2011年8月5日 星期五

pitchfork friday, august 5

Three recent Will Oldham releases highlight how the prolific folk-not-folksinger has managed to make inconsistency part of his artistic identity.


Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney / Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Phantom Family Halo| There Is No God / Must Be Blind / The Mindeater |Drag City / Sophomore Lounge | Pitchfork 7.0 / 6.2 / 5.8

There Is No God (iTunes Version)

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Thee Silver Mt. Zionist's solo debut recalls John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.

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Efrim Manuel Menuck | Plays "High Gospel" | Constellation | Pitchfork 7.6

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On his Polow Da Don-produced King of Hearts, the endearlngly romantic vocalist makes a bid for a higher level of R&B-world recognition.

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Lloyd| King of Hearts | Interscope / Zone 4 Inc. | Pitchfork 7.9

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The L.A. transplant's Kompakt debut LP collects 12 tech-house instrumentals, which can act as a form of comedown comfort food.

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John Tejada | Parabolas | Pitchfork 7.1

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Young UK crooner Alex Clare's The Lateness of the Hour, featuring production from Diplo and Switch, comes off like a Ray LaMontagne record with beats.

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Alex Clare | The Lateness of the Hour | Island | Pitchfork 3.7

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2011年8月3日 星期三

pitchfork thursday, august 4

A few months after chart-topper The King Is Dead, the Oregon indie folk band's new eight-song EP includes covers of Leonard Cohen and Fruit Bats.

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The Decemberists | iTunes Session | Capitol | Pitchfork 6.9

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On album five, Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard's power-pop band Boston Spaceships take a stab at a classic double LP

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Boston Spaceships | Let It Beard | Guided By Voices, Inc | Pitchfork 6.0

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Sci-fi-friendly Detroit garage rockers Human Eye's focus on extraterrestrials has finally been matched by an equally exacting focus on music

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Human Eye | They Came From the Sky | Sacred Bones | Pitchfork 7.7

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On his Body EP, unidentified New York-based R&B imploder Autre Ne Veut pushes messily human pop exclamations to the forefront. 

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Autre Ne Veut | Body EP | Hippos in Tanks | Pitchfork 7.5

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Philly rap duo Chiddy Bang'smixtape pairs a disregard for language with indie-baiting production.

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Chiddy Bang | Peanut Butter and Swelly | Datpiff.com / Illroots / The CMSN | Pitchfork 2.1

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2011年8月2日 星期二

pitchfork wednesday, august 3

This record, initially issued in a small run in the early 80s, is richly evocative of the natural world and holds up as an immersive ambient experience.

Artist: Jürgen Müller

Album: Science of the Sea

Label: Digitalis

Pitchfork 8.4

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This collection of previously unreleased late-90s Screaming Trees recordings offers an epitaph for a band that died of natural causes.

Artist: Screaming Trees

Album: Last Words: The Final Recordings

Label: Sunyata

Pitchfork 5.7

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The Portland duo's beguiling Captured Tracks debut LP bears traces of virtually every bleakly gliding descendant of Kraftwerk's original synth-pop grooves.

Artist: Soft Metals

Album: Soft Metals

Label: Captured Tracks

Pitchfork 7.5

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UK indie pop lifers team with Orange Juice's Edwyn Collins, the Cribs' Ryan Jarman, and others for their first new album since 2005.

Artist: Comet Gain

Album: Howl of the Lonely Crowd

Label: What's Your Rupture? / Fortuna Pop!

Pitchfork 7.3

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Assembled by Thrill Jockey and Bamba himself, this compilation spans some of Mali's diverse musical traditions, updated in the 1970s with guitars and organs.

Artist: Sorry Bamba

Album: Volume One 1970-1979

Label: Thrill Jockey

Pitchfork 7.7

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2011年8月1日 星期一

pitchfork tuesday, august 2


Spencer Krug's project away from Sunset Rubdown and the on-hiatus Wolf Parade continues to obsess over the properties of specific instruments.

Artist: Moonface

Album: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped

Label: Jagjaguwar

Pitchfork 6.1

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With new verses from almost every top Clansman, Wu-Tang's latest isn't an odds-and-sods LP, but it isn't a proper follow-up to 2007's 8 Diagrams, either.

Artist: Wu-Tang

Album: Legendary Weapons

Label: E1

Pitchfork 5.0

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The more you know about the new solo project from William Bennett, founding member of UK noise group Whitehouse, the deeper and richer the music sounds.

Artist: Cut Hands

Album: Afro Noise I

Label:Very Friendly / 101 Distribution

Pitchfork 7.8

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William Elliott Whitmore, a banjo-toting folkie raised on hardcore, sings about hammers, steamboats, and dying in a deep, gnarled, energizing voice.

Artist: William Elliott Whitmore

Album: Field Songs

Label: Anti-

Pitchfork 7.5

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The Brooklyn dream-pop veterans recruit the Antibalas horns, Jeff Buckley drummer Matt Johnson, and members of Bon Iver and Antony and the Johnsons.

Artist: Elysian Fields

Album: Last Night on Earth

Label: Vicious Circle

Pitchfork 5.9

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