Rhian Sheehan - Stories From Elsewhere

Artist: Rhian Sheehan
Album: Stories From Elsewhere
Genre: post-rock, ambient, modern classical
Year: 2013
Label: Darla Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: 320 | 112

A series of enchanting instrumental works, Stories From Elsewhere is Rhian Sheehan’s most evocative album to date - an excursion into a soundscape of tender ethereal textures, brooding cinematic string arrangements, and playful experimental lullabies. Sheehan has encapsulated a world of serenity and melancholia within this 12-track album. Stories From Elsewhere is a musical landscape to get lost in.

recommended.

*if you don't know, just google "how to download from ifolder".

Tracklist:
1 Sileo 3:43
2 The Upper Sky 4:25
3 La Boi^te a` Musique 4:40
4 Little Sines 3:32
5 Nocturne 1985 4:48
6 Creation Myths 1:11
7 A Thimble Full of Sorrow 4:45
8 Nusquam 3:07
9 Imber 3:01
10 Thoughts on Nature 3:41
11 Somnus 6:30
12 Lullaby Machine 2:21
13 Still 3:28

Marc Streitenfeld - Prometheus

Artist: Marc Streitenfeld
Album: Prometheus
Genre: film score
Year: 2012
Label: Sony Masterworks
Web: buy, last.fm
Bitrate~Size: 320 | 130

as a huge fan of the trilogy (the ones that count, first three) I had to watch this movie, I found the story  acceptable (the main plot), the scenery is beautiful and David is awesome, I'm not sure if I'd want a continuation because the end is insane. Rated 6/10. Have you seen it?

Tracklist:
1 Marc Streitenfeld - A Planet 2:37
2 Marc Streitenfeld - Going In 2:03
3 Marc Streitenfeld - Engineers 2:29
4 Harry Gregson-Williams - Life 2:30
5 Marc Streitenfeld - Weyland 2:04
6 Marc Streitenfeld - Discovery 2:32
7 Marc Streitenfeld - Not Human 1:49
8 Marc Streitenfeld - Too Close 3:20
9 Marc Streitenfeld - Try Harder 2:03
10 Marc Streitenfeld - David 3:00
11 Marc Streitenfeld - Hammerpede 2:42
12 Harry Gregson-Williams - We Were Right 2:42
13 Marc Streitenfeld - Earth 2:35
14 Marc Streitenfeld - Infected 1:56
15 Marc Streitenfeld - Hyper Sleep 2:01
16 Marc Streitenfeld - Small Beginnings 2:11
17 Marc Streitenfeld - Hello Mommy 2:04
18 Marc Streitenfeld - Friend from the Past 1:14
19 Marc Streitenfeld - Dazed 4:29
20 Marc Streitenfeld - Space Jockey 1:29
21 Marc Streitenfeld - Collision 3:05
22 Marc Streitenfeld - Debris 0:44
23 Marc Streitenfeld - Planting the Seed 1:35
24 Marc Streitenfeld - Invitation 2:16
25 Marc Streitenfeld - Birth 1:25

Vanessa Van Basten - La Stanza di Swedeborg

Artist: Vanessa Van Basten
Album: La Stanza di Swedeborg
Genre: post-rock, atmospheric sludge metal
Year: 2006
Label: Eibon Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V2 (~208) | 59

Vanessa Van Basten is a more than suitable name for another hardcore clone. This is not the case, since this is not hardcore. Explaining just what this band plays can prove tricky. Perhaps they are "post-hardcore," whatever the hell that is. Or myself, I say they are new age rock with slight doom metal influences. Maybe. Christ, I just can't figure this out! However, I'm encompassed by it's magnitude.
Ok, to clear up the style just a bit more, think some type of post-rock such as Explosions in the Sky. Then there's a dose of odd and interesting electronic touches, among acoustic guitars and with an ambient style of instrumental song writing. Keeping the flow fresh is the frequent, yet sometimes subdued use of heavy down tuned droning riffs found in a majority of the tracks. This most certainly can't be centralized as doom just because of the heavy riffs. More often than not, there's a happy melody or up beat riff. With that said, there's still no need for discouragement. The level of creative rhythms will keep you swaying and bobbing for a while. No real vocals are present, except some whispers and spoken words, but vocals hardly need to enter the equation with such a full filling experience already at hand.
I can really go on and on describing the soundscapes derived from "La Stanza Di Swedenborg." Dreamy, air born, aquatic, and each element would be completely valid to Vanessa Van Basten's definition. But possibly they don't want or need one. Defying this age's level of genre labeling, or labels in general, I'm sure the band holds it as a high accomplishment to have set out on this genre developing journey. To anyone who enjoys a vacation from the ear throbbing metal attacks of the underground, I suggest you experience something very worth while; Vanessa Van Basten.

                                                                                                                 Mark.C - deadtide
 

Tracklist:
1 La stanza di Swedenborg 5:23
2 Love 0:40
3 Dole 5:06
4 Giornata de oro 5:06
5 Il faro 2:05
6 Floaters 4:28
7 Vanja 3:27
8 Good Morning, Vanessa Van Basten! 13:55

Ours - Distorted Lullabies

Artist: Ours

Album: Distorted Lullabies
Genre: alternative rock
Year: 2001
Label: Dreamworks Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~254) | 86

7/10

Tracklist:
1 Fallen Souls 4:00
2 Drowning 3:37
3 I'm a Monster    3:30
4 Sometimes 3:53
5 Miseryhead 3:10
6 Here Is the Light 4:47
7 Medication 3:40
8 Dancing Alone 4:10
9 Bleed 3:42
10 Dizzy 4:30
11 Meet Me in the Tower 4:26
12 As I Wander 3:57

Khuda - Palingenesia

Artist: Khuda
Album: Palingenesia
Genre: atmospheric sludge metal, post-rock
Year: 2010
Label: Field Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size:  V2 (~207) | 62
Other posts: Stratospherics Ep

Khuda are a heavy instrumental post-rock influenced two-piece band from Leeds U.K. with comparisons made to the post-rock influenced sound of bands like Russian Circles or Pelican, the heaviness of a duo like 5ive and the math-rock of Don Caballero
Releasing two EP's to date, recently they have recorded their first full-length album "Palingenesia" at Ghosttown Studios in Leeds, and mastered by Carl Saff.

