Jan 30, 2013

Willy Mason – Carry On (2012)

Still only 28 Willy Mason is increasingly sounding the old soul. His third album, and first for new label Fiction, sees some of the idealism, along with many of the rough edges of his earlier records worked on like sanded wood. What’s left is smoother, warmer and perhaps a little less charming. It’s polished maple, as opposed to folksy whittling, and some may miss the wide-eyed wonder of his classic ‘Oxygen’. What we have in its place is an often accomplished, rather sad set of songs presided over by a voice that is improving as it ages. If he lives to be as old as Johnny Cash he’s going to sound amazing.

Jan 29, 2013

British Sea Power – From The Sea To The Land Beyond (2013)



A Late Quartet (2012), Yaron Zilberman

A Late Quartet, the first fiction film from director Yaron Zilberman, follows the lives of four longtime colleagues who play in a celebrated string quartet together. As the group begin their 25th season together, the eldest member (Christopher Walken) discovers he has the beginning stage of Parkinson's disease. Because he can't perform to the best of his abilities, he would like to bow out of the quartet without disbanding it. However, a married couple within the group (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener) are on the brink of breaking up, and their rocky period isn't helped by the fact that the fourth member has begun an affair with their college-age daughter. A Late Quartet screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (2013)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the brainchild of ex-Mint Chicks member Ruban Neilson, have released a follow-up to their 2011 debut. II is a more conservative voyage into the psychedelic world than the previous release, the album reflecting a more reserved and measured approach to the genre and the thematic exploration of the idea of loneliness.
Opener, From the Sun, introduces us quickly to both the musical and thematic inspirations that are entwined throughout the tracks on II. The stark chorus of “Isolation can put a gun in your hand” is balanced out with a much lighter composition of delicate guitar and fuzzy vocals. Similarly, single, Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark), weighs out shadier lyrics (“I wish that I could swim and sleep like a shark does/I’d fall to the bottom and I’d hide till the end of time”) with a catchy folk-funk melody and Neilson’s warm vocals.

Jan 23, 2013

Night Beds – Country Sleep (2013)


Welcome to the sound of Winston Yellen and Night Beds, who in one stunning ten-track debut album Country Sleep, have shown that there is plenty of life left in the world of American music if you have the voice, the songs and the gift to touch hearts and souls. Think of a space between Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon), Gram Parsons and the dreamier side of My Morning Jacket; a heavenly place of pure country soul, touched by an endearing innocence and honesty that can only come from someone still in their early twenties

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place


Jan 21, 2013

Esben and the Witch – Wash the Sins Not Only the Face (2013)

...Wash the sins, not only the face...wash the sins, not only face...wash...

Dispelling any burden of 'the difficult second album', Esben and the Witch have comprehensively transcended any such slump or curse with Wash the Sins Not Only the Face: a majestic, haunting and triumphant work that is not ‘difficult’ in the slightest.
Their second full-length brings to fruition concepts that glimmered on their first, 2011’s acclaimed Violet Cries, but there are no laurels being rested upon here. To make their second album, Esben and the Witch questioned, challenged and rewired their past to find the way to their future
The result is an album that finds new shades within the Esben palette, and when placed alongside Violet Cries, feels like a fuzzy image that’s pulled successfully into focus.

Jan 19, 2013

Widowspeak

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"Almanac" (Captured tracks,2013)


















Jan 18, 2013

Jesca Hoop – Complete Kismet Acoustic (2013)


Ólöf Arnalds -- Sudden Elevation (2013)


Matthew E.White-Big Inner (2012)

... Beli brat Josh.T.P. ...
We are very proud to announce release of ‘Big Love’, the first single to be taken from the forthcoming debut album Big Inner by Matthew E. White (which is released by Domino on Monday the 21st of January).
Moving, redemptive and powerfully soulful, Big Inner is a timeless record told in seven songs that mingle memory with the rawness of any given human moment. The references — from the lyrics that echo the common conditions of love, death, seeking, and finding, to open tributes to artists like Washington Phillips, Allen Toussaint, Jorge Ben, Jimmy Cliff, and Randy Newman — are their own scavenger hunt through music history and through White’s place in it.

Lives of Angels – Elevator to Eden (2012)

Lives of Angels were a UK husband/wife duo who recorded 10 songs from 1981-1983 that would become the “Elevator To Eden” album. and released the first cassette on Color Disc, then Color Tapes, a record label started by Gary Ramon of Modern Art. The album was originally released in 1983 on cassette by Color Tape Records, the label started by Gary Ramon of Modern Art. In 1986 Fire Records remixed and re-released the album on vinyl but the band was not happy with the mixes. Dark Entries is proud to release the original cassette mixes of “Elevator To Eden” on vinyl for the first time ever. The LP will include 9 songs featured on the original Color Tapes release, remastered for vinyl, plus a lyrics sheet and photos.

