tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72401543895251875452024-02-21T00:32:49.750+11:00AuralfoodOn a personal note...MusicGerbilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575227498451841171noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240154389525187545.post-64874157955311269122013-02-06T08:24:00.001+11:002013-02-06T08:24:39.523+11:00Listen Up 2013! / Jan Report<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">One</span> month in and the music weather report looks good.<br />
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3rd Jan, Beach House, Enmore Theatre<br />
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11st Jan, Django Django, The Metro<br />
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21st Jan, Dirty Projectors, Sydney Opera House<br />
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27th Jan, Perfume Genius, The Famous Spiegeltent<br />
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Pere Ubu - Lady from Shanghai<br />
Solange - True EP<br />
Everything Everything - Arc<br />
Yo La Tengo - Fade<br />
Christopher Owens - Lysandre<br />
I Am Kloot - Let It All In<br />
Radar Bros. - Eight<br />
Local Natives - Hummingbird<br />
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob<br />
My Bloody Valentine - MBV<br />
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Bjork - Bastards<br />
Eels - Wonderful, Glorious<br />
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse<br />
Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>11 Feb</u></span><br />
Foals - Holy Fire<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>18 Feb</u></span><br />
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>19 Feb</u></span><br />
Major Lazer - Free the Universe<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>26 Feb</u></span><br />
Atoms for Peace - AMOK<br />
Woodpigeon - Thumbtacks + Glue<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>5 Mar</u></span><br />
Son Volt - Honky Tonk<br />
They Might Be Giants - Nanobots<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>12 Mar</u></span><br />
David Bowie - The Next Day<br />
Devendra Banhart - Mala<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>19 Mar</u></span><br />
Low - The Invisible Way<br />
Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>26 Mar</u></span><br />
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine<br />
The Strokes - Comedown Machine<br />
Wavves - Afraid of Heights<br />
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The Flaming Lips - The Terror<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>9 Apr</u></span><br />
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual<br />
Villagers - {Awayland}<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>16 Apr</u></span><br />
Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost<br />
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>30 Apr</u></span><br />
!!! - THR!!!ER<br />
Akron/Family - Sub Verses<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>7 May</u></span><br />
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>14 May</u></span><br />
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts<br />
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Just a few days before 2012's RSD (21/4/2012), it looks as though The Flaming Lips' next magnum opus might not even make the shops in time.<br />
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Online chat hit fever pitch as most RSD releases are limited - Eager fans and ebay scalpers were all scurrying to secure a copy or more.<br />
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Not to be outdone by Jack White's blue liquid-filled single, Wayne has actually drawn blood from his collaborators and the band to make just 10 super rare blood-filled copies of the album. Proceeds from sales (A measely $2,500 each) go to local charities The Oklahoma Humane Society and The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma.<br />
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The cover art is parody on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music, Vol. 1: Two Virgins (1968) album.<br />
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<li>"2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)" (featuring Ke$ha, Biz Markie and Hour of the Time Majesty 12) – 4:09</li>
<li>"Ashes in the Air" (featuring Bon Iver) – 6:13</li>
<li>"Helping the Retarded to Find God" (featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) – 7:03</li>
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<li>"Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee" (featuring Prefuse 73) – 3:17</li>
<li>"Children of the Moon" (featuring Tame Impala) – 5:32</li>
<li>"That Ain't My Trip" (featuring Jim James) – 3:47</li>
<li>"You, Man? Human???" (featuring Nick Cave) – 3:34</li>
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<li>"I'm Working at NASA on Acid" (featuring Lightning Bolt) – 7:59</li>
