http://www.alloddmusic.com ... odd music for the masses Sun, 21 May 2006 09:05:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Harpist/pianist Joanna Newsom comes from a very musical family; both of her parents, sister and brother play musical instruments. Joanna started playing harp at the early age of seven. The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004) is actually her third album. Joanna previously self released two albums: Walnut Whales (2002) and Yarn an ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/joanna-newsom-milk-eyed-mender.html Impatiently awaited album number three by New Yorkers The Strokes First Impressions of Earth was one of the first albums released in early 2006. The standard based on successful previous two releases “Is This It” (2001) and “Room on Fire” (2003) was set very high as well as expectations ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/strokes-first-impressions-of-earth.html Scottish Mogwai are back again with their latest release Mr Beast (2006). The opener "Auto Rock" is a warm piano based track that keeps on building up until it explodes to a heavy super intense track two: "Glasgow Mega-Snake" - a pure heaven of squealing guitars and electric noise. We calm ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/mogwai-mr-beast.html According to The Age, transferring music from CDs to MP3 players or iPods, will not be illegal in Australia any more, after Australian cabinetmade significant changes to copyright laws. Format shifting will become legal once these new laws area passed. People will be allowed to conver their own CDs or other ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/news/transferring-music-ruled-legal-in-australia.html DNTEL is a one man project based around genius Jimmy Tamborello. Life Is Full of Possibilities (2001) is a beautiful bubbly collage of mainly ambient electronic tracks. It would make a perfect score music for a dream. From musicians contributing on this album it is definitely worth mentioning Chris Gunst (Beachwood ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/dntel-life-is-full-of-possibilities.html The impatiently awaited debut album of Editors - The Back Room (2005) is finally out. Starting out in Birmingham, Editors became darlings of the U.K. press immediately after release of their first singles and intense live performances. The direction of the album is obvious from the very first beats. ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/editors-the-back-room.html Emiliana Torrini is of Italian and Icelandic origin. Her first album Love in the Time of Science 2000 was produced by Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears and sounded very electronic and Björk-ish. Her second release Fisherman's Woman (2005) is mainly acoustic. It sounds very warm and intimate; it makes ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/emiliana-torrini-fishermans-woman.html The Kingsbury Manx formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., in 1999, with their first self titled debut released in 2000. It is full of English flavours and tender melodies. The opener “Pageant Square” sets the atmosphere of the album immediately from the first few beats. Humming organs, acoustic guitar, ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/revisited/kingsbury-manx-kingsbury-manx.html Arab Strap was formed in 1995 in Scotland by vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton. The Last Romance is I believe their eight full length album. If you’re familiar with their earlier releases you call up a very depressive, sad and beautiful music stripped down to a simple drum ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/arab-strap-last-romance.html I seriously had no idea of The Matthew Herbert Big Band’s music until I got their CD Goodbye Swingtime (2003). What waited for me was a very pleasant surprise. Matthew Herbert has an early teenager experience as a keyboard player in Glenn Miller swing tribute band and since then he ... http://www.alloddmusic.com/reviews/matthew-herbert-big-band-goodbye-swingtime.html