<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003</id><updated>2012-02-15T23:14:14.701-08:00</updated><category term='black keys big come up'/><category term='Agnes Obel Philharmonics'/><category term='isobel campbell mark lanegan ballad broken seas'/><category term='Mercury Rev Deserters Songs'/><category term='Radio Moscow'/><category term='Pixies Doolittle'/><category term='Bonnie Prince Billy Letting Go'/><category term='Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues'/><category term='Agnes Obel Riverside'/><title type='text'>Ball &amp; Biscuit Music Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Zoektocht naar de betere muziek...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-3328037725122669321</id><published>2011-05-17T00:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T04:14:45.001-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='isobel campbell mark lanegan ballad broken seas'/><title type='text'>Isobel Campbell &amp; Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (2006)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/03/!CDjHGow!2k~$(KGrHqV,!hUE0fBqcsWCBNPBFgp1Fg~~_35.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;De Britse Isobel Campbell (voor haar solocarrière leende ze haar kunsten en haar fijne onschuldige stem aan&amp;nbsp;Belle &amp;amp; Sebastian) neemt een plaat op met de ruige Amerikaan Mark Lanegan, die wij allen kennen van zijn gastrol bij&amp;nbsp;Queens of the Stone Age, van zijn verleden in Seattleband Screaming Trees of van zijn solowerk, dat een schitterende apotheose kreeg met het in 2004 verschenen album&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="titel" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bubblegum&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En het resultaat mag er ook nog eens wezen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="titel" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ballad of the Broken Seas&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is een plaat vol magie, mysterie en schoonheid. Het beste van twee werelden samengepakt in een nieuwe wereld. Of misschien eerder: een oude wereld. En dat is met name knap van Campbell. Zij schreef het overgrote deel van de broeierige folksongs in het Schotse Glasgow&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;of all places&lt;/i&gt;. Zo zie je maar wat goed luisteren naar Johnny Cash, Hank Williams (ook gecovered op deze plaat) en Lee Hazlewood allemaal niet kan bewerkstelligen. Je hoort de jaren twintig tot en met de jaren zeventig terug, voegt wat gekraak toe, zet de zaak op vinyl, zorgt dat het er wat oud uitziet, drukt de plaat in een bak op een verzamelbeurs en houdt iedereen voor de gek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Campbell en Lanegan weten een magische landelijke sfeer te creëren, op de manier waarop anachronist Tom Waits dat ook deed op&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="titel" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mule Variations&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(1999) en op een gedeelte van&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="titel" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Real Gone&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(2004). Een vergelijking die misschien ook wel boven komt drijven omdat Mark Lanegan zowel met zijn karakteristieke gezicht als qua stem steeds meer op deze grootmeester gaat lijken. Nou dwaal ik weer af. En dat is precies wat deze plaat met je doet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="titel" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ballad of the Broken Seas&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;laat je, vanuit je koude zolderkamertje, afdwalen naar het Amerikaans platteland, naar plekken die je kent uit films of naar beelden die je zelf in je hoofd hebt gevormd bij het luisteren naar de muziek van Cash en anderen. Zo moet het ongeveer ook gegaan zijn met Isobel Campbell, daar in Schotland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #414141; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-3328037725122669321?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/3328037725122669321/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/05/de-britse-isobel-campbell-voor-haar.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/3328037725122669321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/3328037725122669321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/05/de-britse-isobel-campbell-voor-haar.html' title='Isobel Campbell &amp; Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (2006)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-2825700730061864043</id><published>2011-05-11T04:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-11T04:58:36.483-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mercury Rev Deserters Songs'/><title type='text'>Mercury Rev - Deserter´s Songs (1998)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQzgNzmijRs/TbgGJHvWnWI/AAAAAAAADX0/GDOCbK0TwDc/s320/mercury-rev-deserters-songs-front.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;In de loop van de jaren tachtig kwam Mercury Rev opzetten met luchtige droompop, tegenwoordig zijn ze een referentie geworden voor jonge bands.&amp;nbsp;De Amerikanen creëren een evenwicht tussen een verheven instrumentatie en weelderige zang. Zowel opdringend als kosmisch evolueren de composities tot een stevige brok energie, die op de planken helemaal tot leven komt. Hierbij de video van het prachtige Goddess on a highway .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/1xJbEoc5sDw/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xJbEoc5sDw&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1xJbEoc5sDw&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-2825700730061864043?