Yeah, somebody get on this.

anyone got the 'guilt by association' comp.?

does EH mean AMAZING?
montana, to each is own, but seriously dude.

Could mean EHmazing

I knew I'd find you in here, Chingram. It's like those rare mountain springs in the southwest where the desert bighorns cling to. You won't see them much anywhere else except for the springs and the cliffs.

I gave the record a shot. I feel like I'm about to be served German food from some cafe in Hamburg during the late stages of Octoberfest and the smell of vodka, beer, bile, sawdust and wurst are in the air. The waitress is bringing me out a nice plate of hassenpfeffer. But the trouble is, I don't like German food, and I'm German.

i cannot get enough of Windmill


Anyone else enjoying this?

That cover screams "Emo-lite". Please tell me I am wrong and you can't judge a book by it's cover.

the cover looks like they got the animators from the esurance commercials to make a the crow animated movie

Well i'm not sure i'd call it Emo... i don't recall Emo using pianos
the voice reminds me somewhat of Polyphonic Spree

not my link
but for Windmill

hxxp://www.zshare.net/download/28305151512a64/

Yea, Puddle City Racing Lights is one of my favorite albums of the year. Once you can get past the guys voice the music is absolutely fantastic. Very much like Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev. I highly recommend "Plastic Pre-Flight Seats" "Tokyo Moon" and "Asthmatic". You can find a bunch of stuff here:

http://elbo.ws/artist/windmill/
http://hypem.com/artist/windmill

welcome as the third person with a max fischer avatar
that one happens to be my screen background...

think its time i change mine

i will try to lead a campaign for this in the Year End Polls

it looks like it will be in my top ten

It doesn't fit the generic conventions of emo - neither the "real" emo (Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, Native Nod, &c.), nor the "new" emo (Get Up Kids, Braid, &c.) - but, man, that Windmill record is REALLY emotive indie-like. I like the first song alright, but it gets boring after that, descending into a swirling mass of overwrought emotion and Sufjan-like composition without the gorgeous bits that Stevens does so well. Grandiose composition is nothing without a good song to anchor it.

I just added my new avatar, and Im quite happy with it, although Pagan Homer Donut Toss was nice...

Here's an Anderson related suggestion for you...

Thank you. I just cancelled my in-progress download because of this post.

Love that Frisky Dingo avatar. Boosh!

I don't really see the Sufjan comparison unless you're maybe talking "Majesty, Snowbird", Windmill's songs have much more otherworldly feel, especially lyrically, the theme of air travel shouldn't be looked over. Sufjan seems much more organic and personal with his songs. Also, "Asmathic" is crazy gorgeous.

Yeah. I have to say. IF you haven't heard Windmill, give it a listen.

Of all the new bands I've discovered via S.O.M.B., it's the one album that consistently gets repeat plays.

The guy's voice even reminds me of dude from Polyphonic Spree. It's happy indie rock, without being jingle-like and bouncy. MOre of this type of stuff is needed.

For the record, I also don't get the Sufjan comparison.

Ok, I just gave a listen to "Tokyo Moon" on their myspace page, and this is exactly the type of music that we need less of. His voice is downright grating (this coming from someone who has no problem with Destroyer or Clap Your Hands vocals), the music has been done to death, and the overall mood is getting really stale in 2007. We get it, you're happy. Now kindly shut the fuck up.

The Sufjan comparison was by way of the piano-based grand composition quality. I'm not saying they sound alike, but the methods are similar. (For the record, I like Sufjan a great deal.) I understand the problems with the "happy" part of it, CC, but what bugs me even more is the happiness as facade. There's a sort of heart-on-sleeve medicated happiness to it, the type favored by indie kids who, in order to seem complicated, use their parents' empty prozac bottles as ersatz wallets. Shiny happy people ad absurdum. I don't find this stuff amusing anymore.

"use their parents' empty prozac bottles as ersatz wallets"

wow. are you a PhD student by any chance?

It may be time to put the headphones down and step away from the books for a while.

