<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141</id><updated>2012-02-12T20:32:12.099+01:00</updated><category term='Nantes'/><category term='Fionn Regan'/><category term='Bright Eyes'/><category term='Civilians'/><category term='Beirut'/><category term='Richmond Fontaine'/><category term='The meaning of 8'/><category term='J. Tillman'/><category term='Joe Henry'/><category term='Paradiso'/><category term='I taught myself how to grow old'/><category term='Ryan Adams'/><category term='Andrew Bird'/><category term='Cloud Cult'/><category term='The Shins'/><category term='Live concerts'/><category term='Bloc Party'/><category term='Letterman'/><category term='Thomas Dybdahl'/><category term='The National'/><title type='text'>A Rock in the Weary Land</title><subtitle type='html'>Fantastisk blog om musik og måske lidt golf og fodbold</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jakob Aarup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11750761275827648520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-1997506185319708966</id><published>2011-12-28T16:24:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T22:50:11.938+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Albums 2011</title><content type='html'>Så er det igen blevet tid til et tilbageblik på året der gik. Musikalsk har det været et ganske udemærket år, og det har derfor været meget svært at udvælge 10 albums til listen. Men her er de 10 bedste albums fra 2011. (Og tak for de fine anmeldelser fra Gaffa og Soundvenue, som sparer mig noget tid...)&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;10. Bill Ryder-Jones - If...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/11/11/c450221cc9c5_132102546186_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: 28-årige Mr. Jones fra West Kirby, England, trådte oprindeligt ind i spotlyset som leadguitarist i indie/folk-bandet The Coral i 1996, og medvirkede på gruppens fem første album, begyndende med den selvbetitlede debut fra 2002. I sommer udsendte han debut-ep'en A Leave Taking Soundtrack, og her er han altså på banen med første langspiller i eget navn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En usædvanlig en af slagsen, kan man sige, for i stedet for at lægge sig forlængelse af tidligere meritter har Ryder valgt at komponere, orkestrere og indspille et næsten udelukkende instrumentalt "soundtrack" til Italo Calvinos særprægede, anden persons-fortalte roman If On A Winter's Night A Traveller fra 1979.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Resultatet er overbevisende, idet det er blevet til en stemningsmættet omgang, der favner såvel de strygertunge kompositioner, man gerne forbinder med soundtrackgenren, som fine bas- og guitarbårne momenter (Enlace), og enkelte regulære sange (La Grand Désordre). Det er behagelig, men ikke uvedkommende og muzak-agtig, baggrundsmusik, og det leder sine steder tankerne i retning af Warren Ellis og Nick Caves fremragende soundtrackarbejde til film som The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford og, ikke mindst, The Proposition. En lille perle, fra uventet kant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g-KXX9JcxyU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;9. Real Estate - Days&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/10/23/ecb84569faa2_131937962487_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Amerikanske Real Estate høstede i 2009 betragtelige mængder roser for deres selvbetitlede debutalbum, og det var fortjent, for gruppens drømmende lofi-pop var fra første færd en uimodståeligt knuselskelig størrelse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heldigvis gælder det også nærværende toer, der på elegant vis tager tråden op og således ligeledes præsterer en række på samme tid lifligt opløftende og let melankolske skæringer, hvis såvel lette og luftige som nostalgiske og ubekymrede tendenser besidder tidløse kvaliteter. Der er noget uendeligt ubesværet over Real Estate, der med deres konsekvent iørefaldende melodier og ubetingede nærvær får det hele til at virke så let og ligetil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bedst er i denne ombæring den ekstremt stærke midterakse, der udgøres af den vemodigt fortrolige Out Of Tune, den pudsigt forundrede Municipality og den herligt underspillede Wonder Years, der dog hele vejen rundt får fint modspil af smækre sager noget nær på niveau. Kun en sjælden gang imellem svigter nerven og intensiteten på dette dog først som sidst meget fine og helt overdådige værk. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4HWcViTXdYc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Ryan Adams - Ashes &amp;amp; Fire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/09/08/b5e8d39b104d_131549938329_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Efter en periode, hvor man har hørt meget lidt til Ryan Adams - særligt i betragtning af, at man lige havde vænnet sig til, at manden i bedste Bonnie "Prince" Billy-stil udgav plader i en lind strøm, så man var nødt til at holde tungen lige i munden for at følge med, og hvor de få udspil, manden er kommet med siden Easy Tiger i bedste tilfælde kan betegnes som jævne (Cardinology) og i værste direkte ærgerlige (Orion), er det en ren fryd at sætte Ashes &amp;amp; Fire på anlægget. For langt om længe har Adams atter fundet ind til den sangskrivningsmæssige guldåre, han så tidligere har høstet af med fremragende resultater til følge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man skal ikke mange sekunder ind i åbneren Dirty Rain, før gåsehuden og gensynsglæden over de fineste sider af Adams' talent melder sig. Samtlige sange på Ashes &amp;amp; Fire emmer af kunstnerisk overskud og nødvendighed. Stemmen er i top, og guitaren får godt med plads. Det er ikke den dybe sangskrivertallerken, der er genopfundet, men det er til gengæld en flok decideret fremragende sange, der her ser dagens lys og strejfer det sublime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hvis ikke man mærker en rislen ned ad ryggen ved gennemlytningen af underskønne Come Home, hvor Norah Jones diskret, men yderst effektivt placerer prikken over i'et med sin blide og næsten hviskende baggrundsvokal, må man være lavet af sten eller noget i den stil. Det er ikke mindre end 11 tindrende stjernestunder, man finder på Ashes &amp;amp; Fire, der udgør en stærk kandidat til årets album. Velkommen tilbage på toppen, Ryan. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bp064T7rQSk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Gillian Welch - The Harrow And The Harvest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/06/27/bbf2099ddea1_130920060387_coverstor2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/06/27/bbf2099ddea1_130920060387_coverstor2.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;[Gaffa]: Efter otte golde år med en selvforstærkende skrivekrise, hvor materialet simpelthen ikke levede op til det perfektionistiske americana-pars standarder, er Gillian Welch og partneren David Rawlings endelig klar med album nummer fem. Og selvom gulvtæppet ikke ligefrem rives væk under en, så skuffer det nøgne og nøgterne album ikke en tøddel. For det ti numre lange sangforedrag er igen et så autentisk studie i amerikansk folkemusik, at man ikke skulle tro, at sangene var skrevet indenfor de seneste otte år. Eller i den 43-årige Welchs levetid i det hele taget. For intet ud over årstallet på cd'en og materialet, den er trykt på, signalerer moderne tider. Sangene kunne lige så godt være forfattet af en bomuldsplukker på vej ned til brønden for at hente vand til familiens ene muldyr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det er underspillet, især i forhold til den mere orkestrerede forgænger Soul Journey, men aldrig skrabet. For parret får noget nær det optimale ud af et par guitarstrenge, en mundharpe eller banjo hist og her og et par klappende hænder og stampende fødder, som når der bliver spillet op til dans i Six White Horses. Og så skal vi ikke glemme det sublime sammenspil mellem de harmoniske og højstemte stemmer, der henriver og bedårer i æteriske og hjerteskærende smukke sange.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Som en snigende lise for sjælen overbeviser sange som Scarlet Town, The Way That It Goes og The Way The Whole Thing Ends igen om Tennessee-parrets raffinerede og uovertrufne musikalske virke, der så sandelig, og også en anden gang, er ventetiden værd. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BxH9kHofuTU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. The Black Keys - El Camino&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/11/14/bc78d97243ff_132127394435_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Spørgsmål: Hvordan følger man op på et gennembrudsalbum, der har solgt millioner af eksemplarer og bragt éns navn på alles læber? Svar: I al hast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eller sådan lyder The Black Keys' bud i hvert fald. Kun halvandet år efter Brothers forlenede Ohio-duoens sprøde bluesrock med en klædelig sjælfuldhed, er El Camino på banen, produceret af Danger Mouse og bygget til fart. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Med elleve sange fordelt på 38 minutter er der ingen tid til at nulre sig selv i navlen. El Camino er en tour de force i effektiv rockmusik - don't bore us, get to the chorus. Ikke et minut spildes på albummet, der rammer ned lige midt imellem Brothers' flirt med sydstatssoul og Rubber Factorys brølende 70'er-rock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;El Camino er lyden af et band, der er helt oppe i omdrejninger. De veldrejede rocksange synes at sprøjte ud af dem, og alt, hvad de forsøger sig med, fungerer. Det er ikke et album, hvor The Black Keys søger nye horisonter, og man kan godt savne pusterummene fra den mere inderlige Brothers. Men for pokker, hvor er det knivskarpt skåret! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a_426RiwST8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Feist - Metals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/09/18/edd7cc54c23a_131637792608_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Feists vokal er et ganske særligt instrument. På én gang sexet og skrøbelig, varm og kold, stærk og smidig. Den tidligere Broken Social Scene-sangerindes stemme kunne snildt bære Metals alene, men det gør den ikke. Langtfra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;På sit fjerde album slår Feist større brød op end nogensinde før. Det her er sange i widescreen-format, hvor korpulente kor og svulmende strygersektioner gnubber skuldre med bombastiske blæsere. Både Motown, Burt Bacharach og Scott Walker spøger i de maksimalistiske arrangementer. På Metals er mindre bestemt ikke mere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stadig er der masser af åndehuller, hvor Feists intime magi kan folde sig ud. Hør bare omkvædet i Graveyard, hvor sangerinden rammer toner så høje, lyse og luftige, at de næsten ikke er der. Eller passagen i Caught A Long Wind, hvor sanglærken lader ordet "long" vibrere i luften et langt, spændingsladet øjeblik. Smukkere kan det ikke gøres.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Metals udvider Feists palette med nuancer af blues og americana. Canadierens stærke sange strækker sig fra umiddelbart iørefaldende popperler som How Come You Never Go There til rugende, stemningsmættede ballader à la Anti-Pioneer. Samtlige 12 indspilninger bærer præg af en næsten pertentlig sans for de små detaljer, der gør hele forskellen - kun A Commotions klodsede brølekor falder igennem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Det skal nok være dem, der savner lidt kant og farlighed i Feists udtryk. Men Metals har meget mere end et smagfuldt ydre at tilbyde dem, der giver sangene tid og ro til at folde sig ud. Et af årets bedste album.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UQAPyGzfzfU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Coutry Gentlemen&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-size: 22px; line-height: 26px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); "&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/03/03/b8dd32c55f0f_130160007680_coverstor2.jpg" style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/03/03/b8dd32c55f0f_130160007680_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Sæt Last of the Country Gentlemen på, næste gang du står op om natten og skyller søvnløsheden ned med en øl. Hvad end der plager dig, har du en fortrolig i Josh T. Pearson. Er du ikke den, hun drømmer om? Er hun ikke den, du drømmer om? Pearson kan en sang, der sætter problemerne i perspektiv. Den tidligere Lift To Experience-frontmands solodebut er hudløst ærlig. De nedbarberede country-rock-sange vokser ud af Pearson som skægpragten på hans hage: Vildt og viltert. Flertallet er omkring 10 minutter lange, og instrumenteringen begrænser sig typisk til en guitar, Warren Ellis' sublime violin og Pearsons egen, indtrængende vokal. Det lyder skrabet og improviseret, men rummer et enormt nærvær. Som små scenemonologer belyser teksterne deres temaer fra et væld af vinkler. F.eks. Honeymoon is Great, Wish You Were Her, hvor Pearson skiftevis angrer, forbander og benåder sine uregerlige følelser. Eller urkomiske Country Dumb, der nådesløst udleverer singer-songwriterens egen, forbandede slægt. Det er mesterligt. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dNfKw0MqO1w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.gaffa.com/images/2011/02/21/457e0d28022b_130160006781_coverstor2.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Der er en verden til forskel fra Kurt Viles forrige udspil Childish Prodigy til hans nye Smoke Ring For My Halo. På forgængeren måtte både detaljerigdom og melodier stå tilbage for et skrantende lydbillede, der led under den lidt for meget lo-fi-agtige produktion. Fire udgivelser på to år taler sit eget sprog om en rastløs sjæl, der midt i al produktiviteten ofte glemmer at se sig tilbage. På Smoke Ring For My Halo har kunstneren med base i Philadelphia fået de store melodier til at flyde og skabt et betagende værk. Det er stadig kunstnere som Dylan, Springsteen og ikke mindst en drømmende udgave af Deerhunter, der springer frem på nethinden, når Kurt Vile ubesværet og frit lader sine sange træde i karakter. Baby's Arms åbner med knitrende fingerspil og Viles tryglende vokal, som forsættes på Jesus Fever, der lyder som et spøgelsestog gennem natten. Med producer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth) har Kurt Vile fået lagt et psykedelisk lydspor omkring sange som On Tour, Society Is My Friend og Ghost Town, der indhylles i et dragende slør. Kurt Vile lyder på Smoke Ring For My Halo som fremtidens sangskriver med fuld fokus på sine sange. Smoke Ring For My Halo kandiderer seriøst som en af årets bedste plader.