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I hardly ever have a hard time understanding his lyrics :/ my favorite line of Matt's ever: but i'm also really fond of this one from Tall Saint:

that's my 2nd least fave on the album.

indeed

Easy Tiger def wasn't as good as Cold Roses or JCN, no question, but still a pretty consistent album minus a track or two

maybe... but Easy Tiger was mostly a retread, yet i still enjoyed that one a lot minus 1-2 songs. and Jacksonville City Nights didn't really either, yet i love that one.

see, and i loved Living With War quite a bit and have always LOVED Ohio, so diff strokes i guess...

fair enough! i guess if i felt like it was the same exact record we'd heard from Matt before, i'd definitely agree with you. i just don't feel that way at all and that this album has tons of great things to offer for me as for Cardinology... that album didn't really suffer from not bringing anything new to the table, just from mostly sub-par songs by Ryan's own standard. like i said, if the songwriting is so strong (as imo it is with 'Hold Time'), then not much else really matters to me.

Neil has said himself that this is for the biggest of hardcores only and if you can't afford it, to download it or do whatever you have to do to hear it... if you want i can pull up the exact quote.

i doubt the CD version of the archives will be $300. guessing like $100-150

well, the thing is... there's refinments and changes going on in an artists music all the time... but only a select few artists/groups have managed to make HUGE changes over their career and be successful at it throughout is all. (Beatles, Bowie, Neil Young, etc.). and then there's artists who certainly have taken a few risks throughout their career (ie: Bruce Springsteen), but at the end of the day, still very much sound like they did 30 years ago in some aspects... just curious, had you never heard Duet for Guitars before today? i can understand preferring it, or liking it's rawness (even

yeah... the Beatles Revolution meets RITY

it's streaming on NPR until next monday: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=99084694

i really fell in love w/ Fanfarlo last year and they're coming back. SUPER young UK brit pop/rock band... i think they finally got signed and just finished their album.

honestly... take a good listen to his first album again, Duet for Guitars #2, then listen to this one... sure his styles and voice is similiar, but the records sound worlds apart honestly... so i guess i just don't buy that myself. the layering and orchestration has only gotten better over the last 3 records. as far as challenging... i guess.. for some artists i feel that way (Neil Young, David Bowie, etc.), but some are just best when they stick within their means and do it well (Bruce, Matt, etc.). to me just seems like if you limit yourself to loving only artists who grow/re-invent themse

yeah. but consider that last year had 1800+ bands, and that list is probably what, 1/4 to 1/3 of the full list? i agree there's not a ton of OMFG names for me yet, but the point of SXSW is usually the smaller discoveries anyhow.

fwiw, Kalle was only talking about one song, 'Stars of Leo' i can definitely say this may be my favorite album of his lyrically already, there's a lot of gems here as far as growth... i guess... but having followed him from End of Amnesia until now, i hear plenty of growth over his 6 records myself... even from the last 2 albums. no he's not re-inventing the wheel and it definitely sounds like an M. Ward album, but the transition is fairly has been very natural feeling to me. that said, great music is great music imo, not every artist needs to "grow" or re-invent themselves either, ther

so far i'd recommend: Andrew Bird (Chicago, IL) Beach House (Baltimore, MD) Black Lips (Atlanta, GA) Cory Branan (Memphis, TN) Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (Taylor, MI) Explosions In The Sky (Austin, TX) Fanfarlo (London, UK) First Communion Afterparty (Minneapolis, MN) Future of the Left (Cardiff, UK) Gabriella Cilmi (Australia) Gospel Gossip ( Minneapolis, MN) Handsome Furs (Montreal, QC) Heartless Bastards (Austin, TX) Jason Isbell (Muscle Shoals, AL) Justin Townes Earle (Nashville, TN) Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles (Minneapolis, MN) Matthew Dear (Detroit, MI) Miles Be

that's just the officially released lineup, here you go: http://morecowbell.net/2009/01/04/building-sxsw-2009-lineup/ i need to update it again tho: 19 Dirty Queens (Cardiff, UK) 8Ball & MJG (Memphis, TN) A-Trak (Montreal, Canada) A Day To Remember (Ocala, FL) A Skylit Drive (Lodi, CA) ABSU (Plano, TX) Adam McInnis Music (Austin, TX) Afghan Raiders (Las Vegas, NV) Akream (Anchorage, AK) Alela Diane (Portland, OR) Alexander Spit (San Francisco, CA) Alina Simone (Carrboro, NC) American Tourist (Central, Virginia) An Horse (Brisbane, AU) Andrew Bird (Chicago, IL) Angus and Julia Stone (

nah... it very well may be his best record to date, only time will tell for me. the dude has yet to make a truly BAD album in my book, but he clearly has only been improving his craft with every record, no doubt. the only one i didn't find better than the one before it was Transistor Radio, which was still an amazing record, i just still prefer Vincent by a small margin. this is a very logical extension from the last 2 records and i love the shit out of it. it has definitely set the bar on the year for me, not surprisingly. as for Lu... i love her, but her voice is fairly abrasive up again

yeah... certainly making -17 this morning seem a LITTLE warmer at least

true... but that's better than thinking someone's songs/albums are too long i suppose right? but yeah... fuck me i need to see him again ASAP. hopefully SXSW too early to say way there this will fall in his catalog... but it's up there... it's WAY up there... the intro reminds me of of Revolution meets Reelin' In The Years, he he

i'm starting to think that will be a pretty common complaint :/