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Elf Fatima - Kill All W
Label: Monitor Records
Year: 2001
Genre: Post-rock meets shoegazing

Album Cover - grosso icky wicky sticky armpit hair alert
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1. Blind Cinema
2. Lost
3. Spiritual Suicide
4. Adam Killed Eve
5. Your Mind Has Been Damaged
6. Jealous #2
7. Almost Perfect Day
8. Immerse
9. Spiritual Suicide (Samaritan Mojo Mix)
10. Adam Killed Eve (Eden Mix)
11. Adam Killed Eve (Outro)

Since the band is from Hong Kong, I can't find any English reviews of the album. Sorry.

Some random Classical Music in one download, and my favorite album from 2006 in the other. Let's get started:

Samuel Barber - Prayers of Kierkegaard, Agnus Dei; Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms; Aaron Copland - In the Beginning

Genre: Classical

Tracklist
(there's two sets of numbers, cuz of the two folders within the download)
Samuel Barber - Prayers of Kierkegaard
01 - Grave and Remote (O Thou Who Art Unchangeable)
02 - Andante con molto tranquillo (Lord Jesus Christ Who Suffer'd)
03 - Un poco mosso (Father in Heaven)
04 - Allegro molto
05 - Quietly (Father in Heaven!)

Random Other Choral Music
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
01 - I. Urah, Hanevel, V'chinor!
02 - II. Adonai, ro-i, le Ehsar
03 - III. Adonai, Adonai

Samuel Barber
04 - Agnus Dei

Aaron Copland
05 - In the Beginning


Review:

OK, so, I've got a bunch of stuff stuck together here.

First and foremost is Samuel Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard, which is heavy metal music in classical form. This recording doesn't show it as much, but hear it performed live and see the percussionists blasting away at their drums during the orchestral segment (track 4 up there), I swear to God, you'll be throwing horns. The texts are, as is obvious enough by the title, from the writings of Kierkegaard, and is an exploration of love for God. The piece starts quietly, with unaccompanied male voices stating the main melodic idea, before quickly building to a peak. This goes on for a while, and then there is a Soprano solo through the second portion. The third portion is a slow build, with an odd time signature shift to highlight the text more and a two-chorus section bouncing melodic bits back and forth. Next comes the aforementioned instrumental section, which is the dynamic climax of the piece. Following that is one final declarative section, another slow build to a massive choral chord to end the piece.

The other folder contains Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, a piece written entirely in Hebrew. It is both aggressive and beautiful. Following that is the choral arrangement of Barber's ubiquitous Adagio for Strings, and finally Copland's A cappella choral version of the story of creation. (oh by the way, I've sung each of these in choirs before)

O Thou who art unchangeable whom nothing changes


The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra

Released - 2006
Label - Hevydevy Records
Genre - Heavy Prog



Tracklist:

01. Let It Roll
02. Hypergeek
03. Triumph
04. The Babysong
05. Vampolka
06. Vampira
07. Mental Tan
08. Gaia
09. Pixillate
0. Judgement
11. A Simple Lullaby
12. Sunset
13. Notes From Africa
14. Sunshine (bonus)

Review:
This is my hands-down FAVORITE album to be released 2006; granted, I love about everything the man puts his hands on, but still. From the opening gentleness of "Let it Roll," there is no pause in the sound until the end of "Sunshine." Hypergeek is a building track; starts out very simple and pretty before utterly exploding halfway through. Vampolka is . . . a polka track with the same musical material as Vampyra, a rather fun little metal-tinged track. Gaia is the best song on the damn album, and it's a good thing, too; it's the linchpin that holds the album together as a cohesive whole. A Simple Lullabye is neither (it's also got Devin's trademark "throw crowd noises into an album recording" track; there's one on just about every album I can think of), while Notes from Africa is catchy as HELL. That chanting is great. Sunshine, the bonus track, is a tribute to hair metal; I mean the CHEESIEST kind. I swear to god.

God, I hate having to review something that I just love so much. It's hard to pinpoint everything.

