Sigur Rós - Takk... (2005)

Tracklist:

1. Takk...
2. Glósóli
3. Hoppípolla
4. Með blóðnasir
5. Sé lest
6. Sæglópur
7. Mílanó
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo hljótt
11. Heysátan

Just when this Icelandic crew seemed stuck in loud/soft/loud/ soft rut a la Mogwai or Godspeed You Black Emperor, they release their most beguiling, subtle and beautiful album yet. This album, allegedly the group's first sung in Icelandic rather than their own made-up "Hopelandic" (not that this listener could tell the difference) is relentlessly joyous, unaffectedly rad and inventive but never just for its own sake. Strings hold an ever more prominent place in the music, and this is a good thing. Songs unfold slowly as usual, but they take unexpected turns as often as not. The brilliant "Glósóli" burbles with as much melodic invention and anything by their fellow Icelanders Mum. Takk is a delight from start to finish, managing to be both their most accessible and experimental album yet. --Mike McGonigal

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The Killers - Sam's Town (2006)

Tracklist:

1. "Sam's Town" - 04:05
2. "Enterlude" – 0:49
3. "When You Were Young" – 3:40
4. "Bling (Confession of a King)" – 4:08
5. "For Reasons Unknown" – 3:32
6. "Read My Mind" – 4:06
7. "Uncle Jonny" – 4:25
8. "Bones" – 3:47
9. "My List" – 4:08
10. "This River Is Wild" – 4:38
11. "Why Do I Keep Counting?" – 4:24
12. "Exitlude" – 2:29

When the Killers emerged with Hot Fuss, in 2004, the box-fresh immediacy of the quartet's songs helped to disguise what a strange band they were. Four wide-eyed Las Vegas boys from good Mormon stock, the Killers had no interest in the decadence of their hometown, longing, instead, for life in the rain-soaked north of England in the miserable early Eighties. Their kindred spirits were misanthropes like Joy Division yet they had such a knack for radio-friendly choruses that their new wave songs, all of which were swathed in synths, always ended up sounding like chart-bound smashes.

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Badi Assad/Larry Coryell/John Abercrombie - 3 Guitars (2003)

01. Seu Jorge E Dona Ica (6:00)
02. New Lute (Prelude) (1:34)
03. New Lute (Interlude) (3:14)
04. Soundtrack (4:17)
05. After The Rain (4:56)
06. Descending Grace (5:28)
07. Metamorphosis (4:03)
08. No Flight Tonight (4:24)
09. Ralph\'s Piano Waltz (5:09)
10. Suspended Circles (5:25)
11. Exercise In Fourths (2:33)
12. Autumn Breeze (3:30)
13. Tímeles (7:04)

Combine three guitar masters, each with a lifetime of impressive musical experiences, and you have the ideal ingredients for an eclectic, original trio known as Three Guitars. The group is comprised of Larry Coryell, from the famed '70s fusion group The Eleventh House; Brazil's Badi Assad, whose innovative sound includes mouth and body percussive techniques; and John Abercrombie, one of the most influential guitarists of the last 25 years. Down Beat Magazine gave their debut CD four stars, praising the trio's "graceful flights of acoustic virtuosity."

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Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)

Tracklist:

1. Big In Japan (4:04)
2. Lowside Of The Road (2:58)
3. Hold On (5:32)
4. Get Behind The Mule (6:51)
5. House Where Nobody Lives (4:13)
6. Cold Water (5:22)
7. Pony (4:31)
8. What's He Building (3:19)
9. Black Market Baby (5:01)
10. Eyeball Kid (4:25)
11. Picture In A Frame (3:39)
12. Chocolate Jesus (3:54)
13. Georgia Lee (4:23)
14. Filipino Box Spring Hog (3:09)
15. Take It With Me (4:24)
16. Come On Up To The House (4:36)

Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His singular vision embraces everything from blues to tin-pan-alley to jazz to just about anything else you can think of. Grammy winner, actor, poet, a master of the musical collage and lyrical surprise, Tom Waits is simply a giant.

"Mule Variations" offers the most complete picture of Tom Waits of any of his albums. Edgy stomps, humor and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he's ever written.

