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Enthusiast |
Anybody else drooling over this?
In case you're unfamiliar with it, it's a 4AD compilation (produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National) benefitting AIDS charities being released on the 17th of February. Here's a list of the artists who recorded new music/covers for it: Andrew Bird Antony + Bryce Dessner Arcade Fire Beach House Beirut Blonde Redhead + Devestations Bon Iver Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner The Books (featuring Jose Gonzalez) Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens & Serengeti) Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues The Decemberists Dirty Projectors + David Byrne Kevin Drew Feist + Ben Gibbard Grizzly Bear Grizzly Bear + Feist Iron & Wine Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Kronos Quartet Stuart Murdoch My Brightest Diamond My Morning Jacket The National The New Pornographers Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch Riceboy Sleeps Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio) Spoon Sufjan Stevens Yeasayer Yo La Tengo That's a pretty impressive lineup right there. I think MPP may have found its biggest competition for album of the year. |
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Enthusiast |
I thought you'd never ask! In a word, yes. I'm not really a comp person, but this thing looks ama-ha-zing! And since it's for a good cause, I can happily dish out the cash for its too dish goodness in complete self-congratulation. |
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Jedi |
They are streaming one song a day over at their Myspace page, and so far it has seemed fairly good. I was worried people would just submit a throw-away oneoff tune or something, but these are very high quality songs so far.
Anyway. Your album of the year comment was possible tounge-in-cheek, but I doubt this will come off as a good "album" even if all of the songs on both disks are solid throughout. I think there is a reason why most bands "best album" isn't their Greatest Hits record. Also, I think there are a lot of albums that could and will come out this year, that can easily be better than Animcal Collective. I ask this everytime this list is posted, and I've yet to have someone respond to it, but who in the world is Riceboy Sleeps, and how did they smuggle themselves between The New Pornos, Conor Oberst, Dave Sitek, Spoon and Sufjan? I think he's a party crasher for sure. ---------------------------- There's an ember in the rafters and it's gonna burn this whole thing down. Shadrach on LastFM |
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Guru |
Ya, I've been drooling all over all the threads in best of 2009 with this sorta stuff.
So far, gotta say I'm happy with the collaborations, and the new material. Bon Iver's "Brackett, Wisconsin" and Grizzly Bear's "Deep Blue Sea" are my favourites from what I've heard so far. David Byrne + Dirty Projectors was pretty good too. I'm not too much of a My Brightest Diamond fan, but her contribution is okay. And what about the National? Solid as always, though I wouldn't say it's as good as anything on Boxer or Alligator, though that would be hard to do as those two are both masterpieces. So to sum it up easily: Yes, very excited about this. It may be my most anticipated record of the year, if you could call it that. Shad, I've never heard of this Riceboy Sleeps group, either, but I'm thinking it's a moniker of some really awesome supergroup forming just to put out one song in this album... (I can dream right? Perhaps it's Dessner's + Sufjan + Iron & Wine + Sitek.) Anyways, after tomorrow, the songs streaming will be highly anticipated for me: Antony + Bruce Dessner Bon Iver + Aaron Dessner Decemberists Iron & Wine Grizzly Bear + Feist Sufjan Stevens (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) - covering the Castanets great song "You are the Blood" |
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Enthusiast |
According to Wikipedia:
"Riceboy Sleeps is an artistic collaboration between Jón Þór Birgisson (singer for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós) and his partner Alex Somers. Not only do they make visual art, but they also create ambient music.[1] The music tends to be more ethereal and experimental than that of Sigur Rós." Sounds all right to me. Shadrach, I was indeed being sarcastic regarding the album-of-the-year comment (especially since MPP is not at the top of my list). Even so, I do think that this has the potential to be one of the most solid and consistent releases this year, judging from the lineup and from what I've heard so far. And that 2 1/2 minute piano solo towards the end of "You Are The Blood" is quite epic. |
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Jedi |
Ah, of course. Wikipedia. Thanks for the Tip!
And I guess Riceboy can stay then if it's partially Sigur Ros... All that is left now is Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Wikipedia says! It's Joanna Newsom!~ No... no... turns out it's really just a Funk Soul singer named Sharon Jones. Huh. Guess it will be something to check out. ---------------------------- There's an ember in the rafters and it's gonna burn this whole thing down. Shadrach on LastFM |
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Guru |
Anyone else loving "Big Red Machine" by Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon?
