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Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn |
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Amazon.com Garage-rock hero Jack White producing honky-tonk legend Loretta Lynn? And Lynn comparing him to renowned Nashville producer Owen Bradley? Yes, we all know the world is rapidly shrinking, but now we've seen everything. Most stunning of all--they nailed it. For the first time, Lynn has written all of... Read more | |||||||||||
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Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse |
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Amazon.com It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment Modest Mouse started sounding like a real band. For the longest time, singer-songwriter Isaac Brock seemed to exist solely to defy the established rules, forging forward on sheer momentum and ingenuity. Even Pavement looked relatively ordinary in comparison to... Read more | |||||||||||
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A Ghost Is Born [ENHANCED] by Wilco |
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Amazon.com The infectious twang and pop hooks of Wilco's former efforts may be fading fast, but A Ghost Is Born is still a rewarding effort that demands repeated listening. The group's fifth album extends upon the experimentalism of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with angular, blues-soaked guitar riffs ("At Least That's... Read more | |||||||||||
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Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand |
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Amazon.com Franz Ferdinand is an unrelentingly smart, fluffy, and fun debut. This Scottish four-piece plays vaguely angular, guitar-heavy post-pop that makes you want to dance around the room while playing air guitar. It's the ideal hipster guilty-pleasure music for 2004. This is what the Rapture and Interpol... Read more | |||||||||||
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Final Straw by Snow Patrol |
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Amazon.com The warm melancholy of Gary Lightbody's voice makes for a versatile instrument on Snow Patrol's Final Straw, artfully balancing bright anthemic rock with disparate reference points like Belle and Sebastian and My Bloody Valentine. Aching with loves both lost and leaving, it's a voice that producer... Read more | |||||||||||
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Antics by Interpol |
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Amazon.com Interpol are often accused of paying more attention to their haircuts than music. But good grooming habits don't always equate hollow souls. The New York band's sophomore album revisits the dark themes of its classic debut, Turn On The Bright Lights, drawing further inspiration from the likes of Joy... Read more | |||||||||||
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Smile by Brian Wilson |
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Amazon.com The Greatest Album That Never Was finally is. The Beach Boys' uncompleted 1967 album Smile has remained the elusive touchstone of Brian Wilson's brilliant, star-crossed career for decades. Artistic Holy Grail and troubling professional Waterloo for Wilson, a tantalizing prism of unfulfilled promise... Read more | |||||||||||
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The Dirty South by Drive By Truckers |
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Amazon.com The Dirty South is the sixth album by Muscle Shoals, Alabama-based Drive-By Truckers. While previous Southern rock bands have celebrated certain regional mythologies, this quintet revels in the towering glory of small, gritty realities. They can kick up a righteous storm, as on the country... Read more | |||||||||||
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College Dropout [EXPLICIT LYRICS] by Kanye West |
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Amazon.com This debut from the most sought-after hip-hop producer not named Pharrell delivers the unthinkable: West magically sledgehammers home his opinions on taboo topics over beats that are equally daring. The envelope-ripping beats shouldn't come as a surprise given that he's supplied the soundscapes to... Read more | |||||||||||
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Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine |
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Amazon.com Florida’s brilliant singer-songwriter Sam Beam expands Iron & Wine from solo project to a gaggle of friends and family on slide guitar, percussion, and backing vocals on his second album. Fans need not worry--the hushed immediacy and rich melodies remain the focus--but new flavors abound. For... Read more | |||||||||||
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Real Gone by Tom Waits |
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Amazon.com There's little risk of confusing Tom Waits with the gentle pop folk who have covered his songs--Rod Stewart, Sarah McLachlan, Everything But the Girl, just to name a few. That's because even though the eccentric songwriter is capable of summoning the most tender sentiments, his preferred method of... Read more | |||||||||||
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Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave, et al |
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Album Description Nick Cave changed the sound of music as part of the seminal goth-punks The Birthday Party. With his band of 20 years, The Bad Seeds, his solo work has veered between poignant gospel-inflected ballads and the steamy thud of backwater blues and country. This double album showcases both these sides of... Read more | |||||||||||
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Medulla by Bjork |
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Amazon.com Normally, an artist such as Bjork with a mass audience across the globe steadily eases off as the back-catalog starts to grow. However, Medulla, the fifth proper studio album from Bjork is without a doubt the most challenging collection of music she has ever released. For the most part, the album... Read more | |||||||||||
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from a basement on the hill by Elliott Smith |
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Amazon.com Posthumous releases fall into two categories: those which the artist was working on at the time of their death, and those which are gathered from every nook and cranny to keep fans enthused and cash registers ringing. Elliott Smith's from a basement on the hill is of the former variety. It was close... Read more | |||||||||||
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I by Magnetic Fields |
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Album Description The long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed 1999 release 69 Love Songs, i finds singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt in full possession of his acerbic wit. Featuring lyrics ripe with melancholy and bittersweet imagery, the record's fourteen tracks are possibly the most personal Merritt has created to... Read more | |||||||||||
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Talkie Walkie [Limited Edition with Bonus DVD] by Air |
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Amazon.com Talkie Walkie comes five years after their landmark Moon Safari and Parisian mood-enhancers Air are back doing what they do best. Famously shy of ever repeating themselves, JB Dunckel and Nicolas Godin have filled in the years with the poorly received follow-up, 10,000hz Legend (even they think it... Read more | |||||||||||
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Folker by Paul Westerberg |
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Amazon.com Paul Westerberg's solo work has never exactly measured up to the life-changing music he made with the the Replacements. But it seems like that's more of a problem for everyone else than him. Folker is the fifth full-length album he has recorded in his basement--counting the ones produced by his... Read more | |||||||||||
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Madvillainy by Madvillain |
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Amazon.com Having re-invented himself as psychedelic masked rapper MF Doom (not to mention alter egos King Geedorah and Viktor Vaughn), Daniel Dumile--formerly KMD's Zev Love X--has fittingly teamed up with producer Madlib, who's no stranger to aliases himself (see Quasimodo, Yesterdays New Quintet). Rap... Read more | |||||||||||
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Trouble by Ray LaMontagne |
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Rolling Stone, 7/30/04 Hot Songwriter: Ray LaMontagne. Meet the backwoods Van Morrison His sandpaper croon sounds like church, Van Morrison and dusty porches. | |||||||||||
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Bastards of the Beat by Damnwells |
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Ed McD "Ed McD", August 23, 2004
![]() Live in Chicago I caught the Damnwells show this August at the Double Door in Chicago. They blew the headlining act right off the stage. Once the Damwells ended the night was complete. We walked out after three painfully boring songs by the supposed main act who followed and was only such because of a bigger... Read more |
첫댓글 미국권평론가들의 컨트리 편애와 경로우대사상이 만난 과대평가... 난 Jack White의 솔로앨범이나 화이트 스트라잎스 다음 음반이나 기대해보렵니다.
아마존에서 뽑은 티가 풀풀~
윌코 신보가 3위 까지는 좀 오바스러운 감이 없지않아 있네요... 앨범중 monday 라는 곡은 올해 저의 best song 중 하나 ^^