Som en helt i en anden fabelhistorie, triumferede Will Sheff og resten af Okkervil River i aftes på Loppen.
På lidt over en halvanden time spillede bandet fra Texas en ren hitparade fra deres to seneste album Black Sheep Boy og The Stages Names. Især sange som “Unless it’s Kicks”, “Plus Ones”, “The Latest Toughs”, “Black” (hvor jeg elsker når Will skriger You should wreck his life the way that he wrecked yours) og naturligvis den dystre og maniske “For Real” blev spillet med stor indlevelse og tilstedeværelse. Og publikum var med. Jeg kunne bla. høre udtalelser som det er fandme super fedt! fra publikummer omkring mig efter støjballader til tonerne af “So Come Back, I Am Waiting” eller “Title Track”. Selv gennem sangene fra deres mindre kendte tidligere albums, som jeg ikke kendte, var publikum fanget.
Will Sheff, med en typisk småbøvet indie-frisure, hvor en stor manke er redt fremover panden, var en eminent frontfigur og facinerede at betragte på scenen. Han holdt en intens energi gennem hele koncerten og sang ganske enkelt helt fantastisk. En kuriøs, spændende og yderst talentfuld herre som, i følge ham selv, først sent i sit liv kyssede sin første pige.
En nær perfekt koncert, men alligevel nær nok til en topscore.
6/6
Nu glæder jeg mig bare til The National i morgen og så kan jeg sove tilfreds igen.
When Flaming Lips released At War with the Mystics and after seeing their fantastic live show, I would never have thought that they wouldn’t be on my top 10 list of favorite album of 2006. But this proved to be the case after a year with a buck load of terrific albums with superb music.
My Latest Novel released at unique debut and it took me several considerations not to give it the top spot. But Black Holes And Revelations contained super summer hits for the whole year – even wintertime. An achievement which was impossible to overlook. Their personal mixture of indie rock, electronica, progressive rock and heavy metal really came into it’s own on this album.
The Decemberists takes indie pop even further wth The Crane Wife. Based on an old Japanese tale, the album is a huge ambitious project that succeeds in every way. This stuff really grows on you.
The Thermals, The Mondo Generator and Cursive RUBAR (Rock Us Beyond All Recognition) and takes no prisoners. (Yes, I have seen Saving Private Ryan recently.)
No more talking. Here they are, my favorite albums of 2006:
Muse – Black Holes And Revelations
My Latest Novel – Wolves
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the Machine
Tunng – Comments of the Inner Chorus
The Mondo Generator – Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails
Cursive – Happy Hollow
Ratatat – Ratatat: Classics
Guillemots – Through the Window Pane
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
The year 2006 wouldn’t be complete without listening to Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones, TV On The Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain, The Flaming Lips – At War With the Mystics, Swan Lake – Beast Moans, Annuals – Be He Me, Midlake – The Trials of van Occupanther, Loose Fur – Born Again in the USA
The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in—as did the opinions of others—and the project was cut in half. [...] The gathering that followed would become the setting for the songs on The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album.
After much consideration, here’s my list of favorite albums released in 2005.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
System Of a Down – Mezmerize
Doves – Some Cities
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel the Illinoise
Athlete – Tourist
Also very mentionable (In alphabetical order)
…And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart
Adams, Ryan – 29
Adams, Ryan – Cold Roses
Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Audioslave – Out of Exile
Beck – Guero
Block Party – Silent Alarm
Bravery, The – The Bravery
Broughton, David Thomas – The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
dEUS – Pocket Revolution
Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
Electric Six – Señor Smoke
Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Harcourt, Ed – Elephant’s Graveyard
Kashmir – No Balance Palace
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
Mercury Rev – The Secret Migration
Nationals, The – Alligator
Nine Black Alps – Everything Is
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Rouse, Josh – Nashville
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Standard, The – Albatross
Subways, The – Young for Eternity
System of a Down – Hypnotize
Turbonegro – Party Animals
Whitey – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train
Wilco – Kicking Television (Live) [If this wasn't live recordings from their three previous albums, it would definitely have been high up on that top ten list. I guess Wilco just have to be satisfied with the fact that they propably would have taken the top spots with their last two albums, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born]
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Kan man skyde skyde med spredehagl og blande shoegaze, psych, indie og prog og slippe fra det? Ja, hvis man gør det så medrivende som på canadiernes fremragende opfølger.
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