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Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (2006)

Tracklist:

1. "Fidelity" – 3:47
2. "Better" – 3:22
3. "Samson" – 3:10
4. "On the Radio" – 3:22
5. "Field Below" – 5:18
6. "Hotel Song" – 3:29
7. "Après Moi" – 5:08
8. "20 Years of Snow" – 3:31
9. "That Time" – 2:39
10. "Edit" – 4:53
11. "Lady" – 4:45
12. "Summer in the City" – 3:50
13. "Bartender" (bside)
    

Ni tan folk como Songs, ni tan ruso como Soviet Kitsch, ni tan jazzero/blusero como 11:11, este disco parece ser una transición de la vieja Regina "indie" a un sonido más pop comercial. Pero buenos temas eh!


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Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

Tracklist:

1. "15 Step" – 3:58
2. "Bodysnatchers" – 4:02
3. "Nude" – 4:15
4. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" – 5:18
5. "All I Need" – 3:48
6. "Faust Arp" – 2:09
7. "Reckoner" – 4:50
8. "House of Cards" – 5:28
9. "Jigsaw Falling into Place" – 4:09
10. "Videotape" – 4:42

It's a very different kind of Radiohead record. Liberated from their self-imposed pressure to innovate, they sound-- for the first time in ages-- user-friendly; the glacial distance that characterized their previous records melted away by dollops of reverb, strings, and melody. From the inclusion and faithful rendering of longtime fan favorite "Nude" to the classic pop string accents on "Faust Arp" to the uncharacteristically relaxed "House of Cards", Radiohead's sudden willingness to embrace their capacity for uncomplicated beauty might be In Rainbows' most distinguishing quality, and one of the primary reasons it's an improvement on Hail to the Thief.

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Pat Metheny - The Way Up (2005)

Tracklist:

1. "Opening" – 5:17
2. "Part One" – 26:27
3. "Part Two" – 20:29
4. "Part Three" – 15:54

The Way Up represents, in the words of guitarist Pat Metheny himself, "our most ambitious undertaking ever as a group"-a single, brilliant 68-minute piece composed by Metheny and his collaborator of 28 years, Lyle Mays. Metheny has likened the creation of The Way Up to making a film, and in some respects, the album feels like a vividly rendered journey, its moods shifting like scenes glimpsed from a fast-moving vehicle.

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Erik Satie - Gymnopedies/Gnossiennes (~1888)

Erik Satie was an important French composer from the generation of Debussy. Best remembered for several groups of piano pieces, including Trois Gymnopédies (1888), Trois Sarabandes (1887) and Trois Gnossiennes (1890), he was championed by Jean Cocteau and helped create the famous group of French composers, Les Six, which was fashioned after his artistic ideal of simplicity in the extreme. Some have viewed certain of his stylistic traits as components of Impressionism, but his harmonies and melodies have relatively little in common with the characteristics of that school. Much of his music has a subdued character, and its charm comes through in its directness and its lack of allegiance to any one aesthetic. Often his melodies are melancholy and hesitant, his moods exotic or humorous, and his compositions as a whole, or their several constituent episodes, short. He was a musical maverick who probably influenced Debussy and did influence Ravel, who freely acknowledged as much.

1. Trois Gymnopedies - 1) Lent et Doloreux
2. Trois Gymnopedies - 2) Lent et Triste
3. Trois Gymnopedies - 3) Lent et Grave
4. Gnossienne no 1
5. Gnossienne no 2
6. Gnossienne no 3
7. Gnossienne no 4
8. Gnossienne no 5
9. Gnossienne no 6
10. Gnossienne no 7
    

Pianista: Bojan Gorisek

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David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)

Tracklist:

1. "Five Years" – 4:43
2. "Soul Love" – 3:33
3. "Moonage Daydream" – 4:35
4. "Starman" – 4:16
5. "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies) – 2:56
6. "Lady Stardust" – 3:20
7. "Star" – 2:47
8. "Hang on to Yourself" – 2:37
9. "Ziggy Stardust" – 3:13
10. "Suffragette City" – 3:19
11. "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" – 2:57

