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"Everett has written songs increasingly obsessed with his own loneliness and aging. Adrian Tomine's cover illustration for End Times depicts a raggedy old man reinforcing these themes before the album even starts. They are so prevalent, expressed so intimately — even by the Eels' own standards - it’s almost uncomfortable listening. E's self-reflection feels like he’s singing into a dirty, distorted mirror to offer the truth of his situation back at him — and consequently, us. End Times is ultimately about the end of a relationship that has left him shattered; reinforcing his loneliness and sense of mortality. E blames no one but himself. (...) He describes actions he takes to stem desperation: pushing the bed against the wall so it won’t feel so empty. In the end, he expresses his truth: that he loved fully even if imperfectly..." - Thom Jurek (Allmusic Guide)
"It was a little disturbing at first to hear that Joanna Newsom's full-length follow-up to the ambitious and polarizing Ys would be a triple album. (...) I had troubling visions of 25-minute songs with lyrics that stretched to 5,000 words. (...) [The new album is] not a progression, exactly, more of a deepening. You can feel roots going down and an edifice being built. Her voice has gained depth and she sings with more force and clarity. The best songs feel more like conversations rather than artworks to be hung on the wall and admired from several paces away. Newsom seems to sing from somewhere deep inside of them, and her earthy presence has a way of drawing you in, bringing you closer to her music than you've been before.The name you'll most hear in discussion of this record is Joni Mitchell. Part of it is that Newsom can sound a fair bit like her with her more richly textured voice." - PITCHFORK
Havia apresentado aqui no depredando o mestre da “música primitiva americana” John Fahey. Dessa vez trago um dos remanescentes do primitivismo musical, Jack Rose.
Nascido no estado da Virgínia, EUA, antes de ser “violeiro” já era “primitivo” com a banda de drone-xamânico Pelt. Diferentemente do que se conhece por drone hoje em dia (algo como Sunn o))), apenas guitarras ultra distorcidas tocadas em power chords com sustain infinito) o Pelt era um grupo que usava primordialmente instrumentos acústicos. Em 2004 Devendra Banhart lança a coletânea revival de folk contemporâneo “Golden Aples of the Sun”. No disco uma faixa é de Jack Rose, agora solo.
Seus discos variam do puro improviso, à “ragas” com certo sabor oriental/hindu, ao blues com slide na guitarra havaiana, ao drone-mântrico e country folk bem ao estilo pré II Guerra Mundial.
No fim do ano passado Jack Rose faleceu. No meio da noite um ataque cardíaco ceifou a vida do violeiro. Havia sido lançado um disco com o The Black Twig Pickers (antigo Pelt) de canções country folk, na maioria composições de domínio público da época pré II Guerra Mundial e algumas canções próprias.
Este é o disco póstumo, Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers:

Em breve será lançado um dvd dele junto com Glenn Jones, outro “primitivista” do violão americano. Já adianto o
trailer:


“Are we innocent, the paragons of good?
Is our guilt erased by the pain that we've endured?”
"COMBAT ROCK"


In Hollywood where all the lights are lowAnd truth's as rare as the winter snowShe wanted a place arid as her soulWhere her only job was never to grow oldWhen the lights are shining, will you see my skin?Or just the shell that I'm packaged in?I've held my tongue and I've hid my soresIf I'm less of myself, will you love me more?
“With One Beat, Sleater-Kinney have turned in an album that absolutely, positively obliterates the gender card, an album so colossal that all prefixes to the label 'rock band' must be immediately discarded”.

