Saturday Dec 10, 2005

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FUCKING GOOD MUSIC (aka what often keeps me going when everything else is shite):

THE BLOW: Concussive Caress, or Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along with the Vacuum

Khaela Maricich is a K Records musician. She uses the moniker The Blow and has also been known as Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano. She is formerly of the band The Microphones.
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GRAVENHURST: Fires In Distant Buildings (also good: Flashlight Seasons)

Excellent new album from Gravenhurst who has really stepped things up a notch since the last release we think. This album is a definitive statement that will challenge many peoples conception of the band.
Complex, filmic arrangements Down River keep company with literate, romantic songwriting Nicole and hypnotic, kraut-rock workouts such as The Velvet Cell, The whole 50-odd minutes is suffused with competing themes of violence and deliverance, paranoia and epiphany, squalor and ascendance, peaking with the horrifying Animals.
Following the epic Song from Under the Arches a haunting exercise in restraint and ferocity- the album closes with a blistering appropriation of the Kinks See My Friends, drowning a three minute proto-psychedelic pop hit in a ten-minute sea of sonic chaos.
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GLORIA DELUXE: Accidental Nostalgia (also good: anything by her)

Sporting a haunting voice like Aimee Curl of ThaMuseMeant, Gloria Deluxe hones in on a smoky troubadour hiss with a carnival twist. Creeping from dark country noir to wasted, whiskey-toned folk complete with crying fiddle, supported by trombones sliding in for comment, "Accidental Nostalgia" leads you through sad and gorgeous little heartache songs. There are fluttering images of a deserted mining town set against a backdrop of golden rolling hills to the local dive bar with its wafting cigar smoke. Delightfully eccentric and quirky, this is an album that you won't soon forget.
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i did not write these reviews, although, procrastinator that i am, don't put it past me. it's after 6 pm and i still haven't had breakfast! smile

VIEW 12 of 12 COMMENTS
wheezy_e:
concerning the bit about your uncle: My dad ran a government subsidized electric car company in the late seventies/early eighties. Same bit, never even a remote possibility of them producing commercially viable electric cars, it was there for politicians to point to and say "I am for developing alternatives to oil" That was a sort of turning point for him I guess. Until he took that job they'd been back to the land lefties since i was born and they left college. NOBODY needs a two-acre garden, it's a sure sign of insanity. Goose eggs and goat milk may actually be eggs and milk, but whole-wheat spaghetti is not spaghetti at all. Chopping wood and tilling dirt might build the character of a ten year old, but disallow playing with toy guns and he will likely take to starting fires. The folks are now on fire with the love of Jesus and the republican party. To their credit they do more charity work than anyone I've ever known, both monetarally and time-wise, so far be it for me to criticize. Sis is a self-described marxist which helps family get togethers stay entertaining. I'm just there provoking things. As far as freinds go I could care less about anybody else's political views so long as they're not a nazi or something. Most of my friends are normal libs. I gotta get out of the house, it's fucking beautiful out.
wheezy_e:
I love showing off my sis, I'm glad you asked! I know I've been somewhere online that had a bunch of her poems, but presently I can only find a link to one here Along with a blurb about her & a book review. If there's any kind of directory of modern poets where there may be more, let me know. It's a little bit old I guess, she's done at SUNY Buffalo & is now teaching at Colorado State.

[Edited on Dec 11, 2005 12:45PM]

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