Thursday, July 2, 2009

Oskar Started it all

Last week I suggested that Oskar's album "Air Conditioning" was worth a
listen. This week I decided to buy it and I'm quite pleased with my
decision. It it a nice, melodic, ambient album full of soft
synthesizers, guitar, violins and a lovely female voice. What I didn't
realize is that LP2 is actually their new release. By comparison, LP2
is not as good, although I thought it started getting cool at the end.

O'Death : Underwater Nightmare - I don't normally listen to EPs, but I
felt obligated to listen to Underwater Nightmare. It is nothing that I
expected. I'd describe it as heavy bluegrass, mainly because there is
banjo and fiddle. There is also some pirate chanting, in harmony even
-- which is pretty fucking cool. In recap: bluegrass pirate punk.

Bjork: Voltaic: The Remixes - Bjork's remix albums have always been hit
or miss, usually the ladder. However, I enjoyed this one as it is less
repetitive and less terse that some of her previous remixes. In the end
though, it is just a remix album.

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