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/2825700730061864043/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/05/mercury-rev.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/2825700730061864043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/2825700730061864043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/05/mercury-rev.html' title='Mercury Rev - Deserter´s Songs (1998)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQzgNzmijRs/TbgGJHvWnWI/AAAAAAAADX0/GDOCbK0TwDc/s72-c/mercury-rev-deserters-songs-front.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-8026887061983573247</id><published>2011-04-29T01:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T01:33:25.309-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bonnie Prince Billy Letting Go'/><title type='text'>Bonnie Prince Billy - The letting go (2006)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.twistedsun.net/files/page3_blog_entry627_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4b4b4c; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Though Will Oldham began his musical career while in his early twenties, he's never exactly sounded young. From his first releases as Palace Music, Oldham's whiskey-soaked vocals and lyrical obsessions with death, sex, and religion have made "maturity" something of a non-issue. And yet, with his most recent couple of releases as Bonnie "Prince" Billy, the aesthetic antiquity of his earliest recordings seems to have slowly given way to a more mundane sense of age. On&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Letting Go&lt;/em&gt;, the humor, dread, and resignation that inform Oldham's music are presented in blissfully unfiltered form, and whether the proximity one feels is to person or persona is ultimately irrelevant; either way,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Letting Go&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;feels&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;close&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;With its pristine recording and prominent female backing vocals, opener "Love Comes to Me" evokes Oldham's 2003 album&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Master and Everyone&lt;/em&gt;. Thankfully, the sound of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Letting Go&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;proves to be more inviting and striking than that of its predecessor, as Oldham and Faun Fables vocalist Dawn McCarthy invariably find their way to beautiful moments-- even when the songs themselves aren't particularly engrossing. A late autumn stroll through the woods might not be the most exciting metaphor for an album, but it's a rare treat to hear something this organic and cozy&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Generally speaking, this is true of the album's sequencing as well. Though the more lo-fi and bluesy "Cold &amp;amp; Wet" is a noticeable shift from the rest of the record, it's by no means unwelcome after the perhaps-too-understated "No Bad News". On the whole,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Letting Go&lt;/em&gt;is amazingly consistent, Oldham and McCarthy meandering tunefully through subtle but effective changes in texture and tone. Unlike Oldham's best work,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Letting Go&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;doesn't pull you into its own emotional world; it doesn't ask much, and you're free to take as much from it as you'd like. The beauty and eccentricity of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Letting Go&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;doesn't provoke deep absorption or self-reflection so much as a kind of fond familiarity. (Source Pitchfork)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-8026887061983573247?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/8026887061983573247/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/bonnie-prince-billy-letting-go-2006.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/8026887061983573247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/8026887061983573247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/bonnie-prince-billy-letting-go-2006.html' title='Bonnie Prince Billy - The letting go (2006)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-982512971409116694</id><published>2011-04-29T01:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T01:27:57.294-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Agnes Obel Riverside'/><title type='text'>Video Agnes Obel - Riverside</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/vjncyiuwwXQ/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vjncyiuwwXQ&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vjncyiuwwXQ&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-982512971409116694?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/982512971409116694/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-agnes-obel-riverside.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/982512971409116694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/982512971409116694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-agnes-obel-riverside.html' title='Video Agnes Obel - Riverside'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-7916507709971025736</id><published>2011-04-29T01:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T01:25:19.545-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Agnes Obel Philharmonics'/><title type='text'>Agnes Obel - Philharmonics (2011)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nordicmusic.