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alderaan's Pick

Black Sabbath - Reunion

Genre: Heavy Metal, Live

Torrents: torrents.php?id=49254

Review by Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music wrote:

Though it was conceived as a mere cash-in for the long-awaited return of the original Black Sabbath, 1998's Reunion is as close to an official live album as the band has had in their historic 30-year career. 1980's Live at Last was released without their permission, and 1982's Live Evil featured then-singer Ronnie James Dio. With this in mind, the band must be commended on the excellent quality of the recordings, which include their most enduring classics ("War Pigs," "Paranoid," "Iron Man"), as well as a few surprises ("Dirty Women," "Behind the Wall of Sleep"), and were culled from a series of concerts in their native Birmingham, England in December 1997. The real key to this album, however, is the band's ability to avoid the most common pitfall of live recordings: speeding up the songs. This patience is crucial, since such Sabbath staples as "Sweet Leaf," "Black Sabbath," and "Snowblind" owe much of their unique personality and somber atmospherics to the band's trademark "snail's pace." "Children of the Grave" proves itself once again as one of the band's most dependable live favorites, and the massive riffs of "Into the Void" are simply timeless. The two brand new studio tracks are another treat for longtime fans, and while "Selling My Soul" is rather mundane, "Psycho Man" is absolutely incredible thanks to its slow intro and raging final riff.



Seethewaves' Pick

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

Genre: Progressive rock

Torrents: torrents.php?id=107968

Review:

This is one of the strangest things I've heard, and it's brilliant. To quote an Allmusic review:

For newcomers to prog rock it can even make a less-menacing point of entry.


It's not ELP's most celebrated album, but it's weird, wonderful, and stands alone quite nicely.

Marigolds' Pick

The Chills - Kaleidoscope World

Genre: Dunedin Sound Indie Pop Bliss

Torrents: torrents.php?id=70611

Review - Heavenly Pop Hits from New Zealand.


sickofjesus' Pick

The Future Kings of Nowhere - The Future Kings of Nowhere

Genre: pop.rock, indie

Torrents: torrents.php?id=765879

Review - allmusic wrote:

This is a wordy but oh so fitting moniker for Shayne O'Neill's music, as the Future Kings of Nowhere perfectly captures the insouciant grandness he aspires to, with the self-deprecating twist that is the secret to his success. Actually, the secret to his success is summed up best on "I'm Still Waiting": "Take my quick observations and my questions and my poor explanations and wrap them up into rhymes. Weave them around my mouth, suffer me up into brilliance, until no-one doesn't know my name." With a sharp eye for mundane details, a wry wit, and an occasional ironic twist, the Future King and his cortege of guesting alterno-royalty take a royal trip around O'Neill's ragtag inner realm. Along the way there are amends to make, specifically on "Paper Napkins," an apology to the ex-girlfriend who's been the foil of the singer's many breakup songs. Perhaps "Never" describes their relationship, "Like a Staring Contest" their "trainwreck of an ending," but surely not the girl who did a runner and addressed in a folksy letter from home on "C Is for Heartache." There again, when you entangle yourself with women with a history of "high speed chase, no dialogue," as O'Neill does on "I Want You," it's no wonder problematic relationships make up the bulk of this set. But not exclusively, there's the poignant "Emily," a despondent song revolving around the despair of depression, and the bristling "Later, Rinse, Repeat," where economic devastation wrecks havoc on middle-class pretensions. Then there's the savage "10 Simple Murders," that coolly permits the killer to rationalize his crimes, an Anglo retort to the popular Mexican corridos. It's easy to fall under the spell of O'Neill's seductive pen, with his vivid imagery and effortless rhymes. His melodies are equally enchanting, and the arrangements superb, as the Kings weave a sublime tapestry from Americana, melodic punk, and Southern pop/rock. The use of brass is particularly impressive, rocking out here, adding atmosphere there, with O'Neill's piano often adding a genre twist to his song. A fabulous album, but O'Neill may come to rue his noble name, for surely he's destined for more greatness than nowhere can supply.



