[Free Gold!]
I think I can say, in my own opinion, that Indian Jewelry is the most productive band so far this year. Yea, a couple releases are rereleases due to recent resignage but still 2 new full length LPs, a singles compilation, and a split all in one first half of a year is damn impressive. As previously posted, India Jewelry already rerealsed their LP We Are The Wild Beast from 2003 this year and have just now released an all new full length entitled Free Gold! that is even better and as I said more along the lines of Rattling Death Train. Hallelujah! Also released, is their second all new album of this year, Fake and Cheap, followed by Sangles Redux.
[Freak Folk, Finnish, Experimental, Lo-Fi, Electronic]
Paavoharju is an experimental band from Finland, and like most Finnish collectives they are above and beyond brilliance in their noise composition, yet still filled with mindbogglingly hookish melodies. Signed to a the freak folk label vision of Fonal, Paavoharju's soon-to-be 2008 release, Laulu Laakson Kukista, is one huge extraordinary ball of entertainment thats consistently bending back and forth between freak folk and lo-fi electronic magic, keeping all its listeners enlightened even if you can't speak the Finnish language.
slightly similar to these crazies or vise versa: Islaja, Quiet Village, Yellow Swans, ES, Lau Nau
[Post- Rock, Shoegaze, Ambient]
Gregor Samsa are back with their sophomore record, Rest, on Kora Records, as a lofty follow up to their previous LP, 55:12. They're music is lull-ishly suspenseful, yet juxtaposed by beautiful harmonies. Their instrumentals are refreshingly hypnotic and forever morphing, taking the listeners' emotions on a near cinematic, yet never cheesy, roller coaster of intensity at still a mere lull.
slightly similar to these crazies or vise versa: Grails, Caspian, High Skies, Slowdive, Mojave 3
[Freak Folk, Psych Desert Gypsy Blues, New Weird America]
Alela is from Nevada City, California and is not-so-surprisingly friends with Joanna Newsom, having opened for her several times. Alela plays dark, yet beautifully haunting music that sounds much like its been served up right off the side of a deserted western highway, rather than a smoky Appalachian highway. She incorporates a strikingly sorrowful, yet wonderfully right Native American aesthetic that adds an appropriately comforting depth to her collections. In 2003 she self-release Forest Parade, and then The Pirate's Gospel the year following. Since then she was signed by Holocene Music in the US but then transfered to Names Records (UK) upon which she released her 2006 EP Songs Whistled Through White Teeth along with a remastered version of The Pirate's Gospel in 2007.
slightly similar to these crazies or vise versa: Joanna Newsom, Marie Sioux, Jana Hunter, Vashti Bunyan, White Magic
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