High Places "High Places"

High Places released their debut album in 2008, self-titled "High Places". It's good, even Pitchfork reviewed it as one of the best new albums of that year. I totally advise you to hear it, if you're into more soft indie pop or/and psychedelic pop genres. Synths, nice feminine vocals and some sort of bongos that seem to fit always well with their music.
They were formed in Brooklyn, NY (in Williamsburg, I think, the epicentre of all these new indie artists... MGMT, Gang Gang Dance, Das Racist, Chairlift, Telepathe, etc.).
Recently, this duo has relocated to Los Angeles and its label is named Thrill Jockey.
Like many bands who are similar in some ways to High Places, this band also features their own blog. Of course they also have a myspace page.
The album's lenght is only 30 minutes, however one of the tracks, "From Stardust to Sentience", was listed as the 417th best song of the 2000's by Pitchfork.It was released September 23, 2008.
You can get this album right here. By the way, they've also released a compilation.

One of my favourite songs of them can be heard along with an unnoficial videoclip right below:

Death in June "The Guilty have no Past"

Death in June is probably one of the most important bands of the neofolk genre, a sub-genre of the more famous Industrial movement. Founded in the 80s by Douglas Pierce, which had previously a punk band called "Crisis" (draining its sound to a mix between the extreme right political movements and the post-punk music). This previous band evolved to a more melancholic, but still (as we hear in this album) which post-punk influences. Take into consideration that this album collects songs since 1983 to 1993 and almost all of them are from their early performances.
You can download the album here.

This is the 4th song from their album:

Tor Lundvall "Ice"

I only found out about this artist when searching some music items on eBay. Tor Lundvall had a magnificente picture disc for sale and I began to feel curious about his works.
Later, I got to know that his also a painter! He does the covers of his albums. He first started painting, afterwards creating music.
I'd label this album has prominently ambient music. Soft, dark and cold music, is what you'll hear: now you see the reason why the album has its title.
Download it: part 1 and part 2.

Jóhan Jóhannsson "IBM 1401, a user's manual"

In case you didn't know, this man that I'm speaking of has collaborated with Marc Almond, Barry Adamson, Pan Sonic, The Hafler Trio, Magga Stina and many, many others.
Jóhan made this album using real peculiar "musical instruments": he used a computer made in 1964 called "IBM 1401 Data Processing System". It was one of the very first computers to arrive in Iceland and also one of the first affordable, mass produced digital business computer.
His father had created a way that could force this machine to produce astonishing sounds: melancholic and powerful sine-wave tones. He also gave one of these computers to him, so it made it possible for us to hear this album that Jóhan would make later then.
Divided into 5 parts, each with its own name, this bohemian musical masterpiece can surely afford your ears good sine waves and other types of more complex sounds. Melodramatic at times, relaxing, I don't know in what genre it fits... ambient music?
You can try finding that by yourself (downloading the album), by clicking here.

You can hear Part 1 next (and check out the cool videoclip):

Fennesz "Black Sea"

(This is the cover of the album released in December 9 of 2008)

Fennesz released "Black Sea" actually in November 25 of 2008, but the CD I own has a different artwork which was released in December 9 of 2008. This album is a wave of white noise with Fennesz distinctive experimental class. Working again mainly with conventional instruments like guitars and computers, his album is great. It works as a collective of good dark ambient and drone musical pieces that brush and clean your ears. With me, this album has such a relaxing effect that I even fell asleep (I don't say this in a bad way, keep that in mind).
All the tracks featured on this album are fluid, being coherent when blending with the next songs. The album's lenght is about 52 minutes too.

(This is the front cover of the album that was released in November 25 of 2008)

You can try hearing this album by clicking here or otherwise, if you are really fond of these sounds, buy it.
But first, you should try eating the sounds of the self-titled track "Black sea". Watch the video that's located below these words:

Wavves "Wavvves"

I already have this album. It was given to me on my birthday, by my grandmother. Just the idea that I'm going to post it here makes me want to download it. Wavves is so good...

Natahn Williams is the man behind Wavves. He composes everything, plays everything, sings everything, etc... He's the man. His first album (self titled), came on 2008, and it seems that Pitchfork really liked it (yeah, wtvr...). This album came out this year, and... it's great. Labeling: low-fi, noise, pop, punk, beach and on and on.

Next, I'll show you a videoclip of their well-known hit "So Bored":

Ataxia

It is hard to believe, but sometimes these things just happen. You know Red Hot Chilli Peppers, don't you? So you probably heard of John Frusciante [guitar]. It's up to you if you like RHCP or don't. It's up to me to make you listen to another John Frusciante's band: Ataxia.

Forget everything you already knew from John in RHCP. This is good stuff. No, I mean it: really good. The first album is from 2004, called "Automatic Writing"; the other, from 2007, it's "AWII". They're both worth it, believe me. Their sound it's not easy to discribe, but let's say it is experimental rock, or something like very similar. If you allready heard John Frusciante solo, Ataxia will ring a bell.

Just listen.

password: www.musicsharing4all.blogspot.com

Swans - Filth / Body To Body, Job To Job

If you already know Swans, this information is useless.

Swans are a great american band. They started in the begining of the 80's and they splited up in 97. So this is kinda compilation of their songs, not a best of, though. If you enjoyed Coil, probably you will also enjoy Swans (last.fm speaking). They were an experimental band, sons of the No Wave movement, started with Arto Lindsay and those other guys.

I'm gonna shut up, now.

Try it (part 1 and part 2)

Have a great day