' I cover my eyes, still all i see is you, oh i know that i love you.'
Rating: 7/10
Modern Music Review
Style: Modern Folk
Second album of romantic Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice is coming up (14 November) with new acustic ten sentimental songs. The album took me for a ride. Seldom have I felt so unsatisfied.
It's been four years since his first record, it seems that he used this break for an expansion. It's good enough time 'four years' to explore new impressions about life.

There are plenty of new alternative folk melodies in "9" which sound as Bob Dylan, Radiohead , Jeff Buckley at the same time. "Animals Were Gone", "Me, My Yoke and I" (the noisiest one) and "Grey Room" are top works , also duets with Lisa Hannigan, are immediate highlights. "Elephant" is very similar with Radiohead's "Creep" or other acustic Radiohead works, isn't it? Anyway, it has become beautifully.

Rice is always getting into slender vocal style.Classic folkstyle song "Coconut Skins" comparable to many Dylan compositions.If you love to listen the previous Damien Rice, i strongly recommend thisone. It's comparable with Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, while in"9" lyrics are so powerful , it's killing you slowly with telling stories about love (Accidental Babies). Those simple pianos are covering all empties that Rice's voice has. This is a moderatecombination for music lovers who love to have peace of mind.

It's starting to play slowly, in the end you never hear your heartbeats. So brokenhearted, it's such innocent record too.
MM picks: Me, My Yoke and I
Listen: 9 Crime
You may also like: Bright Eyes
More Damien Rice

Rating: 7/10
Modern Music Review
Style: Indie Rock
'I've got a broken heart, passion and all the rest.'
Many of the songs on the former Guided By Voices leader's second solo set of the year originated in tracks recorded for the soundtrack to the Steven Soderbergh film "Bubble."

Put your weights faraway to your side and prepare for weekend by "Normal Happiness" which is generally including power-pop, guitar pop and melodic edge. It's easy to listen entire album in a jiffy.In fact momentary songs are always easy to listen. The longest song is about three min, rest of them is shorter than two min. So if you listen them apart, you won't get to anything. Nonetheless, they don't sound similar. While on "Gasoline Ragtime" music panics , on "Rhoda, Rhoda" it feels to you comfort. "Give Up The Grape" captures more garage rock spices. Following that the longest one appears "Pegasus Glue Factory" that is also one of the picks with its sticky melody, marked guitar slidesand velvet vocal. You dive into the music quickly.

Normal Happiness is a fresh, clean and major fruit of Robert Pollard, In indie rock the music may be too whimsical and innocent; too weird; too sensitive and melancholy; too soft and delicate; too dreamy and hypnotic. Normal Happiness captures all of them , So short so bare.
MM picks: Gasoline Ragtime, Pegasus Glue Factory
Listen: Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day You may also like: Bob Mould - Workbook
Some mp3s on official Robert Pollard

- Give me the best songs MM!

1. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
2. Robyn Hitchcock - Adventure Rocket Ship
3. The Walkmen - Many Rivers to Cross
4. Pernice Brothers - Somerville
5. Killers - When You Were Young
6. Lemonheads - Become the Enemy
7. The Blood Brothers - Laser Life (New!)
8. Pete Bjorn & John - Young folks (New!)
9. Thermals - A Pillar of Salt (New!)
10. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the black parade

- Not best but they're all good. Don't try to find out the best because anything is the best in this world. Just try to listen with your heart and see what you got.

Rating:8/10
Modern Music Review
Style:Adult alt., Indie
This is the fifth solo album from the prolific English singer-songwriter.
This album released on beginning of Summer ,June. This was a mistake, it would be better if it had released in autumn. Noone prefers to start a summer with deep, gloomy music. Still
noteworthy work, good works always get what they deserve.

The sound of album changable , once again reflective tunes in the middle , he's fighting with his voice just as Jeff Buckley and other adult-indie singer songwriters Nick Cave, Badly Drawn
Boy. The most important and magnetic points of "The Beautiful Lie" are Ed Hardcourt's great vocal performance and charming piano interludes.

Opening with up-beat songs (Whirlwind In D Minor,Visit From The Dead Dog) middle of album it turns to captivating melancholy rock. Songs like "Revolution In The Heart", "Until Tomorrow Then" are two drunk tank that mostly come from Tom Waits' locality.

Most of melodies are sneaking up to you and they're stoling something from you.Then they leaves some sensual memories which are your own. It shows you truths of life such as Good friends are hard to find.

"Scatterbraine" is a successful example of mixing various instrumental and fathomless vocal. More than this, purifying atmospehere of "Rain On The Pretty Ones", passionate breaking of "IAm The Drug" and great soul oriented work "Shadowboxing" can be marked as album's remarkable songs. His admiration to Nick Drake apears on "The Pristine Claw" clearly.

