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The more frantic songs bookend the album while a bank of more reservedsongs populates the middle of it, where beats plod along with theexhalations of an accordion, or the pluckings of a banjo, or just thewhimsical humming of band members. Besides the frantic ends and themore placid middle, there are further dichotomies both between andwithin songs on 'Dark Falcon.' These contrasts are often exhilarating,and sometimes even exhausting (in the best possible way). "Cherchez leDragon" starts out stuttering wildly, trying to evince some statementbut only ejecting playful electronic spittle. It is not until theplacating guitar part comes in that the song is able to demonstrateclearly what it is trying to say. The guitar and the voice parts soothethe hyperactive beat better than a bottle of Ritalin; once they calmthe beat, the stutter decreases and the song is persuaded intoobedience. The opener, "Heartbreaker," features a field recording ofkids setting off Independence Day firecrackers with cars driving by insome neighborhood in Providence and the sound culled from thisrecording is undeniably urban. Later in the song, a gentle female voicecomes in and it sounds like it is being sung from the most remote logcabin in the backwoods of Montana, or maybe it was Kentucky. I canpicture the cabin, with one window illuminated by a gaslight in thedark, and the sound of a girl singing as it rises, just barelyperceptible, above the wind moving through trees. Somehow, thisunmistakably rural piece, which is clearly not part of the firecrackerrecording, is able to synchronize with the more urban sample, andtogether they create a perfected hybrid lullaby.
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If Thousands is Christian McShane and Aaron Molina from Duluth, Minnesota, who having decided to depart from their respective backgrounds in classical performance and punk have collaborated to attempt something quite different. The result is a sound grounded less on performance and based much more on assembly, repetition, and duration. With the help of Alan Sparhawk, who produced and mixed the album, McShane and Molina have built resonant instrumental pieces that sound oceanic in their tendency to roll together different recurring samples with the musicians' work, producing a reverberating blend of fluid sound.Chair Kickers Union
A few songs have vocals, but their inevitable shift of focus onto lyrics and melody is not as absorbing as those tracks that draw your concentration to qualities of intensity and variation. The cover of Joy Division's "Isolation," while beautiful, seems a little out of place and distracting because of its prominent placement as the second track of the album. It's too much of a sidetrack or nod to something else, whereas one of the overall strengths of 'Yellowstone' is its introspectiveness. Songs are composed through persistent use of particular tones (generally repeating phrases on bass, guitar, and keyboards with a few other interesting sounds thrown in) that are drawn out and cycled with careful fluctuations and variety, a process then repeated with different approaches as the album progresses. This technique, along with the sheer length of 'Yellowstone' (over an hour), creates the feeling of being drawn ever deeper into something to emerge at the other end of the album. It's important to emphasize that despite the careful attention If Thousands has given to the detail in each song, their work seems neither technical nor calculating. Instead, it's possible to be enveloped by the music and engaged by the similarity and difference of the patterns at work within the songs and from one song to the next—like looking into a fire for a long time as it seems to dance and change. 
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album of the year
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Sigur Ros - ( )
- Low - Trust
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
- Notwist - Neon Golden
- Sonic Youth - Murray Street
- M? - Finally We Are No One
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
- El-P - Fantastic Damage
- Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Do Make Say Think - &yet &yet
- Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
- Tom Waits - Alice
- Out Hud - Street Dad
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
- Books - Thought for Food
- Cornelius - Point
- RJD2 - Deadringer
- Nurse with Wound - Man with the Woman Face
- Deerhoof - Revilie
- Beck - Sea Change
- Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
- Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
- Fennesz / O'Rourke / Rehberg - Return of Fenn O'Berg
- Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Horses
- Tom Waits - Blood Money
- Liars - They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
- Clinic - Walking With Thee
- DJ Shadow - The Private Press
- Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither
- Isis - Oceanic
- Max Tundra - Mastered By The Guy At Exchange
- Ms. John Soda - No P or D
- Shalabi Effect- The Trial of St-Orange
- Biosphere - Shenzhou
- D?ek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
- DJ /Rupture - Minesweeper Suite
- Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Men
- Pan?American- The River Made No Sound
single or ep
- Wire - Read & Burn 01
- Wire - Read & Burn 02
- Autechre - Gantz Graf
- Coil - The Remote Viewer
- Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War
- Limp - Orion
- M? - green grass of tunnel
- Missy Elliot - Work it
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Dntel - (This is the dream of) Evan and Chan
- Kid 606 - Why I Love Life
- Savath and Savalas - Rolls and Waves
- Gold Chains - Straight From Your Radio
- I Am Spoonbender - Shown Actual Size
- Coil - Winter Solstoce Bonus CDR
best song
- M? - Green Grass of Tunnel
- Low - That's how you sing amazing grace
- Messy Elliot - Work It
- Sigur Ros - Nj?nav?in aka The Nothing Song
- Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?
