Album Of The Week

Album of the Week

Amiina, Puzzle

"What Are We Waiting For?"

Album of the Week (Halloween Edition)

Solo Andata, Ritual
Séance music, anyone? Probably not the best thing to listen to after seeing Paranormal Activity 2, which wasn't as good as the first but still plenty creepy. Of course I'm such a wuss that I can only listen to this record at work in broad daylight. Lame.

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OM, God is Good

'Meditation is the Practice of Death'

Albums of the Week

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Alcest, Écailles de Lune

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Thou, Baton Rouge, You Have Much To Answer For EP



Citay, Dream Get Together

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Just got this 3LP with bonus DVD slab of beauty in the mail. It's a live set from their NYC show last year to commemorate their 10th year as a band, and they celebrate in stlye, backed by a 24 piece orchestra. The DVD captures the show in its entirety, a godsend for all of us who missed out (the band only played 2 shows in the US with the orchestra). The packaging is outstanding and the audio is SUPERB, thanks to their record label who actually gives a fuck about how their music sounds. Hail Temporary Residence Ltd.!

Album Of The Week

Album of the Week

I like Van Halen as much as the next guy, but I've never been a die-hard fan. Still, out of the entire VH catalog, this is the album I first became intimately acquainted with, having bought it when it first came out 22 years(!) ago and subsequently playing it to death on my Walkman® throughout my junior year of high school. I pretty much forgot about it all these years, as I never did pick it up on CD. Too busy discovering/exploring the harder stuff. Napalm Death, anyone? Right. Anyway, I happened upon a vinyl copy recently, and as I examined the cover and the condition of the record, the memories came flooding back of just how fucking ROCKING this album was. "Definitely Vinyl-Worthy" I thought, and scooped up this bit of teen nostalgia for a paltry 5 bones. And damned if it 'aint as completely balls-to-the-wall bad ass now as it was back in 1988. This one's a classic, kids, a venerable smorgasbord of perfectly poppy tunes (When It's Love, Feels So Good) sandwiched in between electrifying hard rock anthems (A.F.U. (Naturally Wired), Sucker In A 3 Piece). And just FYI, I (unfortunately) downloaded a track off the album from iTunes, impatient as I was to get the wax ripped into my hard drive, and have found the sound quality on the vinyl to be far superior to the mp3. Duuuuuh. Whatev, Francis, lighten up and crank it!

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Diggin' this new 3LP set. Her shrilly child-voice was growing on me on her last record, Ys (which was fantastic), and now with this new effort I think she's finally reigned in the banshee and found her voice. The music sweeps you into a lush garden paradise–all calm, cool, dreamlike and wondrous. The cover art perfectly captures the music contained therein. This will be on my top 10 list at the end of the year.

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Radiohead, Radiohead Rocks Germany 2001

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Antony & The Johnsons, The Crying Light

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The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St.



Æthenor, Faking Gold & Murder

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Mono, Hymn To The Immortal Wind

This doesn't drop till next month, but I got a sneak listen and it's outstanding. Dare I say it, possibly one of the best albums in the post-rock genre. Been playing the first track, 'Ashes In The Snow' pretty much non-stop this week. NYC folks are in for a treat this May, when the band takes the stage for their only US appearance (thus far) with a full orchestra to celebrate their 10th year as a band. Needless to say, I wish I were going.

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Emmylou Harris, All I Intended To Be

Wrecking Ball is still my favorite album of hers, but this one released last June is a definite contender for #2. There are some self-penned tunes mixed in with the usual interpretations of other artists' songs that Ms. Harris seems so effortlessly able to make her own, including 'Moon Song" (Patty Griffin), "All That You Have Is Your Soul" (Tracy Chapman) and "Kern River" (Merle Haggard).
Picked up the double LP version of this gem of a record, which I believe is the first of her Nonesuch albums to get the vinyl treatment. It comes packaged with a CD of the whole album, which never fails to rock my socks.

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Gotta love collages. The 'Person Pitch' artwork looks great in LP format, all nice and big & colorful, though I wish 'Cusp' had been given the vinyl treatment as well.

Panda Bear, Person Pitch



Everlovely Lightningheart, Cusp