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TTNG Animals
For over a year I've kept returning again and again to this album, and each time I listen This Town Needs Guns' songs they still feel fresh and exciting. The music is beautiful yet complex, a la Owls or American Football, but with better (read: in tune) vocals and more memorable melodies. The synergy between brothers Tim (guitar) and Chris (drums) Collis is palpable throughout, and the vocals of Stuart Smith manage to transform what would otherwise be overwhelming slabs of cerebral math rock into melodically-rich, even catchy, love songs. TTNG certainly have a sound--one that can be most directly traced back to the late '90s work of the Kinse		4.0
10.02.11
Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found
'The Lost and Found' is the most mature, understated effort from a singer who is sure to become one of the leading lights in vocal jazz. Parlato has a such a pure tone, and sings with an intimacy as if she's whispering softly in your ear all her secrets and desires. The band that backs her is just as tight, smooth, and technically impressive: drummer Kendrick Scott and pianist Taylor Eigsti's subtly virtuosic performances give the arrangements a textural and rhythmic complexity not heard on most vocal jazz albums. Although many of the songs here could be described as "hushed," they never bore, maintaining a kind of quiet intensity that keeps 		4.5
10.02.11
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
5.0
07.03.10
Miles Davis Miles Smiles
5.0
07.03.10
Miles Davis In a Silent Way
5.0
07.03.10
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
4.5
07.03.10
Miles Davis Agharta
4.0
07.03.10

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