Tracklist:

1 laleh 7:08
2 black waters 9:32
3 tallinn 5:05
4 pirsig 6:21
5 mescalito 4:35
6 antaeus 9:38

Neverending White Lights - Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies

Artist: Neverending White Lights
Album: Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies
Genre: mellow music
Year: 2005
Label: Ocean Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: vbr (~196) | 111 

Neverending White Lights is a Canadian music collaboration project fronted by Daniel Victor and featuring several artists mainly from Canada and the United States. Daniel Victor performs all musical instruments and mostly all songs feature a different singer. The idea behind Neverending White Lights is to present a sampling of different voices, styles, and artists, while retaining the ‘focused’ sound characteristic of a band. It is to place artists in a new sonic environment and create a new musical experience for the listener.

what a wonderful album, love it. Highly recommended.

Tracklist:

1 From What I Once Was 5:54
2 Angels & Saints (feat. Chris Gordon) 3:10
3 Age of Consent (feat. Nick Hexum) 4:08
4 Ending of a Story (feat. Chris Gray) 3:30
5 Return Our Lives (feat. Judah Nagler) 5:59
6 I Hope Your Heart Runs Empty (feat. Scott Anderson) 6:22
7 A Littlepiece (feat. Marco DiFelice) 4:44
8 This Longing (feat. Daniel Greaves 5:43
9 Of All the Things You've Done Wrong (feat. Nathan Larson & Jason Martin) 3:06
10 Tired of Saving Souls (feat. John Campsey) 5:20
11 How Could I Survive (feat. Sharky Laguana) 2:58
12 The Grace (feat. Dallas Green) 5:19
13 First Days of Spring (feat. Matt Talbot) 5:49
14 Liar (feat. Raine Maida) 3:45
15 Life Is a Dead Scene (feat. Todd Kerns) 4:58
16 Our Final Hymn (feat. Jimmy Gnecco) 8:02

Alaskan - The Weak and the Wounded

 















Artist: Alaskan
Album: The Weak and the Wounded
Genre: post-metal, atmospheric sludge metal, post-hardcore
Year: 2010
Label: Dwyer Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~283)  | 61   


post-metal trio from Ottawa.

Tracklist:
1 Bludgeon 5:57
2 Epicurus 8:30
3 Incarcerated 6:22
4 Greed and Grievance 9:22

Supreme Beings of Leisure - Supreme Beings of Leisure

Artist: Supreme Beings of Leisure
Album: Supreme Beings of Leisure
Genre: down-tempo, trip hop, lounge
Year: 2000
Label: Palm Pictures
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: vbr (~186) | 59

The self-titled debut album from Supreme Beings of Leisure fuses sounds from the group's diverse heritage -- which includes Japan, Puerto Rico, Ireland, India, Iran, and the Dominican Republic -- with deft programming and accessible songwriting. The result is a very smooth collection of trip-hop-based pop songs with global touches, not unlike a multi-culti Morcheeba album. Swooning strings and sitars weave their way through most of the album's 11 songs, including "Golddigger," which recalls '60s spy-movie themes, and "Never the Same" (heard on the TV commercial for the Johnnie Walker Black Label whiskey) and "Last Girl on Earth," which showcase Geri Soriano-Lightwood's versatile, seductive vocals. The breakbeat-driven "Ain't Got Nothin'" and "Sublime" pick up the pace with a nod to drum'n'bass, while "Strangelove Addiction"'s club-friendly rhythm and lilting, Eastern-inspired melody make it the most accessible track on the album. Though many of the styles on Supreme Beings of Leisure have been done before, the group does a good job of updating the basic trip-hop sound enough to keep it fresh and enjoyable. 

 AMG Review

Recommended.

Tracklist:

1 Never the Same 4:03
2 Golddigger 4:11
3 Last Girl on Earth 4:15
4 Strangelove Addiction 5:04
5 Ain't Got Nothin' 3:31
6 Truth From Fiction 4:07
7 You're Always the Sun    3:56
8 Sublime 3:40
9 Nothin' Like Tomorrow    4:43
10 What's the Deal 3:48
11 Under the Gun 3:30


by the way, NEW LINKS FOR: Azure Ray - ST
                                                  Pertegó - Hjarta (recommended)
                                                  This Will Destroy You - ST (highly recommended)

Husky Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real

 
Artist: Husky Rescue
Album: Ghost Is Not Real
Genre: indie pop, dream pop, alt. country
Year: 2007
Label: Catskills Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~236) | 71

AllMusic Review

Tracklist:

1 My Home Ghost (3:06
2 Diamonds In The Sky 4:48
3 Nightless Night 7:12
4 Blueberry Tree Part I 2:36
5 Blueberry Tree Part II 2:47
6 Blueberry Tree Part III 5:06
7 Hurricane (Don't Come Knocking) 4:44
8 Silent Woods 2:24
9 Shadow Run 4:29
10 Caravan 5:17

Juan Stewart - El Silencio De Las Cosas

Artist: Juan Stewart
Album: El Silencio De Las Cosas
Genre: indie electronic, post-rock, ambient
Year:  2005
Label: Estamos Felices
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: 192 | 71

NEW LINK: ifolder, if you don't know just google "how to download from ifolder".

