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<title><![CDATA[Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold (Osaka, 2009)]]></title>
<link>http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/patrick-kelleher-you-look-cold-osaka-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ruanvv</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/patrick-kelleher-you-look-cold-osaka-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nick: is Patrick Kelleher by any chance Irish? yes. that helps. how.. wait, is that the album? ha ye]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong><a href="http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kellehercold.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-651" title="kellehercold" src="http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kellehercold.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="200" /></a>Nick: is Patrick Kelleher by any chance Irish?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">yes.</span></p>
<p><strong>that helps.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">how..</span><strong><br />
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<p><strong>wait, is that the album?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">ha yeah.</span></p>
<p><strong>it&#8217;s not a distant saw-mill?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">no.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;"><span style="color:#ff00ff;">{later}</span><br />
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<p><strong>it&#8217;s very interesting.</strong></p>
<p><strong>very interesting indeed.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I think.</strong></p>
<p><strong>somewhat&#8230;atavistic?</strong></p>
<p><strong>if that is the right word.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">you tell me.</span></p>
<p><strong>yeah, it&#8217;s the right word, it&#8217;s what I mean.</strong></p>
<p><strong>well, in places, not everywhere.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">this dictionary site is super-helpful; –adjective   of, pertaining to, or characterized by atavism.</span></p>
<p><strong>hahaha</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">oh wait, here it is; reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type.</span></p>
<p><strong>yes that&#8217;s it, do you get me now?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">yeah I can see that, sure.</span></p>
<p><strong>it&#8217;s not very original though.</strong></p>
<p><strong>there&#8217;s someone else who makes music just like this.</strong></p>
<p><strong>not that that matters a great deal.</strong></p>
<p><strong>the only problem with so many of these things, it fails to keep up the interest.</strong></p>
<p><strong>after a while you start to say &#8216;ehhh yeah ok, I&#8217;ve heard it now&#8217;.</strong></p>
<p><strong>it starts to disappear up it&#8217;s own arse basically.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I know that&#8217;s a nasty way of saying it but&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p><strong>you know what I mean right?</strong></p>
<p><strong>maybe you just need to listen to it in a slightly different way, rather than as a whole album.</strong></p>
<p><strong>or maybe it&#8217;s&#8230;hmmmm.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;">{track 11: I Am Eustace}</span></p>
<p><strong>here&#8217;s something different.</strong></p>
<p><strong>maybe they just got the sequence wrong?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#00ff00;">One man, lots of synths, junkshop instruments, reverb. It&#8217;s cold, it&#8217;s desolate, it suits the view from my window, dead trees against grey nothing. But it&#8217;s good. Tonight the good folks at Foggy Notions have Mr. Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands playing with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather" target="_blank">Tickley Feather</a> in Whelans. Wrap up warm.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#00ff00;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/patrickkelleher" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/patrickkelleher</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Two New Songs]]></title>
<link>http://bbbbrainbow.com/2009/11/04/two-new-songs/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brainbow</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bbbbrainbow.com/2009/11/04/two-new-songs/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a new video for Trashy Boys (mp3) by Tickley Feather, who is part of Animal Collective]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Here is a new video for <em>Trashy Boys</em> (<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?j0521qjmmlz">mp3</a>) by Tickley Feather, who is part of Animal Collective&#8217;s Paw Tracks label.</p>
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<p>&#160;</p>
<p>And lately at the BBBBrainbow house we have been listening a lot to a band I know from back home in Atlanta called the Carnivores.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="All Night Dead USA" src="http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/81/l_0898a07de1b24a1f99eb0681b617da40.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="450" /></p>
<p><em>Shark Teeth</em> (<a href="http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/mixt_a/songs/09_Carnivores_-_Shark_Teeth.mp3">mp3</a>) from their full-length &#8220;All Night Dead USA.&#8221;</p>
<p>-Danny</p>
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<title><![CDATA[tickley feather: hors d'oeuvres (2009)]]></title>
<link>http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/10/05/tickley-feather-hors-doeuvres-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wears The Trousers magazine</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/10/05/tickley-feather-hors-doeuvres-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tickley Feather Hors d&#8217;Oeuvres •••• Paw Tracks Annie Sachs took on her present Tickley Feather]]></description>
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<h3>Tickley Feather<br />
<span style="font-weight:normal;">Hors d&#8217;Oeuvres ••••<br />
<span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Paw Tracks</span></span></h3>
<p>Annie Sachs took on her present Tickley Feather <em>nom de guerre</em> in 2004 after realising that her singular musical style was just too atypical to work in anything other than a one-woman outfit. Despite being sought after by various wannabe collaborators, she embraced an independent, avant-garde approach and released her first album back in Spring 2008, a self-titled affair put out through Animal Collective’s own Paw Prints imprint. The zigzagging tendencies of the divergent, bizarre and inventive sounds assembled on that release continue on <em>Hors d&#8217;Oeuvres</em>, though somewhat more consolidated in their ambitions. The dense four-track layers of her previous work are blown up here, still very much DIY in nature but zooming in with a heady, glowing energy. The song structures offer Sachs&#8217;s idiosyncratic arrangements a slightly sturdier frame, sounding compact and contained in measured beat boundaries that recall more conventional genres.</p>
<p><!--more-->If Sachs&#8217;s debut was a somewhat space-bound, star-filled mystery, <em>Hors d’Oeuvres</em> is a field of opening flowers, responding to some rushing warmth of light and joy. Recorded in a dilapidated farmhouse in the Shenandoah Woods of rural Virginia, the songs are larger and more melodic; every aspect of the instrumentation is filtered through an amplifying fuzz, from the beats and samples to the electro melodies and Sachs&#8217;s ever-ethereal, shimmering vocals that spiral through the songs like surfing spirits – blurry, reverberating waves of barely audible words that flow out towards the listener like currents of tone and sound rather then clear narratives. The ghostly sound effects that modulate her agile soprano stay soothingly strange and emotive rather then abrasive and hostile, spreading a warmth throughout the synthetically adjusted mediums which could so easily have translated into a clammy, robotic coldness. Every now and then a word or chorus becomes clear, reassuring us that Sachs is indeed speaking in an earthly language, but the overall effect is a stream-of-consciousness rhythm that should be trusted and enjoyed on intuition. Trying to transcribe, let alone dissect what she’s actually saying, would be to defeat the point.</p>
<p><em>Hors d’Oeuvres</em> sways from experimental forays onto more reliable ground with adventurous spirit. ‘Club Rhythm’ could be a chillout dance track for forest ravers while ‘Tickley Plays Guitar’ clangs and clashes on a rather loud electric six-string, throwing in church bells at the close for good measure. ‘Sure Relaxing’ takes things into the deep with its bendy, space age vocals, though album opener ‘Muscles’ prepares the way cordially beforehand with trippy, cricket buzz modulations and curvy bass notes. ‘Roses Of Romance’ centres the album midway with some romantic, slow-burning electro, a kind of heart-thudding shoegaze that’s both sensual and melancholy, while standout track ‘Trashy Boys’ merges a pleasantly unusual beat with all the dark-wave glam of a Jesus &#38; The Mary Chain bassline.</p>
<p>This very supple album sees Sachs growing as an artist, learning to intuitively follow her own leads and give a little more where she may have been previously elusive. Comparisons with other experimental, cross-genre pioneers CocoRosie are legitimate, but only in the loosest sense since the Tickley Feather sound is very much an original creation. Retaining the freshness of the debut and fleshing it out with an all-embracing, inspired energy, <em>Hors d’Oeuvres</em> should win over any would-be fans who were precariously undecided last year. In all, it&#8217;s a marvellously irregular album from an exceptionally creative artist.</p>
<p><strong>Charlotte Richardson Andrews</strong><br />
<span style="color:#c0c0c0;">UK release date: 19/10/09; </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather" target="_blank"><span style="color:#999999;">www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather</span></a></p>
<p><span style="color:#800000;"><a style="color:#ff3333;text-decoration:none;" href="http://wearsthetrousers.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/notadrum.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">FREE MP3:</span></a></span><a style="color:#ff3333;text-decoration:none;" href="http://wearsthetrousers.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/notadrum.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"> Tickley Feather, ‘Not A Drum’</span></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[TALK NORMAL FEATURED on STEREOGUM. Clic the Pic.]]></title>
<link>http://shinkoyo.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/talk-normal-featured-on-stereogum-clic-the-pic/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>shin12koyo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shinkoyo.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/talk-normal-featured-on-stereogum-clic-the-pic/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Their new album Sugarland is out via 10/27 via Rare Book Room. The duo has a hometown show then hits]]></description>
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<p>Their new album <em>Sugarland</em> is out via 10/27 via <a style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#096fa9;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;" href="http://therarebookroom.com/RBR/1.html">Rare Book Room</a>. The duo has a hometown show then hits the road:</p>
<p style="font-size:13px;margin:11px 0 0;padding:5px 13px;">10/03 &#8211; Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (WFMU Fest) #<br />
10/27 &#8211; New York, NY @ Cakeshop %<br />
10/28 &#8211; South Hadley, MA @ Mount Holyoke<br />
10/29 &#8211; Providence, RI @ Building 16 ^<br />
10/30 &#8211; New York, NY @ TBA<br />
10/31 &#8211; Washington, DC @ American University !!<br />
11/01 &#8211; Baltimore, MD @ TBD<br />
11/02 &#8211; Philadelphia, PA @ PIFAS **<br />
11/03 &#8211; Pittsburgh, PA @ The Nerve<br />
11/04 &#8211; Columbus, OH @ Cafe Bourbon<br />
11/05 &#8211; Louisville, KY @ Swan Dive<br />
11/06 &#8211; Chicago, IL @ TBA<br />
11/07 &#8211; Iowa City, IA @ TBA &#38;<br />
11/08 &#8211; Kansas City, KS @ TBD<br />
11/09 &#8211; Tulsa, OK @ TBD<br />
11/10 &#8211; Albuquerque, NM  @ TBD<br />
11/11 &#8211; Tempe or Phoenix, AZ @ TBD<br />
11/12 &#8211; San Diego, CA @ Music Trader ^^<br />
11/13 &#8211; Los Angeles, @ TBD<br />
11/14 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA @ Smell<br />
11/15 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA @ TBD<br />
11/16 &#8211; Oakland, CA @ TBD<br />
11/17 &#8211; San Francisco, CA @ TBD<br />
11/18 &#8211; Sacramento, CA @ TBD<br />
11/19 &#8211; Eugene, OR @ TBD<br />
11/20 &#8211; Portland, OR @ Backspace ((<br />
11/21 &#8211; Olympia, WA @ TBA<br />
11/22 &#8211; Vancouver, BC @ TBD<br />
11/23 &#8211; Seattle, WA @ TBD<br />
11/24 &#8211; Portland, OR @ Valentine&#8217;s ##<br />
11/27 &#8211; Salt Lake City, UT @ TBD<br />
11/28 &#8211; Denver, CO @ TBD<br />
11/29 &#8211; Lawrence, KS @ TBD<br />
11/30 &#8211; Iowa CIty, IA @ TBD<br />
12/01 &#8211; TBD<br />
12/02 &#8211; TBD<br />
12/03 &#8211; TBD<br />
12/04 &#8211; New York City @ TBD<br />
12/05 &#8211; New York City @ TBD</p>
<p style="font-size:13px;margin:11px 0 0;padding:5px 13px;"># w/ Teenage Jesus &#38; The Jerks, Sightings, Drunkdriver<br />
% w/ Pterodactyl, Antimagic<br />
^ w/ Little Teeth and Hyena<br />
!! w/ Tickley Feather and Soft Power<br />
** w/ Social Junk<br />
&#38; w/ Wet Hair and Cursillistas<br />
^^ w/ Blessure Grave, Wet Hair, and Entertainment<br />
(( w/ Wet Hair and Silver Interior<br />
## w/ Wet Hair and Eternal Tapestry</p>
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<title><![CDATA[free music friday: tickley feather]]></title>
