Not too hard on the ears and layered enough to be interesting. Personally I find it to be a successful continuation and evolution on the works of Grizzly Bear. For a guy who's never been much of a fan of the freak folk genre- and specially the Animal Collective bit, this seems like a perfect entré to it. Thank you for that, who ever you are - because this is just too good to pass up on. The debut from the unknown Here We Go Magic comes out later this year, but a good samaritan slipped me this album two weeks ago. In these days of hyping up Animal Collective for their Merriweather Post Pavilion(2009), it is succulent easy to overlook other (and perhaps a little similar) records. Luke recorded the album at home using analog synths, a cassette 4-track, and his trusty SM-57 mic, coloring the sound with warmth and creating textures you want to wrap yourself in." Last year's follow-up Snowbeast was an avant statement full of interwoven light and dark imagery recorded entirely in his Brooklyn bedroom.ĭeveloped over a two-month period of stream-of-consciousness recording in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Luke's self-titled debut under his new moniker Here We Go Magic is a remarkable departure from his signature singer-songwriter material. His full-length debut Hold a Match for a Gasoline World presented heartfelt folk tunes and expansive pop numbers filtered through a unique outsider perspective. " To date, Luke Temple has been unconfined by genre. Justin Vernon is rising up as a hope for being my new hero, as one day Mr. This is not by any means a release that holds little to For Emma, it's barely subpar in my opinion. Interesting in the least.Īfter reading a review from danish Soundvenue which concludes with a slamming two-out-of-six stars, I felt I had to take action. These lines grind through the whole song in different tones/pitches using the vocoder, thus sounding miles apart from anything he has ever done. Two short tracks follows in Beach Baby and Babys, and the EP ends with the vocoder heavy Woods, which I would think would split his listeners in half on what to think of the EP. A tad more direct and with easier imagery, but still with the very heavy melancholic feeling to it. Matched any of the names we knew on the tags A track which is lyrically quite different from the abstract For Emma: 2008 was the band's breakthrough year with a release all over the world, hence the 'best newcomer/best album' label from me.īlood Bank starts of with the utterly beautiful title track. Just to clear up on the 'best newcomer' part: In reality, For Emma, Forever Ago came out in 2007 but then in a limited release. Last year's best newcomer Justin Vernon and his band Bon Iver has quickly concluded a four song short but sweet EP. It recently topped Mojo's ranking for albums released on Island Records. It's a blend of psychedelia and 60's pop with a storyline. In many ways an important album which today remains fairly unknown. Musically, the group blended myriad musical styles including rock, pop, folk, jazz, Latin rhythms and classical music, primarily augmented by baroque chamber -style arrangements to create a unique entity." - wikipedia Sorrow (December 1968), The Who's Tommy (April 1969) and The Kinks' Arthur (September 1969). The album was probably the first narrative concept album ever released, predating story-driven concept albums such as The Pretty Things' S.F. In October 1967, the band released its first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath. The band was formed around the composing and performing talents of three musicians - Irish-born Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Greek-born Alex Spyropoulos and Londoner Ray Singer whom Alex met at film school. "Nirvana are a UK-based progressive rock band formed in 1967, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s - and still sporadically active to the present day.
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