right, this is my first top ten list for 2006. i thought id start with songs literally released this year. ill do albums tonight maybe, and then later this week ill do songs that i loved in 2006, like songs that meant a lot, soundtracked important times ets. so as a start heres my ten of the year. let me know your thoughts. 1. intervention - the arcade fire creeped out of nowhere som...
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First off, if you're a mogger and you don't listen to the All Songs Considered podcast from NPR you're missing out. And if you're a fan of M. Ward you're in for a treat this week as Matt joins host Bob Boilen for an entire show dedicated to the artist. They discuss his influences and play some tracks together. Great show!Oh and I realize that totally sounds like some dumb commercial for the sho...
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Next month (February 17th to be exact) M. Ward is set to release a new album Hold Time via Merge . The title track video has just been released. Take a look and listen: I'm not one to predict anything, but this album looks to be a winner. I was amazed with his previous album Post-War and it seems the production and songwriting have continued on Hold Time . It also doesn't hurt that there a...
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I'm nuts about M. Ward. He's full of surprises and has a shmorgasbord of musical styles, crafty stories, layered lyrics, instrumentals galore, and classiness to spare. His voice is like a beautiful raspy violin, ranging passionately between soaring sweetness and gravel-y despair. There's piano, jangley guitar, driving steel resonator, strings, woodwinds, kettle drums, cricket sounds, and god-kn...
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