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/63KB-EJKdyI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. King Creosote &amp;amp; Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.musikmigblidt.dk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/king-e1318132429712.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Soundvenue]: Der er krudt i røven på Kenny Anderson, som under pseudonymet King Creosote i 15 år har givet den som en europæisk udgave af Robert Pollard, indspillet og udgivet over 40 album(!) - de fleste på egen hånd med base i det landlige Fife i Skotland.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Diamond Mine' har han dog været mere besindig med. Albummet er et samarbejde med electronica-kunstneren Jon Hopkins og skildrer Andersons opvækst i et landsbysamfund ved kysten gennem vemodsduggede ruder. Numrene er mestendels loppefund fra Andersons enorme sangkiste men kittes her sammen i en ny kontekst af Hopkins' blide ambientmørtel. Man aner tematiske og stemningsmæssige paralleller til British Sea Powers fabelagtige soundtrack til stumfilmen 'Man of Aran', der også portrætterede livet ved havet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;De to musikere varetager med arbejdsdelingen nærmest forgrund og baggrund på samme lærred. Hvor Hopkins maler med brede, atmosfæriske og distancerende strøg - synthflader, der skyller henover numrene som havgus og diskrete percussionprogrammeringer - tager Anderson sig af detaljerne og det intime med sit spartanske guitarspil og nærværende, varme stemme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Det største problem er af ren luksuskarakter: Der er ikke nok! De to briter har arbejdet 'on-and-off' på projektet i syv år, og det er der kommet et tilsvarende antal numre ud af. Med en spilletid på en god halv time er det antiklimaktisk at konstatere, at den ellers ultraproduktive skotte har været så lang tid om dette destillat. Men titlen er rammende, og som med årgangswhisky har det været værd at vente på. Morderligt smukt. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M-Lr0igwLIY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://d3b8ol0g0fbwvx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_3e8ba8f1a727e13875bfbcbb71baf7d6_519inieot3l._sl500_aa300_.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]: Ventetiden har tangeret det ubærligt lange, men her tre år senere er Bon Iver omsider klar med opfølgeren til det himmelsk henrivende debutalbum For Emma, Forever Ago, der helt fortjent sikrede Justin Vernon en noget nær øjeblikkelig stjernestatus blandt den alternative folks lyttere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ikke overraskende har manden i denne anden ombæring kreeret et mere nuanceret værk, og produktionen er helt forventeligt blevet både flottere og mere mangefacetteret. Vernons uvurderligt pragtfulde stemme er med sit høje og lyse format atter et usandsynligt skønt og hjerteskærende aktiv, og manden demonstrerer snildt sit enorme talent på numre som den intenst fingerspillede Minnesota, WI og den eftertænksomt piskende Towers, der næsten er på højde med de fineste lækkerier fra debuten. Den instrumentale Lisbon, OH virker mod slutningen af værket som lidt unødvendigt fyld, lige som den meget tyste Hinnom, TX midtvejs ikke er videre interessant. Til gengæld er der andre åbenlyse højdepunkter i Wash., der gennemsyres af en vidunderligt intens og sitrende skrøbelighed, den eskalerende og efterhånden højdramatiske åbner Perth, der fremstår så varm og fortroligt bejlende, samt den vemodigt vuggende finale Beth/Rest, der med sine svulstigt udflydende klange udgør et fornemt punktum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Imidlertid må det konstateres, at de virkelig stærke sange og melodier er gået en smule tabt i bestræbelserne på at skabe så rigt orkestreret et værk som muligt - storladne arrangementer har til en vis grad erstattet debutens nedbarberede nærvær, og det er altså lidt synd. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Gaffa]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TWcyIpul8OE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-1997506185319708966?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/1997506185319708966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=1997506185319708966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/1997506185319708966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/1997506185319708966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-albums-2011.html' title='Best Albums 2011'/><author><name>Jakob Aarup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11750761275827648520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/g-KXX9JcxyU/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-6920455324259296959</id><published>2011-02-03T21:20:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T21:19:07.678+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Iron and Wine på Voxhall 5/2-2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gaffa.dk/images/2011/02/06/cf57339e61e2_129699312303_galleristor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://gaffa.dk/images/2011/02/06/cf57339e61e2_129699312303_galleristor.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Så blev det tid til årets første koncert, og det blev faktisk en rigtig glimrende en af slagsen. Det var en koncert med kun få lavpunkter og nogle fantastiske højdepunkter. Iron and Wine har på de seneste 2 album haft en 70'er agtig rocklyd, hvilket også var udgangspunktet for aftenens koncert. Det betød dog også, at når der blev spillet numre fra de ældre album, så var de meget forskellige fra de oprindelige. Det led nogle af dem desværre lidt af især den ellers fremragende "Sunset Soon Forgotten". Til gengæld var der andre numre, hvor instrumenteringen virkelig gav numrene et nyt liv herunder "Free Until They Cut Me Down",&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"House by the Sea" og "Boy with a Coin". Derudover var "Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog)", som udviklede sig til en energisk jam-session, samt en af mine favoritter "He Lays In The Reins" ret fantastiske.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aftenens højdepunkt var dog uden tvivl ekstranummeret, som var et magisk øjeblik. Sam Beam kom ud alene på scenen med sin akustiske guitar, og begyndte at kommunikere lidt med publikum omkring den forestående Super Bowl, og jokede med om vi ikke selv kunne finde på en tosset sport at følge med i, "like kicking a pighead around" . Herefter slog han guitaren minimalt an og sang "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" næsten ren a cappella. Et smukt øjeblik... (Jeg har vedhæftet den bedste version, som jeg kunne finde på nettet, men det lever desværre ikke rigtig op til Voxhall-versionen.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Så selvom jeg lidt manglede at han/de spillede Jezebel og Trapeze Swinger, så var det en rigtig stor oplevelse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X16fNZVil0k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-6920455324259296959?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/6920455324259296959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=6920455324259296959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/6920455324259296959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/6920455324259296959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2011/02/iron-and-wine-pa-voxhall-52-2011.html' title='Iron and Wine på Voxhall 5/2-2011'/><author><name>Jakob Aarup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11750761275827648520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/X16fNZVil0k/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-4786722089970248817</id><published>2010-12-19T17:04:00.026+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T15:40:18.387+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Albums 2010</title><content type='html'>Så er det igen blevet tid til min liste over de 10 bedste plader fra 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;10. Kristin Hersh - Crooked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/KristinHershCrooked.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/KristinHershCrooked.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Kristin Hersh har på sit 7. soloalbum valgt en helt ny måde at udgive musik på, da den er udkommet som en bog. Man kan så downloade musikken, der hører til bogen, og nogle ekstra EPs og video og en masse andet bonusmateriale.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Musikken er meget lig hendes plader med Throwing Muses med enkelte afstikkere, og efter min mening er det en af de bedste soloplader, som hun har lavet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E9OcntHEVSI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E9OcntHEVSI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;9. Jónsi - Go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/JnsiGo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/JnsiGo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sigur Rós forsangeren har på sit første soloalbum gået i en mere "poppet" og elektronisk retning i forhold til, når han er sammen med bandet. Der er dog også en nogle af sangene, der ligeså godt kunne findes på et album med Sigur Rós.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Albummet når ikke op på helt samme niveau, som de fleste af Sigur Rós's albummer, men mens vi venter på næste mesterværk fra dem, så kan sagtens bruge noget tid med denne. Desuden kan filmen Go Quiet også anbefales, hvor sangene fra albummet fremføres "stripped-down". Filmen er instrueret af Dean DeBlois, som også stod bag Sigur Rós's fantastiske film "Heima".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4rx2-UXC3Bk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4rx2-UXC3Bk?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;8. Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/BlitzenTrapperDestroyeroftheVoid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/BlitzenTrapperDestroyeroftheVoid.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Destroyer of the Void" er det første album, som jeg er stødt på med Blitzen Trapper. Men jeg skal helt sikkert til at finde nogle flere med dem, da de allerede har udgivet 5 album.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inspirationskilderne er mange og deres musik er en blanding af 70'er rock og en god gedigen omgang americana, men det veksler utrolig meget mellem rock, vokalharmonier og ballader. Der er dog et nummer  "Heaven and Earth" som stikker ud som et af de bedste numre, som jeg har hørt i år.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SGQCX6xzX44?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SGQCX6xzX44?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;7. Lone Wolf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2010/06/Lone-Wolf.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2010/06/Lone-Wolf.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Videre til Lone Wolf som er kunstnernavn for engelske Poul Marshall, og det er hans første plade under dette navn. Musikken er meget blandet men generelt med en melankolsk undertone. Poul Marshall har en rigtig god stemme, og gennemgående er pladen rigtig godt produceret med en meget klar lyd, hvilket man også kan høre på youtube-klippet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Det er ikke et album, der har fået særlig megen omtale, men det ændrer sig forhåbentligt, for det er virkelig et godt album. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hbrU7pjHKpU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hbrU7pjHKpU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;6. Ben Folds &amp;amp; Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/LonelyAvenue.jpg/220px-LonelyAvenue.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/LonelyAvenue.jpg/220px-LonelyAvenue.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Videre til et album, som ikke har fået specielt gode anmeldelser, hvilket jeg synes er en skam. Det er et ret utraditionel samarbejde mellem en af mine favoritsanger og favoritforfatter, så jeg er måske lidt forudindtaget. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nick Hornby har skrevet teksterne i en novelleagtig stil, og Ben Folds har efetrfølgende lavet musikken til teksterne. Det er ikke alle numre, der er lige gode pga. arbejdsformen, men der er generelt en høj kvalitet på albummet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X5peqCDJi0A?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;5. Midlake - The Courage of Others &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/MidlakeTheCourageofOthers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/MidlakeTheCourageofOthers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;På Midlakes tredje album har de ladet sig inspirere af den engelske folkrock fra 70'erne. Det er et album, som har modtaget meget blandet anmeldelser, hvilket jeg synes er synd. Efter "The Trials of Van Occupanther" var der nok forventning om et album, som var ligeså let tilgængelig. Det er et album, som skal høres mange gange, og selvom der ikke er en "Roscoe" (Midlake's hit fra "The Trials of Van Occupanther") på albummet, er det stadig et meget helstøbt album med næsten ene af gode numre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jeg har linket til sangen "Acts of Man", men jeg kunne have valgt så mange andre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fcHVYrcb6As?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fcHVYrcb6As?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;4. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/TallestManOnEarthTheWildHunt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/TallestManOnEarthTheWildHunt.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Kristian Matsson (The Tallest Man on Earth) har i 2010 fået sit store gennembrud med "The Wild Hunt", og det er helt fortjent. Der er meget Bob Dylan over både musikken og især hans stemme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Udover "The Wild Hunt" har han i 2010 også udgivet EP'en "Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird", som også er fremragende. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jeg har linket til sangen "Love is All", som er en af mine personlige favoritter fra 2010. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_BsZt_3MifU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_BsZt_3MifU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/ArcadeFireTheSuburbs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 148px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/ArcadeFireTheSuburbs.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Arcade Fire's tredje album er langt mere lyttervenlig end deres forrige albums "Funeral" og "Neon Bible". Der er rigtig mange gode numre på pladen, og den kan varmt anbefales. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Musikken er mere pop/rocket end de ovennævnte, og de lyder også som om, at bandet har gjort alt for at genopfinde sig selv.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HklplrJxEOY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HklplrJxEOY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;2. The National - High Violet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/TheNationalHighViolet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/TheNationalHighViolet.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"High Violet" blev The National's kommercielle gennembrud, og jeg synes også, at albummet er lettere tilgængeligt end deres tidligere (ellers glimrende) albums. Men det er stadig en stor overraskelse for mig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Musik og tekster bevæger sig stadigt indenfor det melankolske og med titler som "Terrible Love", "Sorrow" og "Afraid of Everyone", så kan det heldigvis aldrig blive et alt for mainstream band.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Og så skal jeg i øvrigt til koncert med dem i februar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yfySK7CLEEg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yfySK7CLEEg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;1. Eels - End Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img src="http://treblezine.com/reviews/albumcovers/EelsEndTimes.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Det er et album, som jeg allerede har anbefalet tidligere, og det holder stadigvæk. Albummet &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;har E indspillet i sin kælder og albummet er hovedsageligt indspillet af ham selv. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Albummet omhandler et brudt forhold og følelserne, som man sidder tilbage med efterfølgende. Det er selvfølgelig et meget deprimerende album, men der er også plads til en smule håb, og så er den også fyldt med E's galgenhumor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmOuMudZt0I?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmOuMudZt0I?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andre albums som jeg kan anbefale:&lt;br /&gt;Antony &amp; the Johnsons - Swanlights&lt;br /&gt;Band of Horses - Infinite Arms&lt;br /&gt;Best Coast - Crazy for You&lt;br /&gt;The Black Keys - Brothers&lt;br /&gt;Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring&lt;br /&gt;John Grant - Queen of Denmark&lt;br /&gt;Local Natives - Gorilla Manor&lt;br /&gt;S. Carey - All We Grow&lt;br /&gt;Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP&lt;br /&gt;Tim Kasher - The Game of Monogamy &lt;br /&gt;Yeasayer - Odd Blood&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-4786722089970248817?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/4786722089970248817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=4786722089970248817' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/4786722089970248817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/4786722089970248817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-albums-2010.html' title='Best Albums 2010'/><author><name>Jakob Aarup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11750761275827648520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-2303993368800972434</id><published>2010-10-13T20:26:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T20:46:20.542+02:00</updated><title type='text'>OK Go</title><content type='html'>Jeg er faldet over bandet OK Go, og deres fantastiske one-take musikvideoer. Jeg ved ikke rigtigt, om musikken er lige mig, men videoerne tror jeg aldrig bliver kedelige.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Det hele startede med videoen til "This Too Shall Pass": &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qybUFnY7Y8w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qybUFnY7Y8w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Herefter kom så videoen til "White Knuckles":&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nHlJODYBLKs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nHlJODYBLKs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Og til sidst videoen til "Here It Goes Again":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XJulhGUh8vU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XJulhGUh8vU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-2303993368800972434?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/2303993368800972434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=2303993368800972434' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/2303993368800972434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/2303993368800972434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2010/10/ok-go.html' title='OK Go'/><author><name>Jakob Aarup</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11750761275827648520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-7518142227371098841</id><published>2010-06-13T19:44:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-13T19:57:51.676+02:00</updated><title type='text'>They shoot music - Don't they</title><content type='html'>Jeg er faldet over denne musik-side, hvor der er nogle glimrende live-optagelser fra specielle lokationer. Det er fyldt med upcoming-bands og singer/songwriter alle indenfor den "alternative" musikgenre. Det er også rart at se at der er lavet flere optagelser med danske bands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg har lige udvalgt nogle få, men der er heldigvis nok at gå i gang med.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James Yorkston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/CjznhP4I3HA/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CjznhP4I3HA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CjznhP4I3HA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Willard Grant Conspiracy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/XXmTJUjmq54/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXmTJUjmq54&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XXmTJUjmq54&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Efterklang&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/9YFJLfDqlEk/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9YFJLfDqlEk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9YFJLfDqlEk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-7518142227371098841?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://theyshootmusic.at/' title='They shoot music - Don&apos;t they'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/7518142227371098841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=7518142227371098841' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/7518142227371098841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/7518142227371098841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2010/06/they-shoot-music-dont-they.html' title='They shoot music - Don&apos;t they'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-9157232466349267062</id><published>2010-04-04T20:39:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T20:57:37.930+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Eels - End Times</title><content type='html'>Min favoritplade fra 2010 er indtil videre Eels's "End Times". Pladen har E indspillet i sin kælder og albummet er hovedsageligt indspillet af ham selv. Selv om Eels har et imponerende bagkatalog, så står denne for mig som hans bedste. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pladen omhandler et brudt forhold og følelserne, som man sidder tilbage med efterfølgende.  Det er selvfølgelig en meget deprimerende plade, men der er også plads til en smule håb, og så er den også fyldt med E's galgenhumor.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jeg har udvalgt tre stærke numre - især On my feet - som er det sidste nummer på pladen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmOuMudZt0I&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmOuMudZt0I&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Oca-0wH9SyU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Oca-0wH9SyU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pK5rDOIKNyk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pK5rDOIKNyk&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-9157232466349267062?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/9157232466349267062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=9157232466349267062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/9157232466349267062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/9157232466349267062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2010/04/eels-end-times.html' title='Eels - End Times'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-3476740815840470282</id><published>2009-12-14T19:49:00.027+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-28T20:18:52.353+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Albums 2009</title><content type='html'>Dette er min liste over de bedste albums fra 2009:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10. The Black Heart Procession - Six&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://backtomono.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/black-heart-procession-six-album-art.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 141px;" src="http://backtomono.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/black-heart-procession-six-album-art.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Black Heart Procession har på Six igen lavet en plade, der beskriver livets skyggesider. Musikken er mørk og dyster og pladen virker utrolig sammenhængende.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De stærkeste sange på pladen er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When you finish me&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Drugs&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Forget my heart&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theblackheartprocession"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kN8_B5SBMiM&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kN8_B5SBMiM&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://xgangstax.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/10-dinosaur-jr-farm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 144px;" src="http://xgangstax.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/10-dinosaur-jr-farm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Dinosaur Jr. har i 2009 udgivet deres 9. studiealbum, og Dinosaur Jr. lyder stadig som de har gjort i de sidste 25 år. Musikken er stadigvæk kendetegnet ved J Mascis helt specielle guitar-lyd og hans skrøbelige vokal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der bliver ikke opfundet nogen dybtallerken på &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Farm&lt;/span&gt;, men bandet beviser stadig, hvorfor at bandet har været et af de mest indflydelsesrige band indenfor den alternative rockscene i 80'erne og 90'erne. Farm er vel et af deres bedste albums nogensinde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De bedste sange er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pieces&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Plans&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Said the People&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/dinosaurjr"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TgTJtdn6VjM&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TgTJtdn6VjM&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;8. The Antlers - Hospice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Hospicecover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 138px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Hospicecover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Brooklyn-trioen The Antlers udgav i 2009 deres tredje album &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hospice&lt;/span&gt;. Albummet handler om 2 personer, der møder hinanden på et hospice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musikken er stemningsmættet og passer fremragende til sangenes handling om liv og død samt drømme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De stærkeste sange er selvom at det er en plade som skal ses som en helhed &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sylvia&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Atrophy&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wake&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dette er en plade som sagtens kunne være en endt længere oppe på listen, hvis jeg havde kendt til den tidligere på året.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theantlers"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZsXKa97J6pM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZsXKa97J6pM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;7. Sonic Youth - The Eternal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ole-829-the-eternal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 142px;" src="http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ole-829-the-eternal.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Støjrockens godfather har i 2009 udgivet deres 16. studiealbum &lt;em&gt;The Eternal&lt;/em&gt;. Bandet er langtfra banebrydende med dette album. Til gengæld virker de langt mere målrettet end længe, og man kan sige at de er tilbage ved fordums styrke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sangene er skarpe og leveres med gejst, og pladen er knap så eksperimenterende som de forrige. Dette klæder bandet. Sonic Youth beviser på denne plade, at der stadig er lang til pensionsalderen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De bedste sange er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Antenna&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What We Know&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Walkin Blue&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/sonicyouth"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pKlbBgQHPqo"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pKlbBgQHPqo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6. Broken Records - Until the Earth Begins to Part&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/until.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 143px;" src="http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/until.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Broken Records debutalbum er et yderst vellykket album. Musikken er en god blanding af folk/rock, og leder tankerne hen på the Waterboys og et af mit egne favoritband Midnight Choir. Der benyttes udover guitar, bas og trommer også violiner, trompeter, klaver, mandolin, ukulele og cello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Armbevægelserne er store og musikken er pompøs, men jeg synes at det holder hele vejen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De bedste sange fra pladen er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A Promise&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wolwes&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/brokenrecordsedinburgh"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ECfQkgvuzbU"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ECfQkgvuzbU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.curatormagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 138px;" src="http://www.curatormagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-2009.