LPF Album Reviews 2.0

[Stenners]

We tried multi review propersistions before and ALWAYS ended up contridicting each other it was a total mess. You have to wait for everyone to listen to it I often found Jeezy wouldn't give too many albums more then 1 look if he didnt like it straight away.... which hurt the average verdict.

[Jeezy]

We tried multi review propersistions before and ALWAYS ended up contridicting each other it was a total mess. You have to wait for everyone to listen to it I often found Jeezy wouldn't give too many albums more then 1 look if he didnt like it straight away.... which hurt the average verdict.

 

yeah that's true...I mean I give everyone a chance...but if I don't like something why should I get back to it?

[Stenners]

Cause

 

Stenners says: The best albums are often those you discard on first listen

 

it's like watching sayyy a comedy a 2nd time you catch jokes you didnt get or see the first time

[Jeezy]

Cause

 

Stenners says: The best albums are often those you discard on first listen

 

it's like watching sayyy a comedy a 2nd time you catch jokes you didnt get or see the first time

 

yeah..but I always listen an album more than one time

[HaziLPTonz]

well...the point of having multiple reviews is so its not biased? just because you dont like it,doesnt mean someone else wont or will, some people who may have jeezys taste in music may like something jeezy reviewed that stenners gave a crap score or vice versa.

 

and in a way, it opens discussion, we cant just have ...review...reivew..."ooh wow, what a great review", it gets repetitive, and sometimes we want a second opinion or a third

[Stenners]

A lot less will get coverd, last album that got multiple scores didnt get multiple scores for 2 weeks!

 

+ i'm not littering my harddisk with music I dont want or hurting my ratio on private torrent sites. I do occasionally download specificly out of the interest of others on this forum (Yellowcard, Korn, etc.) but usualy something I been looking at, thats been highly antiscipated or looks interesting.

[HaziLPTonz]

well i dont mean YOU hafta do em all, there are other members who im sure can give reviews,theres also jeezy and fri, toxic has a good knowledge on music and probably a few others,or just independent reviews(something like metacritic-not the best example-, but similar), we could just have iono, a random every now and then,there are also those who just may not be bothered, and in anycase, for the purposes of a review, its only maybe listen over a number of times then you discard anyways...am i right? i cant honestly see you keep yellowcard EVER even if you were to inexplicably give em a 10

[Stenners]

Gave them an 8, still have the album, still gets plays

[Stenners]

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Artist: Sunset Rubdown

Album: Random Spirit Love

Genre: Avant Pop/Indie Rock

 

Krug a big name in the alternative scene providing music for various bands, all

of which getting constant critical praise. Me being a fan of 'Wolf Eyes' am personally

suprised this band stayed out of my attention for such a long time, yes I am late to

the scene but boy am I glad I arrived. Providing a very surreal element in all the songs

and interesting arrangments this band are not your standard Indie Rock band imploying

Avant Pop elements to basically every song here. This album has so much too it whether it

be the interesting song arrangments, the darring use of instruments, complicated hidden melodies

and general noise. The albums opener stuffs off simple enough with jittery guitar and stuttering

piano before exploding into a song full of Avant noise, now this is probably one of the hardest

songs to get into in the album so don't let it put you off.

 

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The album is arranged thusly, it is a tight piece of work people who shuffle their playlist alot

will get lost if one of these songs crop up, this is the sort of work which has to be listend in it's

entirety in order to get the most out of it. Lyrically its very much like a surreal fairytale telling

stories of paranoia, confusion and constant hurdles, this is very much reflected in the music

where moments make you really feel the context of the album, none of this false emotion

made up with over use of beeps or RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWK guitar, no the

methods used here are avant noise once again which are designed to diorientate you..

this works especially 'Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns' & 'Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!' which

leave you actually physically feeling jolted and feel the bands paranoia to get a feeling

this strong from music is very rare and very few bands can pull it off.

 

http://www.offtopic.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/4a3d17d922929756c8d0d937d34dbdb9.jpg

 

Leaves you with feelings that you don't get with many releases, plenty of hooks

the is depth but it's not too unaproachable. It's inteligant in so many aspects that

it just cant possibly get boring it just keeps on revealing more and more to it

this album takes you on a very long, weird and diverse journey and you will enjoy

the ride.

 

Rating: 10/10

Toixc: 9.3/10

Average: 9.65/10

 

Reccomended Tracks: All of them you have to listen to them alllll in the right order and then decide for yourself, myn keeps on changing.

 

*Cough* http://www.sendspace.com/file/p549nb

[Jeezy]

After a long time I'm gonna have a review up for the last Nephew album called "Interkom Kom Ind" within the next 2 days...

