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Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (CD 1 of 2)

As though I really needed to add more ambient music to my collection. But there's something very different about Stars of the Lid (and perhaps other ambient bands of its ilk, like Loscil) from, say, Vidna Obmana or Steve Roach. Or even Harold Budd, although that comparison is a little warmer. Maybe it's the increased emphasis on "organic" instrumentation--delicately and quietly plucked guitars and drone-like strings--rather than an overtly keyboard-based sound.

In any case, I'm late to the Stars of the Lid party. And, for that matter, I may as well throw in a bunch of other bands on the Kranky label, which seems to specialize in ambient post-rock, if that's what this can be called. That means I need to do some research (and spend some money) all so I can swell the already swollen ranks of my CD collection. Because, of course, now I must have every SOTL disc and hunt down other bands that are in their musical neighborhood.

Obsession. Not just a fragrance from Calvin Klein.

Also today:

25:51 Funker Vogt, Date of Expiration
25:36 Autopsia, Secret Christmas History
25:36 Feindflug, I./ST.G.3
25:33 Hammock, Stranded Under an Endless Sky
25:29 Current 93 & HÖH, Crowleymass
25:14 Demonoid 13, Gate of Death
25:03 Project Pitchfork, Wonderland
25:01 Lush, Desire Lines
25:00 Leæther Strip, Positive Depression
24:42 Rukkanor, Deora (CD 2 of 2)
24:38 October Falls, Tuoni
New arrival! 46:28 Paulin Bündgen, Étrange Septembre
24:34 Black Lung, The Sound of Meat
24:26 Hocico, Disidencia Inquebrantable
23:39 Sophia, The Seduction of Madness
23:36 Sylvain Chauveau, Un Autre Décembre
23:27 Assemblage 23, Let the Wind Erase Me
23:25 Cronos Titan, Gregoraveian
23:23 Above the Ruins, Songs of the Wolf
23:09 A Challenge of Honour, Vienna/Wien
23:07 Front Line Assembly, Mindphaser