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Animal Collective's har på deres 9. studiealbum formået at skabe en plade, hvor deres anarkistiske tilgang til musikskrivningen går hånd i hånd med de gode sange. Der kan helt sikkert hentet inspiration fra the Beach Boys især på den vokale front. Musikken er dog så rodet og anderledes, at pladen kan stå helt alene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pladen er helt sikkert en klassiker og vil nok på de fleste årslister ende på førstepladsen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De stærkeste sange på pladen er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In the Flowers&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My Girls&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Daily Routine&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/animalcollective"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zol2MJf6XNE&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zol2MJf6XNE&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4. Wilco - Wilco (the album)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wilcoworld.net/records/images/thealbum-lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 140px;" src="http://wilcoworld.net/records/images/thealbum-lg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Det syvende studiealbum fra bringer ikke meget nyt i forhold til tidligere, men er endnu engang et bevis på, at Jeff Tweedy simpelthen ikke kan lave en dårlig plade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musikken ligger sig tæt op af deres forrige plade den melodiøse &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sky Blue Sky&lt;/span&gt;, men med enkelte afstikkere som vækker minder om mesterværket &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A Ghost is Born&lt;/span&gt;. De bedste sange er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Wing&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bull Black Nova&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Country Disappeared&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man kan kun blive imponeret over, at bandet kan blive ved med at have et så højt niveau på deres plader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/wilco"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bF3pBjPwgtg"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bF3pBjPwgtg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3. The XX - XX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://squeegiesounds.com/files/2009/11/xx.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 133px;" src="http://squeegiesounds.com/files/2009/11/xx.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Debutpladen fra the XX har høstet en masse fortjente roser. Det er en plade uden de store armbevægelser, men er derimod et bevis på at man kan nå langt med en minimalistisk tilgang til sangskrivningen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musikken er dyster og er ellers opbygget omkring de to vokalister Romy Madley Croft og Oliver Slim fremragende sammenspil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De stærkeste sange er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Crystalised&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Heart Skipped A Beat&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Shelter&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thexx"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pib8eYDSFEI&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pib8eYDSFEI&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. Antony &amp;amp; the Johnsons - The Crying Light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.antonyandthejohnsons.com/catthumbs/SC194lp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.antonyandthejohnsons.com/catthumbs/SC194lp.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Det tredje album fra Antony And The Johnsons fortsætter på mange måder i den samme rille som de to tidligere albums. Musikken er dog knap så pompøs og eksperimenterende som tidligere og på visse sange er tonen ligefrem poppet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De bedste sange er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Epilepsy Is Dancing&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Another World&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det tårnhøje niveau fra &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I am a Bird Now&lt;/span&gt; kan ikke holdes helt, men The Crying Light er fra start til slut en stor oplevelse, der kun vokser for hver gennemlytning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/antonyandthejohnsons"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qp23w0v-GB8"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qp23w0v-GB8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_48ks5s0AV6M/SiAHgEcNIoI/AAAAAAAABxg/YUCKuqHzmkU/s400/wolfgang-amadeus-phoenix-cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 142px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_48ks5s0AV6M/SiAHgEcNIoI/AAAAAAAABxg/YUCKuqHzmkU/s400/wolfgang-amadeus-phoenix-cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Phoenix var for mig et helt ukendt fransk band inden dette år startede. Albummet er fyldt med gode popsange med små finurlige opbygninger, guitarriffs og synth-lyde. Pladen er nem at komme til men gemmer stadig på en masse overraskelser ved flere gennemlytninger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De stærkeste sange fra pladen er &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lisztomania&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lasso&lt;/span&gt; og &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Countdown&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/wearephoenix"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qtRQsCgYmtc&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qtRQsCgYmtc&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bedste EP:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mountain Goats &amp;amp; John Vanderslice - Moon Colony Bloodbath&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bedste genudgivelse:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chris Bell - I am the Cosmos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bedste plade fra 2008, som jeg først rigtig har hørt i 2009:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Broderick - Home&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-3476740815840470282?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/3476740815840470282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=3476740815840470282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/3476740815840470282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/3476740815840470282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-albums-2009.html' title='Best Albums 2009'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_48ks5s0AV6M/SiAHgEcNIoI/AAAAAAAABxg/YUCKuqHzmkU/s72-c/wolfgang-amadeus-phoenix-cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-5734014230918773614</id><published>2009-01-01T13:39:00.025+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-02T12:07:48.991+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Albums 2008</title><content type='html'>This is a list of the best music albums of 2008. Feel free to comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;10. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVy_uScNZZI/AAAAAAAAAAY/xHo87Oyd9LI/s1600-h/The+Gutter+Twins_Saturnalia_cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVy_uScNZZI/AAAAAAAAAAY/xHo87Oyd9LI/s200/The+Gutter+Twins_Saturnalia_cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286310864571164050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The idea of Dulli and Lanegan collaborating together as the Gutter Twins has been in the works since 2003. But it wasn't until last year that the pair finally turned their full attention to the project. Saturnalia, the Gutter Twins' debut, was released earlier this year by Sub Pop. The album is yet another exploration of the dark side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theguttertwins.com/"&gt;The Gutter Twins website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theguttertwins"&gt;The Gutter Twins at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=31013073"&gt;All Misery / Flowers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;object width="425px" height="360px" &gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=31013073,t=1,mt=video"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=31013073,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;9. Thalia Zedek Band - Liars and Prayers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzA4m6iSGI/AAAAAAAAAAg/lJ4exkBuvM8/s1600-h/liarsandprayers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzA4m6iSGI/AAAAAAAAAAg/lJ4exkBuvM8/s200/liarsandprayers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286312141377390690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thalia Zedek's second album for Thrill Jockey finds the ex-Come frontwoman in fine voice and backed by a band who know just how to present her songs. A very political record - the title refers to those who lie and those who pray - LIARS AND PRAYERS finds Zedek's wonderfully coarse voice enveloped by simple but moving arrangements and the best set of songs she has written since her Come days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thaliazedek"&gt;Thalia Zedek Band at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;8. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-partying Through Tornadoes)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzHsCYS0_I/AAAAAAAAAAo/7D0pQqjaJoQ/s1600-h/cloud_cult_Feel_Good_Ghosts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 184px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzHsCYS0_I/AAAAAAAAAAo/7D0pQqjaJoQ/s200/cloud_cult_Feel_Good_Ghosts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286319621993059314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The group, led by Craig Minowa, might best fit in the electronica-folk-indie-chamber-pop-rock genre. That won't really give you an idea of what goes on through the 13 tracks of Cloud Cult's latest album, Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-partying Through Tornadoes). It's a genre-mashing set of songs that is at once weird, wonderful, inspiring, exciting, and strange. Cloud Cult is a remarkable band who have made a album just as full of melodic hooks as mind-blowing experimentation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/cloudcult"&gt;Cloud Cult at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody here is a Cloud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/awTaN_1gQk4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/awTaN_1gQk4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;7. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzKTFCfKAI/AAAAAAAAAAw/7gfmcSO77yc/s1600-h/conor_oberst-conor_oberst_album_art.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 192px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzKTFCfKAI/AAAAAAAAAAw/7gfmcSO77yc/s200/conor_oberst-conor_oberst_album_art.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286322491745052674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Abandoning the Bright Eyes moniker he's been performing under since his teens, Conor Oberst reverted to his birth name for his 2008 follow-up to 2007's Cassadaga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/conoroberst"&gt;Conor Oberst at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Souled out!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1491470&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1491470&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/1491470"&gt;"Souled Out!!!" Music Video&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/mysticvalleyband"&gt;Conor Oberst+Mystic Valley Band&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;6. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzVnyrnDII/AAAAAAAAAA4/EudiIeUB4j4/s1600-h/thestandins.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzVnyrnDII/AAAAAAAAAA4/EudiIeUB4j4/s200/thestandins.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286334942222421122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Essentially a sequel to 2007’s The Stage Names, which was briefly considered for release as a two-disc album before being scaled down to a single album, Okkervil River's The Stand Ins uses central images of musicians and life on the stage to again address many of the themes that first surfaced on the band's 2007 album.&lt;br /&gt;Emotional without being weepy, literate without being pretentious, The Stand Ins is another excellent release from a highly creative and evolving band.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/okkervilriver"&gt;Okkervil River at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.mtvu.com/player/embed/" width="423" height="318" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" FlashVars="CONFIG_URL=http://www.mtvu.com/player/embed/configuration.jhtml%3fid%3D1595523%26vid%3D276985&amp;allowFullScreen=true" allowFullScreen="true" AllowScriptAccess="never" base="."&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;5. TV on the Radio - Dear Science&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYDOfe7TI/AAAAAAAAABA/H90XuVxPYF8/s1600-h/tv_on_the_radio-dear_science-cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYDOfe7TI/AAAAAAAAABA/H90XuVxPYF8/s200/tv_on_the_radio-dear_science-cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286337612567473458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dear Science is a brilliant balancing act between pop aspiration and music-geek aesthetics. More tuneful than its predecessor, the album is packed with New Wave hooks and funky dance beats — albeit amid bleak lyrical visions, Afrobeat rhythmic arrangements and densely layered, terabyte-era production. Though that sound might not make for megastardom, it's made for one damn fine record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/tvotr"&gt;TV on the Radio at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n7mMoc-x_v0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=da&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n7mMoc-x_v0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=da&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;4. Samamidon - All is Well&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYKoOKuLI/AAAAAAAAABI/tRzcRDEPlg8/s1600-h/samamidon-all-is-well.