Mv & Ee (!!!!!!)
 

just caught this duo / aka Matt Valentine & Erika Elder / in concert. totally, utterly great. i realized i'd read about them last month, in the context of their having basically started the free folk scene that Davendra, Joanna et al get all the props for. but they were way further out there. weird dubby blues going into full-on psych jams. MV is hardcore on the guitar, sometimes samples and loops himself and layers it over and over til it's a wall of sound. beautiful. i'm a convert.

peep the record here, along with Thurston Moore props :cool:

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Kid cue, you should check out Charalambides. They're another group that you'd probably dig. The two most recent releases on Kranky, Joy Shapes and A Vintage Burden are probably the best place to start.

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they sound really really interesting. thanks for the rec!!

have you checked out anything else on Kranky?

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weren't the early out hud singles on kranky?

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Kranky is a good label in general. Some things you also might like off the top of my head are Stars Of The Lid, Boduf Songs, Jessica Bailiff, Wendy And Carl, and The Dead Texan. Also the first few Godspeed You Black Emperor records are on Kranky as well as most of the Low albums (they only left the label recently). Outhud's new stuff was was on Kranky. The early stuff was on other labels. Their website has a lot of sound samples and they've got a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting.
http://www.kranky.net

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they are officially releasing a recorded set of their last tour now:

>click<

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awesome. i've actually been a little disappointed with the Green Blues LP. needs more time though.