Natural equation of it all

Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver
Year: 1976
Label: Arista
Genre: Jazz / Soundtrack



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1. Main Title
2. Thank God For The Rain
3. Cleaning The Cab
4. I Still Can't Sleep / They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme)
5. Phone Call / I Realize How Much She is Like the Others / A Strange Customer / Watching Palantine on TV / You're Gonna Die in Hell / Betsy's Theme / Hitting the Girl
6. The .44 Magnum Is A Monster
7. Getting Into Shape / Listen You Screwheads / Gun Play / Dear Father & Mother / The Card / Soap Opera
8. Sport And Iris
9. The $20 Bill / Target Practice
10. Assassination Attempt / After The Carnage
11. A Reluctant Hero/Betsy / End Credits
12. Diary Of A Taxi Driver (Album Version)
13. God's Lonely Man (Album Version, With Alternate Ending)
14. Theme From Taxi Driver
15. I Work The Whole City
16. Betsy In A White Dress
17. The Days Do Not End
18. Theme From Taxi Driver (Reprise)

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I was 11 years old when I watched Taxi Driver and at the time the only other movie that I remember watching that I probably shouldn't have been watching was The Exorcist. Before that, I had no real concept of the importance of music in a film. Years later after giving it a more thorough and more objective viewing I realized that Herrmann's score was the oil that ensured the smooth function of that locomotive of a film. It would have been a fucking trainwreck without it. Overtones of horns and ever-so-subtle percussion represent the strength and impression of solidity that Travis Bickle oozes from every pore in his body right down to the asocial tendencies.

This is a very haunting and sombre jazz-tinged music score. The majority of the it is dark horns with a prominent and sexy saxophone jazz element to it. Oh, and what sexy jazz it is. One can almost smell the clammy night streets and see the sleazy night clubs of 1970's New York while sinking one's self into this piece. As if that's not enough, the track "Diary of a Taxi Driver" contains Robert DeNiro's narration from his character's diary over Herrmann's music. Social cleansing never sounded so sweet.

This was Bernard Herrmann's final film soundtrack and the last work he completed before his death. He died from cardiovascular disease in his sleep at his hotel in Los Angeles, California the night he completed the final recording session for Taxi Driver. Scorsese dedicated the film to his memory.

Elf Fatima - Elf Fatima
Label: Monitor Records
Year: 2005
Genre: Post-rock meets shoegazing


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Stuff in parenthesis is not the best translation, but whatever.
01. Frozen Forest
02. 螻蟻 - (Ants)
03. 破浪 - (Breaking the Waves)
04. Fourtracksonetakememory
05. 慈悲 - (Mercy)
06. 昨晚再從高處墮下 - (Last Night From Falls)
07. 喃 - (Mumble)
08. 無 - (Without)
bonus Track:
09 破浪 (Feat. Jack Or Jive)- (Breaking the Waves)
10.昨晚我從高處墮下(Noise Version) - (Last Night From Falls)

review from Tiny Mix Tapes
Rooted in heavy psychedelia and post-rock, Elf Fatima is an atmospherically beautiful, sometimes stormy album. The heavier elements of the band ensure that everything is louder and more driving than your more breezy post-rock types. Eschewing the aforementioned genres’ tendencies towards abstraction, a fore grounded rhythm section keeps the songs focused in the midst of oceans of tonal layers. With already loud drums and bass, the guitars struggle to be the stars of the show, often taking the lead melodically without ever being flashy or excessive. However, more than anything, the powerful alto vocals of Elf prove to be the band’s secret weapon. The lone human sound floats above the mix, providing a beautiful layer of clarity amongst the masses of distortion and heavy percussion. While at times all the heaviness can make the band sound like they are fighting, often something beautiful comes about as a result.

The Exploders - The Exploders


Garage / Rock / Psychedelic / Retro

Track List
1. BBC Intro
2. My Country Brain
3. Stepping Out
4. Cowboy Jim
5. Big Hair Revolution
6. Can't Sleep
7. Hugh's Lullaby
8. Please Please
9. Gods Above
10. Fuzz Bomb
11. Everybody Knows
12. [Hidden Track]

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Howard Shore/Ornette Coleman - Naked Lunch Soundtrack

Year: 1992
Label: RCA
Genre: Jazz



You couldn't do much better for a soundtrack to David Cronenberg's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' beat classic than have Ornette Coleman team up with Howard Shore, a film composer who keeps within the strictures of classic film score ideals and colorations, but explores them with the intelligence of Bernard Herrmann. Coleman's free jazz complements the schizophrenia of the film and pays homage to the generation that preceded (and gave birth to) him, while Shore maintains the melancholic dread that powers most Cronenberg films. Like the film -- where the Algiers of the story might only be Bill Lee's imagination -- Shore uses Arabian elements sparingly, and in the context of the cool New York sound. Wondrous strange.

