yeasayer - odd blood (2010)

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There’s so many layers here – samples, sound effects, coos, squawks, chirrups, chants, piano loops, percussive clicks, digital zips – but intertwined there remains those melodies, as old as time itself. And that’s the yolk of Yeasayer’s golden eggs: the ability to trawl the world for gems and condense them into five-minute distorted ditties you can whistle while washing up. It’s a musical package holiday you can take vicariously,World Music For Dummies.

Yeasayer’s greatest achievement is their balancing act, teetering between heartfelt and overly earnest, between invoking and pastiching past decades, between worldly experimentalism and token tourism. And if you still think they’ve gone pop, maybe the best way to decipher this dense, ambitious album is to judge the book by its cover – the two frankly bizarre images created by Benjamin Phelan that are “the study of a future with a distorted biology”. Pretty appropriate, given the genetic anomalies coursing through Yeasayer. Odd blood indeed

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flaming lips / pink floyd

Get ready, campers. The Flaming Lips will perform Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' in its entirety at Bonnaroo, frontman Wayne Coyne reveals to Spinner. "As of yesterday, we're gonna do it at Bonnaroo at the midnight slot, the first night," Coyne says. "We do a Flaming Lips set then starting about 2:30 we do this 'Dark Side of the Moon' thing. In that sense, it's perfect for that. It lets you play a little bit longer."

It had been previously reported that the band's New Year's Eve performance of the classic album would be the only time the Lips would perform it live, but Coyne says that was never the case. "We feared it could be because we thought, 'Well, if it's horrible we'll be glad we only did it once and it will grow in its infamy or whatever,'" he says. "But no, we considered if this record did in the end come out and people liked it and we were able to pull off this New Year's Eve thing, then we thought, 'Well, we could probably do that other places.'"

Coyne also believes that Bonnaroo creates the right setting to do Pink Floyd live. "We did it at the New Year's Eve show just knowing everybody's gonna be taking acid, staying awake until five in the morning. We might as well just be jamming on some freak-out music," he says. "I don't think it'll be that much of a stretch to think Friday night at 2:30 in the morning at Bonnaroo would be that much different than being in Oklahoma City on New Year's Eve. I'm sure people will be having their own party while we play this space rock or whatever. In that sense it's perfect for that."

Bonnaroo is set for June 10-13 in Manchester, Tenn. Tickets go on sale at Noon EST on Feb. 9th.

-from spinner.com

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sade is in my tape deck, i'm movin in slow motion

her new album will be out next tuesday 2/9/10!  if you don't know about sade, you betta ask somebody!!!

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Indian mythology asserts a rather dreary forecast when contemplating time. A regular kalpa lasts 16,798,000 years, and depending on what kalpa you are describing, that number could go as high as 1.28 trillion, with each kalpa representing a differing phase of existence in the universe. It's a sinister concoction, like lying in the bowels of the sand monster Sarlaac in Tattoine's Dune Sea for innumerable years, with you slowly digesting, alive yet helpless, for an eon.
That's kind of what it feels like waiting ten years for a new Sade album.
Yet when the wait is over, you can breath easier. You feel that listening to Soldier of Love. "In Another Time" is one of those life-soundtrack songs recalling her greatest: "Smooth Operator," "Jezebel," with a comparable saxophone to boot. These days, it's hard to throw a sax into R&B and not make it sound gratuitous. Sade (which is the band's name as well as the singer's; here she is referred to as the singer) has never been an island, something she recognizes and extends to those around her. The instrumental team, led by guitarist/sax player Stuart Matthewman (aka Cottonbelly) is highly skilled; bassist Paul Denman and keyboard player Andrew Hale complement her voice graciously. Yet these men need her too: alter-group Sweetback has its moments, but I rarely return to their albums. Sade at times merits a daily dose.

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