Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008) *****

''Muzyka taka nie spodoba się raczej słuchaczom tandety, do których przyzwyczajają nas nasze kochane polskie media. Za skomplikowana na Feel, za brzydka na Dodę, za mało "pokoleniowa" na Kombii. Więc cóż to właściwie jest? Jest to coś w rodzaju post-rockowego Shoegaze'u, łączącego w sobie eksperymentalne dźwięki. Na dodatek tworzone przez 2 panów w domowym zaciszu(!) Jakby tego było mało, jest to ich debiut. Coś niewiarygodnego, coś mistycznego, brudnego, złego, tajemniczego a jednocześnie bardzo znajomego. Dla ludzi nie bojących się eksperymentów i znudzonych codziennością tandety, będzie to spełnienie marzeń. Całą resztę zapraszam do kupna Video i Ani Wyszkoni. A właśnie! Kto to jest Ania Wyszkoni?''

>Personal favourite<

Tracklist:

Disc One: The Plow That Broke the Plains

1. A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticutt
2. Bloodhail
3. The Big Gloom
4. Hunter
5.Telephony
6. Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun
7. There Is No Food

Disc Two: The Future

1. Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail
2. Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
3. The Future
4. Deep, Deep
5. I Don't Love
6. Earthmover

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by adi51 ~ Sunday, 6 September 2009 0 comments

Distrails - Virginia Creeper (2008) *****

A unique fusion of piano, lush orchestration, layered sounds, and the phenomenal range of Jared Draughon’s melodic, haunting vocals. Jared Draughon’s mellow, beautiful voice is complemented well by Bitsy Pina’s hypnotic and complex piano themes.

Distrails is a musical duo formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The duo is composed of vocalist/guitarist/percussionist Jared Draughon,
and classical pianist/composer/keyboardist Bitsy Pina.
Textured, artistic and captivating,
"Virginia Creeper" is a demanding album that flows seamlessly through eight memorable and unique songs.
Distrails has just released their own album "Virginia Creeper" which they wrote and recorded themselves.

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Distrails to muzyczny duet założony w Północnej Karolinie w listopadzie 2007 roku. W skład zespołu wchodzą Bitsy Pina (klawisze i komponowanie) oraz Jared Draughon (wokal, gitara, perkusja) który udzielał się w takich zespołach jak Classic Case i Telescreen. Końcem 2008 roku ukazał się debiutancki krążek zespołu zatytułowany ‘Virginia Creeper’.
Skomponowany, nagrany i wyprodukowany na własną rekę ośmio-utworowy album łączy charakterystykę Indie- i Piano-Rocka z dobrym wokalem i elementami trip-hopu, tworząc naprawdę ciekawe, impresywne brzmienie.
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> Beautiful <

Tracklist:

1 Virginia Creeper 3:48
2 Always 4:31
3 Hourglass 4:46
4 Pursuit... 4:56
5 Critical Mass 4:38
6 Attractive Nuisance 1:24
7 Broken English 3:37
8 Waning and Waxing 5:44

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by adi51 ~ Wednesday, 24 June 2009 0 comments

Anaura - One Day in TWOTHOUSANDEIGHT (2008)

Anaura are 5 young musicians near Stuttgart, Germany who got together in 2006 to play ambitious, experimental and emotional rock music.
Affected by bands like Oceansize, Sigur Ros and Incubus a mixture of great melodies, dreamy moments and mighty walls of sound evolved.
Uniting post- and progressive rock but also pop elements, catchy melodies, 3 guitars, bass and drums, accompanied by electronics let the sound of Anaura become a great experience.

>Really good<

Tracklist:

1 The Expectant Wake-Up Call
2 My Little Kind of Breed
3 December
4 The Scene
5 Chiona
6 Interlude
7 Aroma
8 Concubine
9 One Single Day

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by adi51 ~ Saturday, 20 June 2009 0 comments

De La Mancha - Atlas (2008) *****

After the excellent ‘Release All Light EP’, De La Mancha arrive with a full-length offering, delivering on that early promise with an album that combines a Sigur Ros-like sense of scale with humbler, shoegazing songwriting values. ‘Release All Light’ still shines brightly from the album’s tracklist, sounding great on an epic scale, but there’s a lot more to Atlas than that: perhaps due to the presence of Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX) on electronics and guitar, for every moment of tuneful Euro-indie like ‘Lotus Seven’, there’s a more subtle, soundscaped piece like the ambient brass tones of ‘And Rainy Days’, or the introspective, echoing piano chords of ‘Sleep’. If all this sounds suspiciously like some sort of by-the-book post-rock exercise and your tolerance for such things has reached saturation point, fear not: this isn’t really that sort of record at all… despite the presence of gratuitously long, irritating titles like ‘So Let’s Blow Up Our Heads And Leave’, ‘Atlas’ is proof that De La Mancha have an impressively diverse repertoire, comfortably blending musical disciplines, and handling their instruments with a real expertise. Furthermore, the album is all filtered through a great production job from Rosenqvist, who keeps the hour-long duration ticking over with a real sense of dynamism and narrative progression. Lovely.