 

watch out for it

[GraDoN]

http://blog.filter-mag.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/16/sunsetrundownart.jpg

Artist: Sunset Rubdown

Album: Random Spirit Love

Genre: Avant Pop/Indie Rock

 

Krug a big name in the alternative scene providing music for various bands, all

of which getting constant critical praise. Me being a fan of 'Wolf Eyes' am personally

suprised this band stayed out of my attention for such a long time, yes I am late to

the scene but boy am I glad I arrived. Providing a very surreal element in all the songs

and interesting arrangments this band are not your standard Indie Rock band imploying

Avant Pop elements to basically every song here. This album has so much too it whether it

be the interesting song arrangments, the darring use of instruments, complicated hidden melodies

and general noise. The albums opener stuffs off simple enough with jittery guitar and stuttering

piano before exploding into a song full of Avant noise, now this is probably one of the hardest

songs to get into in the album so don't let it put you off.

 

 

 

The album is arranged thusly, it is a tight piece of work people who shuffle their playlist alot

will get lost if one of these songs crop up, this is the sort of work which has to be listend in it's

entirety in order to get the most out of it. Lyrically its very much like a surreal fairytale telling

stories of paranoia, confusion and constant hurdles, this is very much reflected in the music

where moments make you really feel the context of the album, none of this false emotion

made up with over use of beeps or RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWK guitar, no the

methods used here are avant noise once again which are designed to diorientate you..

this works especially 'Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns' & 'Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!' which

leave you actually physically feeling jolted and feel the bands paranoia to get a feeling

this strong from music is very rare and very few bands can pull it off.

 

 

 

Leaves you with feelings that you don't get with many releases, plenty of hooks

the is depth but it's not too unaproachable. It's inteligant in so many aspects that

it just cant possibly get boring it just keeps on revealing more and more to it

this album takes you on a very long, weird and diverse journey and you will enjoy

the ride.

 

Rating: 10/10

Toixc: 9.3/10

Average: 9.65/10

 

Reccomended Tracks: All of them you have to listen to them alllll in the right order and then decide for yourself, myn keeps on changing.

 

*Cough* http://www.sendspace.com/file/p549nb

pretty nice album.. that trumpet toot song is total crap IMO though ^_^

but i like the rest of it

[Stenners]

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*Insert suitable pic here*

Artist: Go! Team

Album: Proof Of Youth

Genre: Lo-Fi/Indie/Hip Hop/Noise/Cheerleader

 

Rewind me back to the summer of 2004, it's a light summers breeze with the sunshine battering

on my vulnarable lil self I have the cd player on in the days of lesser music taste (in my opinion) I

still listend to The Go! Team, a summery band hailing from the south of England have got a bit of

a thing going for them..... where the hell have they been though! My world felt empty without more

60's tv tune esc samples, the child hood chanty vocals & the sound of multiple drummers doing

their thing. They are back and ready once again to take me for a fun fun ride, do they do this well?

YES! Thank God they do! This album is pretty much the fun people look for its dancey, different

and not at all pompus, sure they still sound like 2 or 3 bands playing at once at times and each

of those bands sound like they are on coke and going a lil crazy with their instruments at a pretty

high tempo.... but it's that what I love about them.

 

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THe opener is a great little dancey track but where as 'Grip Like A Vice' tires the other tracks

reveal their charms at the same time leaving this album with a pretty good shelf life tracks such

as 'Fake ID' are charming and old skool Go! Team but the best tracks such as 'Titanic Vanderlism'

and 'Doing It Right' are noisey sound like several bands are playing but hell it works it all fits

and in an incredibly dancey way. The cheerleader style suits them down a tee the isn't as much

rapping as I feared on this album 'Grip Like A Vice' sure has plenty but the pleasent suprise is

Public Enermys Chuck D's contribution on 'Flashlight Fight' which a lil bitty gem in its own right.

Another nice contribution includes Bonde Do Role who have actually grown on me a bit (give it a

5/10 now btw) on the fun 'Universal Speech'. Sure the are flaws the is sometimes a bit too much

going on but this gets less irritating on each listen, basically this is a band still in form and aren't

dead yet!

 

Rating: 8.5/10

Reccomended: Grip Like A Vice, Doing It Right, Fake ID, Universal Speech, The Wrath Of Marcie & Flashlight Fight

 

Grip Like A Vice

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JvIRY4vccts

[Toxic1]

pretty nice album.. that trumpet toot song is total crap IMO though ^_^

but i like the rest of it

 

Well, you would be the first I heard with that reaction. Everybody else that has mentioned it has in pretty high regard. It's a hella dense song with many crazy and complicated arrangements rolling with a fury of noise.

