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| Poll: Please listen to both albums in full before voting, then choose your favorite. |
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| Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin |
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47% |
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| The Road Is Just A Surface by Anja Garbarek |
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52% |
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| Total Votes : 17 |
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts 
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment
- #2
- Posted: 07/29/2019 00:56
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I vote for the album from the Texan group with the Thai name and the Spanish title. Smooth and easy, like tubing on the lazy river with a drink in one hand and waving at all the other people with the other.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 07/30/2019 22:40
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| Fischman wrote: | | I vote for the album from the Texan group with the Thai name and the Spanish title. Smooth and easy, like tubing on the lazy river with a drink in one hand and waving at all the other people with the other. |
Exactly. This may not be a perfect album, but it's a perfect pairing with summer.
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craola
crayon master
Location: pdx
- #4
- Posted: 07/30/2019 23:49
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i voted for personality.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
- #6
- Posted: 07/31/2019 03:23
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Damn... this is a tough match up. Garbarek's album was easily my most favorite in the match up series. Thanks for the find Craola [creighg... really old joke from long ago I'm remembering somehow this became a joke]
Also does anyone have any information on the album... I have this nearly eerie feeling it's actually a very loose study of a serial killer or something. I know that's far fetched, but that's what intriged me into the album was that weird twist starting with the Witness track. It might be up there with The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Drive...iona Apple as intriguing music I'll probably always revisit... somehow I like binge these types of albums for like 2 weeks and then don't listen again for 2 years.
Anyway, as interesting as Garbarek's album is, in the end it isn't musically my jam. I'd totally revisit it though... it's one of those albums you revisit, but neither is it my bread and butter. Over the past year or two Khruangbin has been my go to chill music, even if I like their "hits" more/don't consider them great album makers, I still revisit more than half this album "often". Their guitarist has something... I don't know what it is but it's transforming.
Oh found this about Garbarek:
| Quote: | Often erroneously compared to her Nordic contemporaries Stina Nordenstam and Björk, Norway's Anja Garbarek exists in a universe all her own. For years Garbarek has flown low under the radar and when her name has been plucked from near-obscurity it often resides in lazy journalism, which has often attached to hers the names of the aforementioned (and far more prolific) women as a point of reference. But while the Icelandic and Swedish songwriters, respectively, draw ideas from a deeply internal source of inspiration that often has them calling on their childhood designs, the Norwegian songstress prefers to explore the psychology of those outside of herself. Garbarek examines life from an impossibly uncongenial space that at once marks her as a detached voyeur and an involved conspirator.
After her 1992 debut Velkommen Inn, a Norwegian-language album of inoffensive funk-pop, the singer would return in 1996 with the surprising about-face that was Balloon Mood (2015). Full of sonic tricks that deliver mutated jazz and weirdly chopped hip-hop loops, Garbarek introduced to the world her English-language album featuring a set of noirishly fatalistic characters. It wouldn't be too surprising to learn that the singer's initial forays into the entertainment industry were those of an actress (she discusses this on her website); Garbarek parlayed her stage experience into characters whose peculiar actions and twisted desires were projected with the kind of scope that exists only for the theatre. Her music is often deceptively cool and composed, measured with an exactitude reserved for classical music. But stirring beneath the placid waves are the raucous emotions of a fevered storyteller, trying desperately to impart an often startling and vicious truth.
Garbarek continued with the eerily calm Smiling and Waving (2001) an orchestral exercise of minimalist dimensions that flirts only slightly with electronic beats and grooves. The album's vast, open spaces allows the singer to field her narratives with greater abandon, her lyrics stripped bare of the particular detail that marked Balloon Mood to allow a wider conjecture for interpretation. The slow, glacial orchestral slides reveal a more mature communication of sound which, in part, is the result of a collaboration with Talk Talk's Mark Hollis.
The pop-oriented Briefly Shaking (2010) redirects the Norwegian's elliptic narratives into a compressed package of juddering hip-hop beats, skewed North Sea jazz, and bonkers pop melodies for a more accessible outing. Briefly Shaking didn't bring her a wider audience, but it did expand her horizons of experiment, which inevitably (after a long-standing 12 years) led to her latest, The Road Is Just a Surface (Grappa Musikkforlag, 2018). An extension of a theatre piece created for the Bergen International Festival, it features Garbarek's usual stylistic tweaks with an even stronger leaning toward electronica. Her father, the notable jazz musician Jan Garbarek, lends his expertise to help shape these clockwork curiosities of shuffling electro-pop.
Released in two separate versions (one, a pared down and compact version of the album featuring traditional song structures, the other an expanded version which links the songs with experimental conceptual pieces), The Road Is Just a Surface doubles as a commentary on the theatre piece it was recorded for as well as a musical exploration of the deeply psychological studies in human behaviour the singer's work is known for. Listening to these songs, some of those concepts might glide right by you. Garbarek has an ear for delectable pop melodies and she delivers some of the most unnerving stories with a heavy dose of sugar. Take the cabaret dance-pop of "The Witness", which begins with rickety scrap-metal percussion before plunging into a seductive and rhythmic plod; the lyrics suggest the pain of watching, from afar, someone struggle to walk. In the metallic grind of "Bob's Song", Garbarek's heavily transmuted voice narrates the story of an unusual child. It's unsettling, emotional and, like much of her work, compelling in its visual detail. |
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 08/02/2019 02:26
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Played Khruangbin in the office today because my coworker who hates music being on in the office went on vacation, and it set a good mood. Feeling even better about the album and my vote. Only nominally a psych-rock album, it's quite funky, but in a very clean, precise way, reminiscent of library music.
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #8
- Posted: 08/02/2019 15:39
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While Anja has a more compelling record, Khruangbin has an album that while isn't the most mind blowing record, they have an album that is quite chill to the point of being a mood starter to just relax or invite friends over for a get together. And musically, I love records like this. And would easily get into top 20 for me for 2018. Wonderful stuff.
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dihansse
dihansse
Gender: Male
Age: 62
- #9
- Posted: 08/03/2019 19:17
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Khruangbin has a nice twangy guitar with some added sounds and rhythms but in the end there's not a lot happening here so I go for Anja.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
- #10
- Posted: 08/05/2019 03:36
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | | Played Khruangbin in the office today because my coworker who hates music being on in the office went on vacation, and it set a good mood. Feeling even better about the album and my vote. Only nominally a psych-rock album, it's quite funky, but in a very clean, precise way, reminiscent of library music. |
Was it just their top Spotify songs or this album? Sometimes I like just putting on their top Spotify songs... I dig their reserved, near romantic sound.
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