<link>http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/09/11/free-music-friday-tickley-feather/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wears The Trousers magazine</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/09/11/free-music-friday-tickley-feather/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tickley Feather &#8216;Not A Drum&#8217; By most people&#8217;s standards, Annie Sachs, aka Tickley ]]></description>
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<span style="font-weight:normal;">&#8216;Not A Drum&#8217;</span></h3>
<p>By most people&#8217;s standards, Annie Sachs, aka Tickley Feather, goes a little off the compass. Originally from the wilds of rural Virginia before moving to Philadelphia, her self-titled debut snuck in quietly through the back door in 2008, its strange lo-fi noises and ghostly vocals beckoning for repeated listens, and your undivided attention. From spending four years putting her fragmented, spacey-folk sound together in her living room, to opening for Animal Collective and their newly solo member, Panda Bear, Sachs’s second full-length release, <em>Hors D’oeuvres</em>, will be creeping into the light on October 19th.</p>
<p>‘Not A Drum’ sees her return with a more accessible sound and a unsettling catchy hook; pop, but not in a wholesome sense. At all. The music-box chime coupled with the wave of distortion behind it gives it a kind of Baby-Jane-Hudson-by-the-Sea quality, with Annie&#8217;s delicate vocals wringing out in the distance for some added chills. An intriguing introduction to her new material; innocent with a hint of menace, as if Alice had followed the white rabbit, fallen down the hole and found a four-track recorder instead of an annoying Cheshire cat. Curiouser and curiouser indeed. MP3 after the jump.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#800000;"><a href="http://wearsthetrousers.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/notadrum.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">FREE MP3:</span></a></span><a href="http://wearsthetrousers.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/notadrum.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"> Tickley Feather, &#8216;Not A Drum&#8217;</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://wearsthetrousers.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/notadrum.mp3" target="_blank"></a></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather" target="_blank"><span style="color:#999999;">visit Annie on Myspace</span></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tickley Feather : Not A Drum [mp3]]]></title>
<link>http://shakakan.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/tickley-feather-not-a-drum-mp3/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Leonardo Calcagno</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shakakan.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/tickley-feather-not-a-drum-mp3/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Bites: Books on Abraham, Chuck Klosterman on the Fab 4, bike shares, Genesis P-Orridge, and more]]></title>
<link>http://vol1brooklyn.com/2009/09/10/bites-books-on-abraham-chuck-klostermanon-the-fab-4-bike-shares-genesis-p-orridge-and-more/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason Diamond</dc:creator>
<guid>http://vol1brooklyn.com/2009/09/10/bites-books-on-abraham-chuck-klostermanon-the-fab-4-bike-shares-genesis-p-orridge-and-more/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lit. The New York Review of Books has a stack of books on our 16th President Daniel Steel and ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Lit. </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nybooks.com"><em>The New York Review of Books</em></a> has a stack of<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23059"> books on our 16th President</a></p>
<p>Daniel Steel and &#8220;That <em>Madea</em> Guy&#8221; both make the list of &#8220;15 Rich-Ass Authors <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/?p=14862">I&#8217;ve Suddenly Decided to Like</a>&#8220;. (Thanks <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/">HTMLGIANT</a>)</p>
<p><a href="http://thedeskset.org">The Desk Set</a> asks: &#8220;Why should we, librarians and friends of libraries, <a href="http://thedeskset.org/?p=675">care about the state of the humanities?</a>&#8220;</p>
<p>JK Rowling getting <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/10/jk-rowling-stephenie-meyer-comic-book">a comic book </a></p>
<p><strong>Bikes</strong></p>
<p>Copenhagen Bike Share <a href="http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/09/copenhagen_bike.php">Competition</a>.  (Thanks <a href="http://www.coolhunting.com">Cool Hunting</a>)</p>
<p><strong>Music</strong> &#8211; <strong>Art</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/10/jk-rowling-stephenie-meyer-comic-book"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,32560/">Chuck Klosterman reviews</a> the recently remastered Beatles albums for <a href="http://www.avclub.com/">A.V. Club</a></p>
<p>New <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather">Tickley Feather</a> song <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/debut-tickley-feather-not-a-drum/25204/">on Impose</a></p>
<p><a href="http://genesisp-orridge.com/">Genesis P-Orridge </a> has an <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/09/genesis-breyer-p-orr.html">art show in New York</a>, and also gets a mention in the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com"><em>New Yorker</em></a> via  the <a href="http://www.sashafrerejones.com/">Sasha Frere-Jones</a> piece on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2009/09/14/090914crmu_music_frerejones">Nine Inch Nails</a>.</p>
<p>Titus Andronicus: &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailyiowan.com/2009/09/09/Arts/12734.html">existential and antiestablishment ideas</a>&#8220;.  (The Daily Iowan)</p>
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<link>http://guineapigwatermelon.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/tickley-feather/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[myspace grab the first album grab hors doeuvres buy &amp; buy requested by my favorite person]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather" target="_blank"><strong>myspace</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ggjhyvjyiz1" target="_blank"><strong>grab the first album</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?emgzyguyqqu" target="_blank"><strong>grab hors doeuvres</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.paw-tracks.com/shop.html" target="_blank"><strong>buy</strong></a> &#38; <a href="http://badmasterrecords.bigcartel.com/artist/tickley-feather" target="_blank"><strong>buy</strong></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[is Lo-Fi Indie Noise Rock the Soundtrack to this Depression?!]]></title>
<link>http://lacinta.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/is-lo-fi-indie-noise-rock-the-soundtrack-to-this-depression/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lacinta</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[America, and the rest of the world, is in the midst of one of the most significant economic recessio]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">America, and the rest of the world, is in the midst of one of the most significant economic recessions of modern times, and I believe the hard times, unemployment, uncertainty, anger, and frustration that is plaguing average citizens of the world, is going to result in a continued growth of lo-fi indie noise rock.  Much like early punk rock represented an anti-establishment DIY aesthetic, lo-fi indie noise rock has the potential to define a currently frustrated indie-youth subculture.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">The timing seems perfect, the metaphorical electro bubble, while not necessarily burst, has certainly been deflating.  The vast quantities of DIY electro acts and music blogs to emerge between the release of Justice&#8217;s <em>Cross</em> (2007) and Cut Copy&#8217;s <em>In Ghost Colors</em> (2008) is impressive, but while a lot of enjoyable dance/party music has came out of the recent electro wave, it has gotten to the point where enough is enough, and a lot of music critics and music fans have found themselves SCREAMING FOR SOMETHING MORE ABRASIVE.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">I know I&#8217;m not alone in this feeling.  Two easy examples of music publications who clearly share this attitude are Pitchfork Media, and <a href="http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2008/12/photos-deerhunter-x-times-new-viking-x.html" target="_blank">Gorilla vs Bear</a>.  Neither will dismiss great indie-pop/indie-electro/indie-disco (for the most part), but both have been pushing less accessible noise rock over the last 12 months.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Similar to how indie-pop (see Postal Service, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Super Furry Animals, Stars, The Pipettes, etc.) started loosing its dominance post-2005, electro/disco is starting to become a little less market dominant now (although for me dark-disco &#8211; ie. Glass Candy/Chromatics &#8211; still feels appropriate).</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">The bands that I currently have picked out for the &#8220;soundtrack to this depression&#8221; include No Age, Titus Andronicus, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Wavves, and Times New Viking.  These bands are not necessarily my personal favorites &#8211; although I love the <em>Wavvves LP</em> (2009) -  but I believe they constitute a genre, a time, and a place in music that we&#8217;ll be able to look back at, and say &#8220;oh yah, I listened to indie-noise-rock when my Bachelor&#8217;s Degree couldn&#8217;t even get me a job as a burista, and I couldn&#8217;t fucking handle listening to another indie-pop/electro-bloghouse hit on the fucking Hype Machine.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/viviangirls-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1647" title="viviangirls-1" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/viviangirls-1.jpg?w=290" alt="viviangirls-1" width="290" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">While the aforementioned noise-rock bands are the type of music that I&#8217;m really looking at here, I feel it would be selling this era of music short if I were not to mention indie-popular music from other genres that possess some of the lo-fi, harder to digest, less accessible aesthetics of noise-rock.  Just to note, when I say lo-fi I&#8217;m referring more to an audio aesthetic than a recording technique.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/noage.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1649" title="noage" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/noage.jpg?w=300" alt="noage" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Lower-fidelity rock acts like The Dutchess and the Duke gained popularity in 2008 (via Pitchfork&#8217;s Best New Music, surprise surprise), and indie-metal acts like Harvey Milk received a little more attention from not-so-metal music publications (but I still can&#8217;t relate to any metal, and I have a feeling a lot of indie-nerds feel the same).</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dum-dum-girls.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1648" title="dum-dum-girls" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/dum-dum-girls.jpg?w=250" alt="dum-dum-girls" width="250" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Recently garage rock bands like The Strange Boys (<a href="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/the-strange-boys-heard-you-wanna-beat-me-up/" target="_blank">a LaCinta favorite</a>), The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (<a href="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/january-recap-albums-songs-videos-films-etc/" target="_blank">early-Sloan</a> meets Exploding Hearts), and Cymbals Eat Guitars (Built To Spill meets early-Modest Mouse) have been received with excellent reviews.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/tnv.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1650" title="tnv" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/tnv.jpg?w=300" alt="tnv" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The Black Lips are set to release their grimy new album <em>200 Million Thousand</em> (2009), and they kicked off the online media frenzy with a<a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148746-update-the-black-lips-are-safe" target="_blank"> series of bad ass stories</a> from the band&#8217;s attempted India tour (which is probably being edited for VBS.tv as you read this).</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/titus-andronicus-the-airing-of-grievances.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1651" title="titus-andronicus-the-airing-of-grievances" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/titus-andronicus-the-airing-of-grievances.jpg?w=300" alt="titus-andronicus-the-airing-of-grievances" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Lo-fi psychedelic bands like Deerhunter, Atlas Sound, and Black Dice have seen increased attention over the last year, and newcomers like Pit Er Pat, Tickley Feather, and Blind Man&#8217;s Color have left strong first impressions.&#8221; The Pitchfork Twitter account (via Mark Richardson) recently tweeted, &#8220;<span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Are my headphones in worse shape than I thought or did the new black dice come up on shuffle?&#8221; &#8211; and to me at least, that comes across as a huge compliment.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/wavves.