From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #132 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, May 15 2009 Volume 14 : Number 132 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- White Birds - now for sale [Andrew Fries ] Re: White Birds - now for sale [Doug ] Re: new music, strange days [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:33:10 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: White Birds - now for sale I just got the message from CD Baby telling me that Sarah Fimm's wonderful EP "White Birds" that has until now been available for free download is available for sale. So I'm going to buy it, because the free version has given me so much enjoyment. I hope some other Ectophiles might want to do the same. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 06:48:28 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: White Birds - now for sale At first the only song I liked was Counting Waves, but it has sense grown on me so I plan to buy it too. Thanks for the heads up. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Andrew Fries wrote: > I just got the message from CD Baby telling me that Sarah Fimm's wonderful > EP "White Birds" that has until now been available for free download is > available for sale. > > So I'm going to buy it, because the free version has given me so much > enjoyment. I hope some other Ectophiles might want to do the same. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:57:27 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: new music, strange days Hi, Adam Kimmel wrote: > I reluctantly crack open The Decemberists' "The Hazards of Love" and find myself suddenly wrapped up in a weird and wonderful world of lust, violence and nature set in a blasted, timeless landscape.B Words cannot describe how much I love this album, right down to the nasty infanticide of "The Rake's Song" and the sinister children's chorus of "The Hazards of Love (Revenge!)".B Gothic and uncompromising, this is one weird trip, and it's been a long, long time that I've gone back to the lyrics (impossibly small on the CD leaflet) to try and work out what was going on, and it's alsoB been quite a while since I've listened to an album five times back to back.B My favourite album of the year, so far, by many a mile. I can't get enough of this album, either. I thought Vienna Teng's _Inland Territory_ was going to be my album of the year, but then I stumbled into The Decemberists world premiering _The Hazards Of Love_ at SXSW and the whole landscape changed. > I have also (for the few that have followed so far) just listened to the new Indigo Girls album, "Poseidon and the Bitter Bug".B The Girls, in recent years, have never ceased to be a source of disappointment to me, as they drift off into the middle of the road, check their political leanings in their liner notes but have turned out several albums in a row chock full of pleasant little love songs and folksy musings.B I thought I'd given up on them, but decided one more go, even though I wasn't expecting much.B This time, I read the lyrics first -- something I never do --and things looked promising.B But on initial listening, it was business as usual, with the instrumentation and Mitchell Froom's production turning everything into a smoooooooth experience, music that wouldn't be out of place on an easy listening radion station or in a lift or a mall orB a lift in a mall that plays easy listening radio.B The Girls, however, have attached an extra disc of acoustic versio ns of the same songs.B I'm only a few tracks into it, but it's enough to make me fall in love with them all over again.B Suddenly, stripped down to the basics, the edge is back in their voices, the simple sweetness and harmony and clear emotion rings through.B It may not pan out over a whole CD, but it's intriguing and very, very refreshing, like a drink of clear water after the milkshake gloop of the first disc.B Oh, but it all might change.B As I often ask, how many plays does it take a CD to take shape?B How many plays does a CD deserve?B Why do I continue to ask these kind of questions? I haven't picked this one up yet -- but I also saw them premiering songs from this album at SXSW, just the two of them as acoustic as possible from up very close, and I've kind of been afraid of the production. I didn't know about the acoustic extra disc, though -- that might just make the purchase worthwhile. Interestingly, I've had Tori's new one on my hard drive for a few days already and haven't been motivated to listen to it yet. Sigh. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #132 ***************************