psychopompe

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Pontiak Maker
Pontiak Maker
13 jun 09
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Hello everyone, today I woke up way too early and went to bed way too late to pontificate/argue about the download vs. purchase dilemma. But in no particular order, here are some responses: @azzo: I too preferred to stay silent about the new arboretum, because I would have torn it apart rather harshly and perhaps a bit cruelly. It's not a bad record, but compared to the previous one, it's really lacking. @antmo: funkadelicize your groovy ass! If it’s the one that starts with a monologue by Clinton, you’ve hit the fabulous live show I was telling you about! See you again on July 2! I didn’t understand the Ondarock story; maybe it's because I’m sleepy! @odra: coherence hasn’t really been my strong suit lately, perhaps because as I write, I have been able to dedicate little time to records that need it instead, while still pretending to give an opinion about them, when often it would be better to just stay silent.
Oxford Circle Live At The Avalon 1966
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And a couple of years later, I decided to buy it, just arrived from amazzone. Now I'm missing the Frumious Bandersnatch, and then for a while what I wanted from the Californian scene is secured...until you make me crave something else, damn Tollani.
Alice Cooper Pretties For You
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Today arrived Master Tollani, as you can see I remember the reviews even after years, also because there aren't many of them around about this record. I'll get back to you after listening.
John Lee Hooker The Essential Collection
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I'm now writing to Raven, who manages the music club, and I'll have a couple of maceratesi made of crack sent over with a couple of pliers and a soldering iron.
Fire On Fire The Orchard
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I still need to figure out if I like it, but I really like the second one so far. But Fest just delivered the summer's puzzle record, that is, Rated O by Oneida, and I don't think I'll have time for anything else! You zigu are the best new acquisition of deb no doubt.
Sunn O))) Monoliths & Dimensions
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Morpheo, I’m not saying it’s nonsense; at least for me, they have some interesting aspects (in small doses, of course), and this album is definitely the most "catchy" and in their own way "pop" among those I've heard. However, there’s a lot of elaboration going on regarding their musical format, I mean, the criticism. The discourse about avant-gardes (musical and otherwise) is a bit tangential: if you don’t have the right key to understand it, and the proper background (so something external to the music itself), it can easily leave one indifferent, if not a bit "mocked." In any case, the rating is wrong, not so much because of the numbers, but because I’ve only listened to it a couple of times. However, it is definitely the most communicative "sunnico" (or "sunnita?") album.
Sunn O))) Monoliths & Dimensions
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I was thinking just this morning while I finished listening that O'Malley is really a sly one. Looking closely, all the commotion stirred up by everything the Sunn O))) have done over the past four years is a lot of marketing. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing (records are made to be sold, right? So to moderately sell records of music that isn't exactly for the masses, you need to be good at promoting them, right?), but one must admit that with Sunn O))), the line between artistic inspiration and sound taken for a joke is often blurred. For example, Monoliths is half “new” and half already heard or anyway less focused. Agartha, sorry if I use technical terms, is a load of crap that almost irritated me. I mean, that fake threatening guttural black voice (without being it) in the foreground, almost like spoken word, for 10 minutes feels like filler, especially because even less happens underneath than usually does in a Sunn O))) track. Then Big Church sets things right and is one of the most interesting pieces I've heard from O'Malley, heaven and hell hand in hand without everything seeming forced. Alice is nice too, very listenable by their standards, but indeed a bit too far from them. For those who know them, it's like an electrified and updated version (but very similar) of Beaver And Krause and particularly the album Ghandarva.
Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream of Trains
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always promised to listen to it but obviously never got to the point. Beautiful super page. And it's great to also include Roy Harper, who delights me with two of his lovely disks from Christmas (Folkjokeopus and Tempestadicazzo). In fact, I wanted to write a couple of lines about it, but I don't even have time to eat in the few moments I spend at home.
Grant Morrison Batman: Arkham Asylum
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one of my favorite Batmans, chapeau!
Clues Clues
Clues Clues
22 may 09
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I was listening to it in the car days ago, because I too had enjoyed those brilliant idiots of the Unicorns. For now, the verdict is still out, but the Islands didn't impress me much with the first one and I avoided the second; these Clues seem better, but it still seems to me that they lack a real musical clue.
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