Collected Sounds

Here’s the first official video from her album, Bitch Get Fit!
The song is Young Love:

Is this HOT or what?!

Here’s a making of too

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Alrighty….so apparently when I created the feed for this site I was using some weird and random email address that doesn’t exist anymore. So I was unable to get into the feed (via feedburner). Well, I could get to it, but I couldn’t get to all of it…nevermind. It makes no sense.

So I deleted the Collected Sounds feed and re-burned a new one. I’ve updated the previous post with the new feed URL and also the button in the right sidebar.

But I thought I should put it here too.

[HERE is my new feed] Please subscribe :)

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Album Name: Vessel
Artist: Sylvi Alli
Year/Label: 2010 / Vertical Pool Productions

[Buy at Amazon] but pricy
[Download at Amazon]

Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell

Having Reviewed Sylvi Alli in the past, I was happy to see that she had done a new album. Thankfully it follows her previous high standards. She records in an ethereal style and has a voice like few others do.

Opener Conduit is bleak yet offers wonderfully delivered vocals. There are no other instruments but it holds together anyway.

Gyre is a barely-there song with some celestial harmonies from Alli. Sort of like a warmer Dead Can Dance song.

Arbor Sea sees her reach some intriguing sounds, her vocals are lovely as ever and the delicately woven tune suits her fine.

Tyger has some impressive yet low-key atmospherics that Alli puts to good use. She uses William Blake’s poem of the same name to get her point across.

It’s a tranquil yet suspenseful album and it should be loved by many.

Track Listing
1. Conduit
2. North
3. Gyre
4. Naiad
5. Hex
6. Arbor Sea
7. Incant
8. Through the veil
9. Tyger
10. By Fire
11. Rising

Sylvi Alli Official Site]

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But you only have until Tuesday. Her fantastic album, Hunting My Dress is on sale [Amazon]

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I just looked at this site in the Internet Explorer and it looks like crap. It doesn’t load the content where it’s supposed to be. It loads the sidebars at the bottom of the page where there’s no content….It’s all kinds off wrong. Plus, it was trying to download a file called log.php and I promise you, I have not told it to do any such thing. I would never. I thought perhaps it was my ad program, but I removed that and it’s still doing it, so I have no idea.

So if you’re a visitor of this page, please consider using something other than that vile IE. It’s evil and wrong and there’s no reason to use it* when there are so many other good browsers out there. I use Chrome and Firefox.
*unless, of course you’re like me and have to use it at work because the websites that you have to use for work only work in that.

If you are resistant to change or can’t use another browser, then you’d be better off using a reader to access the site’s info. You can do that [here]

[This] is an oldie, but the ‘wheee’ makes me laugh every time.

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People Eating People is actually a solo project of Nouela Johnson.
Piano based intelligent pop music with a great voice. Her mother, Hangyo Lee, is a Julliard pianist widely considered to be one of the best in the world so it’s no wonder where her talent comes from.

Really nice stuff. Have a listen:
[Official]

Download:
I Hate All My Friends
[All the Hospitals]

[People Eating People at Emusic]

[Buy at Amazon]
[Download at Amazon]

1. Darling
2. All The Hospitals
3. I Hate All My Friends
4. For Now
5. Building Armor
6. Rain, Rain
7. Supernatural Help
8. Evil…
9. Straight Lines
10. On And On
11. Let’s Rage

People Eating People – Rain, Rain from The Control Group on Vimeo.

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So, as you may know, Lissie’s fantastic album, Catching a Tiger is out now in the US and she’s just announced some US tour dates. She’s coming to Minneapolis! Whee!
Is she coming to your town? If so I highly recommend catching her live. She’s pretty amazing.

Here are the links to buy:
[Buy at Amazon]
[Download at Amazon]

And here are the dates of Lissie’s first North American headlining tour. Ticket presales will begin August 18th, at 3pm local market time through this link

OCT. 6 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL
OCT. 7 – LOS ANGELES, CA @ TROUBADOUR
OCT. 9 – AUSTIN, TX @ AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL (12:15-1pm, ZYNC Card stage)
OCT. 10 – HOUSTON, TX @ HOUST OF BLUES BRONZE PEACOCK
OCT. 11 – DALLAS, TX @ GRANADA THEATRE
OCT. 13 – DENVER, CO @ BLUEBIRD THEATER
OCT. 15 – MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB
OCT. 16 – DAVENPORT, IA @ REDSTONE ROOM @ RIVER MUSIC
OCT. 17 – CHICAGO, IL @ LINCOLN HALL
OCT. 20 – WASHINGTON, DC @ 9:30 CLUB
OCT. 21 – PHILADELPHIA, PA @ JOHNNY BRENDAS
OCT. 22 – NEW YORK, NY @ HIRO BALLROOM
OCT. 23 – BOSTON, MA @ T.T. THE BEARS

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Yay! I new Thea Gilmore album is due out soon!
It’s called Murphy’s Heart and you can get it online beginning September 7, 2010. (in the US, it’s out sooner in the UK)
[Amazon Download]
[Amazon physical] ouch, it’s steep!
I’m sure it will be on [iTunes] at that time too.

Here’s a video of the first single, You’re the Radio which is getting a lot of airplay and compliments on British radio.

1. This Town
2. God’s Got Nothing On You
3. Due South
4. Jazz Hands
5. Love’s The Greatest Instrument
6. Automatic Blue
7. Coffee and Roses
8. You’re The Radio
9. Not Alone
10. Not Alone
11. Now The Love Gets In
12. Mexico
13. Wondrous Thing
14. My Voice (bonus track)

[Thea Gilmore Official]

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This band came across my desk recently and I thought I’d share with you.

There’s also an MP3 for you! [Visions of You]

Here’s some press:

All The Things We’ve Been Told is the debut offering from Toronto’s Modern Superstitions. Produced by Sloan’s Patrick Pentland, All The Things We’ve Been Told is a snapshot of a young band hitting all the right notes all at the same time. Growing up as childhood friends, Modern Superstitions’ teenage members are Nyssa, Matthew and Harry. And what a beautiful noise they make.

Listen to them on [My Space]

Tracklist:
1. Go Between
2. Visions of You
3. Everything That Is Not Mine
4. Beck & Call
5. Love That Beats My Heart
6. Mercy Line

[download at Amazon]

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I was browsing Facebook today and saw that one of my friends and fellow women in music sites, [Wears the Trousers] was featuring an artist and the accompanying photo looked familiar. I did a double take and realized why.

The artist that they were featuring is Pearl and the Puppets and her album Make Me Smile.

The artist I thought it was when I looked briefly is Meaghan Smith and her album, The Cricket’s Orchestra.

See what I mean?

So what about the music? Well, Pearl (Katie Sutherland) is more poppy-catchy current sounding where Meaghan is a little more old timey (also very poppy and wonderful).

See for yourselves:

[Meaghan’s videos] are not embeddable so you’ll have to do a little more work to see her (why do companies do that?)

Here’s one that just audio:

More Info:
[Pearl and the Puppets]
[Meaghan Smith and the Cricket Orchestra]

Buy:
[Meaghan's The Cricket's Orchestra]
[Pearl and the Puppets] (not out yet in US)

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