Circulatory System - Circulatory System (2001)

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Hello, I am Pugeye and I did not make a write up.
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Polvo - In Prism (2009)

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One of the more unlikely reunions of the decade came at the end of it with Chapel Hill, NC's guitar bashers Polvo. Their twisting masterpiece, Today's Active Lifestyles, released in '93, is the album to hear for to convince the stubborn music listeners of the world who decry the '90s. Guitarists/singers Ash Bowie and David Brylawski have an awesome, near-Sonic Youth guitar interplay style, but with a hearty dose of Eastern influence. Bassist Steve Popson grooves and dovetails along with the guitars very nicely and keeps them from going over the edge at times.

After being split up for 12 years, the band returned and released In Prism, a slowed down masterwork from the guys. It alternates gorgeous songs like "D.C. Trails" (my pick for the best track; the ending guitar passage is nearly equal to the Clapton's solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"), "City Birds" (there's that Eastern influence), and "A Link in the Chain" (a near-nine minute epic that ends the album on an uplifting note) to the hard rocking opener "Right the Relation." The latter tune features some incredible drum fills from new drummer Brian Quast (the ending passage especially). The first single from the album, "Beggar's Bowl," is also particularly rockin', and has a catchy main riff. "Lucía," is the other epic of the album and has another undeniable melody. "Dream Residue/Work" begins with a hip hop-ish beat, and "The Pedlar" boasts a mighty bass performance from Popson.

The incredibly creative (yet still very listenable) nature of this album, this band, is staggering. Hear them today to hear the sounds that most guitarists never dream of making. - Trent

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Subtle - For Hero: For Fool (2006)

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While Subtle's sound tends to be rooted in hip hop, their first album, A New White, was mostly mellow, abstract, ambient and seems to show a lot of the same influences as Kid Amnesiac era Radiohead (without actually sounding like Radiohead) as well as lots of other influences like the Notwist. The one I'm sharing, however, was recorded after the band was in a tour bus accident which left one of their members a quadriplegic. The stress of the whole ordeal resulted in the album being incredibly heavy, dense (musically and lyrically), anxious, and the whole thing comes across as one of those rare albums where the band HAD to make it or their brains would've exploded. The music is filled with everything from IDM-esque electronics, pretty cello driven passages (courtesy of their full time cello player), spacey post-rock and lots of other genres manage to creep their way into their sound at one time or another. It constantly jumps freely from one style to another and their frontman's flow changes drastically throughout to match, which has made a number of people that are familiar with it draw comparisons to Mr. Bungle or other various Mike Patton projects. Because it's so dense, it tends to take a few listens to really get into and every listen reveals something new and awesome. - Nieh

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Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (2006)

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"Trust us when we say that countless otherwise sage people have sacrificed years of their lives trying to accurately summarize the music of Kayo Dot." - Time Out New York

"But if you like your violence framed by surreal mumbojumbo, you may find them awe-awakening; the slow sections are suspenseful, and the climaxes will make your hair jump off your head." - Pitchfork

"It's classical for scenster indie kids majoring in art and clueless about classical music, post-rock for metalheads clueless about post-rock, and just plain stale pointless random noise that stalls and stalls from doing anything remotely interesting for anyone without their heads up their asses." - Metal-Archives

"Amaranth the Peddler. seriously, what the fuck? I don't care how many drugs, or how 'arty' you think you are, that's a fucking GAY title" - Metal-Archives

Kayo Dot are the most terrifying band on the planet. If doom metal bands evoke visions of Gamera, the giant tortoise of destruction, Kayo Dot are the musical Cthulhu. A creature so grotesque, unholy, inexplicable and nightmarish it can only be regarded as an abomination.

I chose Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue because no other album this decade made me say "OK, I give up. What the fuck are they DOING?" quite so many times. With their first album, Choirs of the Eye(2003), you could at least follow along and go "This sounds like post-rock. Now here's a prog section. Then this part is totally metal!" No such luck here. All aspects of their sound - Toby Driver's mental-patient vocals, Mia Matsumiya's tweaking viola, other instruments, whatever the fuck they do - merge into a distinct whole that moves and warps from hushed weirdness to apocalyptic crescendos.

But that makes them sound conventional. Even when they get loud, the effect is strangely anti-cathartic - some would say anticlimactic. To think of this music as a series of dramatic buildups is missing the point. The real power of this band, and the element that gives this album nearly infinite replay value, is how uncompromising these compositions remain, long after the shock value of soft-to-loud climaxes and punishing noise assaults (the coda of "___ On Limpid Form" is 13-and-a-half minutes of your life you will never get back) wears off. This band does not give a fuck about your need for "melody" or discernible structure. That they have any fanbase at all (and they surely fucking do) is testament to the paucity of truly groundbreaking musicians this decade. People still want something new, despite that everything that got any amount of "hype" from the critics this decade was a rehash of a throwback.

But Kayo Dot go beyond "new" and really seem to occupy a space of their own. People will front and say this shit reminds them of Jeff Buckley or King Crimson or Neurosis or whatever, but for me the only thing that even comes close to creating this mood or atmosphere is maudlin of the Well, Toby Driver's old band (whose guitarist went to college with Jeremy Olson, so bonus extra Babble connection!). But even that band could be safely pigeonholed into the "avant-metal" category and subsequently ignored. Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue is the album where Driver found an escape route from shallow comparisons and guided his band into complete unique artistic territory. And that's why I've chosen it as my Favorite album of the decade. - A.H.

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Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Solid State Warrior/ The Land of Pure Imagination (2006)

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You may not have heard of Roger Joseph Manning Jr. before, but you've certainly heard him before. He's played the session man role (usually keyboards & vocals) with artists as diverse as Air, Beck, Cheap Trick, Green Day, Redd Kross, Mars Volta, Jason Faulkner, Sheryl Crow, Bleu, Ringo Starr, Brian Reitzell and tons more. But he's no slouch when it comes to more upfront roles either, he's been a primary collaborator in the bands Moog Cookbook, Imperial Drag, TV Eyes, and (my personal favorite) Jellyfish.
Anyway, after much clamoring from Jellyfish fans Manning finally put out a solo album in 2006. Much of the Jellyfish sound is here yet he somehow made it even more poppy. Listening to this record is like having a thousand rainbow coloured candy canes shoved down your ears, and then chasing them with happy pills while playing with adorable puppies. And as much as Manning tries to vary the mood, which he does often, he can't get rid of the deliriously cheery mood that this album creates. Plus he's got the voice of a 14 year old choir boy and it lacks any grit whatsoever. So if you're one of those people who doesn't like happy music this probably isn't the album for you.
But if you are, you're in for a treat! Manning knows his way around songwriting and he takes great effort to keep things interesting; creative intros and outros, multi-part choruses, multiple bridges. Of course, the downside to that is that many of the songs run a bit long, but each song has several solid hooks so it's hard to get too upset with that. He's also a keyboard whiz and 80% of the non-guitar instruments on the album are all his keyboards, even the bass and drums. But for the most part, (with the exception of some of the synth-strings) you'd never even realize it.
This album was released twice, first titled Solid State Warrior, and then as The Land of Pure Imagination. The two versions have different tracklistings, but I've combined them so you can hear all 14 tracks instead of the 11 that the CD versions have (so if you think this album runs a bit long, blame me not Roger). - Ken
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