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1653" title="wavves" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/wavves.jpg?w=300" alt="wavves" width="300" height="287" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Even electro has had its share of lo-fi makeovers, with groups like Heartsrevotion and Pictureplane making danceable electro a little less accessible, and a little more noisy.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">There have also been 8-bit electronic groups like Truckasauras and Dan Deacon taking the stage, and musicians like Nite Jewel have put a layer of dirty makeup over the typically polished electro/disco model.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Given the notable rise in popularity of noisy indie music, rockers like No Age <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149025-no-age-partner-with-skateboard-apparel-company" target="_blank">becoming involved in skate culture</a> and starting their own record label, and teenagers like Nathan from Wavves receiving <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149081-wavves-releases-lp-on-itunes-new-single-tours" target="_blank">unbelievable initial attention</a>, it seems that &#8211; for the moment anyways &#8211; my prophecy of lo-fi indie noise rock becoming the soundtrack to this depression may just become reality.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;Got no car. Got no money.  I got nothing nothing nothing not at all.  Got no bike. Got no girlfriend. Got no time. Got no money. Got no friends. Got no family.&#8221; &#8211; Wavves</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Just you watch, day by day you are going to become more attracted to feedback, and distortion, and emotions other than &#8220;let&#8217;s dance!&#8221;  Times New Viking may sound like a hell-of-a-racket at first, but before long you&#8217;re going to be gritting your teeth, and banging your head, while you embrace the noisy racket.  It only makes sense, because you&#8217;re probably going to be unemployed, in debt, pissed off, and totally lost any day now.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Here&#8217;s some link to MP3&#8217;s so you can start building your soundtrack to the depression (if you haven&#8217;t started already).  Go ahead, a change in musical pace might be just what you need, and I mean what else are you going to do? Listen to MSTRKRFT&#8217;s abomination of a new electro album?!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">No Age &#8220;My Life&#8217;s Alright Without You&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://songbytoad.com/2009/02/feral-friday-favourites-meursault-gigs/" target="_blank">Link To MP3</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Titus Andronicus &#8220;No Future&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.mikewentwest.com/other/my-100th-post.html" target="_blank">Link to MP3</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Titus Andromicus &#8220;Arms Against Atrophy&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://74.220.219.63/~circlesq/2009/02/please-dont-whisper-sweet-nothings-in.html" target="_blank">Link to MP3</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Vivian Girls &#8220;Second Date&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://misspeakmusic.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/vivian-girls-camden-proud-galleries-140209/" target="_blank">Link to MP3</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Vivian Girls &#8220;Where Do You Run To?&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&#38; &#8220;Surfing Away (live)&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-vivian-girls-surfing-away.html" target="_blank">Link to MP3&#8217;s</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Dum Dum Girls &#8220;Catholicked&#8221; &#60;3</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/01/dum-dum-girls.html" target="_blank">Link to Mp3</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Wavves &#8220;So Bored&#8221; *&#38; &#8220;Weed Demon&#8221; &#60;3</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-wavves-7.html" target="_blank">Link to MP3&#8217;s</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Times New Viking &#8220;Drop-Out&#8221; &#60;3</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&#38; Titus Andronicus &#8220;My Time Outside the Womb&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&#38; No Age &#8220;Eraser&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://bridgingtheatlantic.blogspot.com/2009/02/ampm-favourites-of-2008.html" target="_blank">Link to MP3&#8217;s</a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong><em>If you can think of any other bands I should include in my lo-fi-indie-noise-rock grouping, or have any other thoughts that may be of interest, please leave a comment on the article.  I&#8217;m really hoping LaCinta&#8217;s readers take more to discussing matters with one another via commenting on the site.</em></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[WVKRamble: a WVKR Travel Guide to Philadelphia]]></title>
<link>http://wvkr.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/wvkramble-a-wvkr-travel-guide-to-philadelphia/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>agdj</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Dear music-heads, blog-heads, and…nomads?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">We like to think that WVKR is not  just a radio station, but a way of life- </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Presentingggg the first installation of <strong>WVKRamble:</strong> a travel guide. Destination: Philadelphia. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><strong>Tune in:</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><a href="http://wkdu.org"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-206" title="wkdu3" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/wkdu3.png?w=128" alt="wkdu3" width="128" height="25" /></a>If you’re not already streaming WVKR 24-7 on you a-e-i-o-u-phone or bosenberry, try <a href="http://echoes.org"><img class="size-full wp-image-204 alignleft" title="echoes" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/echoes.gif" alt="echoes" width="117" height="61" /></a>flipping your dial to 91.7 <a href="http://wkdu.org/">WKDU</a>, Drexel University’s student-run station. You might not find the same level of decorum as you do on WVKR, but it offers a wide array of genres you won’t hear anywhere at else. <a href="http://wkdu.org/">WKDU</a> also occasionally teams up with <a href="http://r5productions.com">R5 Productions </a>(see below), the city’s premier independent promoter, to put on solid shows. If you need a late-night sleepingpilladelphia, try the city’s most effective aural narcotic, locally produced and nationally syndicated <a href="http://echoes.org">Echoes</a> on 88.5 <a href="http://wxpn.org">WXPN</a>, airing ambient spaced-out lullabies post-11PM. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><strong>Stock up:</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:10.5pt;margin:0 0 11.25pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">For buried twelve-inch treasure and <a href="http://myspace.com/aka_music"></a>dusty jacketed gems, get your filladelphia <a href="http://www.myspace.com/aka_music">AKA Records</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">. Be warned, this store <a href="http://myspace.com/aka_music"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-210" title="aka-records3" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/aka-records3.gif?w=300" alt="aka-records3" width="275" height="192" /></a>will nurture any unhealthy record-buying habits you harbor. If you’re looking for a cheap fix, browse the seemingly dinky 7” boxes for rare releases, first pressings, and otherwise sold-out little 45s hailing from all walks of life- major label to teeny tiny <a href="http://www.myspace.com/diestasi">die Stasi</a> to the Smiths. <a href="http://myspace.com/aka_music"></a>If those seven-inches just whet your appetite, maybe it’s time to upgrade to <a href="http://myspace.com/aka_music"></a>a full-size plate- how does 12-inches of audio victuals sound? Move to the vinyl room in the back, where the same array of obscure to totally obvious can be found in larger quantities. A recent browse yielded picks like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fabulousdiamonds">Fabulous Diamonds</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, early Fleetwood Mac, hard-to-find <a href="http://www.myspace.com/glasscandy">Glass Candy</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/eatskull">Eat Skull</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, tucked in among all the big names- <a href="http://www.myspace.com/akak">Akron/Family</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deerhunter">Deerhunter</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal">Of Montreal</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">- the gang’s all there. The majority of the store is occupied by CDs, but they tend to err on the indie-rock mainstream side of the spectrum, though the used section is epic and worth browsing if you’re feeling patient. <span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><strong>Go out:</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">It’s totally hit or miss whether they’ll be a good show to check out on a given night in cheapthrilladelphia. While its </span></p>
<div id="attachment_214" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 226px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-214  " title="Danger Danger Gallery" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/danger2.jpg?w=300" alt="Danger Danger Gallery" width="216" height="143" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Danger Danger Gallery</p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;">home to few budding bands (more about that later), paysthebilladelphia is always a major stop on tours. In pursuit of live jams, <a href="http://r5productions.com">R5 Productions</a> is a</p>
<div id="attachment_217" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 145px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-217 " title="johnny31" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/johnny31.jpg?w=225" alt="Johnny Brenda's" width="135" height="180" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Johnny Brenda&#39;s</p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;">good place to start. R5 organizes shows with headliners ranging from <a href="http://www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband">Animal Collective </a>to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jreamteam">Ponytail</a> to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc">Vivian Girls</a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, at a hand-picked assemblage of venues, R5 has been the foremost </span>Papermilladelphia show promoter in the city for almost ten years, unthwarted by Clear Channel’s attempts to shut them down. If there’s an R5 show in the basement of the <a href="http://www.firstuu-philly.org/">First Unitarian Church</a>, consider yourself extra lucky to be in underthehilladelphia. Aside from R5, sniffing out a good show can be rough. We’re still hoping Rod D, <a href="http://toddpnyc.com">Todd P</a>’s cousin, will set up shop (and website) in</p>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img class="size-medium wp-image-218 " title="greenline" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/greenline.jpg?w=223" alt="Green Line Cafe" width="134" height="180" /></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Green Line Cafe</dd>
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<p>papermilladelphia. Until then, you’ll have to sift through a slew of disjointed</p>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img class="size-medium wp-image-221 " title="fu31" src="http://wvkr.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/fu31.jpg?w=300" alt="First Unitarian Church" width="180" height="124" /></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd">First Unitarian Church</dd>
