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Favorites albums of 2011
(Originally posted on Tympanogram.com on December 22, 2011) It’s hard to tell whether this was a really great year for music or if I was just paying attention more than last year. That sums up my feelings at the end … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews, tympanogram
Tagged 2011, best of, calgary, canada, colin stetson, david comes to life, diaper island, flemish eye, fucked up, groovemine, jicks, king of limbs, malkmus, mirror traffic, polyvinyl, radiohead, ravedeath, ravedeath 1972, science island, starfucker, tim hecker, toronto, tUnE-yArDs, two koreas, tympanogram, vangaalen, whokill, wild flag
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Album review: We Were Promised Jetpacks – “In the Pit of the Stomach”
Sometimes it just feels great to have some loud music blasting into your ears. It’s better if the sonic assault isn’t something that is relentless, rather persistent but giving and taking in all the right places. The band has a … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged indie rock, jetpacks, loud, pit, pit of stomach, rock, scottish, stomach, we were promised jetpacks
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Album review: Wooden Shjips – “West”
Wooden Shjips’ drone of ultra fuzzed out guitars aligns them with the trend of retro sounding new-music that seems to have exploded in the past couple of years. They are taking the psychedelic/early hard-rock sound and very much running with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, drone, guitar, music, psych, psych rock, psychedelic, rock, thrill jockey, west, wooden shjips
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Album review: White Hills – “H-p1″
Heavy, unrelenting drones of guitar riffage that are spread out over an extended jam. That is how I would sum up the sound of White Hills’ “H-p1″ in one sentence. It isn’t totally fair to sum things up in one … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, drone, heavy, minimalist, post-rock, stoner, stoner-rock, thrill jockey, white hills
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Album review: Priestbird – “Beachcombers”
Priestbird is the new moniker of former instrumental indie-prog outfit Tarantula A.D. It seems that tensions within the band came to a breaking point such that they didn’t feel they would be able to continue making music together. They split … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged beachcombers, groovemine, Priestbird, psych rock, psychedelic, Tarantula A.D.
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Album review: Psychedelic Horseshit – “Laced”
For those of you out there that feel like White Fence’s release “Is Growing Faith” was a little too “mainstream” and accessible, you’ll be happy to know that Psychedelic Horseshit’s latest release, “Laced” is neither of those things. Psychedelic Horseshit … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, album, fatcat, groovemine, laced, music, psychedelic horseshit, records
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Album review: Joan of Arc – “Life Like”
The Chicago based math-rock outfit with steady lineup changes, Joan of Arc, adds to their already frighteningly prolific repertoire with their latest effort, “Life Like”. You know that you are in for a serious journey when an album begins with … Continue reading
Album review: Colourmusic – “My ______ is Pink”
Go ahead: admit the first thing that popped into your head when you read the title. Yeah, that’s what I thought, sicko. Well that’s not how this reviewer read it at all. I read it as “My blank is Pink” … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged colourmusic, dance, groovemine, heavy, pink, review, rock, spectral
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Album review: Dag För Dag – “Boo”
I used to own a cassette when I was a kid. Well, I owned several. Having grown up in the 80’s means I went through a lot of cassettes. Blank tapes became canvases that I recorded memories onto. They contained … Continue reading
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Tagged american, dag, dag for dag, dark, haunting, snavely, swedish
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Album review: Yuck – “Yuck”
Finally, after all the hype of indie culture coming to the mainstream, with Arcade Fire winning the Album of the Year Grammy and every band everywhere looking for a unique sound, we get an album that gives us exactly what … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, albums, groovemine, music, reviews
Tagged 120 minutes, british, indie, mtv, rock, sebadoh, shoegaze, sloan, sonic youth, thrush hermit, yuck
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