THE MODERN ELECTRICThe Modern Electric

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there are a few things that you need to know about The Modern Electric before diving into their debut, self-released, full-length.
the members of The Modern Electric are young, terribly young.
The Modern Electric proudly proclaim that David Bowie is their hero.
The Modern Electric are a crack live act.
The Modern Electric have a metric ton of musical talent.
those are the four things you need to know.
and that wound up being a review.

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ARTIST: The Modern Electric
TITLE: The Modern Electric
LABEL: unsigned
GENRE: Indie-Pop
TIME: 48:08 min
SIZE: 91,06 MB
BITRATE: CBR 256kbps
RIP DATE: Dec, 03-2009
RELEASE DATE: Jun, 18-2009

WEBSITE: www.myspace.com/themodernelectric

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TRACKLIST:
01. Where I Belong [03:39]
02. David Bowie (save us all) [03:48]
03. Mistakes [04:05]
04. Ghost [03:52]
05. As Sharp As Knives [04:41]
06. Great Expectations (killer by day, killer by night) [03:37]
07. Vanity Suite, part A (one by one, the lughts burn out) [02:47]
08. Vanity Suite, part B (divine, starving and sleepless) [04:00]
09. Love and Misery [04:20]
10. The Anti Sing-Along [04:00]
11. Filming Our Favourite Lies [03:48]
12. London Love Paris, 1988 [05:49]

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preview:
♫ The Modern Electric - Ghost
♫ The Modern Electric - Love and Misery

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PORT O'BRIENThreadbare

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obviously nothing dictates the mood of a recording more significantly than the events impacting lives of the performers at the time of creating it.
you really don’t need to ask Justin Vernon how chuffed he was when he conceived Bon Iver’s For Ever, Forever Ago for example.
so, as Port O’Brien’s Threadbare was produced only a few months after the younger brother of key band member Cambria Goodwin had passed away, melancholia understandably oozes from every groove of this, their second long player.
with the subsequent obsession with love, death and loss, it’s unsurprisingly all tender, pensive and most of all, sad, delivered almost entirely at a respectful gentle pace.
you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be affected by it all and the tear stained haunting folk is at times quite beautiful, particularly the two lovely versions of High Without the Hope that bookend the album, the strident My Will is Good and the twangy Oslo Campfire.

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ARTIST: Port O'Brien
TITLE: Threadbare
LABEL: TBD
GENRE: Indie-Folk
TIME: 43:49 min
SIZE: 50,55 MB
BITRATE: VBR 140kbps avg
RIP DATE: Dec, 02-2009
RELEASE DATE: Oct, 06-2009

WEBSITE: www.portobrien.com

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TRACKLIST:
01. High Without the Hope 3 [02:20]
02. My Will Is Good [03:51]
03. Oslo Campfire [03:05]
04. In the Meantime [03:42]
05. Tree Bones [03:57]
06. Sour Milk / Salt Water [03:41]
07. Threadbare [02:47]
08. Calm Me Down [06:29]
09. Leap Year [02:43]
10. Next Season [04:19]
11. (darkness visible) [01:57]
12. Love Me Through [02:17]
13. High Without the Hope 72 [02:41]

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preview:
♫ Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good
♫ Port O'Brien - Oslo Campfire

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APSEClimb Up

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2009 release, a major departure and massive leap forward from Apse's most notable predecessor, Spirit, which was completed four years prior.
they return with a different line-up and their horizons broadened: this is the sound of a post post-rock band reaching out to a new audience, and finding a new identity.
where Spirit explored a dark world of reverberant guitars, ambient passages and minimal, haunting vocals, Climb Up proves a bold step out of that darkness.
Climb Up is wildly unique, versatile, and inarguably the bravest yet most accessible work by the band.

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ARTIST: Apse
TITLE: Climb Up
LABEL: ATP
GENRE: Indie-PostRock
TIME: 54:54 min
SIZE: 127,29 MB
BITRATE: CBR 320kbps
RIP DATE: Dec, 01-2009
RELEASE DATE: Nov, 30-2009

WEBSITE: www.apsemusic.net

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TRACKLIST:
01. Blown Doors [04:31]
02. 3.1 [04:10]
03. All Mine [05:14]
04. Rook [03:42]
05. In Gold [05:10]
06. The Age [03:55]
07. Tropica [04:04]
08. The Whip [03:42]
09. Lie [05:34]
10. The Return [05:30]
11. Climb Up [04:13]
12. Closure [05:09]

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preview:
♫ Apse - Rook
♫ Apse - Lie

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NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLISThe Road O.S.T.

