—Send In The Clouds
Silver Jews- Send In The Clouds
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If you purchase one album this year by my recommendation, make it this one. Ravens & Chimes have had what you might call a hard time: their tremendous debut earned comparisons to the Arcade Fire and the attention of Leonard Cohen but didn’t quite make them a buzz band. Or a touring band. Sophomore album Holiday Life became an ordeal, slowed by writer’s block, day jobs, a handful of recording sessions, a label hunt and a second, final mix before its release this April. It is, in short, an urgent, gorgeous album. It reminds me a little of Shearwater, if that band was more dorky and approachable. Frontman Asher Lack’s lyrics are at turns hopeful and desperate, decrying the “so very few hours in the day” before calling out later, “It’s not too late/to be with me again.” Everyone wants a second chance; sometimes it never comes. Let’s not let that happen.
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Teebs
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Gold Panda - “Mountains”
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—Oh Hail No (Feat. Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire & Danny Brown)
El-P/Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire/Danny Brown - Oh Hail No
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Ellen Allien & Apparat- Way Out
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—03-Autriche (Autechre)
Autechre - Autriche
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Record Review / Shackleton
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6939/shackleton-drawbarorganquiethour-2012
A collaborative piece with fake nu-emo band/actual vocalist Vengeance Tenfold, the unhinged Music for the Quiet Hour takes a decidedly more atmospheric turn and stands as the most ambitious composition of Shackleton’s recorded career. Leaving most traditional percussion behind and employing an ethnomusicologist’s dream collection of melodic mallets, the piece builds and un-builds itself slowly toward an intensely minimal twenty-minute centerpiece with waves of ambient noise, drone, and the most extreme realizations of the producer’s dystopic dub sensibilities to date.
