From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #122 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, July 3 2010 Volume 09 : Number 122 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) [outbound-only email a] Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) [Tom Galczynski ] Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) [Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) with some effort I pared this to a dozen, in alphabetical order: paula carino - open on sunday good luck - demonstration 2010 hussalonia - attention deficit recorder los campesinos! - romance is boring the magnetic fields - realism museum mouth - tears in my beer so cow - meaningless friendly standard fare - the noyelle beat stripmall architecture - feathersongs for factory girls laura veirs - july flame vulgaires machin - requiem pour les sourds watch out for rockets - shaman shit and all I can say is a year in which releases as strong as those from ted leo, spoon, ok go, apollo ghosts, love is all, titus andronicus, et al will not likely make the top twenty ... that's quite a year. movie contenders so far include winter's bone, do it again, up, strange powers, 9500 liberty, lovers of hate (most from the boston independent film festival) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:01:23 -0500 From: Tom Galczynski Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) No particular order: Paula Carino - Open On Sunday Surfer Blood - Astro Coast Bettie Serveert - Pharmacy of Love New Pornographers - Together Apples In Stereo - Travellers In Space And Time Vampire Weekend - Contra Joan Armatrading - This Charmed Life Spoon - Transference Goldfrapp - Head First Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM Still under evalutation: Devo - Something For Everybody Teenage Fanclub - Shadows Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void We Are Scientists - Barbara Pernice Brothers - Goodbye, Killer Tom Galczynski tgalczynski@comcast.net - --------------------------------------- I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant On 7/2/2010 8:47 AM, outbound-only email address wrote: > with some effort I pared this to a dozen, in alphabetical order: > > paula carino - open on sunday > good luck - demonstration 2010 > hussalonia - attention deficit recorder > los campesinos! - romance is boring > the magnetic fields - realism > museum mouth - tears in my beer > so cow - meaningless friendly > standard fare - the noyelle beat > stripmall architecture - feathersongs for factory girls > laura veirs - july flame > vulgaires machin - requiem pour les sourds > watch out for rockets - shaman shit > > > and all I can say is a year in which releases as strong as those from > ted leo, spoon, ok go, apollo ghosts, love is all, titus andronicus, > et al will not likely make the top twenty ... that's quite a year. > > movie contenders so far include winter's bone, do it again, up, > strange powers, 9500 liberty, lovers of hate (most from the boston > independent film festival) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:17:18 -0700 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] More halftime show I still haven't really focused on 2010 music; parenthood has directed me away from the frantic pursuit of the new (since almost all music is new to the kids). I haven't heard the new New Pornographers, Sage Francis, Rasputina, Laurie Anderson, Charming Hostess, or Joanna Newsom albums yet, for example, so it's highly unlikely I've heard my favorite album of the year yet. Still, I have found some very good records since we did this three months ago. *** David Byrne - Here Lies Love (a glittering, eclectic, world-hopping and time-hopping collection of musical styles, many of which it persuades me against my better judgment to enjoy, in service of a story about Imelda Marcos that I also like better than I'd expect) Eluveitie - Everything Remains as it Never was (joyous folk-dancing heavy metal; the instruments are tuneful, although the vocals, unfortunately, are metal roar) Happy Hollows - Spells (fun energetic punk-pop, with much more interesting playing than the genre's usual) Kaipa - In the Wake of Evolution (that great contradiction, retro progressive rock: the pacing of Marillion, the bounciness of 'Thick as a Brick', the vocal harmonies and goodwill of Yes, and the ability to stand up to those comparisons without looking silly) Kaki King - Junior (very interesting, adventurous guitar playing, and songs sturdy enough to give her something to play) Anais Mitchell - Hadestown (a musical: a political allegory by way of Greek mythology, in folk and Americana styles) Oh No Ono - Eggs (arty, gently buoyant pop songs built on very strange, but intriguing, vocal harmonies) Emma Pollock - the Law of Large Numbers (thoughtful, propulsive, melodic, low-key pop) Shearwater - the Golden Archipelago (fragile, orchestrated, gently surging, and lovely; a less alien version of late Talk Talk, perhaps) ********** Copy/pasted from three months ago, I still like: Aloha - Home Acres (progressive pop, rhythmically propulsive) Paula Carino - Open on Sundays (rootsy pop with sparse rock production, something like Amy Rigby with Liz Phair's voice) Field Music - Measure (somewhere between XTC's overcomplexity, which I love, and the Sugarplastic's low-budget thinness, which sadly I don't, but inventively melodic a la either band) Zach Lupetin and the Dustbowl Revival - You Can't Go Back to the Garden of Eden (Dixieland, gypsy jazz, folk, bluegrass, western, swing, blues, tin pan alley pop, and lots of good cheer) Rattlemouth - Home Fed and Full Grown (instrumental, reminding me a fair bit of Tuatara: sprightly and eclectic "world music" (and a tinge of spy music) with extremely agile horns, and interesting drumming; leader Danny Finney is an utterly distinctive and likeable saxophonist) Rotting Christ - Aealo (progressive rock, but with monster howls, blastbeats, and spooky Greek chorale) Verlaines - Corporate Moronic (five parts American Music Club, one part Joe Jackson's 'Night and Day', three parts the Beautiful South -- but with the political anger feeling less jokey, and the self-loathing moreso, than that implies) Yeasayer - Odd Blood (psychedelic hippie '80s electrodance, or something implausible like that)