After flirting with heavy guitar rock ("The Man Who Sold the World") and lighter pop ("Hunky Dory"), Bowie found middle ground on Ziggy Stardust. The creation of the Ziggy Stardust persona would live on well after Bowie shed the alien skin, marking the first rock concept album by a sexually ambiguous, artistically bent musician who confounded critics at every turn. A blend of dramatic strings, swaggering saxophones, jagged guitars, and theatrical arrangements, the album's darker rock numbers like "It Ain't Easy," "Moonage Daydream," "Ziggy Stardust," and the irresistible "Suffragette City," still serve as solid excursions into the future (then and now) of rock. The buoyant "Hang on to Yourself" and the dreamy "Star" offer hints of optimism in Ziggy's bleak world. The dramatic "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" and the image-heavy "Star Man" ("he'd like to come and meet us but thinks he'd blow our minds!") no doubt provided plenty of stage-worthy moments when Ziggy toured in the '70s, but years later they still thrill. Bowie blew our minds! --Lorry Fleming

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Outkast - The Love Below (2003)

Tracklist:

1. "The Love Below (Intro)" – 1:27
2. "Love Hater" – 2:49
3. "God (Interlude)" – 2:20
4. "Happy Valentine's Day" – 5:23
5. "Spread" – 3:51
6. "Where Are My Panties?" – 1:54
7. "Prototype" - 5:26
8. "She Lives in My Lap" (featuring Rosario Dawson) – 4:27
9. "Hey Ya!" – 3:55
10. "Roses" – 6:09
11. "Good Day, Good Sir" – 1:24
12. "Behold a Lady" – 4:37
13. "Pink & Blue" – 5:04
14. "Love in War" – 3:25
15. "She's Alive" – 4:06
16. "Dracula's Wedding" (featuring Kelis) – 2:32
17. "The Letter (Interlude)" - 0:20
18. "My Favorite Things" – 5:14
    
19. "Take Off Your Cool" (featuring Norah Jones) – 2:38
20. "Vibrate" – 6:33
    
21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)" 4:50
    

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, it clocks at over two and-a-half hours and consists of a solo album from both of the group's members. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks that are rooted in basic hip hop, while The Love Below, the solo project of André 3000, covers musical styles such as soul, pop, funk, and jazz.

Most critics were also particularly more interesed in André's half of the album than on Big Boi's solo venture, due to the experimentation with several music genres on The Love Below. The intro of the album was already a trip on classical music, "Love Hater" has purely jazz influences (apart from a cover of "My Favorite Things", a Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein tune), and the rest was a combination of soul, funk, R&B, and hip-hop. Will Hermes from Entertainment Weekly pointed that André's album "is as strange and rich a trip as pop offers nowadays, a song cycle about love's battle against fear and (self-) deception that's frequently profound, hilarious, and very, very sexy."

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Sólo The Love Below de Andre 3000 (Speakerboxxx no).


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Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night (2008)

Tracklist:

1. Closer
2. Crawl
3. Sex On Fire
4. Use Somebody
5. Manhattan
6. Revelry
7. Seventeen
8. Notion
9. I Want You
10. Be Somebody
11. Cold Desert

Despite a wave of criticism asserting that Kings of Leon's fourth full-length is "too commercial," Only by the Night may be the closest thing to a pitch-perfect album to drop in 2008. Granted, Tennessee's band of brothers (and one first cousin) takes a turn for the heavily polished here, but what the album lacks in rough-edged raunch, it more than makes up for in earnestness and--yes--stunning beauty. From the opening notes of "Closer" to the listing balladry of "Cold Desert," Only by the Night hardly misses a beat. Highlights abound, particularly in the trading off of melodic lines between instruments, and in this regard, bassist Jared Followill is the album's quiet MVP. Above these gorgeous instrumentals, singer Caleb emotes with a dramatic grit that never loses its command. A model of melodic rock composition, arranged and produced with a warm, inviting veneer, and performed with aching sincerity, these 11 tracks coalesce into a sanguine whole that eclipses the band's much-discussed rock posturing and yields more with every play. A good band's great album, Only by the Night (finally) establishes Kings of Leon as a rock act that's worthy of seriously sustained attention.

