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Old 01-22-2016, 09:45 AM   #12171 (permalink)
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New music Friday! Two anticipated albums that have met my expectations:


The Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum

These guys have yet to release a bad album, in my opinion. While they've mastered this kind of sweeping, epic quality in their music, it is starting to sound a bit samey. I'm thoroughly enjoying this album, but I hope to hear some more growth by the next one. There are more synth flourishes in this particular album, so I hope that's a hint towards a new direction.


Chairlift - Moth

These guys have honed in their indie-pop craft into a science. Every song is catchy and enjoyable. I think "Something" is still the stronger album, but I really can't complain.
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Old 01-22-2016, 01:11 PM   #12172 (permalink)
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When I sobered up this morning I discovered that album still in its Zip file on my computer. No idea how I even managed to find, let alone download it considering how tanked I was. And until I checked this thread just now I had no idea why I'd downloaded it in the first place.
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Old 01-22-2016, 04:14 PM   #12173 (permalink)
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When I sobered up this morning I discovered that album still in its Zip file on my computer. No idea how I even managed to find, let alone download it considering how tanked I was. And until I checked this thread just now I had no idea why I'd downloaded it in the first place.
haha wait you downloaded it last night? That's just great.

Listen to it. Maybe you'll love it or something.
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Old 01-22-2016, 04:38 PM   #12174 (permalink)
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Girls Aloud - Ten

This is a compilation album of their best songs/hits. I think these girls are quite underrated when it comes to Pop music, and have some fantastic songs. Check it out.
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Old 01-24-2016, 06:56 AM   #12176 (permalink)
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In case you haven't read "Love or Hate?" (explanation on my desk 9AM tomorrow please!) I'm in love with this album...

and forgot how great this is, from an Irish band no less!
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La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin (2013)

One of my favourite synthpop albums of this decade. Elements of surf-rock and new-wave to boot.

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Great f*cking album Goof.
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Colors by Between the Buried and Me



Had a friend tell me to check this one out and it took my awhile to get around to it, but I'm pleasantly surprised with it after a few listens.
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Had a friend tell me to check this one out and it took my awhile to get around to it, but I'm pleasantly surprised with it after a few listens.
That is a great album. I was hooked on that when it came out back in '07. Actually saw them live supporting it, and they were freaking amazing. They didn't play the longer, proggy sections of the songs from Colors, and kept it more streamlined, which was kind of a bummer, but they were so intense and energetic that I can't fault them for the decision.

Their singer is a hell of a frontman as well, and plays the keyboards like he's on a pogo stick, and when he switches to singing on the mic he has this weird thing where he does something like jazz hands, and just kind of spazzes out. It was a very impressive performance and also the first time I ever got in a mosh pit, so I have a lot of nostalgia for BtBaM.

I haven't listened to much past the album after that, The Great Misdirect, but it's possibly even better. It's sort of like Rush's 2112 vs. Hemispheres: not as wild, but better put together. I love the really weird moments and turn-on-a-dime transitions of Colors, but the disjointed nature of the music can't help but flow kind of awkwardly; whereas The Great Misdirect isn't as eclectic and off-the-wall, but it's flow feels much more natural, and the metal moments lean more toward progressive, but still extreme melodeath, which I feel they do better than the brutal mathcore of previous albums, and also meshes with the melodic prog metal and whatnot that they mix in.

I probably dig Colors a bit more, just because it's ultra-weird personality just grabs you by the nuts and forces you to bask in its glory, but I'd still say that The Great Misdirect has the edge in pure quality.





Probably the closest to Colors-esque weird moment, and it's still much less self-consciously quirky.

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