A New MOTM Thread
Posted by: matthewr on 26 July 2002
(As I couldn't find the last one)
Those of you who have the good fortune to visit Jawed's will well know that moment when, after a few pleasurable hours listening to other guests' music, the person who is on their first visit naively says "Why don't you play some of your CDs Jawed?". Obviously said person learns their lesson pretty quick but by then everyone has had to listen to some vague hissing noises with the odd random click and pop and the local dogs have run off into the distance yelping.
It comes as some surprise then to find myself listening to "Life is Full of Possibilities" by Dntel and liking it a lot as I suspect Jawed would approve wholeheartedly. It is decidedly of the clicks, cuts & glitch school of electronicana but unusually (I guess) for this genre its full of fantastic tunes. Specfically its full of beautiful, lush ambient electronic epics with vocals by a variety of US Indie luminaries (a bloke from Slint/For Caranation, Ben from Death Cab for Cutie, the lovely Rachel Haden from That Dog). Its possibly the only album I've ever heard that could be featured in Wire and yet will have you singing along.
You'll find a couple of very brief Real Audio clips at Anywhere Anyone and The Dream of Evan and Chan, more samples and info at Epitonic and a glowing review at the excellent Pitchfork Media
Matthew
Those of you who have the good fortune to visit Jawed's will well know that moment when, after a few pleasurable hours listening to other guests' music, the person who is on their first visit naively says "Why don't you play some of your CDs Jawed?". Obviously said person learns their lesson pretty quick but by then everyone has had to listen to some vague hissing noises with the odd random click and pop and the local dogs have run off into the distance yelping.
It comes as some surprise then to find myself listening to "Life is Full of Possibilities" by Dntel and liking it a lot as I suspect Jawed would approve wholeheartedly. It is decidedly of the clicks, cuts & glitch school of electronicana but unusually (I guess) for this genre its full of fantastic tunes. Specfically its full of beautiful, lush ambient electronic epics with vocals by a variety of US Indie luminaries (a bloke from Slint/For Caranation, Ben from Death Cab for Cutie, the lovely Rachel Haden from That Dog). Its possibly the only album I've ever heard that could be featured in Wire and yet will have you singing along.
You'll find a couple of very brief Real Audio clips at Anywhere Anyone and The Dream of Evan and Chan, more samples and info at Epitonic and a glowing review at the excellent Pitchfork Media
Matthew
Is this the Circulatory System album you are talking about:
It got a rave review at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/circulatory-system/circulatory-system.shtml
Matthew
It got a rave review at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/circulatory-system/circulatory-system.shtml
Matthew
The traditional career path for guitar bands is to start off wonderfully noisy and full of energy and anger and somehow overcome the lack of musicianship, then learn a bit more guitar, peak with the third album and begin a gradual decline into muso noodling hell.
Sleater-Kinney, on the other hand, appear to keep getting better and better and can still get angry with the best of them and the new album "One Beat" is their best yet. Its the usual S-K forumla with a mixture of snarling guitars, searing vocals, lots of in yer face Feminista attitude and great pop tunes all pushed along by Janet Weiss's fantastic drumming but its an althogether a more consistent and convincing than "All Hands on the Bad One". It even manages to be fantastic despite having a song about Spetember 11th ("The President hides while working men rush to give their lives") which is usually enough to have me wretching in the corner.
It is of course a tragedy that are not more famous and richer than the likes of The Hives, The Vines and The Strokes escapes me as they are assuredly more talented. Perhaps the use of the definite article and a short and memorable plural noun is somehow required.
Matthew
I heart Corin Tucker
Sleater-Kinney, on the other hand, appear to keep getting better and better and can still get angry with the best of them and the new album "One Beat" is their best yet. Its the usual S-K forumla with a mixture of snarling guitars, searing vocals, lots of in yer face Feminista attitude and great pop tunes all pushed along by Janet Weiss's fantastic drumming but its an althogether a more consistent and convincing than "All Hands on the Bad One". It even manages to be fantastic despite having a song about Spetember 11th ("The President hides while working men rush to give their lives") which is usually enough to have me wretching in the corner.
It is of course a tragedy that are not more famous and richer than the likes of The Hives, The Vines and The Strokes escapes me as they are assuredly more talented. Perhaps the use of the definite article and a short and memorable plural noun is somehow required.
Matthew
I heart Corin Tucker