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The Need, Circuit Side The Need don’t do pastiches of x, y...

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:51:57 +0100

The Need, Circuit Side

The Need don’t do pastiches of x, y or z, they do pastiches. They throw together a bunch of different genres and it is this throwing together that is the important thing. But, if you must, you could say they are circus music in the most literal sense: music played by outsiders who bring the overworldly to the ordinary people.

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More music recommendations at the perceptron

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:21:16 +0100

If you’d like some music recommendations that suit your taste, rather than mine, go to the perceptron and enter an artist you like.

Modest Mouse, Life Like Weeds Only listen to the first half of...

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:01:00 +0100

Modest Mouse, Life Like Weeds

Only listen to the first half of this file. It contains a song of regret sung through teeth gritted to hold the anger and the tears back.

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Modest Mouse, Life Like Weeds Only listen to the first half of...

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0100

Modest Mouse, Life Like Weeds

Only listen to the first half of this file. It contains a song of regret sung through teeth gritted to hold the anger and the tears back.

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Modest Mouse, Life Like Weeds Only listen to the first half of...

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:00:10 +0100

Modest Mouse, Life Like Weeds

Only listen to the first half of this file. It contains a song of regret sung through teeth gritted to hold the anger and the tears back.

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Sunset Rubdown, Stadiums And Shrines II This song smashes...

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:36:00 +0100

Sunset Rubdown, Stadiums And Shrines II

This song smashes forwards, stamps slowly, waltzes itself around the room barging the other dancers out of the way. It sung like Spencer has been dumped the moment before he came to the stage and now feels like he is in a film.

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Julie Ruin, Love Letter Sung quiet, in bed, alone. Download.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:47:35 +0100

Julie Ruin, Love Letter

Sung quiet, in bed, alone.

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Venetian Snares, Ketsarku Mozgalom The combination of strings...

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:03:32 +0100

Venetian Snares, Ketsarku Mozgalom

The combination of strings and electronics is not a new idea. However, Aaron Funk makes such a perfect blend that it sounds like he and his laptop are the fifth and sixth members of a string quartet. The classical sounds and single vocal sample he uses expand the breakcore emotional range past terror and confusion to melancholy and regret and hopelessness. Get the whole album, as the tracks work even better together.

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The Black Heart Procession, On Ships Of Gold Floaty, sad, with a...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0100

The Black Heart Procession, On Ships Of Gold

Floaty, sad, with a weird cronish sort of voice that comes in part way through.

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B. Fleischmann, Melancholie This song is a forty-five minute...

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:33 +0100

B. Fleischmann, Melancholie

This song is a forty-five minute recording of a semi-improvised cover of some Schubert piano minatures. It’s so terribly mournful.

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Delta Dart, Story Of My Life Erin of Delta Dart would write the...

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:10:00 +0100

Delta Dart, Story Of My Life

Erin of Delta Dart would write the skeleton of a song and teach it to her bandmates. Each of them would go away and work out their own version. Then, the band would re-group and combine their interpretations. Mostly, this resulted in achingly sad, harmonised melodies.

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Dear And The Headlights, Grace Dear And The Headlights are...

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:41:00 +0100

Dear And The Headlights, Grace

Dear And The Headlights are probably the best pop band ever. Better than Abba. Why? Because they have what seems to be an inexhaustible supply of beautiful melodies. They occasionally sprinkle in little innovative bonuses, like Grace’s unexpected upward melodic twist.

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Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Means To No End Love Lost But...

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:22:01 +0100

Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Means To No End

Love Lost But Not Forgotten were basically Converge. Except there were six of them, they even further outdid their contemporaries, and they played screamo.

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Circle Takes The Square, In The Nervous Light Of Sunday ...

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:50:00 +0100

Circle Takes The Square, In The Nervous Light Of Sunday

Circle Takes The Square are a miracle. They make symphonic hardcore. That is, hardcore that is not just a collection of songs, but a journey. I was loathe to actually post a track here because, by doing so, I am negating their great achievement. However, In The Nervous Light Of Sunday is the representative microcosm of the larger cosmos.

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Tim Holehouse, Vessels That Sail In The Night The beautifully...

Thu, 22 May 2008 10:21:00 +0100

Tim Holehouse, Vessels That Sail In The Night

The beautifully sad, circular melody of this song conjures the disappointment of an early, desolate morning that somehow feels like a new beginning.

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Daniel Johnston, Tears Stupid Tears. The pitch fall that...

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:20:00 +0100

Daniel Johnston, Tears Stupid Tears.

The pitch fall that accompanies the pitched fall of [tears, stupid tears, bring] “me down” is just perfect. This song reminds me of the summer before last, when I was terrified and exhilarated all the time.

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