Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Verve - Forth (2008) Joy Wants Eternity - You Who Pretend To Sleep (2007)

Part: 1 : The Verve - Forth (2008)
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 Artist.......: The Verve
 Album........: Forth
 Genre........: Rock
 Year.........: 2008
 Cover........: Front
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 Rip-Date.....: 2008-08-18
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 01. Sit and Wonder                                                06:50
 02. Love Is Noise                                                 05:26
 03. Rather Be                                                     05:25
 04. Judas                                                         06:15
 05. Numbness                                                      06:33
 06. I See Houses                                                  05:12
 07. Noise Epic                                                    08:13
 08. Valium Skies                                                  04:34
 09. Columbo                                                       07:18
 10. Appalachian Springs                                           07:28
 11. Mover                                                         03:52
 12. Chic Dub                                                      06:05
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Part: 2 : Joy Wants Eternity - You Who Pretend To Sleep (2007)
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ARTIST: Joy Wants Eternity
 TITLE: You Who Pretend to Sleep
 LABEL: Beep Repaired Records
 GENRE: Instrumental Rock
 BITRATE: 194kbps avg
 PLAYTIME: 0h 37m total
 RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-22
 RIP DATE: 2007-05-16
 
 Track List
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 1.  Existences Rust                  3:41
 2.  Above The Clouds Lies Eternal    3:53
     Sun
 3.  From Embrace To Embrace          6:23
 4.  Death Is A Door That Opens       6:13
 5.  What Lies Beyond                 3:27
 6.  Yet Onward We Marched            3:41
 7.  Uriel                            6:06
 8.  You Are The Vertical, You Are    4:11
     The Horizon
 
 Release Notes:
 
 Awesome post rock! RIYL: Explosions, Godspeed, Mogwai, Mono, etc etc etc. rock
 on.
 
 Powerful music renders imagery. Hidden beneath the dexterity of instrumental
 music sits emotion, somewhere within emotion sit symbols, and amongst this
 diverse ocean of thought, there are symbols which clash. There are some things
 in post-rock we can't deny having mentally visualized at least once: lights
 illuminating darkness, night skies glittered with stars, and horizons, a
 conceptually infinite phenomenon—infinite because we know the end of our
 peripheral is only due to the curvature of the Earth, and what lies beyond is
 literally endless.
 
 Eternity is akin to infinity. The name Joy Wants Eternity stands boldly as an
 in-your-face post-rock moniker. Eternity is one thing the genre seems to strive
 for in its continuously lengthening compositions and vast expansions in spaces
 of relative finitude. Must You Smash Your Ears… proved that they could take the
 emotional dynamics of post-rock we knew existed and amplify them broodingly and
 thoughtfully. Their debut album, You Who Pretend to Sleep, displays an ability
 to create staggeringly beautiful epic imagery, but their epic strive isn't for
 vast landscapes like fjords and valleys and so forth, but rather the
 nocturnalism of city lights and moonlit skies.
 
 "Existences Rust" ushers in an opening so loud and visceral it promises
 something special—something live, breathing, and utterly remarkable in form.
 Drawing focus away from sadness and melancholia, and emphasizing hope and, well,
 joy, You Who Pretend drowns itself in reverb and disperses its melody and raw
 cathartic releases, epitomized by pieces like "Above the Clouds," "From Embrace
 to Embrace," and "You are the Vertical." After a litter of short, droning gems,
 there's "Uriel," arguably the highlight of the album. From its frail,
 reverb-filled opening and its emotive layering of a spectrum of textures
 (violins, orchestral bells, and especially closing on acoustic guitar), the
 track is held together by an intense, haunting melodic guitar element. The
 lushness of the track characterizes Joy Wants Eternity at its best.
 
 The fairly modest transition between Must You Smash and this album was initially
 something that appeared before me as a shortcoming. The transformation we
 witnessed with Caspian when it delivered The Four Trees raised the bar for debut
 LPs; the full and intense experience of this album rendered You Are the
 Conductor a tame and distant preview. It exhibited an evolution, a dynamic
 transformation that nurtured a maturity. Joy Wants Eternity milk every bit of
 its emotional arsenal—clusters of quiet-loud transits dispersed in reverb, epic
 strumming and melodic guitar-driven passages—but it all stays well within the
 boundaries established on Must You Smash. There's no drastic reconstruction;
 even the length is hardly extended, clocking in at less than 40 minutes and a
 mere four longer than the EP. Venturing outside the boundaries and expanding the
 band's repertoire never seems to be a priority, as if by choice. Compared to the
 transformation Caspian made between its debut EP to the debut album, You Who
 Pretend pales in comparison.
 