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<p></span>websites and myspaces. Here’s a list of a few places to try: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/dangerdangergallery">Danger Danger Gallery </a>, <a href="http://www.shermanarts.org/events.html">Green Line Café</a>, <a href="http://www.yarga.net/">Pi Lam</a>, <a href="www.myspace.com/thebrcm">Big Rock Candy Mountain</a>, <a href="http://www.johnnybrendas.com/">Johnny Brenda’s</a>, <a href="http://www.kungfunecktie.com/">Kung-Fu Necktie</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thenewbarbary">The Barbary</a>, <a href="http://www.conniesricrac.com/">Connie’s Ric Rac</a>, <a href="http://brickbatbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/events">Brickbat Books</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/inciting">Inciting HQ</a>, <a href="http://maddecent.com/blog/">Mad Decent Masouleum</a>,  <a href="http://www.themanhattanroom.com/index.htm">the M Room</a>, <a href="http://www.lavazone.org">Lava Space</a>, <a href="http://space1026.com">Space 1026</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/avantgentlemenslodge">Avant Gentleman’s Lodge</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/circle_events">Circle of Hope</a>, <a href="http://myspace.com/aka_music">AKA Records</a>, <a href="http://copygallery.org/">Copy Gallery</a>, <a href="http://www.pageantsoloveev.com/">Pageant Gallery</a>, <span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">Brooks Salon/The Compound (2320 Grays Ferry Ave &#8211; no website, good luck), the Woodstove (1712 N. 2nd St. &#8211; good luck again!), <a href="http://www.myspace.com/boatpeople">Boat People Listings</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#34;">, <a href="http://myspace.com/diyphilly">DIY Philly</a> listings. <span> </span><span>  </span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:10.5pt;margin:0 0 11.25pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><strong>Listen up:</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:10.5pt;margin:0 0 11.25pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Aside from big names like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/espers">Espers</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/wearemanman">Man Man</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/drdog">Dr. Dog</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">, there are stilladelphia a few hidden talents tucked away in ifyouwilladelphia. Definitely check out the dreamy/catchy electronica of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/weirdtapes">Weird Tapes</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fistsofharmony">Ravens and Vultures</a>, and <a href="www.myspace.com/colettecolumbirch ">Colette Columbirch</a>, if they’re in town. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/coldcave">Cold Cave</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><span> </span>is a fresh addition to the scene, offering easy-access synthy no wave. For some dirty garage-tinged rock, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kurtvileofphilly">Kurt Vile</a> is</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">your man. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband">Animal Collective</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">sweetheart <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather">Tickley Feather</a> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">calls west armadilladelphia home, so did <a href="http://www.myspace.com/genghistron">Ghengis Tron</a> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">until recently, when they up and left for Brooklyn, leaving fellow Vassar grads <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ponypants">Pony Pants</a> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">to hold down puppymilladelphia. Craving the inaccesible? <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mincemeatortenspeed">Micemeat or Tenspeed</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">grinds and drones his way through sets around the city with his guitar-intended-to-sound-nothing–like-guitar arrangements. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/carswillburn">Carz Will Burn</a> provides fritzy, droney electronic sounds with complimentary light show. Chicago&#8217;s phantasmal Megan Remy aka <a href="www.myspace.com/usgirlsss">U.S. Girls</a> recently started haunting a house in vagisiladelphia. On the lighter side, there&#8217;s super-boppy and bubblegum-friendly <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sunsplit">Sunsplit</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">. And of course, there’s always resident celeb <a href="http://www.myspace.com/diplo">Diplo</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/santogold">Santogold</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;"><span> </span>is a native as well, but don’t expect to see her strolling down South St. <span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Have fun but don’t overkilladelphia! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&#34;">Untiladelphia next time,</span></p>
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<dc:creator>SyrFox</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Voici nos tops de l&#8217;année 2008: Pacush Blues (sans ordre) Fuck Buttons &#8211; Street Horrrsin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Voici nos tops de l&#8217;année 2008:</p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Pacush Blues</span></strong></h3>
<p><em>(sans ordre)</em></p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-610" title="fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing2" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing2.jpg?w=96" alt="fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing2" width="96" height="96" /></strong><br />
<strong><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing/" target="_self">Fuck Buttons &#8211; Street Horrrsing</a> :</strong> Improbable mélange entre de furieuses stridences électroniques superposées à de superbes mélodies, douces et mélancoliques, Fuck Buttons s’affirme comme l’une des révélations indie 2008.</p>
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<p><strong>Fiend &#8211; Agla :</strong> Français (même si ses membres sont d’origines diverses), Fiend est un groupe qui n’a rien à envier aux cadors du doom/sludge psychédélique, avec des riffs Melvinesques en diable, hypnotiques, impérial, massif, sublimé par le superbe chant d’Al Saiyed, Fiend est un groupe sur lequel il faudra compter dans les années à venir.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-611" title="harvey-milk-life-the-best-game-in-town" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/harvey-milk-life-the-best-game-in-town.jpg?w=96" alt="harvey-milk-life-the-best-game-in-town" width="96" height="96" /></strong><br />
<strong>Harvey Milk &#8211; Life&#8230; The Best Game In Town :</strong> Le quatuor redneck le plus sale et poisseux d’Athens, après une reformation aussi jouissive qu’inattendue (Special Wishes, en 2006), remet le couvert avec Life&#8230; et devient, à la surprise générale, plus accessible et accrocheur par rapport à ses albums des années 90’s. Mais, heureusement, son sludge reste toujours aussi écrasant et vicieux qu’avant.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-612" title="ah-kraken-elle-avait-peut-etre" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/ah-kraken-elle-avait-peut-etre.jpg?w=96" alt="ah-kraken-elle-avait-peut-etre" width="96" height="96" /><br />
A.H. Kraken &#8211; Elle Avait Peut-Etre 19 ans, Mais Pour Moi Elle En Aura Toujours 12 : </strong>Bien de chez nous, A.H. Kraken te cisaille les genoux avec sa noise crue, râpeuse, brute. Aucun compromis, que ce soit dans les textes ou la musique, ce groupe de Metz n’a pour simple objectif que de te faire passer un sale moment. Et c’est réussi.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-614" title="young-widows-old-wounds" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/young-widows-old-wounds.jpg?w=96" alt="young-widows-old-wounds" width="96" height="96" /></strong> <strong>Young Widows &#8211; Old Wounds :</strong> Young Widows signe le retour du noise-rock furieux (avec des groupes comme Pissed Jeans, Clockcleaner&#8230;) et frondeur des années 90, convoquant le meilleur de Jesus Lizard, Cherubs où encore Hammerhead. Un excellent album. <span style="color:#000000;">_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __  __  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ </span></p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-613" title="foals-antidotes" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/foals-antidotes.jpg?w=96" alt="foals-antidotes" width="96" height="96" /></strong> <strong><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/foals-antidotes/" target="_self">Foals &#8211; Antidotes</a> :</strong> Ne pas se fier à la hype puante autour de ce quintette d’Oxford, Foals propose une musique réellement intéressante, croisant des influences math-rock à un post-punk dansant, pour créer quelque chose de nouveau et frais, bien à eux.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">SyrFox</span></strong></h3>
<p><em>30+1, parce que je ne voulais pas exclure l&#8217;album d&#8217;Experimental Aircraft</em></p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-606" title="experimental-aircraft-third-transmission" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/experimental-aircraft-third-transmission.jpg?w=96" alt="experimental-aircraft-third-transmission" width="96" height="96" />31. Experimental Aircraft &#8211; Third Transmission :</strong> Malgré quelques longueurs sur la seconde partie du disque, Experimental Aircraft parvient encore, sur ce troisième album en onze ans, à nous accrocher pendant une heure avec son shoegaze planant et ses excellentes compositions, desquelles quelques perles se dégagent (Upper East Side, With A Gun) &#8211; le tout avec une production énorme, surtout au niveau des basses.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-607" title="pivot-o-soundtrack-my-heart" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/pivot-o-soundtrack-my-heart.jpg?w=95" alt="pivot-o-soundtrack-my-heart" width="95" height="95" />30. Pivot &#8211; O Soundtrack My Heart :</strong> Malgré des sons de synthés parmi les plus kitschs que vous entendrez cette année et quelques plans franchement dispensables, la nouvelle sensation de chez Warp propose suffisament d&#8217;éléments intéressants pour que sa mixture, aux confins du math-rock, du post-rock et de l&#8217;expérimental, reste largement recommandable &#8211; et en particulier, l&#8217;époustouflant enchaînement de Didn&#8217;t I Furious, Epsilon et Nothing Hurts Machine. Troublant.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-616" title="railcars-cities-vs-submarines1" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/railcars-cities-vs-submarines1.jpg?w=96" alt="railcars-cities-vs-submarines1" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'EP" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/railcars-cities-vs-submarines/" target="_self">29. railcars &#8211; cities vs. submarines EP</a> :</strong> En dix minutes et cinq compositions, le projet d&#8217;Aria C Jalali impose son univers, entre vocaux évoquant Xiu Xiu (l&#8217;EP a d&#8217;ailleurs été mixé par Jamie Stewart) et lo-fi, entre programmations électroniques et jolies mélodies, fourmillant de détails, déconstructivement mélodiques et mélodiquement déconstruites.<br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-617" title="tickley-feather-tickley-feather" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/tickley-feather-tickley-feather.jpg?w=96" alt="tickley-feather-tickley-feather" width="96" height="96" />28. Tickley Feather &#8211; Tickley Feather :</strong> Trente minutes des chansons les plus lo-fi de l&#8217;année: des sons de synthétiseurs enfantins, des structures basiques, des mélodies simples, une production inexistante et un enregistrement digne d&#8217;une clé USB dictaphone. Mais Annie Sachs est suffisament douée pour parsemer cet éponyme de petites perles de simplicité, touchantes et accrocheuses (The Python).</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-619" title="sonic-youth-syr8" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/sonic-youth-syr8.jpg?w=96" alt="sonic-youth-syr8" width="96" height="96" />27. Sonic Youth, Merzbow &#38; Mats Gustaffson &#8211; SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth : </strong>Dans la veine des dernières productions SYR, ce huitième volume nous propose une heure d&#8217;ambiances bruitistes et expérimentales à souhait, quelque part entre noise, free jazz et rock expérimental. Si ce SYR8 est probablement le plus bruitiste de la série (la touche Merzbow probablement), il est tout aussi immersif que les autres, et c&#8217;est un vrai bonheur de se laisser emporter par ce torrent sonore abrasif.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-620" title="blood-on-the-wall-liferz" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/blood-on-the-wall-liferz.jpg?w=96" alt="blood-on-the-wall-liferz" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/blood-on-the-wall/" target="_self">26. Blood On The Wall &#8211; Liferz</a> :</strong> Onze morceaux de rock sale et distordu, puissant et efficace. C&#8217;est basique, voire stupide (Acid Fight), mais ravageur et imparable. Sans compter que quelques passages restent parmi les meilleurs morceaux de rock entendus ces dernières années: de Sorry Sorry Sarah à l&#8217;éponyme Liferz, ces trente minutes s&#8217;écoutent sans sentir le temps passer.<br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-621" title="cheveu-cheveu" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/cheveu-cheveu.jpg?w=94" alt="cheveu-cheveu" width="94" height="96" />25. Cheveu &#8211; Cheveu :</strong> Du post-punk lo-fi et électronique made in France, avec riffs redoutables et chant survolté, synthés stridents et boîtes à rythmes lo-fi. Onze pistes sans répit, du furieux tube Dog à l&#8217;hypnotique Superhero, cinglantes, et diablement réussies avec ça. Pas étonnant donc que leur notoriété dépasse déjà les frontières de l&#8217;hexagone &#8211; le disque a reçu une chronique de la part de Pitchfork.<br />
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<img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-622" title="the-hospitals-hairdryer-peace" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/the-hospitals-hairdryer-peace.jpg?w=96" alt="the-hospitals-hairdryer-peace" width="96" height="96" /> 24. The Hospitals &#8211; Hairdryer Peace :</strong> Ces trois-là aiment la distorsion et nous le font savoir. Ainsi, leurs chansons squelettiques et lo-fi sont systématiquement désossées par un traitement à la distorsion chirurgicale (plutôt normal pour des Hopitaux). Elles restent malgré tout des chansons et si les premières écoutes sont difficiles, on finit par devenir accro aux compositions rageuses du groupe, entre punk garage, noise rock ou post-punk abrasif.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-623" title="mogwai-the-hawk-is-howling" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/mogwai-the-hawk-is-howling.jpg?w=96" alt="mogwai-the-hawk-is-howling" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/mogwai-the-hawk-is-howling/" target="_self">23. Mogwai &#8211; The Hawk Is Howling </a>:</strong> Le retour controversé de l&#8217;un des pionniers du post-rock. Si cet album peut paraître fatiguant, et le groupe sembler stagner, ce Hawk Is Howling se révèle à mon avis être l&#8217;un des meilleurs disques de Mogwai, porté par une mélancolie omniprésente, tout au long de ses dix compositions. Ce disque est l&#8217;antithèse de son affreuse pochette: beau et soigné.<br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-624" title="these-are-powers-taro-tarot" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/these-are-powers-taro-tarot.jpg?w=96" alt="these-are-powers-taro-tarot" width="96" height="96" />22. These Are Powers &#8211; Taro Tarot EP :</strong> En apparence, du noise rock plutôt classique, certes. Mais les morceaux de ce trio américain (comprenant Pat Noecker &#8211; Liars, n0 Things)	sont tellement efficaces qu&#8217;il serait dommage de se limiter à de telles considérations: du planant Cockles aux telluriques Chipping Ice et Peel Some Off, cet EP six titres regorge d&#8217;idées lumineuses, ce qui laisse présager le meilleur pour leur second album, en 2009 (le premier, paru l&#8217;an passé, étant déjà une franche réussite)<br />