NeverWorker's AT Pick

Osvaldo Golijov - Yiddishbbuk

Genre: Classical, Jewish, Klezmer, Argentinian

Torrents: torrents.php?id=421317

Review: Classics Today
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With each new CD release of his music, Osvaldo Golijov's burgeoning reputation as a wildly inventive and "must-hear" composer becomes more and more evident. The latest, from EMI, is a dazzler, a sexy and captivating coalescence of his early roots that includes an eclectic mix of chamber music, klezmer, and Argentinean tango. The Canadian-bred St. Lawrence String Quartet plays this music as if to the manner born, its performance equal to previously vivid presentations by the Kronos Quartet, which recently unveiled some of this composer's other arrangements in its highly-regarded "Nuevo" (type Q4985 in Search Reviews)....



--Michael Liebowitz

WithTiredEyes' Pick

Steve Goodman - No Big Surprise: Anthology

Genre: Folk

Torrents: torrents.php?id=504621

Review - Cool Hand Leuk, this impish folkie liked to call himself. When cancer finally got him after 15 years in 1984, Randy Newman could think of no apter or kinder way to open a tribute concert than "Short People," but it grieves me to report that Keith Moreland did not drop a routine fly at his funeral, as Goodman suggested in 1983's "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request." Living in the valley of the shadow of chemo, Goodman believed in enjoying himself, and he also believed it was his job--meaning among other things the precondition of all the gratifications he refused to delay--to induce us to enjoy ourselves as well. That's one reason the live half of this double-CD is especially irresistible despite the old stuff. He's adroit, very funny, very tolerant, only rarely too warm, and incorrigibly middle-class. Up until now, he had his name on a lot of great songs and nothing anyone imagined was a great album.

bionicsocks' Pick

Laibach - Anthems

Genre: Electronic, EBM, Industrial

Torrents: torrents.php?id=109817

Review - Splendid Magazine Review:

Anthems is the Laibach career retrospective you've been waiting for. And you have been waiting for it, right? Of course you have.

Bombastic, mysterious and relentlessly confusing, this Slovenian industrial arts collective was manipulating media, iconography and stylized performance techniques while most of their peers were still holding down one keyboard key and hoping nobody noticed that there wasn't a guitar on stage. And as for irony -- well, Laibach mastered the art of the ironic cover version back when most of you hipster types were still eating crayons. Admittedly, there have been misconceptions about the group's intent and affiliations -- anti-fascism can sound a lot like actual fascism when you don't speak the language, especially when it's teamed with squared-off military-industrial design, chunky, brutish-looking logos, and raised-arm salutes -- but in the twenty-plus years since Laibach first rolled their tanks over punk rock's corpse, they've estabished themselves as the most unpredictable of performers.



Seraphiel's Pick

Los - Worth The Wait

Genre: hip.hop, rap

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72021699

Review - This mixtape from up-and-coming rapper Los shows a more confident, more dedicated side of him that has only been seen in small glimpses on previous releases. With features from well-known artists such as Chris Brown, "Worth the Wait" proves to be true to its name.

clapton's pick

Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

Genre: Electronic, Alternative, Industrial

Torrents: torrents.php?id=15187

Review (pitchfork) - XTRMNTR's sound lies somewhere between the kraut-loving Chemical Brothers and latter-era Fugazi. Recent recruits Mani from the Stone Roses and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine up the ante. Mani's gritty, nasty basslines form the coral of Primal Scream's gunmetal grey and apocalyptic orange reef. The title track bounces guitar freakout sparks across congealed grease of bass. "Swastika Eyes" races on high-velocity loops like the soundtrack to a behemoth final boss in a spaceshooter video game. Primal frontman Bobby Gillespie seems to see himself as the little "Gradius" ship facing the myriad-howitzer monster of the WTO, NATO, and whatever other "The Man" organization you can name.

XTRMNTR's lyrics are sparse and terse, but Gillespie spits bullets like, "You've got the money, I've got the soul," and, "Tell you the truth/ The truth about you/ The truth about you?/ You've been true." Even when his delivery is awkward (i.e. like an aging white Brit trying to flow, as in the former examples), it's barked as if sincerity has locked his jaw like rabies. It's hard to disagree with sentiments like "Kill All Hippies." Even the music mirrors the anti-superfluidity, anti-nostalgic, anti-bucolicness, anti-bathos lyrics. The vehicle is stripped and the skeleton spiked. Like the vowel-less title on the cover, XTRMNTR is all corners and crunch.