>Fantastic<

Tracklist:

01. Newfoundland
02. Release All Light
03. Lotus Seven
04. And Rainy Days
05. The Kimono
06. Superstoned
07. So Let's Blow Up Our Heads And Leave
08. Being A Hero Is Easy
09. Sleep

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Cult of Luna - Fire Was Born (Live DVD) (2008)

Cult of Luna are a Swedish post-metal band formed in 1998 in Umeå, Sweden by guitarist Johannes Persson and vocalist Klas Rydberg. They had new ideas on how to explore and develop their music. After some member hunting and rehearsals CoL had its first line-up consisting of: Klas Rydberg, Johannes Persson, Magnus Lindberg, Erik Olofsson and Fredrik Renstrom. After a short period of time, Fredrik had to leave due to some personal difficulties.

>Works fine, mkv format, 1,5gb, watched 30min of it, sounds OK ; )<

01. Following Betulas
02. Owlwood
03. Ghost Trail
04. Leave Me Here
05. Österbotten
06. Finland
07. Adrift
08. Eternal Kingdom
09. Echoes
10. Dark City, Dead man

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11
Part 12
Part 13
Part 14
Part 15

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by adi51 ~ Friday, 19 June 2009 0 comments

Klimt 1918 - Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (2008)

For those new to the band, the name itself is derived from an artist named Gustave Klimt and the year of his death. As for the new album, the official name of the album is Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack for the Cassette Generation) and it is eleven tracks of alternative-influenced music that can be compared to newer Anathema and Katatonia. As with those bands, the emphasis is on lush melodies and they come in spades here. The production values are good, which allow them to shine through on the album. Vocalist Marco Soellner adds some emotion to the music, something that takes the album from merely average to a surprisingly enjoyable listen. Obviously, this music is not for everyone, especially those who have soured on Anathema and Katatonia post-2000. If nothing else, Klimt 1918 is an interesting experience, especially on Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again.

Klimt 1918, like most bands of their genre, are one of those bands that can be difficult to understand, with some profound lyrics and sound. Just listening to the albums can be a chore unto itself. With Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again, that road to understanding takes even more twists and turns. While it isn't for everyone, those who seek something different will find some reward with the new album from Klimt 1918.

Tracklist:

1. The Breathtaking Days (Via Lactea)
2. Skygazer
3. Ghost of a tape listener
4. The gradudate
5. Just an interlude in your life
6. Just in case we'll never meet again
7. Suspense music
8. Disco awayness
9. Arget
10. All summer long
11. True love is the oldest fear

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by adi51 ~ Monday, 15 June 2009 1 comments

Materac - Bajki Andersena (2008)

Tracklist

CD 1:
1. Mars
2. Potwór
3. Ptasi przyjaciel
4. Tusi smutki
5. Bajka o astronaucie
6. If You Like
7. Aeroplan

CD 2:
1. Karmelowe planety
2. Truskawki
3. Kleszcze w "Spotkaniu Z Człowiekiem"
4. Wakacje w batyskafie
5. Gwiezdne koty
6. Wirus
7. Wynalazca Pan Krzem
8. Dobranoc
+ Chłopcy z dynamitu

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Old Time Radio - Just Because We Were Wrong (2008)

Tracklist:

01 Why Don’t We
02 Just Because We Were Wrong
03 Stop, Listen, Wait For The Night
04 Away Alone
05 Honey, Are We Getting Older ?
06 In The Morning
07 About The Past
08 Say You’re Fine Today
09 Find Me
10 Locked Inside Your Heart
11 And The Rain Will Fall
12 It Could Be Like In The Old Times

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We Made God - As We Sleep (2008) *****

We Made God are the latest Icelandic band to step up to the mark and their debut album delivers soaring, epic, driving rock of the highest calibre.

The fourpiece are early 20-something’s Maggi (vocals, guitars), Arnór (guitars), Stuni (bass) and Biggi (drums). From the gentle introspection to brutal noise of album opener Gizmo to the pyschedlic riffing of the Deftones-esque “Bathwater” and the gentle floating guitars of “The Color”, “As We Sleep” was entirely produced by We Made God and shows a band at the height of their powers.

Tracklist:

1 Gizmo 4:55
2 Bathwater 4:51
3 Sub Rosa 3:22
4 Deir Yassin 4:26
5 Theory Of Progress 5:41
6 The Color 16:21

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by adi51 ~ Monday, 8 June 2009 0 comments