Hold on
Monday, August 29, 2005, 05:18 PM -
Sorry for the lack of updates, but I am in the middle of moving from home back to school. Also, I have a buttload of internship papers due tomorrow that I am flying to get done. I'll be back by midweek.
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12,000+ Hits
Friday, August 26, 2005, 04:34 PM -
Well, it's been right around a month and this blog has gotten over 12,000 unique hits from 4 continents and, by now, over 1,400 downloads. Keep going guys, I have lots of bandwidth to spare.
When we get to 20,000 maybe I'll do something crazy... something NAKED?! But seriously, I'll come up with a contest or something.
Until then, keep coming back for new music updates.
+/-
Friday, August 26, 2005, 04:21 PM -
I have about 18 pages of papers I need to write before class starts next Tuesday, so I don't have much time to goof off with this site. I'll try to keep up the posts, but I may start posting less artwork as it takes extra time to do. Now onto the post.
“You are here” is the second pleasant, pulsating album of the trio Plus/Minus that offers a mixture of molecular pop not typically electronic. Through the years the indie-electropop trend has been followed more and more, and after some successful contamination drowned itself, devaluing and consuming much specificity. Hence discs like “You are here” can start out with a certain disadvantage, running the risk of passing unobserved, at least in these latitudes.
In reality, the New York based Plus/Minus know how to surprise, continuously livening up and infecting their own rhythm-harmonic schemes, now timely diminishing toward the shores of folk, then emphasizing their trained melodic style with attacks of emo-pop. For example: in the tumult of percussion in “she’s got your eyes,” in the beat and disquieting vocals of “surprise” or in the pastoral expanses of “summer dress” (all her winter clothes), possibly the best excerpt, divided by intense narration, acoustic guitar and immaculate keyboards.
The determined “cutting out” and “megalomaniac” set out with resoluteness on the trodden paths of Lou Barlow and Superchunk independent pop rock. “Scarecrow” lives in the contrast between a light melodic theme and a wild whirlwind assailing the instruments during the chorus. Wavering instability of registers characterizes “no one sees you like I do,” among dissonant rhythm sampling, incursions of emo vocals and tribal drumbeats. A sweet psychedelic epilogue awaits at the end in the surreal lamentation “everything I feel makes it wrong,” precious beyond every display of insufferable sax and dancing piano. - Fabio, Indiepop.it, translation by Kaylee Hultgren.
Artist - +/-
Song - Trapped Under Ice Floes
Album - You Are Here
Genre - Indie Pop/Shark-eating Octopus
Artist Page - plusmin.us
No really, I'm serious.
Moonbabies
Thursday, August 25, 2005, 01:06 PM -
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In 1996 Ola Frick (Vocalist/Muliti-instrumentalist) and Carina Johansson (Vocalist/Piano/Keyboards) got together and began writing songs and gigging throughout their home city of Malmö, Sweden under the name Moonbabies. After some years playing around with different set-ups and styles, their debut 7", 'Air>>>Moon>>> Stereo' EP was released in the autumn of 1999. After quite some success with the EP, they got signed by US label Duckweed Records who released their debut album 'June and Novas', which met near unanimous critical approval for its blending of glimmering guitar lines, complex electronic and experimental passages, and hauntingly ethereal vocals. Moonbabies got praised by the American music press and has been described as "not just the best of their country but ours as well " by one admiring American critic and "an impressive marriage of traditional indie pop and modern electronic production" by another. - Artist Page
Artist - Moonbabies
Song - War on Sound
Album - War on Sound
Genre - Indie Pop/Salvation Army
Artist Page - moonbabiesmusic.com
What the Heck!?
Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 05:38 PM
This isn't a music post, per se. It's a movie trailer I found over on apple's site that I thought was hysterical. If you want some music, listen to the soundtrack! So funny.
Psychotic Movie
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