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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: New Cars/early Who/Rundgren/Devo 2.0, etc. |
| Date | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:24:06 -0400 |
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From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
> Any *NEW* music worth talking about?
THEY LIVE WE SLEEP by Brief Candles. They may be named after a
Zombies song, but the vibe is much more like Yo La Tengo or My Bloody
Valentine: male/female vocals, slow tempos, waves of guitar noise.
Really good if you like this kind of thing.
DEMONS by Envelopes. Franco-Swedish group based in England, and all I
can think of when I hear this record is an old '80s band called Family
Fodder. It's not so much that Envelopes sound like Family Fodder, but
they have a really similar all-over-the-map vibe: parts of this album
sound like the Pixies, parts of it sound like some old K Records
twee-pop band, parts of it sound like the Arcade Fire, parts of it
sound like the Cardigans. And this can all be within the space of a
single song!
I AM THE RESURRECTION: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN FAHEY Recommended only if
you like Fahey and/or folks like Grandaddy's Jason Lytle, Sonic
Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Sufjan Stevens, Howe Gelb, M. Ward (a massive
Fahey head who put this tribute together) and Peter Case, but fans of
the whole avant-folk thing will love this.
In recent reissue news, Kill Rock Stars has released a best-of by
Colin Meloy's pre-Decemberists band Tarkio, who are more traditional
post-R.E.M. folk rock than his current project, and next month,
Cooking Vinyl is reissuing the Heavy Blinkers' 2004 album THE NIGHT
AND I ARE STILL SO YOUNG, which I think is the best sunshine-pop
pastiche album pretty much ever.
S
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