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DeAge™ : 7374 days • Here since 2 april 2006

The Magnetic Fields The Charm of the Highway Strip

28 oct 08

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what a beautiful record this is... it reminds me a bit of the Meat Puppets lounging under the scorching sun of Arizona in Up On The Sun, a bit of the English shoegazers (especially Born On A Train, with that delicate background of sounds left floating in the void like in the best Slowdive), and a bit of the quirky Dogbowl (particularly in Two Characters, perhaps the best example of "psychedelia," except for Barrett)... brilliant and stunning is the arrangement of Long Vermont Roads...

Oscar Wilde Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray

26 oct 08

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super cool wilde...

Michael Haneke Le Temps Du Loup (Il Tempo Dei Lupi)

26 oct 08

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a beautiful enigma this Haneke...

Squirrel Bait Squirrel Bait E.P.

25 oct 08

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try them all a bit… keep in mind, though, that the emotional impact of this EP by Squirrel is something you won't find anywhere else… Bastro and Bitch Magnet deserve a listen, but they are much more cerebral, more in the head than in the heart, in short (unlike the Squirrel)… on the other hand, post-rock is just that: it’s not that emotions aren’t there, it’s that they are hidden behind all those intricate instrumentals… the Squirrel, on the other hand, while also boasting quite bold structures for the genre, laid the emotion right in front of you…

The Monochrome Set Strange Boutique

23 oct 08

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noooo just a comment on the monochrome set! scandal! :-) I dare anyone to find another band capable of mixing in the same pot Ayers, Gong, Television, Kinks, the early Cure, Bonzo Band, the strangest new wave (Magazine, XTC, B52, Devo), Billy Swan, Beatles, the Red Krayola of '79, Barrett, Brian Ferry, inadvertently paving the way for people like Meat Puppets and Dogbowl? The sound of the guitar is too beautiful, so hawayano and so skewed; the French touch of some tracks is fascinating; it’s stimulating that alongside the funniest jokes imaginable, we find moments of abyssal spleen like Ici Les Enfants; IRRESISTIBLE Etcetera Stroll...

M/A/R/R/S Pump Up the Volume

22 oct 08

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spectacularrrrrrr...I'll read it later...

McLusky McLusky Do Dallas

22 oct 08

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uh uh it's fantastic!

Bruce Springsteen Born To Run

21 oct 08

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beautiful review...the central triptych of Born To Run (Backstreets, BTR, She's the One) is nothing short of overwhelming...the credit is equally shared between the warmth of the Boss's voice and the taste of the arrangements by the E-St. Band...a special mention goes to the pianist, since it is his (more than guitar, bass, and drums) that serves as the leading instrument of the tracks on this album, and it's never a pretentious or classical piano, but a rock piano, intense, vibrant, as rarely encountered in this musical genre (Don't Stop Me Now by Queen and a few others)...

Savage Republic Customs

16 oct 08

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Well, there’s a bit of everything in Customs… there are the various incarnations of the band… and anyway, exoticism and hypnosis permeate all the SR’s albums, from the first to the last… trance is what this is to me: music that puts you in a trance, precisely… long live the labels!