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Jen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:02:47 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) On 07/02/2010 12:40 AM, treesprite@earthlink.net wrote: > 9.Ariel Pink > Are we talking Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti here? I just downloaded that from eMusic because I *love* "Bright Lit Blue Skies" and the rest of the album seriously threw me or a loop! I can't decide if I think it's twistedly cool or disgusting. Musically, in most places, it just barely holds together. I would class it as one of the weirdest albums I've heard. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:51:51 -0400 From: outbound-only email address Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) Jen remarked: > Wow. I've heard of exactly 4 of those bands/people and I have heard exactly 1 of those albums. Too much stuff, always... < So here's my dozen again w/ brief descriptions -- there are longer descriptions of most of these at ihatethesoundofguitars.com > paula carino - open on sunday I hope everyone here has heard of this, at least! Clever, tuneful indie pop, RIYL Franklin Bruno, Barbara Manning > good luck - demonstration 2010 Available on bandcamp. Way above average pop-punk. > hussalonia - attention deficit recorder Available free from hussalonia.com, one of the six (!) albums/eps released this year so far. Attention Deficit Recorder is a bunch of really short songs designed to be listened to in any order. > los campesinos! - romance is boring Kinda spastic indie pop, shouty bits vs. sweet bits, the listener (at least >this< listener) wins > the magnetic fields - realism Merritt goes chamber pop this time around; one of the gags is that it's not nearly as much like the songs as performed by the live band as it at first seems. > museum mouth - tears in my beer catchy,agreeably sloppy and lo-fi indie rock; evokes be your own pet and times new viking. it's the uncharacteristic slower songs that really hint at the promise of this band. > so cow - meaningless friendly smart, catchy, sometimes noisy across-the-pond pop, influenced by boyracer, television personalities, beat happening, c86. I thought loudfans would be all over this, but not so far. > standard fare - the noyelle beat another c86-influenced indie pop band, what sets this one apart is not just the hooks, but the more-sophisticated-than-the-usual arrangements/songwriting > stripmall architecture - feathersongs for factory girls stripmall architecture is what triphop act halou has evolved into, stripmall architecture is a little more rock-oriented. i won't use the word shoegaze. available at bandcamp. > laura veirs - july flame veirs is one of those artists who started as a straight-ahead folkie but has embraced more rock-oriented arrangements. tucker martine's production hand is a lot lighter than, say, mitchell froom's, but suzanne vega is probably not a terrible point of reference, although i think veirs' lyrics are stronger > vulgaires machin - requiem pour les sourds oops, "machins" plural. melodic punk -- a bit like bad religion, maybe -- with co-ed french (quebecois, i guess) vox. > watch out for rockets - shaman shit lo-fi indie pop, recommended if you like pre-matador guided by voices, but not a one-trick gbv ripoff; one song channels gbv and black sabbath in equal measure. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:24:10 -0400 (EDT) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) >Are we talking Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti here? I just downloaded >that from eMusic because I *love* "Bright Lit Blue Skies" and the rest >of the album seriously threw me or a loop! I can't decide if I think >it's twistedly cool or disgusting. Musically, in most places, it just >barely holds together. I would class it as one of the weirdest albums >I've heard. I think your description is quite apt! "twistedly cool or digusting", indeed! And "Bright Lit..." is a cover, too, which explains it's relative lack of weirdness. This is, of course, the most accessible Ariel Pink record by a good margin! Wacky. B ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:57:21 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) On 07/02/2010 05:24 PM, treesprite@earthlink.net wrote: > And "Bright Lit..." is a cover, too, which explains it's relative lack > of weirdness. And which also explains why I was very confused to see a release date of 2010 on it when it seemed like I had known it way longer than that, and why it sounds so amazingly like something I would have heard on turnmeondeadman on Live 365. I probably have! What I can't figure out is what it's doing on this album. The rest is mostly some sort of psychotic 70s disco. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #122 *******************************