So I bought some really corny but good albums today. Both debut albums, one a "super-group"(I hate that fucking term) and one is some "new" shit. The super-group is Tinted Windows and they are comprised of Taylor Hanson(yes that Taylor Hanson), James Iha, Bun E. Carlos and Adam Schlesigner. Pretty rad mixup if you ask me and they pull the album off believe it or not. Granted its obvious they wrote this album in about 3 weeks and recorded in about 2, but its 35 minutes of pure sugar-coated guitar pop and I am a fuckin sucker for that. The other album is the debut from Chester French and I dont know much about them aside from the fact that Pharell seems to worship every sound they make, and with decent reason. The album is definitely a fun listen, but I get the feeling that alot of the ideas on the album are overthought and it makes them sound a little out of place. Case in point the track "Country Interlude" is five and a half minutes of eerie sounds and just randomness that doesnt tie the album together in any way and is the longest track on the album by a minute. Great first try from the duo and I expect much bigger things to build from their year or two of pre-album release hype and mix tapes and EPs etc. The debut I DIDNT BUY today was from Asher Roth because he is a clown. I have heard some of his mixes and its obvious he has flow, but the album is straight gimmicky bullshit, halfassed hooks and guest spots. Garbage.
Oh! Listen to the new Manchester Orchestra album! It sounds like In Utero era Nirvana mixed with Pinkerton era Weezer and....country. Slide guitar and all. Get on that shit. Its called "Mean Everything To Nothing".
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Feeling Two Years Ago "Trendy"
Just picked up the new Yeah Yeah Yeah's and PB&J albums. Both are great, YYYs is better. YYY's really stepped up their sound adding all sorts of new shit and kinda ditching the guitar whereas PB&J really want another song on the radio so wrote a full album of possibilities. Not to say thats bad, but theres not much variety.
Clear liquid and jello diet for me today...guess on what I get to do tomorrow?
Clear liquid and jello diet for me today...guess on what I get to do tomorrow?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Best Release Week Of The Year
This week was fucking EPIC for releases.
Mastodon and The Decemberists both put out amazing concept albums with tracks that seamlessly play through each other.
The Decemberists album has this amazing mood to it and flows beautifully from begining to end with reprises and a huge variety of musical stylings. The story is great, the added female vocals as a different character really provides great contrast to their enormous sound and its super-well produced.One of the most complete albums from the "indie" scene in years.
Mastodon also put one out...but they always have a theme to their albums. Theyve done Remission, their fire album, Leviathan, their water album, Blood Mountain, their earth album and now Crack The Skye, their....outer space universe record. And they pull it off in pure rock fashion departing from the relentless metal of their earlier work to create a moodier..spacey feel. It does still have that Mastodon/american metal feel to it, but you can tell the band was super focused when writing and recording this album and really went to a different place. Metalheads will be disappointed, but music fans will be thrilled with this album.
Guilty pleasure band Blue October put out a new album too and while it has a hard time comparing to the above mentioned releases, they definitely did create a solid rock record. Steve Lillywhite really did a great job producing the album and giving it an organic feel while still being completely accessable as a major label band rock album. The lyrics are as bad as ever, but its something you expect from bands like this.
And finally, the re-release of Pearl Jam's now classic debut album Ten came out. There are two discs. The first is simply the iconic album remastered by Bob Ludwig and the second is really interesting. Brendan O'Brien(who ironically also produced the new Mastodon album) took the master tape and re-mixed it(no not "remixed" it) to his own liking and added a few extra songs from the session on it too. Both discs sound really fucking good, and the new take on the album is so cool to hear. Well worth the purchase.
Thats all I got, back to studying the chords to Hotel California and the formation of U2s Claw stage.
Mastodon and The Decemberists both put out amazing concept albums with tracks that seamlessly play through each other.
The Decemberists album has this amazing mood to it and flows beautifully from begining to end with reprises and a huge variety of musical stylings. The story is great, the added female vocals as a different character really provides great contrast to their enormous sound and its super-well produced.One of the most complete albums from the "indie" scene in years.
Mastodon also put one out...but they always have a theme to their albums. Theyve done Remission, their fire album, Leviathan, their water album, Blood Mountain, their earth album and now Crack The Skye, their....outer space universe record. And they pull it off in pure rock fashion departing from the relentless metal of their earlier work to create a moodier..spacey feel. It does still have that Mastodon/american metal feel to it, but you can tell the band was super focused when writing and recording this album and really went to a different place. Metalheads will be disappointed, but music fans will be thrilled with this album.
Guilty pleasure band Blue October put out a new album too and while it has a hard time comparing to the above mentioned releases, they definitely did create a solid rock record. Steve Lillywhite really did a great job producing the album and giving it an organic feel while still being completely accessable as a major label band rock album. The lyrics are as bad as ever, but its something you expect from bands like this.
And finally, the re-release of Pearl Jam's now classic debut album Ten came out. There are two discs. The first is simply the iconic album remastered by Bob Ludwig and the second is really interesting. Brendan O'Brien(who ironically also produced the new Mastodon album) took the master tape and re-mixed it(no not "remixed" it) to his own liking and added a few extra songs from the session on it too. Both discs sound really fucking good, and the new take on the album is so cool to hear. Well worth the purchase.
Thats all I got, back to studying the chords to Hotel California and the formation of U2s Claw stage.
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