Jason Kirk

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Tom Waits - Closing Time (1973)

Tracklist

1. "Ol' '55" – 3:58
2. "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" – 3:54
3. "Virginia Avenue" – 3:10
4. "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)" – 3:40
5. "Midnight Lullaby" – 3:26
6. "Martha" – 4:30
7. "Rosie" – 4:03
8. "Lonely" – 3:12
9. "Ice Cream Man" – 3:05
10. "Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)" – 3:38
11. "Grapefruit Moon" – 4:50
12. "Closing Time" – 4:20

When I listen to Closing Time, I visualise a rundown, unkept bar in an unnamed U.S. city. I see a foggy, smoky atmosphere. I see a handful of patrons alone in their own individual spaces. I see a pool table gathering dust, with no cues and no balls to play with. I see a piano hidden away in a deserted corner. I see a young jazzman, late twenties perhaps, in front of it. Nobody cares that he's been playing all night, and he doesn't care that they're not listening. A few people take a casual interest upon entrance, but soon return to their own problems. With an oft-refilled glass of scoth and a well-used ashtray atop the piano and a cigarette lit in his mouth, the musician plays the opening chords of Ole 55. He's content to be his own audience. He doesn't play for anybody else. In fact, he prefers that nobody take too close an interest in his music. If they look too closely, they'll make him uncomfortable. They'll criticize his words and his music. He doesn't want that.

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Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (2009)

Tracklist:

1. Glass 4:32
2. Sleep Alone 4:02
3. Moon And Moon 3:08
4. Daniel 4:11
5. Peace Of Mind 3:28
6. Siren Song 4:58
7. Pearl's Dream 4:45
8. Good Love 4:29
9. Two Planets 4:47
10. Travelling Woman 3:46
11. The Big Sleep 2:55

Khan's real breakthrough might simply be her willingness to wear her influences more brazenly. One needn't have any more than a basic working knowledge of female innovators from the past few decades to be able to spot the ghosts lurking around this stage. The strident piano chords and lone snare of "Traveling Woman" echoes PJ Harvey's desolate roadsongs, while "Moon and Moon"'s delicate piano playing and cabinet-reverbed backing vocals evoke early Tori Amos. Elsewhere, with its pummeling rhythms, double-timed handclaps, glass harmonica trills and vocal histrionics, the moonstruck rave-up "Two Planets" owes its entire existence to Björk. But even in the moments where those influences risk running on the wrong side of overt, they never feel stolen or unearned. Just as Khan seems most comfortable when she's adorned in a patchwork of styles, eras, and ideologies, this record feels more satisfying and fully formed for its overt cutting and pasting of those different sensibilities.

What's more heartening, though, is that during Two Suns' highlights, Khan has few peers. I could probably fill this entire space just writing about "Glass", the album's aggressively propulsive opener, and about how its strange mix of elements (chamber pop, prog metal, new age-- what?) magically coalesced into some entirely new genre that I wish existed and yet still can't quite wrap my brain around. Then there's the booming "Sleep Alone", which, with its rusty guitar licks, Knife-inspired synths, buzzing basslines and floorboard percussions, feels kind of like a sea shanty circa 2074.

Mark Pytlik

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Tori Amos - Under The Pink (1994)

Tracklist:

All songs written by Amos.

1. "Pretty Good Year" – 3:25
2. "God" – 3:58
3. "Bells For Her" – 5:20
4. "Past the Mission" (feat. Trent Reznor) – 4:05
5. "Baker Baker" – 3:20
6. "The Wrong Band" – 3:03
7. "The Waitress" – 3:09
8. "Cornflake Girl" – 5:06
9. "Icicle" – 5:47
10. "Cloud on My Tongue" – 4:44
11. "Space Dog" – 5:10
12. "Yes, Anastasia" – 9:33

Under the Pink," Tori Amos' second solo album, continues the singer/songwriter's exploration of her life's journey from the confines of a strict religious upbringing to personal and artistic freedom. She is armed with an attention-grabbing mezzo-soprano and lyrics that can kill with a turn of phrase. And Amos is still unsatisfied. God, parents, boyfriends, girlfriends, herself: No one escapes judgment.

Once again, Amos accompanies herself on piano, with drums, bass and guitar assisting; the occasional string arrangement or synth is added for not-so-subtle effect.

Her acoustic bent is well served on the album: The piano is not hidden beneath grandiose group arrangements as it was on her previous outing Little Earthquakes (1992), and her quirky hesitations and sudden shrieks are more in tune with the emotional states of her characters. Under the Pink still doesn't match Amos' riveting, piano-only live performances, but it sure comes close.