<li>"Do It!" (featuring Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band) – 3:28</li>
<li>"Is David Bowie Dying?" (featuring Neon Indian) – 6:36</li>
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<li>"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (featuring Erykah Badu) (written by Ewan MacColl) – 10:04</li>
<li>"Girl, You're So Weird" (featuring New Fumes) – 3:21</li>
<li>"I Don't Want You to Die" (featuring Chris Martin) – 4:13*</li>
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*"Tasered and Maced" (featuring Aaron Behrens of Ghostland Observatory) – 2:43 replaces the vinyl track 16 for the CD/digital release owing to Chris Martins' contractural obligations to EMI.<br />
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Not much to report for this 2nd half of the year - There's only a handful of notable albums to change the face of my <a href="http://auralfood.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/story-so-far-mid-year-report.html#links">mid year report</a>... Frank Ocean, Menomena, Grizzly Bear and Thee Oh Sees.<br />
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So, if the world ends tomorrow, it'd end on a sadly unspectacular note.<br />
Not that there weren't any highpoints; just not many that would go down as "classics".<br />
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Have been a glut concert-wise, and I'm glad to say most were around the 8/10 mark:<br />
26/03 - elbow (Bombay Bicycle Club supporting)<br />
03/04 - My Morning Jacket (Dawes Supporting)<br />
26/07 - Jack White<br />
27/07 - Father John Misty<br />
15/09 - Jonathan Wilson<br />
10/11 - Fat Freddy's Drop previewing their new album Blackbird <a href="http://play.sydneyoperahouse.com/index.php/media/1705-Fat-Freddys-Drop-Blackbird.html">http://play.sydneyoperahouse.com/index.php/media/1705-Fat-Freddys-Drop-Blackbird.html</a><br />
14/11 - Beck<br />
16/11 - Grizzly Bear<br />
02/12 - Spiritualized<br />
14/12 - Tame Impala<br />
(With a further 5 lined up if said Armageddon gets put on hold).<br />
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Best 75 of 2012<br />
001 Father John Misty – Fear Fun<br />
002 The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (RSD Version)<br />
003 Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE<br />
004 Damien Jurado – Maraqopa<br />
005 Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It<br />
006 Alt-J – An Awesome Wave<br />
007 Chromatics – Kill for Love<br />
008 Menomena – Moms<br />
009 Beach House – Bloom<br />
010 Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan<br />
011 Grizzly Bear – Shields<br />
012 Caetano Veloso and David Byrne – Live at Carnegie Hall<br />
013 Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II<br />
014 Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light<br />
015 Django Django – Django Django<br />
016 The Walkmen – Heaven<br />
017 John Talabot – fIN<br />
018 Tame Impala – Lonerism<br />
019 Lambchop – Mr. M<br />
020 Sweet Sweet Lies – The Hare, The Hound & The Tortoise<br />
021 Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Marble Downs<br />
022 Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos<br />
023 Islands – A Sleep and A Forgetting<br />
024 Dr. John – Locked Down<br />
025 Fiona Apple – Idler Wheel<br />
026 Jack White – Blunderbuss<br />
027 Dr. Dog – Be the Void<br />
028 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes<br />
029 Bob Dylan – Tempest<br />
030 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!<br />
031 Fanfarlo – Rooms Filled with Light<br />
032 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here<br />
033 Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself<br />
034 Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Will Johnson and Anders Parker – New Multitudes<br />
035 Tindersticks – The Something Rain<br />
036 Giant Giant Sand – Tucson<br />
037 Beachwood Sparks – The Tarnished Gold<br />
038 The 2 Bears – Be Strong<br />
039 Quantic & Alice Russell – Look Around the Corner<br />
040 Twin Shadow – Confess<br />
041 Tanlines – Mixed Emotions<br />
042 David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant<br />
043 Brendan Benson – What Kind of World<br />
044 Dexys – One Day I’m Going to Soar<br />
045 Wild Nothing – Nocturne<br />
046 Monolake – Ghosts<br />
047 Orbital – Wonky<br />
048 Matthew Dear – Beams<br />
049 Black Moth Super Rainbow – Cobra Juicy<br />
050 The Temper Trap – The Temper Trap<br />
051 Passion Pit – Gossamer<br />
052 Hot Chip – In Our Heads<br />
053 Delta Spirit – Delta Spirit<br />
054 The Shins – Port of Morrow (Severely marked down for appalling song order)<br />
055 VCMG – Ssss<br />
056 Sinead O’Connor – How About I Be Me (And You Be You)<br />
057 Animal Collective – Centipede Hz<br />
058 Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky’s Edge<br />
059 Woods – Bend Beyond<br />