Ananke's Pick

Antimatter - Leaving Eden

Genre: Progressive Rock, Alternative, Experimental, Ambient

Torrents: torrents.php?id=51891

Review - Global Dominion:

[..] What is this, then? Pink Floyd’s depressive brother on whiskey. Lots of it. That’s what this is. It’s dark, it’s moody. It’s psychedelic. If you got drunk to this then the shards of the bottle you drank from and broke in a raging fit will end up cutting your wrists and leaving you bleeding on the floor. Is there any form of happiness or speed included on this album? No. According to this album, there’s no hope. We should all kill ourselves. We should all turn emo, wither, die. That’s all there is. And the best part is: you can do it. Every day.

Actual music? It’s not there as much as there’s a lot of atmosphere. You won’t find lots of killer riffs here. It’s not the point. There’s warm, lush production with lots of nice electronic feelings, slow drums, and moody keys. There are lots of good guitar solos strewn all across the album, mostly reminiscent of the God of Guitar Solos (Not Yngwie. David Gilmour). In fact, the solo on “Redemption” is the best single solo I’ve heard since the last time I played Anathema’s “One last goodbye”. Or Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably numb”[...] The vocals sound like a rough man’s voice, drunk on too much whiskey. That is pretty much all there is to it. This is one guy, drunk at a bar, with his guitar. Someone decided to score his sorry, ragged life and that’s it. It’s probably raining outside the bloody pub. That’s what he sounds like. And given my penchant for this kind of stuff it is obvious I love every last part of it. The cello that pops up here and there gives it an even better touch.



SupDimForFer's Pick

Gary Larson - The Complete Far Side 1980 - 1994

Genre: Comics, Humor

Torrent: torrents.php?id=71985017

Review -
Publishers Weekly (for barnesandnoble.com) wrote:

Lumpy cows and dinosaurs, nerds wearing glasses and women with big hair abound in this hefty two-volume slipcased compilation of Larson's twisted and beloved single-panel comic. Complete with every syndicated Far Side cartoon arranged chronologically by year of publication, in addition to 19 that were created after Larson's retirement in 1995, this deluxe set features chapter introductions by Larson as well as letters from fans and puzzled readers ("Help!... [This comic] has stumped not only me but the entire office"). Readers will be amused by the insightfully funny and nostalgic chapter introductions that offer a peek into the cartoon genius's mind, such as the intro to 1982 that illustrates what Larson calls the "ohpleaseohplease syndrome"an obsession he shares with biologists and naturalists (and his brother) to acquire a lizard or another creature, if only briefly, and to "drink it in" before it escapes into its own world. Comedian/author Martin provides a foreword that captures the offbeat and candid humor underlying each comic, as he sorrowfully reports that "many of the scenes depicted in this book are actually false." Readers may not be stunned by this revelation, but they will surely enjoy flipping through the slick, full-colored pages of this mammoth treasurya lavish (and heavy!) collector's item that is the perfect gift for Far Side fans. Just make sure they say "ohpleaseohplease."



Maverick's Pick

Nero - Welcome Reality

Genre: dubstep, drum.and.bass, electronic

Torrents: torrents.php?id=72026573

Review - LA Times It’s official: Dubstep is well into its rave phase. Tents once devoted to drum ’n’ bass and jungle are now thronged by glowing mobs oblivious to the origins of the genre spawned a half-decade ago in dingy London nightclubs.

Often untraceable are its dub and two step roots. While the most critically acclaimed of the bass junkies infuse juke, moombahton, deep house, and spaceship R&B into their grooves, most American dance festivals are heavily dominated by the pejoratively branded “bro-step.”

Enter Nero, the London duo of Daniel Stephens and Joe Ray, who fall somewhere in between — they wring maximum emotional torque out their tracks without sacrificing danceability. Best known for a remix of the Streets’ “Blinded by the Lights,” Nero gravitate to over-the-top ideas. From sci-fi themed titles (“2088”), to a vaguely post-apocalyptic cityscape album cover, “Welcome Reality” is more escapist than verite.

