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New The Avett Brothers music video

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I love it. I also listened to old The Avett Brothers albums (Emotionalism, Mignonette and Four Thieves Gone) in the car today and was thinking that if I needed to make a list of top 10 albums of the decade right now, it would probably contain four The Avett Brothers albums. That’s how badly I’m addicted to them. I think Emotionalism would take the top spot on that list though and I and Love and You would have to settle for the album of the year award…

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Stream I and Love and You at npr.org

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The Avett Brothers album I and Love and You is already out as a vinyl. CD and Digital download will follow on 29.09.09. However, you can now stream the whole album at npr.org in case you don’t have a record player or don’t want to wait for a week. I think the album is just marvellous and I don’t mind that it’s very piano-driven. Surely I would also like to hear more of that bluegrass side of the band, but this new material is equally stunning. Easily my favourite album of the year and yet I still feel that The Avett Brothers might be able to make even a greater album than I and Love and You. Nevertheless, you can expect one of those way-too-emotional five heart reviews in a few weeks time.

The Avett Brothers album at npr.org

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The Blackeyed Susans Box Set

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Räkärodeo mailing list provided some great news yesterday. Australian The Blackeyed Susans is about to release a box set in late october. It looks like it will be two dics of their greatest songs, one disc of rarities and a DVD. A must have box set even though I have most of the albums (I dont’ have Shangri-La, missed it when it came out and soon after that the prices in places like amazon have been ridicilous). It’s a really amazing band like fellow Räkärodeo listeners all know. If there ever was a contest of who has the greatest voice on the planet, Rob Snarski wouldn’t need to go through the qualifying stages. The organizing panel would give him a guaranteed place in the final before the whole thing would have even started.

 
The Blackeyed Susans on Australian Music Week after the release of Mouth To Mouth (1995)
 
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The Blackeyed Susans Website
The Blackeyed Susans at myspace

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The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You

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The album of the year 2009 was released today on vinyl (CD / Digital / Deluxe box set will be released 29.9.2009). I bought my copy from 8raita record store today and I’m already completely in love with the new album. It’s just as stunning as I expected. It’s the first one on a major label, so obviously there were minor worries, but the band and producer Rick Rubin have done an excellent job. It just sounds brilliant and it’s not overproduced or overpolished. It’s The Avett Brothers. The greatest band in the world at the moment. A full review will follow later, but you already know the thrill. This is worth all the hearts in the world and if anything extraordinary doesn’t happen it will be my album of the year, if not the album of the decade.

The Avett Brothers Website
The Avett Brothers at myspace

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