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/agnes-obel1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Over&amp;nbsp;'Philharmonics'&amp;nbsp;hangt de mysterieuze, ietwat sinistere stilte die we spontaan met onmetelijke Scandinavische naaldwouden associëren. Met alleen de meest essentiële ingrediënten - stem, piano en een occasionele harp ('Beast') of cello (in&amp;nbsp;'Brother Sparrow'&amp;nbsp;, dat van&amp;nbsp;Elliott Smith&amp;nbsp;had kunnen zijn) - vertaalt Obel die bedrieglijke rust in prachtige ingetogen liedjes. Liedjes die zo uitgepuurd klinken dat de minste versnelling of stembuiging, of zelfs gewoon maar die paar seconden stilte in&amp;nbsp;'On Powdered Ground'&amp;nbsp;, al drama suggereren. Ook in ogenschijnlijk idyllische songs als de dromerige single&amp;nbsp;'Riverside'&amp;nbsp;laat ze op die manieronrust binnensijpelen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Telkens wanneer de schaduwen de overhand dreigen te krijgen, tovert Obel verrassende lichtvlekjes te voorschijn:'Just So'&amp;nbsp;opent zowaar met&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;'Black turns beamy bright'&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;- heel wat anders dan die '&lt;em&gt;Guess who died last night'&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;van de&amp;nbsp;Soap &amp;amp; Skin&amp;nbsp;-achtige titeltrack. Bovendien stuurt ze haar&amp;nbsp;John Cale&amp;nbsp;-bewerking&amp;nbsp;'Close Watch'&amp;nbsp;onverwachts een andere, hoopvolle richting uit, terwijl&amp;nbsp;'Louretta'&amp;nbsp;dapper door de balzaal van The Overlook Hotel uit 'The Shining' walst, en we een hese&amp;nbsp;Cat Power&amp;nbsp;horen in het refrein dat het poppy'Avenue'&amp;nbsp;doet opbloeien.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;(Bron : Humo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-7916507709971025736?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/7916507709971025736/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/agnes-obel-philharmonics-2011.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/7916507709971025736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/7916507709971025736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/agnes-obel-philharmonics-2011.html' title='Agnes Obel - Philharmonics (2011)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-6000989965749224292</id><published>2011-04-13T06:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-13T07:33:51.653-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pixies Doolittle'/><title type='text'>Pixies - Doolittle (1989)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.noiset.com/images/album/pixies-doolittle-disc-cover-49214.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Doolittle&amp;nbsp;is het tweede&amp;nbsp;studioalbum&amp;nbsp;van de&amp;nbsp;Amerikaanse&amp;nbsp;band&amp;nbsp;Pixies.Met de donkere songteksten die verwijzen naar het&amp;nbsp;surrealisme, Bijbels geweld,&amp;nbsp;marteling&amp;nbsp;en&amp;nbsp;dood&amp;nbsp;staat het in contrast met de cleane productie door de toen aangenomen producer&amp;nbsp;Gil Norton. Uit het album zijn&amp;nbsp;twee singles uitgebracht : "Here Comes Your Man" en "Monkey Goes To Heaven", die beide een succes werden op de Amerikaansehitlijsten&amp;nbsp;voor&amp;nbsp;Rock. Het album heeft de achtste plaats bereikt op de hitlijst vooralbums&amp;nbsp;in het&amp;nbsp;Verenigd Koninkrijk, wat een onverwacht succes was voor de band. Nu nog worden nummers van het album waaronder "Debaser", "Wave Of Mutilation", en "Hey" hoog gewaardeerd door muziekrecensenten, terwijl het album samen met hun debuutalbum (Surfer Rosa) word gezien als de band hun beste werk. Persoonlijke favorieten zijn "Tame" en "Wave of Multilation" . De Song Debaser is gebaseerd op de film "&lt;a href="http://www.zappinternet.com/video/danPvuMpaX/Un-chien-Andalou-1928"&gt;Un Chien Andalou&lt;/a&gt;" van Salvator Dali en Luis Bunuel waar de oogbal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;(Slicing up eyeballs)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;van een vrouw wordt doorgesneden. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-6000989965749224292?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/6000989965749224292/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/pixies-doolittle.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/6000989965749224292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/6000989965749224292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/pixies-doolittle.html' title='Pixies - Doolittle (1989)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-7492978504660687592</id><published>2011-04-13T06:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-13T06:43:22.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Video Radio Moscow - That Frustrating Sound (Live @ Iowa Jan. 2007)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;This album's most distinguishing characteristic is easily how indistinguishable these songs are from each other. Several of them sound like they're named after touristy Southern bars ("Lickskillet", "Luckydutch", "Mistreating Queen") and all of them feel content with burying Briggs' already muffled vocals in wah-wah guitars and gratuitous mid-song jams. There's only one change-of-pace number on the album, the Far East-tapping "Ordovician Fauna", though even that track merely swaps boring pentatonic riffs for boring Indian scale riffs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Some areas where the band could really rally around: "Timebomb" has a decent melody, and for the split-second of the chorus where Briggs jumps up an octave to deliver a lovelorn yelp, you feel like the song's actually building towards something. Then poof-- a non-descript lick takes over, the pounding, staccato rhythm sections melts into predictable downbeat flab, and Radio Moscow attempt to once again try blowing your mind with a garden variety "jam." The chic criticisms of Cream/Led Zep/Hendrix thievery don't even apply to these classic rock throwbacks-- the band's not swiping full-fledged ideas from anyone. They're barely recreating anything more complicated than atonal finger exercises, a drawback that ultimately makes this debut such a bitch slap to the face of the musical genre that helped proliferate words like "hook" and "riff" in our lexicon. (Pitchfork)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Album info&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.discogs.com/Radio-Moscow-Radio-Moscow/master/110075"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;. Official &lt;a href="http://www.radiomoscow.net/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-6599900048806992483?