Crystal Stilts EP mp3s, Crystal Stilts EP music downloads, Crystal Stilts EP songs from eMusic.com: "'Converging' is the better-written song, the little post-chorus instrumental bit really nice and cinematic, the whole thing extremely well put-together in a way that — and we say this with love and affection — some of their other songs are not. 'Converging' strikingly intersects Hargett's buried-alive vocals, JB Townsend's shrugging guitars and Adler's gesturing bass in some awesome heroin-spike harmony. Though it didn't start out as such, it's now by far my favorite Crystal Stilts moment."
*Note from Lo "the Offstage Voice" or "Walkie Talkie" or what have you...This band the Crystal Stilts really are good, which I think this excerpt of an Emusic review lets you in on quite well! What I want to convey with this "quip" here from a reviewer is the really stellar level of writing-finesse these critics at emusic have and embody overall! I had a book once (about Shoegaze before I think it was even called shoegaze, but well, it was about Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses had a chapter, AR Kane-- all by Simon Reynolds, a music writer I really really enjoy--the book was called "Blissed Out" and I miss it, sigh. Yes, it is lost, but I remember it distinctly and became aquainted with-- S Reynolds-- who, mind you, contributed a whole lengthy segment on the 4AD label to Emusic extremely recently. This means that the writer I enjoyed so much as a music-writer now works as a hired hand or freelance journo at Emusic, which explains somewhat, the high caliber of writing at their outfit! :)
I have my suspicions that they are a British outfit based on the excellance of their music-journos. S Reynolds is English. I can only ASPIRE to write so well about bands as all that).
Soooo, just take a gander at that snippet from a review on the "Crystal Stilts" and weep for how bloody excellant this is written. It is goddamned prose-poetry is what it is, and I think, I feel actually, it does a very good job as an impossible to do thing, which is to break a musical sound and immersion experience barrier by riffing on a page/screen.
For the music-writing alone, and how much I am learning from it, and from the arrangements of "indie-music" in the main, along with "old-skool" recording artists I have merely been unschooled about but am now LEARNING (with actual snippets, that, I confess, you can do kinda/sorta with YouTube or oldskool radio like Tampa's WDOV FM or Pandora radio (which does a thing like the Amazon or Itunes genius principle of bringing you MORE of similar sounding or similar like-minded music and musicians to learn by)but you will lack the whole wiki and freelance journo enhancement thing)!
I am keeping a cheap six and half buck a month for 12 units (or 12 songs basically) subscription. I mean how cheap is that? I love it! It's fifty cents a song. They have a great model for creating "connections" like a wiki or a search engine, in a sort of Amazon-style way. I wind up engaged, and can't get out of the rat's maze, but I have fun while I am in there ;D
Anyway, re-read the short pre-amble review up top, go to the link, it's clickable I believe and poke your nose into the Emusic page and see if it is not a temptation?! It sure was for me.
I planned on gettting the free tunes and free Audiobook (it's really free, and yes, you really can cancel without oweing anything, unlike old time Columbia records and tapes where you had to sell your soul and send back a selection EVERY FRIGGIN MONTH, and like, then you could forget and you buy it, you know! But this is FREE...if you quit during your two week introductory period, by sending them an "Unsubscribe"
note already prepared in advance if you don't want to stick with them (they make this all sooooo easy). BAM. It's a done deal.
I know because I joined with several different names and cards to get A SH--LOAD of free music (and I did get it too, which was cool :) But I stuck with one cheap subscription, highly manageble, and I downgraded from their standard. They make it so you can also change over to the cheapest subscription or another formula, whatever works. I say, it is WORTH IT. If you spend money on music at ITunes at one buck a song, fifty cents is like half.
Now Amazon has some really worthwhile deals of five buck CD's (in MP3 format mainly) or you can get something for 7.99 that is inevitably likely 9.99 at Itunes.
I am getting SOOOO OVER the Itunes thing, except, of course as necessary to make my playlists, to organize for my Iphone and Ipod, to play the friggin music I buy! :)
I keep the Emusic site as it has excellant journalism, member polls (for things like Best Album, last done though in 2008, and something I very much disagree'd with, overall, but which turned me on to a few bands also as it was a top 100 and some were pretty good-- it's mainly obvious it was voted for by younger people and others that have eclectic and marginal tastes, for they do not even have contracts with SOME of the bigger bands, but they have a lotta biggies like Arcade Fire (I consider large), Heart (VERY WELL-KNOWN, and BIG (hell, they have a song on "Guitar Hero" as that is how my nephew and nieces know them...so yeah, they are oldie goldies and gettin' a tad old), a ton of Indie artists, and then older bands from The Cocteau Twins to Bread and the Sex Pistols to older Bowie and so on.
There are some pretty good selections, and some, meh, not so good.
