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09-22-2014, 10:38 PM
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carpe musicam
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
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Chapter Two song from the heart 
1. Burning Hearts – I Lost My Color Vision 7. Burning Hearts - A Peasant's Dream The music is indie & Synth Pop with ambient textures. Jessika sings with a soft and sincere voice in an unassuming way, which blends well with the music. I listened to the songs few times before I actually paid attention to the lyrics. Once I did I found the lyrics to be intelligent and introspective. There seems to be a reoccurring examples of flora and fauna scattered throughout the album tying their songs together. They are found in few of the songs titles, others found within the lines of the songs. (And this imagery also carries over to the cover art work of their latest album Extinctions.) It seems they've taken a few hooks from the 80s. The one note which starts opening track reminds me of the introduction of Soft Cell's Tainted Love, but just a single note of it. I Walked Among The Trees has a wobbly riff that reminds me of Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie. Sea Birds has synth generated effect of seagulls, very much like Talk Talk - It's My Life.
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 "it counts in our hearts" ?ºº? “I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac. “If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle. "If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon "I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards |
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11-10-2014, 08:57 PM
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carpe musicam
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Posts: 7,710
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Chapter Three "Hep Cats Lost in Space"  Crystal Stilts – In Love With Oblivion
Crystal Stilts – Flying Into The Sun Crystal Stilts – Precarious Stair Crystal Stilts – Silver Sun Crystal Stilts are rooted heavily in the sounds of the 60s with jangly Folk Rock, Psychedelia, Garage Rock, Surf, and R&B/Motown drum beats, the twangy guitar of Speghetti Westerns. Borrowing also from adjacent decades as well, with the moodiness of post-Punk, chords from Power Pop of the 70s and the occasional sound effects from Sci-fi/Space flicks of the 50s. The singer slips in between styles of Ian Curtis and Jim Morrison, but only does so in half measure, and it's not so evident because the vocals are drench in reverb. The guitar player uses a Gretsch with a Boss RE-20 Space Echo creating spaceship take-off and landing sounds effects. The keyboard player looks like he plays a home-made circuit bent organ providing MFOS-like sound FXs. It is easy to get lost in sound and become oblivious with with the outside world. As they travel through sonic space and harken back to a time musicians played actual instruments and not push buttons on launchpads.
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº? “I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac. “If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle. "If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon "I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards |
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