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/6599900048806992483/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/radio-moscow-radio-moscow-2007.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/6599900048806992483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/6599900048806992483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/radio-moscow-radio-moscow-2007.html' title='Radio Moscow -  Radio Moscow (2007)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sSO2pM0K8GA/RsXYNcXeKKI/AAAAAAAAABc/tnnbS9Nub_M/s72-c/Radio+Moscow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-4802944868005554663</id><published>2011-04-13T06:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-13T06:20:32.845-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black keys big come up'/><title type='text'>The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (2002)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.vinylsurrender.com/Graphics/AlbumCovers2/The%20Black%20Keys%20-%20The%20Big%20Come%20Up.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;On paper, two Ohio white guys forming a drum-and-guitar blues duo seemed like the last thing the world needed in 2002. Fortunately, the guys revisiting the tried and true were guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney a.k.a. the Black Keys. With the former's blown-cone distortion and slinky riffs, and the latter's positively Bonham-esque way of inhabiting each change with a loose power, they smacked judgment out of one's brain before anyone could call it cliche. Taking cues from Fat Possum-centric blues legends like Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside (both covered here on the first two tracks) and garage fetishists like Billy Childish and Jack White alike, the Akron duo arrived with swagger on these 13 tracks. Tackling covers traditional (like Sleepy John Estes's "Leavin' Trunk") and non (the Beatles's "She Said, She Said") and their own workouts (the aptly titled "Heavy Soul"), THE BIG COME UP wins on the strength of Auerbach's ravagedly expressive vocals--which match the egdes in his guitar tone crag for crag.. (Source CD-Universe) , album info&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.discogs.com/Black-Keys-The-Big-Come-Up/master/79394"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;. Official&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theblackkeys.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Black Keys .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-4802944868005554663?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/4802944868005554663/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-paper-two-ohio-white-guys-forming.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/4802944868005554663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/4802944868005554663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-paper-two-ohio-white-guys-forming.html' title='The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (2002)'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920656390052725003.post-6367584442225675014</id><published>2011-04-09T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T13:03:34.540-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues'/><title type='text'>Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://onethirtybpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues-300x300.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"&gt;Het kan niet gemakkelijk zijn geweest voor the Fleet Foxes om hun eigen en toch op veel grote invloeden (Beach Boys,CSN,Neil Young) hebbende sound opnieuw spannend te maken zonder in de herhaling van het eerste album te vallen. Het koste hun dan ook bijna 3 jaar om een opvolger uit te broeden. Wat onmiddellijk opvalt is dat de meeste nummers zijn opgebouwd rond de vocalen van zanger Robin Pecknold en dat het volledige prachtige groepsgeluid wat de Fleet Foxes zo sterk maakt pas invalt na de helft van de songs. De folkie koortjes zijn gebleven maar ik mis toch echt sterke nummers zoals White Winter Hymnal en Ragged Wood. De plaat verschijnt officiëel op 3 mei in België. Meer info over Fleet Foxes vind je&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.subpop.com/artists/fleet_foxes"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;. De titelsong kan je&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.fleetfoxes.com/helplessness-blues.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;beluisteren.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8920656390052725003-6367584442225675014?l=ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/6367584442225675014/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues.html#comment-form' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/6367584442225675014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8920656390052725003/posts/default/6367584442225675014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ballandbiscuit.blogspot.com/2011/04/fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues.html' title='Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues'/><author><name>Fredo520i</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02649595834238314483</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
