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Tindersticks & The Walkabouts - Take Me

Smith Westerns have cleaned up nicely. Just over a year ago, the Chicago foursome were of the strictly "lo-fi" persuasion, stirring up hot, filthy garage-rock candy out of Marc Bolan and Beatles signifiers. It was youthful music in feeling and sound-- their noisy full-length debut was recorded while they were still in high school-- but the remarkable hooks buried therein were clear enough to land them on the increasingly stacked Fat Possum roster. And suddenly, they had a studio budget the likes of which they definitely hadn't enjoyed before. Though the leap is audibly huge, Dye It Blonde's many successes aren't wholly the result of its gilded production values and ambition. This band was able to furnish first-class melodies from the beginning. Now they've grown along with their resources.

You can hear the progress right away in "Imagine, Pt. 3", a song originally released as part of a split 7" in April 2010. Sped up here just a touch, it's also been re-outfitted with a far creamier set of synths and guitars. The way the latter seem to clasp hands during the coda is particularly breathtaking, frontman Cullen Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek letting their individual lines mate rather than duel. While the melodic foundation was already sturdy throughout, here, what once sounded ragged in stretches is now plush-upholstered from start to finish. Every single piece of Dye It Blonde is similarly decadent, whether it's the sweet whine of semi-titular closer "Dye the World" or the twilight jangle of "End of the Night".

In an interview not long after the album's completion, Omori noted that this otherwise new set of songs was influenced by 90s Britpop luminaries like Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, and Suede. All are present sonically and spiritually, be it in brash tones, melodic IQ or the sheer scope of these recordings. Where a Smith Westerns hook may have once sounded like another fuzzy member of the Nuggets family/genus, it now unfolds like crane-shot, mainstage festival fare. "Still New" for example floats some phasered guitar interplay before Kakacek rips a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy line so big it essentially serves as a chorus. Like "Weekend", whose central, hair-flipping lick also hugs all its parts together perfectly, the song just sounds so drunk-- drunk on love, drunk on heavy petting, drunk on drink, or maybe just drunk on a some combination of the above. In song, it all depends on the lean of Omori's voice and the whip of his chord changes, the curves of his brother Cameron's bass lines.

That moony/beery-eyed feel bleeds through every corridor of this album and in turn forms a crystalline expression of what moves this band. Their use of the studio in augmenting that never goes overboard, though: this music still retains the innately psychedelic, lamplit, tongue-kissed sense of atmosphere that set it apart. There's perhaps no better instance of all that than "All Die Young", the album's centerpiece. It's a ballad turned hymn whose grand, tumbling scale and "Oh Yoko"-indebted outro celebration are peaks on an album rich in them. In its closing moments, Omori sings what sounds like, "Love is lovely when you are young." They were convincing before, but now they seem like experts.

— David Bevan, January 18, 2011 [Pitchfork | Best New Music | 8.4]

Fallen In Love

Dance Away

Spreading the sound of my favorite band, DeVotchKa.

Queen Of The Surface Streets 1

Beneath Your Tree

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From Sarah McLachlan's album Laws of Illusion
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Illusions of Bliss

Sarah McLachlan - Illusions Of Bliss

Tindersticks - Until the morning comes

Enjoy the first track from Sarah McLachlan's new album, <i>Laws Of Illusion</i> titled "Awakenings."

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Awakenings

Sarah McLachlan - Awakenings

Frozen, From 'The Something Rain', out now on City Slang

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Tindersticks - Frozen

Tracks from the limited edition vinyls out on Record Store Day, April 21st. 

Tindersticks - Medicine (Extended)

She's my oblivion - it's to her I run 
Out on the balcony - she waits for me 
Out on the boundary - she smiles 

She's my oblivion 
Which way to turn? 
The edges of our love are in the stars 
And on the balcony 
She waits for me 
Out on the boundary 
She smiles 

Make this alive 
Good days are back 
Open your eyes when it falls 
Come back to the air 

I can't tell you what you already know 
I can't make you feel what you already feel 
I can't show you what's in front of you 
I can't heal those scars 

She's my oblivion 
And my skin burns 
Her hands all over me 
She whispers: 
Ã¢Â€ÂœThe edges of our love are in the starsÃ¢Â€Â (choir) 

Good days are alive 
Good days are back 
Open your eyes when it falls 
Come back to the air 

So look down to the street below 
Don't look up to the stars above 
You look around 
See what's in front of you 
Don't look down, don't look down 

Can you see the light? 
It shines onto us tonight 
Can you see the light? 
It's all around you

Tindersticks - My Oblivion

Devotchka - Till the end of time

tindersticks - Frozen

Tindersticks - The Organist Entertains

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Chocolate

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Tindersticks - Harmony Around My Table

Jennifer Evans - Sure Fire

She Rode Me Down - Tindersticks

All the Sand In All the Sea (Live with the Colorado Symphony)

"3am Spiritual" from the forthcoming Smith Westerns album 'Soft Will' out June 25th on Mom+Pop (in Europe on June 24 via Co-Op).

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3am Spiritual

"Idol" from the forthcoming Smith Westerns album 'Soft Will' out June 25th on Mom+Pop (in Europe on June 24 via Co-Op).

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Idol

Remix from Medicine, from The Something Rain album.
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Tindersticks - Harmony Around My Table

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