EDIT: Sufjan's cover of the Castanets "You are the Blood" is absolutely EPIC. It's over 10 minutes long, featuring a horn section (ala Illinois, Michigan), tons of electronics (Enjoy Your Rabbit) and some folk after he calms down (Seven Swans) before exploding into a horn jam/guitar solo craziness/electronic bleepy-craziness and all sorts of other Sufjan goodness. Ya, it pretty much is amazing. What else were we to expect? THE SONG: http://www.box.net/shared/static/fxnj11nfkg.mp3 This message has been edited. Last edited by: anbc, |
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Jedi |
I heard a lot of talk about this. I thought it was a band, not a comp. Some pretty awesome names on it though.
---------------------------------------- "You're half the man Peter Pan could have been" |
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This compilation is really good, absolutely. I agree that Sufjan's Castanets cover is great (made me want to break out the original too for that matter) as well as the Vernon/Dessner track.
And both Grizzly Bear songs are awesome. Makes me eager to hear their new one. |
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Apprentice Guru |
This album is exceptional. I've been spinning it for three days.
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And now it's time for the questions I always ask:
How is the album package? Any booklet? Jewel case or cardboard case? |
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Wow. No talk about the Spoon track... or the STELLAR ARCADE FIRE TUNE?
Damn, guys. As far as my faves, the Dirty Projectors/Byrne, Bon Iver, National, Spoon, Arcade Fire, and Justin Vernon/Aaron Dessner tracks are my faves. (With so many tunes, I'm allowed to have that many favourites  )It pays to kill anyone who has information. |
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Jedi |
It's double fold out, with a CD on each side and a booklet in the middle. No lyrics, but that likely because they had to go into so much detail giving credit to everyone that worked on all of the songs. The album package isn't a major production, but it's classy and very well done. The artwork is great. There of course is a lot of space used up for the purpose of the album though. Lots of talk about the organization, and a lot of talk about AIDs in general. Which is fine of course. I don't so much appreciate their slogan of "Play Safe", but more power to them none the less. It's well done and worth having on the shelf. And it's much better than the cover suggested it would be. As a side issue. I've mentioned this elsewhere but haven't gotten any responses, which I guess is understandable, since I wouldn't know how to respond either. But does anyone see any significance to Sufjan choosing a song about how God is the blood flowing through our body as a starting point to talk about his complete presence and control, as his choice for a song to put on an album about a terminal blood disease? I'm of the opinion that it was just sortof a coincidence, but you can't really ignore the connection. ---------------------------- There's an ember in the rafters and it's gonna burn this whole thing down. Shadrach on LastFM |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
I dig the Spoon track, not crazy about the Arcade Fire track. My current faves are the National, Spoon, and the New Pornographers' cover of Destroyer's "Hey, Snow White". ----- Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste. |
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I guess I just like the baroque-y sound of "Lenin". It reminds me of Funeral and Neighbourhood #2 (Laika) with the character of Alexander.
It pays to kill anyone who has information. |
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Jedi |
I hate that Pitchforks review of Dark Was the Night digs it for not having Animal Collective on it.
Although they give it an 8.6 and BNM, which is more than I probably would have done. --- I personally think it's got some great songs on it. And all of the songs are above mediocre. I'm wanting to pick and choose from it so I can make up a 12-13 track standard length CD for listening in the car. Anyone want to give me some ideas for track sequencing? ---------------------------- There's an ember in the rafters and it's gonna burn this whole thing down. Shadrach on LastFM |
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Jedi |
I couldn't agree more. Although I agree, what Dark Was the Night implies about indie musical culture is really interesting. And it may be good, but the 8.6 and BNM seems a bit over-the-top...I mean, it's a compilation. It still sounds like a sum of its parts as opposed to one coherent artistic statement. ------------------------------------- Will the fight for our sanity be the fight of our lives? http://www.last.fm/user/crob3888 |
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Jedi |
So far, so freakin' good. I'm up to the Grizzly Bear song and it is all sorts of tasty.
Heck, I might give it a spot in my year-end list. ------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout. |
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Guru |
Thanks Shad. I should've edited my post because I got it the day after I posted that, and thus, would have saved you from describing it, but thanks anyways. About the Sufjan track: Nice catch. I didn't notice the connection there. I wouldn't put it past Sufjan to have thought this out. I'd be more inclined to say it was planned than a coincidence as well. |
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Apprentice Guru |
I think it was intentional, but not deeply so. Perhaps he meant for the song to be a message of encouragement. Maybe along the lines of; if you believe in God you possess pure spiritual blood eventhough you may be inflicted with a blood disease. Just a thought. |
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