060 Calexico – Algiers<br />
061 Band of Horses – Mirage Rock<br />
062 Scissor Sisters – Magic Hour<br />
063 M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion<br />
064 Madonna – MDNA<br />
065 Lana Del Rey – Born to Die (Remember her?)<br />
066 Miike Snow – Happy to You<br />
067 The Presets – Pacifica<br />
068 Cat Power – Sun<br />
069 Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man<br />
070 The Vaccines – The Vaccines Come of Age<br />
071 The Dandy Warhols – This Machine<br />
072 Simian Mobile Disco – Unpatterns<br />
073 Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits<br />
074 The xx – Coexist<br />
075 Yeasayer – Fragrant World<br />
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<br />MusicGerbilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575227498451841171noreply@blogger.com0Sydney NSW, Australia-33.8674869 151.20699020000006-34.712017900000006 149.91609670000005 -33.0229559 152.49788370000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240154389525187545.post-8521046340922685392012-07-28T10:40:00.000+10:002012-12-21T02:43:57.061+11:00Father John Misty - Oxford Art Factory (27/7/2012)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let it be known that <a href="http://auralfood.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/father-john-misty-fear-fun-2012.html">FJM</a> (J. Tillman) loves to shake his tush.<br />
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Fact is, he cavorts and loosens up like a shaman possessed.<br />
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When I saw someone in the audience approach J. for an autograph during the night's first support act (Melodie Nelson), I knew it was a case of now or never - Dashed across the road, got myself a marker, headed back, purchased a vinyl copy of <em>Fear Fun</em> (When I already own the CD) and a T-shirt, all in time to catch the second support act, Mosman Alder. <br />
This is, after all, my favourite <a href="http://auralfood.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/story-so-far-mid-year-report.html">album of the year</a> so far. Count me a fanboy.<br />
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When the band opened with <em>Fun Times in Babylon, </em>we knew we were in for a special night. <br />
Jeff Frattiti (Sp?) dressed in polka dot pullover and spacey spandex, looking like a drag Cobain gone wrong, immediately challenged us visually and it was clear we weren't in Kansas anymore.<br />
He was especially animated during <em>Hollywood Forever Centery Sings </em>and gestured his bass as a shovel to the lyrics' "someone's got to help me dig" <em>.</em><br />
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The set consisted the entire album, only <em>O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me </em>was left out. Arrangements deviated little from that on the album; bar the extra howl and extended wig-out jam & feedback frenzy. The band (Same lineup as that on the KEXP clip below) sounded great live. <br />
Highlights for me were <em>Only Son of the Ladies' Man, </em><em>Nancy from Now On </em>and<em> Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings</em><br />
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It was hilarious when Misty got foggy and forgot the beginning lyrics to <em>Now I'm Learning to Love the War</em> and ad-libbed on the spot.<br />
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for a night of blissful, joyous music.<br />
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How time seems to fly. While the first half of the year (musically) doesn't seem too fruitful and offerings haven't exactly been earth-shattering; there is, thank heavens, music worth celebrating.<br />
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Doesn't seem all that long ago either, that I have made some RSD (Record Store Day April 21, 2012) purchases and have since been hatching two as yet unpublished posts - Reviews of The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends and Jack White's Blunderbuss...<br />
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And here we are, mid point already!<br />
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Drum roll please, my 25 favourite albums thus far -<br />
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1. Father John Misty - Fear Fun<br />
2. The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends<br />
3. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa<br />
4. The Walkmen - Heaven<br />
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave<br />
6. Beach House - Bloom <br />
7. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It<br />
8. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light<br />
9. Jack White - Blunderbuss<br />
10. Chromatics - Kill for Love<br />
11. Caetano Veloso and David Byrne - Live at Carnegie Hall<br />
12. Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Will Johnson and Anders Parker - New Multitudes<br />
13. Django Django - Django Django<br />
14. John Talabot - ƒIN<br />
15. Dr. John - Locked Down<br />
16. Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar<br />
17. Lambchop - Mr. M<br />
18. Giant Giant Sand - Tuscon<br />
19. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself<br />
20. M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion<br />
21. Brendan Benson - What Kind of World<br />
22. The 2 Bears - Be Strong<br />
23. Trembling Bells & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Marble Downs<br />
24. fun. - Some Nights<br />
25. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die<br />
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There's still a few which have yet to take root: Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, Fanfarlo's Rooms Filled with Light, The Tallest Man On Earth's There's No Leaving Now, Liars' WIXIW.<br />
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The second half of the year shall see new releases by Animal Collective, The Antlers, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Bat for Lashes, Beak>,Bloc Party, Calexico, Matthew Dear, Dirty Projectors, Foals, Grizzly Bear, Mission of Burma, The Raveonettes, St. Vincent and David Byrne, Swans, The xx, Yeasayer<br />
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Little did I know that this year's Fleet Foxes concert @ Sydney Opera House (02/01/2012) was more momentous than I'd thought - It was to be my first and last Fleet Foxes concert.<br />
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Mining the same mathematically progressive minimal techno spheres, Simian Mobile Disco delivers another mindbending classic in Unpatterns.<br />
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It is often a true sign of a master to make things look so deceptively effortless; after all, <a href="http://www.madonna.com/">Madonna</a>'s only had three decades to perfect her craft. It is perhaps this very reason that <em>some </em>critics, on first glance, has given her 12th album the brush off.<br />
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A four year hiatus after 2008's <em>Hard Candy</em>, she appears re-energised with a renewed sense of purpose. Perhaps it's to reclaim her throne borrowed by Lady Gaga; perhaps it's to lay a solid groundwork for Interscope Records (This being her first away from Warner Brothers since 1982); perhaps it's a freedom cry after her divorce from Guy Ritchie. It's also her 30th anniversary celebration in the business.<br />
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MDNA (An obvious play on MDMA aka 3,4-methylenedioxy-<i>N</i>-methylamphetamine aka Ecstasy) has all the elements of a great dance-pop album: Pumping rubbery bass with thumping beats, edgy and pulsing electro flourishes, robotic jerkpop to ragga-monster raps via M.I.A. and Nicki keeps proceedings fierce on the autobiographical and attitude-laden <em>I Don't Give A</em> (ala Kanye West's<em> Monster)</em>; whilst boppy cheerleader girlpop and pseudo-operatic choir provides the balance between the harder club tracks and the radio-friendly ones. Heck, there's even a cod banjo moment.<br />
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A close cousin of <em>La Isla Bonita</em> features a brief sampling of herself sampling ABBA on <em>Masterpiece</em> (<em>Hung Up/Gimme Gimme Gimme</em>). The requisite slow sad song replete with strings on <em>Falling Free</em> is arguably not the best song to close Disc 1.<br />
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Some promos from their recently re-released deluxe editions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaders_of_the_Free_World" title="Leaders of the Free World"><em>Leaders of the Free World</em></a> (2005) & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_of_Thousands" title="Cast of Thousands"><em>Cast of Thousands</em></a> (2003):<br />
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Their live show @ <a href="http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2012/05/05/orbital-uk">The Metro</a> 05/05/2012.<br />
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Legendary American singer-songwriter and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee Woody Guthrie's seminal lyrics have again taken center stage for another project by Messrs Will Johnson (Centro-matic/Monsters of Folk), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt), Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket/Monsters of Folk) and Anders Parker (Varnaline/Space Needle).</div>
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Commemorating the centennial year of Guthrie's birthday, the band set music to Guthrie's lyrics much like Wilco & Billy Bragg did with Mermaid Avenue I & II (1998 & 2000).</div>
