[Video] The Selmanaires: “Authenlectricity”
The Selmanaires just released a couple of new tracks on their blog. They even created a video for the lead single, so here it is, plus audio of the other track. Then be sure to go to their blog and download the whole package:
The Selmanaires : “WindTruStar”
- Posted by Davy Minor on November 18, 2010 at 5:07 pm
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[Video] The Selmanaires: “B. Spell”
- Posted by Davy Minor on September 3, 2010 at 2:46 pm
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[Videos] The Selmanaires, Sealions @ The Earl (8/1/10)
The Selmanaires:
Sealions:
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 2, 2010 at 1:27 am
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[Mp3] The Selmanaires: “Through Now Adrift”
The Selmanaires just released a free digital EP, called An Animated Shadow, on their blog. Here’s what they have to say about it:
AN ANIMATED SHADOW contains three songs recorded in our ramshackle home studio. REVE is an experiment with synthesized voices, Russian syllables & space harmonies. THROUGH NOW ADRIFT is a breath, a mist. TOOF is an accidentally supreme beat. A free download for you!
The EP is experimental stuff for these guys, and the more they break in that direction, the more they are becoming one of my local faves. I really dig this ambient track:
The Selmanaires : “Through Now Adrift”
Download An Animated Shadow free
- Posted by Davy Minor on July 10, 2010 at 7:16 pm
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[Mp3] The Selmanaires: “Sinister Season”
After wasting their sophomore effort on chasing down local trends and trying to ride the wave of Atlanta acts blowing up, The Selmanaires bounced back last year by taking things in a direction more true to their own artistic vision and creating a great record in Tempo Temporal. The newest song from them, “Sinister Season”, is a tasty chill-jam that demonstrates they are still on the right track, choosing to do their own thing rather than falling prey to the stranglehold influence of the garage-garbage-punk scene. Look for a 7″ later this year on the rapidly ascending Double Phantom. Also, they play The Earl Thursday night with Carnivores and Adron. Oh, and they have a blog.
The Selmanaires : “Sinister Season”
- Posted by Davy Minor on May 30, 2010 at 3:43 pm
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Ohmpark’s Top 20 Atlanta Albums Of 2009
Most of the time in this city, bands rise and fall based on who they know and how exciting they are live. But for this list, I’ve considered only what is contained on their recordings. Over the course of the year I’ve given roughly 75 records from inside the perimeter a spin, and these are the essential twenty that I recommend listening to most. There are actually many records that I really liked that just missed the cut, so this was very tough to piece together, especially the final spots.
Looking at this list and comparing it back to my favourite local stuff over the two years before, it’s apparent that music in this city just keeps getting better. Atlanta’s independent music scene is running deeper than ever both in terms of quality and quantity of music being produced. Outside of Brooklyn, you’d need quite a compelling argument to convince me anywhere else in America has a better scene right now. Promising young bands keep popping up out of nowhere, and the veterans keep delivering the goods. It sure makes my job here a lot easier to have so much great music to blog about.
On a technical note, anything that has been released over the holidays I’m grouping in with my 2010 lists, and so a couple of albums on this list were released over the holidays last year. Take a gander:
20. Noot d’ Noot: Cash For Gold
19. Harken The Hands Askew: Thou
18. Slushco: Sometime Tonight
17. Sound On Film: The Eloquent Reginald
16. Thy Mighty Contract: Thy Mighty Contract
15. Club Awesome: Dynamos
14. Jungol: Places
13. Lee Harvey Oswald: Lee Harvey Oswald
12. The Selmanaires: Tempo Temporal
11. Tealights: Take Us By Sea
10. Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
9. Slushco: The Silver Surface Demos
8. The Orphins: Wish You Well
7. Mastodon: Crack The Skye
6. Lotus Plaza: Floodlight Collective
5. From Exile: Monolith
4. Nomen Novum: Paradises
3. Untied States: Instant Everything, Constant Nothing
2. Atlas Sound: Logos
1. Nomen Novum: November
In the Atlanta music scene, 2009 was the year of Nomen Novum. While most musicians take a whole year to scrap together enough decent songs to fill a good EP, the prolific Nomen Novum were able to drop two virtually perfect full-lengths, plus a great live EP, and they’re already posting new stuff to their myspace.
Although, all five records at the top of my list were legitimate contenders for Atlanta album of the year, and I would have probably been content with any ordering between them. The other 3 records to round out my top 5 each happened to be crafted over about 2 years, and the extra time and care in putting them together just right payed off. A big mistake I notice younger bands make is trying to push out a record too quickly on some arbitrary time scale and in the end get stuck with something that is less than what they are capable of producing. Atlas Sound, Untied States, and From Exile all spent more time than they probably wanted to on their respective albums, but the extra effort was well worth it in the end.
