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New rough mixes just uploaded to our MySpace page! We spent eleven hours nonstop yesterday overdubbing and just making good things better. It was another intense, but ultimately rewarding, day in the studio.
Hope you like them!
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Here are some songs for the day, a set of more upbeat tracks than those on my previous playlist, "Night." I'm still looking for a decent playlist generator that includes all the obscure (non-live) songs I desire. Oh, well...
"DAY"
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Feeling Good - Muse
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Lucky Man - The Verve
Spectacular Views - Rilo Kiley
Portions For Foxes - Rilo Kiley
Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley
If The Brakeman Turns My Way - Bright Eyes
LDN - Lily Allen
Smile - Lily Allen
Lovers In Japan / Reign Of Love - Coldplay
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
1 2 3 4 - Feist
Have a nice day!
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Sentinel - Kites Without Strings
Produced and recorded by Dennis Bestafka and Tarabud
Sentinel’s latest offering, Kites Without Strings, follows their 2007 EP, Sequels and Hunches. The album’s dream-pop sound exists enigmatically with a defiance for normal principles: it’s ambient and gentle, but energetic and without silence. Inspired by the band’s exposure to the cultural and natural beauty found in the Bay Area, this mix successfully describes its four members’ experience in living one thing and its opposite.
The eight-track album opens with "Ohlone," leading in with a catchy pulse of rhythmic drums and synth that builds into a driving chorus drenched in polyphonic vocals. The track starts off the album well, providing an upbeat indicator for the following songs. Midway through, "Spades" serves as a percussive awakening from the dreamlike wistfulness of the album’s initial half. Drums drive and keys stand out via repeating riffs adding a refreshing zest, while ambient vocals fill where synthetic sounds sat on previous tracks. It feels organic and vibrant, like sunlight breaking dawn.
The album concludes with "Heroine," a sultry song crawling in Phrygian. The imagery created from Sentinel’s lyrics model the band’s exotic, modal sound, which is especially meaningful as it represents guitarist Dennis Bestafka’s experience as a soldier in Iraq: "There is a tribe on lonely land / Shadows cast the shapes on evening sand." It’s a profound escapist end to a profound escapist album.
Filled with sumptuous synth, ultra-reverberated vocals and saturated guitars, Kites Without Strings erupts like one long, happy wall of sound. Most of the songs on the album employ a similar upbeat pop vibe, creating a cohesive quality that might make differentiating them difficult. Thankfully, there isn’t a single bad track here, so this little bit of homogeneity proves itself more than welcome. (Self-released)
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-Keane Li (more...)
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