January 2011
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Fleet Foxes, creators of musicAddicted’s 4th favourite album of 2008 (Slovak written article), are back with their sophomore studio album. The sextet led by talented singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold named their second effort Helplessness Blues and according to Sub Pop, the recording process took over a year with the help of Philip Ek, who partly mixed and produced this 12-tracks...
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Joanna Newsom live in Budapest: Pure awesomeness
Joanna Newsom, American harpist, singer and storyteller, performed her last concert of her European tour in Budapest yesterday. It took place at the building of Budapest beautiful and modern Palace of Arts, in Béla Bartók concert hall. Appropriately for such place, the organization was perfect and the modern-classical grandiosity suitably complemented Newsom’s lofty music. Her performance...
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WatchMemory Tapes, electropop moniker of Dayve Hawk, just published video for his new single, Today Is Our Life. In contrast to Seek Magic, one of the best albums of 2009, it’s less up-beat and more cheerful. Also, the typical bedroom electronics that helped spreading the cult of his nostalgia-driven chillwave aesthetic, are complemented by more diverse and richer textures. Today Is Our Life...
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Clark: New, hard and vigorous Phrenic Mix
Clark, British electronic artist signed to legendary Warp records, released in 00’s few stunning albums that defined his own niche on the IDM scene and the hardest and most inventing, Turning Dragon, made it into my top of 2008. After more than year long pause Chris Clark is coming back. While working on new material and playing few, well-selected gigs, he collected quite big repertory...
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Svarte Greiner: Impressive contribution to Ghostly...
Svarte Greiner, one of Erik K Skodvin’s artistic monikers, contributes to a new compilation of Ghostly International, alternative music oriented label. SMM: Context features new and unheard material from few of musicAddicted’s favourites; Peter Broderick, Kyle Bobby Dunn or Rafael Anton Irisarri among them. Here, Svarte Greiner goes more abstract than we’re used to. He...
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Clem Leek: Home Outside, music for an exhibition
Clem Leek is a young musician from Kent in Southern England, whose compositions are situated on the edge between contemporary classical music and ambient. After impressive full-length Holly Lane, Leek works on new material that is one of the most anticipated records coming in 2011. While waiting for the new dose of this ambient drug, he published something shorter and older, but still very...
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Ólafur Arnalds: New song from Another Happy Day...
Ólafur Arnalds’ minimalist approach to contemporary classical music and his inclination to mix indie rock with classicism are a good starts for making a soundtrack. Arnalds put together score for dance performance Dyad 1909 which consisted of few new compositions living along with his older material from stunning debut album Eulogy For Evolution and its EP successor, Variations Of Static....
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WatchEsben and the Witch’s debut Violet Cries is one of the most awaited albums in 2011. Their noir pop with flavours of post-punk, English balladry and military poetry is refreshing and reasonably balances the catchiness with subduing brutality. After bit morbid video for Marching Song comes Warpath, their second single. It’s paranoid, dark and mysterious - something you would expect from...
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Keep Shelly In Athens: Chilly haze before the sun...
Keep Shelly In Athens are Greek duo who create dreamy synthy tunes that sound both fresh and new, but on the other side, they have those Big moments when you feel that those triumphant harmony has been floating in the air forever. Their sound comprises all the best elements of chillwave, dream pop and somewhat lo-fi lounge that were overly hyped in 2009 and 2010. The first assumption that Keep...
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iamamiwhoami: Innovator of the year
As musicAddicted hoped, iamamiwhoami deservedly won the prize for the Innovator of the year at Swedish Grammis Awards. When announcing their winning, it was said “iamamiwhoami won. Google their videos!” So true. Anyway, congratulations to Jonna & company. They brought us the most amusing, impressive and yes, most innovative audio-visual project of 2010. And as we’re bunch...
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Steiner: The sound of floating air
It’s always exciting when you find some artist who is utterly new to the scene and nobody knows him. Listening to his music feels like sharing the secret of its beauty just with the composer. Music that your friends never heard of and all those music-oriented social networks still haven’t noticed seems bit mysterious on the first “sight” and it also evokes feelings of...
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Mogwai: New catchy & rocking song, San Pedro, for...
It’s still more than a month till new Mogwai album comes to us, but the Scottish quintet gives away second song for free (via Pitchfork). First it was Rano Pano, catchy, witty and absurdly named song that set the expectations very high. The second one is San Pedro (listen and download below) the shortest song from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will!, one of the most expected albums in...
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Early To Bed: Intimate pop that connects Atlantic
EardrumsPop is a small label founded by four young people living in different European countries, who love intimate, melancholic and smart pop. They’ve been picking not broadly known bands for more than 5 years through the Eardrums, blog oriented mostly at Scandinavian scene, and since the beginning of last year, they are offereing free for download EPs via their label.
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Oni Ayhun: Two new, free songs from Olof Dreijer...
While Karin Dreijer chose to explore the waters of gothic electronic pop as Fever Ray after The Knife’s groundbreaking Silent Shout, her brother, Olof, delved into avant-garde minimal music. Working under Oni Ayhun artistic name, he puts together three of his bit schizophrenic substances (as also pictured on the official images above): dark, decadent androgynous eroticism, colourful...
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Deaf Center: First song from upcoming album Owl...
Simply gorgeous. That’s the shortest and most apt characteristic of New Beginning (Tidal Darkness), first track made available from Deaf Center’s much awaited second album, Owl Splinters, released via Type Records in February 2011. After Erik K Skodvin’s trips into eerie darkness under his Svarte Greiner moniker and Otto Totland’s greater evolving of ambiance with Nest,...
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popAddicted: Biggest expectations for 2011's music
Esben and The Witch - Violet Cries James Blake - James Blake PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will Deaf Center - Owl Splinters Lamb - 5 Marissa Nadler - untitled iamamiwhoami - untitled Clem Leek - untitled Field Rotation - Acoustic Tales (Listen to these amazing songs & read more about the most expected music below.)
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altAddicted: 2010's best alternative music (5-1)
5. Nico Muhly - I Drink the Air Before Me 4. Erik K Skodvin - Flare 3. Marcus Fjellström - Schattenspieler 2. Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support 1. Nest - Retold (Listen to the albums & read my thoughts on them below; Don’t forget to check ranks 16-11 & ranks 10-6. Also, there’s a chart of top pop albums of 2010 along with the best pop singles. Enjoy.)
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