- Boards of Canada - 1969
- Interpol - NYC
- Legendary Pink Dots - The Unlikely Event
- Ms John Soda - Solid Ground
- Wire - 99.9
best various artist compilation
- Blue Skied an' Clear
- Brain in the Wire
- Urban Renewal Program
- Wire Tapper 09
- Seasonal Greetings
- 20 years of dischord
- Masonic
- 24 Hour Party People Soundtrack
- Disco Noveau
- In The Beginning There Was Rhythm
- Lost for Words
- Machinenfest 2002
- Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01
- The Fire This Time
- 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 2
- Acid Mothers Temple Family Compilation: Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!!
- All Tomorrow's Parties v. 1.1
- Badorb.Com Bless You
- Bip Hop Generation volume 5
- Chamber A Cold Springs Records Sampler
best single artist compilation
- Fennesz - Field Recordings 1995 - 2002
- Windy & Carl - Introspection
- Microphones - Song Islands
- Bj?k - Greatest hits
- Farben - Texstar
- ISAN - Clockwark Menagerie
- Smog - Accumulation None
- Bj?k - Family Tree
- Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield '78/82. Best Of
- Coil - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
- The Fall - Totally Wired
- Hrvatski - Swarm and Dither
- Rocket From The Tombs - The Day The Earth Met...
- Lesser - lsrmp3cd
- Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays
best double or multi-lp/cd release
- Windy & Carl - Introspection
- Blue Skied An' Clear
- Brain In The Wire
- Legendary Pink Dots - Chemical Playschool 11,12,13
- Acid Mothers Temple Family Compilation 'Do Whatever You Want...'
- Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - Luxe and Redux
- Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?
- Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono
- Throbbing Gristle - 24 Hours
- Bj?k - Family Tree
coolest unusual packaging
- Brain in the Wire
- Venetian Snares - a giant alien force more violent and sick...
- Bj?k - Family Tree box
- Sigur Ros - ( ) (what the hell's so unusual about this one?)
- Boards of Canada - Geodaddi (book style) (or this one?)
nicest cover design
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
- Low - Trust
- Sigur Ros - ( )
- Shalabi Effect - Trial of St Orange
- Boom Bip - Seed to the Sun
- Nurse With Wound - Man With The Woman Face
- Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- M? - Finally We Are No One
- Return of Fenn O' Berg
best rerelease/repackage/reissue
- Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - Luxe and Redux
- Boards of Canada - Twoism
- Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
- Flaming Lips - Finally the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
- 23 Skidoo - The Gospel Comes to New Guinea
- Fridge - Eph
- HNAS - Melchior
- Don Cherry - Orient
- Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
- Nurse With Wound - Automating Volume 2
worst album you bought
- Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
- Current 93 & Nurse with Wound - Music for the Horse Hospital
- Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- DJ Shadow - The Private Press
- Future Sound of London - The Isness
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out of Season
- Cex - Tall, Dark, and Handcuffed
- David Bowie - Heathen
- Download - Inception
most anticipated disappointment
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (you only waited two years? that's not much anticipation, come on)
- Sigur Ros - ( | )
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
- Future Sound of London - The Isness
- Audioslave
- Autechre - Gantz Graf
- Cex - Tall, Dark, and Handcuffed
- Destroyer - This Night
- Trans Am - TA
- Low - Trust
guiltiest pleasure
- Eminem - The Eminem Show
- Kylie Minogue - Fever
- Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
- Justin Timberlake - Justified (you wouldn't admit this if the poll wasn't anonymous)
- Andrew WK - I Get Wet
- Doves - The Last Broadcast
- Queen of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
- Belle and Sebestian - Storytelling
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
- Missy Elliott - Under Construction
band of the year
- Sigur R?