The point isn’t home listening. Barring chemical companion and Stonehenge speakers, the record can’t approximate the full impact of these songs. That can only occur alongside 30,000 similarly altered.
Singles “Innocence,” “Me and You” and “Guilt” are as straightforward and monosyllabic as you might imagine. Nominally dubstep, they take their pattern from late ’90s techno — massive build and releases, candy-colored synths and anthemic hooks, with synthesizers set to electrocute.

As effective as it is predictable, “Welcome Reality” will inevitably soundtrack thousands of summer and fall blowouts. Even if they’re just fiddling with the formula, Nero understand how to make things burn.[/quote]

jowa's Pick

High Tone - Underground Wobble

Genre: Electronic, Dub

Torrents: torrents.php?id=48406

Review
Their latest little gem, “Underground Wobble”, takes off from where “Wave Digger”(2005) had momentarily paused, and pushes the limits even further. The percussions run wild, the guitars are more incisive and metallic than ever, the oriental echoes take us down new routes, before diving into an industrial electro atmosphere blended with break beat… The dub (or so-called novo dub) becomes eager and greedy in these new playgrounds. All the while, you can feel “Underground Wobble” consorting with the verve of Amon Tobin (“Speed 110”), the frenzy of Prefuse 73 (“Freakency”), the meanders of Mezzanine period Massive Attack (“Understellar”) or the jungle of Goldie at its best… The opus alternates between tracks which are stretching out towards an abrasive electro texture and tracks which are closer to reggae first loves. Could this movement trouble their fans? Surely not, for the essence of High Tone remains ever present: a whole and rich sound, hypnotic melodies, an uncanny skill at blending genres in order to create their very own. The High Tone's “touch” is undoubtedly on its way forward.

nothingiswrong's Pick

The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

Genre: Rock, Alternative, Indie

Torrents: torrents.php?id=41541

Review (pitchfork) - Craig Finn isn't a singer. His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken. He sounds more like the sketchy drunk guy yelling in your ear at a show, asking if you know where to buy drugs, than like the frontman of the band onstage. Finn's voice may be difficult, but don't let it be a deal-breaker.
Finn may not be Art Garfunkel up in this piece, but he uses his adenoidal rasp to blurt twisted, dense shards of squalid back-alley imagery and bruised druggy lamentations, broken teeth and broken bottles, and tattered hotel-room Bibles and hidden knives. He's the poet laureate of the loading dock behind the mall where the runaway kids get together to sniff cheap coke at 5 a.m.
The Hold Steady's first album, last year's ...Almost Killed Me, was a tangled mess of damaged character sketches and triumphant bar-rock thump-- Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle reimagined as an epic of Russian literature. But Separation Sunday is something more, the elegiac Biblical lost-innocence junkie odyssey that Denis Johnson never wrote.
Like Fiestas & Fiascos, the final album from Finn's former Minneapolis post-punk band Lifter Puller, it's an album-length story that forces us to pull bits of narrative from Finn's tangles of words. In Separation Sunday, a confused Catholic girl named Hallelujah hooks up with a motley assortment of shady characters, does a gang of drugs, gets born again when some guy with a nitrous tank dunks her in a river, wakes up in a confession booth, and maybe dies and maybe comes back from death. But the real story is in Finn's virtuoso evocations of menace ("When they say great white sharks/ They mean the kind in big black cars/ When they say killer whales/ They mean they whaled on him till they killed him up in Penetration Park"), hedonism ("You came into the ER drinking gin from a jam jar/ And the nurse is making jokes about the ER being like an after-bar"), and brief shining moments of lucidity ("Youth services always find a way to get their bloody cross into your druggy little messed-up teenage life").
None of this would work if Finn didn't have an expert rock band backing him up. Finn's songs wheel precariously from one unhinged lyrical idea to the next, almost never stopping for choruses or going out of their way to fit into any sort of structure, but the band plays these songs like long-lost fist-in-the-air classic rock anthems. It's well-schooled in every bar-rock cliché, and executes these moves with joy and conviction: the pick-slide before the climax, the weeping Hammond organ on the bridge, the pregnant pause before the big riff kicks back in. Since ...Almost Killed Me, the band has beefed up its sound with the help of Rocket From the Crypt producer Dave Gardner and keyboard player Franz Nickolay, and its Meat Loaf pianos, greasy George Thorogood blooz choogle, and wheedling Journey guitar carry more heft and authority than they had on the last album. This stuff would sound great behind just about any garage-rock hack, but it turns Finn's dirtbag chronicles into something epic and huge and molten and beautiful.