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYKoOKuLI/AAAAAAAAABI/tRzcRDEPlg8/s200/samamidon-all-is-well.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286337739733252274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sam Amidon, more commonly known as Samamidon, very quietly released one of the year’s best folk records way back in February. It’s called All Is Well, and if it sounds at all timeless, well, it’s because it basically is. All 10 songs come from the public domain, songs passed down through generations until the origins are all but forgotten. There is a natural sadness in Amidon’s voice, which suits the quiet and contemplative mood of these 10 songs perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/samamidon"&gt;Samamidon at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rw7pZvQPvcg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=da&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rw7pZvQPvcg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=da&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYTdU8h_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/qsxj0PJiTt8/s1600-h/fleet-foxes-lp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYTdU8h_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/qsxj0PJiTt8/s200/fleet-foxes-lp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286337891427715058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Fleet Foxes describe their music as "baroque pop, music from fantasy movies, Motown, block harmonies ... not much of a rock band", which is one way of describing the indefinable brilliance of one of those records that sounds like it has arrived, fully formed, from another planet. Though there are musical touchstones - English folk, late 60s west-coast music (particularly the Beach Boys and Love) - this is the sound of late-night forests, skipping animals, music made by people as old as the hills they dwell in. Implausibly, they are actually in their 20s and live in Seattle. The dizzyingly uplifting four-part harmonies of songs such as Tiger Mountain Peasant Song are interspersed with profound darkness in the death-stalked Your Protector, or Oliver James, the chilling tale of a child's drowning. It all adds up to a landmark in American music, an instant classic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes"&gt;Fleet Foxes at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DrQRS40OKNE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=da&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DrQRS40OKNE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=da&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;2. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYZ_O05CI/AAAAAAAAABY/_PRKmi7dIhs/s1600-h/Med-sud-i-eyrum-vid-spilum-endalaust-by-Sigur-Ros_172575_full.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYZ_O05CI/AAAAAAAAABY/_PRKmi7dIhs/s200/Med-sud-i-eyrum-vid-spilum-endalaust-by-Sigur-Ros_172575_full.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286338003608069154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With their fifth full-length album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, Sigur Rós have taken the poppy, sunshiny leanings of their previous album a step further into the light. As ever with Sigur Rós, if you're a fan you will lap this up - the unconvinced will, despite the more commercial touches, probably remain unconvinced. Overall though, this is another wondrous album from a band at the height of their considerable powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/sigurros"&gt;Sigur Rós at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdn.last.fm/videoplayer/33/VideoPlayer.swf" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="lfmEmbed_50_6102097_1594529015" width="340" height="289"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://cdn.last.fm/videoplayer/33/VideoPlayer.swf" /&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="title=Gobbledigook&amp;amp;uniqueName=6102097&amp;amp;albumArt=http%3A%2F%2Fuserserve-ak.last.fm%2Fserve%2F34s%2F12989141.jpg&amp;amp;duration=197&amp;amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fuserserve-ak.last.fm%2Fserve%2Fimage%3A320%2F6102097.jpg&amp;amp;FSSupport=true&amp;amp;album=Me%C3%B0+su%C3%B0+%C3%AD+eyrum+vi%C3%B0+spilum+endalaust&amp;amp;track=true&amp;amp;creator=Sigur+R%C3%B3s" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt; &lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="000000" /&gt; &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque" /&gt; &lt;param name="menu" value="false" /&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYgahPf9I/AAAAAAAAABg/gVfDa045FjI/s1600-h/BonIver-ForEmmaForeverAgo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVzYgahPf9I/AAAAAAAAABg/gVfDa045FjI/s200/BonIver-ForEmmaForeverAgo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286338114012282834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nu folk's Bon Iver, aka Justin Vernon, recorded For Emma, Forever Ago in an isolated cabin in Wisconsin, where he existed on a diet of deer he'd slaughtered and water and leftovers delivered by his dad. Accordingly, his debut prompts few comparisons, as if Vernon's three-month stint in self-imposed exile wasn't just an exercise in survivalism but an attempt to underscore the distance dividing Bon Iver from his contemporaries. Certainly, For Emma, though only nine tracks long, is as beautiful, bleak and intimate as anything 2008 is likely to throw up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/boniver"&gt;Bon Iver at Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wolves (Act I &amp; II)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdn.last.fm/videoplayer/33/VideoPlayer.swf" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="lfmEmbed_50_4713356_2056275930" width="340" height="289"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://cdn.last.fm/videoplayer/33/VideoPlayer.swf" /&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="title=The+Wolves+%28Act+I+%26+II%29&amp;amp;uniqueName=4713356&amp;amp;albumArt=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.last.fm%2Fdepth%2Fcatalogue%2Fnoimage%2Fnocover_flashplayer.png&amp;amp;duration=334&amp;amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fuserserve-ak.last.fm%2Fserve%2Fimage%3A320%2F4713356.jpg&amp;amp;FSSupport=true&amp;amp;track=true&amp;amp;creator=Bon+Iver" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt; &lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="000000" /&gt; &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque" /&gt; &lt;param name="menu" value="false" /&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-5734014230918773614?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/5734014230918773614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=5734014230918773614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/5734014230918773614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/5734014230918773614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2009/01/best-albums-2008.html' title='Best Albums 2008'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/SVy_uScNZZI/AAAAAAAAAAY/xHo87Oyd9LI/s72-c/The+Gutter+Twins_Saturnalia_cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-1703306471431773655</id><published>2008-02-17T12:11:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-17T12:55:42.219+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The meaning of 8'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cloud Cult'/><title type='text'>Another good album of 2007</title><content type='html'>Så kom første tilføjelse til 2007-listen allerede ;o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dette er simpelthen et fremragende album!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cloudcult.com"&gt;Cloud Cult's website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/cloudcult"&gt;Cloud Cult's myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cloudcult.com/images/8coverlg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.cloudcult.com/images/8coverlg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;lostatsea.net:&lt;/span&gt; With its opening barrage of digital organicism, Cloud Cult's follow up to 2005's acclaimed and unfortunately named Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus sets about exemplifying the creative bloom of sound collage. While not necessarily directly in deed, primary songwriter Craig Minowa exhibits in spirit the high points of pop music's excesses; lines can be drawn from The Meaning of 8 to the old (Pixies, the heyday of the Elephant 6 collective) and the new (Arcade Fire, Dan Snaith's Manitoba/Caribou). Awkward vocals, oddball dynamics, weeping strings, dirty electronic flourishes, off-piste melodies - although it is all loosely, sometimes perilously darned together, everything is here to a certain degree and ultimately it all holds water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lyrically, Minowa is in peak form here, which warrants mentioning due to the fact that his vocal delivery is generally high in the mix, often delivered in a cadence that adds its own percussive punch at the right time. The Meaning of 8's topical projections touch on compassion, voyeurism, faith, escapism, naturalist ideas and of course the personal trials of the singer himself, who lost his young son several years ago. While the songs are sermons of a sort, Minowa never really gets preachy; his delivery is often over-the-top but never feels pretentious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much like the business end of things (the environmental impact of their tours are offset by the purchase of green energy credits, the production of their CDs is undertaken with recycled materials and clean energy), Cloud Cult's music teeters on the knife-edge between indulgence and restraint. Balance is everything. The band's songs are wrought with dissonance and turmoil, but the melodies are palpable enough to provide parity, at times conjuring visions of Frankensteinian ensembles like Kammerflimmer Kollektief fronted by Mates of State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the early going The Meaning of 8's distorted bass lines bound with ebullience beneath a clattering kitchen sink din of toy piano, dilapidated drum kit, electric and acoustic guitars, laptop glitches, glockenspiel, and bowed strings. The ingredients might not be off the shelf, but the pudding is far from proofless, as The Meaning of 8's beats are effusive, prompting if not toe tapping then at the least head nodding, and on occasion ("Please Remain Calm" is a good example from the album's early going) go so far as to incite dance floor grooves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Brain Gateway" is an off-key dirge, its blown-out bass (reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel's On Avery Island) paired as counterpoint with Minowa's plaintive vocals, the subdued melodies of keys and toy piano treating the track to a bright balance. "Purpose" hums along, fuzzy synth lines anchoring a mélange of airy percussion and distant, filtered piano. Later, the raucous instrumental "Shape of 8" pairs hollow digital drums with a swell of squelching effects and glittery tambourine for a minute and a half before drifting off into the carnivalesque parade of "The Girl Underground."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when there seems to be a tug toward restraint, such as in "The Deaf Girl's Song," simple acoustic guitar strums, with accompaniment from soft percussion and sweeping strings, eventually birth a fullness of their own that, while a far cry from the album's more congested numbers, is rich in its own right. The track is followed by "Hope," which likewise begins softly enough before devolving into a teeming swirl of sounds, the band's innumerable elements and tones fighting amongst themselves while drowning in their own wake. The track eventually calms down and fades out to the dead silence of "Song of the Deaf Girl" at album's end, and just like that the 19 tracks are primed for another cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although The Meaning of 8 is wrought with beautiful moments - quasi symphonic passages, touching vocal melodies, invigorating (but never abrupt) dynamic shifts - the album's imperfections are what perhaps best exemplifies Cloud Cult's textural agenda. Their music, like life, isn't about surgical precision or hygienic sheen; sticking your head into the middle of a Cloud Cult track, like sticking your head into any given moment in the stream of life, can be disorienting and chaotic, if not downright scary. But viewed from a panoramic vantage point The Meaning of 8 is about impulse, saturation, dirt under the nails, wounds that scab over and become beautiful scars. As remote or bristling as things might feel one second, in the end everything works out, for better or worse, blemishes and all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chemicals Collide:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KMskKuG6Vsc&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KMskKuG6Vsc&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty Voice:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qMpOhwUTUwc&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qMpOhwUTUwc&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chain Reaction:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QIdNdMM6xyk&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QIdNdMM6xyk&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-1703306471431773655?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/1703306471431773655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=1703306471431773655' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/1703306471431773655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/1703306471431773655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2008/02/another-good-album-of-2007.html' title='Another good album of 2007'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-7477017577679439233</id><published>2008-01-20T17:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T17:39:44.564+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ryan Adams'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letterman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I taught myself how to grow old'/><title type='text'>Ryan Adams on Letterman</title><content type='html'>Excellent performance by Ryan Adams &amp; The Cardinals!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I taught myself how to grow old!