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site: http://ropeswingcities.com release: http://ropeswingcities.com/?p=110 podcast: http://ropeswingcities.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=5 .zip file: http://ropeswingcities.com/releases/quiet/dear_chechnya-these_cold_hands_this_quiet_sea(rsc024).zip Dear Chechnya debuts on Rope Swing Cities with a beautifully haunting album of seasonally appropriate music, These Cold Hands, This Quiet Sea. Why is it so appropriate to this time of year? Because it's becoming cold and gray more and more often, everything is dying, the world: it's depressing. The music of Dear Chechnya is dark… it's dark and discomforting… it's dark, discomforting and moving. On tracks such as "Flourescent Adolescence", the juxtaposition of voice recordings providing the context for the focus of slowly building ambience mixed with guitar and drum displays itself wonderfully. Crescendoing in an emotive dirge evoking feelings of disoriented heart break, the song plays out an entire life's story in only seven minutes. This is the overall theme of much of Dear Chechnya's These Cold Hands, This Quiet Sea: simple stories of soul sadness. Despite the overlying malaise that crowns most of the music, this is in fact an incredibly peaceful and touching album. Beautiful melodies, fading into rising and falling washes of sound form a landscape for thoughtful contemplation of whatever has been haunting your mind lately (There's something, there is always something, i mean, it's like you're washing dishes, and before you can finish, there are more dishes to wash, and it's just this continual cycle of almost feeling like you made it, just to be pushed down out of reach again. But that's fine, you'll persevere. Work hard and hang in there and stuff.). -- joshua. bad weather friend. http://ropeswingcities.com http://communikey.us http://ropeswingcities.com/josh23 http://ropeswingcities.com/gg http://www.spacepiratemusic.com

Isn't this also a track title by Arctic Monkey? Something different? Co-incidence? or a cover? I * On 20 Nov 2007 at 10:13, joshua. wrote:

quoted 3 lines The music of Dear Chechnya is dark¦ it's dark and discomforting¦ it's

> The music of Dear Chechnya is dark¦ it's dark and discomforting¦ it's > dark, discomforting and moving. On tracks such as "Flourescent > Adolescence",

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I hope it's coincidence. it's definitely not a cover. the track is actually a few years old... so i dunno, i've never listened to arctic monkey... the name alone. i just can't do it. joshua. On Nov 20, 2007 10:44 AM, Irene McC <substar@telkomsa.net> wrote:

quoted 20 lines Isn't this also a track title by Arctic Monkey?

> Isn't this also a track title by Arctic Monkey? > Something different? Co-incidence? or a cover? > > I > * > > > On 20 Nov 2007 at 10:13, joshua. wrote: > > > The music of Dear Chechnya is dark¦ it's dark and discomforting¦ it's > > dark, discomforting and moving. On tracks such as "Flourescent > > Adolescence", > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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On 20 Nov 2007 at 10:46, joshua. wrote:

quoted 3 lines I hope it's coincidence. it's definitely not a cover. the track is

> I hope it's coincidence. it's definitely not a cover. the track is > actually a few years old... so i dunno, i've never listened to arctic > monkey... the name alone. i just can't do it.

Heh :-) It's not me... it's my teenage daughter. I've just Googled it and here's the blurb (released in July this year) Does the story line fit your version? Maybe they covered it? I can't see any reference to author/composer credits.

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Arctic Monkeys Fluorescent Adolescent Single Review A witty, incandescent and entirely ingenious perspective of adolescence, Arctic Monkeys, as always, give observations of modern working-class life in Britain, as they see it. Taking a left-off last laugh lane, the Monkeys continue to release consistently brilliant tracks and trust me you're not the only one that's baffled about how they do it. They appear to be immune to writer's block but their secret is actually quite simple. Instead of thinking big and epic like other rock prats (not pointing any elbows Alex Kapranos), the Monkeys prefer to sit back, relax and take a look at their surroundings for inspiration. They, as a result, end up writing realistic rock tunes that, importantly, everyone can identify with and understand. In their latest offering the Sheffield lads explore life as a teenager in present day Britain. Looking at peer pressure, casual sex, debauchery and what not; and they don't mince their words either. 9/10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

if it's from this year, the dear chechnya song was made at least two years ago, i am pretty sure. and it is about a woman who drowns her children in the bathtub... hehe. :) ...... i guess that's not actually funny. awkward! joshua. On Nov 20, 2007 11:11 AM, Irene McC <substar@telkomsa.net> wrote:

quoted 53 lines On 20 Nov 2007 at 10:46, joshua. wrote:

> On 20 Nov 2007 at 10:46, joshua. wrote: > > > I hope it's coincidence. it's definitely not a cover. the track is > > actually a few years old... so i dunno, i've never listened to arctic > > monkey... the name alone. i just can't do it. > > Heh :-) It's not me... it's my teenage daughter. > > I've just Googled it and here's the blurb (released in July this year) > Does the story line fit your version? Maybe they covered it? I can't see > any > reference to author/composer credits. > > >>> > > Arctic Monkeys > Fluorescent Adolescent > Single Review > > A witty, incandescent and entirely ingenious perspective of adolescence, > Arctic Monkeys, as always, give observations of modern working-class life > in > Britain, as they see it. > > Taking a left-off last laugh lane, the Monkeys continue to release > consistently > brilliant tracks and trust me you're not the only one that's baffled about > how > they do it. They appear to be immune to writer's block but their secret is > actually quite simple. Instead of thinking big and epic like other rock > prats > (not pointing any elbows Alex Kapranos), the Monkeys prefer to sit back, > relax and take a look at their surroundings for inspiration. They, as a > result, > end up writing realistic rock tunes that, importantly, everyone can > identify > with and understand. > > In their latest offering the Sheffield lads explore life as a teenager in > present > day Britain. Looking at peer pressure, casual sex, debauchery and what > not; > and they don't mince their words either. > > 9/10 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw Decent video. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

i kinda liked the song, too. is that bad? i can't tell what it's ok to like anymore, everything has become so confusing. On Nov 20, 2007 12:29 PM, Andrew Hime <andrewhime@verizon.net> wrote:

quoted 4 lines > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma9I9VBKPiw > > Decent video. >

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