Irrwisch - Irrwisch

Artist: Irrwisch
Album: Irrwisch [Demo]
Genre: Black Metal
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Vom Felsen
2. Flug
3. Leer
4. ...der Freiheit
5. Irrgang

Irrwisch started in 2006 playing an atmospheric kind of Black Metal. Influences (although they may not be heard) are bands such as Lunar Aurora, Klage, Nocternity, Drudkh, etc. The band consists of members from Widergeist. This demo really stood our for me this year, and I can not wait till they grace us with a full-length effort.

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Joyless - Wisdom & Arrogance

Artist: Joyless
Album: Wisdom & Arrogance
Genre: Depressive Rock/Post-Punk
Country of Origin: Norway
Year: 2000

Track Listing:

1. Divine
2. Close to God
3. Stand
4. Isn't It Nice?
5. The Nails
6. Transpire
7. Why Should I Cry?
8. Trust Endorse
9. Room of Velvet Splendour

Norwegian group consisting of both male and female members, their first album, Unlimited Hate was an Avantgarde Black Metal album, while this one, Wisdom & Arrogance is strictly Depressive Rock/Post-Punk (so don't go in expecting black metal ... or metal at all)

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Janvs - Vega

Artist: Janvs
Album: Vega
Genre: Progressive, Avant-Garde Black Metal
Country of Origin: Italy
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Torri Di Vetro
2. Saphire
3. Tarab
4. Dazed
5. Mediterraneo
6. Vega
7. Vesper II

Super tasty Progressive/Black Metal album by these dudes - Now to look for some more...

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phuse - mingus lingers

band: phuse
album: mingus lingers
genre: funk, jazz
country: ireland
year: 2008

Fronted by Dubliner Gavin Lockhart, Phuse is a collective of musicians where each performer effortlessly blends a myriad of styles - jazz, hip-hop, funk, electronica, ambient, cinematic backdrops and break-beats into a deep and intense soundscape.

This sound is created by the band's integration of standard acoustic instruments such as double bass, drums, saxophone and piano with electric guitars, samplers and a host of other electronic compositional tools.

this album has been playing pretty much every other hour in my apartment for the last week. beautiful mix of styles; never redundant, never boring.

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Yoshida Brothers - III

Yoshida Brothers - III

1. Erghen Diado
2. Passion
3. Canon
4. Hit Song
5. Overland Blues
6. Cherry Blossoms in Winter
7. By This River
8. Morricone
9. Oh My Love
10. Tsugaru Jinku
11. My Heart Holds
12. Tsugaru Jongara Bushi


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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Artist: Bon Iver

Album: For Emma, Forever Ago

Genre: Folk Pop

Country: US

Year: 2008

I can't describe this album much better than this:

From allmusic.com:

Bon Iver is the work of Justin Vernon. He isolated himself in a remote cabin in Wisconsin for almost four months, writing and recording the songs on For Emma, Forever Ago, his haunting debut album. A few parts (horns, drums, and backing vocals) were added in a North Carolina studio, but for the majority of the time it's just Vernon, his utterly disarming voice, and his enchanting songs. The voice is the first thing you notice. Vernon's falsetto soars like a hawk and when he adds harmonies and massed backing vocals, it can truly be breathtaking. "The Wolves (Acts I & II)" truly shows what Vernon can do as he croons, swoops, and cajoles his way through an erratic and enchanting melody like Marvin Gayeafter a couple trips to the backyard still. "Skinny Love" shows his more of his range as he climbs down from the heights of falsetto and shouts out the angry and heartachey words quite convincingly. Framing his voice are suitably subdued arrangements built around acoustic guitars and filled out with subtle electric guitars, the occasional light drums, and slide guitar. Vernon has a steady grasp of dynamics too; the ebb and flow of "Creature Fear" is powerfully dramatic and when the chorus hits it's hard not to be swept away by the flood of tattered emotion. Almost every song has a moment where the emotion peaks and hearts begin to weaken and bend: the beauty of that voice is what pulls you through every time.For Emma captures the sound of broken and quiet isolation, wraps it in a beautiful package, and delivers it to your door with a beating, bruised heart. It's quite an achievement for a debut and the promise of greatness in the future is high.

riyl: Iron & Wine, Bonnie "Prince" Billie, Little Wings

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Juno Reactor - Bible of Dreams

1. Jardin De Cecile
2. Conga Fury
3. God is God
4. Komit
5. Swamp Thing
6. Kaguya Hime
7. Children of the Night
8. Shark
9. High Energy Protons (Orion Mix)


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greyboy allstars - what happened to television?

band: the greyboy allstars
album: what happened to television?
genre: funk, jazz
country: us
year: 2007

