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Artist: The Library
Album: The King Of Silverlake
Label: Maggadee
Playtime: 37:31 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://thelibrary411.com/
Rip date: 2011-08-13
Street date: 2011-08-30
Size: 70.71 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 248 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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BrooklynÆs The Library are a pop band (with former members of The Mayflies USA
and The Comas) consisting of guitars, piano, bass, drums, and male vocals with
the occasional fiddle, banjo, or electronics thrown into the mix that
transcends the simplicity of its lineup with graceful little songs, a supple
gauzy tone, and a perfectly languorous pacing that harkens back foremost to
the early 90Æs softer side of the shoegaze phenomenon. Some reference points
can be drawn to bands from that time like Slowdive, Chapterhouse, and Mazzy
Star, but The Library also has a timeless pop quality that borrows and
reinterprets from the mid-60Æs Mersey Beat bands through early 70Æs solo Neil
Young and a somewhat particular melancholy kinship with Big StarÆs 1974 Sister
Lovers album and on through to the mid to late 80Æs dreamy minimalist psych of
Galaxie 500. While the influence of English bands is undoubtedly present,
there is a muscular American rootsy quality underlying what is in essence a
soft, mostly downbeat, loose and dreamy pop band.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Sometimes I Wish ( 2:56)
02. When I Loved You ( 3:03)
03. Starry Eyed Circus Band ( 2:52)
04. The King of Silverlake ( 5:10)
05. Sheila ( 2:41)
06. All About the Big Nothing ( 2:43)
07. 6am Sunset Blvd ( 2:05)
08. Getting Over Getting Older ( 2:43)
09. It's Sunny When You Make Believe ( 2:23)
10. I Still Believe ( 3:08)
11. 6 Days in Madrid ( 4:24)
12. Follow Me Down ( 3:23)
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