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+ Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
+ Rosy Parlane - Jessamine
+ Jarvis Cocker - The Jarvis Cocker Record
+ Múm - Peel Session
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+ Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
+ Christina Carter - Electrice
+ The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
+ Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
+ Various Artists - Musics In The Margin
+ Rafael Toral - Space
+ Bob Dylan - Modern Times
+ Excepter - Alternation
+ Chris Thile - How To Grow A Woman From The Ground
+ Brad Mehldau - Live in Japan
+ M Ward - Post-War
+ Various Artists - Touch 25
+ The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
+ The White Birch - Come Up For Air
+ Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
+ Coachwhips - Double Death
+ Various Artists - Tibetan And Bhutanese Instrumental And Folk Music, Volume 2
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+ Cex - Actual Fucking
+ Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
+ Leafcutter John - The Forest And The Sea
+ Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
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+ Robin Guthrie - Continental
+ Peaches - Impeach My Bush
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+ Klee - Honeysuckle
+ The Court & Spark - Hearts
+ TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
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+ Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth
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+ Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs
+ The Moore Brothers - Murdered By The Moore Brothers
+ Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
+ The 1900s - Plume Delivery EP
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+ Function - The Secret Miracle Fountain
+ Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
+ Loscil - Plume
+ Boris - Pink
+ Deadboy And The Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky
+ Glissandro 70 - Glissandro 70
+ Calexico - Garden Ruin (Review #2)
+ Calexico - Garden Ruin (Review #1)
+ The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
+ The Glass Family - Sleep Inside This Wheel
+ Various Artists - Songs For Sixty Five Roses
+ The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
+ Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas
+ The Red Krayola - Introduction
+ Metal Hearts - Socialize
+ American Princes - Less And Less
+ Sondre Lerche And The Faces Down Quartet - Duper Sessions
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+ Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
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If we needed any more evidence that Silver Mt. Zion are the most — if not only — indispensable voice to arise from Montréal's throng of actionists, activists, street-sweepers, weepers, deep-thinkers, and post-rockers vaguely collected under the Constellation umbrella, the Pretty Little Lightning Paw EP seems like about Exhibit D, the final, irrefutable fact that Efrim's on-the-side side-project has grown to outgrow the Godspeed! collective. It's on this disc that this little half-cook'd, half-cocked "personal" vehicle shows their greatness, with merely a between-album collection of bits-and-pieces — originally culled together to sell as a tour souvenir — standing statuesque with its immense artistry. Even when they're supposedly offering discographical filler, Silver Mt. Zion are all killer. Razing back the rock moniker (they were the Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band With Choir last time around) to the more manageable, if discographically devious, Thee Silver Mountain Reveries, the four-song, half-hour long set finds Efrim communing with his ASMZ/GY!BE cohorts Thierry and Sophie on a set of staggering, epic songs. With desolate passages of drone punctuated by discordant bursts of distorted violin or duked-out thumpings of pounded piano, these are less tiniest worried symphonies and more howls of humanity, in which roused caterwauling, feedback guitar, and buzzing violins stir up sounds to match restless souls. Rather than courting the non-threatening "beautiful sounds" favored by the post-rock stragglers, the Pretty Little Lightning Paw EP proudly staggers through amazingly dissonant sounds. This isn't mood music; it's agitated, tortured sound born from dissatisfactions with the ways of the world in the ought-four. With their lusty choruses and rousing sentiments, the four pieces occasionally feel like protest songs sung by choirs of forgotten ghosts, these protest-songs the spirited chants of the spiritually bound, and not the complaining acoustic-guitar numbers in which one voice speaks for many. On opening, a girl known only as Aimee guests as Miranda-July-esque carnival barker, calling into being a committee meeting commencing with a song called "More Action! Less Tears!", these sentiments setting the stage for an outing that forsakes moodily mourning to inflame the smoldering ires of discontent.


by Anthony Carew




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