Jan 17, 2013

The Sessions (Ben Lewin, 2012)

Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined - at age 38 - to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality.

Jan 16, 2013

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good At Being In Trouble



Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "So Good At Being In Trouble" from the album 'II' out February 5, 2013 on Jagjaguwar

Jan 14, 2013

Mildred Pierce (1945), Michael Curtiz

Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerns a wife and mother who works her way to financial security to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, but encounters difficulties and tragedies along the way. Ranald McDougall's screenplay tones down the sexual content, enhancing its film noir value by adding a sordid murder.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) is the prime mover of the small Pennsylvania town of Iverston. Martha lives in a huge mansion with her DA husband, Walter O'Neil (Kirk Douglas), an alcoholic weakling. No one knows just why Martha and Walter tolerate one another....but Sam Masterson (Van Heflin), an Iverstown boy who returns to town, may just have a clue.

Lisa Germano – No Elephants (2013)


Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up! (2013)


Herrek – Waktu Dulu (2013)


Serafina Steer – The Moths Are Real (2013)


Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. 

Jan 11, 2013

Veronica Falls – Waiting for Something to Happen (2013)

...Videli smo se u vrtu, tu odmah ispod pomarandzinog drveta...

Waiting For Something to Happen sees the band emerge as one of the most potent and affecting, fully-formed indie guitar pop acts we have around. Beautifully mature and poignant, this marvellously assured second record sees the band throw off the casually morbid references to elegantly distill the essence of an aimless twentysomething existence – the collective anxieties, tension and confusion of moving from adolescence into fully fledged adulthood – into a set of immaculately conceived, perfectly wrought pop songs. Musically this album sees the band evolve into a more poised and confident pop entity, the melodies bolder and songs more muscular.

Jan 9, 2013

David Bowie to release new album



David Bowie has celebrated his 66th birthday by releasing a new single, Where Are We Now?, ahead of his first new album in 10 years.
The track was put on sale in the iTunes store in 119 countries on Tuesday morning and a video preview posted on his website, which has been relaunched for the occasion. His 30th studio recording, The Next Day, would be released in March, said the Iso/Columbia record company.

Jan 8, 2013

Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God (2013)

... Jim James i Ja Smo Zakopali Ratne Sekire, Napokon...

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James will be releasing his first official solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God, this February via ATO. Recorded at his home studio in Louisville, KY over the past two years, James produced, engineered and played all the instruments on the record. Inspired by the 1929 graphic novel God’s Man about an artist’s relationship with temptation and love, James stated: “I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time. Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old days of just being a simple robot.”

Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (2013)

... Novi Romanticari Starog Zvuka ...

 We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is a precocious and cocksure joyride across California psychedelia with a burning, bursting punk rock engine. In the same year as Scott McKenzie the singer of "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" leaves this mortal coil, Foxygen delivers unto us the dandy Glockenspiel-packing "San Francisco," which both circumvents and dissects McKenzie's tune and its many cousins of the era.
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic” to be released January 22, 2013 on Jagjaguwar.
From the press release:
Produced by the lovely Richard Swift, the new album was recorded at his National Freedom studio earlier this year and done so in an act of intergalatic kindness. Foxygen tell us each song is a message of peace delivered from cosmic beings, who use Rado and France as their earthly messengers. Pitchfork premiered the first single, “Shuggie,”

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We No Who U R


Jan 5, 2013

Medianeras (2011) ,Gustavo Taretto

Two Buenos Aires denizens find the architecture of the city and emerging technologies affecting their lives in a way neither ever dreamt possible in this romantic comedy that combines live action, animation, and graphic art to paint a vivid picture of life in a bustling city.

12 Angry Men (1957), Sidney Lumet

A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his own. The sole holdout is Juror #8, played by Henry Fonda. As Fonda persuades the weary jurors to re-examine the evidence, we learn the backstory of each man. Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb), a bullying self-made man, has estranged himself from his own son. Juror #7 (Jack Warden) has an ingrained mistrust of foreigners; so, to a lesser extent, does Juror #6 (Edward Binns). Jurors #10 (Ed Begley) and #11 (George Voskovec), so certain of the infallibility of the Law, assume that if the boy was arrested, he must be guilty.

House of Pleasures (2011), Bertrand Bonello

The prostitutes at an early-20th century Paris brothel revel in their hopes and contend with customers who range from the hopelessly smitten to the frighteningly hostile in this visually sumptuous period drama from writer/director Bertrand Bonello (The Pornographer, On War).