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Jay Farrar's original vision in 2006 started as a solo project. He approached Nora Guthrie who oversees the Woody Guthrie Foundation. A year later, Jay begun combing through some of the 3000 lyrics with Anders and was later joined by Yim and Will in 2009. The album was slated for a 2011 release, but was completed too late.</div>
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An album of sepia-tinged Country, Electric-Blues, full of warm earnest beauty and emotional depth.</div>
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The Shins return with their fourth album after their triumphant Grammy-nominated* <em>Wincing the Night Away</em> (2007), a 5-year hiatus.<br />
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Their three-album contract with Sub Pop expired in 2008, and Port of Morrow debuts on head James Mercer's own Aural Apothecary Label, via Columbia Records. There's also a new line-up of band members.<br />
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In between, Mercer has been busy: Cameos on Modest Mouse' <em>"Florida," "Missed the Boat," "We've Got Everything"</em> and Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse's ill-fated legal-wrangle nightmare that was <em>Dark Night of the Soul</em> and also formed Broken Bells (My #1 albums for 2009 and 2010 respectively).<br />
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The album begins promisingly enough with <em>The Rifle's Spiral</em> followed by lead single<em> Simple Song</em> featuring James' trademark vocal pirouettes. Both sounding more beefed up than usual and slightly vocodered suggesting **gasps** chart ambition, but this actually does not work in their favour. <br />
Their strength lies in their gentler <u><em>old school</em> <em>charm</em></u>, best exemplified by track 5 <em>September</em>, which oddly sounds like a throwback to their original sound.<br />
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Halfway through though, the album seems to loose steam and focus; appearing to alternatively speed up and slow down hopping between conflicting personalities / moods. There's a pervasive sense of listlessness. A different song sequence might have helped it flow better, but is that enough?<br />
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Coming across like some bastard lovechild between Queen and Scissor Sisters and with enough anthemic pop nous to sink the Titanic, the album is produced by Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West) and first single cameos the effervescent Janelle Monae.<br />
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It's only been one month in and there's a whole slew of releases set for release in 2012. <br />
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Spritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light<br />
The Flaming Lips TBA (Collaboration galore)<br />
The Magnetic Fields Love at the Bottom of the Sea<br />
The Shins Port of Morrow<br />
The xx TBA<br />
Simian Mobile Disco TBA<br />
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It<br />
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Lambchop Mr. M<br />
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself<br />
M. Ward A Wasteland Companion<br />
Damien Jurado Maraqopa<br />
Delta Spirit Delta Spirit<br />
Dr. Dog Be the Void<br />
Madonna MDNA<br />
Jack White Blunderbuss<br />
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball<br />
MGMT TBA<br />
Garbage Not Your Kind of People<br />
U2 Songs of Ascent (U2's Chinese Democracy)<br />
The Dandy Warhols This Machine<br />
The Killers TBA (Back to your day job, Brandon)<br />
Outkast TBA<br />
Mumford & Sons TBA (About time!)<br />
Franz Ferdinand TBA<br />
Culture Club TBA<br />
Orbital Wonky<br />
Bear in Heaven I Love You, It’s Cool<br />
M.I.A. TBA (Despite Bad Girl finger flip)<br />
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The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville<br />
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror<br />
Santigold Master of My Make Believe<br />
ZZ Top TBA<br />
Aerosmith TBA<br />
Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth<br />
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Air - Le Voyage dans la Lune<br />
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral<br />
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas<br />
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die<br />
of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks<br />
Cate Le Bon - Cyrk<br />
Chairlift - Something<br />
The Big Pink - Future This<br />
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<br />MusicGerbilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575227498451841171noreply@blogger.com0Sydney NSW, Australia-33.873651 151.2068896-33.8868345 151.1871486 -33.860467500000006 151.22663060000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240154389525187545.post-6796828724258651912012-02-04T18:23:00.001+11:002012-02-04T20:18:07.420+11:00Live Review: The Horrors @ Metro Theatre 2/2/2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Standing at 6' 5'' tall, Faris Badwan of <a href="http://thehorrors.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Horrors</a> cuts a commanding figure.<br />
