My Inland Empire

Well I'm sorry I've been a bit quite recently but I've been a bit tied up with sorting my new website out. I can at the moment tell you that in the foreseeable future our new home will be www.myinlandempire.co.uk but as you can see if you go there its not in proper working order, I'll be spending the next few days sorting it out and hopefully my next post will be on there.

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arghhhh i had it up and nearly running, i then decided to upgrade the software and lost itall, back to the drawingboard for me then.

Any Feedback on the last two major albums I posted, Hood's album and Mark Hollis' album, Anyone think I was widely off the mark? Though they may not be everyones cup of tea they are two exceptional albums. Also I highly recommend that Smog 7", two amazing songs which need to be heard.



Battles - EP C/B EP

Battles' debut album "Mirrored" has been raved about by nearly every website and critic there is. It is my opinion and nearly everyone I know who loves Battles that this two EP's are definitely their best work. Their music is simply undefinable, completely unique, they take elements of their backgrounds in Prog/Maths Rock, mix it up with a bit of Krautrock, then add Electronic samples and top it off with avant-garde experimentalism. Blurring the distinction between the "Organic" and the "Electronic" a must have for lovers of Esoteric music and people with good taste.





Adem - Love and Other Planets

Some of you might remember Adem from a couple of posts ago where I posted his first album, the wonderful Homesongs. That album had a very organic and acoustic feel to it and was a deep personal affair. This one has developed upon it and has added more textural dimensions to it. It's turned into a well balanced affair of electronic and acoustic melding beautifully together alongside a huge bevy of unusal instruments. Fridge's, Adem is their bass player, influence can be seen in the empahsis on the percussive elements of his tracks. An album full of Sonic warmth and lyrical humanism.





Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful World

Beautifully strange music inspired by down to earth sounds and spacey experiemtalism. Much more focused than his previous albums, also much more collabrative, co-produced with Mercury Rev's  David Friedmann and with vocals from the Cardigan's Nina Persson and PJ Harvey. I can't say this is my favourite album by him as I love them all so much, but lets just say it's a wonderful album.





Summer at Shatter Creek - All the Answers

A re-up for someone. Etheral music, distinguished by a his high falsetto voice floating above warm beds of pianos, vibes, tambourines, vintage keyboards, and a slow elegant guitar. Lyrically and musically this is a really sad album, isolation a key factor.






Miles Davis - Water Babies

I just found this lying about in my sendspace folder so I'll put it up if anyones interested. Although not one of his essential albums it fills in some gaps during Davis's transitional period from adventurous acoustic playing to early electric performances.