http://tunes.bluesummers.com Tunes Consumed is an mp3 & music blog promoting the free exchange of thought and discussion in the realm of music... with just a dash of hope for world domination. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:13:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry! With all the time spent on studies and work, there has been unfortunately, none left for critical writings on music, and so Tunes Consumed is therefore on hiatus status until some free time is available! With Love, The Editors http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/11/on-hiatus/ Before even dipping into the latest Beirut offering The Flying Club Cup there's a whole host of things to keep in mind. For starters, while not a concept album, per se, Zach Condon was explicit with the intent of the album, and that intent is not so distant from Sufjan's ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/beirut-soundtracks-france-the-flying-club-cup/ Common to whole music journalism thing is this tendency for historical throwback references. Marrying one band's sound to another in a yadda-yadda meta-matchmaking of sounds is kind of our thing, but we don't always stick to that. After relating The Most Serene Republic to calculus I thought I'd be done ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/supersymmetry/ Animal Collective wants to bring you along on this strangely surreal picnic & misdemeanor lovefest with the new video for "Peacebone". The video does a pretty good job at dressing up the music, especially with its Aliens-inspired mid-section vying for a "best kiss" scene. (no not really). And yes, we're still ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/animal-collectives-picnic-with-aliens/ If you've been keeping up with us as we blasted you with rants of mainstream blasphemy roughing up the indie front, you may be interested to know that the Now That's What I Call Indie! (aka This Is Next) compilation was just reviewed over at Pitchfork. A whopping 0.0 rating with ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/gravy-blurbs-02-now-update/ This Republic not what one might think. Musically: a powerhouse of a band that sits comfortably among the ranks of another Arts & Crafts borderline-white-noise electro-pop act Broken Social Scene, The Republic is the embodiment of tranquility in the notion of sensory overload. Having matured since their debut, the newest ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/republic-now-with-more-serene/ Montreal's own We are Wolves are pretty damn notorious. Whether we are discussing their frigging awesome live sets, their minimal yet sleek web-site, or their debut album - the inimitable Non Stop Je Te Plie en Deux - that still gets constant rotation around here... To put it bluntly: ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/we-are-wolves-perform-magic/ Yellow House was among the top of my personal lists just based on the number of times it was heard throughout my apartment last year, and I just know when the frost encases the ground and the cold rolls around I'll be back under a blanket accompanied by the sparsity ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/why-grizzly-bear-doesnt-remix-easily/ So I just received in the mail a promo disc from Murdery Mystery. I'd been looking forward to it for a little while now, and the time spent in its snail-mail transition only served to raise my hopes even higher after one of the singles & promo tracks from their ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/murder-mystery-the-sonic-palette-of-my-music-dentures/ Jerome over at Burntpiano sent along a pretty awesome remix of Devendra Banhart's "Autumn Child" in celebration of all the mama-jama hubbub with the new album. Originally a pretty slow track for Banhart is now a sort of creamsicle of flutters as Jerome somehow picked up and refracted through that ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/autumn-child-grows-electric-fuzz-mix/ So, I received the latest LP, Asleep at Heaven's Gate, from "current big thing" band (as per Elbo.ws popularity charts) Rogue Wave the other day, fully alongside an intention to write something about it. I've listened to it twice now, purely out of devotion to the cause... but, ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/terrible-music-check/ Dragon lizards are born with beards, and male turkeys have the innate tendency to grow chest hair which we affectionately call a "beard". We, like mountain goats, must brave this brazen landscape of follicular transcendence and nurture them to their fullest potential, all the while hoping for the best, most ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/james-blackshaw-makes-beards-a-thing-of-the-past/ We all need our own kind of release from a day at the office. (we just don't all have the cerebellum for it). track stylez: Islands - Rough Gem (Remix) P.S. I think this is what's going on in the first 30 seconds (lyrics wise): "my cornea should be dissected on a small table in a ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/dude-freestyles-to-rough-gem-remix/ After a loosely defined 2 year hiatus, NYC indie rock outfit Les Savy Fav (lay-SAH-vee-FAHV) is really back. As if the singles and compilation stand-ins weren't enough to keep them in step, they've hit the touring circuit already a month before their record is slated for release. I've been waiting ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/tim-harrington-is-to-wolves-as-dan-deacon-is-to-candy/ These guys pull off such a stellar show that I've been long awaiting the day when I could share a live recording that would at least capture some of the live magic that goes on. Last time they played here in Montreal, Stanier's drumming was such a fury that wood ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/battles-live-the-first-unitarian-church-707/ Going back to school in a few short weeks? Dreading the imminent stress of it all? The projects, the exams, the dime-a-dozen PowerPoint presentations? Has summer flown by, leaving you with little to proud of in it's wake? Well, yeah. Sucks to be you. But, at ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/numbers-numbers-numbers/ Have you heard the tale of the Guild of Funerary Violinists? It is a sad one, one where mishaps and conspiracy loom at every corner of its tangled web. Take a seat, and allow me to explain. The art of funerary violin began in the late 1500's, and for nearly three ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/the-sad-art-of-funerary-violin/ I know, I'm a bit of a romantic when it comes to music, and while I'll be the first one with my grubby hands in the indie-rock dollar bin, I'm still attached to the idea that music should be epic and fanciful. That it should not only go the places ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/skin-of-the-gravy-a-look-back-on-two-epics/ As far as music videos within the noise-psychedelia realm go, this one takes the cake. Set in California at what seems to be the largest dance party ever. This semi-political (note the flashes of war) video collage is taken from a multi-span of decades (mostly the 60s), documenting one craaazy ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/dance-california-wooden-shjips/ When last you joined us for news on the Devendra front, it was epic folking all-around as we rejoiced over the news and new tunes. Well, Devendra over at his place has been streaming two new tracks from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon every week starting with "Seahorse" and now ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/devendra-news-covers-%c2%a1hurrah/ Even before moving to la belle province four years ago, I have always held a soft spot in my heart for all things Constellation Records. I can honestly say that, through the small independent Montreal label's early offerings (such as GYBE!'s F#A#∞, Sofa's Grey & Exhaust's self-titled debut), the ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/how-hrsta-ruined-my-morning/ Sunburned Hand of the Man are one of those ridiculously prolific modern psychedelic "freak" folk bands. A quick perusal of their discography yields over 30 releases since '99, some of which were given proper distribution (like 2002's fantastic Headdress), while others have only seen the light of day via ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/the-sunburn-of-october/ You wouldn't think it to look at their faces (or feet, for that matter) but this bearded quartet grew out of the New York City scene, which is to say, they grew out of it in sheer hermitistic isolation. The kind of isolation that drove one man insane actually divided ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/love-is-simple-3-cathartic-akronfamily-tracks/ Okay so I'll admit: I have the habit of moving music (from whatever source) to my iPod as soon as I get it. I feel like if I'm to hear something for the first time, it should be in conditions as close to an isolation chamber as I can manage, ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/i-am-the-dotted-line/ [Your first helping of Gravy was back in June.] I'm guessing you're all familiar with the Now That's What I Call Music! series of compilations, where big-wig corporation EMI tries to commercialize even further singles that were, to be frank, whored way too much throughout the industry already. The formula is ... http://tunes.bluesummers.com/index.php/2007/08/gravy-blurbs-02/