Posts Tagged ‘ANTI’
BETH ORTON
Sugaring Season
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as heard on radiospin on November 28th, 2012
under acoustic, album, download, folk, pop, preview, recommended, songwriting
Beth Orton‘s ANTI debut captures the classic hypnotic sound that won her prominence, at the same time as it shows a singer at the full maturity of her instrument, with a new soulfulness that can recall Roberta Flack or Nina Simone one moment, June Christy at the next. Sugaring Season is in many ways a culmination of Orton’s art of contradictions, a full circle from that first John Martyn cover she recorded with William Orbit back in the day soulful and ambient, lush and bittersweet, starkly still and fiercely rhythmic.
ARTIST: Beth Orton
TITLE: Sugarin Season
LABEL: ANTI
RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2012
TIME: 37:24 min.
WEB: http://beth-orton.net/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/
01. Magpie [04:32]
02. Dawn Chorus [03:24]
03. Candles [03:45]
04. something More Beautiful [03:28]
05. Call Me the Breeze [03:52]
06. Poison Tree [04:06]
07. See Through Blue [01:54]
08. Last Leaves of Autumn [04:01]
09. State of Grace [04:15]
10. Mystery [04:08]
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JASON LYTLE
Dept. of Disappearance
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as heard on radiospin on November 5th, 2012
under album, download, indie, preview, recommended
Founder, leader, singer, songwriter & primary instrumentalist of Grandaddy, Jason Lytle once again unleashes the skewed vision and haunting melodicism that have made lifelong fans of his music. He compares the songs on his latest album, Dept. of Disappearance, to a roomful of “strange, brilliant autistic kids with very peculiar social skills. But there are a few conventional, good-looking ones who go out and shake hands and get the good jobs. Then they come home and help take care of the other weird, wonderful ones”.
ARTIST: Jason Lytle
TITLE: Dept. of Disappearance
LABEL: ANTI
RELEASE DATE: October 16, 2012
TIME: 49:49 min.
WEB: http://jasonlytle.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/
01. Dept. of Disappearance [04:32]
02. Matterhorn [05:16]
03. Young Saints [04:08]
04. Hangtown [03:52]
05. Get Up and Go [02:16]
06. Last Problem of the Alps [05:44]
07. Willow Wand Willow Wand [03:48]
08. Somewhere There’s A Someone [06:15]
09. Chopin Drives Truck to the Dump [00:34]
10. Your Final Setting Sun [05:10]
11. Gimme Click Gimme Grid [08:14]
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CALEXICO
Algiers
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as heard on radiospin on September 27th, 2012
under album, folk, indie, preview, recommended, rock, songwriting
22 years and 6 albums since forming as a band, Calexico presents their 2012 album Algiers, recognizably classic Calexico but with a style that has been revitalized and reborn by the experience of recording in New Orleans. Conscious of the clichés that can sometimes afflict acts working in a city with such a strong identity, band members Joey Burns, John Convertino and producer Craig Schumacher chose to avoid the bigger, better known studios in favor of a smaller, more intimate setting. The result of this decision is arguably the most exciting and accessible record Calexico have made.
ARTIST: Calexico
TITLE: Algiers
LABEL: ANTI
RELEASE DATE: September 11, 2012
TIME: 46:43 min.
WEB: http://www.casadecalexico.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/
01. Epic [04:16]
02. Splitter [03:31]
03. Sinner in the Sea [04:15]
04. Fortune Teller [03:58]
05. Para [03:53]
06. Algiers [03:43]
07. Maybe On Monday [03:37]
08. Puerto [04:24]
09. Better and Better [02:34]
10. No Te Vayas [04:15]
11. Hush [04:23]
12. The Vanishing Mind [03:54]
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ISLANDS
A Sleep & A Forgetting
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as heard on radiospin on February 23rd, 2012
under acoustic, album, folk, indie, pop, preview, songwriting
It’s said that Phil Collins would never have left Genesis and ventured out on his own if his relationship with his first wife hadn’t crumbled. If Adele’s boyfriend hadn’t smashed her heart, her hit 21 may have never have made its way to the top of the charts. And Beck’s tear-jerking and game-changing Sea Change was recorded after he split with his girlfriend of nine years. For Islands frontman Nick Thorburn, the band’s latest album, A Sleep & A Forgetting, is about more than a breakup: it’s about completely losing a way of life and having to start all over again. He started writing it on Valentine’s Day last year after breaking up with his longtime partner, leaving his New York home and moving to Los Angeles: he started messing around and writing songs on a piano he found in his new abode, and a year later came Islands’ fourth record. But though the subject of A Sleep & A Forgetting is one of the most common human experiences, the album is not a generic tribute to a breakup: it’s an inspired look at the grieving human heart. And one of the best Islands records so far, to boot.
ARTIST: Islands
TITLE: A Sleep & A Forgetting
LABEL: ANTI / Epitaph
RELEASE DATE: February 10, 2012
TIME: 37:43 min.
WEB: http://islandsareforever.com/
01. In a Dream It Seemed Real [03:21]
02. This Is Not a Song [03:56]
03. Never Go Solo [04:45]
04. No Crying [03:05]
05. Hallways [02:54]
06. Can’t Feel My Face [02:46]
07. Lonely Love [03:40]
08. Oh Maria [04:08]
09. Cold Again [03:19]
10. Don’t Love You [03:20]
11. Same Thing [02:32]
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TOM WAITS
Bad As Me
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as heard on radiospin on October 24th, 2011
under album, folk, preview, recommended, rock, songwriting
Throughout his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums that serve both to refine the music that has come before, and to signal a new phase in his musical path: Rain Dogs and Mule Variations are both counted by fans as among these pivotal works. Now comes Bad As Me, his first studio album of all new music in seven years, which finds Tom Waits in possibly the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting powers, working with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. Like a good boxer, these songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times and there is a pervasive sense of players delighting in each other’s musical company that brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album’s saddest songs. Bad As Me is a Tom Waits album for the ages.
ARTIST: Tom Waits
TITLE: Bad As Me
LABEL: ANTI
RELEASE DATE: October 24, 2011
TIME: 44:42 min.
WEB: http://www.tomwaits.com/
01. Chicago [02:15]
02. Raised Right Men [03:24]
03. Talking at the Same Time [04:14]
04. Get Lost [02:42]
05. Face to the Highway [03:43]
06. Pay Me [03:14]
07. Back in the Crowd [02:49]
08. Bad As Me [03:10]
09. Kiss Me [03:41]
10. Satisfied [04:05]
11. Last Leaf [02:56]
12. Hell Broke Luce [03:57]
13. New Year’s Eve [04:32]
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