without many words: the April-mixtape . 60 minutes for edifying feeling before and after May 1st.
trans am - june
it is already clear, of course, the song would fit better in another month. but I've been flashed by the last months as trans am album, "liberation" from the year 2004 (!) that I have a whole mixtape with songs could load up on that very album. everything I've always found very good in trans on cumulative here and the album makes it a concept album that makes joy from beginning to end. the kraut rock influences that had previously been broken into tracks as heard "on the Rhine" form, here is a base for excursions both in the direction of noise rock like gene disco without ever having to appear too vetrackt. and, on the text layer, packaged in one of the strongest post-9/11-alben at all. The title "liberation" it means that yes, a mini-skit supports such as "if there was ever an excuse for it's nuclear war washington dc" not yet. the album is a contemporary history that shines strangely fitting.
anti-pop consortium - shine
I've missed. I'm annoyed. much. for a surprising number of people were the last few events, concerts apc Illumination, you hear them muttering almost mythical-religious excesses, and I can not say anything, except to say: the whole new album, "fluorescent black", comes with a few pleasant-hiphop stereotypes of living in a loose game with synths, keyboards and cheap, the playful diametrically antgegenstehend pretty dark beats to hear in this track. pity that the seemingly once again seems to move only the nerd / ettes. can hardly be clear lines behind him, seems to escape the cheering of the masses can be. has quite charming and positive. or is there so much in it at apc music history, that only the superstructure of anticon-nerdwissen and crossover play-in the good sense, as indeed they were and are, can understand?
unlucky hans - paris
... no, I do not think so, for hans unlucky you just find him some day good per se, although difficult to also weighs. I was skeptical, but I was convinced. posed spex him in a tradition with Paul Celan because it's so beautiful in spirit and sealed verschwurbelt something from "scratch your manhood to" babbling, but of course it compares quite lame, life story already because of the completely different. I also do not think that hans unlucky at some point times a drowning hitlers birthday in his will. time he has already far too open, with all the elegance and metaphernlastigkeit difficult introspective texts is very outwardly introverted music that contains a lot of optimism for me.
dum dum girls - oh my m
great poetry and a lot of optimism here. the dum dum girl sing a love song in broken german. not only because they are for me the monthly winners in competing for the title "best 6o's retro band" and suggest how the mitkontestanten Ganglians at length.
caribou - Lalibela
mei so, what should one say just to caribou? I think I covered the album's very nice if not totally great. but only here I noticed how much it reminds also of the sound aesthetics of Arthur Russell: a faded-whispering voice that a similar timbre, has the music often works version way, hinskizzierte melodies thrown toms and soundBody pop beats with a simple, the holds everything together a little.
fink - sort of revolution
-soundalike contest, the third, which sounds fink now? Unfortunately, I can think of only very bad connotations, for I must inevitably think (also because of the title) is always on Tracy Chapman, and - in how many circle of hell am I? - The brighter, more cheerful moments of ... jack johnson .
now I've got it said.
fink lullert frequently at this terrible feel-good fleece jackets starbuck's-tea party by romance. this is a decent little stylistic shallow, but what the young vote for his comforting the soul-stroking? just as a singing artist you are always thrown back on what one's throat hergibt, it would be ridiculous, he would try to karen o or Roger Miret sound like. the latter is actually more ridiculous. So one comes through by the snuggle-vibrato, remain arranged minimalist pop songs with clever, motives of personal texts and supported a kind of acoustic guitar music, which is the campfire about as far away as Agnostic Front, and it is warm, touching, but not fire crackling and conjuring up stereotypes.
phosphorescent - At Death, A Proclamation
pass the camp fire-torch once more. what will oldham has done, can be so take virtually impossible. an entire genre he invented on his own and that of singer / songwriters who doubts like to live on in the evening and has a solid rock background, that would be unthinkable without him. also phosphorescent aka Matthew Houk has to be strong imitative character and fits well in the bon (never) prince iver-cosmos. yet he brings the necessary gravity and seriousness with the basis of which one such artists sold as "honest" or "authentic" tossing. it is but what is unlucky for fink or Lord: the words adequate to meet together with the right chords. predicate: good - even after deducting the hipster points for "skinny boy with a beard" or "songs about nature mysticism." can he create his own, though not necessarily sound world alone, move on their haunted because he is quite good and give guided tours, takes a trip to one with, manages to enchant for moments. this, of course not necessarily the most demanding epic theater, but this seems to be hardly intended. plays on the way, 27.05. in Nuremberg.
autechre - Ilander
the epic theater will then adjust even more to autechre that create moods so happy just because they break it again and again, even if "over steps", her new piece of work, appears in relatively quite tame. in "Ilander" get even a little dubstep-reminszenzen to mind. but they prove here that stand behind their songs very well scaffolding complex, lots of brain work - even in extreme arrhythmic arrangements, such as from the "untilted" time (2005). However, despite these structures shake their fragility often - and this is quite impressive - for they are even in moments of great confusion going strong with their respective grundstrukuren interwoven, known as the listener must first break out yet. Metamusik. by the way: amusing that the "over steps" cover almost like the antidote to caribou's "swim" effect:
the knife - height of summer
on this album I've done a lot of thought. especially about why all the world so incredibly brave or difficult place. It clearly is a conceptual scale soundtrack-album, on which only a few "real" songs, but can find all the more great ideas. "Height of summer" is perhaps the potential hit track of the album, also one of the shorter, for sure, but here is also one of the hallmarks of "tomorrow, in a year" very good effect: the game with the percussive element. behrrschen huge synth-toms, the scenery, and on many of the tracks can be heard such elements. birdsong, ebb, tide, all this is quite analogous to some, this world, of course, that is produced organically. a great project: naturmimesis, and lo and behold, it goes beyond the framework of pop.