Tracks:
1. Naked Lunch
2. Hauser and O'Brien/Bugpowder
3. Mugwumps
4. Centipede
5. Black Meat
6. Simpatico/Misterioso
7. Fadela's Coven
8. Interzone Suite
9. William Tell
10. Mujahaddin
11. Intersong
12. Dr. Benway
13. Clark Nova Dies
14. Ballad/Joan
15. Cloquet's Parrots/Midnight Sunrise
16. Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted
17. Welcome to Annexia
18. Writeman

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Lush - Spooky
Label: 4AD
Year: 1992
Genre: Shoegazing


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1. Stray
2. Nothing Natural
3. Tiny Smiles
4. Covert
5. Ocean
6. For Love
7. Superblast!
8. Untogether
9. Fantasy
10. Take
11. Laura
12. Monochrome

review from Tiny Mix Tapes
Lush takes the standard rock/pop instruments—guitars, bass, and drums—and fuses them into a huge rush of noisy sound, placing it very much in the front of their music. Yet that rush of sound is definitely musical, with a strong beat and bright guitar work slicing through the noise. Occasional distortion, feedback, and other tricks add to the fun. Woven deeply in this music are the gorgeous vocals of Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson, often with some wonderful harmonies. Yet these vocals are buried in the music, becoming merely one more part of the huge sound, rather than front and center. Lush puts these odd pieces together with some great songs for different and wonderful music, music which is best heard *loud*.

Benjamin Britten - War Requiem
Label: Decca
Year: 1963
Genre: Classical


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* Requiem aeternam (10 minutes)
1. Requiem aeternam (chorus and boys' choir)
2. "What passing bells" (tenor solo)
* Dies irae (27 minutes)
3. Dies irae (chorus)
4. "Bugles sang" (baritone solo)
5. Liber scriptus (soprano solo and chorus)
6. "Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death" (tenor and baritone soli)
7. Recordare (women's chorus)
-. Confutatis (men's chorus)
8. "Be slowly lifted up" (baritone solo)
9. Reprise of Dies irae (chorus)
10, 11 Lacrimosa (soprano and chorus) interspersed with "Move him, move him" (soprano solo and chorus; tenor solo)
* Offertorium (10 minutes)
12. Domine Jesu Christe (boys' choir)
- Quam olim Abrahae' (chorus)
13. Isaac and Abram ("So Abram rose") (tenor and baritone soli)
- Hostias et preces tibi (boys' choir)
- Reprise of Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)
* Sanctus (10 minutes)
14. Sanctus and Benedictus (soprano solo and chorus)
15. "After the blast of lightning" (baritone solo)
* Agnus Dei (4 minutes)
16. Agnus Dei (chorus) interspersed with "One ever hangs" (chorus; tenor solo)
* Libera me (23 minutes)
17. Libera me (soprano solo and chorus)
18. Strange Meeting ("It seems that out of battle I escaped") (tenor and baritone soli); the ending is conflated with
19. In paradisum (boys' choir, then chorus and soprano solo) and
- Requiem aeternam (boys' choir)

The War Requiem was commissioned for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral on May 30, 1962 after the original fourteenth century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid on the night of November 14, 1940. As a pacifist, Britten was inspired by the commission, which gave him complete freedom in choosing the type of music he would like to compose. He conceived of setting the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead interwoven with nine poems about war by the English poet Wilfred Owen. Owen, who was born in 1893, was serving as the commander of a rifle company when he was killed in action on 4th November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, just one week before the Armistice. Although he was virtually unknown at the time of his death, he has subsequently come to be revered as one of the great war poets.
-from Wikipedia

Artist: Tin Hat Trio
Album: Helium
Date: 2000
File Under: A beautiful, unclassifiable and unique mix of chamber jazz, neo-classical, European folk, American roots-music, minimalism, spaghetti-western music, avant-garde, modern-creative, tango... Really, it's totally impossible to pigeonhole Tin Hat Trio
Link: http://www.savefile.com/files/317559

Originally Posted by Allmusic

The trio of Rob Burger (accordion, piano, pump organ, marxophone, harmonica), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, viola), and Mark Orton (guitar, Dobro, banjo) offer a vision of what a chamber music group might sound like if they mixed a studio session for a Western film with a rhythmically diverse, often atonal classical excursion. The opening track "A Life in East Poultney" finds a banjo plucking over a droning violin as bells ring in the background. That same violin does a seductive dance over a plucky organ base and accordion harmonies on the title track, which evolves into the image of a train blowing harmonica steam across the land. "Scrap" rolls like a schizophrenic fiddle tune, and then the fiddling slows down into a mosey on the wacky and atonal "Sand Dog Blues." And by that point, when the craziness is just beginning, you're either tripping and enjoying or wondering who these three are and just why they think this is commercial music. The New Yorker put it best when it said their music is "a soundtrack for the kind of puzzling dream which leaves you sitting awake in the middle of the night." You will love it or loathe it, but you can't just shrug and ignore it.

Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Artifact
Label: System
Year: 2005
Genre: Instrumental Electronic Rock

Track - Title
1. Musical Story, Yes
2. Better Day
3. By the Morning Sun
4. Tokyo
5. Artifact
6. Native End
7. ReEmergence
8. Peoples
9. GLOgli
10. Today
11. Tonight the Ocean Swallowed the Moon
12. Forest Hu
13. Somesing
14. Trinocular
15. Vibyl
16. 8 & a Extra
17. Possibilities
18. Peoples pt. II
19. first mist over Clear Lake
20. Music, Us

AMG Review

There just aren't that many bands out there that can claim to have shared a stage with both James Brown and Tortoise. Nor does being able to make that claim necessarily say anything positive about the band's music -- that kind of stylistic reach may point to a salutary universalism or to an addle-brained lack of focus. In the case of Sound Tribe Sector 9, luckily, it seems to be 90 percent the former and only about ten percent the latter. On their latest album, Artifact, STS9 wander in the musical wilderness a bit (on the aimless "Possibilities") and lapse into silly Aquarian homiletics once or twice (check the woolly-headed "Music, Us"), but for the most part they keep things tight, interesting, and funky in a gentle but complex way. The quintet makes skillful use of both organic, human-played instruments and samples, blending them together into a rich fusion of forward-looking funk and crazy space-age electronica. They're at their best on the utterly gorgeous "Tokyo," the subtly dubwise "Peoples," and the lightweight but very nicely crafted "Today" -- but really, nothing here is less than enjoyable. Even the hippy-dippy moments are kind of fun.

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Air - Talkie Walkie
(02/17/04, Astralwerks, Electronica)



Tracks:
1. Venus
2. Cherry Blossom Girl
3. Run
4. Universal Traveller
5. Mike Mills
6. Surfing On A Rocket
7. Another Day
8. Alpha Beta Gaga
9. Biological
10. Alone In Kyoto

AMG Review
SputnikMusic Review

Air is an interesting little French duo, most known for their debut, Moon Safari. Sadly, I do not possess this album, so you'll get this one instead. Mind you, Talkie Walkie is quite good in its own right. Air's brand of Electronica is layered with shimmering beauty and a level of mystery that gives the tracks their primary source of aural depth. They know how to craft catchy Pop gems, such as the soothing, nocturnal "Cherry Blossom Girl" and the upbeat, otherworldly "Surfing On A Rocket", but alternately Air can create some incredibly airy soundscapes (no pun intended, honest) that rival what you might find on Radiohead's Kid A. Often sounding like Trip-Hop minus the Hip-Hop influence, I'd liken several tracks to Mezzanine-era Massive Attack, if not more playful in terms of tonality (particularly "Biological"). The tracks are varied and interesting, which makes the relatively short listen that much more enjoyable - Air are clever enough to keep the creative energies flowing throughout the album, and no two tracks are alike enough to criticize. At times fun, at times super-relaxed and ambient, Talkie Walkie is certainly worth your time.

Highly recommended if you like Massive Attack, Boards of Canada, later Radiohead, or Portishead.

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Konono Nº 1 - Congotronics
Year: 2004
Label: Fat Cat Records
Genre: African Traditional



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1. Lufuala Ndonga
2. Masikulu
3. Kule Kule
4. Ungudi Wele Wele
5. Paradiso
6. Kule Kule Reprise
7. Mama Liza

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Hailing from The Democratic Republic of The Congo, Konono No.1 marks FatCat’s first release of an artist from the African continent. Rooted in a very social form of folk music making, the group are one of the main exponents of a spectacular style of music which has developed in the suburbs of the capital city of Kinshasa. The Congolese refer to this style as "tradi-modern", meaning electrified traditional music. These are musicians who have left the bush to settle in the capital and, in order to both continue fulfilling their social role and make themselves heard above the urban din, they have resorted to DIY amplification of their instruments, and the use of megaphones. This makeshift electrification provoked a radical mutation of their sound, introducing distortions that they have then integrated into their style.