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for those unfamiliar with the plot of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the story follow a man and his son through the desolate landscape of the United States: the world's population, man, plant, and animal, has been completely decimated by a cataclysmic event and only a few groups of humans remain.
a and of course, it's ugly: the USA has turned Mad Max on itself and many tribes of men have turned violent and even cannabilistic.
and who better to do this than Nick Cave and Warren Ellis?
Cave and Ellis has previously worked on two scores together for The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James: the director of The Road John Hillcoat previously directed The Proposition and decided to use Cave and Ellis again to score his new film.
though Cave and Ellis are very successful at the music projects they have both collaborated on in the past, creating a score for a film is an entirely other beast: a score for a film can make or break a scene, it’s music that reflects a mood or can create a mood.
if done improper, it can take an audience member entirely out of a film.
a bad soundtrack is more annoying than bad acting.
though The Road is a different beast from their past two scores, Cave and Ellis tackled it with the same zeal they had before.

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ARTIST: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
TITLE: The Road O.S.T.
LABEL: Mute
GENRE: Soundtrack
TIME: 46:47 min
SIZE: 85,55 MB
BITRATE: VBR 233kbps avg
RIP DATE: Nov, 30-2009
RELEASE DATE: Nov, 23-2009

WEBSITE: www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com

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TRACKLIST:
01. Home [02:04]
02. The Road [03:41]
03. Storytime [02:25]
04. The Cannibals [02:05]
05. Water and Ash [01:31]
06. The Mother [02:46]
07. The Real Thing [02:32]
08. Memory [03:42]
09. The House [03:17]
10. The Far Road [02:45]
11. The Church [01:34]
12. The Journey [04:14]
13. The Cellar [01:09]
14. The Bath [02:31]
15. The Family [03:42]
16. The Beach [03:45]
17. The Boy [03:11]

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preview:
♫ Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The House
♫ Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Memory

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TREMORViajante

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Tremor combines rhythms and sound across genre borders, fitting component parts of varying tradition together in eloquent symmetry: the artist breaks sound barriers across South America and presents his digital folklore tracks to a new, global audience.
On his last record, Viajante, Tremor executes folklore melody through a digital context: layers of rhythm are fortified with modern synth loops and paired with timeless Andean flute, strings and drum samples for evocative hybrids.
glitch, IDM, and electronica reinvent classic rhythms for today's listener.

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ARTIST: Tremor
TITLE: Viajante
LABEL: ZZK
GENRE: IDM-Electronic
TIME: 35:34 min
SIZE: 81,59 MB
BITRATE: CBR 320kbps
RIP DATE: Nov, 26-2009
RELEASE DATE: Nov, 03-2009

WEBSITE: www.tremormusic.com

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TRACKLIST:
01. Malambo [03:10]
02. Terminal [03:17]
03. Caracol [04:08]
04. Cornea [03:23]
05. Viajante [03:51]
06. Dedalo [03:00]
07. Ant [03:27]
08. Vritti [04:18]
09. Umbral (feat. tremolo audio) [03:47]
10. Lombriz [03:13]

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preview:
♫ Tremor - Malambo
♫ Tremor - Cornea

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BAUHAUS...and Remains

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bonus cd released for free by Beggars Banquet when pre-ordering both (bulked together) the Omnibus editions of In The Flat Field & Mask.
featuring remixes, rare studio recordings and 80's live acts.

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ARTIST: Bauhaus
TITLE: ...and Remains
LABEL: Beggars Banquet
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 33:24 min
SIZE: 59,65 MB
BITRATE: VBR 275kbps avg
RIP DATE: Nov, 25-2009
RELEASE DATE: Oct, 20-2009

WEBSITE: www.beggars.com/banquet

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TRACKLIST:
01. Bela Lugosi' Dead (tomb raider mix) [09:28]
02. Terror Couple Kill Colonel (recorded @ spaceward studio 24 april 1980) [04:00]
03. Double Dare (recorded @ southern studio mix #1 29 august 1980) [05:31]
04. A God in an Alcove (live @ university of london union 31 october 1980) [03:57]
05. Poison Pen (live @ university of london union 31 october 1980) [04:41]
06. Hollow Hills (live @ university of london union 31 october 1980) [04:34]
07. Poem (live @ space place, chicago 09 september 1980) [01:13]

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preview:
♫ Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (tomb raider mix)
♫ Bauhaus - Poison Pen (live @ university of london)

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A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERSExploding Head