 

Stenners: The opener, The Mending of the Gown, actually kinda reminds me of a crazier Arcade Fire with the chimy piano and male/female shouts. Pretty catchy song. By the way, great review. This album is top 10 of the year material.

 

I'm really loving "Magic Vs Midas" right now. Awesome song. As well as "The Courtesan Has Sung".

 

Anyhow looking forward to listening to this new Go! Team again. Been quite busy lately.

[Stllmn8j]

Well, you would be the first I heard with that reaction. Everybody else that has mentioned it has in pretty high regard. It's a hella dense song with many crazy and complicated arrangements rolling with a fury of noise.

 

Well it's probably the first opinion you've heard from a "normal" listener

[Toxic1]

Well it's probably the first opinion you've heard from a "normal" listener

 

Thanks for the compliment. I must be lumped into the weirdo music listener group.

[Stenners]

Not really I know someone personally who loves Coldplay and stuff and heavier music sort of the boarderline alternative stuff too but is head over heels for this band, especially that song.

[Stenners]

Stenners: The opener, The Mending of the Gown, actually kinda reminds me of a crazier Arcade Fire with the chimy piano and male/female shouts. Pretty catchy song. By the way, great review. This album is top 10 of the year material.

 

I'm really loving "Magic Vs Midas" right now. Awesome song. As well as "The Courtesan Has Sung".

 

Anyhow looking forward to listening to this new Go! Team again. Been quite busy lately.

 

 

 

I didnt care for Magic Vs Midas on first and 2nd listen on 3rd listen I totally got it, also the Go! Team album was alot more digestable once I got used to the clutterd sound they are customed to (despite already having gotten over it on their first album) and I liked it alot more the 2nd play, the 3rd play was also very enjoyable so you will probably like it more then you did on initial listen.

[Toxic1]

Not really I know someone personally who loves Coldplay and stuff and heavier music sort of the boarderline alternative stuff too but is head over heels for this band, especially that song.

 

Well basically Stllmn8j doesn't have much to say until he actually listens to it. And even then, I expect a broken sentence of discontentment.

[Stllmn8j]

Thanks for the compliment. I must be lumped into the weirdo music listener group.

 

lol,That's not exactly what I meant

[Stllmn8j]

Well basically Stllmn8j doesn't have much to say until he actually listens to it. And even then, I expect a broken sentence of discontentment.

 

You would probably be correct about that.

[Jeezy]

http://www.offtopic.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/404ea555460c23f104488b7e1842d649.jpg

Artist: Nephew

Album: Interkom Kom Ind

Genre: Rock

 

 

This is the 3rd studio album of Danish rock group Nephew. Unfortunately it hasn't been released in many countries. The opening of the album is great..it starts with Igen Og Igen. This song is probably the most notable song on the whole record.

The album has great production and it has a very clear and clean sound.

They mix the usual rock instrumentation with Keyboards and Synths and they do it in a very nice way...it never seems to stick out too much and keeps it all simple. It doesn't sound too poppish.

The only problem I have with this album is that I don't really understand the lyrics. It's mostly in Danish.

For a rock album this is much better than most of the stuff from comparable bands like Maximo Park or Mando Diao

 

Best tracks on the album:

Igen Og Igen

Taxa Triumf

Science Fiction Og Familien

Hospital

 

Weakest track:

Cigaret Kid

 

Overall rating:

7.5/10

 

if anyone wants to check them out

 

here are the 2 tracks "Igen Og Igen" and "Hospital"

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/45956290/nephew.zip.html

[Stenners]

http://www.roughtraderecords.com/Fiery%20Furnaces%20page/fiery_pic.jpg

Artist: Fiery Furnaces

Album: Widow City

Genre: Alt Pop/Indie

 

The logic of plenty of people you hear talking about music 'it's not a catchy song without

the ballad esc catch choruses' well they will be wrong. Fiery Furnaces seem to be one of the best

in proving these cynics wrong by being one of the catchiest Alternative Pop bands on the scene

without the need of BURST at you choruses, with clever arrangments & sweet melodies they

assure your attention threw out and stick in your mind an example of this will be 'Automatic

Husband' the plinky plonky synth and vocal delivery get wedged in my mind. Back to this point

the vocal delivery is incredibly odd but not in an offensive way, it's very endearing and

approachable & not scary. As with quite a few albums comming out this year its all a tightly

packed record with each song leading onto the next but unlike some of them they do work very

well stand alone 'Ex-Guru' being a good example of this.

