Mac Demarco

Mac Demarco
"2" (Captured Tracks,2012)

Hugo Race Fatalists – We Never Had Control (2012)

Hugo Race Fatalists is the collaboration between Australian singer songwriter producer Hugo Race and the Italian instrumental band Sacri Cuori.
Beautiful, brutal, primitive and transcendent, the new album from Hugo Race and his Fatalist collaborators Antonio Gramentieri and Diego Sapignoli is both dark and  uplifting. Acoustic instruments and subtle electronica fused with Race’s deep voice and songwriting trace the scars of experience and sacrifice, set against unique soundscapes merging folk, experimentalism, electronica and rock.
Hugo Race Fatalists are joined by violinists Vicki Brown and Catherine Graindorge, synthesist Franco Naddei and contrabassist Francesco Giampaoli. Hugo Race is an internationally acclaimed Australian singer, songwriter and producer.

Departures – Still and Moving Lines (2012)

Ben Howard – Burgh Island EP (2012)

Eva Petersen – Emerald Green Eyes (2012)

A Band Of Buriers - Stuffing A Chest With Twigs (Live)

Horrid Red – Nightly Wreaths (2012)

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Horrid Red’s 2nd LP of 2012 “Nightly Wreaths”, Out October worldwide on Terrible Records.
Horrid Red is a Californian/German outfit, and Teenage Panzerkorps spin-off, that mixes dark new-wave with a pop sensibility, and that blend is apparent on “I’m Terribly Hurt,” the second single from [the new LP] Nightly Wreaths.

John Murry - California (Official Video)

L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975), Andrzej Zulawski

Freelance photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) meets luckless Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider) an aging, world-weary, would-be movie star who thus far has only been able to find work in cheap exploitation movies. Trying to win her affection, Servais borrows the money from his underworld employers to launch a theatrical production of Richard III starring Nadine as Lady Anne. Though cold and skeptical at first, Nadine gradually falls in love with Servais, and eventually finds herself torn between him and her husband Jacques (Jacques Dutronc), to whom she feels morally obligated. Set in a world of losers and futile talents, this dark and moody drama depicts love as the only source of salvation. Memorable performances and skillful direction make this film a powerful experience.

Glissando – The World Without Us (2012)

Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt (2012)

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Stella (1955), Michael Cacoyannis

Earlier reports that Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis' Stella was based on Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas were derived from misleading contemporary reviews. In fact, all that that Cacoyannis film has in common with the Prouty novel is the fact that both are centered around a strong, fiercely independent female protagonist. Melina Mercouri plays the film's title character, an intensely passionate girl who falls out of love with her many beaux the minute they start talking about marriage and commitment. Ultimately, Stella comes to grief when one of her more ardent suitors decides that, if he can't have her, no one can. Adapted from his own stage play by Iakovos Kambanellis, Stella was filmed in 1955, but did not attain a widespread American release until 1957.

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995), Claude Sautet

Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling) lies in bed reading newspapers and watching TV. Her friend Jacqueline introduces her to Pierre Arnaud (Michel Serrault), a retired judge and wealthy ex-businessman, who offers to settle Nelly's debt. She agrees and is later so disappointed by her husband's indifferent reaction that she leaves him. Arnaud asks her to be his secretary because he needs help in typing his memoirs. Though obviously attracted to her, he rarely expresses his emotions, and he suddenly erupts only when he finds out about Nelly's affair with his young publisher Vincent (Jean-Hugues Anglade). The film won Césars from the French Academy of Cinema for Best Director and Best Actor, although it lost Best Film to Mathieu Kassovitz's more innovative La haine.

Allah-Las-Allah-Las(2012)

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I’ll come right out and say that their debut full-length, Allah-Las, is one of the most authentically textured pieces of Sixties nostalgia I’ve ever heard. Aside from even that startling fact, the songs are easily some of the best that have dropped in 2012. I’m having such a tough time even fathoming what will make my Top 10 of the year, but chances are that Allah-Las’ debut LP is making the cut.
Often compared to bands like Nick Waterhouse, and Tijuana Panthers (all fantastic bands as well), Allah-Las brings a psychedelia that invaded the rock’n’roll mindset of the mid-Sixties. It’s nuanced and exists mainly in the guitars, but it’s there. As a whole, the band is content with memorable melodies that recall the Ventures at times and the Black Lips at others.

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Phaedra (1962) , Jules Dassin

Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in London to bring him back to Greece so her husband can teach him about shipping and he can marry another tycoon's daughter to cement a new alliance. Though the son quickly falls in love with his beautiful stepmother, he cannot overcome his crushing guilt at having betrayed his father. When the wife learns of her husband's planned betrothal of his son, she becomes enraged and confesses her affair. Great tragedy follows as her husband beats his son senseless while verbally battering the wife.

10:30 P.M. Summer (1966), Jules Dassin

Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up between him and Schneider. But it doesn't just stop between these two--things start warming up between Mercouri and Schneider as well.

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) , Abbas Kiarostami

This idiosyncratic drama from Iran begins as a jeep winds through the hills of Kurdistan, containing an engineer (Behzad Dourani) and his two assistants (whom we never see) as they search for a small village in the mountains. When they arrive, they are greeted by a young boy, who shows them a place they can stay and guides the engineer to the home of an old woman (also never seen) who seems to be dying. No one is sure what the engineer and his men are doing there; some locals think he's keeping watch of the old woman and wants to purchase her land when she dies, while others think he could be an archeologist searching for rare artifacts. Meanwhile, the engineer spends his days exploring the village and the people who live there -- most of them women, with the men away at jobs that occupy them night and day for several months out of the year.