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<img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-631" title="truckasauras-tea-parties-guns-valor" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/truckasauras-tea-parties-guns-valor.jpg?w=96" alt="truckasauras-tea-parties-guns-valor" width="96" height="96" /> <a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/truckasauras-tea-parties-guns-valor/" target="_blank">21. Truckasauras &#8211; Tea Parties, Guns &#38; Valor</a> :</strong> Loin du délire pour nostalgiques des jeux vidéos des années 80 auquel on pourrait s&#8217;attendre, cet album à base de sons de Game Boy, Commodore 64 et autres machines désuettes est en fait probablement l&#8217;un des meilleurs disques electro de l&#8217;année, se faisant tour à tour dansant (l&#8217;énorme Fak!!!) ou chill-out (Up, Up, Down, Down, L, R, L, R). Et puis il y a une reprise du générique de Super Copter alors juste pour avoir osé, je dis bravo.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-632" title="GD30OB.pdf" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/lucky-dragons-dream-island-laughing-language.jpg?w=96" alt="GD30OB.pdf" width="96" height="96" />20. Lucky Dragons &#8211; Dream Island Laughing Language : </strong>Fascinant, intriguant, obsédant,  ce nouvel album des Lucky Dragons l&#8217;est sans conteste. Des percussions répétitives, des sons presque glitchs et mélancoliques, des voix discrètes: ce disque est une véritable session d&#8217;hypnose, coupée en 22 courts fragments. Une plongée de quarante minutes dans une atmosphère à part.<br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-633" title="wavves-wavves" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/wavves-wavves.jpg?w=59" alt="wavves-wavves" width="59" height="96" />19. Wavves &#8211; Wavves : </strong>Si The Hospitals et No Age fusionnaient pour ne faire plus qu&#8217;une entité, il est probable que cela donnerait quelque chose comme Nathan Williams, unique membre de Wavves: bien plus mélodique que les premiers mais bien plus bruitiste que les seconds, la musique de Vvagues n&#8217;en dégage pas moins cette même efficacité ravageuse, qui donne furieusement envie de secouer la tête en rythme (Side Yr On)</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-634" title="high-places-high-places" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/high-places-high-places.jpg?w=96" alt="high-places-high-places" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/high-places-high-places/" target="_self">18. High Places &#8211; High Places</a> :</strong> Trente courtes minutes de pop électronique planante et nocturne, sonorités tribales et chant éthéré compris. Et contrairement à beaucoup de leurs contemporains indie-pop, ces new-yorkais n&#8217;ont pas oublié d&#8217;écrire des chansons sous l&#8217;effet de la hype, nous offrant donc dix compositions lumineuses et réussies.<br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-635" title="excepter-debt-dept" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/excepter-debt-dept.jpg?w=96" alt="excepter-debt-dept" width="96" height="96" />17. Excepter &#8211; Debt Dept :</strong> Revoilà notre groupe d&#8217;electro expérimentale arty préféré, qui nous revient, après le bon Alternation il y a deux ans, au meilleur de sa forme avec un album très inspiré, lorgnant du côté du post-punk, rempli de lignes de basses immenses (le tube Burgers) et de paroles parlées, scandées ou répétées sans cesse pour mieux vous les faire comprendre (Kill People!). A ce propos, le groupe compte désormais deux chanteuses et déforme leur voix à tout va &#8211; en particulier, dans les aigus. Pour résumer: Excepter devient plus accessible tout en restant tout aussi bordellique. Et c&#8217;est excellent.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-636" title="abe-vigoda-skeleton" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/abe-vigoda-skeleton.jpg?w=96" alt="abe-vigoda-skeleton" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/abe-vigoda-skeleton/" target="_self">16. Abe Vigoda &#8211; Skeleton</a> :</strong> Issus de la scène de Los Angeles, Abe Vigoda ouvrent avec Skeleton leur &#8220;tropical punk&#8221; à un son plus pop et plus lumineux, mais toujours aussi barré: les splendides mélodies du groupe sont ainsi en permanence touchées par des changements de structures, par des explosions imprévues, ou par des dissonances. Rempli d&#8217;excellentes mélodies, ce Skeleton et ses nombreuses perles mérite toute votre attention.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-637" title="atlas-sound-let-the-blind" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/atlas-sound-let-the-blind.jpg?w=95" alt="atlas-sound-let-the-blind" width="95" height="96" />15. Atlas Sound &#8211; Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel :</strong> Bradford Cox a du talent. Suffisament pour publier un excellent disque avec son groupe Deerhunter en 2007, et pour revenir en 2008 avec un nouveau double album de ce groupe et pour le debut-album de son projet solo, Atlas Sound, donc. Sous son titre romantique se cachent quatorze (vingt pour la réédition européenne!) morceaux en forme de puzzle noisy pop, formant un tout d&#8217;une cohérence incroyable. C&#8217;est planant, éthéré, et superbe. Et le pire, c&#8217;est qu&#8217;il en a déjà un autre de prêt pour l&#8217;an prochain.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-638" title="animal-collective-water-curses" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/animal-collective-water-curses.jpg?w=96" alt="animal-collective-water-curses" width="96" height="96" />14. Animal Collective &#8211; Water Curses EP :</strong> Quatre chansons à peine, issues des sessions d&#8217;enregistrement de Strawberry Jam, pour patienter avant Merriweather Post Pavilion, leur nouvel album, sortant dans une quinzaine de jours. Mais pour en revenir à ces quatre chansons, elles n&#8217;ont pas à palir à côté de l&#8217;immense catalogue de morceaux géniaux du collectif animal: après le fulgurant morceau éponyme, le groupe nous offre trois morceaux calmes et planants, donnant à cet EP une cohérence rarement atteinte pour ce genre d&#8217;exercice.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-639" title="genghis-tron-board-up-the-house" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/genghis-tron-board-up-the-house.jpg?w=96" alt="genghis-tron-board-up-the-house" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/genghis-tron-board-up-the-house/" target="_self">13. Genghis Tron &#8211; Board Up The House</a> :</strong> Ou la fusion parfaite entre metal extrême et electronica complexe. D&#8217;une violence incroyable, ce disque n&#8217;en oublie pas pour autant de faire par moments retomber l&#8217;intensité, avec quelques passages plus planants tout simplement sublimes. La puissance des parties les plus hardcore n&#8217;en est que sublimée, les cris saturés du chanteur, riffs dissonants et programmations qui blastent se retrouvant renforcées par ce contraste. Fortement recommandé &#8211; pour peu que vous ne soyez pas allergiques aux cris hardcore.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-640" title="Music Review Deerhunter" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/deerhunter-microcastle-weird-era-cont.jpg?w=96" alt="Music Review Deerhunter" width="96" height="96" />12. Deerhunter &#8211; Microcastle / Weird Era Continued :</strong> Après l&#8217;excellent et mystérieux Cryptograms l&#8217;an passé, j&#8217;ai eu peur en lisant un peu partout que le groupe serait revenu à des schémas plus classiques. Et de fait, le groupe s&#8217;attelle ici à des territoires moins étranges que par le passé. Pour autant, rien n&#8217;est ici banal: chacune de ces chansons noisy pop recèle quelque chose qui la rend unique et accrocheuse, que ce soit les plus énergiques ou les plus ambientes, les plus classiques (pour la plupart regroupées sur le premier CD) ou les plus expérimentales (regroupées sur le second), et on se rend vite compte que cet album est finalement de la même classe que le précédent.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-643" title="autechre-quaristice1" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/autechre-quaristice1.jpg?w=96" alt="autechre-quaristice1" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/autechre-quaristice/" target="_self">11. Autechre &#8211; Quaristice</a> :</strong> Les maîtres de l&#8217;electronica nous reviennent avec un album résolument différent de leurs précédents: si leurs œuvres passées nous faisaient explorer des territoires se développant lentement, par petites touches, pendant de longues minutes, les anglais vont ici droit à l&#8217;essentiel, synthétisant leurs idées sur trois à quatre minutes maximum &#8211; et du coup, augmentant significativement le nombre de morceaux, et donc d&#8217;atmosphères, du disque. Un disque qui prendra du temps à s&#8217;apprivoiser donc &#8211; comme tout disque d&#8217;Autechre -, mais qui finit par livrer son lot de compositions magiques, d&#8217;une complexité sans faille cachant des mélodies et des ambiances abyssales. Bravo.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-642" title="no-age-nouns" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/no-age-nouns.jpg?w=96" alt="no-age-nouns" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/no-age-weirdo-rippers-nouns/" target="_self">10. No Age &#8211; Nouns</a> :</strong> Plus accessibles et moins bruitistes que par le passé, les punk rockeurs de No Age laissent ici la plupart du temps leur côté ambient au placard pour faire ressortir leur face la plus mélodique &#8211; et avec ça, leur potentiel. Si l&#8217;adaptation est difficile au début, le disque finit par dévoiler ses charmes, et au passage sa multitude de compositions géniales, en particulier cette exceptionnelle deuxième moitié d&#8217;album.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-644" title="indian-jewelry-free-gold" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/indian-jewelry-free-gold.jpg?w=95" alt="indian-jewelry-free-gold" width="95" height="96" />09. Indian Jewelry &#8211; Free Gold! :</strong> Après un Invasive Exotics d&#8217;excellente facture, Indian Jewelry sont de retour avec un album résolument influencé par le shoegaze. Pour autant, les Américains n&#8217;ont pas perdu de leurs capacités hypnotiques: que ce soit par le chant aérien ou par les rythmiques tribales et électroniques, ils vous font ici planer pendant quatorze pistes et autant de compositions réussies.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-645" title="neptune-gong-lake" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/neptune-gong-lake.jpg?w=96" alt="neptune-gong-lake" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/neptune-gong-lake/" target="_self">08. Neptune &#8211; Gong Lake</a> :</strong> Pour leur premier album chez Table Of Elements, les Bostoniens nous livrent un album noise rock de très grande classe, alternant entre élans expérimentaux et compositions synthétiques furieuses, le tout drappé dans une noirçeur palpable. Grey Shallows est l&#8217;un des meilleurs morceaux de l&#8217;année: des rythmes percussifs, un son strident, une basse massive, des explosions furieuses, tout est à sa place.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-646" title="women-women" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/women-women.jpg?w=107" alt="women-women" width="107" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/women-women/" target="_self">07. Women &#8211; Women</a> : </strong>Après à peine un an d&#8217;existence, Women nous publient avec cet éponyme l&#8217;un des meilleurs disques de l&#8217;année, entre mélodies magnifiques, harmonies vocales à tomber, le tout avec une production lo-fi irrésistible. Paraissant inoffensive au premier contact, cette musique devient très vite addictive, et il est très difficile de sortir ces airs de votre tête. Un bonheur.<br />
