March 2008 eMusic Downloads
- The Mountain Goats — Tallahassee (14 Tracks)
- From sleepy folk to caffeinated acoustic guitar flailing, some of these songs sound like they could easily be transformed into children’s songs. Others, not so much.
- The Twilight Singers — Blackberry Belle (11 Tracks)
- Formed by Greg Dulli from Afghan Whigs, the first impression I got from this album was that it was a bit overdone. If you could peel back a few layers of instrumentation, it’d probably work better for me. Or maybe it works better live. See for yourself on this version of “Teenage Wristband”.
- The New Pornographers — Twin Cinema (14 Tracks)
- This is an album I’ve had in my “Save for Later” queue since I opened my account, which will teach me for waiting so long. Going in, the only song I knew of theirs was “Electric Version”, as I had played it in Rock Band. Here’s “Sing Me Spanish Techno”.
- Life of Agony — Love To Let You Down (Live) (1 Track)
- After all of that, I had one track left, so I grabbed a live version of a song from LOA’s most recent album. Next to Quicksand, they’re the band I’ve probably seen live more than any other. Here’s the video for the studio version.
I think I’ve decided that this year will be my last as an eMusic member. I’m still grandfathered in on the 40 downloads a month plan, and could stay that way if I continue, but I don’t know that that’s enough. There are just too many holes in the new releases for the bands I want to listen to.
My subscription ends in November, so the decision to make now is what to do with the downloads I get from now until then. Go crazy experimental and download stuff I would typically never would listen to? Fill in the huge holes in my Frank Black and Fugazi back-catalog?
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