and is dragged to the surface in particular: pop are set close limits. not want the knife to the audience as a band u sell it as an e that makes the audience already, and assigns, and the three-letter word boundaries in close. so powerful this game just so hip with nature also makes the most: as an alternative to the unquestioned status quo of life and pop.
richie pitch feat. m.anifest - black star
I do not know much about richie pitch, I think, therefore, rather with a bit of gossip: he once worked with Engelbert Humperdink, of his fame include mucki buden-alltime-faves like "English Eyes" vedankt ( beside his name is actually a pseudonym). soon see a album of pitch not humperdink, the rappers he worked with many of Ghana, was among those m.anifest also represented here.
sometimes bothers me the nintendo-esque sound that the other It fits so beautifully to all the beautiful rhythm pitchereien.
golden disko ship - a cat's year
catalog number one of the new "city splits" series monika enterprise. shared by two artists from urban one and the same is an album that falls into this and I have been jasmina Maschina previously unknown golden disko ship selected. the tracks of both musicians fit together extremely consistent, have a lightness, reminiscent of French pop sensibility, without even a moment in his traditional pop. Woman Maschina sounds in some places after a bisserl masha Qrella I abkann no idea against which builds the disco boat many exciting field recordings in the songs to one and giving you an even more open and airy character.
dramamine - sleepless
band gave me work. a surprising number of people in my environment were thrilled to let me but the eternal cold, actually until shortly before her Nuremberg-gig a few weeks. then it has once made a "click". ian, the mixture of the dandyhaftigkeit a good mood svenonious , the urgency and the emos took earlier robocop kraus me then ultimately a but. The Robos
fit sometimes musically very good. dramamine move just as in the middle between the mid-'90s emo-and-heavy make-up wipers-punk. and sometimes, because they also violently crashing breakdowns, to remind me of quicksand . the references are really just great. quite so far they have not yet, a bit of it could still be independent, but also in the Robos it took forever until they no make-up-more imitators were. only regret is the production quite punky, ie: not daring the basslastigkeit, everything went well in the center. this is because so much more, as seen live ibid.
pissed jeans - pt 2 false Jesii
of the punk film I always come back down so hard. So even after dramamine fix the fired pissed jeans. name is the concept, the last album was called "king of jeans", surely a reference to "kings of . Punk "which sets out the thrust. Forever broken, pissed off punk, but fantastically noisy and turns that has powerful and characterful former amphetamine reptile -acts like god bullies or hammerhead These kinds of music is actually dead these days, in. 90% of all cases even with that, but I must admit that in small doses nasty fun, err ...
transistors of mercy - some girls wander
my mistake occurs to me first. jah division as I love concept cover bands. joy division latter attracted by the dub-cocoa, the transistors ebendas do with the sisters. or not? I'm honestly not a big fan sisters of mercy, only know their first lp, and recognize the songs of Berlin transistors anything again. but I like their expansive synthesizer drones, especially because they have provisions for a feeling and not have shy of slipping even in the direction of pop or proto-techno.
former ghosts - this is my last goodbye I
gebs to yes, I'm a bit of a crush on nika roza. and in jamie stewart. and of course ruppert in freddy. So also in the former ghosts. great is that they come on the radio play-fixed z, sad that they are only in personal union of Mr. Ruppert appear. musically they make it so easy in itself. 80-years-dark-synthpop hall with goth-touch and tidy on absolutely everything. as if it would not give the enough. even I do not just estimated the xx - I understand the hype and the bags and the young man with the shaved head retro-half-Frisen not so completely - so that even the xx are really innovative. but just not as profoundly as the forms of ghosts. as meet the three currently most dramatists of poplandschaft (you can see even from anthony), which makes alone is a lovely out, connects them but all of the Annex to the public display of one's own inner life, without thereby bring the bad aftertaste of peddling, as it makes the whole drunk-to-being of Knyphausen transition to and cohorts. on the foundation of their initials so they are delivering a fairly unspectacular this album, which takes back and just next to the big gesture to all Vort is understatement, at least for these three players, and that makes this band so exciting.
new idea society - do not sleep
ausdemhausgeh-my favorite-song of the last weeks. the text is wonderful. and always evokes images of smiling people to smile, at dawn after a long night, after all that ecstatic feeling krimskrams and drinks. that reminds me - I have recently discovered a bizarre drink that I baptized in the name sexo y droga, because just to pass in those evening gave her farewell concert. Unfortunately, the band was more exciting than the drink. some of prosecco and one part vodka - it tastes great and should really only be enjoyed as a last exit, for help for a bit of a warm-up the drink, all lose in the gay "do not sleep" provoked greenness and a black flag To begin -moderate head-vendetta. for in that night I was mighty angry over a drunken driver, the road at me a little traffic would push the bike.
rocko Schamoni - meet young punx
hey, is first in three mai!
skull defect - feedback between two skulls sitting in a room (excerpt) is from a
split with Wolf Eyes. each band has a song, total running time is minutes to the 40th I am using this quite a long time herumodyssiert soundtrack on an old metal cemetery last summer. why I love this sound. the title of the song is quite properly chosen. a long, clean drone, the one leaving just upset how rarely clear.
at the end comes the hidden track that is known. April is a strange month. Trees are green sprout from the animal mind, I've met the other day five fire salamander. the greening always reminds me of my high school time, just as I was getting nervous and was so happy that the rubbish would soon be over. it was naive, innocent. The dirt is coming with the years, the dirt, the first one is the face. besides all the new beginning was in April this year and days of death for days, parts of the face. and the people of the hidden band that shares initially, I still miss painful.
