Restul e Tacere The Rest is Silence (2007) [repost]

The Smiths Is Dead is a tribute album to the 1980s' English alternative rock band The Smiths, released in 1996. It was compiled by the French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles and released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 1986's The Queen Is Dead. The album was released at the height of the Britpop phenomenon and contained covers by many popular Britpop acts such as The Boo Radleys, Supergrass, Bis and Placebo.

In his first one-hour stand-up special, funnyman Aaron Karo raises the comedy bar as he uncorks his witty observations on bridesmaids' speeches, tanked-up friends who always start fights and the perils of being a 30-year-old bachelor.

Ancient civilisations thought comets were Gods. They believed them to be bringers of life or harbingers of doom - these strange, magical, mysterious things that moved through the sky, fiery streaks of light that tore across the heavens.

On his Bandcamp page, mystical songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs states that The Rest Is Scenery is "…high concept, low technique." Each of its 13 songs are composed of a single minor-guitar chord, from E-minor (the first one he learned to play) on the second fret, on up the neck one at a time – F-minor, F-sharp minor, G-minor, etc. – all the way up to E-minor again on the 12th. First impressions suggest that such a record would be a chore to listen to. It's not by a long shot. For anyone who has spent time listening to Youngs, that shouldn't come as a surprise. Most of his wildly creative albums emerge from sparse beginnings: 1999's Sapphie offered three long songs with his voice and a lone classical guitar; 2001's Making Paper delivered three more using only a piano, and 2004's brilliant River Through Howling Sky employed only guitars and pianos.