when the lights go down in the city Vox 2006-08-22T00:17:25Z Krissy http://krissy.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full tag:vox.com,2006:6p00b8ea0716b01bc0/tags/ratatat/ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn" - Charlie Parker QotD: In Heavy Rotation tag:vox.com,2006-08-22:asset-6a00b8ea0716b01bc000c22522a651604a 2006-08-22T00:17:25Z 2006-08-22T00:17:25Z Krissy http://krissy.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?

These questions always stump me;  as soon as someone asks me this all the music knowledge just drains out of my head.  I'm going to think of 2 or 3 other albums this week that I should have included...

Here are three I can think of now:

Violence Is Golden Classics As Tall as Lions
I've written about Scanners and RATATAT already.  As Tall As Lions is kind of indie-emo-rock, but I like that the singer sounds a little bit like Craig Wedren except not nearly as genius, of course.

Fair To Midland
Fair To Midland

I feel a bit self-conscious that this is all new music, but I guess that's what I've been in the mood for lately.  When I was in LA, Jason was playing the latest Fair to Midland album, inter.funda.stifle, in his dressing room.  He described it as The Mars Volta (FTM's from Denton, TMV's from El Paso) but with stronger songwriting.  I loved what I heard:  it was lush, bombastic, dynamic (Laurie, they're opening for System of a Down) and all over the place in a way that made total sense, if you were willing to go with it.  (I tried to upload their album into my audio stream but Amazon doesn't have the album cover on file.  So I had to add it the old school way.) 

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Where has Ratatat been all my life?


I'm the first to admit I'm not a huge fan of modern instrumental music (I love me some Mingus or Rahsaan Roland Kirk but that's a horse of a different feather).  I value emotion and expression in music, and I personally tend to find that in vocals first, then lyrics and music.

Classics
Classics




Ratatat's latest album "Classics" has me rethinking my bias. I should have listened to my friend Craig when he told me about them a few years ago, but of course I waited until I got the album advance in the mail this week to check them out.



Fans of Cut Copy should listen up:

04 Wildcat 06 Loud Pipes
"Wildcat" is available on their website, and you can get "Loud Pipes" here.


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