Every Wye Oak

Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 7, 2018
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (2018)

Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:38:28 | 265 Mb
Indie Pop, Female Vocal | Label: Merge Records

Recording in the duo’s respective hometowns yields Wye Oak’s brightest, most straightforward effort yet, in which the limits of human understanding are a source of fascination, not frustration.

Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (2018)  Music

Posted by Domestos at April 6, 2018
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (2018)

Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 268.27 Mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps ~ 88.34 Mb | 38:28 | Cover
Indie-Rock / Folk | Country: USA | Label: Merge Records - MRG615

Wye Oak’s 2011 album Civilian was a major inflection point for the band. Supporting the record brought the Baltimore duo of Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner across oceans, onto “The Tonight Show,” and into the arsenal of Hollywood music supervisors. By the end of the year, after wringing every possible variation out of their setlist, they were spent. “I feel like our band is going to change very, very drastically from here on out in order to remain vital to us,” Wasner noted in an interview with the Village Voice. And so they did, situationally and stylistically. Stack moved to the artistic enclave of Marfa, Texas, and then on to Portland, Oregon. At the same time, Wasner set her guitar aside as she worked on her throwback chirp-pop project Dungeonesse; the results were sufficiently freeing that Wye Oak’s 2014 follow-up, Shriek, eschewed the six-string almost entirely.
VA - SCORE! Twenty Years Of Merge Records (Limited Edition) (2009)

VA - SCORE! Twenty Years Of Merge Records (Limited Edition) (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 6.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 2.2 GB
16:14:16 | Rock, Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Rock | Label: Merge

Merge continues its 20th anniversary festivities with a comp of non-label artists– Bright Eyes, Shins, New Pornos– covering songs from its catalog.
Merge Records doesn't look its age. Originally formed as an outlet for Superchunk material, the Durham, N.C.-based label has grown into an indie institution, but only gradually– year by year, release by release. It never allied itself with a scene or a sound, so the mind doesn't automatically tether it to a specific place or time, the way Sub Pop, despite its strong roster this decade, will be most closely associated with Seattle in the late 1980s and early 90s. So it's hard to believe Merge is already 20 years old, an occasion the label is marking with a big birthday bash– the five-day XX Merge fest in July– and a subscription-only series of commemorative retrospectives and remixes. Perhaps the most intriguing party favor is Score! Twenty Years of Merge Records: The Covers, a choppy but oddly endearing compilation that enlists 20 non-Merge acts to cover Merge songs.

Madeline Kenney - Sucker's Lunch (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 16, 2020
Madeline Kenney - Sucker's Lunch (2020)

Madeline Kenney - Sucker's Lunch (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 229 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 84 Mb | 00:36:28
Indie Pop, Dreampop, Female Vocal | Label: Carpark Records

Oakland artist Madeline Kenney bounds toward the unknown on her third album, Sucker’s Lunch, expanding on the idea of what a love song could be – a little more cautious than exuberant, more nuanced than blazing devotion. Sonically, the album expands upon Kenney’s earlier, guitar-driven sound – a definitive step forward from an artist adept at communicating universal sentiments in a voice unmistakably her own.

Bon Iver - i,i (2019)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Aug. 29, 2019
Bon Iver - i,i (2019)

Bon Iver - i,i (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 211.92 Mb | 39:43 | Cover
Indie Folk | Label: Jagjaguwar - JAG350

2019 release, Bon Iver's most expansive, joyful and generous album to date. If For Emma, Forever Ago was the crisp, heart-strung isolation of a northern Winter; Bon Iver the rise and whirr of burgeoning Spring; and 22, A Million, a blistering, "crazy energy" Summer record, i, i completes the cycle: a fall record; Autumn-colored, ruminative, steeped. The autumn of Bon Iver is a celebration of self-acceptance and gratitude, bolstered by community and delivering the bounty of an infinite American music.