The Greyboy Allstars (GBA) are a San Diego funk and jazz group created in the early 1990s. The group began as collaboration of DJ Greyboy (turntable) with Karl Denson (saxophone, flute) during weekly shows at the Green Circle Bar in San Diego and on the DJ Greyboy albums Home Cooking and Freestylin’. Together they gradually gathered musicians co-founding a house band including Robert Walter (keyboards), Chris Stillwell (bass), Elgin Park (also known as Mike Andrews) (guitar), and Zak Najor (drums). The Greyboy Allstars were a major part of the mid-90s acid jazz movement and a catalyst for renewed interest in late 60s/early 70s soul jazz. Denson has described the Greyboy Allstars as a boogaloo band, a distinction which has set them apart from other contemporary soul jazz/acid jazz combos.

i've been listening to this album pretty regularly for the last year. i don't know a lot about the genre they fall into, but this is a solid, super entertaining album you should check out

i'll send YOUR space!!

The Spectacle - I Fail

Artist: The Spectacle

Album: I Fail

Genre: Punk

Location: Norway

Awesome Release from DIY punks The Spectacle.  Every track is superb, my favorite is easily "self and other"

big ups to Revengence.wordpress.com

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Back Door Slam - Roll Away

Band: Back Door Slam
Album: Roll Away
Genre: Blues Rock
Country of Origin: Isle of Man
Year: 2007

Track Listing:

1. Come Home
2. Heavy On My Mind
3. Outside Woman Blues (Cream cover)
4. Gotta Leave
5. Stay
6. Too Late
7. Takes A Real Man
8. It'll All Come Around
9. Too Good For Me
10. Roll Away
11. Real Man

Back Door Slam are a Blues Rock trio from the Isle of Man. Roll Away is their debut album is full of excellent basslines, great Blues riffs and the deep, emotive singing of vocalist Davy Knowles. I can't compare it to anything as I'm not much of a Blues person but I know that I really dig this album, so maybe you will too.

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Murder by Death - Red Of Tooth And Claw

Band: Murder by Death
Album: Red of Tooth and Claw
Genre: Indie Rock
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Comin' Home
2. Ball & Chain
3. Rum Brave
4. Fuego!
5. Theme (for Ennio Morricone)
6. A Second Opinion
7. Steal Away
8. Ash
9. The Black Spot
10. '52 Ford
11. Spring Break 1899

For my main man Tim.

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of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Band: of Montreal
Album: Skeletal Lamping
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2008

Track Listing:

1. Nonpareil Of Favor
2. Wicked Wisdom
3. For Our Elegant Caste
4. Touched Something's Hollow
5. An Eluardian Instance
6. Gallery Piece
7. Women's Studies Victims
8. St. Exquisite's Confessions
9. Triphallus, To Punctuate!
10. And I've Seen A Bloody Shadow
11. Plastis Wafers
12. Death Is Not A Parallel Move
13. Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
14. Mingusings
15. Id Engager

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of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Band: of Montreal
Album: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2007

Track Listing:

1. Suffer For Fashion
2. Sink the Seine
3. Cato as a Pun
4. Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
5. Gronlandic Edit
6. A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
7. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
8. Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider
9. Faberge Falls for Shuggie
10. Labyrinthian Pomp
11. She's a Rejector
12. We Were Born The Mutants Again with Leafling

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of Montreal - Icons, Abstract Thee

Band: of Montreal
Album: Icons, Abstract Thee
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2007

Track Listing:

1. Du Og Meg
2. Voltaic Crusher/Undrum to Muted Da
3. Derailments in a Place of Our Own
4. Miss Blonde, Your Papa Is Failing
5. No Conclusion

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of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins

Band: of Montreal
Album: The Sunlandic Twins
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2004

Track Listing:

1. Requiem For O.M.M.2
2. I Was Never Young
3. Wraith Pinned To The Mist (and Other Games)
4. Forecast Fascist Future
5. So Begins Our Alabee
6. Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting
7. The Party's Crashing Us
8. Knight Rider
9. I Was A Landscape In Your Dream
10. Death Of A Shade Of A Hue
11. Oslo In The Summertime
12. October Is Eternal
13. The Repudiated Immortals
14. Art Snob Solutions
15. The Actor Approbrium
16. Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks
17. Everyday Feels Like Sunday

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of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic

Band: of Montreal
Album: Satanic Panic in the Attic
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2004

Track Listing:

1. Disconnect The Dots
2. Lysergic Bliss
3. Will You Come And Fetch Me
4. My British Tour Diary
5. Rapture Rapes The Muses
6. Eros' Entropic Tundra
7. City Bird
8. Erroneous Escape Into Eric Eckless
9. Chrissie Kiss The Corpse
10. Your Magic Is Working
11. Climb The Ladder
12. How Lester Lost His Wife
13. Spike The Senses
14. Vegan In Furs

