np: 6/8/10 - 6/15/10

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

guess no one started a new one yet...

Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs
Squeeze - Sweets From a Stranger
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

wild nothing

beach fossils

wintersleep

sleepy sun.

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:13 pm

That Trivium is pretty rockin'. :rawk:

AllMusic: Trivium never asked to be described as "the next Metallica" by a hyperbolic British magazine or two, but because they tried to make the best of the opportunity instead of wilting away with apologetic shouts of "We're not worthy!," they've taken a hell of a lot of guff from radical heavy metal fans, already stirred up over the group's signing to the closest approximation to corporatism in their world: Roadrunner Records (who actually dare work with non-metal bands — curse them!). Admittedly, the youthful Floridian quartet (whose confidence has been frequently misconstrued as arrogance) didn't help matters when the band followed its impressive sophomore album, Ascendancy, with an undisguised bid for wider commercial appeal via its inconsistent third album, The Crusade. Thus came something of a backlash even among their supporters, bringing, in turn, the stylistic retreat toward more uncompromising metallic terrain embodied by the group's fourth album, Shogun. On this outing, Trivium elevate their new millennium thrash to — by their standards — largely unprecedented heights of intensity and complexity, stacking riff upon riff (really good ones, too) into densely structured highlights such as "Down from the Sky," "Throes of Perdition," and the especially devastating "Kirisute Gomen" (which supposedly means "Pardon me while I cut off your head off" in Japanese). Corey Beaulieu and Matt Heafy's shred-intensive guitar solos also pepper every track, flying every which way like vengeful hornets, and the latter's always varied vocalizing once again prizes Hetfield-ian growls and guttural screams over more sparsely distributed (and therefore more impactful) melodic singing.

Certain cuts may feel like they're jammed with a few too many different hard/soft/harder personalities for some listeners' tastes (e.g. "Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis," "Into the Mouth of Hell We March"), but most headbangers are bound to appreciate these very contradictions, which the band extrapolates to a monumental climax on the multifaceted 11-plus-minute album-closing title track. As for the lyrics: if these song titles didn't make it obvious already, Heafy's penchant for untowardly bookish vocabulary and obscure mythological references remains intact (see also "Of Prometheus and the Crucifix" and "Like Callisto to a Star in Heaven"), and will probably delight as many metalheads as it irritates, but at least he's no longer forcing unrelated words together as though he were simply reading the dictionary every night (which certainly seemed to be the case on The Crusade's confusing "Entrance of the Conflagration," for example). And yes, Trivium still show no qualms or remorse about emulating both the sounds and epic scope of vintage Metallica, but what's so wrong with that? After all, Metallica tried to do the same thing on their own 2008 return to form, Death Magnetic. In short: Shogun is easily Trivium's most challenging and ambitious album yet, and even though it isn't likely to spawn any hit singles, it was clearly the album Trivium had to make in order to get unduly prejudiced metalheads off their backs and finally silence undue suspicions over their abundant talent and devotion to heavy metal.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:18 pm

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:35 pm

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:29 pm

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

ha!

listening now.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

shiv Wrote:

what is dan sartain like?

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:23 am

Saint Wrote:

shiv Wrote:

what is dan sartain like?

kinda rockabilly/blues-ish.

http://www.myspace.com/dansartain

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

Konono No.1 'Assume Crash Position' - pretty much identical to the first album but who doesn't want to hear that again?

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:32 pm

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:43 pm

Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Benny Goodman - Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Horace Silver - Finger Poppin'
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Grant Green - Matador
Build an Ark - Love Part 1
Fang Island - s/t
Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:03 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Deftones - Diamond Eyes

this album is so good it is scary...

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:27 pm

Hum || Electra 2000
Candlemass || Death Magic Doom
Man or Astro-Man || Deluxe Men in Space
Truckfighters || Phi

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:10 pm

Iron Maiden || Brave New World
Iron Maiden || Dance of Death
Iron Maiden || A Matter of Life & Death

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Drinksy Wrote:

Build an Ark - Love Part 1

I really love that album. Is that a recent acquisition? I don't think i've ever seen anyone else listen to them here. Love Part 2 was supposed to come out this week but neither Amazon nor Dusty Groove have it yet so I'm assuming it was delayed.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:33 pm

billy g Wrote:

Drinksy Wrote:

Build an Ark - Love Part 1

I really love that album. Is that a recent acquisition? I don't think i've ever seen anyone else listen to them here. Love Part 2 was supposed to come out this week but neither Amazon nor Dusty Groove have it yet so I'm assuming it was delayed.

Yeah, it was fairly recent, and I'd been meaning to mention it to you on here. I'm not sure where I first saw it mentioned, but it might have been in your 2009 year in review thread. But then I'm not sure how I ended up zeroing in on that, and it's been kind of bugging me lately that I can't remember how I first decided to check them out. Pretty sure it was from one of your posts, though.

