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VARIOUS COMPOSERS: a/rhythmia - Alarm Will Sound - Nonesuch 467708-2, 62:00 :
If you’ve never heard Alarm Will Sound, then try a cut or two from a recent Kronos Quartet CD first. When the Kronos Quartet burst onto the scene in the early eighties, it was hailed as the bête noir of contemporary performance. Think of Alarm Will Sound as the quartet’s ill-behaved younger sibling. Like the Kronos ...
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Oh yeah. Forgot to mention this since I fell asleep the other night; Magnetic Fields new album. Sounds awesome. I mean, I haven't heard any of it but the idea sounds way cool. I guess it'll be called Realism. It has an album cover a lot like the other ones and that's cool. Maybe it'll be good like them too. Anyway. They are touring as well. Dates below.
THE MAGNETIC ...
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Remember Wilco's second album? ...No? Oh man, that's gonna make this story kinda difficult then, isn't it? Hmm... okay, okay, it's the one after A.M. that everyone says Wilco kinda “came into their own sound†on? A.K.A., it's the one with “Misunderstood†on it, followed by all those songs that sound just like A.M.? Ah! See? NOW you know what I'm talking about! ...
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NONESUCH PRESS.; LAMARTINE (A. de).With thirty illustrations by Jacquier (eleven coloured using the pochoir technique and nineteen printed in a light ochre tint). One of 1600 ... red and green patterned oatmeal cloth, printed paper label on spine, t.e.g., others uncut, unopened. London, The Nonesuch Press.Lower margin of last page with ink smudge from colophon or printing, otherwise a near fine copy.
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... week, the Magnetic Fields have a new album called Realism coming January 26 from Nonesuch. According to a press release, Realism will replace the Psychocandy fixation of the band's last album, ... Johnny Blood on tuba, and Ida Pearle on violin.
The first 250 people who buy the album from the Nonesuch Store will get a limited-edition hand-screened poster signed by Merritt.
Magnetic Fields:
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... best example of which was the mini-epic from Genesis, which fascinated my 10 year-old self). The Low Anthem's new release is Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, out on Nonesuch.
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Finally, sometimes the best videos have little to do with the band itself, or for that matter the subject matter of the song. This WeWereMonkeys-directed piece for Land of Talk's "It's Okay" ...
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