Year’s best albums
The News Review:
- Year’s best albums
- Albums from Radiohead and Kanye West made the cut
- Ghostland bservatory leads electro-rock resurgence
- Notables Who Died in 2007 Include Lady Bird Johnson Norman Mailer…
- Warner Music Group Joins Amazon’s DRM-Free Download Store
- Top Albums of 2007
- New Sounds Somewhere Beyond ‘In Rainbows’
Year’s best albums
News & bserver – Dec 30, 2007
“Wincing” combines the Shins’ catchy guitar-pop with odd pings blips and bleeps resulting in layered lushness that takes multiple listens to penetrate. Ulrich Schnauss “Goodbye”Speaking of atmosphere this perfectly paced release has it in spades. It works best as a complete nine-track unit starting slow and accelerating to a peak before receding into the background. It’s electronic music for people who think they don’t like electronic music. Avett Brothers”Emotionalism”This Concord trio has finally made a record that’s as easy to admire as the group’s work habits. “Emotionalism” adds a shot of real popcraft into rocked-up string-band tunes with vocal harmonies straight out of the Beatles playbook. Danged if it doesn’t hang together brilliantly.
Albums from Radiohead and Kanye West made the cut
Vail Daily News – Dec 30, 2007
But the album is especially notable for premiering on Starbucks’ new Hear Music label. Its massive success at Starbucks stores ensures that they’ll be hawking much more than coffee for years to come. Burial “Untrue” Burial’s unique form of haunting lonely electronic music (often called “London dub-step”) conveys a sense of walking city streets alone on a rain-slicked night. Loaded with dark atmosphere and forlorn melodies it presents a new frontier for electronic music as an organic human experience. But perhaps most interesting is that we know so little about the anonymous artist Burial at all. In a time when image ego and fame play so much into how we view music it’s refreshing to see an artist truly let the music speak for itself.
Ghostland bservatory leads electro-rock resurgence
Dallas Morning News – Dec 30, 2007
“In the 1990s you either liked rock or you were into techno. The rock people didn’t embrace electronic music at all. Then Radiohead and others started to combine the two and people started to think ‘h yeah that’s kind of cool. It’s not just disco or whatever. ‘”The younger generations are just viewing it as new music as opposed to what’s been done over and over in the past 50 years. I think that they don’t care; They just want to go and bang it and have fun for however many hours the show lasts.
Notables Who Died in 2007 Include Lady Bird Johnson Norman Mailer…
FXNews – Dec 30, 2007
DECEMBER: Karlheinz Stockhausen 79. Avant-garde German composer; pioneer of electronic music.
Warner Music Group Joins Amazon’s DRM-Free Download Store
Stereophile Magazine – Dec 30, 2007
com and Warner Music Group announced that WMG’s entire 2. 9 million-song catalog would be available on Amazon’s DRM-free à la carte MP3 store—the first time the entire Warner catalog has been available online and the first time it has been offered sans DRM. In a famous reply to Steve Jobs’… director Center for Social Media professor School of Communication American University; Russ Frackman partner Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLC; Jonathan Lee VP business development MediaDefender Inc. ; Ian Rogers general manager Yahoo! Music; and Fred von Lohmann senior intellectual property attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Top Albums of 2007
Washington Post – Dec 30, 2007
If it is turned off please enable JavaScript in your browser preferences. n which LCD daredevil James Murphy leaps off the bridge between rock and electro-dance music pulling us along for the exhilarating descent.
New Sounds Somewhere Beyond ‘In Rainbows’
New York Times – Dec 30, 2007
Paul the Apostle near Columbus Circle on Jan. Tickets for those concerts presented by the Wordless Music Series (. Radiohead heads take note: It’s a nonnegotiable price… ) ne standout track from the project is “Weird Fishes” which Amplive has transformed from a synthesizer-and-guitar odyssey into an ominous electro-trance expedition. Some other strong tracks feature guests: The pimp-rap specialist Too $hort enlivens a bass-boosted “Nude” and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien triples the verbiage on “Videotape. ” f course there are also duds. The repetitive guitar loops of “Faust Arp” recall.
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