Apr 1, 2012

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)












An escaped cult member experiences paranoia and isolation while attempting to start a new life with her sister's family. Try as Martha might to blend into her new upper-middle-class surroundings, she can't help but be haunted by nightmares of the time she spent under the control of a malevolent cult leader, or the fear that the group is watching her every move and awaiting the perfect moment to take their revenge.

Nedelja popodne...


















Mar 30, 2012

Chains of Love – Strange Grey Days (2012)


In many ways, Chains of Love’s seven-song debut, Strange Grey Days is just another retro-revival record in a long and bustling line. Listening to the girls of Chains coo in close approximations to The Shangri-Las, or at least The Continental Co-Ets, more modern bands like The Black Belles, Vivian Girls, and Those Darlins come to mind. All combine a garage rock sensibility with some serious girl-group lust. Chains of Love go the extra mile for “Lies Lies Lies,” riffing off an incredibly similar song in theme and feel: The Knickerbockers’ “Lies,” once covered by Nancy Sinatra and, more recently, The Black Belles themselves. Far be it for me to wrongly imply that people stopped lying after a certain decade, but phew does that one note sound dusty.

Mar 27, 2012

Rover – Rover (2012)

...Interpol vs. Hunky Dory...
Rover le buzz du moment.Apparu cet été en première partie de nombreuses affiches, Rover répand sur la scène pop-rock son ombre de géant.Rapport évident à sa carrure de colosse mais surtout à son immense talent. brut. vivant. « Une musique inclassable sorte de pop-rock mélodique et aérienne qui vous transporte et vous remue de l’intérieur »Ouest France « La pop sensible de rover s’est évadée du punk. Même douce et sensible, son écriture a conservé cette nervosité qui empêche le lyrisme de se noyer dans l’eau de rose » Les Inrocks « Aqualast » rappelle le père et le fils Buckley, « tonight » sombre dans la froideur d’interpol, « birds » convoque Bowie …

Mar 26, 2012

Loudon Wainwright III – Older Than My Old Man Now

No less than 5 generations of Wainwrights make contributions to this new album with duets with Rufus, Martha, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Lexie Kelly Wainwright, Suzzy Roche,along with other esteemed guests John Scofield, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Dame Edna Everage. As his new album’s title relates, Loudon Wainwright III is “Older Than My Old Man Now” – his old man being the late Loudon Wainwright Jr., the esteemed Life Magazine columnist and senior editor. “Singer-songwriter contemporaries of mine have recently taken to writing memoirs and autobiographies,” notes Wainwright. “I decided I would try to tell the story of my swinging life in a three and one-half minute song.”

Sleep Party People – We Were Drifting On A Sad Song (2012)

Sleep Party People – the bedroom project of Brian Batz – is like one of those fairy tale gems that keep radiating magical colours when it s dark, that actually grow bigger and brighter when nighttime falls. It’s something special and important and utterly beautiful. With the aid of an old drum machine, a piano and a guitar, a unique dreamlike universe arises. With traces of My Bloody Valentine shoegaze, Cocteau Twins mystique and Flaming Lips idiosyncracy the result is hard to define. But who cares?

Mar 24, 2012

Hood - Recollected

Hood
Recollected (6cd)
Domino (2012)















Deluxe 6 CD Box Set, limited to an individually numbered edition of 500 copies for the world including 4 albums, singles, rarities and a full disc of the previously unreleased.
Epic, unbeleivably good compendium of Hood's work for Domino - containing some of the most beloved music for us here over the last 15 years. The set includes the four albums - 'Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys', 'The Cycle Of Days And Seasons', 'Cold House' and 'Outside Closer' - plus a compilation of the band's Domino EPs, as well as 'The Hood Tapes' a 24 song bonus CD of rare, previously unreleased recordings...

Mar 23, 2012

Lower Dens – Nootropics (2012)

...In The End Is The Beginning...Depresija...Izolacija...Magija...

Lower Dens — you know, the newish rock band led by Jana Hunter, former lead singer for the influential band Jana Hunter — are proving once again that they’re the hardest working indie-leaning group with initials LD (sit down, Lavender Diamond and Lucky Dragons) by announcing only 17 days into the new year that they have a new album coming out May 1 AND a first single from said album.
It's titled Nootropics (pronounced No-eh-tro-pics) and will hit stores in North America on May 1st via Ribbon Music. The rest of the world will get it on April 30th.

Mar 21, 2012

Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror – On This Dark Street (2012)

...Let's Talk About Kevin...

Even though this is the first release from introverted Chicago dwelling songwriter Kevin Tihista since 2005’s rather curious collection of demos and outtakes Home Demons Vol 1, a hiatus mostly caused by US label wrangles, he’s kept himself busy stockpiling sumptuous mini-symphonies of doomed love.
Having the luxury of a mass of work to choose from, he reportedly discarded all his more ‘upbeat’ material and decided to focus on the darker songs. This streamlining has been a success, resulting in his best collection since 2001 debut Don’t Breathe A Word – which was much praised but suffered from an untimely release date a mere week after 9/11. The distinctively disembodied strings that float through the background of tracks like Teenage Werewolf hark back to that album’s wondrous title track.

Mar 19, 2012

Chinawoman - To Be With Others

Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 2011)

In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill-and why a state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as "a gaze into the abyss of the human soul." Herzog's inquiries also extend to the families of the victims and perpetrators as well as a state executioner and pastor who've been with death row prisoners as they've taken their final breaths. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory

Cell 211 (Daniel Monzón, 2009)

Juan Oliver wants to make a good impression at his new job as a prison officer and reports to work a day early, leaving his pregnant wife, Elena, at home. His destiny is forever changed by this fateful decision, as during his tour of the prison, an accident occurs that knocks him unconscious. He is rushed to the empty but visibly haunted walls of cell 211.

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

It seems that a court room drama could be the best place for Frahadi to recreate his very own world and confront us with a short and somehow faraway situations and incidents in life. We think these kinds of happenings and conflicts would not take place in our lives but with his realistic world and characters they seem so close and possible to anyone. Asghar Farhadi loves to put his audience in place of judge, as his other pictures like About Eli or Fireworks Wednesday and here with no fear he takes us straight to a court room. But the thing is that the judge does not provide any help for us to make a clear judgment and surprisingly makes the situation even more complicated. Yes Farhadi doesn't want us to make a judgment, He makes us watch and observe and leave the theater with a big fork in front of us.It Seems that any single decision creates another world full of forks and not taken ways.

Mar 17, 2012

Calendar (1993) , Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan casts himself as the lead character in Calendar. He portrays a shutterbug who brings an array of different women to his apartment. Every time one of the women makes a phone call, the character notices a calendar consisting of photographs he took while in Armenia. The film flashes back to the time he took each of the photos. Traveling through Armenia with his wife, he does not share his wife's interest in the history behind the locations he is photographing. The wife eventually leaves him, and the film ends with him attempting to end their estrangement. This project began after Egoyan, whose ancestors were Armenian, was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Moscow Film Festival for his 1991 film The Adjuster.