, menacing way in which he chooses to grumble and roar is so obviously reminiscent of Waits/Don Van Vliet it can often sound as much like an affectionate homage as a straight pastiche.” ~ read the full review by Paul Lester, The Guardian
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Graveyard Train - 3 albums
Artist: Graveyard Train
Albums: The Serpent And The Crow / The Drink The Devil And The Dance / Hollow
Released: 2008 / 2010 / 2012
Quality: mp3 CBR 320 Size: 106 / 140 / 100 MB
”Graveyard Train are a six piece collective from Melbourne Australia. The initial idea was for six men to sing in baritone about Werewolves, Vampires, Ghosts and the like over frenetic foot stomping country music. A wacky idea that worked and instantly collected fans across the globe. In a song writing sense Graveyard Train are storytellers who revel in the dark or macabre. Now, like any virus, Graveyard Train’s music evolved into something much richer, forceful and potent. Banjos, dobros as well as their untraditional hammer and chain have carried the intensity of their notorious live shows through the US, Canada, UK, Europe and of course all over Australia. The legions of the infected fans are growing. They’re instantly at home on any stage and consistently win over incredibly diverse audiences – from the neck tattooed rockabilly in Sydney to the farmer in Tamworth to the derelict punk in Belgium or the hippie in Toronto, everyone ends up singing along. Graveyard Train are not a country band; they are not a folk band; they are not punk band; they are not a vocal harmony band they are not a psychedelic band. They are all of those things and more; genuinely a band like no other that you have seen.” ©
Thursday, May 31, 2012
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16 Horsepower (1995) -Sackcloth'n'Ashes
Artist: 16 Horsepower
Album: Sackcloth’n’Ashes
Released: 1995
Quality: lossless (FLAC tracks) / mp3 CBR 320
Size: 292 / 100 MB
Driven by off-kilter fiddles, a bizarre sense of humor, and punk-inflected country-rock, 16 Horsepower's second album, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, is a weirdly captivating listen. Nearly every song is a strange, backwoods fable, delivered with clever irony that never undercuts the essential, disturbing intentions of the songs. It's not for everybody, but for alt-country fans tired of Gram Parsons homages, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes is a welcome listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Kaizers Orchestra (2009) -Våre Demoner
Artist: Kaizers Orchestra
Album: Våre Demoner
Released: 2009
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 96 MB
Tracklist:
1. "Medisin & psykiatri" (Medicine and Psychiatry) - 4:25
2. "Våre demoner" (Our Demons) (Ottesen/Geir Zahl) - 2:40
3. "Die Polizei" (The Police) - 4:56
4. "Fanden hakk i hel" (The Devil on Our Tails) - 3:55
5. "Kavalér" (Dance Partner) - 3:42
6. "Gruvene på 16" (The Mines on 16) - 4:40
7. "Señor Torpedo" - 3:01
8. "Den sjette sansen" (The Sixth Sense) - 3:43
9. "Sonny" - 4:12
10. "Prosessen" (The Process) - 4:09
11. "Stormfull vals" (Stormy Waltz) (Zahl) - 4:41
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