Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
[4AD,2009]
genre:indie pop, noise pop
Album review by Goresonic
Όταν άκουσα το συγκεκριμένο δίσκο των Camera Obscura σκέφτηκα πως έστω και καθυστερημένα έπρεπε κάτι να γράψω γι’ αυτόν.
Όταν σκεφτόμουν όμως τι έπρεπε να γράψω, προβληματίστηκα. Ο λόγος; Τι το διαφορετικό και πρωτότυπο έχουν σα μπάντα για να το γράψω και να προσπαθήσω να πείσω κάποιον να ακούσει το δίσκος; Πόσες και πόσες μπάντες υπάρχουν σε αυτό το στυλ, δηλαδή ευγενικές pop μελωδίες σε συνδυασμό με “Lovely” φωνητικά; Προχωρώντας ακόμα περισσότερο τη σκέψη μου έφτασα στο σημείο να αμφισβητήσω το ίδιο το μουσικό μου γούστο για την pop μουσική και στο τέλος μπερδεύτηκα και συγχύστηκα.
Μετά πάτησα πάλι το play, το “French Navy” άρχισε να παίζει, και ασυναίσθητα ψιλοκουνήθηκα στο ρυθμό του. Ότι με είχε συγχύσει , μπερδέψει και με είχε κάνει να τους αμφισβητήσω χάθηκε πριν τελειώσει το κομμάτι. Τότε κατάλαβα πραγματικά γιατί μπάντες σαν τους Camera Obscura (ή τους the pains of being pure at heart επίσης) πραγματικά μου αρέσουν. Προκαλούν αυτή την ευχάριστη εσωτερική γαλήνη και ηρεμία, μια χαρούμενη ατμόσφαιρα και μια γλυκιά μελαγχολία. Ο συγκεκριμένος δίσκος δε, σε κρατάει και σε απορροφάει για 46,5 λεπτά με την απλότητά των συνθέσεών του. Όταν τελειώσει σου αφήνει την αίσθηση ότι το ταξίδι αυτό που έζησες ακούγοντας το δίσκο θα σου λείψει.
Το συνολικό συμπέρασμα σ’ αυτό το παραλήρημα σκέψεων και συναισθημάτων είναι αυτό: Ο δίσκος μπορεί τεχνικά να μην έχει να πει κάτι το τρομερό, η ιδέες του να μην είναι και οι πιο καινοτόμες αλλά κομμάτια σαν το “Swans” το “James” ή το ομώνυμο “My Maudlin career” δύσκολα σε αφήνουν αδιάφορο.
the album:
camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career 2009
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links
http://www.camera-obscura.net/
http://www.myspace.com/cameraobscuraband
tracks
1. “French Navy”
2. “The Sweetest Thing”
3. “You Told a Lie”
4. “Away with Murder”
5. “Swans”
6. “James”
7. “Careless Love”
8. “My Maudlin Career”
9. “Forests & Sands”
10. “Other Towns & Cities”
11. “Honey in the Sun”
Goresonic
I met this band some months ago because of a 
Το βράδυ της Παρασκευής (και του Σαββάτου επίσης) είχαμε την τιμή να έχουμε κοντά μας την ίδια την ιστορία του garage rock’n’roll. Είχαμε την τιμή να μας επισκεφτεί για ένα live ένα συγκρότημα που με τη μουσική του έχει επηρεάσει ολόκληρα μουσικά κινήματα και κομμάτια που έχει γράψει το 1963 ακομα και σήμερα ακούγονται το ίδιο φρέσκα και ζωντανά. Φυσικά αναφέρομαι στους Sonics και την συναυλία τους στο Gagarin205.
The duo from Bristol, UK strikes again one year after the fantastic “Street Horrrsing”. This time the album’s title is “tarot sport” and if someone liked them from their previous album he will going to love them with this one.
