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There is something undeniably charming about old-fashioned. Even today, with the information overload and advanced technology all around us, people still enjoy the comfort and feeling of doing something the ‘old-fashioned way’. The music of Fan Sea, which appears to be a one-man bedroom project from Des Moines, Iowa, feels old-fashioned, even if the technology used to make it is anything but.
Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 2
Bass Invaders. If too much space pop and dream bop has got you yearning for the thump of, say, mid-90′s west coast rap, put down the Snoopy Dog and click on this. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry made a Rock Band game and these are its best players. Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 2 out now on Jahtari Records. Listening links may be found below.
In a musical era dominated by the likes of Animal Collective and Vampire Weekend and their (wonderful, it must be said) cryptic songs and lyrics, the art of true storytelling in music is often overlooked. Fortunately, there are still a few bands out there that overcome the ‘if you can’t understand it, it must be good’ paradox. Delta Spirit are precisely one of these bands, and their new album History from Below, is a homage to old-time folk storytelling and songwriting.
Topprovdjur in Berlin, Germany
Topprovdjur, meaning Top Predator in Swedish, is the name of a 5-piece band from Stockholm. Think of early New Order when they still had that Joy Division sound but with a new vocalist, a punk rock band with keyboards creating dance floors in unexpecting dark clubs. The droning synth feedback underlines the urgency in their music, as if they spent 20 hours of a long dark winter day in Sweden preparing for the precious few minutes of sunshine in which they could come outside and perform. Red Wizard, braving volcanic ash and sunshine deprivation, recently found time to exchange a few emails with the fine young Scandinavians.
The top 10 most successful albums of the decade revealed this afternoon at the Camp Nou in Barcelona:
Note: Year of release was taken into consideration and figured into the formula when ranking the albums. For an explanation of the RDSL system, click here.
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