Producer Dayve Hawk, who has created dreamy electro soundscapes as Memory Cassette, Weird Tapes, and Memory Tapes, arrives with an achingly gorgeous dance-pop album that captures both the joy of nostalgia and the melancholic sense that we’re grasping for good times increasingly out of reach. Initially, Seek Magic ‘s power derives from an intensely personalized ability to unlock hidden chambers in our memory banks. But in the end, Seek Magic is something of an inhabitable universe that proves there’s far more to Hawk’s sound than a way with reverb and passing familiarity with dance loops.
Archive for September, 2009
Matt Graham
This young fellow is a folk singer from Austin, Texas.
Photos | 50 Cent’s 40 Day Community Celebration In Queens, New York
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Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (Version 2)
Paparazzi (Version 2) Artist: Lady Gaga Label: Interscope, Cherrytree, Streamline, KonLive Director: n/a Album: The Fame
Girls - Album
Girls have been the subject of a steadily building buzz based on some excellent singles, and they deliver on that promise here in a big way. Musically, Album is mostly sunny Beach Boys pastiche, but it’s not the kajillionth indie attempt at orchestral Pet Sounds majesty.
Volcano Choir…
After For Emma, Forever Ago ‘s deserved success, the nifty stopgap EP Blood Bank , and a long stretch on the road winning new fans, the next move for Justin Vernon of Bon Iver proves to be another welcome curveball: teaming with the post-rock outfit Collections of Colonies of Bees for a short album of experimental pop as Volcano Choir. Vernon’s voice is one of the most distinctive going right now, so you can always hear him in this music

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