Shrine means altar, it means temple, so these guys are pretend to be builders of a temple? They construct a fane? Yes they do! It’s a fucking alternative doom metal supergroup featuring Scott “Wino” Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obssessed, Place of Skulls, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand), Scott Kelly (Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Blood & Time), Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om, Asbestosdeath, the Sabians), and Dale Crover (Melvins, Porn, Fantomas, Altamont, Nirvana). They get the idea for the band name; I think so, from an ‘Om’ song title, released as split record with Current 93. What do you expect from this band when you read these names and these bands they use to play? Nothing more than a superfreaking heavy metal act. And this is it! A doomy, dirty and noisy metal. A modern kind of doom and stoner metal. This is the dirtiest version of sludge metal. This is ‘Sleep’ meets ‘Om’ and ‘Melvins’ deal with ‘Neurosis’. Pitchfork wrote “Neurosis + Sleep + Melvins + Wino = Shrinebuilder” and I agree. Shrinebuilder is a brilliant affectation in hypnosis or trance… As long tracks drift into one another, sharing themes and sequence, it’s really easy to mislead into a waking dream. They share the vocal leading and that makes every song totally different. The difference is in the atmosphere and the doom attitude. This mini album is really heavy but at the same time so stoned and melodic; and I think these records bring slow metal in a new dimension. This is a compilation of new sounds bring out from Sleep, Sloth and Spirit Caravan. There is a psychedelic or something like space rock caprice around a desert and stoner rock atmosphere. This project is fresh over a traditional old school music. 
I am not a huge fan of Porcupine Tree, but I really believe that they already wrote some of the best songs in the music history. I always enjoy their releases and some times I get stuck with some tracks of them. I have no bad words about them, I think they are genius musicians and they do keep progressive art music alive. The distribution of the songs of ‘the Incident’ is a little weird. Clearly the epic track “The Incident,” is intended to be the focal point, but in doing so, the 4 tracks on the second disc, which together comprise all of twenty minutes plus change, make them feel almost like afterthoughts. Compared to the sprawling fifty-five minutes of disc one, disc two comes off as something more like a bonus EP. Like ‘Opeth’ PT also join Roadrunner records. I think that the album ‘In Absentia’ is far away the others and most of the times when you listen to a ‘Porcupine Tree’ release you are excited but you get used to it really quick. You get bored after some hearings, but you can’t really refer this to a bad track or an uninfluenced composition. Wilson never ends; his mind is like a river, producing water ideas. I do enjoy also this record , I really like the 55 min of first disc as a whole track and I prefer “Drawing the line”, “the Incident”, “Time Flies”, “Bonnie the cat” and “Remember me lover”.
The story of Plus Dots started back in 2001 in Athens, Greece. The first two years of their music career, were a four member hardcore punk band. In 2003, two saxophonists were added in the line –up and this fact turned their music in a more ska –punk, reggae-punk style. With this line –up they gave a lot of live performances. In 2007, Plus Dots record their debut EP “Give Me One Kick Start Beat for Breakfast” in Feedback sounds record label. In this EP their hardcore punk pastness met their new ska punk style and created a music mix that we had never heard before. That year they decided to make some experiments with their sound, so they added a trumpet player in their line-up. These 2 years made them more mature to create their own sound, a mix of ska and reggae punk with some swing elements and of course with Oi and street punk influences as well. Year 2009 is a landmark year in the history of Plus dots as they had their first live shows around Europe. During this year they made two European tours, one in 
Anyone that followed Plus dots these years could easily realize that they made a big effort and they are really developed as a band, especially the singer Nikos Fenerlis that tried to changed his accent which was one of band’s disadvantages in the past. The idea of adding the trumpet sound to their music was totally correct. Nikitas, the trumpet player, knows very well how to play this instrument. Mitch, the drummer, finally set free his proper talent. Chris, the guitar player, keeps the balance between the punk rock violence and the ska sounds of the saxophones and the trumpet.
I didn’t know ‘Future of the left’ before this album and I am really sad. That’s why I get disappointed when I first listened to this album, an album that has everything: hardcore, punk, garage punk, and noise.
