What Fades First
Sorry for the long gaps between posts lately, but I'm feeling less and less motivated to write these things. Perhaps its the unbearable, oppressive heat or just the futility of being one among a billion other MP3 blogs. Regardless, these are two great songs. Enjoy.
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The Aislers Set - What Fades First (Demo)
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Here's a signal out of the darkness from one of my favourite purveyors of melancholy pop music. In much the same way that Camera Obscura have managed to take over my stereo over the past few months, there's something about the Aislers Set's mixture of heavily reverbed and harmonized vocals, cinematic arrangements and secretly dark lyrics that I'm pretty much a sucker for. I especially recommend their How I Learned To Write Backwards album, which played pretty much non-stop in my car a few summers ago. I'm starting to wonder if the band will ever put out a new album, so hopefully this song is more of a sign of things to come than a cleaning out of the band's back catalogue.
[buy the Suicide Squeeze anniversary compilation Slaying Since 1996]
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Miller Carr- Under the Lion's Paw
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This is music for heat waves and minor floods, or at least for the kinds of small, crowded venues where the walls are beaded with sweat and the singer can barely be seen through a haze of humidity and cigarette smoke. Whatever you want to call it, it's music that's heavy with atmosphere. Layers of organs, cymbal crashes and reverb soaked vocals create a decidedly dense sound that has a particular appeal to me as I sit here, sweating profusely in my non-air conditioned apartment.
[buy Miller Carr's self-titled album from Isota Records]
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The Aislers Set - What Fades First (Demo)
* * * * *
Here's a signal out of the darkness from one of my favourite purveyors of melancholy pop music. In much the same way that Camera Obscura have managed to take over my stereo over the past few months, there's something about the Aislers Set's mixture of heavily reverbed and harmonized vocals, cinematic arrangements and secretly dark lyrics that I'm pretty much a sucker for. I especially recommend their How I Learned To Write Backwards album, which played pretty much non-stop in my car a few summers ago. I'm starting to wonder if the band will ever put out a new album, so hopefully this song is more of a sign of things to come than a cleaning out of the band's back catalogue.
[buy the Suicide Squeeze anniversary compilation Slaying Since 1996]
* * * * *
Miller Carr- Under the Lion's Paw
* * * * *
This is music for heat waves and minor floods, or at least for the kinds of small, crowded venues where the walls are beaded with sweat and the singer can barely be seen through a haze of humidity and cigarette smoke. Whatever you want to call it, it's music that's heavy with atmosphere. Layers of organs, cymbal crashes and reverb soaked vocals create a decidedly dense sound that has a particular appeal to me as I sit here, sweating profusely in my non-air conditioned apartment.
[buy Miller Carr's self-titled album from Isota Records]
posted by ian at 5:33 PM
5 Comments:
Please, I beg yehs, don't ever get so discouraged that you stop altogether! There may be a billion music blogs out there now, but they're mostly all completely worthless, in my opinion at least. Popsheep is one of the 3 or 4 mp3 blogs that I still actually read.
And it's good that you don't post every day, or, god forbid, multiple times a day. That's the worst. I'd rather get one gem per week than 50 of those quota-filling posts that bloggers these days seem to do.
I'm just sayin': don't change, baby. You're doing the good work here.
Agreed. This is one of the 5 mp3 blogs that I subscribe to. You're up there with gabba, prewarblues, saidthegramophone, and fluxblog. oh, and i occasionally read catbirdseat :)
Keep up the good work!
Must be the heat... you're delusional.
yay for Popsheep!
don't crap out on us now......!!!!!!
we ♥ you...but I've never seen an amy post...
love the aislers set..
i agree with you... maybe it is the heat & the natural ways everything seems to be collapsing in front of all of us.
but yr one of the reasons, that give people hope. in a weird & good sense, sharing yr words makes me feel like someone else gets it.
and maybe im becoming delusional.. but truly thankyou for all you do~
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