Mobilia :: Carry the Zeros

20. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (Enemieslist - 2008)
As a whole it is intelligent, a great mosaic, above all, a mild lo-fi masterpiece.




19. David Holmes - Bow Down To The Exit Sign (1500 - 2000)

Funk, dub, soul, psychedelia and glamorous guests who put the seal to their third drive of the elegant Irish, who made a break from the real or imaginary soundtracks and submits an excellent sample of his enormous capabilities.

Was the first and best evidence lodged on their ability to renew the post punk and turn our attention to the bands that  enlightened them but we had forgotten.

Was the first acquaintance with them the first time that a seemingly retro sound would look so clearly at the future, showing the way that  any New Order of this world should  follow, so as not to become boring.

The "23" is a very comprehensive album, exciting and alluring without a mediocre song at 43 minutes of it. And compared with the previous "Misery Is A Butterfly", the sound here is generally brighter, the rates have gone up and the band continues its path towards perfecting the art-pop style, which began to knit with the "Melody Of A Certain Damaged Lemons " and on.

Child naivety and carelessness of "Music Has The Right To Children" gave way to adolescence and the doubt it brings, the climate here is a darker, less baby cries, the result nevertheless still high.

Great blues, all dressed in local strings and wind instruments of Mali. Inconceivable complex combines comfort with seemingly diverse species, joining the amazing West African tradition with African-American blues, also enhance the affinity of the two musical traditions, was the greatest contribution to us.

A comprehensive set of psychedelics elegies traveling from tribal ritual in experimental electronica and carefree and glamorous as Beach Boys pop. Sometimes ominous, sometimes celebratory, but always irresistible.

The All Hour Cymbals is full of multi-vocal chants and sounds that create an attractive atmosphere, sonic experimentation with a gospel choir in installments synths, traditional percussion, bongos, sitars, accordion, guitars and more, knitting a colorful musical canvas and also succeeded to connect the future with the traditional ritual, creating a heady and unusual mix. Yeasayer's music is so brilliant and extensive that it is almost impossible to describe without reference to parallel paths, so,  Beach Boys, The Beta Band, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac gives us a strong position.

 Long term charm and deliberately sluggish flow, the brightness of the concrete is still in distinctive and elusive of points and requires so our commitment, but not to scare anyone in the end it compensates you generously and reveals the magnificence of the stimulant.

Brilliant but not opinionated, fussy but conventionally, they wrote the most pop anthems of the decade.




08. The Strokes - Is This It (RCA - 2001)

With its trademark its melancholy and timid voice, they  distinguished because they mingled with mastery the acoustic instruments and electronic rhythms without the latter to be heard as a firework or as a fancy trick, but focused on it as though it were the main ingredient, which gave them the rightful leadership in modern electronic music.

The reflection of London-night, a hazy patchwork glower sounds, breaking voice and compelling beats, an evocative sound of a haunted town.

Raw, spontaneous and ignoring the more or less expected hype, the Elephant finds the duo at its best. The sound is old-fashioned but not exceeding the limits and manages to remain temporal .

The Persistent Repetition Of Phrases, a work where the sophistication dull is colored by sadness and loss at some points is literally shocking, with clear allocation to blow over in time with songs that sound like music boxes that are heard in the storm, the keys are almost always faded, masterpiece .

Nothing there is excessive in this kingdom of minimal, Axel Willner achieves the ultimate coupling of stylistic and artistic, is up to more complex compositions in a simplistic manner. Just magnificent .

In Merriweather Post Pavilion, the three "animal" look more compact and sharp as ever, having reconcile their individual impulses, bypassing all the indie / post-rock labels attached to them over the years and managed to merge all previous incarnations and styles that we were being offered, creating a modern pop psychedelic masterpiece unparalleled irresistible and perfect construction. The album releases flood indelible sounds and debilitating emotions, with the lust and the contagious energy as vehicle, thoroughness of ideas, overlapping vocal harmonies and multi-level  structures of the compositions.

The Rounds is less serene than the earlier work of ingenious Londoner, but the meticulous technique and experimentation in conjunction with a taste for beautiful complex melodies  riveted me more than anything heard in the decade that ends.