Juan Stewart played the bass and the keyboard in Jaime Sin Tierra, an Argentinean band from late 90’s. In 2002, with 3, Stewart takes his first steps toward his solo career as an ambient & electroacoustic composer. Three years later, publishes El silencio de las cosas (Estamos Felices, 2005) and, in 2007, the post-rock oriented Oui!” (Estamos Felices).
Juan Stewart is also known for his work as a producer and sound engineer.

I have a problem with music from... here... yeah here would do, this is not a country (music is no the main problem unfortunately), I don't like 99.999% of it, hell I even hate it. Period. And thats an issue, firstly because I like going to concerts.
Anyway, Juan Stewart is one of few exceptions.

Tracklist:
1 El silencio de las cosas 9:09
2 Navidad 1:40
3 Angel 5:09
4 Fichin 3:28
5 Folavril 7:56
6 Angel 1:43
7 Rema 9:47
8 Diecinueve 2:57
9 Navidad (reprise) 1:52
10 Andrade 1:49
11 Faro 6:13

Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa

Artist: Kauan 
Album: Aava Tuulen Maa
Genre: post-rock, progressive rock
Year: 2009
Label: Firebox
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Bitrate~Size: V2 (~200) | 70

3/12 NEW LINK: ifolder, if you don't know just google "how to download from ifolder".

New album from Russian masters of ambient post-rock atmosphere. After debut album "Lumikuuro" (2007, Solitude Productions), which was kind of micture of folk/black and doom metal and "Tietäjän Laulu" (2008, Solitude Productions) being more atmospheric metal the 3rd album "Aava Tuulen Maa" is far away from typical folk/doom. The band took a big step forward and created something beautiful what´s difficult to compare to any other band. Very atmospheric, melancholic, lots of nature ambiences, mixed with piano, violin and some heavy guitar riffs, and male clean vocals. Truly masterpiece for every fan of beautiful melancholic music. 

Recommended.



Tracklist:

1 Ommeltu polku 4:59
2 Valveuni 10:39
3 Föhn 10:15
4 Sokea sisar 12:35
5 Neulana hetkessä 10:39

Bitter:Sweet - Remix Game

Artist: Bitter:Sweet
Album: Remix Game
Genre: trip hop, downtempo
Year: 2007
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~250)  | 98
Other posts: check labels

NEW LINK

Tracklist:
1 Heaven (Nicola Conte 'West Coast Vibes' Remix) 6:07
2 Bittersweet Faith (Thievery Corporation Remix) 3:58
3 Overdue (Blackbeard Remix) 5:09
4 Our Remains (Jab Remix Feat Menez One) 4:07
5 Take 2 Blue (Roy Dubb Remix) 3:41
6 The Mating Game (Yes King Remix) 5:22
7 Salty Air (Fort Knox Five Remix) 4:17
8 Dirty Laundry (Skeewiff Remix) 4:55
9 Moving Forward (Atjazz Remix) 6:26
10 Moody (Marsmobil Remix) 5:31
11 Don't Forget To Breathe (Solid Doctor 'Don't Forget Toe Beat' Remix) 5:26

Silversun Pickups - Pikul Ep

Artist: Silversun Pickups
Album: Pikul Ep
Genre: alternative rock, indie rock
Year: 2005
Label: Dangerbird Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Bitrate~Size: vbr (~203) | 52
Other posts: Carnavas, Swoon

Tracklist:
1 Kissing Families 4:50
2 Comeback Kid 4:10
3 Booksmart Devil 4:26
4 The Fuzz 5:54
5 Creation Lake 3:43
6 ...All The Go Inbetweens 7:49
7 [Hidden Track] 4:59

Fabrizio Paterlini & March Rosetta - Viandanze Re-imagined EP

Artist: Fabrizio Paterlini & March Rosetta
Album: Viandanze Re-imagined Ep
Genre: modern classical, dream pop
Year: 2010
Label: Test Tube
Web: buy, last.fm
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~236) | 29
Other posts: check labels

“Viandanze re-imagined” is the result of the collaboration between the italian pianist and composer Fabrizio Paterlini together with the english musician Thom Carter (who, for this project, chose the alter-ego March Rosetta). 

The EP, which consists of 4 songs, is based on the original compositions included in the “Viandanze” album released by Fabrizio Paterlini. Each song is re-arranged in this project, giving a totally different perspective to the original piano music, adding guitars, bass and drums and (in the opening track) also a vocal theme composed and sung by Thom Carter.

 
Tracklist:
1 Forever Blue 5:54
2 Viandanze (Re-Imagined) 4:24
3 Lontana (Re-Imagined)    4:10
4 Veloma (Re-Imagined) 2:59

Exxasens - Polaris

Artist: Exxasens
Album: Polaris
Genre: post-rock, space rock, instrumental
Year: 2008
Label: ConSouling Sounds
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V1 (~241) | 78

Not having a defined music style is certainly the main appeal of EXXASENS proposal. The EXXASENS universe is full of sound landscapes which take the listener to a rich world of beautiful and powerful melodies. This could be the homeland of post-rock bands such as Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky, a place full of nice melodies with strong guitar atmospheres. EXXASENS style tries to go beyond by introducing progressive metal influences.

 Post-rock project/band from Barcelona, I recommend this one.