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-647" title="the-present-world-i-see" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/the-present-world-i-see.jpg?w=96" alt="the-present-world-i-see" width="96" height="96" />06. The Present &#8211; World I See :</strong> D&#8217;une richesse incroyable, cet album se compose de six pistes à peine, mais chacune contient en fait un nombre d&#8217;idées hallucinant, passant sans ciller de sections tribales à des passages ambients, de subtiles mélodies bourrées de feedback à des segments dissonants et bruitistes. Très difficile d&#8217;accès, mais une fois que vous êtes rentrés dedans, vous n&#8217;en ressortirez plus.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-648" title="fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing3" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing3.jpg?w=96" alt="fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing3" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/fuck-buttons-street-horrrsing/" target="_self">05. Fuck Buttons &#8211; Street Horrrsing</a> :</strong> Mêlant la puissance de la noise abrasive à des sublimes mélodies post-rock, des cris hardcore au côté étouffant du doom, Fuck Buttons construit en six pistes un paysage sonore oppressant et saturé, mystérieux et intriguant: sous des couches de distorsion se cachent des mélodies pleines d&#8217;émotions. Fuck Buttons peut sans problème se vanter d&#8217;être l&#8217;une des révélations de l&#8217;année.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-649" title="clark-turning-dragon" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/clark-turning-dragon.jpg?w=96" alt="clark-turning-dragon" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/clark-turning-dragon/" target="_self">04. Clark &#8211; Turning Dragon </a>:</strong> Deux ans ont passé depuis le sublime Body Riddle, et Clark nous revient avec un album résolument différent: ouvertement techno, aux rythmiques dancefloor infernales (sur Volcan Veins par exemple, meilleur titre techno de 2008) et complexes, il n&#8217;en oublie pas pour autant les mélodies electronica qui ont fait son charme par le passé. Foudroyant, oppressant, et pourtant beau: c&#8217;est un chef-d&#8217;œuvre.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-650" title="oneida-preteen-weaponry" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/oneida-preteen-weaponry.jpg?w=96" alt="oneida-preteen-weaponry" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/oneida-preteen-weaponry/" target="_self">03. Oneida &#8211; Preteen Weaponry</a> :</strong> Avec ce premier volume d&#8217;une trilogie qui se terminera l&#8217;an prochain, Oneida nous livrent une longue plongée de quarante minutes dans une atmosphère expérimentale et percussive, évoluant lentement, proche de la transe. Des longues montées en puissance, des mélodies se transformant lentement, comme un cousin moins inquiétant du Drum&#8217;s Not Dead des Liars.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-651" title="gang-gang-dance-saint-dymphna" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/gang-gang-dance-saint-dymphna.jpg?w=96" alt="gang-gang-dance-saint-dymphna" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/gang-gang-dance-saint-dymphna/" target="_self">02. Gang Gang Dance &#8211; Saint Dymphna</a> :</strong> J&#8217;avais du mal à penser que Gang Gang Dance puisse égaler son chef-d&#8217;œuvre God&#8217;s Money d&#8217;il y a trois ans. C&#8217;est pourtant chose faite avec ce Saint Dymphna, qui mélange allègrement une foule de genres, passant sans problème de l&#8217;un à l&#8217;autre, le tout avec une cohésion improbable: on a ici affaire à un album quasiment parfait de bout en bout, presque sans faiblesse.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-652" title="mahjongg-kontpab" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/mahjongg-kontpab.jpg?w=96" alt="mahjongg-kontpab" width="96" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de l'album" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/mahjongg/" target="_self">01. Mahjongg &#8211; Kontpab</a> : </strong>Complètement fou, peuplé de polyrythmes étranges, de guitares bizarroïdes, de synthétiseurs rétromodernistes ou post-régressistes &#8211; comme vous préférez -, de chants venus d&#8217;ailleurs, déphasés, ce disque est pourtant improbablement dansant, efficace, du début à la fin. Des tubes impossibles comme s&#8217;il en pleuvait (Problems, Mercury, et surtout l&#8217;énorme Kottbusser Torr), . C&#8217;est original, cinglé, novateur, inclassable, mais aussi superbement groovy: il y a ici de quoi faire bouger à la fois vos neurones et vos jambes. En gros, c&#8217;est génial.</p>
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-653" title="growing-lateral" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/growing-lateral.jpg?w=96" alt="growing-lateral" width="96" height="96" />15- Growing : &#8220;Lateral EP&#8221; :</strong> Je n&#8217;ai pas écouté le dernier album de Growing, mais ce petit EP qui a précédé la sortie de All the Way est idéal en tous points.<br />
Quatres petites pièces rugueuses et crachotantes, des arpèges filtrés perdus entre les câbles à haute tension, des micro mélodies parasites qui s&#8217;infiltrent dans un flux électrique bourdonnant. A mis chemin entre les débuts drone du groupe et les expérimentations rythmiques de Vision Swim.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-654" title="social-junk-concussion-summer" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/social-junk-concussion-summer.jpg?w=95" alt="social-junk-concussion-summer" width="95" height="96" />14- Social Junk : &#8220;Concussion Summer&#8221; :</strong> Ces nouveaux venus sur la grande scène expérimentale ont sorti cet album sur Not Not Fun et se sont fait faire une jolie pochette par Robert Beatty, raison pour laquelle j&#8217;ai choisi ce vinyle dans le bac à disquaire plutôt qu&#8217;un autre. Et qu&#8217;est-ce que ça donne ? Des martèlements de percussions trouvées, des voix coupées qui se répondent, des tentatives de chanson au milieu d&#8217;un marécage noisy. Menaçant et prometteur.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-655" title="robedoor-shrine-to-the-possessor" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/robedoor-shrine-to-the-possessor.jpg?w=96" alt="robedoor-shrine-to-the-possessor" width="96" height="96" />13- Robedoor : &#8220;Shrine to the Possessor&#8221; :</strong> Ces californiens héritiers des Double Leopards et hyperactifs comme tout groupe souterrain qui se respecte ont sorti un paquet d&#8217;enregistrements cette année, et beaucoup sont bons. Je cite cet LP sorti sur Music Fellowship sans raison particulière, ça aurait très bien pu être Endlessly Blazing par exemple. Qu&#8217;entend-t-on sur Shrine to the Possessor ? Des arcs électriques sans début ni fin, des voix lointaines pleines d&#8217;échos, des drones profonds comme la caverne de Cthulhu, bref un parfait maëlstrom post-psychédélique pour hippie satanique.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-656" title="pocahaunted-chains" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/pocahaunted-chains.jpg?w=94" alt="pocahaunted-chains" width="94" height="96" />12- Pocahaunted : &#8220;Chains&#8221; :</strong> Ce que j&#8217;ai dit sur Robedoor s&#8217;applique aussi à leurs copines de Pocahaunted, et ce Chains aura été accompagné cette année d&#8217;une bonne dizaine d&#8217;autres sorties tous supports confondus. On retrouve les soeurs Olsen du drone extatique en pleine montée orgasmique en début d&#8217;album, avec l&#8217;épique &#8220;The Weight&#8221; qui mêle une batterie conquérante à l&#8217;habituel brouillard &#8220;saturations+guitare claire+voix de squaws sous peyotl&#8221;. Mais Pocahaunted évolue, et la deuxième face du vinyle voit apparaître des éléments nouveaux chez elles : une grosse ligne de basse tortillante sur &#8220;Oh Woe&#8221;, des éléments dub ou dansants ailleurs. Drôle de mélange, mais la sauce prend même si le mystère se dissipe un peu. Cela dit Pocahaunted est un merveilleux groupe, longue vie à elles.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-657" title="mount-eerie-black-wooden-ceiling-opening1" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/mount-eerie-black-wooden-ceiling-opening1.jpg?w=96" alt="mount-eerie-black-wooden-ceiling-opening1" width="96" height="96" />11- Mount Eerie : &#8220;Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP&#8221; :</strong> Phil Elverum est présent à deux reprises dans ce top, c&#8217;est parce que cet EP, sans être aussi génial que son autre grosse sortie de l&#8217;année, m&#8217;est extrêmement sympathique. L&#8217;idée sur BWCO, c&#8217;est de reprendre différentes chansons de Mount Eerie en y ajoutant une bonne dose de saturations. On se retrouve donc avec une sorte de punk bizarre, plein de crasse et de larsens, mais avec la voix fragile d&#8217;Elverum qui lâche des cris rauques et murmure au fond. L&#8217;atmosphère est ambigüe, entre montées épiques et trous béants qui laissent passer le vent, moments de lâchage total où tout semble se casser la gueule et retombées inquiétantes.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-658" title="woods-family-creeps-st" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/woods-family-creeps-st.jpg?w=96" alt="woods-family-creeps-st" width="96" height="96" />10- Woods Family Creeps : &#8220;s/t&#8221; :</strong> Ce groupe de Brooklyn s&#8217;appelait simplement Woods avant, ils ont joué avec Raccoo-oo-oon et fait de bonnes choses paraît-il, mais moi je n&#8217;en sais rien. Woods Family Creeps est leur nouvelle incarnation, et ce premier album sous ce nom bizarre est excellent. On y trouve du folk déglingué de redneck urbains, des collages sonores inquiétants, des tentatives de chansons pop très réussies (&#8220;Twisted Tongue&#8221;) en même temps qu&#8217;une contrepartie, des plages instrumentales plongées dans le noir (&#8220;Family&#8221;) et des monstres de Frankeinstein musicaux où des percussions motorisées se mêlent aux gémissements aigus du chanteur et à des arpèges folk absurdes (&#8220;Sleep Sleep Sleep&#8221;). L&#8217;atmosphère est pesante, malgré la fausse joie affichée par tout le monde. Derrière les sourires guillerets, des gouffres béants.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-660" title="wolf-parade-at-mount-zoomer1" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/wolf-parade-at-mount-zoomer1.jpg?w=96" alt="wolf-parade-at-mount-zoomer1" width="96" height="96" />9- Wolf Parade : &#8220;At Mount Zoomer&#8221; :</strong> Certains pourront rigoler et dire que cet album est le plus gay de l&#8217;année, il se trouve que je l&#8217;aime beaucoup, malgré ses défauts. A savoir un synthé qui revisite les sonorités les plus kitsch de toute l&#8217;histoire de la pop, un chanteur barbu à la voix éraillée approuvé par la Blogothèque, et une prétention malvenue qui fait se prendre le groupe pour les Fiery Furnaces, en pondant un morceau final de 10 minutes (Green Day l&#8217;a fait aussi ceci dit). Au final, on se fout pas mal de tout ça et on profite de l&#8217;écriture pop parfaite, des structures qui ignorent le format chanson classique, des mélodies sublimes et on tient le meilleur album pop de l&#8217;année.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-661" title="grouper-dragging-up-a-dead-deer-up-a-hill" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/grouper-dragging-up-a-dead-deer-up-a-hill.jpg?w=96" alt="grouper-dragging-up-a-dead-deer-up-a-hill" width="96" height="96" />8- Grouper : &#8220;Dragging up a dead deer up a hill&#8221; :</strong> Liz Harris est une musicienne de Portland qui jusqu&#8217;ici avait sorti deux très bons album d&#8217;ambient inquiétant, dans la lignée du Brian Eno de On Land. Sur &#8220;Dragging up a dead deer&#8230;&#8221;, elle tente de faire des chansons, et sa magnifique voix est enfin discernable, en même temps qu&#8217;une guitare folk dont les accords flous accompagnent des morceaux qui se ressemblent tous. Les étendues bourdonnantes et noires d&#8217;avant ne s&#8217;entendent plus, elles se devinent, derrière Liz qu&#8217;on imagine jouant sa musique dans une vieille cabane, pliant sous les attaques d&#8217;une tempête tropicale.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-662" title="wet-hair" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/wet-hair.jpg?w=59" alt="wet-hair" width="59" height="96" /><a title="Chronique de '08 Tour Tape" href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/wet-hair-08-tour-tape/" target="_self">7- Wet Hair</a> :</strong> Shawn Reed s&#8217;est visiblement remis du split de son groupe Raccoo-oo-oon, et son nouveau projet Wet Hair (en compagnie de Ryan Garbes) a déjà eu le temps de bien se développer, du LP rachitique et extrême du début de l&#8217;année jusqu&#8217;à une très belle cassette récente, où Reed conjugue ses drones d&#8217;orgue électrique et ses orages magnétiques à une écriture proto-pop, agitant ses clochettes et ses petites boucles mélodiques en même temps qu&#8217;il improvise son chant halluciné et ses grincements analogiques. Pas grand chose qui ressemble à Raccoo-oo-oon ici, Wet Hair est moins psyché, plus macabre, plus minimal, mais tout aussi excellent.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-663" title="zach-hill-astrological-straits" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/zach-hill-astrological-straits.jpg?w=96" alt="zach-hill-astrological-straits" width="96" height="96" />6- Zach Hill : &#8220;Astrological Straits&#8221; :</strong> Le batteur virtuose et épileptique de Hella s&#8217;est mis en tête de sortir son album solo, et ça donne ça, une heure de bruit et de fureur, de la batterie partout tout le temps, qui tape très vite et très fort, dans tous les sens. Par dessus, des idées partout, un chant vocoderisé qui rappelle Wayne Coyne, des mélodies, des sons absurdes. Un morceau peut commencer comme une chanson punk guillerette et se tranformer en Lightning Bolt synthétique, un gros bordel de sons et de coups laisser place à une cavalcade pop. Écouter l&#8217;album sur vinyle peut aider, ça permet de se ménager des pauses, pour rester bien attentif et profiter au maximum de cette explosion géniale. Chaque chanson a son petit truc, son idée qui permet d&#8217;accrocher au débalage qui suit. Les mélodies sont souvent terribles.<br />
