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DiS Weekly Album Club Week 3

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by Yesiamaduck

HELLO HELLO HELLO!

How are you guys doing, ain't this a nice and sunny day? YES! Right we have been quite guitar happy in the first 2 weeks so time for some Glitch yea?

This weeks album was proudly choosen by Hello_Dave & it is.....

DNTEL - Life Is Full of Possibilities

Housed behind an entirely appropriate title, the debut album of Dntel (aka Jimmy Tamborello) is a gorgeous, mostly ambient journey into moody, poetic electronic sounds. One imagines these ten songs would make for a delightful, if feverish, score to a kaleidoscopic dream. Though Life Is Full of Possibilities is centered on somewhat standard clicks & cuts, textured sound washes, and cut-and-paste electronic dynamics, Dntel's music contains such pristine melodies and is so effective in its stimulation of one's emotions that it makes for a refreshing, fascinating hour. It's the kind of music Kevin Shields has been threatening to unleash since the collapse of My Bloody Valentine. Dntel is aided more than a bit by his guest vocalists/lyricists, who include Chris Gunst from Beachwood Sparks, Rachel Haden of the defunct That Dog, Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and Brian McMahan from Slint and The for Carnation, among others. When Dntel is at his best, he brings to mind some of the finest European sound collagists, chief among them Múm. Indeed, "Suddenly Is Sooner Than You Think" and "The Dream of Evan and Chan" bear an uncanny resemblance to the superb songs on Múm's Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is Okay. Gibbard's vocals on "The Dream of Evan and Chan" blend with the Múm-like overtones so perfectly that the song is easily one of the mostly touching and beautiful sonic creations of the year. Pretty, brittle, subtle, full of surprises, and disarming in its ability to set moods, Life Is Full of Possibilities is a masterpiece that places Dntel near the top of the heap of electronic artists working in 2001.
-Allmusic Guide

FANTASTIC! Now lets do this! :)

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Yesiamaduck | 03 Jul '08, 16:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

You know

this is a three out of three so far for 'bands I've heard are great but have never invested the time and energy to listen to properly'. Score.

Whose recommendation was this?


Hello_Dave


Me


^ You!


Ooohhh Not heard it but sounds great

and very different to the last 2.


The album is a classic man

The moments in between actual songs are just so good at building up to a mood, when it kicks off with the guest vocals u get a bunch of britlle pop songs... its beautiful


excellent

i've only heard bits and bobs of dntel, but liked what i heard!

look forward to hearing the whole album :)


wooop

will get this now.


awww, yay

it's also available in full on Last FM:

http://www.last.fm/music/Dntel/Life+Is+Full+of+Possibilities


i have dumb luck

must check this, yo.


ditto

and i like dumb luck. good news re: streamable on last.fm


sounds interesting

i would join up to this but i'm off for the enxt six weeks tomorrow, hopefully it'll still be on then.

Lightening Bolt was and will always be great.


This album is gorgeous

Anywhere, Anyone, with Mia Doi Todd singing is hauntingly sad, I used to listen to it on repeat when my ex dumped me. (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan has to be one of the greatest pop songs ever created.


Hmmm

I listened to this record a while back and it did absolutely nothing for me whatsoever. Found it quite dull.

I'll give it another go though!


I like it

BUT the whole record is totally overshadowed by This is the dream... which is too good to be true... some parts are just a bit wishy washy and dull too.


i just ordered this

and saw the name of the first song.

please oh please oh please let it be a rihanna cover...


Great Album

First one I've owned of one of these I think, No one seems to have mentioned the postal service connection though that might get a few more people interested...


I listened

again on my ipod on the way into town to see Glasvegas tonight and unfortunatley my opinion of the record hasnt changed at all.

Dull music, bland voice. I tried, but it just does nothing for me whatsoever.

I'll go and listen to Lightning Bolt again perphaps...


I'm

on my second listen now and I really like it. It's chilling me out at 1.15am. 'Fear of Corners' is doing it for me at the moment.


Finally got hold of my copy

hmm not sure it's my thing but will keep with it.

Was there a final discussion on the Lightning Bolt album? Which I have to say is the greatest recocrd I have heard for a long time and thank you for bringing to my attention.


Yea in general quite the posetive reaction

http://www.last.fm/group/DiS+Weekly+Album+Club/forum/100705/_/426211

the is a topic on here as well but I cant find it


thanks

I will get an account for last.fm





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