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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2012, 04:58:23 AM »

Not exactly new since it came out last month, but this is so far album of the year for me. The prog/ambient album by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Corrosion

This should be the entire album:

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Hell yeah! I'm a huge Opeth fan and have recently gotten into Porcupine Tree. Great album, though quite different and entirely unlike Opeth or PT. Sound quality is actually pretty good, too!
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2012, 02:06:17 AM »

Love the new Fiona Apple so much...

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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2012, 10:59:41 AM »

Love the new Fiona Apple so much...



I love the tunes, but is it overly compressed to you?  I don't know what it is, but something sounds off on the recording compared to her earlier albums.... maybe it's just me.
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2012, 11:51:18 AM »

Yep, new Walkmen is excellent. Lisbon soars in parts, but Heaven is more immediate and accessible. Could be their High Violet, drawing new listeners in to discover past gems.
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2012, 07:05:41 PM »

Two local artists here in POrtland i like a lot. Very talented folks.

Quiet Countries - Headphone Party
http://quietcountries.bandcamp.com/



Boy Eats Drum Machine - The Battle
http://boyeatsdrummachine.bandcamp.com/album/the-battle

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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2012, 07:11:30 PM »

I love the new Beach House album - Bloom.   Really gorgeous dreamy space pop. 




Also really like Mount Eeire - Clear Moon.  Such a unique sound.  Very well recorded, but lots of distortion.  I seem to like everything this guy makes.  This album is pretty similar to "Wind's Poem".  Not sure if I like either one more at this point. 



He's also just announced another album coming out in September called "Ocean Roar", which is kind of meant to be this album's evil twin.  Here's what he says about "Ocean Roar"

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[Ocean Roar] acts as a counterpoint to the soft synth walls and landscape pondering of Clear Moon, presenting the opposite of that album’s clear glints of awareness: a total wall of blue-grey oceanic fog, a half remembered dream of a trip through dense old growth hills to the gnarly winter ocean, in the middle of the night, decades ago. This album is the audio equivalent of the blanket of thick dark water vapor that covers the Pacific Northwest for most of the year, revealing only brief glimpses of illumination.

Can't wait to hear it! 
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2012, 07:13:40 PM »

Yup..Beach house is great stuff..Been listening to the new album regularly the last month or so. already bought tickets for their sept 30th concert here in Portland.

Their previous album Devotion is excellent as well.
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2012, 07:38:13 PM »

Both this release and Teen Dream were pretty solid. 

And it's stuff like  that make me want to try out vinyl despite all it's problems:

http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/index.php?search_artist=beach+house&search_album=
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2012, 08:53:08 PM »

I love the tunes, but is it overly compressed to you?  I don't know what it is, but something sounds off on the recording compared to her earlier albums.... maybe it's just me.

Hmm.. I haven't listened to this much in my main system, mainly just in my car and through my phone --> V-Modas, but honestly I didn't notice anything off too bad. It's certainly not as bad as most recordings I listen to though.
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Re: Good New Releases to check out
« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2012, 09:07:06 PM »

+1 for the new Beach House (as well as Teen Dream and Devotion). Seriously good stuff.

I haven't given that Mount Eerie a proper listen yet. Been too busy listening to the Microphones stuff I ordered a while back that RD posted.
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