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kosmo
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Re: 2015 Albums January 09, 2015 at 04:12 PM UTC #
New Django Django
azaghal1981
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 02:23 PM UTC #
Belle & Sebastian and Sleater Kinney streams are up at NPR.
bunnyman
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 03:26 PM UTC #
Glad to hear that the songs I heard from the B&S album don't reflect that the whole thing is a dud, but a lot of the ideas definitely come from other places. "Allie" is great. Sounds like it could be on "The Life Pursuit". "Enter Sylvia Plath" sort of reminds me of Saint Etienne. "The Everlasting Muse" is actually a really cool song, but it ends up sounding a LOT like "Waiting for the Sun" from the Doors at one point. "Perfect Couples" is "Remain in Light"-era Talking Heads meets Happy Mondays. Overall I just don't think all the experiments work. They're stretching really hard to make it a diverse record…they want to sound like another band by expanding their sound, but in the process they lose some of what makes Belle and Sebastian so special. I think some of it is really fun…there's a ton of heavy production. I think I'll need more time to absorb this one. I'm glad they're not rehashing the same things, but I'm not certain this was a total success. It's like they're taking their approach to "Your Cover's Blown" and trying to be more of a disco band. But it doesn't feel as exciting as that song. That being said "The Book of You" is really good, and I don't dislike "The Party Line" as much as I did the first few times I heard it.
Yada
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 03:55 PM UTC #
walkonby wrote:
http://pitchfork.com/news/58019-sufjan-stevens-announces-new-album-carrie-lowell/

nothing else to see . . . move along.


azaghal1981
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 05:00 PM UTC #
A lot of that B&S did remind me of The Life Pursuit.
hutch
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 08:42 PM UTC #
killsaly wrote:
Baltimore post-rock band the Water has a new album and it is free at their bandcamp.
http://thewater.bandcamp.com/album/the-place-to-be


well, if they're from Baltimore I better get listening… I hear the shit don't stink up there…
Rogue Riderhood
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 09:09 PM UTC #
Is that right? 
Rogue Riderhood
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 09:10 PM UTC #
I thought you were taking some time off from this place. 
hutch
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 09:33 PM UTC #
GIFSoup
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 11:00 PM UTC #
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Re: 2015 Albums January 12, 2015 at 11:06 PM UTC #
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sweetcell
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Re: 2015 Albums January 14, 2015 at 01:20 PM UTC #
DCFC
"Kintsugi"
out march 31st

jrpa
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Re: 2015 Albums January 14, 2015 at 02:59 PM UTC #
^^ I really want that to be good but after Codes And Keys, I expect it to be dreadful.
bunnyman
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Re: 2015 Albums January 14, 2015 at 07:26 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
^^ I really want that to be good but after Codes And Keys, I expect it to be dreadful.


Codes and Keys was disappointing. I still think Narrow Stairs might be my favorite…that is a dark record.
kosmo
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Re: 2015 Albums January 24, 2015 at 01:28 AM UTC #
https://thestereotwins.bandcamp.com/album/good-news

The Stereo Twins - Good News

The Huseman Twins (Greenberry Woods/Splitsville) return with another pure pop/power pop.  In high rotation at the moment.
vansmack
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Re: 2015 Albums February 05, 2015 at 05:39 PM UTC #
Aphex Twin gives away 150 unreleased tracks on SoundCloud

To say that Richard D. James likes mixing music and technology is the biggest understatement this side of Bruce Willis admitting he's a bit thin on top. The artist better known as Aphex Twin has previously tweaked his music so that, if you ran the track Formula through a spectroscope, you'd see his face, not to mention launching his last album through Tor. 2015 has seen the musician decide to release a plethora of demo material onto SoundCloud, albeit under the guide of user48736353001.

According to FACT Magazine, the tracks are all demos and unfinished works that were written and performed in the late '80s and early '90s. When he started back in January, there were only a handful of tracks on the page, but that figure has ballooned to 150, all of which are downloadable for AFX completists. If all of these tracks haven't satisfied your yearning for new Twin, then you should also be aware that Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 is also available to buy.
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