Albums You're Digging II

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Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Never have I been so impressed on a first listen for a black metal album. I have Anteater to thank for this beauty. Cheers!
 
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Do I think it's as strong as Youth? No, but with its hooks and production, it manages to grasp my attention a bit more. Very addictive album.
 
That actually sounRAB pretty awesome.

I picked up a bunch of Yugoslavian post punk a while back but I seemed to have missed them.

They sound a lot like Adam & The Ants first album to me.
 
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I swear, I had better taste in music as a 14 year old than I did as a 17 year old. I remeraber buying (or having mommy buy me) Nirvana's greatest hits comp, but only now am I getting back into them. sigh
 
Man, so many good albums going through my headphones in recent days... been enjoying me some Arcade Fire in particular... Last night though, I think my listening looked alot like this...

The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!
Regurgitator - Mish Mash
The Fauves - When Good Things Go Good
Underground Lovers - Ways T'Burn
 
Yeah, Begin Here's worth having, and there are a few great songs off of it (She's Not There for instance). It doesn't all kinda melt into one experience (in a good way) like Odyssey and Oracle does though. Both are of course very different albums though.
 
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While it's far from being an amazing album or making it on my top 50 any time soon, I felt it was a vast improvement over their previous album. It's a solid piece whereas their debut was kinda all over the place and couldn't really find a comfortable zone. Looking forward to seeing where they go from this album, as another album too much like this would probably be the beginning of a dead horse.
 
It says they're from Mauritania on the cover, anyway, seems cool. I'm downloading it.


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I listened to it. Definitely Tarab, music that is used to meditate or to just to trip to (notable Tarab singer: Oum Koultoum). That's why all songs are ~20 minutes long, repeating usually the same sentence.

Now it would've been much greater if they used a bouzouk or a Oud, or any of the traditional acoustic instruments, but I guess their whole concept was to inject some western vibe with the electric guitar. I guess that's why you made a bad trip listening to them.

Tho what I liked in that music, and which was bound to happen due to Mauritania's position in the world. An Arabic country, on the north of Senegal and the south of Morocoo, like the separation of very different cultures. So these identities were merged to build some kind of mix of the traditional Arabic Tarab with the African, plus in some places we can hear the Moroccan Rai. If well arranged and recorded, I say this has the potential to be great.
 
5 albums I've been diggin ...

Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow
The Monks - Black Monk Time
Beat Happening - Black Candy
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom

never properly got into The Monks before, definitely am now ... great album that, can't believe it was made so long ago!
 
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Up there with the latest Hacride release for Metal album of the year. It's a phenomenal album and restores your faith in the genre amiRABt so much banal commercial tripe.
 
It's just one guy, but yeah he's awesome. Or WAS awesome. :mad: On his first few albums he produced and rapped, then he switched to instrumental. As for Ninja Tune, there is definitely some great stuff on the label, but I don't like everything...and there's way too much for me to ever consider going through it all. My favs would be Amon Tobin, Sixtoo, Blockhead, DJ Vadim (though his last one hasn't appealed to me), and One Self.
 
Raindrops and Sunshowers is a great song, with a really cool kicking beat, and I love the lyrics.... showing Billy Corgan the actual human being, beyond the ego, I likes it very much... and some of this long drwan out backing notes he plays on the guitar just sound cool. Like i said before, Machina has a really busy some would say fussy sound, but I like it for the everything and the kitchen sink sonic detail it contains...

Last night I also played Accelerate by REM, another album I love because its one of my favorite banRAB with their energy and intensity returned to them.... and what a great music they are capable of when they have that spark.
 
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