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Emma Pollock: The Law of Large Numbers. If Belle and Sebastian are booking Bowlie Weekenders again, then surely their fellow Scots in the Delgados should be busy planning their reunion tour.

If ever there were an under-appreciated, defunct indie rock band deserving of a second wind, it's the Glaswegian foursome who disbanded in the mid-2000s after five critically acclaimed but commercially ignored albums. However, founding member Emma Pollock may not be so eager to give into the lure of easy nostalgia and big festival guarantees, given the encouraging evolution of her solo career. Where her winsome 2007 solo debut Watch the Fireworks saw Pollock operating well within the Delgados' orchestral pop comfort zone, The Law of Large Numbers takes a more deconstructive tack, gradually breaking down the standard rock band formation to experiment with texture and rhythm, and establish a more absorbing, nocturnal atmosphere. Twin Sister: Color Your Life. Twin Sister sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos e. Galaxie 500: Today / On Fire / This Is Our Music. When new bands play guitar music heavy on reverb and slow in tempo-- a combination that drapes tunes in a sublimely druggy dream-pop haze-- I can be slow to embrace them.

It's not that there isn't plenty of good music in this vein being made. It's that one band, 20 years ago, did this sound so well and with so much personality, they set a difficult standard for newcomers to meet. Galaxie 500 didn't last long. They formed in Boston in 1986, released three albums between 1988 and 1990, got great notices in the press (especially the UK), and then dissolved.

Following their breakup, after which lead singer and guitarist Dean Wareham went on to Luna and the rhythm section of Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang formed Magic Hour and Damon and Naomi, Galaxie 500 albums went out of print. Galaxie 500 sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos e. Galaxie 500-This Is Our Music-2010-FRAY. Elliott Smith: Roman Candle / From a Basement on. Elliott Smith sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos.

Elliott Smith - Roman Candle. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (EAC-FLAC-CUE) Cover. Galaxie 500 - On Fire (1989) [FLAC] Galaxie 500 — complete studio discography [2009 remaster] (downl. Galaxie 500 — complete studio discography [2009 remaster]

Emma Pollock sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos. Black Tambourine: Black Tambourine. Black Tambourine. Christy & Emily: No Rest. Emily Manzo is a classically trained pianist known for performing compositions by Susie Ibarra and John Cage, among others; self-taught guitarist Christy Edwards did time in various NYC indie-flavored rock combos.

Despite learning how to play their instruments in different ways, Christy and Emily both approach them with a sense of experimentation and curiosity. They want to see what sorts of sounds they can make with them, how to exploit those sounds, how to make something musical from noises that seemingly sound non-musical. Christy&Emily sur MySpace Music. Mimicking Birds: Mimicking Birds. Mimicking Birds is the spectral folk/home recording project of Portland's Nate Lacy.

This, his first full-length under the MB guise, was produced by Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock for the latter's Glacial Pace imprint, a footnote that's actually no footnote at all. In addition to simply signing him, Brock has taken Lacy under his wing in recent years, bringing him along to open Modest Mouse amphitheater tours, and leaving behind audible prints on his studio efforts as well. Lacy's extremely gifted with cyclical melodies: thorny, fingerpicked spines around which he can snake a range of sounds simply for ambience. He accomplishes a lot of that here by considering a lot of the same moods and midnight tones as Brock did on his masterstroke The Moon & Antarctica or his work in Ugly Casanova. The vocal layers in particular are used as backup instruments, garbled and muffled (see the thunderclapping coda of "New Doomsdays") as though they're being transmitted from other orbits.

Mimicking birds sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Phot. Mimicking Birds. Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can. Reviewing Laura Marling's Mercury Prize-nominated debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in 2008, I worried that the then-18-year-old might too quickly shed the teenage guilelessness that contributed so greatly to the record's appeal.