 

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-06-15/music_feature3-1.jpg

 

What we have here is an album which thrills and pleases in equal amounts the sweet soft

synth melodies with the wacky guitar work just pleases the ear. The arrangments are the only

thing I can see people having problems with especially in the longer songs where it seems

a bit random but they make sense eventually. Tightly packed and good fun if not a little a little

self endulgant at times 'Clear Signal From Ciaro' is wayyyy too long.

 

Rating: 8.75/10

Reccomended: The Philadelphia Grand Jury, Automatic Husband, Navy Nurse

[Jeezy]

http://blog.filter-mag.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/16/sunsetrundownart.jpg

Artist: Sunset Rubdown

Album: Random Spirit Lover

Genre: Indie

 

Well there was a lot of talking about that CD already...and it got some high ratings from our review crew (toxic, stenners)....so I decided to check it out....without reading other reviews.

The first track was a good opener already...it had me after 2 seconds....and after one minute I decided to grab my headphones to get the full experience. After a great opener like that you could think the 2nd track will let you down...but it doesn't..it just keeps on getting better. What I really like about that record are the tempo changes...and the very differnt instruments they use..you don't get to hear that every day. I also like the transitions between the tracks. Overall they did a great job on creating a whole experience....you really have to listen to this record from the beginning to the end without skipping a track. It's worth it.

I don't really know what track is my favorite from this album....but if I would have to choose I would say "The Taming Of The Hands That Came Back To Life"...

 

Actually the whole album is worth checking out....if you want something different.

 

Tracks I recommend:

 

The Taming Of The Hands That Came Back To Life

Child Heart Loses

Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns

The Courtesan Has Sung

and

The Mending Of The Gown

 

Rating:

 

9/10

 

next reviews :

 

Talib Kweli "Eardrum"

and

Common "Finding Forever"

[Toxic1]

http://www.roughtraderecords.com/Fiery%20Furnaces%20page/fiery_pic.jpg

Artist: Fiery Furnaces

Album: Widow City

Genre: Alt Pop/Indie

 

The logic of plenty of people you hear talking about music 'it's not a catchy song without

the ballad esc catch choruses' well they will be wrong. Fiery Furnaces seem to be one of the best

in proving these cynics wrong by being one of the catchiest Alternative Pop bands on the scene

without the need of BURST at you choruses, with clever arrangments & sweet melodies they

assure your attention threw out and stick in your mind an example of this will be 'Automatic

Husband' the plinky plonky synth and vocal delivery get wedged in my mind. Back to this point

the vocal delivery is incredibly odd but not in an offensive way, it's very endearing and

approachable & not scary. As with quite a few albums comming out this year its all a tightly

packed record with each song leading onto the next but unlike some of them they do work very

well stand alone 'Ex-Guru' being a good example of this.

 

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-06-15/music_feature3-1.jpg

 

What we have here is an album which thrills and pleases in equal amounts the sweet soft

synth melodies with the wacky guitar work just pleases the ear. The arrangments are the only

thing I can see people having problems with especially in the longer songs where it seems

a bit random but they make sense eventually. Tightly packed and good fun if not a little a little

self endulgant at times 'Clear Signal From Ciaro' is wayyyy too long.

 

Rating: 8.75/10

Reccomended: The Philadelphia Grand Jury, Automatic Husband, Navy Nurse

 

Interesting take on the Furnaces Sten. Glady you were able to listen and review the new album. You are new to 'em? Anyhow, Clear Signal From Cairo is the clear highlight. The first half of the album actually all the way up to Navy Nurse is nearly flawless and the rest kinda opens up with more listens since it's not quite as catchy. They are really back on form from their Rehearsing My Choir venture. Blueberry Boat is still their top album and it's kinda hard to top an album like that. Such an adventure mindfuck if I ever heard one. Especially those first few listens. You might really dig their debut, Gallowsbird's Bark, since it has more of a garage feel to it. Bitter Tea has amazing highlights, but can be a little overboard sounding since they didn't use their drummer and Matt was going mad with his keyboard fetish (ignoring his amazing guitar playing).

 

With that said, I request you review Mt Eerie the album. An album that a few reviewers didn't quite get it and disliked, but for the most part it really intrigued most others. Esp. the Alt Press and Pitchfork from what I remember. And of course me. This would be my favourite album of Phil Elvrum's under any of his monikers. Including the album Glow Part II.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Eerie_%28album%29

[azemkamikaze03]

hurry with that talib kweli man lol