Nas 12 faixas do disco, A Abolição lançou o embrião do movimento Black Rio, completando a técnica jazzística de Dom Salvador com suingues — rá! adoro essa palavra — emprestados do soul (Uma Vida, Hey Você), da bossa (O Rio, Samba do Malandrinho), do funk (Guanabara, Tio Macro) e até do forró (Folia de Reis). E o melhor, sem você nem perceber que está ouvindo tudo isso. Em vez de fazer como algumas bandas/músicos atuais e tulhar o cavaquinho (ou coloque aqui o instrumento típico brasileiro da sua escolha) lá na frente pra mostrar a malemolência brasileira, em Som, Sangue e Raça está tudo ali no lugar certo, fazendo seu papel com sossego…"Teen Dream, Beach House's third album and first for Sub Pop, is both the most diverse and most listenable of their three full-lengths, and yet it never seems like a compromise. It feels like the product of careful, thoughtful growth, bringing in new influences-- bits of mid-1970s Fleetwood Mac, sparkling indie pop, even a few soul and gospel touches--- while maintaining the group's core sound. Teen Dream is a stirring reminder that good things can happen when you move out of your comfort zone. (...) Despite the brighter, more pop-informed sound and an album title that brings to mind the hazy nostalgia of youth, Teen Dream has a pretty sad heart." --- PITCHFORK (9.0)
"This is a great guitar album in the way Weezer's Blue Album, Built to Spill's Keep It Like a Secret, or, more recently, Japandroids' Post-Nothing are: six-strings serve as a multiplier for hooks, making it every bit as easy and fun to air guitar with as it is to sing along to. (...) Astro Coast is lyrically landlocked and lonely. (...) Topics of concern include confusion about romance, confusion about friendship, confusion about the future, confusion about religion. It's hard not to think that most of Astro Coast was borne of a relationship dissolved by distance, especially if we're to take the otherwise chipper "Twin Peaks" at face value: Pitts travels to Syracuse, watches David Lynch films, and wrenches out lyrics of sexual frustration that suggest most of the drive was spent listening to Pinkerton. (...) ambition can just as easily manifest itself as a desire to create a relentlessly catchy, "classic indie" album in your own dorm room, and if that's what Surfer Blood set out to do, Astro Coast succeeds wildly." --- PITCHFORK
"The antithesis of 2008’s noisy Distortion, Realism revels in folk music in a way that hasn’t appeared on a Magnetic Fields album since 1990’s Distant Plastic Trees. (...) By far his most listenable and fully realized work since 1999’s mammoth 69 Love Songs, Realism feels slight because it is. It’s hard to hear someone so adept with a poison pen preen instead of brood, but it’s also rewarding. In the end, longtime fans will want to go back to the opening cut and seek out the comfort of those familiar first three chords that, like a seasoned bluesman with his E to A to B, have become synonymous with their creator, but hopefully, they’ll decide to take another trip through the countryside, soak in some much needed sun, and let bygones be bygones." -- ALLMUSIC

"Evolving from a garage punk band in the vein of the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, and Mudhoney to a literate, pretentious, soul-inflected post-punk quartet, the Afghan Whigs were one of the most critically acclaimed alternative bands of the early '90s. Although the band never broke into the mainstream, they developed a dedicated cult following, primarily because of lead singer/songwriter Greg Dulli's tortured, angst-ridden tales of broken relationships and self-loathing. The Afghan Whigs were one of the few alternative bands around in the late '90s to acknowledge R&B, attempting to create a fusion of soul and post-punk." -- ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Apesar de ser uma legítima e barulhenta banda de rock'n'roll noventista, que integrou o cast da Sub Pop no ápice do selo, lançando o petardo Congregation (91) em meio à efervescência grunge, os Whigs eram também uma banda amante da soul music. Volta e meia faziam a gracinha de gravar um hit das Supremes ou tocar um clássico da Motown num show --- claro que em volume ensurdecedor. Greg Dulli, o vocalista e principal compositor, queria cantar como Al Green, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding ou Jimi Hendrix, mas ao mesmo tempo não temia assumir a gravidade dum Lanegan ou a fúria dum Cobain.
O climão que emana de 1965 nos dá a sensação de estarmos acompanhando um midnight cowboy, um perdido navegante noturno, que ainda que procure no hedonismo e numa transa fácil a anestesia para suas angústias, sempre prossegue com a mente transtornada e assombrada. E sempre desperta, na ressaca do dia-seguinte, ainda com seu coração sanguessuga e vampiresco intacto ("this vampire only wants a little love", canta Dulli).
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Contra
OWEN PALLETT - Heartland
OK GO - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - IRM
Vídeozin exclusivo para o Depredando: Big Time Orchestra agitando o pós-Reveillon, no Bolshoi de Goiânia, dia 02/01/2010. Com um medley matador, chefiado pelo Satrianinho sacana e seus Saxofonetes, a banda leva o público ao delírio. Começa AC/DC, cai no Chuck Berry, vira solo com guita nas costas à la Hendrix, arranca prum Lédão das antiga, desce prum Kiss deslavado e tudo vai parar lá no Ramones... Depredador!!!O cinematografista, pra lá de amador, pede desculpas pelos tremeliques e inconstâncias de foco: no meio da muvuca é foda gravar sem ficar parecendo um velhinho com Parkinson. Sem falar que este jornalista sempre pôs o alcoolismo acima do profissionalismo... =)

mpanhamento. Os Beatles, que foram para Hamburgo ainda sem saber como preencher o repertório de sete exaustos dias por semana em cima de um palco, ganharam a simpatia de Sheridan pela energia transgressora que transmitiam ao vivo. E Sheridan ensinou aos rapazes como levar a música a noite toda na palma das mãos em um buraco chamado Top Ten. A musicalidade do guitarrista também foi fundamental para que a hoje considerada melhor banda do mundo ganhasse algo importante para sua sobrevivência: mojo, a famosa cancha. 
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