I've been listening this record for weeks and i'm sure it's sweet as a beautiful lie, Marvellous.Plus Includes guest appearances from Graham Coxon, The Magic Numbers and BJ Cole.
MM picks: Visit From The Dead Dog, Shadowboxing, Rain On The Pretty Ones
Listen: Whirlwind In D Minor
You may also like:Rufus Wainwright
Ed Harcourt Official

Modern Music Review
Rating:9.5/10
Style:Alt. Country, Indie Pop
'Bell starts ringing, you're still missing'
Think Nancy Sinatra-Lee Hazlewood, and you won't be too far off the concept of this album-length pairing of former Belle & Sebastian vocalist Campbell and former Screaming Trees leader (and Queens Of The Stone Age collaborator) Lanegan. Campbell produced the album and wrote the bulk of the material and Mark Lenegan wrote only one song "Revolver" which is one of that highlight, He appears on everysong.

Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan collaboration between former member of Belle & Sebastian Isobel Campbell bring wonderful songs to us.This album has apeared on right time while there are colourless leafs and a rainy day outside. Poignant violins, Sophisticated emotions, with a whip!Yes with a whip.It whips all of your feelings (the cover of Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man"), whispers which belongs to Isobell, he whistles, country air, fresh country air, whisky-and-nicotine rasp voice of Lenegan.

Bewitching singing of a woman and grand natural voice of a men, it's very befitting. It causes to think about life, deeply with its majestic, poetic lyrics (Deus Ibi Est). On "Honey Child What Can I Do?, we used to listen from Belle & S. lazy charming melodies.Perfection of the lyrics doesn't leave to me much things to say.Actually it changes for everyone just as a poet.In every condition musical side of this album amazingly perfect, full of emotion, glorious sadness.

"Ballad Of The Broken Seas" is a great gift for plaintive days in autumn.It's autumnal, presenting itself perfectly and it knows where it comes from, Bittersweet.
It's charmed me and now lets try it on you!
MM picks:Black Mountain, The False Husband, Revolver, The Circus Is Leaving Town
Listen:Ramblin' Man
You may also like:Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
Isobel Campbell Official

Rating:8.9/10
Modern Music review
Style:Indie Rock
'Writers Block' (2006) is the third album from Swedish trio Peter,Bjorn and John.
Recorded in Bjorn's studio in Hornstull, Stockholm the album sees the trio take a new direction by moving away from the straight-forward indie-pop of their previous releases.

Selecting wanderful music for holidays isn't easy job. Good music means regeneration. Moreover it's the mean of life. Life is a rhythm, if you able to catch that rhythm you'll be able to achieve succesful in your life. Listening good music is everthing.
In addition to this "good music", it's certainly relative for everyone so you should look for your own rhythm. Maybe you trust in someone like me about my musical tastes or you're not. There is no harm. As far as I know this searching is quite exciting.Explore!

Today we've one of these good chosen music here... Actually i know , you got that this is a very good album. I believe that it's deeper to tell your feelings about the album than writing some descriptive commonplaces in a review. If you like that's the way, then here it comes; Airwaves ,tunes soft as snow, infectious beats , natural lyrics...

How about some influences;Lo-fi, noise rock, shoegaze are the main styles. Also there are some R&B, funk and soul roots. I found "Let's call it off" is god song and my new disease, play the song and dance above the skies. Closing song "Poor cow" is another impressive psychedelic work. You should listen and discover other ones and you would agree how hooky this album is. Also I found a cross between Jesus & Mary Chain's that epic sound, vocals , era. Furthermore, The band is influenced by the sounds of classic '60s baroque pop, power pop, and new wave, but the guys aren't revivalists.

Guitars isn't odd, they seems to be taken from 80s new wave, but if it's the only incomplete of "Writer's Block", therefore it's perfect.
MM picks:Young folks, Paris 2004, Let's call it off
Listen:Paris 2004
You may also love:The Concretes
Peter Bjorn and John Page

Rating:8.8/10
Modern Music
The band's fifth album was produced by Guy Piccioto and John Goodmanson. What you gonna do with this punk centered metal inspired insane record?They show us their young machetes, nuts!

This record revival of Husker Du, Gang Of Four, Wire and Public Image Ltd, Fugazi,namely all the lunatic dudes who loves to make some eccentric brutal noise.

The noise ,mmmh! I smell the pure noise suddenly it turnes black thorny flowers, innocent but sometimes guilty,it's feeding up from the difference of sound. Entirely furious, incontrollable songs but there are two or three calm melodies. Thanks to Blood Brothers for releasin' such an incredible record. Music is very various blessing for us and please don't spend your time the same things, listening only same styles or same albums is the most boring mind. There are good artists in every style of music ,so go and hunt them! That's a rule, it's great to renew yourself like Blood brothers did.Uh hu i know this isn't totally new but totally different.It's so wildy and it attacks like a cat and breaks into pieces your body.

Laser Life, Spit Shine Your Black Clouds, Lift The Veil, Kiss The Tank, Giant Swan are all different and catchy platinum picks of the record. There is anything to say "Camouflage, Camouflage" which is the most alternative one. Let's do some action with song "Johnny Rider" and closing song is just amazing (Giant Swan).

The strongest record that they've recorded ,it's for sure. MM recommends this new and different melody machine.From head to foot it's music for lunatics!
MM picks:Camouflage, Camouflage, Spit Shine Your Black Clouds, Johnny Rider
Mp3:Spit Shine Your Black Clouds
Blood Brothers Site
Also check out:The Melvins - A Senile Animal