Tracklist:
1 Polaris 4:23
2 Mira Mama 3:12
3 Your Dreams Are My Dreams 4:00
4 Spiders On The Moon 4:46
5 Blue Space 3:59
6 Milk Stars 4:58
7 Faster Than Speed Of Light 3:59
8 Gamma Channel 6:14
9 Storms 4:49
10 Melancolie 4:25
11 Exxasens 3:40

Radiohead - Live at Bonnaroo 2006

 
Artist: Radiohead
Album: Live at Bonnaroo 2006

Year: 2006

Web: last.fm? myspace? its Radiohead
Bitrate~Size~Links: 256 | 255 | LINK1 LINK2

Radiohead still remains to be my fave band (which I find it pretty awesome considering all the bands I love that discovered waaay after RH). A must for fans, probably the best RH bootleg I'd heard (sounds really good), great setlist. Info on this
 
Tracklist:
1 Intro 0:57
2 There There 5:27
3 2+2=5 3:51
4 15 Step 4:49
5 Arpeggi (Weird Fishes) 4:22
6 Exit Music (For A Film) 4:48
7 Kid A 3:47
8 Dollars & Cents 5:13
9 Videotape 4:59
10 No Surprises 4:14
11 Paranoid Android 6:19
12 The Gloaming 3:51
13 The National Anthem 4:39
14 Climbing Up The Walls 4:34
15 Nude 4:51
16 Street Spirit (Fade Out) 4:50
17 The Bends 4:27
18 Myxomatosis 4:57
19 How To Disappear Completely 6:27
20 You And Whose Army 3:35
21 Pyramid Song 4:48
22 Like Spinning Plates 3:19
23 Fake Plastic Trees 5:19
24 Bodycount 5:05
25 Lucky 4:19
26 Idioteque 5:04
27 Karma Police 6:08
28 House of Cards 5:45
29 Everything In It's Right Place 8:41

New links for: The Phoenix Foundation 'Buffalo' and Apollyon 'Veror Aesik'.

Edit Feb. 10: no more re-ups for The Phoenix Foundation. I recommend that Apollyon.

Grace Cathedral Park - In The Evening Of Regret

Artist: Grace Cathedral Park
Album: In The Evening Of Regret
Genre: post-rock, instrumental, slowcore
Year: 2004
Label: La Verdad Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 

Bitrate~Size: vbr (~240) | 130

Ahh internet... I love the way I discover bands sometimes, I was listening to Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain and don´t know why went to RYM (well, every single day I visit the site) to read reviews of it.. voila, one picked up my attention and.. here I am making a post. For moments, again, for moments, reminds me of Low but with a post-rockish side. I recommend this one.

Tracklist:
1 Play Delicate, Desire Quiet 4:42
2 It's All Well Above Wonder Anyway 15:27
3 Is It the Hurt You're Drowning In 7:34
4 Settling for the Broken in the Things Never Forgotten 17:09
5 Hey Pretty, Could You Stay Awhile 9:50
6 Latter Day Love Affairs and Everything Else You Would Hope to Forget 21:28

Lydia - Illuminate

Artist: Lydia
Album: Illuminate
Genre:  indie rock, indie pop, dream pop
Year:  2008
Label: Low Altitude Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~217) | 66

I can't believe I hadn't posted this one, truly beautiful music, look no more this is their best album. Highly recommended (a grower).

* NEW LINK

Tracklist:

1 This Is Twice Now 3:00
2 A Fine Evening For A Rogue 3:37
3 I Woke Up Near The Sea 3:22
4 Hospital 3:29
5 Fate 3:38
6 Sleep Well 4:24
7 Stay Awake 5:08
8 All I See 4:58
9 One More Day 3:48
10 ...Ha Yeah It Got Pretty Bad 1:02
11 Now The One You Once Loved Is Leaving 6:38

The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo

Artist: The Phoenix Foundation
Album: Buffalo
Genre: indie pop/rock, dream pop, folk
Year: 2010
Label: Memphis Industries
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~230) | 88

Kiwi band, I think this is their best album (they have three more). Look for a vid below. Recommended.
Thanks Blue_Girl for the recommendation.

*NEW LINK

Tracklist:
1 Eventually 5:27
2 Buffalo 4:14
3 Flock of Hearts 3:17
4 Pot 3:24
5 Bitte Bitte 4:32
6 Skeleton 3:52
7 Orange & Mango 3:53
8 Bailey's Beach 4:05
9 Wonton 4:01
10 Golden Ship 6:13
11 Middle Dream (The Du Son EP Bonus Track) 4:29
12 D******ds Abound (The Du Son EP Bonus Track) 4:14

Low - Plays Nice Places EP

 


Artist: Low
Album: Plays Nice Places EP
Genre: slowcore, live
Year: 2012
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm
Bitrate~Size: 320 | 64

 live ep, you can get it also from their website. New album The Invisible Way - March 19, 2013 

Tracklist:
1 Words (featuring Benjamin Gibbard) 6:12
2 Waiting 3:43
3 Sunflower 4:11
4 Witches 3:56
5 Pissing 6:16
6 Murderer 3:45

Fabrizio Paterlini - Autumn Stories

 
Artist: Fabrizio Paterlini
Album: Autumn Stories
Genre: minimalism, piano, modern classical
Year: 2012
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V0 (~217) | 81
Other posts: check labels

LINK

recommended.

