Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper [MP3][320]

Interloper

Label: Ultimae Records

Format: CD, Album

Country: France

Released: 2010

Genre: Electronic

Style: Acid, Downtempo, Ambient, Chillout

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Carbon Based Lifeforms is one of the best ambient music composers I have ever crossed across. It's something studied, known, but in the same time it is natural, it's fucking well done, with nice melodies and frequencies that cross your brain side to side.

My favorite sequence starts with Euphotic. If you get trapped by Euphotic melodies, the album will end very fast. The combo Euphotic - Frog - M is my favorite ambient combo sound ever. This is not my favorite album from Carbon Based Lifeforms but it's certainly a ambient/natural sound masterpiece.

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I was highly anticipating this release and a little sceptical if the Carbon Based Lifeforms would be able to achieve a high level again such as in "World Of Sleepers".

Trust me, they did.
They announced they experimented a little more with guitars and vocals this time so I was even more worried that they may be losing their style. But it turns out to be at an absolutely minimum scale and fits very very well.
The sounds they arranged this time are mindblowing and for me personally even more sound-of-the-universe-level.
I have listened to it as much as I could since the release and I am always discovering more electronic details. If I had to pick a favourite track (which will probably change from time to time),
right now it would be "Supersede". You may be reminded of "Epicentre" when listening to it but they gave it such a unique touch which makes it an absolutely epic arrangement.

The overall feeling is very intense yet peaceful. They put so much love in this album, it is worth every cent!

For me it is the release of 2010 so far.

Review by SpaceAgeHero [http://www.discogs.com/user/SpaceAgeHero]


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Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs [MP3][320]

Amesoeurs

Label: Beneath Grey Skies

Format: 2 Vinyls, LP

Country: Germany

Released: 2009

Genre: Rock

Style: Post-Punk, New Wave, Shoegaze, Black Metal

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I can understand that some people could be turned off by the jarred, sudden switches to noisier moods and harsh vocals. This won't do for everyone. Post-punk crowd will get turned off by the harsher songs and the black metal fans will probably get annoyed at the female-sung parts.

But I like to consider myself open-minded (some will say "poseur" but I could care less) and I did have to let this one sink in a few times but it's grown on me and I really like it. I would definitely add "avant-garde" to the genres. The band does do something that's never been done before and that no one else does. Either way, I love this.

Review by Razor45

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Fifths Of Seven - Spry From Bitter Anise Folds [320][MP3]

Spry From Bitter Anise Folds

Label: Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier

Format: CD

Country: France

Released: 2005

Genre: Rock

Style: Post Rock, Modern Classical

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The sound of this band is one of the most touching compositions I've ever heard. They are 3 musicians that made a dream come true for lot of people that was hoping for some calm music to hear in the rain with your girlfriend. This album it's somewhat furious, delicate, in it's own way. I hope you love it.

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As you might suspect from a Montreal band issuing a record with an unwieldy title, Spry From Bitter Anise Folds is the work of another addition to the extended Constellation family of wayward instrumentalists. Providing the shortest ancestral link is cellist Beckie Foon, who has played with A Silver Mt. Zion and Set Fire to Flames, with pianist Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes) and mandolin player Rachel Levine (Cakelk) connected by slim degrees of separation as well. And though they utilize familiar ingredients, the trio's rigorous, European folk-inflected chamber music manages to sound quite distinct from anything else in their musical genealogy, resulting in this exquisite, understated pearl of a debut.

Given the high activity rate of all three group members-- Krug in particular is having himself one hell of a busy year-- their collaboration as Fifths of Seven risks seeming an afterthought or mere side project trifle, but there is no evidence on these eight collected pieces that anyone's talents have been spread too thin. Throughout the album the three each play with an intuitive delicacy that suggests many hours together in the rehearsal suite, with Levine's mandolin providing an earthy, vaguely Mediterranean air to dynamic compositions that can recall the small-ensemble works of Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, or contemporary acts like Rachel's.

On many of their best tracks here, such as the opening "Rosa Centrifolia" or the stately "Echoes From a Wandered Path", the music functions without a true center, as each instrument moves continually and transparently from foreground to rear without ever breaking stride. Witness also Foon's deft, sonorous playing on "Sweet Grace For Devious", as she glides in and around her cello's upper registers, sharing melodic duties with Krug's austere piano. For his part, Krug here appears to betray a preference for detuned upright pianos, as evidenced by his solo turn on "Waiting", which sounds as though it could've been performed on some old tack in an empty VFW hall.

For "Out From Behind the Rigid Bellows", Krug swaps piano for accordion, the three musicians conjuring the mesmeric groans of a ghost ship's riggings as it sails from one exotic port of call to the next, while on the closing "Bless Our Wandering Dreamers" they combine to join into impressively robust drones, distant strains of mandolin and cello hovering about the edges like the rapidly fading memory of a dream upon waking. Of all the tracks on the album, it's this final cut that most audibly contains evidence of improvisation, suggesting bold new possibilities for future Fifths of Seven projects, as hopefully the three musicians find time to become even further comfortable in each other's creative company.

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