What comes after the ‘Station’ album? ‘Geneva’ and it is better. It is more than better. It is huge. I was expecting their 3rd release, and I think I am pretty satisfied with this album. This period of time (autumn) a post-rock album, atmospheric as this one, is the most appropriate sound to listen. The band creates heavy rock and ambient metal compositions which stuck in my mind. Fantastic progression in their music structure, excellent sounds and a more metal attitude than ever before. I need some more listens to understand this one, but I am already pretty sure that this album is quite close to my music taste, and their post-rock is better than ever before. Fans of GY!BE, mogwai, Isis, Pelican, Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation will appreciate this. ‘Geneva’ is the most progressive album of them and I think this style is better than before, because in all these myriads of albums around post-rock, you need something fresh and different to make it favourite. 
Θα αποφύγω χαρακτηρισμούς για τον χώρο, την διοργάνωση και τον ήχο, για να μην αναλωθώ σ’ αυτά, αφού οι συνθήκες, η τήρηση του ωραρίου και οι ηχητικές δυνατότητες του υπόγειου που λέγεται Rodeo κατάφεραν να με ξενερώσουν ιδιαίτερα. Ευτυχώς που υπάρχουν καλλιτέχνες και μπάντες σαν αυτές που είδαμε χτες και κίνησαν το ενδιαφέρον μου, καθώς διασκέδασαν και διασκεύασαν την διάθεση μου. 
“Hush arbors” are actually one person, Keith Wood, a musician from Virginia, USA, accompanied by a band that performs his songs. His music is folk with some psychedelic pop influences. We can say that this music is in general what we call Americana. This is their second album in Thurston Moore’s record label Ecstatic Peace. J Mascis (guitarist and singer of the Dinosaur jr) is the producer of the album who also plays drums and guitar on a few tracks. This fact, made them sound more 90’s and more indie than their previous album especially in the songs that he is playing.
We are trying to support this band because I realize that their post-rock is really easy listening and truly well constructed.
Nuggies a have a released a new ep entitled The Sound of Explosions from the Northeast . The EP is being released by Gorilla Ointment and is also being distributed for free via the internet.
“Il fuoco” (the fire) was a silent movie directed by Giovanni Pastrone in 1915.
This is the debut album for this Polish band. The band is the brainchild of the duo Michal Sliwa and Jarek Lesklewicz, who perform all instruments, samples and production. They perform really well and their metal is quite experimental. Their mood is dark, experimental and doomy. Their music is really interesting and I found some special and really inspired sounds inside their compositions. This album is ambitious and this band is promising. The music is full of ambient soundscapes and there is a fantastic drone atmosphere. This band is trying to go forward and the atmosphere is dark like the most of these kind of artists but its much more creative than others so it makes the 76 minutes pass really easy. The release is in 500 copies limited CD digipack edition. Their sound is psychedelic, I can’t really describe it as a metal release, but the doom metal and drone metal influence is the strongest around. The album mastered by James PLotkin (Isis, Khanate, Pelican). Fantastic fresh and influenced modern kind of slow metal. Try to listen to this band and found out this release to buy it. I can say this album is one of the best among the others in this experimental and modern kind of drone doom metal. Fantastic sounds, I said that again but there are fantastic sounds spreading around the album. Fantastic point of view, Releases of a great combination between metal and ambient sounds. I am proud of them. 