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Their heady mix of 80's synth-psychedelic-goth were equal parts Bowie, Bauhaus and Joy Division.<br />
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Playing hits from their last three albums, they had their fans jumping and singing along.<br />
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While Rhys Webb displayed some cool holding his bass upright, guitarist Joshua Hayward went apeshit during a feedback session and knocked an amp off...<br />
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After having been to so many concerts, I believe this was my first "mosh" experience. Note to self - Invest in some steel-capped boots!!<br />
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This is somehwat different when Google-owned YouTube outright rejected <a href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/perfume_genius/" target="_blank">Perfume Genius</a>' 16-second promo clip for "promoting mature sexual themes" and being "not family safe." <br />
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Ex-R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe has weighed in claiming the decision dumbheaded, further adding "<em>I find their actions in doing so disgraceful and cowardly. YouTube, shame on you. You were born of the 21st Century, now act like it."</em> Hear, hear!!<br />
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Lead single "Hood" deals with one's insurmountable insecurity and hence the need for "masks" in a relationship.</div>
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Track 8 off the album via <a href="http://thefourohfive.com/" target="_blank">The 405</a>.</div>
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Not many bands can boast having a multi-octave, falsetto-singing harpist as a frontman.<br />
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There are two sides to the band <a href="http://activechildmusic.com/" target="_blank">Active Child</a>: One of earlier material heavily infuenced by 80's New Wave electropop ala New Order / Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and; the more recent, maturer, R&B-tinged soul-chamber-pop.<br />
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When Pat Grossi unexpectedly joined the audience during support act Caitlin Park's set and stood beside me, I froze not knowing what to say. <br />
In between songs, I managed to tell him that they were my favourite newcomer of <a href="http://auralfood.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-best-of-roundup.html" target="_blank">2011</a>; that I really enjoyed the album; found out that he was born in Philadelphia and now based in LA; offered him a drink to which he politely declined; and wished him a good show.<br />
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Performing tracks from their Curtis Lane EP and You Are All I See LP, the evening was filled with beautifully uplifting and hypnotic songs balanced by boppy danceable electro numbers.<br />
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As part of <a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2012/Music/Lambchop/">Sydney Festival 2012</a>, <a href="http://www.lambchop.net/">Lambchop</a> is heading to our shores to kickstart what must surely be a big year for them.<br />
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Not content to just front his band, Kurt Wagner is making the most of his trip by also appearing in 2 gigs as one half of <a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2012/Music/KORT-City/">KORT</a> (with Cortney Tidwell as his partner-in-crime) promoting their 2010 effort, Invariable Heartache; as well as running a <a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2012/Music/Kurt-Wagner/">solo sideshow</a>.<br />
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Primed to release their 11th studio album, Mr. M on 21st Feb 2012, I'm excited to hear some new tracks live prior to the album's release.<br />
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It was a night of beautiful and delicate songs which was seriously marred by heavy handed sound mixing at the soundboard.<br />
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Kurt Wagner's soft dulcet tones was instead over-amped and over-reverbed to the point of sounding boomy but distant; as though trapped in an echo chamber next door. Much of the instruments were accorded the same fate except for the drummer who sounded present and accounted for.<br />
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Hopefully the band sounded better elsewhere in the recital hall (I was seated on level 3).<br />
