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DeRank ™: 2,19

DeAge™ : 7180 days • Here since 12 october 2006

Manic Street Preachers Postcards From A Young Man

12 oct 10

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By far the worst album by the Manics. It's embarrassingly mediocre. What a pity, because that splendid return to form that was "Journal" promised a new youth, and instead, in just one year, the band has aged like never before.

The National The Virginia EP

30 sep 10

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Hehe, lupus in fabula! Yes, 'Ep' is a bit clever for riding the coattails of "Boxer," but there's something worth keeping, like (as far as I'm concerned) "Forever after days" and "Rest of years," which are here in their very rough demo versions, but if polished could have (could still) become great pieces. For fans, anyway. Their albums, including the latest "High Violet," have much more depth. Well done, Bore!

Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante

30 sep 10

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Thanks everyone for stopping by! Yes, "Of A Lifetime" is out of place. The other one, at least, is a ghost track, which doesn’t have to resonate with the rest. The rating, Blech, would be 3.5 for me too! Bastogne Blues 10, of course. ;)

Shearwater Rook

29 sep 10

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It's hard to say which I prefer among "Palo Santo," "Rook," and the latest (also great) "The Golden Archipelago." They are all stunning albums, with an intensity that comes close to the best Talk Talk, but without shying away from some muscular and epic guitar work (here, "Century Eyes," for example). A band, for me, that is in the pantheon of the last ten years (even the tracks made during the time with Will Sheff are beautiful, although very different - more Okkervillian - from these).

Japandroids Post-Nothing

25 sep 10

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Three me too! Yes, I'm a godchild of No Age and definitely of 90s American emo-core (the real one). When they nail a track, it's pure bliss. But for me, they don't hit that many. "Young Hearts Spark Fire," here. Bye bore!

Crippled Black Phoenix The Resurrectionists/Night Raider

20 sep 10

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I will give it a try! ;)

Sofia Coppola Somewhere

18 sep 10

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"The Virgin Suicides" is a great film, but at this point I'm beginning to believe that its greatness owes a lot to the novel by Eugenides from which it originates and to a fortunate meeting of two similar sensibilities. Then Coppola no longer convinced me (nice, but little more, "Lost in Translation"). This "Somewhere" is simply a film of astonishing banality, with the exception of a few scattered scenes (the one with the mask, for example).

Washed Out High Times

18 sep 10

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Washed Out, however, is just one person, named Ernest Greene, who lives in Georgia (and he's on the cover of this cassette). For me, his other EP, "Life of Leisure," is better, clearly indebted to the most obscure italo-disco, yet reinterpreted in a very current lo-fi perspective (wavering and blurry sounds, elusive voice and barely understandable lyrics, short and almost 'aborted' tracks). Nonetheless, this "High Times" also has spectacular moments ("Belong," "Olivia"), even if it’s more frayed, with some episodes that also evoke the trip-hop of the '90s (the reference to "Glory Box" by Portishead in "You Will Be Sad" is explicit).

Crystal Castles Crystal Castles

16 may 10

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A tad less beautiful than the previous one. But these guys confirm they are really good fools. "Celestica" is among my tracks of the year.

A Place To Bury Strangers Exploding Head

12 may 10

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Well, I agree with you, Ole, about the title of best place in the Triveneto (to be honest, though, there's practically no competition: new age to hell, zion too - poor things, not their fault -, the rest, who knows). But keep in mind that I’m 50km away and I’m getting old... ;)