Under the Pink is Amos' honest reporting of a life fraught with turmoil and disappointment. Can it take her beyond her devoted cult to greater popularity? Possibly. The album is focused, the lyrics quirky and personable, the melodies eccentric enough to entice and simple enough to be catchy. Those qualities – and her emotional fearlessness – make Tori Amos a musical find to treasure.

Marie Elsie St. Leger

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Herbie Hancock - River: the Joni Letters (2007)

Tracklist:

All songs were written by Joni Mitchell, except where noted.

1. "Court and Spark" feat. Norah Jones
2. "Edith and the Kingpin" feat. Tina Turner
3. "Both Sides Now"
4. "River" feat. Corinne Bailey Rae
5. "Sweet Bird"
6. "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" feat. Joni Mitchell
7. "Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)
8. "Amelia" feat. Luciana Souza
9. "Nefertiti" (Wayne Shorter)
10. "The Jungle Line" feat. Leonard Cohen

Hancock and his fine band -- Lionel Loueke (guitar), Wayne Shorter (soprano and tenor saxophones), Dave Holland (bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) -- prepare a series of instrumentals and vocal interpretations of the songs of Joni Mitchell. The vocalists here include those who were inspired by Mitchell, namely Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Mitchell herself on one number, and some of her peers in the pop world, including Tina Turner and Leonard Cohen.

But Hancock understands something implicit about Mitchell: she was never -- ever -- a folksinger. Her compositions have always walked wildly adventurous rhythmic and harmonic terrain. Indeed, she has played with jazz musicians solidly since the 1970s, beginning with the L.A. record, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and toured with jazz groups, including the all-star band assembled for Shadows and Light that included Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Don Alias, and Michael Brecker (Shorter played on a number of those dates as well).

The material here doesn't walk the line between pop and jazz -- something Hancock is very comfortable doing. This is a jazz record with vocals. The album's ten tracks are, for the most part, programmed for a vocal tune, followed by an instrumental.

River approaches brilliance; it's another accomplishment in a career full of them for Hancock. The album doesn't simply recontextualize Mitchell. Any fan of hers has known that she never comfortably fit the whole singer/songwriter thing anyway. It actually does that more for jazz and pop. He takes a sound that has been floating around since Jones issued her debut album, and roots it deeply in the jazz camp without giving up the immediacy of sophisticated adult pop -- which is, in a way, an element of the tradition of jazz itself. For jazz fans, this is a wonderful new chapter, a new way to hear him (and Shorter). For pop and Mitchell fans, this is a way to step quietly into another world and experience wonders.

by Thom Jurek

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Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets (1998)

Tracklist:

1. Pantala Naga Pampa
2. Rapunzel
3. The Last Stop
4. Don't Drink The Water
5. Stay (Wasting Time)
6. Halloween
7. The Stone
8. Crush
9. The Dreaming Tree
10. Pig
11. Spoon

With the notable exception of its 1994 breakout single, "What Would You Say," Dave Matthews Band has always been more about sound than songs. This continues to be true on the group's propulsive new album, Before These Crowded Streets. Teaming up again with producer Steve Lillywhite, DMB is more successful on this outing than ever before in translating the roiling energy of its stage show to the studio. The band also pushes in adventurous new directions, incorporating bright new hues into its highly distinctive, instantly recognizable sonic palette.

DMB's lethal secret weapon has always been its extraordinary – and criminally underpraised – rhythm section. If you want to organize a band with a front line of violin, saxophone, and acoustic and electric guitars, and your music relies on tricky time signatures, complex arrangements and fevered ensemble playing that bolts into reckless improvisational flights, your drummer and bass player better swing like Joe DiMaggio. Stefan Lessard and Carter Beauford more than fill the bill – they anchor this unwieldy outfit without ever weighing it down. And when it's time to fly, they give the band wings.