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One of the my most beloved bands which bowed out at the top of ther game with a concert at Madison Square Garden (No less) on 2/4/2011, has compiled their video footage into a documentary directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (Pulse Films Limited) and is now an entry in the Sundance Film Festival 22/1/2012.<br />
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Must admit that I was late onto this marvellous album by <a href="http://www.songsofjonathanwilson.com/">Jonathan Wilson</a> (Would definitely have made my <a href="http://auralfood.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-best-of-roundup.html">Top 50</a>).<br />
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Born in North Carolina, 1974, Jonathan was part of short-lived band <span class="mw-headline" id="Muscadine">Muscadine and </span>has an unreleased solo album Frankie Ray (2007).<br />
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But mainly, he has rubbed shoulders and aligned himself with luminaries such as Wilco, Roy Harper, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne, Barry Goldberg, Chris Robinson, Gary Louris, Andy Cabic, Gary Mallaber, Z Berg, Johnathan Rice; <br />
all the while amassing a vast selection of musical instruments, building his studio "Five Star" and steadfastly waiting for a recording contract which didn't mean signing his life away.<br />
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Largely sung with hushed harmonies, the melodies hark back to LA circa late 60's and early 70's when life was unhurried. Even the length of the tracks suggest a time when people had longer attention span.<br />
Personally, the sassy chord progressions recall Steely Dan while hamonies bring to mind a guilty pleasure ~ England Dan & John Ford Coley! (Please don't ask me how my mind works...)<br />
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Scratch beneath the surface, and you'll find complex arrangements with sudden shifts in time signatures.<br />
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Production is always sun-drenched warm and earthy. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Voted amongst most "Best Albums of 2011" lists:</span></div>
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Uncut (#16) and also named New Artist of the Year.</div>
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Beirut Sydney Opera House 5/1/2012<br />
Lambchop Sydney Recital Hall 21/1/2012</div>
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The Horrors The Metro Theatre 2/2/2012<br />
Portugal. The Man The Metro Theatre 7/2/2012</div>
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My Morning Jacket The Enmore Theatre 3/4/2012</div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 2012!!!</span></div>MusicGerbilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575227498451841171noreply@blogger.com0Sydney NSW, Australia-33.873651 151.2068896-33.8868345 151.1871486 -33.860467500000006 151.22663060000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240154389525187545.post-71868528898605545402011-12-16T01:12:00.001+11:002011-12-16T01:12:30.104+11:00Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo (New Extension Edition)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">Attention all Super Furry Animals / Gruff Rhys fans!</span><br />
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There'll be a new edition of Rhys' 3rd solo album 'Hotel Shampoo' with 4 b-sides and the 'Atheist Xmas EP' thrown in!<br />
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The release date is set for 19th Dec 2011 - Only problem being that the pre-order link on <a href="http://www.gruffrhys.com/hotel-shampoo-opens-new-extension/">Gruffington Post</a> brings you to Mr Rhys' Facebook page and vice versa.<br />
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Let's hope they have this fixed soon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shark Ridden Waters<br />
Honey All Over<br />
Sensations In The Dark<br />
Vitamin K<br />
Take A Sentence<br />
Conservation Conversation<br />
Sophie Softly<br />
Christopher Columbus<br />
Space Dust #2<br />
At The Heart Of Love<br />
Patterns Of Power<br />
If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)<br />
Rubble Rubble<br />
I Totally Understand<br />
Xenodocheionology<br />
Follow The Sunflower Trail (Theme Tune For a National Strike)<br />
Whale Trail<br />
Post Apocalypse Christmas<br />
At The End Of The Line<br />
Slashed Wrists This Christmas</td></tr>
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Incidentally, <a href="http://www.gruffrhys.com/hotel-shampoo-wins-album-of-the-year-at-fancy-artrocker-magazine-award-ceremony/">ArtRocker</a> magazine has also awarded 'Hotel Shampoo' Album of the Year 2011.</div>
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