New and Kind of New Releases!

[Davey]

Hey, long time, no Snowbuns. Hope all's well in the big country. September was a very big month for me, even if I did slack for most of the year ...

Woven Hand - Mosaic (sinister, dark, passionate and spiritual, blending the southern gothic Americana sound of Nick Cave with the darkness of Joy Division and the medieval folk sound of Dead Can Dance, album of the year so far for me)

Lilium - Short Stories (CD/DVD-A, love love love this one, kind of an Americana tinged version that 4AD house band, This Mortal Coil, with some amazing guest vocals, including the sultry voice of Kal Cahoone, and great musicianship all around, stunning work, even with the slight quibble that it's only presented in 16-bit/48KHz resolution 5.1 DTS/Dolby and stereo LPCM)

The High Violets - To Where You Are (some cool and dreamy 2006 shoegazing riding on the vocals of Kaitlyn ni Donovan and the guitars of Clint Sargent, rising up from the ashes of the great Bella Low, a cool band that I only recently discovered through the generosity of this place)

Woven Hand - Blush Music (the only one of the 4 Wovenhand discs I'm missing, a cinematic reworking of the great debut by one of my favorite artists, and part of a very noteworthy family, be it the original 16 Horsepower and their Denver posse, or the branches of Lilium and Wovenhand)

Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain (a favorite ever since hearing those crazily distorted vocals and eerie music and fragmented lyric images that open the debut LP on "Homecoming Queen" back in '95, left me totally mesmerized, each album a new adventure, hard to believe he's been a major label artist from the start)

Carla Bozulich - Evangelista (that crazy lady from the Geraldine Fibbers connects with those psycho-ambient space shifters from Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, Gowns, Black Ox Orkestar and Mae-****heir for a harrowing adventure in the darkness, lost somewhere between the earth and my home, a catharsis of howls and drones, broken beauty)

TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (I know, grab a hold and jump up on the bandwagon, but I did really like the debut too, so it's not like I'm blindly following the hype machine, is it? )

And the latest soon to be released from Califone, Roots & Crowns, and Nina Nastasia, On Leaving. Think I'm probably done for this year, although I do wanna hear the new Yo La Tengo, and maybe at least one of those latest drops from Jason Molina, aka Songs:Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., and the new Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers, if it ever gets out, yeah, that'll be an auto buy

[3-LockBox]

Woven Hand - Mosaic (sinister, dark, passionate and spiritual, blending the southern gothic Americana sound of Nick Cave with the darkness of Joy Division and the medieval folk sound of Dead Can Dance, album of the year so far for me)

Sounds very Doors-ish to me, very moody (I've only heard Mosaic though)

[Davey]

Woven Hand - Mosaic (sinister, dark, passionate and spiritual, blending the southern gothic Americana sound of Nick Cave with the darkness of Joy Division and the medieval folk sound of Dead Can Dance, album of the year so far for me)

Sounds very Doors-ish to me, very moody (I've only heard Mosaic though)

Yeah, some Jim Morrison in there, not so sure about the other guys. Does have some organ though. Nice review that I might have posted here before from Lost At Sea, where the author gives a nod to Morrison ...

Without that solid foundation, the "double-minded man" of the menacing "Elktooth," one of the most harrowing songs Edwards has ever written, falls prey to madness and violent fantasies. Clutching a cross in one hand and a Bible in the other, Edwards, his deep voice channeling both Cotton Mather and Jim Morrison, immerses himself in the character's disturbed psychosis to the point where reality and fiction start to blur. His performance is chilling, as is the unsettling atmosphere of brooding organ, rattling bells and chimes and stormy drums that makes "Elktooth" so tense and uncomfortable to sit through.

http://www.lostatsea.net/review.phtm...744f8781abcaad

[stuwee20]

Evenin', Elton John, The Captain and The Kid, He's reinvented himself so many times, he took a time machine back to the early 70's, Davey Jonestone, Nigel Olson for God sakes!!!

and of course Bernie!!!

I have not played any new music back to back 3 times in row in years!

[Snowbunny]

Hey, long time, no Snowbuns. Hope all's well in the big country. September was a very big month for me, even if I did slack for most of the year ...

Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain (a favorite ever since hearing those crazily distorted vocals and eerie music and fragmented lyric images that open the debut LP on "Homecoming Queen" back in '95, left me totally mesmerized, each album a new adventure, hard to believe he's been a major label artist from the start)

Hi Davey!

There's a new Sparklehorse??? Or is that an older release?

Snowie

[Snowbunny]

So the only ones I could pick up locally were

The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love

For some reason they released this the day after Thanksgiving long weekend which totally sucked. So I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

Justin Rutledge - The Devil on a Bench in Stanley Park

This Canadian boy reminds me of Rufus Wainright, kinda. With a dash more of country in some of the songs. It seem like its going to be a good grower, especially for mellow Sunday morns.

Its beautifully packaged and a huge bargain at Future Shop for $9.99 CDN and I think its full length with 10 tracks.

Good old Canadian lyrics such as:

Does it Make You Rain

Frozen roses
The heavens open and your door...it closes
While the Rideau bears a cross of broken ice into the night.

Snowie