 With this in mind, I must stress that it is not a criticism per se, as hard as
 it is to believe. Joy Wants Eternity have flourished in their own right as a
 bold and technically sophisticated group, almost enough to mask the inevitable
 fate of being, at times, a near dead ringer for they-who-shall-not-be-named.
 Even short and sweet gems like "Yet Onward We Marched" encapsulate the retention
 of hope in darkness and glowing visions of stadium lights, and together with a
 deceivingly alluding title, could have been subservient in anchoring the imagery
 of Friday Night Lights. You Who Pretend is a complementary effort to this, and
 to itself. Joy Wants Eternity's bind between EP and LP is not a destructive one;
 the strength of Must You Smash, and indeed the saga-like open-endedness of its
 EP format, left room for a release like this. The quality of thought in
 composition vindicates itself as something that has to exist, not merely a
 substitute reiteration. You Who Pretend to Sleep will resonate.
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Blueneck - Scars of The Midwest (2006) Driver Side Impact - Lion (2008)

Part: 1 : Blueneck - Scars of The Midwest (2006)
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Artist: Blueneck
 Title: Scars of The Midwest
 Label: Don't Touch
 Release Date: 22 May 2006
 Genre: Post/Good Music/Whatever
 
 Was talking to some nice person from Greece on slsk who recommended
 these guys to me. Sumptuous. Reviewers slobbered all over this thing,
 here's one of them:
 
 http://www.musicomh.com/albums/blueneck_0406.htm
 
 	
 In the shape of Scars Of The Midwest, Somerset four-piece Blueneck have
 produced an incredibly ambitious debut and an album that will have fans
 of post-rock icons like Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor salivating
 over their cornflakes.
 
 It has taken six years for this release to come to fruition since the
 group's formation in 2000, a period in which they have transformed from
 regulars on the West Country gig scene to virtual recluses.
 
 Locked away in the studio for a year and a half with producer Corin
 Dingley - one half of trip hop duo Alpha - the band must have been
 depressed on those cold, dark nights when the tracks just wouldn't come
 together and it shows with the results of their stay being at times
 throat-slittingly bleak.
 
 The whole album segues together into one extended dark soundscape with
 clear influences from past and present post-rock luminaries. Indeed the
 leanings go even further back on opening track, The Hills Have Eyes, with
 its very old school Pink Floyd psychedelic sound.
 
 It would have to be said that it is the element of psychedelia, be it
 through the use of keyboards or samples, constant throughout the album
 that stands Blueneck apart from the likes of Mogwai and Godspeed and
 gives them an identity of their own, something not easy to achieve in
 such a crowded genre.
 
 The links to these bands is undeniable however, especially in the
 threatening piano on the brooding Judas! Judas!, a track that slowly
 builds from a sparse landscape to one filled with those monsters that had
 been lurking around the corner since its beginning.
 
 Around half of the tracks on Scars Of The Midwest are instrumental, the
 first to feature the breathy voice of Duncan Attwood though is the
 bizarrely titled Oig, another slow burner that transcends into a wall of
 sound. Meanwhile, the distorted vocal on the tranquil Le:465 is just
 beautiful, sounding just like an English Sigur Ros.
 
 Ub1 is Eno-inspired ambience and a chance to reach for the tissues before
 the tear-jerkingly depressing Epiphany, a track of epic proportions and
 one of the most emotional you are likely to hear in 2006. Samples are
 used to very scary effect on this one, distorted to give the impression
 of ghostly voices coming from your stereo speakers.
 
 The sonic effect during Ub2 is also quite something as the sound crashes
 around the listener like waves in a violent ocean, thanks in the main to
 Ben Green's soaring guitars. The stunning Amoc is the album's masterpiece
 however. By far the most uplifting track as lightly caressed drums are
 merged with vocal harmonies and atmospherics.
 
 Yesterday's Forgotten rounds off the album, a re-working of an early
 Blueneck song, stripped down with careful precision into a spooky finale
 for what is a fine debut effort for the West Country outfit. If we are
 lucky maybe they will come out of the studio and perform it live for us
 now.

Part: 2 : Driver Side Impact - Lion (2008)
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   Artist:      Driver Side Impact
   Album:       Lion
   Label:       Victory
   Playtime:    37:18 min
   Genre:       Rock
   URL:         http://www.myspace.com/driversideimpact
   Rip date:    2008-10-24
   Street date: 2008-10-28
   Size:        64.83 MB
   Type:        Normal
   Quality:     229 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
 
 - Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
 
    DRIVER SIDE IMPACT started out 2007 with a deal from VICTORY RECORDS and
    several promising US tours ahead. The band's debut, The Very Air We Breathe,
    showcased the band's knack for heavy melodies and heavier moshable
    dance-parts. DRIVER SIDE IMPACT hit the road to take on the world with their
    fusion of post-hardcore, dance rock and punk. They faced and dealt with the
    natural challenges that face any band this day and age and made it through
    with more determination than ever. Their DIY attitude and charisma ended up
    earning them a spot on the massive VICTORY RECORDS TOUR of 2007 and made them
    one of Victory's newest staple artists.
 
    For fans of: Boys Like Girls, Angels And Airwaves, and Silverstein.
 
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   01. Walking On Water (Feat. Derek Sanders)                            ( 3:30)
   02. Patience (Gave It Up)                                             ( 3:58)
   03. Rumor Mill                                                        ( 2:52)
   04. The Ties That Bind And Break Within                               ( 1:30)
   05. The Lion                                                          ( 4:18)
   06. Elysium                                                           ( 3:27)
   07. Better In The Rain                                                ( 2:31)
   08. The Day You Made The Sky Fall                                     ( 3:22)
   09. All For Nothing                                                   ( 3:30)
   10. Ascending                                                         ( 4:53)
   11. Heaven                                                            ( 3:27)
 
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