 Tracklist:
1 Week #1 2:22
2 Week #2 2:22
3 Week #3 2:24
4 Week #4 3:04
5 Week #5 3:39
6 Week #6 3:47
7 Week #7 2:35
8 Week #8 4:56
9 Week #9 3:33
10 Week #10 2:15
11 Week #11 3:32
12 Week #12 2:36
13 Week #13 3:13
14 Week #14 2:59
15 Week #5 (piano solo) 3:39
16 Week #7 (piano solo) 2:35
17 Week #14 (piano solo) 2:43

Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea

 



Artist: Tyler Ramsey
Album:  A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea
Genre: singer/songwriter, folk
Year: 2008
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace 
Bitrate~Size: V2 (~176) | 62

Tracklist:

1 A Long Deam 6:00
2 Ships 4:03
3 Night Time 5:37
4 Once In Your Life 5:30
5 Chinese New Year 2:24
6 No One Goes out 4:24
7 Birdwings 1:41
8 These Days 3:29
9 When I Wake 3:59
10 Iris 2:43
11 Worried 4:27
12 Please Stop Time 4:09
13 Untitled Bonus 1:04

Tan Frio el Verano - Primavera

 
 
Artist: Tan Frio el Verano
Album: Primavera
Genre: post-rock, electronica, instrumental, ambient
Year: 2012
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm
Bitrate~Size:  320 | 137

band from Venezuela, link on their bandcamp.

Tracklist:

1 Intro 02:57
2 2208 horas en un segundo 05:16
3 Once promesas después de Invierno 05:21
4 Se miraron y fueron historia 02:18
5 Un ocaso perdido 03:43
6 Sensenia 06:12
7 Con las manos llenas de fuego 08:21
8 Yo Recuerdo 05:08
9 Niebla, barco, pajaros… 09:52
10 Creamos la violencia 07:28

Avox - The Fragile World

 














Artist: Avox
Album: The Fragile World
Genre: electronica, instrumental, ambient
Year: 2010
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm
Bitrate~Size: 320 | 137

Avox is an instrumental/ambient collaboration between David Hodges (formerly of Evanescence, Trading Yesterday, and The Age of Information) and John Campbell. Their debut album “The Fragile World” was released digitally on September 28th, 2010. 

very very good stuff from start to end, highly recommended.

Tracklist:

1 The War 4:27
2 The Deep 3:27
3 The Fuse 3:54
4 The Attack 3:28
5 The Legacy 5:38
6 The Breach 3:41
7 The Escape 3:51
8 The Balance 3:45
9 The Switch 4:32
10 The Passage 3:46
11 The Offering 0:54
12 The Source 4:06
13 The Sacrifice 6:40
14 The Storm 1:08
15 The Stand 3:27
16 The Truce 2:30

From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide

Artist: From the Mouth of the Sun
Album: Woven Tide
Genre: ambient, drone
Year: 2012
Label: Experimedia
Web: buy, last.fm
Bitrate~Size:   V0 (~248) | 93

Woven Tide is the debut album by From The Mouth of The Sun, the new collaboration between Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX), and composer Aaron Martin. Out of the charred embers of dusk Woven Tide emerges with an incandescent glow. Each glimmer cast by the sustained notes of ebony keys, the taut strings of the cello, and the rampant buzz of guitar lights our way, gives us hope, brings us into the dawn of a new day. As From The Mouth of the Sun, the duo act as our torchbearers, scrawling messages along the walls of an elongated cave, toiling through the decayed remnants of fetid matter to create eight illuminating pieces. The listener, who has wiled away the hours, will find a door; Woven Tide will be the light out of the darkness. 

 recommended.

 Tracklist:
1 The Crossing 1:08
2 Pools Of Rust 6:24
3 Color Loss 6:03
4 My Skin Drinks Light That Has Passed Through Leaves 4:07
5 Sitting In A Roofless Room 3:41
6 Like Shadows In An Empty Cathedral 7:41
7 A Season In Waters 11:39
8 Snow Burial (While Blue Skies Gather) 3:13
9 Pools Of Rust (Danny Saul Remix) 8:23

Endless Melancholy - Music For Quiet Mornings

Artist: Endless Melancholy
Album: Music For Quiet Mornings
Genre: post-rock, ambient
Year: 2012
Label: Preserved Sound
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Bitrate~Size: 320 | 86

not bad..

Tracklist:
1 Birth (An Orchestra Was Hired To Create This Track) 0:53
2 Silent Dawn, Grey Twilight 4:00
3 Quiet 4:06
4 A Song For Watching Snowfalls 3:32
5 Simple Things 3:19
6 Light 6:04
7 A Song For The Morning Star 5:10
8 A Song For Dreaming 5:29
9 Mélancolie 4:16
10 Fading (We Are All Slowly) 1:01

Johnny Hollow - Dirty Hands

Artist: Johnny Hollow
Album: Dirty Hands
Genre: darkwave, ethereal wave, trip hop
Year: 2008
Label: The Orange Record Label
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Bitrate~Size: V2 (~176) | 63

an user on RYM said: "What would happen if Tim Burton made a trip-hop album? This!"

I agree.

Tracklist:
1 Alchemy 3:52
2 Stranger 3:06
3 Die For Love 5:15
4 This Hollow World 3:24
5 Worse Things 3:33
6 Nova Heart 5:42
7 Superhero 3:11
8 Boogey Man 4:03
9 Human Lullaby 3:50
10 Alibi 2:55
11 Stone Throwers 4:38
12 People Are Strange 2:48
13 Aegis 3:53

Cult of Luna - Salvation

Artist: Cult of Luna
Album: Salvation
Genre: sludge, atmospheric sludge metal, post-rock
Year: 2004
Label: Earache Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Tracklist:
1 Echoes 12:30
2 Vague Illusions 10:14
3 Leave Me Here 7:15
4 Waiting For You 10:47
5 Adrift 7:19
6 White Cell 5:40
7 Crossing Over 8:32
8 Into The Beyond 11:26

Condre Scr - You Are Genius

Artist: Condre Scr
Album: You Are Genius
Genre: post-rock
Year: 2012
Label: Oxide Tones
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: Jar Marsen EP