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2009 release from the New York-based alt-rock band A Place to Bury Strangers.
Exploding Head is 43 mesmerizing minutes of pain as pleasure.
you'll be checking the levels on your living room stereo from the moment It Is Nothing pulls everyone in earshot through a vortex of groove-locked rhythms and back-spun power chords.
you'll be sucked in and blown away by the paranoid android pop of the album's first single In Your Heart, the gorgeous gate-crashing melodies of Keep Slipping Away, the Chinese water torture chords of Lost Feeling, the sputtering percussion of Everything Always Goes Wrong, the apocalypse now effects of Ego Death, the sinewy, slightly sinister overtones of the title track, and the firework finale flare-ups of I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart.

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ARTIST: A Place to Bury Strangers
TITLE: Exploding Head
LABEL: Mute
GENRE: Indie-Rock
TIME: 43:04 min
SIZE: 72,35 MB
BITRATE: VBR 223kbps avg
RIP DATE: Nov, 24-2009
RELEASE DATE: Oct, 13-2009

WEBSITE: www.aplacetoburystrangers.com

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TRACKLIST:
01. It Is Nothing [03:08]
02. In Your Heart [03:10]
03. Lost Feeling [05:14]
04. Deadbeat [03:32]
05. Keep Slipping Away [04:35]
06. Ego Death [05:43]
07. Smile When You Smile [04:51]
08. Everything Always Goes Wrong [03:40]
09. Exploding Head [03:33]
10. I Live My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart [05:38]

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preview:
♫ A Place to Bury Strangers - Keep Slipping Away (south central rmx)
♫ A Place to Bury Strangers - In Your Heart

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THE BRAVERYStir the Blood

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The Bravery's new album is produced by John Hill, whose credits include Santigold and M.I.A. .
this album follows 2007's The Sun And The Moon, which featured the wildly successful smash hits Time Won't Let Me Go and Believe.
on their third studio album, Stir The Blood, The Bravery weave lyrics and melody to form a complete and polished synth-rock album: the artistry and musicianship are omnipresent, the hooks are catchy and the vibe is always on.
almost every track is reminiscent of their new wave and alt-rock forefathers, and this can be as well a value or a boomerang.

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ARTIST: The Bravery
TITLE: Stir the Blood
LABEL: Island
GENRE: Indie-Rock
TIME: 35:40 min
SIZE: 55,99 MB
BITRATE: VBR 204kbps avg
RIP DATE: Nov, 23-2009
RELEASE DATE: Dec, 01-2009

WEBSITE: www.thebravery.com

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TRACKLIST:
01. Adored [03:40]
02. Song for Jacob [03:23]
03. Slow Poison [03:32]
04. Hatefuck [02:56]
05. I Am Your Skin [03:01]
06. She's So Bendable [02:23]
07. The Spectator [03:50]
08. I Have Seen the Future [03:14]
09. Red Hands and White Knuckles [03:25]
10. Jack-O'-Lantern Man [02:50]
11. Sugarpill [03:27]

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preview:
♫ The Bravery - The Spectator
♫ The Bravery - Hatefuck

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COLONIESThirty Thousand

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Colonies combines intelligence and ambience: gentle keys and samples flavor heavy, bombastic percussion, while Shumate’s ethereal vocals float above the band’s instrumentals.
crystal-clear guitar work cuts through the haunting, atmospheric quality of Colonies’ songs, and the band somehow remains sonically captivating even in tense moments of quiet noise.
call it indie-post-rock, call it shoegaze, call it whatever you want.

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ARTIST: Colonies
TITLE: Thirty Thousand
LABEL: 13 Original
GENRE: Post-Rock
TIME: 47:28 min
SIZE: 85,11 MB
BITRATE: VBR 266kbps avg
RIP DATE: Nov, 22-2009
RELEASE DATE: Nov, 18-2009

WEBSITE: www.colonies.bandcamp.com

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TRACKLIST:
01. Fairer Winds [04:37]
02. Las Islas Malvinas [04:08]
03. Morning [03:18]
04. Silence and the Stain [02:59]
05. The Calendar's Song [02:52]
06. Floating Fast [04:59]
07. House Of [01:51]
08. Last Chance [03:46]
09. La Mandrugada Viene Ya [02:17]
10. Reservations [04:50]
11. These Southern Skies [05:27]
12. Silvery Sea [03:52]
13. The Ones We Managed to Win [02:32]

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preview:
♫ Colonies - Morning
♫ Colonies - Last Chance

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