Name: Cian Traynor
Weblog: www.seewhatyouhear.com
Articles: 29
First Published: Friday, September 2, 2005
Last Published: Monday, February 5, 2007
Currently listing articles 29-1:
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Music Review: Amon Tobin - Foley Room— What was once sharp and menacing has become a frantic, schizophrenic beast that beats its head off the wall in one last act of paranoid
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CD Review: Ryan Adams - 29— ...
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CD Review: The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth— ...
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CD Review: Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die?— A great deal of the album's warmth comes from its melodic enterprising, the soothingly fluent "Anthony" sounding like a cross between Gillian Welsh and Brian
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CD Review: The Howling Hex - You Can't Beat Tomorrow— Despite this distance from what you're hearing, the natural approach manages to work wonders, Hagerty's controlling of all motion with his guitar displaying a mastery
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CD Review: Pellumair - Summer Storm— ...
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CD Review: Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering — ...
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CD Review: Deerhoof - The Runners Four— Quite simply, this is a brilliant, dynamic, and insane listen. Now, one could argue about what band came first and who influenced who 'til the
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CD Review: Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Appendix— Opening on a dark, strangely alluring lullaby sequence, Will Sheff's literary skill traces the steps of a group of children drawn into the woods, cartoonish
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CD Review: Susumu Yokota & Rothko - Distant Sounds of Summer— ...
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CD Review: Broadcast - Tender Buttons— ...
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CD Review: Dr. Dog Easybeat— ...
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Concert Review: Caribou - Crawdaddy, Dublin - 8th October 2005— ...
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Concert Review: Kevin McNamara - The Harbour Bar, Ireland - October 2nd 2005— ...like a Spandex-clad Hungarian weightlifter downing a shot of whiskey and somersaulting onto a horse’s back, shouting “Huy!” with a slap.
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Classic Album: Elliot Smith - Either/Or— ...
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CD Review: Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation - Mighty Rearranger— ...
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CD Review: Sebastien Tellier - Politics— ...
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Live Review: Laura Veirs - Whelans, Dublin - 20th September 2005— Inspired by the content of their next song, "Spelunking," Veirs and the Tortured Souls affixed headlamps to their heads and asked for every light to
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Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow— While there's a lot to be said for preserving an artist's original sound, after four releases to his name, one might say that it's about
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M. Ward - End of Amnesia: Review— It's a sound coming out of the darkness, a scratchy phonograph at the end of its cycle, wound up ...
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Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs: Review— There's often a Narnia-like quality to the settings, and such is the case with "Opposite Day."
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Concert Review: Joanna Newsom - The Sugar Club, Dublin— The shadow of the harp that dominates the stage drops a line of darkness across Joanna Newsom's face.
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Review: Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine— Ry Cooder has a way of preserving the past, an ability to rekindle the soul of a fading legacy in music, immortalising it with the
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Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen - The Point, Dublin— Often is the case with stalwarts of the music industry that, twenty albums down the line, when the grey hair has long since begun to
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Classic Album Review: Amon Tobin - Permutation— This is what jazz would sound like in the fictional underworld of William Burroughs: cut-up, altogether unreal, but simply mesmerising.
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Pixies Live! - Lansdowne Road, Dublin - 23rd August, 2005— Back with a much deserved headline slot, the group now had a more than ample timeframe to perform in, the crowd size was condensed to
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Classic Albums: Neu! - Neu!— The sounds of swishing water begin "I'm Gluck," and soon a droning reverberation (which feels as if it's been there, underlying everything, at the album's
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Eagerly Anticipating Boards of Canada's The Campfire Headphase— It doesn't take long to become familiar with the image of the duo laboriously recording their work, hidden from sight in a bunker while living
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Classic Album: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs— Tthere's a certain dark, mysterious jubilance throughout Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs."
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