Tracklist:
1 Boca 3:52
2 Bogatell 5:36
3 The Excellent Cook 5:56
4 Remo Boys 5:04
5 Jerome 2:59
6 Fram 3:54
7 Ask the Ones you Know 4:46
8 Kong Me 4:56

Bitter-Sweet - The Mating Game

Artist: Bitter:Sweet
Album: The Mating Game
Genre: trip hop, lounge, downtempo
Year: 2006
Label: Quango
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: Remix Game

BITTER:SWEET's intoxicating and playful debut artist album, THE MATING GAME, is a beautiful, 11-track work from Shana Halligan and Kiran Shahani (former Supreme Beings of Leisure).
Songs unfold like little vignettes of romantic interludes and scenes from enchanting films of days gone by. Shana's melodically sweet-and-sexy vocals paired with Kiran's experimental pop beats and masterful programming make for an album that will stand the test of time. Fans of Portishead, Zero 7, Serge Gainsbourg, Everything But the Girl, Frou Frou and Bjork will fall in love with the album's sound.

love this album, so sexy, found it about two months ago and I can't stop listening to it, standouts: 'Don't Forget To Breathe', 'The Mating Game', 'Moving Forward' and 'Dirty Laundry'. Have fun.


Tracklist:
1 Don't Forget To Breathe 3:14
2 The Mating Game 3:24
3 Overdue 3:34
4 Heaven 3:48
5 Bittersweet Faith 4:19
6 Moving Forward 3:36
7 Moody 2:39
8 Dirty Laundry 3:20
9 Our Remains 3:34
10 Salty Air 3:02
11 Take 2 Blue 2:40

Silversun Pickups - Swoon

Artist: Silversun Pickups
Album: Swoon
Genre: alternative rock, indie rock, shoegaze
Year: 2009
Label: Dangerbird Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: Carnavas, Pikul Ep

I can't decide which one is the best, if this one or Carnavas, awesome band.

Tracklist:
1 There's No Secrets This Year 5:33
2 The Royal We 4:47
3 Growing Old Is Getting Old 5:53
4 It's Nice To Know You Work Alone 4:46
5 Panic Switch 5:43
6 Draining 4:55
7 Sort Of 5:28
8 Substitution 4:41
9 Catch And Release 4:39
10 Surrounded (Or Spiraling) 4:45

Slow Dancing Society - The Sound of Lights When Dim

Artist: Slow Dancing Society
Album: The Sound of Lights When Dim
Genre: ambient, downtempo
Year: 2006
Label: Hidden Shoal Recordings
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Drew Sullivan, aka Slow Dancing Society is a Washington based producer and musician. His first album, “The Sound of Lights When Dim” is a sumptuous unfolding ride towards a fading horizon. The album has all the qualities of an Eno ambient classic whilst forging its own musical and emotional path.
As with Brian Eno’s finest moments and David Sylvian’s ambient explorations, this work manages to dissolve its temporal markers and speak about moments removed from time. It talks to the delicious flaws of memory and feeling whilst never sullying itself with literalness or simple documentation.

very good release, enjoy it.

Tracklist:
1 Be There 4:13
2 Radiance 4:34
3 The Delicate Sound Of Silence 7:08
4 A Song That Will Help You Remember To Forget 6:16
5 The Warm Familiar Smell Of September 4:10
6 West Of 4th (Kristina's Song) 8:10
7 How Life Was Meant To Be Lived 8:37
8 A Lonesome Sentiment 7:24

Ashram - Shining Silver Skies

Artist: Ashram
Album: Shining Silver Skies
Genre: neoclassical darkwave
Year: 2006
Label: Equilibrium Music
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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The embryo of the band was formed in June '97 when Sergio Panarella and Luigi Rubino first started collecting ideas for the project that would later be known as Ashram. While undergoing the writing process of their first ever release, the duo invited Alfredo Notarloberti, the notorious napolitan violinist, to take their side in this ambitious project. With the line-up complete, the band recorded eleven songs out of which seven were selected and included on the demo "For My Sun", self-released in May'99. The remarkable energy and empathy between these musicians granted them an appearance as the opening track on Energeia's compilation “Intimations of Immortality Vol. 5” with the song "Spirit of the Rising Moon", and drew some media attention to this emmerging band. Shortly after, Ashram signs with the French label Prikosnovenie.

In 2001, the line-up is expanded as Leonardo Massa joins the group on cello, thus completing the ensemble that would participate in the recording of the critically acclaimed debut self-titled album released in the following year. This new release was followed by intense live activity, as the band performed innumerous shows in Italy and even a couple of tours in Portugal.

After a period of reflexion, Ashram are now presenting their second full-length recording, under the title "Shining Silver Skies", and out via Equilibrium Music in May 2006.

great listen, recommended.

Tracklist:
1 5 Steps... 3:07
2 Maria And The Violin's String 2:58
3 Sweet Autumn (Part II) 2:53
4 Lullaby 2:19
5 Il Mostro 3:26
6 All'Imbrunire 2:27
7 Last Kiss 3:35
8 Elizabeth 2:34
9 For Each And Every Child 4:24
10 Tango Para Mi Padre Y Marialuna 3:32
11 Lady 3:11
12 Shining Silver Skies 3:35
13 Rose And Air 2:32
14 Ultimo Carillon 3:50

Belbury Poly - The Owl's Map

Artist: Belbury Poly
Album: The Owl's Map
Genre: Electronic, Progressive Electronic,
Sound Collage, Space Age Pop, Library Music
Year: 2006
Label: Ghost Box
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: The Belbury Tales

If you dug the previous post, try this one, I like it a bit more.