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dty4Jk0eERA&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dty4Jk0eERA&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-7477017577679439233?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/7477017577679439233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=7477017577679439233' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/7477017577679439233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/7477017577679439233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2008/01/ryan-adams-on-letterman.html' title='Ryan Adams on Letterman'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-7920199870016886375</id><published>2007-12-28T16:04:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T17:42:26.935+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bright Eyes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Richmond Fontaine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Andrew Bird'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beirut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='J. Tillman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fionn Regan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joe Henry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Shins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bloc Party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The National'/><title type='text'>10 Good Albums of 2007</title><content type='html'>Jeg har nu endeligt fået taget mig sammen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det er ikke en "Best of 2007"-liste, da jeg langt fra har fået hørt de plader, som bliver anbefalet på de forskellige musikblogs. Det er bare 10 gode plader, som jeg virkelig er faldet for!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det kan være, at jeg laver en "best of"-liste, hen over sommeren eller vinteren næste år...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tak til alle, der har leverede de gode anmeldelser!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I alfabetisk orden:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/28019.armchairapocrypha.gif?"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/28019.armchairapocrypha.gif?" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Allmusic.com:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Armchair Apocrypha, Andrew Bird takes another developmental departure from his previous works, though not nearly in as drastic a fashion as his previous album-to-album jumps in style. This has become expected of Bird and is one of the merits that make each of his releases highly anticipated. Where in the past Bird has impressed listeners with his violin artistry and vocal delivery, and later his use of electronic looping and whistling, with Armchair he allows the songs to breath more on their own, using the aforementioned elements to blend into the structural integrity of the songs rather than predominately featuring each component. This is not to say his previous approaches were ineffective, but rather an observation that is one of the essential reasons Armchair Apocrypha holds together more cohesively than Bird's previous outings. Perhaps the heavy inclusion of drummer and electric pianist Martin Dosh has much to do with this cohesion; it is the first time Dosh and Bird have teamed up on a recording, though the two had been touring together with regularity for a couple of years previous to this. Dosh provides excellent propulsion as a drummer and his Rhodes/Wurlitzer playing adds a deep and dynamic warmth to the entire album. With a few other guests, most noticeably bassist Chris Morrissey's playing on five of the 12 tracks, Armchair is the first album since the 2001 release of The Swimming Hour that feels like a band playing together rather than songs built in separate layers. The majority of the album feels so much more relaxed than much of Bird's previous works, due much in part to his almost laconic vocal delivery throughout. It's the first album that captures Bird's much lauded live approach, almost as if he had hit some completely transcendental place mentally, forgotten his place in the studio, and instead just sang while in some distant reverie -- the way one sings unencumbered while washing the dishes in an empty house and, unknowingly, hones his artistic blade cleaning dirty knife by dirty knife. The most excellent example of this delivery is on the majestically sprawling "Armchairs," a complex and dynamic number that unfolds cinematically in that it entirely captures attention and does not relent through nearly seven minutes, even without a single repeating melody. It is only fitting, then, that in the first climax of "Armchairs," Bird belts out, "Time, it's a crooked bow!" over a dramatic musical descent. And he's right, the seven minutes in which "Armchairs" unfolds are so captivating, the time feels cut in half. That said, the entirety of Armchair Apocrypha does not completely have that level of looseness and adventure. "Imitosis," a reworked version of "I" from the 2003 release Weather Systems, holds some of the stiffness of Bird's previous recordings which, to be fair, did not seem so stiff before Armchair Apocrypha was released. Still, as likeable a revision as "Imitosis" is, the song feels somewhat out of place alongside the bulk of these tracks and, being the second album in a row where Bird has updated a song from Weather Systems ("Skin Is, My" from The Mysterious Production of Eggs was an update of "Skin" from Weather Systems), it is hard not to begin listening to his back catalog searching for possibly half-baked ideas. This feeling generally dissipates when listening to songs such as "Armchairs," the undeniably catchy "Plasticities" (that Bird's delivery of the chorus' lyric "We'll fight..." sounds like "Whale fight..." only makes the song more endearing), or the drum-loop based "Simple X," co-written by Dosh, but is notable enough to contemplate whether or not Bird was confident in his previous albums or simply felt inspired to remake the past.It would be negligent not to mention the careful engineering and mixing that so clearly went into the making of Armchair Apocrypha, as it is, sonically, the most pleasing work not only that Bird has done, but that has come out in some time. The guitars and electric pianos are decidedly rich in tone and though at any given moment there are endless shifting layers of vocals, violins, guitars and more, Armchair Apocrypha never feels cluttered. Certainly, this is due in part to the exceptional arrangements, but also credit is due to the wonderful placement of the instruments in the mix throughout the recording. This, in part with the further adventurous nature of Bird's developments as a songwriter and performer make Armchair Apocrypha the finest recording he has made to date, an impressive achievement considering his remarkable catalog thus far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Beirut - The Flying Club Cup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j100/j10029ljmb9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj100/j100/j10029ljmb9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Allmusic.com:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit Zach Condon for not acting his age. While many 21-year-olds are working on finishing up their undergraduate years, Condon is making albums. And not just any messily-recorded-in-the-garage (or GarageBand) albums, but fully developed and composed and realized albums. His first full-length, under the name Beirut, Gulag Orkestar, with its Eastern European-inspired horns and strings, a kind of Neutral Milk Hotel-meets-gypsy field recordings, was adored in the indie rock world, and its successor, The Flying Club Cup, is an even more mature accomplishment. Though not as immediately catchy as his debut, The Flying Club Cup contains a sense of intrigue that pulls the listener in beguilingly, twisting and swaying and marching its way through the romanticized ideas of the Balkan town, the rustic Southern French village, the small Italian trattoria. It's elaborate New World indie pop that tries to touch the Old as best it can. Flügelhorns and accordions and mandolins line the 13 songs here like old bricks, Condon's voice rising elegiacally over in layered swells, tired and wise, inspired by, but not limited to, the rich French musical past, from Tino Rossi to Jacques Brel. Because Beirut plays music that feels like it's been reflected off a long and storied life, there's the possibility for unearned pretension to appear, but there's a real sincerity, and a sense of life, that finds its way into the songs here. Condon and his collaborators (which include Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett, who even sings on the lovely "Cliquot") have not forgotten the kind of jocularity and community inherent in the folk traditions they pull from, so even as violins, organs, and harpsichords play dramatic and acute melodies and the vocals ascend to a feverish intensity, that feeling of being in the back of some tavern, passing around dishes and glasses and singing aloud with your compatriots, is present, and keeps things grounded, more real. "In the Mausoleum" balances syncopated piano with minor melodies and an ominous upright bass, while both "Guyamas Sonora" and the title track use dramatic horns to convey a kind of triumph in the prosperity of the tradition. It's thoughtful and fun and sophisticated, utterly alluring, another fantastic success by Zach Condon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri300/i373/i37330xbhar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri300/i373/i37330xbhar.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gaffa.dk:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambrosisk og ambitiøs toer fra London-kvartetten&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meget tyder på, at man godt kan skille sig af med de tyndslidte dansesko, man anskaffede sig, da den dansable postpunk-tsunami skyllede ind over os for et par år siden, for The Killers har kastet sig over stadionrocken, og Bloc Party har med dette andet album flyttet fokus fra vores fødder til vores hoveder. Tempoet er sænket, og dramatikken er hævet tilsvarende på denne ambitiøse og ambrosiske plade, hvor klaustrofobiens kolde kløer holder lytteren i et jerngreb. Det lyder måske ikke særligt forførende, og A Weekend In The City er heller ingen umiddelbar nem plade, men med tiden vil der åbne sig en voluminøs rock-åbenbaring. Frontmand Kele Okereke er for alvor trådt i karakter som sangskriver, og med producer-talentet Jacknife Lee, der tidligere har haft fingrene i U2 og The Raveonettes, med ved roret er det lykkedes at indfange kvartettens kompositoriske kompleksitet, så det lyder som et kvantespring og ikke en omgang højpandet art-rod. Albummets absolutte højdepunkt er førstesinglen The Prayer, der starter ud med noget, der lyder som en kloning af et hiphop-beat og en voodoo-hymne for derefter at udvikle sig til en futuristisk post-postpunk-perle med en stikkende intergalaktisk guitarsolo, som Muses Matt Bellamy må bande og svovle over ikke at stå bag. Hvis alle bands gik lige så ambitiøst til deres debut-opfølger som Bloc Party, kunne man én gang for alle få udryddet anmelder-klichéen om den svære toer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Bright Eyes - Cassadaga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/0/4/9/999405_170x170.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/5/0/4/9/999405_170x170.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Uncut.co.uk:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conor Oberst’s latest Bright Eyes album, named for a spiritualist community in Florida, opens with field recordings of fortune-tellers urging him to move on, both geographically and emotionally, “getting rid of the old ways of feeling and thinking.” The songs that follow see him, largely, taking that advice. Recorded in five cities, with contributions from a host of musicians including M Ward and Sleater-Kinney alumna Janet Weiss, "Cassadega" is suffused with a sense of buoyancy and motion, as if Oberst were on a quest to find his future self.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In “If the Brakeman Turns My Way,” he’s on the run from burn-out (“I’m headed for New England, or the Paris of the south/ Gonna find myself some way to level out”). “Four Winds”—which blows in on a gust of honky-tonk pedal steel and effusive guitars—takes him to “old Dakota where a genocide sleeps/ In the Black Hills, the Badlands, the calloused East”. On penultimate track “I Must Belong Somewhere,” he appears to have found a fleeting peace: “Leave the sad guitar in its hard-shelled case/ Leave the worried look on your lover’s face…Cuz everything must belong somewhere/ I know that now, that’s why I’m staying here.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instrumentally, "Cassadega" is fulsome, epic, and swirling, by far Oberst’s most sophisticated, seamless effort. On “Make a Plan to Love Me,” he even has a Bacharach moment, complete with a wide-screen orchestra and soulful backing vocals courtesy of Rachel Yamagata and Maria Taylor. And while some may miss that familiar Bright Eyes fidget and fumble, the warmth and assurance in its place is just as resonant.&lt;br /&gt;As the lyrics in gauzy closer “Lime Tree” (“I took off my shoes and walked into the woods/ I felt lost and found with every step I took”) indicate, this may well prove to be a transition album, a significant juncture on the road that Oberst is traveling. Behind him lies the young man so often heralded as a boy genius—"Cassadega" is a signpost to the man he will become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fionn Regan - The End of History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri800/i880/i88024pvo5g.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri800/i880/i88024pvo5g.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Allmusic.com:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The debut album by Irish-born, British-based singer/songwriter Fionn Regan was first released in the U.K. by ex-Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde's dream pop imprint Bella Union, before being picked up for U.S. distribution by the rootsy alt-country label Lost Highway. Impressively, it's a good fit for both labels. Regan keeps one foot in the singer/songwriter tradition -- comparisons to Damien Rice and Nick Drake are ubiquitous in his reviews, and for good reason -- but Regan's interest in specific soundscapes for their emotional resonances is a subtle but important philosophical link to the Cocteau Twins' sound for sounds' sake aesthetic. Regan recorded the majority of The End of History in a disused stone barn, live to a portable recorder. The natural reverb adds warmth to these often skeletal songs, most with little more accompaniment than Regan's acoustic guitar and practically whispered vocals. The sense of intimacy thus engendered adds weight to songs that might have otherwise seemed ethereally light, but at his best, Regan proves himself an immensely skilled songwriter. "I have become an aerial view of a coastal town that you once knew" is a startlingly apt image in the lovely lost-love lament "Be Good or Be Gone," and Regan's debut single "Put a Penny in the Slot" is an instant classic ranking with such wry slices of U.K. folk-rock as Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' "Perfect Skin" (right down to Regan's echoing of Cole's trademark habit of dropping authors' names in his lyrics, Paul Auster and Saul Bellow in this case) and any number of Richard Thompson's romantic character studies. The End of History suggests that a major talent may be brewing here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Joe Henry - Civilians&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri900/i988/i98895d8nms.