But imagine that on an artist page they connect you up with ALL ANNOUNCED SHOWS for that band on a Calendar (for the next few months), a Wiki link, Links in some cases to Youtube video and then there's always lots of other bands which they find some commonality with, and sometimes it's true, sometimes I will dispute. They have excellant reviews of EACH and EVERY album (almost without exception) done by really rippin' reviewers so you're not just on your own but have a roadmap, like your own subscription to Spin or Rolling Stone but with a higher quality I attribute to the British music press I used to read in "NME" (New Musical Express). They often group bands by "Label" which helps when you are a label-whore as regards 4AD and Beggar's Banquet (like me ;)
Well, enough said. If anyone wants to get that free introductory deal at Emusic, please, just drop my name as a referral as I can get more music if you stay with them. But do not do that, just get the free music and drop the membership by all means, unless, you get hooked, like me :)
Good luck, and happy hunting!
OH and btw, there is also a great free deal at "Audible.com" where you get a free Audiobook and can quit that membership, BUT (A BIG BUT) it is NOT as easy to just "quit" like they say it is, which it really IS at Emusic. Just throwin the deal they have out there, but be SURE you want the Audible as you will have to work on quitting their club. I found that annoying. At Emusic, quitting is a cinch, really and truly! :)
Go with Emusic if you want a good and intriguing FREEBIE that is REALLY a FREEBIE and they will also let you have an Audiobook free. Just remember, you must cut your ties to both their Audiobook club AND the music club if you opt for both freebies. Otherwise, it is a cinch.
Audiobooks are costly and I am starting to actually like the passivity of being read to. Awwww. It's almost like having an imaginary friend (or two or three?)
I mean, I read at Librivox.org and BACK to my original Walkie-Talkie build I am working on... if you really LIKE hearing Audiobooks, and you like classics, GO to Librivox.org online! They have it so you can download audiobooks for FREE (no strings at all) which are "public domain" and read by volunteers like me :)
Plus, if you have an Ipod and/or Iphone you can get an App. which lets you listen to their audiobooks absolutely free and download almost all of the titles they have in their vast, enormous library! If you download to an Itunes player you can burn to a CD and listen as you please. So many options! I plug in my Ipod and listen as I please (or Iphone, I try and have both charged, but I can't store as much on my smaller drive Iphone).
You can listen to Wuthering Heights while doing your dishes at home, or if you are a student like my nephew and nieces, you can select books that they assign you in class to read to have read to you!
We read selections mainly from "Project Gutenberg" where public domain books have been translated (mainly) and made available FREE (to upload to your computer in print form, mainly in TXT form). So you've a bunch of options...ALL FREE!
No excuses not to get nerdy and read or be read to! I'm still reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce which is a notoriously HARD READ (no one should try this at home ;) I'm also just finishing up with "The Marble Faun" chappies I was assigned for Nathaniel Hawthorne. But, as an audience member I am listening actively off and on to "The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise" which is an amazing and truelife spiritual yet earthly love story. Anyway, I like hearing the letters read aloud. It seems to add a dimension for me personally. Well, I just made a really short story really meandering and long, but I am so ADD what else is new frankly :)
I hope someone gets something out of this besides my silly capering.
I'm being a pushy "pusher" today.
So humor me.
Buy "Bliss" by Simon Reynolds for his take on "oceanic music" (which he brands The Cocteaus) and "jouissance" which women were only discovering, or so we thought, in the 80's and 90's. It's a type of pleasure we supposedly have the goods on. "Jouissance" basically is what Simon R. feels is implicit in Elizabeth Frazer's gamboling joyousness in her soul-expressions-- and, it is from Feminism, before that went into "Post-Feminism" and lost a lot of its fashionableness (too bad, but at least we got bands like Hole out of it :)
Get a free brand new audiobook from Emusic. Get 15 or more free songs from Emusic. Join then quit, or join and stay at whatever member level you feel comfortable with, your option... (Do drop my name if you think you may stay, I will get free music too, which is NOT why I am writing this, but believe what you wanna, whatever, just get the free goods, it's a cool scott free offer!)
Get a free audiobook to read from Librivox on your puter ANYTIME (no credit cards necessary). Or, go to ProjectGutenberg.org and get free "Extext" copies of classic books and public domain literature. Go geeky!
Well, if nothing else, have a peek at Emusic via my little link, or just read the sketch of the Crystal Stilts which I excerpted. They're quite good IMO. Loveeeee those reviewers descriptions. I think they do a band-up job of describing effervescing musical special FX! I mean that. I WISH I WROTE THAT WELL!! Grrrrr.
Peace, Harmony, and Love freely given to everyone that visits my Blog, love you all tons, xoxoxo. If it is today. Have a very good Sunday! ;) I listen to Sufjan Stevens songs to pray (I really do lol). His songs are totally spiritual, and I can pray in that way, which music facillitates so well... and many religious traditions the world over will attest to.
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