You Should Hear This: 2011

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:33 pm

I'm always when I see something that I thought made its rounds on the board get a reaction like the Dirty Beaches record is getting. Honestly thought someone posted it, people talked about it, and then it drifted away. I really dig it.

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:33 pm

Check this out.

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by Steven Hyden November 15, 2011
The Reigning Sound
Abdication
Scion A/V
B+ Community Grade

Reigning Sound never gets mentioned as part of the retro-soul movement, perhaps because it has never been interested in playing dress-up. Singer-songwriter Greg Cartwright also doesn’t huff and puff with the aggressiveness of his garage-rock peers; he just gently exhales stone-cold stunners imbued with the sounds of classic Stax, moody ’60s AM pop, and rough-hewn folk-rock. Reigning Sound’s allegiance is to producing great songs that move feet and rip out hearts, not to any particular scene or fashionable pose. This has cost Reigning Sound the big audience that its excellent catalog—highlighted by gems like 2002’s Time Bomb High School, 2004’s Too Much Guitar, and 2009’s Love And Curses—deserves. But more importantly, it’s enabled Cartwright to maintain an impressively high level of quality across the band’s releases, which extends even to a seemingly minor release like the Abdication EP.

Released as a free download as part of a car-company promotion, Abdication isn’t a mere throwaway; to the contrary, it finds Reigning Sound picking up where the gorgeous, organ-heavy Love And Curses left off. Cartwright can still turn out rockers with the best of them, charging through the Springsteen-esque “Watching My Baby” like the best bar band in town on Saturday night. But with ballads like the heart-tugging “Not Far Away,” and the sullen strut of “Everything I Do Is Wrong,” Reigning Sound’s attention to craft and brilliantly lean ensemble playing pays the richest dividends. This music forgoes categorical slots and heads straight for the heart.

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seafoam · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:45 pm

the bats

free all the monsters

PopTodd · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:19 pm

Ivan Julian - The Naked Flame
One of the amazing guitar players better known as a sideman with Richard Hell and Matthew Sweet. As long as he's been at this music thing, this is his first album under his own name.
the verdict: It's good.
RIYL: Richard Hell, Television
Ignore the cheezy video and just listen.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:59 pm

thanks for the thread, obner. i am once again in the land of fully functioning computers and have missed practically everything this year. not sure i'll even be able to make a year end list, but i did enjoy that dirty beaches, dj.

Roach · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 955

I can't stop listening to The Beets - Let The Poison Out, lo-fi garage rock, sometimes VU'ish, Ramones addictive, ridiculously twee at times. Miles beeter than the the previous record Stay Home.

discostu · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:24 pm

discostu Wrote:

jsh Wrote:

discostu Wrote:

rogneeb Wrote:

whats white denim like?

Good songs with great guitar work and tight rhythm section. Reminds me a bit of jamband territory at parts, but with memorable songs.

attest. it's worth a listen.

Sandro Perri "Impossible Spaces"

I've mentioned it a few times, and don't think there's been much discussion of it other than Polly Six throwing his name (re: Polmo Polpo) out there a year or so ago – still always ahead of the curve, Alex.

Top 5 material for me, and I think it was actually BNM'd a while back, for what it's worth. Truly a patient and masterfully crafted record. Two songs in particular are centerpieces: opener "Changes", and "Wolfman", with vibrant and smooth, soulful songfulness defining this record entirely. Shorter movements with latin, electronic and ambient elements interspersed give the record a suite sentiment all throughout. Hard work for me to describe this. Fully worth multiple daily listens IYL Toro Y Moi, Caribou, awesome Constellation bands?

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will check this out based solely on your mention. Thanks

finally getting around to listening to this. Vocally and tonally similar to White Denim's D, but with more snyths and less guitars. I'm digging it (not surprised).

You Should Hear This: 2011

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