Looking back over this list after I finished it, I noticed that it is almost entirely dominated by veterans of the scene, and mostly by artists I was already familiar with before starting this blog. There is only one true first recording from its respective musicians to make the list. If I were to make a “Best Atlanta Artists of the Decade” shortlist, most of those artists would have an album included on this list, so I feel like it is a good snapshot of not just where the scene is at today, but where it has been heading for the latter part of the ’00s. There is so much diversity in sound and so much talent in this city, and if you have any interest at all in Atlanta’s music scene, don’t let anything on this list slip by you, because all twenty are well worth giving a listen.
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 13, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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Videos: Atlas Sound, The Selmanaires @ The Earl (10/15/09)
I’ve still yet to replace the video camera I smashed on tour this summer, but luckily some other folks have been taping local shows. I just stumbled across hundreds of great concert videos on youtube from ifilmbands, There is a multitude of cool stuff posted, like the recent show from The Meat Puppets & Dead Confederate and a ton of Deerhunter related stuff including Lotus Plaza and Atlas Sound solo. But since I have been listening to the new respective records from Atlas Sound and The Selmanaires a whole lot lately, I decided to post some videos from their show last month at The Earl before heading out on tour together. Check these out, and then go dig through to find some really neat stuff:
The Selmanaires:
Atlas Sound:
- Posted by Davy Minor on November 17, 2009 at 3:34 am
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Live Show: The Selmanaires @ The Earl (10/15/09)
Photo: The Selmanaires @ The 40 Watt (1/27/07)
The Selmanaires
October 15, 2009
The EARL, Atlanta GA
Recorded by Brandon
Setlist:
01 – White Chrysanthemum
02 – Deep Sleep (B-52′s Cover)
03 – Vacant Land
04 – Resonance Alright
05 – (new song with Adron)
06 – Princess Illusionist Frankenstein
Download Lossless Torrent Here (Broadcast show from that same night also included with torrent)
- Posted by Davy Minor on October 19, 2009 at 1:18 am
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An Atlanta Mp3 Trilogy: The Selmanaires, Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun, Snowden
There is an unreal amount of good music coming out Atlanta just this month, and here’s a tiny fraction of it:
The Selmanaires
Photo by Biluxi
Seemingly out of nowhere, The Selmanaires just dropped their newest album, a 6 song, 30 minute EP called Tempo Temporal. You can find plenty of info on it at their blog. In the past I generally found about 25% of The Selmanaires stuff brilliant, and the other 75% not very enjoyable, but after just one listen I’m loving everything about this newest effort. I had heard rumours that the new stuff was something of a departure, and they have definitely veered in a much more palatable direction for me. The new record will be available on their upcoming tour that begins at The Earl this Thursday with Atlas Sound and Broadcast, but they are streaming the entire thing on their myspace and I highly recommend giving it a listen. Here’s the single they released that features guest vocals from Adron:
The Selmanaires : Resonance Alright
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun
This weekend the great band with the long name will be dropping their 3rd album. It is yet another EP, containing 5 new songs along with a few old favourites remixed. It is titled Heavyweight Champions, and will be available at their release show this Saturday night at the Drunken Unicorn. Fans of TTMTTS will find this new release as enjoyable as their previous work, but there is an energy and magic this band possesses live that they have still yet to fully capture in the studio. I love the remixes, but the original section seems to lack a bit of momentum at times. It might be more a matter of preference for me than quality though, and overall it’s still well worth checking out. They will be posting new songs all week on their myspace page, but here is my favourite from it:
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun : Bones
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun myspace
Snowden
While we continue to anxiously await the follow up to 2006′s Anti Anti, Snowden has given us a little something to hold us over for now. They recently contributed a cover to a tribute album for Bauhaus offshoot Love & Rockets. The compilation features contributions from the likes of Black Francis and A Place To Bury Strangers along with many others. Here is their take on “No Words No More”:
Snowden : No Words No More (Love & Rockets cover)
Buy New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets
- Posted by Davy Minor on October 13, 2009 at 3:25 am
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Photos: The Other Sound Festival 2009: Selmanaires, Book Of Colors, A Fight To The Death, Grand Prize Winners, Club Awesome, Falcon Lords, Untied States, Author’s Apology, Los Buenos @ Star Bar
Los Buenos:
Author’s Apology:
Untied States:
Falcon Lords:
Click here to read the entire post…
- Posted by Kevin Griggs on September 27, 2009 at 4:13 am
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Friday Free-Style
My number one favourite musician, Jim O’Rourke, has a new album coming out this year! He is also reissuing some old stuff. We will celebrate with some Videos:
Interview:
Performing “Not Sport, Martial Art” & “Fuzzy Sun”: Click here to read the entire post…
- Posted by Davy Minor on February 1, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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