Album of the Week: Close To Paradise

Published on May 11, 2009 in Album of the Week. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This week, quite a rushed post as I’m in my last week of exams and indeed have an exam in a couple of hours. However, I’d like to feature an amazing album by the Canadian Patrick Watson. Their 2006 album Close to Paradise is to me the soundtrack to an epic boat trip in the rain guided by a very unique voice (yeah, exams do this to me..).

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In their (quite nice!) official website you can download two awesome tracks: Luscious Life and Giver. Hope you like it.

Oh, and I just noticed that the WordPress update ruined my K2 layout! I’ll try to fix it when I get my free time back after this awful exam period. Sorry about that!

Album of the Week: Apologies to the Queen Mary

Published on May 3, 2009 in Album of the Week. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This week, another album from the same bag of uncontrolled strange vocals that brought you Tears of the Valedictorian :) . I’m featuring the debut album from the Canadian band Wolf Parade, titled Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005). I was addicted to this album a couple of years ago and recently came back to it and got addicted all over again. It’s such a neat and unique album with some interesting lyrics and of course interesting vocals. If weird vocals are not your thing you might want to skip this one, but if you liked Tears of the Valedictorian I think you’ll also love this album!

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These two video clips will give you a sampler of two amazing tracks from the album, and they are pretty cool videoclips themselves. Hope you like it.

Album of the Week: Alphabet Graveyard

Published on April 25, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

This album is my newest addiction. The debut full-length album from the American band Gentleman Auction House. Quite instrumentally varied and interesting, but then I think you’ve already gotten my style so I’m starting to sound pretty redundant… :)

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You can listen to some of their songs on their MySpace page (unfortunately their official website points there, I’m not too fond of MySpace either). They need to be more listened to, so I hope you also like them!