“The Jim Jones Revue” is a noise garage band from London. They sound really dirty and it’s obvious that they are trying to play rockabilly in the noisiest way. This album is a collection of some singles released by the group, singles that was very difficult to find as most of them run out, together with two new rock ’n’ roll tracks. The album starts with “Rock ‘n’ Roll Psychosis” their first single ever and its b-side “Big Hunk O’ love” cover of the classical Elvis song, Two Napalm bombs that explode the speakers (and your ears as well). “Cement mixer” and its b-side “Little Richard’s, “Good Golly Miss Molly” continue the album. Even if “Cement mixer” is less speedy it’s very heavy garage song. “Good Golly Miss Molly” couldn’t sound heavier than it sounds here. It reminds me the Guitar Wolf cover of “summertime blues”. “Princess & the frog” is the opening song and the first single of their first album. The piano solos remind Jerry Lee Lewis style but in a more modern and strong way. Its b-side “Freak Of Nature” it’s a rock ‘n’ roll dance song. “Burning your House down “and “Elemental” are two new songs. The first one is a garage blues song. It has classic blues rhythm and dirty garage vocals. “Elemental” is the goodbye explosion in a ‘Chuck Burry’ way. If you want to have your first contact with “the Jim Jones Revue”, I strongly believe that this collection is the best way to do it. 
8:40 μπαίνω στο Gagarin. Πάω καρφί στο bar να πάρω μια μπύρα γιατί από τον κόσμο που έβλεπα ήμουν σίγουρος ότι αυτή θα ήταν η μοναδική μου ευκαιρία να το προσεγγίσω. Κατά τις 9 εμφανίζονται στη σκηνή οι SadDoLLs. Η μουσική που παίζανε ήταν ξεκάθαρη απ τα πρώτα 10 δευτερόλεπτα που τους άκουσα. dark – gothic metal. Μου φάνηκαν συμπαθητικοί αλλά σίγουρα δεν πρόκειται για κάτι το ιδιαίτερο. Μου άρεσε πολύ το πόσο το διασκεδάζανε πάνω στη σκηνή, είχαν χεστεί απ τη χαρά τους. Μετά ακολούθησαν οι Poem. Εδώ σίγουρα πρόκειται για κάτι το πολύ ιδιαίτερο. Η μουσική τους χώραγε πολλά είδη, progressive, death, thrash, metalcore, ακούγονταν δηλαδή σαν μια σύγχρονη, φτασμένη, σκληρή, τεχνική μπάντα. Μπορώ να πω ότι με ενθουσίασαν. Φοβεροί παιχταράδες όλοι τους και οι φωνητικές ικανότητες του frontman τους εντυπωσιακές. 
I think this is the sixth time I wrote for this band only this year (2009). And this is the 8th or the 9th release of them for 2009. What else to say, collaborations, compilations, live, old covers, full length albums, 12”inch, EP, remixes and singles. Here are all the other 2009 nadja posts of this blog: 
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20 Buck Spin’s press release statement said : “The idea for a collaboration between Canada’s prolific neo-doom duo Nadja (
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Two years ago was their amazing start 
This release is actually a Gizeh 2008 release only for Britain. This year Denovali records and Cargo records try to spread it around the whole world and there are new CD and LP versions of the EP/Album. Her Name Is Calla is one of the darkest British bands at this period of time. Their post-rock is experimental and their atmosphere is darkest than a gloomy midnight sky. Their music is the most alternative version of ‘My Bloody Valentine’ and ‘Nick Cave’. This album needs a lot of rain to be understood. Leeds, Leicester and York unfortunately have a lot of rain and the result is this dark, sleepy, gloomy, sad and woebegone release. There is common ground between HNIC and bands like ‘a place to bury strangers’ and ‘iLiKETRAiNS’. This kind of new age dark rock is sadder than ever before. Their cries are soul-destroying. Don’t close your eyes, it is dangerous, you’ll loose your mind, you‘ll reach the wild nails of depression. Experiments and the use of instruments like Cello, Viola and Violins make it deeper and darker with a deep black mood. Post-rock used to be atmospheric but this new blood of UK experimental post-rock bands, produce a kind of dark and doomy post-rock like no one before. They are an interesting group which tries to get out the underground style they had. They had the tracks but they need your love. 
After 5 years of discographic absence, Tortoise produce a new album named ” Beacons of Ancestorship”. Their composition failure in their previous album, made this album very special as they had to prove that their music travel is not ending and they still have a lot to offer. So they gave their best and this is the result:
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