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>> Music Reviews Parts I and II - Neva Dinova, The Duke Spirit.
>> Radiohead Video - Live at White River Amphitheater. >> Music Reviews Part III - coming soon. |
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MUSIC REVIEWS
PARTS I AND II |
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Duke Spirit
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PART I - YOU MAY ALREADY BE DREAMING
Neva Dinova are like the soundtrack to a late night ranch party nearing a slow, inevitable sunrise. With a singer both effortless and fiery (he's one part Chris Martin on uppers and one part a sedated Ryan Adams), and band entwined in the ever nebulous Bright Eyes gang, "You May Already Be Dreaming" is simply good quality alt. country. Occasionally beautiful, the album constitutes fourteen straightforward songs that feel like a favorite old album on the first listen. Neither half drunk nor half sober by the time a bleary trumpet solo happily accompanies the dying moments, Neva Dinova are less comatose inducing than they are wondrous. Visit the band's myspace site to sample. |
PART II - ON NEPTUNE
With a rawness in the category of femme fatales Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith or even Hope Sandoval (of Mazzy Star) The Duke Spirit's Liela Moss - with seafaring band of vagabonds - navigates us through a series of rocky love songs on Neptune, which are simple, honest and loud. Recorded at Joshua Tree, the album is imbued with a warm breeze, which seems to entirely fill the lungs of the mermaidian Moss as she exhales the confessional a cappella first track ("I do believe in something you know..."). From here we enter a great rock album, akin to My Bloody Valentine and even featuring a shimmering and tenacious guitar solo seemingly lifted from any one of The Cure's darker mid-career albums. If Elvis Costello's Track Eight Theory is to be believed then this album transcends most. Investiage at the Neptune minisite. |
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