Tracklist:
1 Owls and Flowers 4:12
2 Rattler's Hey 3:40
3 The Moonlawn 4:17
4 Music, Movement & Meaning 1:26
5 Wetland 2:01
6 Tangled Beams 3:40
7 The People 5:02
8 The New Mobility 4:56
9 Pan's Garden 4:36
10 Lord Belbury's Folly 3:13
11 Scarlet Ceremony 6:11
12 Your Way Today 1:22

Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

Artist: Silversun Pickups
Album: Carnavas
Genre: mix of alternative rock, shoegaze and indie rock
Year: 2006
Label: Dangerbird Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: Swoon, Pikul Ep

Carnavas, the debut full-length from L.A.'s Silversun Pickups, is the sort of record that brings something new to discover with each listen. Thus, listen one is as enjoyable as listen five or ten, but probably for entirely different reasons, since unique bits continuously appear from the band's dream haze of accessibly textured indie rock. From the grainy opening of "Melatonin" that blends into strikingly harmonized male/female vocals, the quartet immediately showcases their innate sense of melody amid textured atmospherics and layers of distortion and fuzz, which all come across as both bittersweet and enchanting. Silversun Pickups take the shimmering dream pop of My Bloody Valentine and filter it through '90s grunge instincts like that of the Smashing Pumpkins -- and it all combines to produce an album that, well, is really freaking good. Vocals are both haunting and sweet, as lead singer Brian Aubert somehow manages to sound like a cross between the Goo Goo Dolls' Robby Takac and the Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor -- in a good way. And for every moment of ominous intensity, the band further manipulates their ethereal antics into moments of pure shimmering redemption. "Future Foe Scenarios" is urgent in a completely controlled way that makes the vocals come off even fiercer over the song's driving distortion, while exhilarating and spacious cuts like "Lazy Eye" and "Common Reactor" materialize out of clouds of hazy guitars and pensive keyboard with dynamic force that never loses its direction. Though an extremely rewarding listen, proceed with caution: once put into a stereo, Carnavas may become stuck inside for quite a while.

AMG

Last addition to my fave bands. Awesome debut album, standout tracks: 'Melatonin', 'Well Thought Out Twinkles', 'Little Lover's So Polite', 'Lazy Eye', 'Dream at Tempo 119', 'Common Reactor'.
More coming, check out the live vid below.

Tracklist:
1 Melatonin 4:04
2 Well Thought Out Twinkles 4:02
3 Checkered Floor 4:51
4 Little Lover's So Polite 4:44
5 Future Foe Scenarios 5:20
6 Waste it on 4:13
7 Lazy Eye 5:54
8 Rusted Wheel 6:00
9 Dream at Tempo 119 4:52
10 Three Seed 5:40
11 Common Reactor 6:01

Left - I Could Stand In Here

Artist: Left
Album: I Could Stand In Here
Genre: post-rock
Year: 2005
Label:
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project from Mono's Takaakira Goto (Taka), by the way, exciting news:

Japanese instrumental band Mono will follow up 2009's Hymn to the Immortal Wind with a new studio album. For My Parents will be out on September 4 through Temporary Residence LTD. "We hope that this album serves as a gift from child to parent", the band writes in a press release. "While everything else continues to change, this love remains a constant throughout time." For the recording of the album, Mono were joined by the Wordless Music Orchestra, who joined them for the live album Holy Ground in 2010.

< AWESOME >

Tracklist:
1 Fear 2:21
2 Tear 2:20
3 Dear 3:09
4 Hear 1:56
5 Breeze 2:30
6 Sear 1:20
7 Rear 3:39
8 Clouds 1:08
9 Near 2:11
10 Stand 14:43

Melodium - Music for Invisible People

Artist: Melodium
Album: Music for Invisible People
Genre: electronica, acoustic, folk
Year: 2006
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: My Mind is Falling to Pieces

recommended.

Tracklist:
1 You Can't Help Me 4:40
2 I'm Not Already Dead 4:24
3 Follow the Train of Thoughts 3:37
4 You're Gone 4:16
5 My Xylophone Loves Me 4:26
6 Saturday Morning 4:34
7 We Are All Right Here 3:12
8 Quit the Sun 4:37
9 It Must Have a Meaning 2:58
10 The Hate Week 2:46
11 Maybe It's the End of Time 2:53
12 Behind the Picture 2:40
13 An Endless Present 1:50

Blueneck - Repetitions

Artist: Blueneck
Album: Repetitions
Genre: post-rock, atmospheric, ambient
Year: 2011
Label: Denovali Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Othes posts: Scars Of the Midwest, The Fallen Host

In September 2011 Blueneck release Repetitions, their third album, on Denovali Records. The new LP is the follow-up to 2010’s The Fallen Host (“Stunning” – Rocksound, “Fantastic… an intoxicating, all-consuming experience” – Classic Rock: Prog, "Over time, I expect that this album will continue to be appealing, while many more glamorous and overhyped albums will disappear." - The Silent Ballet) and 2006’s debut Scars of the Midwest. Though steeped in the trademark melancholy power of their former works, Repetitions resonates with new heights of emotional drama. From the butcher’s knife-edge tension of strident opener ‘Pneumothorax’, past the cocooned confessional ‘Barriers Down’, to the cathartic windswept Americana of ‘The Last Refuge’, Repetitions makes a deliberate lunge for the emotional jugular. It’s without doubt that this red-blooded output results from Repetitions’ unusual recording process. Whereas the first two albums were constructed in Blueneck’s reclusive studio deep in the farmlands of Somerset, this time the band made the deliberate decision to head to the city. Working with producer Mat Sampson in his Bink Bonk basement studios in Bristol, a recording session started that would eventually span an 18 month period, ending in June 2011. It wasn’t just the surroundings that needed to change. Contrary to their previous approach, this time Sampson encouraged Blueneck to minimise digital trickery. The band deliberately embraced analogue tools, acoustic instruments and live performances. Much of Repetitions is recorded live as a band using vintage amplifiers, pedals and microphones, a vast array of ancient analogue synths and organs, not to mention the addition of authentic live upright piano, violin and cello. Blueneck will follow the release of Repetitions with an extensive European tour throughout October and November 2011.