Konono No.1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The band's line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts, and plugged into amplifiers. The rhythm section uses both traditional and makeshift percussion (pans, pots, car parts), 3 singers, 3 dancers and a sound system. The musicians come from an area which sits right across the border between Congo and Angola. Whilst their repertoire draws largely on Bazombo trance music, the incorporation of originally-unwanted distortions arising through their sound system has led to them developing a unique style which has accidentally connected them with the aesthetics of the most experimental forms of rock and electronic music, as much through their sounds as through their sheer volume (they play in front of a wall of speakers) and merciless grooves.

Artist description blatantly plagiarized from Fat Cat Records

Got a few for you all. The first three are all by the same artist and basically part of the same album, but released on different discs. I included them for completeness. I'll put the download link up here at the top, and after the third one. The next one's the same artist, but very different in every way. The next three are by another artist, but will each have their own download links.

Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
Released: May 17, 2005
Label: Reprise Records
Genre: Electronica/post-hardcore

01. "Losing Color" – 3:55
02. "A Day in the Life of a Poolshark" – 4:26
03. "Open Register" – 4:47
04. "Les Lumieres" – 4:19
05. "The Violent Tango" – 3:40
06. "Nightlife" – 4:08
07. "Spark Plug" – 3:43
08. "Moerae (The Locust)" – 3:57
09. "Strange We Should Meet Here" – 4:41
10. "Militance Prom" – 2:53
11. "To Buy a Gun" – 4:20
12. "A Light at the End of the Tunnel" – 3:15
13. "Arrhythmia" – 4:36
14. "Lucid" – 4:45
(Total Time - 57:25)

Idiot Pilot's debut effort was recorded by two 18-year-olds with a laptop, a keyboard, a guitar, a bass, and their talents. The result is an album that tell the story of a man who never existed, living a life that never happened. Lyrically and musically it's unlike anything I've ever heard before. Taking the best elements of alternative, progressive, and indie rock, post-hardcore, electronica, and psychedelia, Michael Harris and Daniel Anderson weave a musical soundscape full of intense lyrics, rich, soothing melodies and ear-shattering screaming. Their music contains as many polar opposites as the two young men's voices, with flowing ambient sounds counterpointed by distorted, driving guitars and unnatural rapid-fire beats. By all rights, it shouldn't work, but it does. Give it a listen or three, it'll grow on you. Highlights: "A Day in the Life of a Poolshark," "Spark Plug," "To Buy a Gun," and "Lucid."

Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here (Remixes)
Released: October 11, 2005


01. "To Buy a Gun (Her Space Holiday Remix)" – 3:44
02. "A Day in the Life of a Poolshark (Chino Moreno Remix)" – 3:58
03. "Moerae (The Locust) (Jel Remix)" – 4:08
04. "To Buy a Gun (Instrumental)" – 4:22
05. "A Day in the Life of a Poolshark (Instrumental)" – 4:24
06. "Moerae (The Locust) (Instrumental)" – 3:53
(Total Time - 24:29)

Remixes of songs from the album itself, including three instrumental versions if you care to sing karaoke. Worth checking out if you enjoy the album at all.

Idiot Pilot - A Day in the Life of a Poolshark (Single)
Released: January 10, 2006

01. "A Day in the Life of a Poolshark (Album Version)" – 4:23
02. "A Day in the Life of a Poolshark (Chino Moreno Remix)" – 3:58
03. "The Spartan" – 4:30
04. "Deep Blue" – 4:13
(Total Time - 17:04)

Contains two b-sides to the debut album. These b-sides are slightly different in their tone and feel, much more calm and without any screaming. "The Spartan" is rumored to have been the intended final track to the album, but was replaced by "Lucid" later on. While they're both excellent, eerie songs, "The Spartan" is far and away my favorite Idiot Pilot song.
Download these THREE, plus lyrics!
(Note: Track 1 and 2 from the Poolshark Single are missing, since they are the album and remix versions and are present in the other two folders)

Idiot Pilot - A Silent Film EP
Released: ??
Label: None
Genre: Acoustic

01. "Silent Film" – 5:25
02. "Glass Fields" – 5:04
03. "White Noise" – 9:35
(Total Time - 20:04)