Beaucoup trouveront le disque trop ambivalent, incapable de se décider entre pop et gros bordel expérimental, mais c&#8217;est qui fait toute la qualité de cet Astrological Straits à mon avis, sa richesse et sa folie, comme si les Fiery Furnaces et les Flaming Lips se faisaient remixer par Black Dice et Lightning Bolt !</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-665" title="atlas-sound-let-the-blind2" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/atlas-sound-let-the-blind2.jpg?w=95" alt="atlas-sound-let-the-blind2" width="95" height="96" />5- Atlas Sound : &#8220;let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel&#8221; :</strong> Les boucles aquatiques et les sons cotonneux d&#8217;Atlas Sound noient magnifiquement les paroles de Bradford Cox dans ce premier album terriblement dépressif. Des complaintes angoissées et des grincements de dents qui se perdent dans un océan psychédélique flou, comme si Animal Collective tombait en dépression et composait des petites chansons dans un hôpital en bord de mer. Entre les souvenirs d&#8217;une enfance atroce et les angoisses nourries aux calmants, on trouve des plages de calme pur, des éclairs lumineux et un soleil froid qui nous innonde de ses rayons.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-666" title="sun-araw-beach-head" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/sun-araw-beach-head.jpg?w=93" alt="sun-araw-beach-head" width="93" height="96" />4- Sun Araw : &#8220;Beach Head&#8221; :</strong> Le guitariste membre du collectif psychédélique Magic Lantern qui se cache derrière le nom de Sun Araw vient de sortir l&#8217;un des plus beaux albums de l&#8217;année, un rayon laser massif qui vient réchauffer les coeurs en ces temps de grand froid. Panda Bear rencontre White Rainbow et ça donne ce Beach Head, quatre longs morceaux entre drone hindou, musique concrète des îles et pop diluée à l&#8217;acide. Sun Araw ressemble à un sorcier vaudou qui invoquerait les plus belles mélodies dans une explosion de lumière et de chaleur dont les vibrations s&#8217;étendraient jusqu&#8217;au soleil, et c&#8217;est dans l&#8217;espace, ralentie et alourdie par l&#8217;éther, qu&#8217;on entendrait sa musique.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-667" title="super-minerals-the-pelagics" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/super-minerals-the-pelagics.jpg?w=87" alt="super-minerals-the-pelagics" width="87" height="96" />3- Super Minerals : &#8220;The Pelagics&#8221; :</strong> Ambient des abysses, qui démarre dans des clapots sous le soleil et pendant près d&#8217;une heure s&#8217;enfonce dans l&#8217;obscurité la plus totale.<br />
Des échos glacés s&#8217;étirent à l&#8217;infini, des ombres de calamars se profilent sur les parois de la fosse des mariannes. Au fond, des choses aveugles géantes et des ruines mayas. Meilleur album drone de l&#8217;année, de loin !</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-668" title="mount-eerie-dawn" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/mount-eerie-dawn.jpg?w=94" alt="mount-eerie-dawn" width="94" height="96" />2- Mount Eerie : &#8220;Dawn&#8221; :</strong> C&#8217;est une sorte de recueil, un disque qui regroupe les chansons écrites par Phil Elverum pendant un hiver passé en ermite dans une cabine, au nord de la Norvège, dans la neige et le vent. Un hiver passé à combattre les fantômes et à ramasser du bois, à tenter d&#8217;oublier le passé et la douleur. Vingt chansons, jouées à la guitare folk, dans le plus simple appareil. Pour apprécier le plus possible ce disque, mieux vaut être familier de l&#8217;univers de Mount Eerie. Sinon autant commencer par le début, à savoir le beau Don&#8217;t Wake Me Up des Microphones.<br />
Dawn n&#8217;est pas un très grand album de Phil Elverum, c&#8217;est plus un document, une sorte de journal intime. Pourtant, tout dedans est d&#8217;une telle beauté que n&#8217;importe qui sortira bouleversé de l&#8217;écoute de ce disque. Elverum est probablement le seul artiste actuel a être entièrement possédé par le génie.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-669" title="raccoo-oo-oon-st" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/raccoo-oo-oon-st.jpg?w=95" alt="raccoo-oo-oon-st" width="95" height="96" />1- Raccoo-oo-oon : &#8220;s/t&#8221; :</strong> Le meilleur groupe du monde splitte, et ce disque est le dernier de leur discographie étrange. Étrange parce que, d&#8217;un Is Night People qui laissait entrevoir un potentiel pop, jamais Raccoo-oo-oon ne s&#8217;est montré, de disque en disque, plus accessible que par le passé. Au contraire, le groupe est allé vers une déconstruction toujours plus extrême, livrant avec le récent Behold Secret Kingdom une musique plus abstraite, plus complexe, plus expérimentale que tout ce qu&#8217;il avait alors fait. Cet ultime double album, sans titre, tout comme les sept morceaux qu&#8217;il abrite, est donc le moins facilement abordable. Plus long, plus complexe, c&#8217;est aussi le plus génial, le plus surprenant, le plus passionnant. En une heure, le groupe passe en revue toute son oeuvre et, au détour de morceaux toujours plus longs, livre une musique sublime qui rappelle autant le heavy psyché de Behold Secret Kingdom que les convulsions gorgées d&#8217;effets et d&#8217;échos des premiers disques, en passant par le drone, ou la synth-pop pour vampire de Wet Hair. L&#8217;heure est au désespoir, et du premier morceau, presque normal, on s&#8217;enfonce dans l&#8217;irréalité la plus totale, avec en point d&#8217;orgue deux pièces de 20 minutes qui viennent submerger de sonorités étrange la fin du disque.<br />
Raccoo-oo-oon est plus mystérieux que jamais, et ressemble de plus en plus aux paysages mentaux pleins de symboles primitifs dessinés par Shawn Reed, membre pilier et leader spirituel. Cet ultime album regorge de magie noire et de prières païennes, c&#8217;est de très loin leur meilleur. Il fallait bien ça pour leur pardonner leur séparation.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Looking 4 Tru Mobile-Luv @ 1st Click/Touch]]></title>
<link>http://lacinta.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/looking-4-tru-mobile-luv-1st-clicktouch/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lacinta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lacinta.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/looking-4-tru-mobile-luv-1st-clicktouch/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Since I know that LaCinta&#8217;s readers are the most passionate &#8220;commenters&#8221; in the en]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Since I know that LaCinta&#8217;s readers are the most passionate &#8220;commenters&#8221; in the entire blogosphere, I&#8217;m going to pose a question:</p>
<p>What phone should LaCinta get?</p>
<p>Due to &#8220;security concerns&#8221; beyond my control there are a few restrictions I must adhere to:</p>
<p>a) The phone must be black</p>
<p>b) It must have the technology 4 me 2 blog/Twitter/MSN/phone/text/email/surf the internet from it (so that none of my online friends get worried about me)</p>
<p>c) it must be with Rogers in Canada (trying to keep my &#8216;real&#8217; whereabouts on the DL)</p>
<p>The phone also REALLY needs to:</p>
<p>a) be happy in my hand/pocket</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">b) make girls happy in their pocket when they see me with it</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">c) be happy on my pocket book</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">d) also say &#8220;Yah I&#8217;m tech savvy and blogging @ the coffee shop, but I&#8217;m also humble and still fit into my rural surroundings&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about getting either:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Really Trendy: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>iPhone 3G</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>&#8220;Twice as Fast Half the Price&#8221;<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><img src="///Users/JEM/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img src="///Users/JEM/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /></strong><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/3g-iphone.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-883" title="3g-iphone" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/3g-iphone.jpg" alt="3g-iphone" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>or</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Really Professional: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Blackberry Curve Smartphone </strong><strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>&#8220;Thinnest and Lightest<br />
Full-QWERTY BlackBerry Smartphone&#8221;<br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/blackberry-curve21.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-884" title="blackberry-curve21" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/blackberry-curve21.jpg" alt="blackberry-curve21" width="234" height="336" /></a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Blackberry </strong><strong>Bold </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>&#8220;Pure Innovation&#8221;</strong><strong><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/rim-blackberry-bold-smartphone.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-885" title="rim-blackberry-bold-smartphone" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/rim-blackberry-bold-smartphone.jpg" alt="rim-blackberry-bold-smartphone" width="277" height="271" /></a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Blackberry Storm</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>&#8220;Press and Be Impressed&#8221;<br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://lacinta.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/rim_blackberry_thunder_9500_series.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-886" title="rim_blackberry_thunder_9500_series" src="http://lacinta.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/rim_blackberry_thunder_9500_series.jpg" alt="rim_blackberry_thunder_9500_series" width="210" height="293" /></a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">
<p style="text-align:left;">This is a big decision and I need help.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">I know what you are thinking&#8230;  &#8220;How the fuck is he going to make such a life altering decision that effects his personal brand on every level !?&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Listening to Now: </strong>Tickley Feather <em>s/t</em> (2008).  Found via Pitchforks Guest List 2008.  Loving this. It&#8217;s mellow and unique. Really need to listen to it as a full album &#8211; not exactly &#8217;single&#8217; material.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Tickley Feather &#8220;The Python&#8221;</p>
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<link>http://wearsthetrousers.com/2008/10/08/tickley-feather-tickley-feather-2008/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wears The Trousers magazine</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tickley Feather Tickley Feather •• Paw Tracks  As a record released by the same label who currently ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Tickley Feather</strong><br />
Tickley Feather ••<br />
<span style="color:#c0c0c0;">Paw Tracks</span> </p>
<p>As a record released by the same label who currently take care of Animal Collective, the album which lands on my doormat early one morning in September already has fairly impressive indie credentials. The eponymous record is essentially a diary by solo artist Annie Sachs, who works under the pseudonym Tickley Feather, providing an outlet for her experiences as a new stay-at-home mother to young son Aiden over the course of several years. But don&#8217;t expect heartfelt acoustic mumblings or &#8220;isn&#8217;t [s]he lovely&#8221;-esque schmaltz. This is aural art in the truest sense. Listening to this album, recorded entirely at home on Sachs&#8217;s four-track recorder, is very much akin to falling through a wormhole, Malkovich style, into the mind of a confused psychopathic four year old, an effect only heightened by the vocal contributions made by her young son.</p>
<p><!--more-->I will admit that, upon reading &#8220;Vocals on tracks 1, 6, 19 and 20 by Aiden&#8221; in the liner notes, I did not have high expectations for the record. &#8216;Another Brick In The Wall&#8217; aside, children&#8217;s vocals on records are pretty much at the top of my cringe factor scale, right above panpipes and excessive harmonica. However, in this case, they are an absolute joy. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Aiden&#8217;s various musings on life (&#8220;There&#8217;s magic inside my bones somewhere&#8221;), which are given whole tracks of their own, are the best &#8217;songs&#8217; on the album.</p>
<p>Sadly, that is where the brilliance ends. I certainly whole-heartedly approve of Sachs&#8217;s dedication to music as high art but, in producing a record which might well be the polar opposite of the work of so many other mediocre &#8216;accessible&#8217; solo artists, the album is almost totally unlistenable. A lot of this is down to the understandably poor quality of the recording and production, which has resulted in almost inaudible, completely incomprehensible vocals. Worse still, all the music is littered with unpleasantly high pitched, headache-inducing frequencies which makes listening to the album all the way through in one sitting totally impossible. In fact, I would liken it to the auditory equivalent of having a &#8216;tickley feather&#8217; repeatedly run across the surface of my brain. Niggling. Uncomfortable.</p>
<p>Yet I don&#8217;t dislike what she&#8217;s trying to do here. Quite the opposite. I love the concept. I even feel a bond between Annie, Aiden and myself upon experiencing this record. But an experience is exactly what it is. And probably not one to be repeated. Don&#8217;t expect to put this on your iPod, folks. Hang it in a gallery.</p>
<p><strong>Maree Morris</strong><br />
<span style="color:#c0c0c0;">UK release date: 28/04/08 </span></p>
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<p>&#8216;Fancy Walking&#8217;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Super Saturday Music Video Post]]></title>
<link>http://toetapsandspasticclaps.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/super-saturday-music-video-post/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sanita</dc:creator>
<guid>http://toetapsandspasticclaps.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/super-saturday-music-video-post/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to watch the ever so lo fi experimental videos  of Ariel Pink, Tickley Feather and A]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It&#8217;s time to watch the ever so lo fi experimental videos  of Ariel Pink, Tickley Feather and Animal Collective.  Just so happens that all are on the Paw Tracks label.</p>