- Low
- Interpol
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Coil
- Flaming Lips
- Legendary Pink Dots
- M?
- Wilco
- Wire
best solo musical artist
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
- Jim O' Rourke
- Tom Waits
- Jessica Bailiff
- Venetian Snares
- Beck
- DJ Shadow
- Fennesz
- El-P
- Cex
new act of the year (band or solo artist)
- Interpol
- Liars
- The Books
- Xiu Xiu
- DJ /Rupture
- Limp
- Christmas Decorations
- RJD2
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Devandra Bahnhart
- Ms. John Soda
- Out Hud
- Parlour
- Polmo Polpo
- Radio 4
best live show/concert experience
- Sigur R?
- Coil
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Stars of the Lid
- Legendary Pink Dots
- Sonic Youth
- Low
- M?
- Cex
- Do Make Say Think
- Wire
- Jackie-o Motherfucker
- Explosions in the Sky
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- Acid Mothers Temple
most overrated band/artist
- Interpol
- Sigur Ros
- Strokes
- Wilco
- Kid 606
- Radiohead
- White Stripes
- Vines
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
- The Streets
- Boards of Canada
- Eminem
- Sonic Youth
- Cex
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
most irritating band/artist
- Eminem
- The Strokes
- Interpol
- The Vines
- Radiohead
- Avril Lavigne
- Kid 606
- Nickelback
- Ryan Adams
- Sigur Ros
lifetime achievement
- Sonic Youth
(only one band can win it per year)
Band/artist with most detestable audience/fans
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Eminem
- Radiohead
- Interpol
- Phish (who could smell worse than godspeed fans but are agreeably far less pestering)
Most obligatory
- Low
- David Bowie
- Skinny Puppy / Kevin Key
- Autechre
- Boards Of Canada
- Coil
- Godspeed You Black Emperor
- Sonic Youth
- Squarepusher
- Current 93
Most annoying reissue
- Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches (stay tuned for next year's three-CD edition)
- Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
- Boards Of Canada - Twoism
- The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Incredible String Band reissues on Collector's Choice
Worst comeback
- Suicide
- Soft Cell
- Guns 'n Roses
- Future Sound of London
- Sex Pistols
- The Rolling Stones
- Boards Of Canada
- Beck
- Julee Cruise
- Al Gore
most prolific artist who really shouldn't be so prolific
- Merzbow
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Venetian Snares
- Legendary Pink Dots & every single one of those side projects
- Jim o'Rourke
- John Zorn
- Kid 606
- Mick Jaggar
- Robert Pollard
- Ryan Adams
biggest scam act
- Interpol
- DJ Shadow
- The Vines
- Fischerspooner
- Kid 606
- Acid Mother's Temple
- Current 93's limited editions
- Merzbow
- The Strokes
- Andrew WK
miss congeniality
- M?
- Cex
- Peaches
- Antony of the Johnsons
- Beth Orton
- Kylie
- Landing
- Low
- Matmos (who else asks you for a picture when you mail order a CD?)
- Missy Elliott (when has she been nice to you? when has she stuck around after a show to sign CDs??)
most overpriced release
- Bj?k - Family Tree
- TG24 Box Set
- Nurse With Wound / Current 93 - Horse Hospital
- Sigur Ros - ( )
- Coil Live set
most fetishable
- Peaches
- Avril Lavigne
- Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- Bj?k
- Kylie Minogue
- Aphex Twin
- Cex
- Christina Aguilera
- Justin Timberlake
- Adam Forkner (Yume Bitsu)
most confessedly ignored by you
- 23 Skidoo (results may have been skewed by the description of this question, all apologies)
- Nurse With Wound
- Coil
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Flaming Lips
- Legendary Pink Dots
- Nirvana
- Pere Ubu
- Talk Talk
- The Fall
worst sellout
- Sigur Ros
- Ryan Adams
- Godspeed You Black Emperor
- Trans Am
- Moby
fave producer
- Steve ""I'm not a producer, I'm an engineer"" Albini
- El-P
- Jim O'Rourke
- Nigel Goodrich
- The Neptunes
- Timbaland
- Dr Dre
- John McEntire
- Phil Elvrum
- Colin Potter
who will break big next year?