Marling possessed an undeniable knack for writing about young love with directness and authentic feeling, but at times her pseudo-profound poetics suggested the young folkie was in too much of a hurry to be a serious adult. Laura Marling sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (2010)(split tracks + cove. Jónsi: Go. Jónsi Birgisson doesn't do small.

As the lead singer of Sigur Rós, he's starred in several of this century's most epic songs; with their penchant for instrumental swells, feedback, and weight-of-humanity wails, the Icelandic band has practically set a new, near unreachable height for melodramatic art rock. But after perfecting this style on 2005's Takk, Jónsi and his mates have had some trouble finding a way out from beneath the burden of big. Their last album, 2008's Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, tried to temper the bombast but occasionally got bogged down in aimless balladry.

Jónsi's subsequent Riceboy Sleeps LP with Alex Somers offered largely voiceless ambiance, akin to Quentin Tarantino directing a silent chamber drama. Jónsi sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et clip. Jónsi - Go [320kbps] Scuba: Triangulation. SCUBA sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et clip. Scuba-Triangulation-2010-SiRE_trancezone.nu (download torrent) - Album Reviews: To Rococo Rot: Speculation.

To Rococo Rot. Sam Amidon: I See the Sign. Sam Amidon's idea of recomposition-- of excavating Appalachian folksongs; rearranging, repurposing, and creating a dissociation that feels uniquely contemporary-- isn't exactly unprecedented.

Musicians-- like A.P. Carter, who scrambled up and down Clinch Mountain in the late 1920s, collecting local songs for the Carter Family's repertoire-- have been reinventing folk songs since before we knew to call them folk songs. That's part of what folk music is, and does. What separates Amidon from the scrum of revivalists and archivists is how modern these renditions are. I See the Sign, Amidon's third folk LP, doesn't contain any original tracks, but his interpretations are so singular that it stops mattering how (or if) these songs existed before-- all that matters is how they exist now.

Amidon grew up singing folk music in Brattleboro, Vermont; his parents were members of the Word of Mouth chorus, a community choir which performed sacred harp hymns in the 1970s. Samamidon sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et. Sam Amidon - 2 Albums. 2 Albums from Sam Amidon Sam Amidon - But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted [2007] andSam Amidon - I See the Sign [2010] His other major release, All Is Well [2008], is available here already at CMG Review:Sam Amidon I See the Sign (Bedroom Community; 2010) Rating: 77% Sam Amidon’s third album, I See the Sign, opens on the least folk-friendly moment of his career.

A picked banjo pattern and Amidon’s vocal melody is at the center of “How Come That Blood,” picking up in some ways where his appearance on Nico Muhly’s Mothertongue (2008) left off; but neither the repetitive picking nor Amidon’s muted voice hits first. Instead, it’s the stabbing bass, the strings swooping inward for only a few seconds at a time, the bleeping synthesizer, and the loping percussion that control the song.

Of the material Bedroom Community has released, Amidon’s is among the most accessible and immediate, and arguably the least rooted in contemporary classical or experimental music. Starkey: Ear Drums and Black Holes. As dubstep has spread to an American fanbase, artists like Rusko and Emalkay have theorized that stateside audiences gravitate toward the harder stuff, the heavy bass of dubstep's aggro side.

For a while, Starkey fit this profile. The Philly-based producer's early releases ("Corner Store Riddim", "Pins", "Bounce") sounded like a dry run for a new, heavy American take on classic 2-step. Starkey sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et cl. Bill Callahan: Rough Travel for a Rare Thing.

Bill Callahan's first live album reflects his approach to music. It's a 2xLP set (also available as a download, no CD), and the packaging is minimal-- two slabs of vinyl, no notes, and all credits and recording info are printed on the disc labels. The functional nature of the package says, "The music is what's important here. " Callahan kicks off the album by mumbling, "We're gonna get right down to business," and then he and the band-- guitar, bass, drums, violins-- proceed to do just that. It's 2007, they are in a small club in Australia, and Callahan is drawing from a catalog of songs any songwriter would envy. Turned out to be a good night.