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri900/i988/i98895d8nms.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gaffa.dk:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madonnas svoger udtrykker totalt nærvær som mesterlig singer-songwriter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der er Tom Waits, og så er der Joe Henry. Begge er enere og sangskrivere i en klasse for sig. De forstår på en skæv, utilpasset, men samtidig poetisk måde at tilføre en sang så meget litterær og filmisk skønhed, at den står lyslevende for én. Joe Henrys tiende udspil, Civilians, er ikke mindre end et lille mesterværk inden for sin genre af vedkommende singer-songwriter-rock, der som altid er herligt renset for klynk og selvmedlidenhed. Gennem tiderne har amerikaneren, som også er Madonnas svoger, virket som producer for Aimee Mann, Ani DiFranco og ikke mindst Solomon Burke. På Civilans omgiver Henry sig med et stjerneteam, som bl.a. tæller Bill Frisell, Van Dyke Parks, Greig Leisz og Loudon Wainwright III. Det slingrende titelnummer åbner med fuld pondus som i en ren rus, mens den støvede bluesballade Time Is A Lion slår til med et heftig singalong-omkvæd, og den sofistikerede lounge-jazz-popper Love Is Enough er et rent skønhedsmaleri. Civilans emmer af et særegent liv, hvor især Joe Henrys rustne vokalfraseringer, de sjælfulde fortællinger og musikerenes tilstedeværelse giver en fornemmelse af totalt nærvær.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;J. Tillman - Cancer and Delirium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri700/i781/i78154hlibb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri700/i781/i78154hlibb.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Herohill.com:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the world of overactive bloggers, I’m actually stunned that more people don’t sing the praises of J. Tillman. His records are honest, dark, melancholic, and beautiful. The Stranger declared his music breathy and breathtaking and I really can’t think of a better description.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yerbird released his new album – Cancer and Delirium – on Tuesday, and it is all I hoped and more. Despite his young age, Tillman writes the type of songs you expect a grizzled old man to be playing in the dark corners of a seedy bar. With only a few sparse strums and a delicate harmonica solo, Visions of a Troubled Mind sums up everything fantastic about his work. He doesn’t rely on anything, except his ear and his smoky voice. With instrumentation so soft you have to strain to hear, you get swept up in the wave of emotion his words deliver. As the song ends, you are left exhausted, but somehow craving more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tillman is not afraid to offer himself up on every track. He doesn’t hide his feelings behind solos, bridges, instruments, or even harmonies. He’s able to make you want to listen, but I don’t think he really cares if you do or not. His songs are his own, and that’s why they work. He strikes me as the type of person who would write a song about how a woman has shattered his heart, and sing that song to a room full of people (including the woman) who know the real story. Not to embarrass her, or be vindictive. Simply because those are the feelings he has inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ribbons of Glass stands out from the other tracks, simply because of the banjo riff and slow drawn strings that bolster the sound, but Tillman’s sound truly relies on what he doesn’t add. Instead of throwing in a pedal steel at every turn or echoing harmonies and lush strings, he resists the urge to over complicate things. That’s why the tender sound of the singing saw on A Fine Suit, the metallic plink of the xylophone on , or the vocal help on Under the Sun push through the gloomy from the haze. On any other record, they’d creep quietly, lost in the arrangements, but Tillman asks for help so rarely that the extra sounds can’t go unnoticed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’d like to describe this record, talking about every subtle squeak on the fret board, every nuance of his voice, but these songs are truly better heard than described.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The National - Boxer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/30785.boxer.jpg?"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/30785.boxer.jpg?" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pitchforkmedia.com:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among critics and fans, the National's third album Alligator has become synonymous with the term grower. Released to minor acclaim early in 2005, the album has since quietly and steadily built up a large, avid listenership. Matt Berninger's lyrics-- initially off-putting and seemingly obtuse in their non sequiturs and stray details-- proved unpretentiously poetic over time. His sober baritone and dogged repetition of phrases and passages made it sound like he was trying to figure the songs out in tandem with the listener. The band, meanwhile, played around the hooks instead of hard-selling them, so that in a sense, despite two previous albums and a killer EP, we all pretty much learned how to listen to the National on Alligator, eventually finding deeper shades of meanings in the words, sympathizing with Berninger's anxieties, laughing at his grim jokes, and tapping out the band's complex rhythms on desktops and steering wheels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a testament to the good will engendered by Alligator that fans are now likewise calling the National's follow-up, Boxer, a grower. Despite the scrutiny greeting its release (brought on by the inevitable leaks), many listeners seem to be approaching these songs patiently, giving Boxer the space and time to reveal its dark, asymmetrical passageways. In a sense, the album demands it. The same elements that kept listeners returning to Alligator (Berninger's clever turns of phrase, the band's dramatic intensity) are present on Boxer, but are now more restrained and controlled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the first piano chords on opener "Fake Empire", the National create a late-night, empty-city-street mood, slightly menacing but mostly isolated. The 10 tracks that follow sustain and even amplify that feeling, revealing the band's range as they play close to the vest. Aaron and Bryce Dessner's twin guitars don't so much battle one another as create a unified layer that acts as a full backdrop for the other instruments, while touring member Padma Newsome's string and horn arrangements infuse songs like "Mistaken for Strangers" and the stand-out "Ada" (featuring Sufjan Stevens on piano) with subtle drama. But Boxer is a drummer's album: Bryan Devendorf becomes a main player here, never merely keeping time but actively pushing the songs around. With machine precision, his fluttering tom rhythms add a heartbeat to "Squalor Victoria" and give "Brainy" its stalker tension. In fact, the title Boxer could conceivably be a reference to the way his rhythms casually spar with Berninger's vocal melodies, jabbing and swinging at the singer's empathies and emotions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite this implied violence, Boxer doesn't have the same aggressive self-reckoning and psychological damage assessment of Alligator. Here, Berninger sounds like he's able to look outward from that mental space instead of further inward. He observes the people around him-- friends, lovers, passersby-- alternately addressing them directly and imagining himself in their minds. Or, as he sings on "Green Gloves", "Get inside their clothes with my green gloves/ Watch their videos, in their chairs." He sounds more genuinely empathetic than previously (the accusatory you from the first two albums is thankfully absent), toying with ambiguity and backing away from outright satire. Certain themes continue to prevail: He maintains a fear of white-collar assimilation, addressing "Squalor Victoria" and "Racing Like a Pro" to upwardly mobile hipster-yuppies ("Underline everything/ I'm a professional/ In my beloved white shirt"), and clings to his American angst ("We're half awake in a fake empire"), as though recognizing the world's craziness makes him more sane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Better even than these songs are the three mid-album tracks that toy with a love = war metaphor that miraculously avoids the obviousness that implies. On "Slow Show", over background guitar drones and a piano theme that echoes U2's "New Year's Day", he daydreams, "I want to hurry home to you/ Put on a slow dumb show for you/ Crack you up." But the capper is in the coda: "You know I dreamed about you for 29 years before I saw you." That hard-won contentment begins to crumble in "Apartment Story", in which the world invades the couple's shared space, and in "Start a War", where the possibility of loss looms threateningly. "Walk away now and you're gonna start a war," Berninger sings against the band's simple, uncomfortably insistent rhythm, his concrete fears giving the song the extra heft of the personal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, it's pretty easy to read a lot into the National's music and especially into Berninger's lyrics, but that shouldn't imply that Boxer is a willfully difficult or overly academic work. Like those on their last album, these songs reveal themselves gradually but surely, building to the inevitable moment when they hit you in the gut. It's the rare album that gives back whatever you put into it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Richmond Fontaine - Thirteen Citees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.herohill.com/uploaded_images/rf-755067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.herohill.com/uploaded_images/rf-755067.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Uncut.co.uk:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Willy Vlautin has not been idle since the 2005 release of his sparse masterpiece, The Fitzgerald. There was an album of re-recorded work, showing Richmond Fontaine’s Portland roots in hardcore; an internet-only live set; and a novel, The Motel Life, which read like a prose version of one of his songs, following two losers round Reno as they waited for their luck to change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the laureate of the lost, the lonely, and the rootless, Vlautin was never likely to stand still, and while there is no dramatic change in the texture of his lyrics, the geography has altered. Vlautin’s drifters are still skirting the borders of oblivion, but their tales unfold against a desert backdrop. On “Ghost I Became”, he sends this stark postcard: “Desert dreams/Always sunny/And never grey/No noise/Just wind and sage.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The words are spare, but the sound has expanded. Recording in Tucson, Arizona, producer JD Foster drafted Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb (piano on “$87 And A Guilty Conscience That Gets Worse The Longer I Go”) and Calexico’s Joey Burns and Jacob Valenzuela. The widescreen sound, with the melancholy mists of Paul Brainard’s pedal steel cooling Calexico’s Mexican spaghetti stylings, is a surprise after The Fitzgerald. Sometimes it masks the blunt beauty of Vlautin’s storytelling, but it can also add a noirish sheen: Valenzuela’s gorgeous trumpet on “The Kid From Belmont Street” turns a maudlin song into a shimmering pulp opera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vlautin has been inspired by his surroundings, and there are at least two classics. The closer, “Lost In This World” (with Burns on piano) is worthy of early Tom Waits, though Vlautin’s voice displays vulnerability where Waits offers beat-up defiance. “St Ides, Parked Cars, And Other People’s Homes” is little more than a short poem, and Vlautin almost talks the words. But when he gets to the part about “fuck-ups, hanging on in our own way”, you know, as ever, he’s not faking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Shins - Wincing the Night Away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/25691.wincingthenightaway.gif?"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/25691.wincingthenightaway.gif?" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Drownedinsound.com:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last seen reducing lovely-bit-of-assassin-crumpet Natalie Portman to gushing tears in Zach Braff’s indie whingefest Garden State, hopes were riding high for a third instalment of profoundly joyous, literate guitar pop from Alberquerque’s finest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So when Wincing The Night Away was leaked on the internet a full three months before its official release, it was snaffled up by the tech-savvy fans who swiftly registered their responses online. Consensus was split into two camps – “they’ve matured!” cried the diehards, while detractors pointed to the muted tone slick production as evidence that The Shins had lost some of their celebrated sparkle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It certainly must have come as a bit of a shock. On ‘Sleeping Lessons’, arpeggiated keyboards shimmer and pop like bubbles rising lazily from frontman James Mercer’s watery vocal, but it’s two-and-a-half minutes before the band kicks in proper. Now, two minutes is a long time in Shins-world. Gilded pop hooks soar and beat their hasty retreat; tangents are pursued with relentlessly skewed logic; harmonies stack up and songs twist and turn out of all recognition. So 180 seconds of naught but watery keys is potentially quite worrying. But then swathes of hazy, thunderous guitar noise roll into earshot and suddenly everything clicks into place: it’s a finely-wrought piece of suspense, and the kiss-off is terrific.