- Cex
- Kinski
- Venetian Snares
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Black Dice
record label
- Kranky
- Morr Music
- Constellation
- Mego
- Def Jux
- Fat Cat
- Tigerbeat 6
- Temporary Residence
- Matador
- Ipecac
music video
(as seen on various web sites and CD-Rs in addition to non-music video channels, for those who think they're only seen on MTV)
- Autechre - Gantz Graf
- White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl
- Missy Eliot - Work it
- M? - Green Grass of Tunnel
- Clinic - Walking with Thee
- Interpol - PDA
- Notwist - Pick up the Phone
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
- El-P - Deep Space 9mm
- Lightning Bolt - Power of Salad and Milkshakes
OTHER STUFF
movie of the year
- Bowling for Colombine
- Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers
- Spirited Away
- Punch Drunk Love
- 24 Hour Party People
- Adaptation
- Mulholland Drive
- Crossroads
- Donnie Darko
- Secretary
- Heaven
- Lost in la Mancha
- Star Wars Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
- Talk to Her
- The Ring
tv show
- Simpsons
- 24
- Sopranos
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- South Park
- Futurama
- The Daily Show
- Alias
- Oz
- That '70s Show
magazine/newspaper
- The Wire
- The Onion
- Magnet
- Grooves
- Careless Talk Costs Lives
- Entertainment Weekly
- Found
- Giant Robot
- Guardian
- New Yorker
book of the year
- Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
- Love and Loud Colors by Edward Ka-Spel
fave actor
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Johnny Depp
- Adrien Brody
- Kevin Spacey
- Edward Norton
fave actress
- Julianne Moore
- Christina Ricci
- Nicole Kidman
- Winona Ryder
- Jodie Foster
fave director
- David ""I didn't direct anything this year, you clowns"" Lynch
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Micheal Moore
- Aki Kaourismaki
- Darren Aaronofsky
- David Fincher
- Martin Scorsese
- Peter Jackson
- Steven Soderbergh
- Todd Haynes
fave writer (book/tv/film/play,...)
- Chuck Palahniak
- Paul Auster
- Haruki Murakami
- Thomas Ligotti
- charlie kaufmann
best website
- Brainwashed / the Brain
- pitchforkmedia.com
- theonion.com
- homestarrunner.com
- allmusic.com
- Fakejazz.com
- Absorb.org
- aquariusrecords.org
- espn.com
- explodingdog.com
- four09.org
- kompaktkiste.de/
- news.bbc.co.uk
- projectbloodteam.com
- RecycleYourEars.com
most annoying trends
Gosh there's so many...
- Electroclash
- Republicanism / Right Wing Politics / Bush Support / New McCarthyism
- War Mongering
- Mall Rock masked as Commercial Alt. Rock
- 80s Retro / Revival (see: haircuts/nostalgia/cocaine)
- Garage Rock/Crock/House/Pop/Revival
- Emo
- Concert Crowd Conformity Code (see functionless thick-rimmed glasses, unshowered NYC indie film hair look, girls who look exactly alike)
- Reality TV (especially discount celebrities like Anna and Ozzy)
- Cell Phones (at least turn them off at the movies, assholes)
- Major Labels/RIAA bitching/DMCA Reaction/Copy-proof CDs
- Bands that start with ""The"" and end with a plural noun
- Designer Dirt (see: bleach stains on jeans)
- Economic Instability (the kind caused by rich, white corporate assholes bringing everything down)
- Glitch (isn't that 1999?)
- IDM
- Polls
- Recycled goth
- Blind Patriotism / Nationalism
- Blogs
- White Hip Hop (that sounds white)
- Leg Warmers
- MTV (note to future voters: this is a channel, not a trend)
- Really low jeans on chubby chicks / butt cleavage
- Talking loud at concerts
dumbest category on this poll
- Best band you lied to your friends about seeing live
- this one
- most fetishable (put a ball-gag in it)
- Miss Congeniality (obviously you don't care when a band writes you back)
- Band/artist with most detestable audience/fans(stop bitching you obnoxious twit)
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