I've just jumped into a new group of 5 CDs and 3 out of 5 are totally wonderful. They are:
1. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days - very quite acoustic bass one or two very soft vocals and either a Mandolin, Guitar or Banjo for a lead. This guy is from Florida and writes some really catchy tunes.
2. Ambulance, LTD. Brooklyn band - not cutting edge or anything to prog but very solid alt. rock with a shoe-gazer sense of how songs get put together.
3. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder - This is the front man for my favorite release in 2004, the New Pornographers, doing the solo thing. This is full-bodied Indie- pop but has the controlled dry synth piano and organ as the lynch pin to some solid fluffy music. Think the Canadian, XTC.
4. Comets on Fire - I don't know, maybe this will grow on me or maybe I'm finally getting musically to old for loud music. I haven't really processed this because the first track annoys the shit out of me.
5. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory- OK, I bought into the hype. Two kids from Akron don't totally "get" the blues. Although this is not a bad album, it's like the music you hear in record stores - you get it home and its just not so much fun to live with. Although this album is on many critics top 10 lists - its only makes my top 25. This sounds a lot like the White Strips although these kids are uglier than Jack or Meg White and can actually sing.
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