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look elsewhere on the album and you’ll find abundant evidence of a newfound maturity, and not in the r’n’b sense of the word. It’s in the slouching, Betas-through-an-opiate-haze beats of ‘Sea Legs’. It’s in the way that the trebly, Cramps-ish lullaby ‘Pam Berry’ segues into epic first single ‘Phantom Limb’, a typically obtuse meditation on small-town life. The latter is classic Shins, but the hooks are more ripe, the delivery less hurried and more sure-footed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mercer has cited insomnia as a major influence around the time of writing for the album, and that much figures. If Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow were like ADHD-riddled cousins, unable to inhabit their own thoughts for longer than a few seconds at a time, then Wincing The Night Away is the Ritalin-gorged riposte. Its bounce is more bleary-eyed; its euphoric bouts tempered by a weird, waking-dream sensation that some dark presence is stalking the peripheries of its foggy vision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Mexico may be a long way from palm-strewn beaches of California, but Mercer remains the Brian Wilson of his generation, an unrivalled pop conjurer whose elegant way with a melody dispenses with the notion that pop’s strictly for tarts. On Wincing The Night Away, he dispels yet another myth, that maturity and pop music go together like foot and mouth. So says we: roll on middle age.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-7920199870016886375?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/7920199870016886375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=7920199870016886375' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/7920199870016886375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/7920199870016886375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2007/12/best-albums-of-2007.html' title='10 Good Albums of 2007'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-5400751738103345206</id><published>2007-11-18T14:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T17:43:36.398+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joe Henry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Civilians'/><title type='text'>Dette kunne være årets plade!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/R0A8OnPoujI/AAAAAAAAAAM/J2-ui1lIU6w/s1600-h/Joe+Henry.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/R0A8OnPoujI/AAAAAAAAAAM/J2-ui1lIU6w/s400/Joe+Henry.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134169796952767026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det er efterhånden nået hen på den tid af året, hvor de bedste plader for det forgangne år skal kåres. Et bud må helt sikkert være Joe Henry's Civilians. Pladen kan vel bedst beskrives som en blanding af jazz, soul og country. Pånær det første nummer, som ikke rigtigt passer ind på pladen, så består den af nogle fremragende sange. Nummeret "Our Song" stikker dog ud, som noget af det smukkeste jeg har hørt længe. Nummeret kan høres inde på JH's website og hans myspace side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://joehenrylovesyoumadly.com/"&gt;joehenrylovesyoumadly.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/joehenry2"&gt;Joe Henry på Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G_D8Hxou9PQ&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G_D8Hxou9PQ&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-5400751738103345206?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/5400751738103345206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=5400751738103345206' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/5400751738103345206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/5400751738103345206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2007/11/dette-kunne-vre-rets-plade.html' title='Dette kunne være årets plade!!'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UoNcH9HP9Lw/R0A8OnPoujI/AAAAAAAAAAM/J2-ui1lIU6w/s72-c/Joe+Henry.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-8065994151884617251</id><published>2007-10-23T19:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T17:44:26.873+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nantes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beirut'/><title type='text'>Fantastisk video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="255"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/5EuQprCutAxe9kPxs"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/5EuQprCutAxe9kPxs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="255" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yerq_beirut-nantes-from-the-flying-club_music"&gt;BEIRUT - Nantes - from The Flying Club Cup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sendt af &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/flyingclubcup"&gt;flyingclubcup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-8065994151884617251?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/8065994151884617251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=8065994151884617251' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/8065994151884617251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/8065994151884617251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2007/10/fantastisk-video.html' title='Fantastisk video'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-3111077252820470604</id><published>2007-07-24T12:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T12:17:53.768+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sommerferie!</title><content type='html'>Nu er det blevet tid til den halvårlige post - for lige at se om det stadig virker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her skulle være nogle af mine favoritter fra Fabchannel...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.fabchannel.com/embed/player.swf?up=jakoba97.playlist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="346" allowFullScreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-3111077252820470604?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/3111077252820470604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=3111077252820470604' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/3111077252820470604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/3111077252820470604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2007/07/sommerferie.html' title='Sommerferie!'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-5942745823079103665</id><published>2006-12-10T15:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T15:43:58.902+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bedste albums i 2006</title><content type='html'>Det er jo så på det her tidspunkt at man skal til at lave sine favoritlister for det sidste år. Da jeg ikke har tid til det, så kan man se andres herinde:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2006/12/2006_yearend_mu.html"&gt;Album of the year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der skal lyde en tak til largeheartedboy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-5942745823079103665?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/5942745823079103665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=5942745823079103665' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/5942745823079103665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/5942745823079103665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2006/12/bedste-albums-i-2006.html' title='Bedste albums i 2006'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-116196555047642355</id><published>2006-10-27T17:57:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T18:01:57.521+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thomas Dybdahl'/><title type='text'>Thomas Dybdahl d. 5 november 2006 på Grand</title><content type='html'>Og nu når vi er igang med livekoncerterne, så kommer Thomas Dybdahl til Aalborg d. 5. november 2006 i forbindelse med hans "Science tour". Hvordan de nye sange vil klare sig live er svært at vurdere. Umiddelbart tror jeg ikke de passer specielt godt, men T.D. har tidligere lavet meget om på arrangementerne i forbindelse med livekoncerter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iøvrigt kan man se koncert med Dybdahl fra Paradiso i Amsterdam i aften, så der kan man få en fornemmelse af hvad koncerten vil bringe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thomasdybdahl.com/"&gt;http://www.thomasdybdahl.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-116196555047642355?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/116196555047642355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=116196555047642355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116196555047642355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116196555047642355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2006/10/thomas-dybdahl-d-5-november-2006-p.html' title='Thomas Dybdahl d. 5 november 2006 på Grand'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-116196453562731598</id><published>2006-10-27T17:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T17:55:35.636+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Godt nyt!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.geofffarina.com/images/geoff_home_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 173px;" src="http://www.geofffarina.com/images/geoff_home_2.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Den tidligere frontmand for Karate Geoff Farina vender tilbage til Aalborg den 16. december 2006 på 1000fryd, hvilket er rigtigt godt nyt. Desværre bliver det nok alene uden de andre fra Karate. Men spændende bliver det!&lt;br /&gt;Koncerten bliver nok meget anderledes i forhold til sidste gang, hvor han troppede op med hele bandet. Karate blev splittet pga. at G.F. fik problemer med hørelsen vist nok tinnitus, så jeg forventer et akustisk show, men jeg kender ikke hans nye materiale...&lt;br /&gt;Iøvrigt fik han højst sandsynligt skaden under koncerten med opvarmningsbandet Zu, som demonstrerede stort talent i, hvordan man kan få kombinationen trommer, bas og saxofon til at larme mest muligt...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geofffarina.com/"&gt;http://www.geofffarina.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-116196453562731598?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/116196453562731598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=116196453562731598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116196453562731598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116196453562731598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2006/10/godt-nyt.html' title='Godt nyt!!'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-116092491423153736</id><published>2006-10-15T17:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T17:46:36.979+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Live concerts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paradiso'/><title type='text'>Live koncerter fra Paradiso</title><content type='html'>Hvis der skulle være een ude i det ganske land, som har interesse i at se livekoncerter fra det "legendariske" sted Paradiso i Amsterdam og Melkweg (også Amsterdam), som jeg ikke har hørt om tidligere, så skulle det være muligt at opnå dette via &lt;a href="http://www.fabchannel.com/"&gt;http://www.fabchannel.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der er rigtigt meget spændende derinde fra Low til Bright Eyes til Explosions in the Sky + meget mere...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kvaliteten er ganske god :o)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-116092491423153736?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/116092491423153736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=116092491423153736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116092491423153736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116092491423153736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2006/10/live-koncerter-fra-paradiso.html' title='Live koncerter fra Paradiso'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-116076767577060725</id><published>2006-10-13T21:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-13T21:27:55.776+02:00</updated><title type='text'>It's coming home... It's coming home</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Tin Cuppen begiver sig ud på en ny rejse og går online...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Den 29. juli 2006 var det endnu en gang tid til at dyste. Det var den 9. i rækken... og absolut en af de mest spændende. Endnu engang blev turneringen afholdt under ekstreme vejrbetingelser og som sædvanlig blev turneringen afviklet i den rette ånd med kun få forsøg på snyd, flabetheder og mandehørm (sure tæer...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuppen fandt først sin rette ejermand på sidste hul, da undertegnede holede et fantastisk putt fra 2½ meter. Lennart havde ellers lagt sig i en god position inden hul 35 og 36, men som så ofte før gik den førende ned på grund af nerver, hvilket resulterede i, at 2 bolde blev høvlet out of bounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Den samlede stilling er nu Esben 4, Jakob 3 og Lennart 2, og det er endnu ikke lykkedes nogle at score et hattrick, selvom alle kneb er blevet benyttet for at opnå dette.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-116076767577060725?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/116076767577060725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=116076767577060725' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116076767577060725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116076767577060725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2006/10/its-coming-home-its-coming-home.html' title='It&apos;s coming home... It&apos;s coming home'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35978141.post-116076257557666847</id><published>2006-10-13T20:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-13T20:43:37.740+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A Rock in the Weary Land</title><content type='html'>Den 13. oktober 2006 ser en ny blog dagens lys... og den fik en god modtagelse...&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2373/4013/400/6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35978141-116076257557666847?l=a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/feeds/116076257557666847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35978141&amp;postID=116076257557666847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116076257557666847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35978141/posts/default/116076257557666847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-rock-in-the-weary-land.blogspot.com/2006/10/rock-in-weary-land.html' title='A Rock in the Weary Land'/><author><name>Jakob</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
