This is excellent! Easily the best Animal Collective album I've listened to so far. So much better than Merriweather Post Pavilion, which has grown on me over multiple listens, but I should have been listening to this, which has hit me immediately. Just the right mix of weird and listenability for my tastes. I've added a few songs to playlists, and I absolutely love Cuckoo Cuckoo. 9/10, 5/19 for 2007, and 31/100 or the 2000's.
4. No Thank You by Coaltar Of The Deepers
8. Harmony In Ultraviolet by Tim Hecker
9. ๆจๆดฉ้ฝ้ใใซใฆ [At Komorebi St.] by Lamp
10. Eardrum by Talib Kweli
12. Here To There by DJ Spinna
16. Far Away Trains Passing By by Ulrich Schnauss
18. World Of Sleepers by Carbon Based Lifeforms
21. The Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada
22. Drukqs by Aphex Twin
23. ( ) by Sigur Rรณs
These are the sounds of a very small being in dialogue with a titanic, voiceless eye, and at their heaviest, the eye menaces. I'm tempted to disregard Mahler's lyrics for the sake of maintaining this imagery (I don't speak German, anyways). That may be unfair, but I'm sure this work will prove chameleonic enough to present itself another way the next time I listen. There's certainly more to be found in Mahler's harmonic textures; at times, it's as if he's wielding the entire orchestra like a god. It's incredible.
1. Satie: 3 Gymnopรฉdies & Other Piano Works // Pascal Rogรฉ
2. The Piano Music Of Henry Cowell // Henry Cowell
3. Krzysztof Penderecki: St Luke Passion // Krzysztof Penderecki / National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Warsaw National Philharmonic Chorus
4. Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae // Marcus Creed / RIAS Kammerchor
5. Canto Ostinato // Simeon Ten Holt
6. Semtex // The Third Eye Foundation (Ooh, Matt Elliott)
7. Lisbon // Keith Fullerton Whitman
9. Arrange And Process Basic Channel Tracks // Scion
10. Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo // Jeff Mills
11. E2-E4 // Manuel Gรถttsching (...C7-C5)
Couldn't have said that better myself Jameth. Well done.
I'm 10 tracks in to NATO Uniformen, and I have to say, it's surprisingly listenable. Although I don't think listening to this in a day will be good for my brain, I'm going to see if I can do it.
baystateoftheartNeil Young as a butternut squashProfile Massachusetts
This is a fun listen. Built To Spill is basically indie rock in its purest form, raw and uncut. The riffs are good, the songwriting is good, and there's nothing I could complain about. For whatever reason, their music hasn't clicked with me on a deeper level yet. Still, I'm always happy to hear it. 3.5/5.
3. Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners
9. Chante Les Chansons Poรฉtiques no1 - Georges Brassens
14. Moon Safari - Air
15. Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev
20. In A Priest Driven Ambulance - The Flaming Lips
21. Gravity Talks - Green On Red
28. Soul Mining - The The
31. Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev
34. Chico Buarque De Hollanda Vol. 2 - Chico Buarque
42. L'รcole Du Micro D'Argent - IAM _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
OK, so this is in a similar camp as The Conet Project. It's 4 hours of the same concept being repeated, but it's well-executed enough that it doesn't matter. And, in the case of the concept of this album, which is a thorough slog through the bleak and draconian military industrial complex, it's certainly appropriate. I could go on about the concept for a while, but what about the music? Although individual songs are repetitious, and have very little movement, the songs themselves showed a variety that I wasn't expecting. It ranges from deep dark synthwave, to harsh noise, to distorted orders being barked through a loudspeaker. The songs with vocals are not quite as good as the purely instrumental ones. It's laying it on a bit too much. If I were to cut this down to 12 tracks and turn it into a true album instead of an art-piece, then it would be great, but as a whole thing it did get tiresome by the end. I'll link some of the better tracks below for the interested.
RLW - Points Of Reference
Susumu Hirasawa- Kyuusai no Gihou
Charles Wuorinen- Time's Encomium (For Synthesized & Processed Synthesized Sound)
Vlad Tepes / Belkรจtre โโ March To The Black Holocaust (This one may be too scary)
Arti E Mestieri - Tilt
in slaughter natives - in slaughter natives
Regis- Gymnastics
Roberto Cacciapaglia - The Ann Steel Album
Susumu Hirasawa โโ Aurora
Jason Lescaleet- The Pilgrim
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
That was cool going into this album not knowing what to expect. During the first track I'm assuming this is going to be an ambient album, then BANG! Track two, Good Morning, starts and wakes you up. No this isn't an ambient album...it's a sweet shoegaze album a la Chapterhouse or Galaxy 500. Then track three, Joy Ride, - oh this is going to be a bit of a noisier album than I expected - like a heavier Ride type shoegaze (is the title of the song a nod to Ride I wonder?). Track four, Star Love, we take another turn with some nice dreamgaze - what a lovely song....hang on WTF?!? Halfway through the sugary vocals have turned into death metal growls...I was not expecting that. The thing is it works. By now I'm hooked and can't wait to see what surprises are next. So it continues with a calming, ambient type song - they chuck these in every four or so songs as breathers I guess. Personally I could have done without those but oh well...they're not bad. Then more great noisy Swervedriver type songs with metal influences or the rest of the album, finishing with a faithful cover of a My Bloody Valentine song - just in case you weren't sure who their biggest most obvious influence was. ๐ A great album that I recommend to everyone here. Just check out the song Star Love, which sums up what the album is like, to see if you're interested. I need to check out more of the Japanese scene from the 2000s. There is some great stuff I've heard so far. 8/10, and 16/44 for 2001...but this could grow with time...I've already played a few of these songs again.
Speaking of checking out more of the Japanese music scene let's go with Susumu Hirasawa โโ Aurora Rocka.
8. Harmony In Ultraviolet by Tim Hecker
9. ๆจๆดฉ้ฝ้ใใซใฆ [At Komorebi St.] by Lamp
10. Eardrum by Talib Kweli
12. Here To There by DJ Spinna
16. Far Away Trains Passing By by Ulrich Schnauss
18. World Of Sleepers by Carbon Based Lifeforms
21. The Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada
22. Drukqs by Aphex Twin
23. ( ) by Sigur Rรณs
24. An Imaginary Country by Tim Hecker
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