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<p>Ariel Pink &#8211; Are You Gonna Look After My Boys?</p>
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<p>Tickley Feather &#8211; Fancy Walking</p>
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<p>Animal Collective &#8211; Grass</p>
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<title><![CDATA[From the City That Let the Liberty Bell Crack]]></title>
<link>http://toetapsandspasticclaps.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/from-the-city-that-let-the-liberty-bell-crack/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 18:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
<guid>http://toetapsandspasticclaps.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/from-the-city-that-let-the-liberty-bell-crack/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia may have been too dangerous for Will Smith on The Fresh Prince, but this town is boasti]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Philadelphia may have been too dangerous for Will Smith on <em>The Fresh Prince</em>, but this town is boasting some choice musicians that make the risk worth it.  Here are my choice picks from the city of brotherly love that are bound to get your toes tappin&#8217; and fingers snappin&#8217;.  Enjoy!</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Man Man</strong><br />
This would be an obvious choice.  I guess I&#8217;m more than a little obsessed with their live shows and their new album ain&#8217;t too bad, either.  The only band that can pull off wearing all white, war-paint, and sequined headbands.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Man Man &#8211; <a href="http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1490140.mp3">Harpoon Fever (Queequeg&#8217;s Playhouse)</a> [MP3] [<a href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=man+man&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Insound</a>]</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p107/alisonarida/img_11653_musicspank_17.jpg?t=1209343694" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></p>
<p><strong> Spank Rock</strong><br />
I can never get enough of this Philly bro&#8217;s downright naaasty rhymes and bumpin&#8217; beats.  Yeah yeah I know, we are all soooo over Justice&#8217;s &#8220;D.A.N.C.E.&#8221;, but everything is better with a little Spank, no?<br />
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Benny Blanco mix Feat. Spank Rock and Mos Def &#8211; <a href="http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1498114.mp3" target="_blank">D.A.N.C.E.</a> [MP3]</p>
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<p><strong> The YMD</strong><br />
Sometimes I just can&#8217;t handle all of the lo-fi goodness spewing from these two MC&#8217;s mouf&#8217;s.  Totally in your face, totally name-droppin&#8217; every &#8216;burb in Philly.<strong></strong><br />
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The YMD &#8211; <a href="http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1550388.mp3" target="_blank">New Direction</a> [MP3] [<a href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=the+ymd&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Insound</a>]</p>
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<p><strong>Pattern Is Movement</strong><br />
These two Philly gents have potentially put out my favorite record of 2008.  Inspired by a set of antique photos, each track explodes with theatrical vocals, show tunes-esque piano, and polyrhythmic walls of sound.<br />
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Pattern Is Movement &#8211; <a href="http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1550406.mp3" target="_blank">Bird</a> [MP3] [<a href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=pattern+is+movement&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Insound</a>]</p>
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<p><strong> Tickley Feather</strong><br />
This Philly lady&#8217;s lo-fi, FM Lite sound is crazy-awesome.  Her vocals are slightly spooky, but the synth is oh-so-sweet.<br />
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Tickley Feather &#8211; <a href="http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1498119.mp3" target="_blank">Natural, Natural</a> [MP3] [<a href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=tickley+feather&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Insound</a>]</p>
<p>And who could forget about Enon?  We didn&#8217;t, see our Asian Mind Explosion playlist.</p>
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<link>http://gravitysra1nbow.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/we-never-heard-the-thunder/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gabriel lv</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[    clic derecho :·: descargar :·: tickley feather : fancy walking textranho. antes me mandabas cart]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:right;"><span class="  " style="font-family:georgia;">clic derecho :·: descargar :·: <a href="http://perseguidoporunoso.googlepages.com/05FancyWalking.mp3">tickley feather : fancy walking</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">textranho. antes me mandabas cartitas: ya no.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span class="  " style="font-family:georgia;">esa vez que soñaste que soñabas que te llevaban no sé cuántos pájaros planeando entre las caprichosas espirales del viento dibujadas como líneas delgadísimas que selevaban hasta mirar las nubes boquiabiertas disolviéndosentre rostros que te decían cosas que no deberías jamás olvidar, asuntos que necesitaban aterrizar en ese suelo que habías abandonado, te tapaste los oídos y cerraste tus ojitos y dejaste que los pájaros de ojos titilantes te llevaran volando, debajo desespacio en el domo despiadado que titilaba con la intensidad de un misterio esperando más allá del velo gris, ésta es la música que olvidasten el huerto donde los asuntos que necesitaban solución se quedaron sin solución, y los misterios que debían ser encarados fueron encarados, y así sucedió : vimos un rayo pero jamás escuchamos su estallido.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span class="  " style="font-family:georgia;">clic derecho :·: descargar :·: <a href="http://perseguidoporunoso.googlepages.com/05FancyWalking.mp3">tickley feather : fancy walking</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The four word snack review]]></title>
<link>http://chokeonyourpopculture.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/the-four-word-snack-review/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ashiah</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chokeonyourpopculture.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/the-four-word-snack-review/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a tiny snack-sized review of all the things I&#8217;ve watched and listened to lately]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a tiny snack-sized review of all the things I&#8217;ve watched and listened to lately&#8211;all in four words or less.</p>
<p><font size="2"><em>Recently watched films:</em></font><br />
<strong>Iron Man (2008 )</strong><br />
<em>Will spawn lackluster sequels</em></p>
<p><strong>Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008 )</strong><br />
<em>Two words: Emo Harold</em></p>
<p><strong>Sunshine (2007)</strong><br />
<em>Naked monster ruins everything</em></p>
<p><font size="2"><em>Recent music:</em></font></p>
<p><strong>Martina Topley Bird &#8211; The Blue God (2008 )</strong><br />
<em>Not interesting without Tricky</em></p>
<p><strong>Zeigeist &#8211; The Jade (2008 )</strong><br />
<em>Cheesy Swedes love electronics</em></p>
<p><strong>Tickley Feather &#8211; Tickley Feather (2008 )</strong><br />
<em>Innovation through cheap production</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Album Review | Tickley Feather - Tickley Feather]]></title>
<link>http://toetapsandspasticclaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/album-review-tickley-feather-tickley-feather/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
<guid>http://toetapsandspasticclaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/album-review-tickley-feather-tickley-feather/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The first time I heard Philadelphia&#8217;s Tickley Feather (or, Annie Sachs), I was seeing her open]]></description>
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<p>The first time I heard Philadelphia&#8217;s Tickley Feather (or, Annie Sachs), I was seeing her open for Animal Collective in St. Louis this past September.  I was really intrigued by the simplicity of her set and her overall ability to present experimental yet catchy tunes.  Her self-titled debut album off of the Paw Tracks label perfectly translates what her live sound is composed of.  Looping samples, keyboards, and drum machines piece together perfectly in combination with TF&#8217;s raw emotion expressed through her vocals.  With 20 tracks&#8211;the vast majority under the 3:00 mark&#8211;Tickley Feather&#8217;s album is like a fucking charming, whimsical storybook or something.  It makes me wonder if she deliberately crafted the perfect album to echo amazingly through my apartment.  Her sound is out there, in the most beautiful way possible.  Eerie nursery rhyme melodies and toy synths soar on tracks like &#8220;Nothing 2 B Sad About&#8221; and &#8220;Night Train&#8221;.  There are times when I&#8217;m listening to her album that all of a sudden, a phat lo-fi beat blasts through my ears (see &#8220;Tonight Is The Night&#8221;), and my mind jumps to Madonna circa 1988 had she taken lots of acid instead of club drugs.  Touted as the &#8220;Next Ariel Pink&#8221;, it seems that she indeed shares <strong>a lot</strong> in common with her Paw Tracks label-mate (who I am obsessed with, by the way) in terms of lo-fi production and tons of reverb in her vocals.    Interpret that as you will, but I know this album is going to be a favorite of mine for quite a while.</p>
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Tickley Feather &#8211; <a href="http://sq.txdnl.com/mwt/t/o/e/t/toetaps/playlists/187020/1498104.mp3" target="_blank">Tonight Is The Night</a> [MP3] [<a href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=tickley+feather&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Insound</a>]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tickley Feather]]></title>
<link>http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/tickley-feather/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SyrFox</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Il est bien possible que la popularité d&#8217;Annie Sachs augmente considérablement dans les mois à]]></description>
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<p>Il est bien possible que la popularité d&#8217;Annie Sachs augmente considérablement dans les mois à venir. Plus connue sous le nom de <b>Tickley Feather</b>, cette jeune artiste de Philadelphie a déjà tourné avec Animal Collective et Panda Bear (membre d&#8217;Animal Collective), avant de signer récemment sur leur (excellent) label, <i>Paw Tracks</i>, pour la parution de son premier album le 28 Avril prochain. Et même si sa discographie ne se compose pour le moment que d&#8217;un split avec Serpants of Wisdom et d&#8217;un split avec Bermuda Triangle, soit six titres en tout, plus une poignée de morceaux du prochain album disséminés ici et là, on peut déjà se faire une idée de la musique &#8211; et du talent &#8211; de cette artiste: très lo-fi, avec un chant volontairement saturé et réfléchi par de l&#8217;écho, des mélodies simples, accompagnées par une boîte à rythme hypnotique et electronica. Les mélodies, bien que simples et parfois désuettes (sur <i>The Revolution</i> nottament), sont bien souvent magnifiques, à ce titre <i>Natural Natural</i> mais surtout <i>The Python</i> sont probablement les deux meilleures chansons que Tickley Feather ait publiées à ce jour: mélodies vocales splendides (surtout sur le deuxième), répétées inlassablement pendant 2 minutes, accompagnées par des sonorités indéfinissables, programmation électronique impeccable, et surtout une forte atmosphère très mélancolique palpable. Et si <i>Tonight Is The Nite</i>, extrait de l&#8217;album à venir, montre des sonorités plus joyeuses et presque festives, la touche lo-fi de l&#8217;ensemble permet de conserver toujours une touche mélancolique, voire nostalgique par moments.</p>
<p><b>Tickley Feather &#8211; Tickley Feather (Paw Tracks, 28 Avril 2008)</b></p>
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<li> &#8220;I&#8217;ve Got Magic Inside My Bones Somewhere&#8221;</li>
<li>Ooooo</li>
<li>Buttshot</li>
<li>The Python</li>
<li>Fancy Walking</li>
<li>&#8220;There&#8217;s This Magic Spell Right Inside Your Bones&#8221;</li>
<li>Noisey Dingle</li>
<li>Nothing 2 B Sad About</li>
<li>Le Daylight</li>
<li>1978 Fast / Xylophone / Leaking Roof</li>
<li>Night Chant</li>
<li>Keyboards Is Drunk</li>
<li>Sorry Party</li>
<li>Night Train</li>
<li>Rain Bucket</li>
<li>Tonight Is The Nite</li>
<li>Lookout What&#8217;s Next</li>
<li>Convention</li>
<li>&#8220;The Bone Hits It With A Drumstick And Then Your Skin Has A Switch&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m Magic&#8221;/Bathtime</li>
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<p><b>Ecouter:</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.badmasterrecords.com/uploads/the_python.mp3" target="_blank">Tickley Feather &#8211; The Python</a><br />
<a href="http://gvsbchris.com/naturalnatural.mp3" target="_blank">Tickley Feather &#8211; Natural Natural</a><br />
<a href="http://www.paw-tracks.com/tickley.mp3" target="_blank">Tickley Feather &#8211; Tonight Is The Nite</a></p>
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