Great band, recommended, like the other two previous albums they have.

Tracklist:
1 Pneumothorax 4:12
2 Sawbones 5:37
3 Venger 5:51
4 Sleeping Through a Storm 6:44
5 Una Salus Victus 3:37
6 Ellipsis 5:05
7 Barriers Down 7:21
8 The Last Refuge 5:34
9 Lopussa 4:56

65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math

Artist: 65daysofstatic
Album: The Fall Of Math
Genre: electronica, glitch, math rock, post-rock, progressive rock
Year: 2004
Label: Monotreme Records
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Take a look at the cover, you'll end in that position. Classic, killer, destroys, debut album and my fave. Retreat! Retreat!

Tracklist:
1 another code against the gone 1:40
2 install a beak in the heart th 4:55
3 retreat! retreat! 4:10
4 default this 1:43
5 I Swallowed Hard, Like I Understood 5:27
6 the fall of math 3:59
7 this cat is a landmine 4:45
8 the last home recording 2:13
9 hole 4:33
10 fix the sky a little 5:29
11 aren't we running? 4:51

Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales

Artist: Belbury Poly
Album: The Belbury Tales
Genre: via RYM > Electronic, Progressive Electronic,
Sound Collage, Space Age Pop, Library Music
Year: 2012
Label: Ghost Box
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Other posts: The Owl's Map

The fourth full-length album from Jim Jupp's past-haunted electronic eccentrics is a beautiful, eerie thing - a piped gateway to false memories of a time when the benevolent nation state commissioned young men to re-score English folk songs with government issue analogue synthesisers.

Mojo

Weird stuff, for moments sounds pretty much like elevator music..

Tracklist:
1 Belbury Poly Logotone B 0:13
2 Cantalus 3:23
3 Green Grass Grows 3:31
4 The Geography 4:09
5 A Pilgrim's Path 4:30
6 Now Then 2:26
7 Chapel Perilous 4:27
8 Unheimlich 2:45
9 My Hands 1:20
10 Goat Foot 3:03
11 Unforgotten Town 4:16
12 Earth Lights 4:53
13 Summer Round 6:36

Coastal - Halfway to You

Artist: Coastal
Album: Halfway to You
Genre: slowcore, dream pop
Year: 2004
Label: Words on Music
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Coastal’s music borders on reverent. restraint and simplicity are key to the overall sound. smooth basslines, wispy drum movements, melodic, delayed guitar work, a delicate vocal presence, and subdued organ keys all combine to make the music flow with a relaxed simplicity that is truly beautiful.

for fans of Low..

Tracklist:
1 Until You Sleep 6:19
2 Eternal 3:39
3 Halfway To You 4:02
4 Leaves 5:54
5 Night Sky 2:02
6 We Won't Last Another Year 4:10
7 Drift 5:54
8 London In February 2:23
9 So Close 8:01

Helios - Moiety

Artist: Helios
Album: Moiety
Genre: ambient
Year: 2012
Label: Unseen Records
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
Mirror~Bitrate: free| 320 or FLAC

recommended

Tracklist:
1 Nothing it Can 04:47
2 Your Zenith 02:06
3 In Everything Was Given 04:26
4 Nature People 01:22
5 Bold Advances 03:07
6 Equal Ourselves 03:59
7 Ours Everyday 03:14
8 Ideals or Hopes 03:46

Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood

Artist: Neurosis
Album: Through Silver in Blood
Genre: atmospheric sludge metal, post-hardcore, doom metal, post-hardcore
Year: 1996
Label: Neurot Recordings
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Neurosis built their reputation on -- to put it one way -- long-winded compositions, making their albums a challenging listening experience for even the most dedicated fans. And their fifth album, Through Silver in Blood, doesn't buck the trend, diving headlong into the group's entirely unique experiments in ambient, progressive death metal with the mesmerizing 12-minute title track. With the exception of two minute-long interludes, much of the remaining material follows this blueprint, with abnormally long tracks like "Aeon" and "Purify" gradually building from simple melodies into trance-inducing epics. Conversely, other songs take an unbearably long time to develop, crawling toward their climaxes so slowly (see "Strength of Fates") -- or toward no climax at all (see the tortured screaming of "Enclosure in Flame") -- that one's attention span is severely tested. It is therefore of little wonder that Neurosis' appeal remains so selective. Approach with caution.

All Music

Tracklist:
1 Through Silver In Blood 12:11
2 Rehumanize 1:46
3 Eye 5:17
4 Purify 12:18
5 Locust Star 5:48
6 Strength Of Fates 9:43
7 Become The Ocean 1:27
8 Aeon 11:44
9 Enclosure In Flame 10:19

My Exit Music - Someday Zero

Artist: My Exit Music
Album: Someday Zero
Genre: post-rock
Year: 2006
Label:
Web: buy, last.fm, myspace
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Tracklist:
1 Free Falling 6:28
2 Warning Signs 8:51
3 Auto 1:27
4 Break These Chains In Two 6:34
5 Dust 7:23
6 Room To Move 1:53
7 All The Winters That Have Been 8:41
8 Ground Level 4:22