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January 2001
In this post-Christmas month of January,
cold and dark, I started to buy a lot of albums that made my cd
collection growing with some absolutely remarkable pearls.
Among these small treasures, I want to suggest you three really
beautiful and original CDs.
I hope this late Christmas gift should bring you towards the end of
this icy winter.
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SIGUR RÓS
- ÁGÆTIS BYRJUN |
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They come from the icy lands of Iceland,
but they have little in common with their fellow-citizen Björk. Their
music is dreamy, oneiric, mournful; the angelic feminine voice sings
an incomprehensible singsong that seems to come from another dimension.
Sometimes you have the feeling to hear sounds of this iced land, as
well as more electronic liquid sounds.
Wonderful the first two tracks (Svefn-G-Englar e Staralfur),
linked together to open the album, while Flugufrelsarinn
reminds the Cocteau Twins and Hjartad hamast dips us in a
landscape in which powerful and heavy icebreakers move. |
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GRANDADDY - THE
SOPHTWARE SLUMP |
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For the one who are still waiting for
sequel of Ok Computer, we can say it won't come from the great Radiohead
(who took another direction with the masterpiece Kid-A), but from
these young americans with their third album.
11 wonderful tracks that remind us Tom Yorke's band and that make a
mix extremely interesting, almost a concept album against the growing
power of technology.
The CD is opened by He's simple, he's dumb, he's the pilot,
sung prelude 8'52" and continues with beautifulst and extremely melancholic pieces like
the masterpiece Jed the humanoid and Miner
at the Dial-a-view or more rhytmic like The Crystal lake.
Fantastic is So you'll aim toward the sky that closes the
album with a sadness veil. |
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BADLY DRAWN BOY - THE
HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST |
Splendid surprise the CD of this young
englishman at his debut.
He plays tens instruments and has a very simple and sweet voice that
accompanies 18 wonderful jewels of modern pop of different sounds very
well melted.
The beginning with Cello and French Horn in The Shining is
pure delight and dip us in this so particular atmosphere. Irresistible
Once around the Block, fabulous Everybody's stalking, Camping
next to water, Disillusion and absolutely great Fall
in a River (with the splendid "failling in water"
effect), Stone on the
water and Blistered heart.
But the whole album deserves to be listened more and more deeply,
waiting for spring, when we'll be able to "camp next to the river". |
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