I'm obviously a new poster to S.O.M.B. (but have contributed quite a bit in the E.P. post), but to CC and SH, isn't hating on music on merits other than just the quality/enjoyability of the music getting really stale itself in 2007?

Also, re-listen to Shiny Happy People. It's a great song.

Out of curiosity, do bands like The Glands rub you the wrong way, too? We could take this over to another thread (as I'm interested), but I could up songs like Call Me Doctor or Swim which blow me away, but which have similar vocal styling and similar upbeat modes (at least in my mind.)

Is there a non-farked Kanye in the wind?

I agree, but I found the music itself - first and foremost - to be distasteful; the scene was secondary. Attacking something because of who likes it is a stale - and pretty lame - form of criticism, but incidentally disliking the whole zeitgeist that surrounds the music disliked in the first place, well that's just B following A. And, no, I'm not a doctoral candidate, but I am pretty fucking smart. Ersatz just happened to be the right word.

hxxp://www.send space.com/file/wd3k6s

Wow, thanks its amazing, In my opinion it is his best record to date.

yeah "Fit" and that song are doing well for me right now

"the Planning Stop" was the song when it clicked for me that he sounded like Polyphonic Spree

Uh oh.... i dont have the whole version of Spoon's "don't make me a target"

can someone up that song for me off Ga Ga Ga Ga?
thx

muchas, Alright.

i'm up to speed now

You're smart, too?

That's awesome!

We should hang out, play chess and listen to math rock.

So OTM, this is what I was trying to get at too.

I do agree with Shacho about one thing though: Shiny Happy People is indeed a fantastic song.

Blues Control - Puff

http://rapidshare.com/files/32355297/puff_lp_2007_.rar

Out on Woodsist, the vinyl sector of Fuck-It Tapes.

The new KT Tunstall's out, for those who care.

Up it.

KT Tunstall: Drastic Fantastic

hxxp://www.send space.com/file/69q050

Pretty solid for what it is.

Has Iron & Wine seeped out anywhere?

leaked at least 2, maybe 3 months ago

really???

it's way too light and fluffy for my taste... especially Devendra's vocals, which are all whispery and shit on this. not feeling this one at all and so far it's easily my least fave of his.

Link?

off a blog...

Nice. Thanks.

I think I would agree with the criticism. This isn't as powerful as his earlier stuff and there isn't enough weird catchiness to get me like some of the stuff on his last album ("Little Boys", "Chinese Children", etc.). "Seahorse" is a good song, and there are a few others but way too many snoozers.

KT's down already.

hxxp://www.send space.com/file/dbfsnh

Black Dice - Load Blown


I am a few songs in, and I really dig this. It is my first taste of Black Dice and I sure do like it.
www.mediafire.com/?39puax0zyme

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I am a few songs in, and I really dig this. It is my first taste of Black Dice and I sure do like it.
www.mediafire.com/?39puax0zyme
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any chance the black dice can be re-upped? i'm getting an error message when i try to download it.

Anybody happen to have that Prinzhorn Dance School record?

hmm... link is still good. I would up it, but i am guessing if you are getting an error message then it is more of an issue of mediafire being strange for you (which is the only service I can use, because i am losing my wireless connection every five or six minutes, and mediafire is the only site fast enough for me to do any downloading/uploading on.) sorry...

Listened to the new Black Dice record this morning. It's okay stuff.

Phil, man, you need to track down Beaches & Canyons immediately.

I agree on both counts. Beaches & Canyons is easily their best work, wonderful record.

The past two releases by Black Dice haven't done it for me. I feel their attempt to be 'noisy' and somewhat dancey just isn't working. Mostly it feels as though they can't truly commit to either direction and end up being neither here nor there. I prefer them when they are acting a little more organic and fluid.

Yeah, exactly. This new album feels like pretty normal electronica done with all these little Black Dice quirks. And it's interesting because they're good at making cool noises and always have been. But when it comes down to it, too much of it feels so loop-based and uneventful, and they're just so much better when they're doing the epic krautrock/Boredoms thing like on Beaches & Canyons. I just wanted to hear pounding drums and a dude screaming, goddamnit.