Interstellar's Pick

Digital Mystikz - Haunted / Anti War Dub

Genre: UK Garage, Dubstep

Torrents: torrents.php?id=35165

Review - Rioting in London, terror in Norway, unrest in Israel and elsewhere, war in the Middle East, genocide in Africa, economic distress the world over – perhaps Mala was right when he responded to news that the PIAS record warehouse in London had been burnt down with a link to his legendary tune 'Anti-War Dub'. Never to be repressed according to Mala's wishes, this inspiring 12" is music for today.

Tolstoy's Pick

Various Artists - 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: 111 Classic Tracks

Genre: Classical

Torrents: torrents.php?id=614830

Review - To commemorate their 111th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon has released this condensed version of the wonderful 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: Collector's Edition. From their extensive library of over 100 years of recordings and hundreds of acclaimed musicians, conductors, and orchestras, they have chosen these 111 tracks: their absolute best. This collection is an excellent introduction to classical as a genre but also can appeal to classical music aficionados as a succinct and convenient repository of some of the genre's greatest works.

spacirelei's Pick

Blue Hawaii

Genre: chillwave, dream pop

Torrents: torrents.php?id=774157

Review - sputnikmusic.com wrote:

Blooming Summer one-ups the genre around it in one very important way: it is deep. And that isn’t for the record’s lush sound either; the layered electronica here is as deeply-rooted and well thought out as Life Of Leisure or Summer Heart, but musicianship aside, Blue Hawaii has created a record with great emotional weight, at times so intense and so painful you won’t go back for a while. “Blue Gowns” can’t be a holiday pop song or a nostalgia trip because it stings with longing. It reads more than anything like a break-up piece in its despairing lyrics (“I see you thrusting into her / and I think how stupid can you get?”) and is felt a hundred times over in Agor’s unsettlingly genuine vocal performance in which she spills over the music made for her. The melodies are heartfelt all over, but it’s Agor that makes this record something graphic and meaningful, her croons on “Lilac” and her distant murmurings on “Dream Electrixra” that make it a captivating listen rather than another summer-only LP. This is anything but soothing, and as a result Blooming Summer is the perfect chillwave record, taking the tropical pop fun and translating it into something more than beach photos. It goes beyond being the vintage electronica sound we’ve all been tuned into over 2010’s course by throwing panging honesty into the mix. And with the execution of tracks such as “Lilac” and “Lonelyhearts” as touching as the theme itself, you’re going to feel this.



bashmore's Pick

Icicle - Under The Ice

Genre: Drum and Bass

Torrents: torrents.php?id=71959153

Review - 'Under The Ice' is a body-twisting feat of intensely intricate, cutting-edge drum programming in eleven parts, including guest appearances from Robert Owens and SP:MC. In the mechanical torsion of 'Top Of The Page', the shark-eyed hardstep punctuations of 'I Feel U' or 'Nausea's dynamic vortex, each rhythm and sound is arranged like some child prodigy with a Rubik's cube while the steel plated production is clinically executed to accentuate every element, guaranteeing each nuance will be felt through a big rig. Icicle's minimalist arrangements work at the cutting edge of his scene and should be recommended to anyone with a taste for seriously dynamic, technically enhanced Dance music.

oinkmeup's late Pick

Various Artists - Tropicalia (Ou Panis Et Circensis)

Genre: Tropicália, World

Torrents: torrents.php?id=96256

Review - This is the album that helped to define the sound of Tropicalia, a Brazilian label whose artists made huge and influential strides in creating exotic pop that was as influenced by psychedelia as it was by samba, bossa nova, and more traditional South American genres. TropicĂĄlia not only includes tracks from the label's most important acts (Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa), but presents a large number of collaborations between these artists, many of which are simply amazing. Given the fact that many of the original Tropicalia releases have not been reissued or are not widely available, the compilation stands as a near-definitive package for the sound, and a great opportunity for anyone unfamiliar with the artists to experience an amazing and hugely important genre. (Allmusic)

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