Smog sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et clips. The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate. If there's a type of Western music you can name, chances are Nels Cline has made it at some point in the last 30 years. He finally became prominent outside of niche circles when he joined Wilco last decade, and if there's any justice, he's finally reaping some long-elusive financial rewards for his music. Being in Wilco has slowed down his other musical output, but only insofar as he now doesn't release nine albums a year. You might expect a guy who's packed so much variety into his career to use each of his groups to focus on a different aspect of his craft; Cline has done that to some extent, but that's not how he uses the Nels Cline Singers.

The long-running trio of Cline, bassist Devin Hoff, and drummer/et-ceterist Scott Amendola is sort of a brain-scraping catchall for Cline, and their records often seem like a concerted (and sometimes successful) effort to use lack of focus as an asset. Nels Cline sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et. The Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath (flac. The Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals. Destroyer: City of Daughters / Thief / Streethawk. "Find something difficult to do and do it," says Destroyer's Dan Bejar a few tracks into Streethawk: A Seduction.

Which is more or less the story of Bejar's early albums, now reissued-- City of Daughters, Thief, and Streethawk. In a few years, the tentative bedroom auteur grew into one of indie rock's most distinctive voices, and these three records laid the groundwork for his career. The extravagant glam-pop that would become Bejar's trademark is hinted at, whittled down, and then perfected over the course of these albums. Every record since Streethawk has felt like either an extension of its successes or an outright rejection of its excesses.

City of Daughters found Bejar playing with others for the first time, but it's still plenty homespun; its songs are rough around the edges and not always sure what to do with themselves. Destroyer sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et. Mi Ami: Steal Your Face. Steal Your Face, the second full-length album from San Francisco trio Mi Ami, is so intense it might overwhelm to the point of frustration. That's how I first reacted, struggling to find the same sort of entry points that its excellent 2009 predecessor, Watersports, offered. By contrast, Steal Your Face seemed too kinetic and overloaded to draw you in. It felt more focused on exploring the band's sounds than delivering a lasting impression. Keep at it though: Steal Your Face is the sort of frantic, busy album that hides its hooks among fits of guitar savagery, dub textures, and ricocheting rhythms-- but only for so long.

Mi Ami rips from the gates on opener "Harmonics (Genius of Love)", for instance. That's how the best of Steal Your Face works, by cramming every second with as many sounds and ideas as the trio can manage. Mi Ami sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et cli. Race Horses: Goodbye Falkenburg. Race Horses sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos e. Harlan T. Bobo: Sucker.

The liner notes to Harlan T. Bobo's third album, Sucker, explain that these new songs were "mostly written while courting an adventurous woman" and following her around the world. "The courtship was a success. " Harlan T. Bobo sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photo. Sightings: City of Straw. The decade-long career of New York trio Sightings has been mostly about expansion. They started with a big bang, playing as noisy and abrasive as a band with structured rock songs could. Sightings sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et.

The Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild Hunt. Pesky comparisons to Bob Dylan have dogged Kristian Matsson throughout his short career as the Tallest Man on Earth. In 2006, his self-titled EP introduced a singer with that familiar croak, a songwriter with a folk-revival revival sensibility, and a guitar player with an impressively agile fingerpicking style. The next year, his full-length debut, Shallow Grave, expanded nicely on those ideas, buffing away some of the rougher edges but emphasizing fully realized and beautifully evocative songs.

The Wild Hunt, the second Tallest Man on Earth album and first for Dead Oceans, makes a few specific nods to Dylan at his most earnest and bare-- including a reference to "boots of Spanish leather" on "King of Spain". The Tallest Man on Earth sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt - 2010 (rhsiv) (320) (d. Caribou: Swim. Caribou sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et cl. Caribou - Swim - 2010 (rhsiv) (320)