The Men - New Moon - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2014 from the Indie Rock band. By the end of winter last year, the Men had pared a huge crop of demoed songs down to 13. With their plans to take a break foiled by their own work ethic, they decided to record those songs before their 2013 album NEW MOON came out. They booked two days at Brooklyns Strange Weather studios, clocked in, and tracked all 13 songs entirely live, even including a horn section. Eight songs from those sessions made the final cut for TOMORROWS HITS. This is their first album recorded in a high-end studio and, appropriately, the result is their most high fidelity album to date. That being said, it is still an incredibly straightforward record. TOMORROWS HITS is a concise collection of songs that nonetheless expands the band's ever-evolving musical palette. It's full of genre-bending risks, but it reinforces the overarching theme that has come to define it's makers The Men are a great Rock band. Album Tracks 1. Dark Waltz (5 15) 2. Get What You Give (3 22) 3. Another Night (5 30) 4. Different Days (4 33) 5. Sleepless (3 13) 6. Pearly Gates (6 19) 7. Settle Me Down (4 59) 8. Going Down (3 43)

Bach's sacred music written before he went to Leipzig, including all the works from the Weimar period, are often lumped together as InchearlyInch cantatas. This is misleading and ultimately inaccurate, since Bach was already 38 years old when he moved from his post as Kapellmeister at Köthen in 1723 to take up his duties as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. In fact most of Bach's church cantatas date from the Leipzig years, as does the consolidation of the stylistic, structural and technical features of his vocal works, but even the repertoire composed before 1714 can hardly be termed InchearlyInch. The works composed at Mühlhausen, demonstrating a striking sureness of touch in their conception, placed the 22-year-old among the finest contemporary cantata composers. Bach's earliest church cantatas are still clearly marked by 17th-century traditions. As well as the influences of older members of the Bach family, those of Buxtehude and Pachelbel the Elder, and Italian and French masters are evident, technically, structurally and stylistically. A particularly characteristic feature of the pre-Leipzig cantatas is Bach's exceptional delight in experimental and complex handling of an extremely wide range of instruments, with refined sound effects (such as the use of the bassoon) and poly- and homophonic settings and forms.

2010 from the Portland, OR art-rock trio. Menomena is among the leaders of the new school of indie rock musically complex, melodically and lyrically riveting, and unlike anything that has come before. Their breakthrough album Friend & Foe epitomized the artistry required to balance a modern band's storm of ideas, and it was anointed Best New Music by indie tastemaker Pitchfork, whose review of that record said, 'music this full of ideas, sections and material can come across as overstuffed, but this feels just right almost everywhere.' Album Tracks 1. Queen Black Acid 2. Taos 3. Killemall 4. Dirty Cartoons 5. Tithe 6. Bote 7. Lunchmeat 8. Oh Pretty Boy, You're Such a Big Boy 9. Five Little Rooms 10. Sleeping Beauty 11. Intil