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Igor Stravinsky - L' Oiseau de Feu (Firebird Suite) (1910)

Tracklist:

14. Introduction - The Princesses' Game With Apples Of Gold (2:32)
15. Kastchei's Enchanted Garden (1:46)
16. The Firebird Appears, Pursued By Ivan (2:26)
17. Dance Of The Firebird (1:21)
18. Ivan Tsarevitch Captures The Firebird (0:53)
19. The Firebird's Entreaty (8:13)
20. The Princesses' Game With Apples Of Gold (2:24)
21. The Sudden Appearance Of Ivan Tsarévitch (1:37)
22. The Princesses' Round (3:43)
23. Dawn - Ivan Enters Kastchei's Palace (1:31)
24. The Capture Of Ivan - Arrival Of Kastchei The Immortal (5:41)
25. Dance Of Kastchei's Retinue, Under The Firebird's Spell (0:44)
26. Infernal Dance Of Kastchei's Subjects (4:42)
27. Kastchei Awakes - Death Of Kaschei - Profound Darkness (5:16)
28. Kastchei's Spells Are Broken (3:13)

Orquesta sinfónica de Chicago, dirección por Pierre Boulez. Un "clásico" moderno.

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The Cure - Bloodflowers (2000)

Tracklist:

1. "Out of This World" – 6:44
2. "Watching Me Fall" – 11:13
3. "Where the Birds Always Sing" – 5:44
4. "Maybe Someday" – 5:04
5. "The Last Day of Summer" – 5:36
6. "There Is No If..." – 3:44
7. "The Loudest Sound" – 5:09
8. "39" – 7:20
9. "Bloodflowers" – 7:31

No one revels in the sumptuous pleasures of melancholy like Robert Smith, the Cure's leading mopemeister. In Smith's world, it is always raining, comfort and happiness are fleeting, love is epic and torturous. On Bloodflowers, the band's 11th studio album, his lyrical prowess continues to astound. Considering the subject matter, Smith's always managed to steer clear of the clichéd, bad-high-school-poetry trap, and on Bloodflowers, the imagery is some of his most vivid and stabbing. On "The Loudest Sound," a story about a couple who are, of course, growing apart, he sings of their tension: "She dreams him as a boy / And he loves her as a girl / And side by side in the silence without a single word / It's the loudest sound I ever heard." The music grows out of the same dichromatic marriage of love's eternal hope and heartbreak's inevitable bleakness. Layers of the Cure's signature ethereal, buoyant guitar licks are paced at the momentum of a lava lamp, while melodies lurk only in an understated synth or distorted guitar. None of the songs scream "radio hit" like Wish's "Friday I'm in Love" anomaly; and although Bloodflowers is less abstract, comparisons to Disintegration are easily drawn. If this really threatens to be the last Cure album--no, really, the real end--it's a vision of loneliness and loveliness, a low note rarely surpassed in beauty and breadth.

Beth Massa

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Pat Metheny - Day Trip (2008)

Tracklist:

1. Son Of Thirteen
2. At Last You're Here
3. Let's Move
4. Snova
5. Calvin's Keys
6. Is This America?
7. When We Were Free
8. Dreaming Trees
9. The Red One
10. Day Trip
    

Our job is to be deeply in the moment, says Pat Metheny. Day Trip, the first release from Metheny's current trio lineup, featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, vividly depicts the group at one particularly inspired moment. As Metheny explains, We did it the old-school way. We'd been touring for about four or five years at different times and then went in and recorded, rather than making a record and touring behind it. We worked like gangbusters and finished in a day, so the title Day Trip fit. Besides, this is kind of a trip band; they take you on a journey. The Day Trip sessions were recorded at Manhattan’s Right Track studio in late October 2005 and sequenced into a ten-song set earlier this year.

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Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)

Tracklist:

1. New Coat of Paint
2. San Diego Serenade
3. Semi Suite
4. Shiver Me Timbers
5. Diamonds on My Windshield
6. The Heart of Saturday Night
7. Fumblin' With the Blues
8. Please Call Me, Baby
9. Depot, Depot
10. Drunk on the Moon
11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night


Escuchando The Heart of Saturday Night uno prácticamente se puede imaginar el bar casi vacio, mal iluminado, de ambiente viciado a cigarrillo; y en un rincón, el californiano de la voz rasposa cantando sus canciones (monólogos?) con tintes de folk, jazz y blues; con su infaltable whisky y puchos arriba del piano. Este es el disco definitivo del sábado bajonero.


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