This rare EP marks the beginning of Idiot Pilot's musical journey, and is a very different sound from their norm. Set against a background consisting purely of acoustic guitars and ambient sound, these three songs rely heavily on lyrical talent, driving melodies, and the unique sound of Michael Harris's voice to carry it through, and it succeeds on many levels. The disappointment comes at the end of the last track, about 6 minutes in, when the "secret song" begins. It's clearly subpar in every way - musically, lyrically, and even in quality of recording - but the rest of this little nugget of goodness is enjoyable.
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Abandoned Pools - Humanistic
Released: September 25, 2001
Label: Warner Bros./Extasy Records
Genre: Rock

01. "The Remedy" – 3:57
02. "Mercy Kiss" – 3:17
03. "Start Over" – 4:03
04. "Monster" – 3:49
05. "Blood" – 4:13
06. "Suburban Muse" – 3:50
07. "Sunny Day" – 4:02
08. "L.V.B.D." – 3:27
09. "Ruin Your Life" – 3:45
10. "Never" – 3:38
11. "Seed" – 3:30
12. "Fluorescein" – 4:19
(Total Time - 45:50)

Tommy Walter is Abandoned Pools. That's his alter-ego. He's a one-man act. When he goes on tour, he has to take drummers and other musicians with him in order to properly perform his songs, but he is the mastermind behind it all, and will go to any lengths for his music to be heard. He's a true artist, and isn't afraid to show his art, even to people who won't appreciate it. The music and lyrics of this album tend to take all the cliche catchphrases and hooks you'd expect from a rock record, and turn them into something new and refreshing, with topics ranging from dysfunctional families, alcoholism, war and death ("Blood", "Fluorescein"), to relationships, love and despair ("Mercy Kiss", "Start Over", "Never"), to frustration with the politics of music, fame, and sex ("Monster", "Seed"). Definitely worth a listen.
Download this album (plus bonus B-side "Get Over It" from The Remedy Single)

Abandoned Pools - The Reverb EP
Released: June 7, 2005
Label: Universal
Genre: Indie Rock

01. "Armed to the Teeth" – 3:21
02. "Sooner or Later" – 5:52
03. "Army of Me (Bjork Cover)" – 4:11
04. "The Catalyst" – 4:20
05. "Waiting to Panic" – 4:20
(Total Time - 22:04)

This EP contains early versions of 4 tracks from the (relatively) new Abandoned Pools album "Armed to the Teeth," as well as a rocked-out cover of Bjork's "Army of Me" which is easily my favorite on this CD. A good promotional record that even stands well on its own.
Download this EP (plus a bonus demo version of "Tighter Noose")

Abandoned Pools - Armed to the Teeth
Released: September 27, 2005
Label: Universal
Genre: Indie Rock

01. "Lethal Killers" – 4:07
02. "Rabble" – 3:59
03. "The Catalyst" – 4:15
04. "Tighter Noose" – 5:40
05. "Waiting to Panic" – 3:35
06. "Hunting (The Universe Breaks My Heart)" – 4:57
07. "Armed to the Teeth" – 3:17
08. "Sooner or Later" – 5:49
09. "Sailing Seas" – 4:00
10. "Renegade" – 3:16
11. "Maybe Then Someday" – 3:46
12. "Goodbye Song" – 6:30
(Total Time - 53:11)

Abandoned Pools' second full-length album doesn't disappoint. The songs have been stripped of the cliche lines and hooks, and allow the raw emotion to bleed into the lyrics and music, giving it an edge that Humanistic didn't have. Certainly, this is due to Tommy's romance with the woman referenced in his music as "Ginny," who seems to be the subject of over half the songs on the record. That tone is certainly set by songs such as "Hunting" and the strings-laden "Maybe Then Someday" and "Goodbye Song."
Universal stopped promoting the album in January of 2006, and Tommy Walter subsequently quit the label and became a solo artist once again, even recording and producing a b-side "Red Flag" as a gigantic screw-you to the label and recording industry, and selling it through internet sources such as Yahoo music. This song is also the only song in which Tommy uses explicit language ("You corporate f*cks don't know how to love") and therefore it shows even more effectively his distaste of the politics of the music industry.
Download this album (plus bonus B-sides "Lucky" and "Red Flag")

Relient K - Five Score and Seven Years Ago
Genre: Punk
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/relientk



Track List:

1. Plead The Fifth
2. Come Right Out And Say It
3. I Need You
4. The Best Thing
5. Forgiven
6. Must Have Done Something Right
7. Give
8. Devastation And Reform
9. I'm Taking You With Me
10. Faking My Own Suicide
11. Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care
12. Bite My Tongue
13. Up And Up
14. Deathbed

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It's more or less like My Chemical Romance. If you hate them, still download it xD