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of Montreal - Aldhils Arboretum

Band: of Montreal

Album: Aldhils Arboretum
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2002

Track Listing:

1. Doing Nothing
2. Old People In The Cemetery
3. Isn't It Nice?
4. Jennifer Louise
5. The Blank Husband Epidemic
6. Pancakes For One
7. We Are Destroying The Song
8. An Ode To The Nocturnal Muse
9. Predictably Sulking Sara
10. Natalie And Effie In the Park
11. A Question For Emily Foreman
12. Kissing In The Grass
13. Kid Without Claws
14. Death Dance Of Omipapas And Sons For You

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of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse

Band: of Montreal
Album: Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 2001

Track Listing:

1. Good Morning, Mr. Edminton
2. Peacock Parasols
3. Look at the Bell
4. An Introduction for Isabell
5. Let's Do Everything for the First Time Forever
6. Coquelicot's Tea Party
7. Rose Robert
8. It's a Very Starry Night
9. Mimi Merlot
10. Butterscotching Mr. Lynn
11. Coquelicot, Claude and Lecithin Dance Aboard the Ocean Liner
12. Go Call You Mine
13. The Events Leading Up to the Collapse of Detective Dulllight
14. Penelope
15. A Dreamy Day of Daydreaming of You
16. Hello from Inside a Shell
17. Lecithin's Tale of a DNA Experiment That Went Horribly Awry
18. It's Just So
19. The Frozen Island
20. Upon Settling on the Frozen Island, Lecithin Presents Claude and Coquelicot With His Animal Creations for them to Approve or Reject
21. Let's Go for a Walk
22. The Hopeless Opus or the Great Battle of the Unfriendly Ridiculous

of Montreal's rather bizarre concept album.

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of Montreal - The Gay Parade

Band: of Montreal
Album: The Gay Parade
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 1999

Track Listing:

1. Old Familiar Way
2. Fun Loving Nun
3. Tulip Baroo
4. Jaques Lamure
5. The March Of The Gay Parade
6. Neat Little Domestic Life
7. A Collection Of Poems About Water
8. I'd Be a Yellow Feathered Loon
9. The Autobiographical Grandpa
10. The Miniature Philosopher
11. My Friend Will Be Me
12. My Favorite Boxer
13. Advice From A Divorced Gentleman To His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage
14. A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He And His Wife Drive Off A Cliff Into The Ocean
15. Nickee Coco And The Invisible Tree
16. The Gay Parade Outro

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of Montreal - The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy

Band: of Montreal
Album: The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 1998

Track Listing:

1. One Of A Very Few Of A Kind
2. Happy Yellow Bumblebee
3. Little Viola Hidden In The Orchestra
4. The Couple's First Kiss
5. Sing You A Love You Song
6. Honeymoon In San Francisco
7. The Couple In Bed Together Under A Warm Blanket Wapped Up In Each Other's Arms Asleep
8. Cutie Pie
9. Panda Bear
10. Sadess Creeping Up And Scaring Away The Couple's Happiness
11. Please Tell Me So
12. My Darling, I've Forgotten
13. You Feel You Must Go, Don't Go!
14. Just Recently Lost Something Of Importance
15. The Hollow Room
16. It's Easy To Sleep When You're Dead

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of Montreal - Cherry Peel

Band: of Montreal
Album: Cherry Peel
Genre: Indie Pop
Country of Origin: USA
Year: 1997

Track Listing:

1. Everything Disappears When You Come Around
2. Baby
3. I Can't Stop Your Memory
4. When You're Loved Like You Are
5. Don't Ask Me To Explain
6. In Dreams I Dance With You
7. Sleeping In The Beetle Bug
8. Tim I Wish You Were Born A Girl
9. Montreal
10. This Feeling (Dereks Theme)
11. I Was Watching Your Eyes
12. Springtime Is The Season
13. At Night Trees Aren't Sleeping
14. You've Got A Gift

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Like The Exorcist, But More Breakdancing

Artist: Murder By Death

Album: Like The Exorcist, But More Breakdancing

Genre: Indie, Folk, Alternative Rock

Year: 2002

the first full length album by MBD (previously known as Little Joe Gould).

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Circle Takes the Square - as the roots undo

Artist: Circle Takes the Square

Album: Self Titled EP

Genre: Screamo

Year: 2001

Location: Savannah, Georgia, USA

Great screamo album mixing elements of Grind, Punk, and Metal.

Probably my favorite Screamo band.

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