Also, most listings I've seen for this claim it was a Jan. 5, 2010 release. Did you find a copy last year? I ask because it's probably one of the best things I've heard from this year, if it is in fact from this year.

Really cool record/band. I'll probably pick up their previous two sometime soon.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Drinksy Wrote:

Also, most listings I've seen for this claim it was a Jan. 5, 2010 release. Did you find a copy last year? I ask because it's probably one of the best things I've heard from this year, if it is in fact from this year.

Really cool record/band. I'll probably pick up their previous two sometime soon.

I bought a physical copy of it last fall from Dusty Groove. I've seen it listed as a Jan 5, 2010 release too though and I actually went to see them do a live instore at Amoeba in January and in introducing the band the Amoeba guys referred to the album as having just been released. It confused the hell out of me at the time. I don't think i bought an import version based on the price i paid so I'm not really sure what the deal was. I think Dusty Groove sells product as soon as they receive it ignoring official release dates. I've noticed a few times that they had something new and interesting in stock and decided to see if I can find it cheaper on Amazon and instead found that Amazon listed it as an upcoming release. It's usually them selling a few weeks early though not several months early. It seems odd that they would have had it to sell that early unless it came out somewhere in 2009.

I highly recommend Dawn as well. The first album is pretty good also but not quite in the same league as the last two although I've spent the least amount of time with it admittedly.

I'd have pimped them more here but I think they would probably appeal to a pretty small group of obners.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:09 pm

Harlem || Free Drugs

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:26 pm

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

billy g Wrote:

Drinksy Wrote:

Build an Ark - Love Part 1

I really love that album. Is that a recent acquisition? I don't think i've ever seen anyone else listen to them here. Love Part 2 was supposed to come out this week but neither Amazon nor Dusty Groove have it yet so I'm assuming it was delayed.

oh looks like they just got it in today:

DustyGroove Wrote:

A brilliant extension of the Love set from Build An Ark -- focusing on some of the more improvisational spirit that's integral to their cosmic groove! Love Part 2 is mix of intimate moments and soaring atmospherics from Carlos Nino, Miguel-Atwood Ferguson and the rest of the stellar ensemble, plus guests and fellow travelers such as vocalists Dwight Trible, Carmen Lundy, Leisei Chen and Mia Doi Todd, violinist Michael White and others. The overall vibe and instrumentation are unpredictable from one movement to the next, but there's always a hypnotic mood at play, be it spun by sparely furnished strings and percussion, earthy global jazz influences or far spacier dynamics! Titles include a lively (and live sounding) string jazz improvisational take on "What The World Needs Now Is Is Love" with passionate vocals and pared down lyrics by Leisei Chen flavored with violin, viola, cello and sitar -- plus "Cosmic Tuning", "Nature", "Ginger", "Say Yes!", "Improvisation Day 1", "Improvisation Day 2", ""Improvisation Day 8", "Cadence Of The Love Messengers" and wonderfully unique take on Donny Hathaway's "Tryin Times" with vocals by Carmen Lundy and Dwight Trible. (Limited edition of1000 copies.)

just ordered my copy.

as far as my np goes...

Hoodoo gurus new one
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Neil Young - Everyone Knows This is Nowhere
Ronnie Milsap - S/T (1971)

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:22 pm

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:09 am

You Am I - Deliverance
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two
Suede - Coming Up
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
Dogbowl - Flan

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:52 am

billy g Wrote:

DustyGroove Wrote:

A brilliant extension of the Love set from Build An Ark -- focusing on some of the more improvisational spirit that's integral to their cosmic groove! Love Part 2 is mix of intimate moments and soaring atmospherics from Carlos Nino, Miguel-Atwood Ferguson and the rest of the stellar ensemble, plus guests and fellow travelers such as vocalists Dwight Trible, Carmen Lundy, Leisei Chen and Mia Doi Todd, violinist Michael White and others. The overall vibe and instrumentation are unpredictable from one movement to the next, but there's always a hypnotic mood at play, be it spun by sparely furnished strings and percussion, earthy global jazz influences or far spacier dynamics! Titles include a lively (and live sounding) string jazz improvisational take on "What The World Needs Now Is Is Love" with passionate vocals and pared down lyrics by Leisei Chen flavored with violin, viola, cello and sitar -- plus "Cosmic Tuning", "Nature", "Ginger", "Say Yes!", "Improvisation Day 1", "Improvisation Day 2", ""Improvisation Day 8", "Cadence Of The Love Messengers" and wonderfully unique take on Donny Hathaway's "Tryin Times" with vocals by Carmen Lundy and Dwight Trible. (Limited edition of1000 copies.)

Cool, I'll be interested in knowing what you think of it after you get it.

Today:

Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Electronic Music Composer - Abandon Music
Autechre - (Oversteps)
Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
Build an Ark - Love Part 1
Grant Green - Matador
Lee Morgan - Cornbread

discostu · **Posted:** Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:58 pm

shiv Wrote:

How's this?

np: 6/8/10 - 6/15/10

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