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(01/13/14 5:28pm)
Released: 12/01/2013
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With only a cello, a Wurlitzer electronic organ, and a drum set, You Are Plural creates a lush and full sound that doesn’t seem like it could come from only three people. Rabbit Rabbit, released earlier this December, is the first full length album You Are Plural released under Brick Lane Records and Side With Us Records. Edging up on an almost Sufjan Stevens feel, You Are Plural lulls sweet relaxation with the soft pull of the cello bow throughout. Jen Grady’s enchanting voice intertwines with Ephriam Nagler’s in harmonies that are occasionally matched by the echoing synthesizer.
Beginning as bubbling indie pop “The Best is Yet to Come” has an urgency to it that only builds the excitement as the synthesizers get into full swing, and it is true the best is yet to come. Up next is the album’s name sake and one of the take away memorable songs, “Rabbit Rabbit” is the most upbeat song on this album. Quirky and light it sings about being “In the hole” and being “raised in the shadows of the forest at night.” You Are Plural has a rhythm emphasis coming from all angles, with cello and synth adding to the building rhythms throughout. It seems almost as if no instrument has one standing role, with vocal melodies occasionally taken over by the electronic organ and vocals giving an almost percussion input. They are breaking out of a box. As Rabbit Rabbit progresses, it slowly turns to night growing into a colder and darker winter evening climaxing finally in “We Are Cold Inside” -- a cello focused intensity that Grady’s vocals softly curve around until is fades into "For Years."
The Best is Yet to come
Rabbit Rabbit
If You Know Me
Cut Along the Line
The River is Forming Skin
Undefined
We Are Cold Inside
For Years
Formed in 2010 when Nagler and Grady met on a tour bus crossing the French countryside, You Are Plural eventually settled down for a while to focus on recording in Olympia, WA. But You Are Plural has not stopped their travels, having toured with the likes of Mt St Helens Vietnam Band, Lake, and Typhoon. Although the lulling of Rabbit Rabbit is soft and sweet, the need to wake up becomes more necessary. Recorded and mixed by the multi-talented Ephriam Nagler, Rabbit Rabbit has many soft edged gems sprinkled in and amongst its drum beats waiting to be uncovered.
(01/07/14 3:15pm)
Similar to many college students returning home for winter break, I have once again succumbed to the ever addicting internet binge of Netflix. This plague, which will hold you captive until the wee hours of the night, has seemed to turn once again to an old favourite of mine, Gossip Girl. Say what you will about the plot, the morals the show or who you think Blair and Serena should have ended up with at the end – there is one thing you can’t contest: Gossip Girl has a phenomenal sound track.
Really, it does.
Gossip Girl was on the indie scene before I even know there was an indie scene to be on. Soundtracks are just one more way for shows to add nuance, highlighting exactly what they want to been taken away by the eager audience. Gossip Girl was hip, edgy and often times more than a little risqué – the sound track is too. Since revisiting the show, I've become reacquainted with some of the great tunes they introduced me to in the first place.
Here are my top 10 songs for each of the 6 seasons of Gossip Girl, in the order they appeared in the series.
Season 1 (2007)
Hang Me Up to Dry – Cold War Kids
Young Folks – Peter, Bjorn and John
Kiss, Kiss – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Timebomb – Beck
Someone Great – LCD Soundsystem
Campus – Vampire Weekend
The Ice is Getting Thinner – Death Cab For Cutie
Time to Pretend - MGMT
Do You Wanna – The Kooks
Ohh Yeah – Moby
Season 2 (2008)
New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me down – LCD Sound System
Creator – Stanogold
Buildings and Mountains – Republic Tigers
Electric Feel - MGMT
Good Day – Nappy Roots
Slow Show – The National
White Diamonds – Friendly Fires
Lies – The Black Keys
Use Sombody – Kings of Leon
Signs – Bloc Party
Season 3 (2009)
Don’t Slow Down – Matt & Kim
Listomania – Phoenix
Animal – Miike Snow
Moth’s Wings – Passion Pit
Star Power – Sonic Youth
In Transit – Albert Hammond Jr.
People C’Mon – Delta Spirit
Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Cool Yourself – Thou With the Get Down Stay Down
White Sky – Vampire Weekend
Season 4 (2010)
Ladder Song – Bright Eyes
Tighten Up – The Black Keys
Cosmic Love – Florence + The Machine
Afraid of Everyone – The National
Rill Rill – Sleigh Bells
U + Me = - Dan Black
Down By The Water – The Drums
I Saw the Light – Spoon
Young Blood – The Naked and Famous
Changes – Stars
Season 5 (2011)
Houdini – Foster the People
Shuffle a Dream – Little Dragon
Movin’ Away – My Morning Jacket
Hit The Ground – The Big Pink
Up Up Up – Givers
Hurricane – Ms Mr
Breakin’ the Chains of Love – Fitz & The Tantrums
Young Folks – The Kooks
Control Yourself – Dr. Dog
We Own the Sky – M83
Season 6 (2012)
Angles – The XX
Pick & Choose – Stepdad
Pyramids – Frank Ocean
Red Lips – Sky Ferreira
Hanging On – Ellie Goulding
It’s Time – Imagine Dragons
It’s All Alright – fun.
You’ve Got the Love – Florance + the Machine
We Are Girls – Rebecca & Fiona
Go Away - MNDR
XOXO
(11/12/13 4:58pm)
Released 11/12/2013
College Radio Day // The Album Volume Two is an eclectic mixture of music recorded at college radio stations and artists collaborating in support of the College Radio Fund. This double album is a mix CD of great songs that have hardly any fluidity, yet all stand together in support of maintaining college radio. Although each song is its own entity, there is definitively more of a folk rock feel to the album as a whole without many pop driven songs. I may be a little biased, seeing as I work at a college radio station myself, but college radio is a diamond in the syndicated rough of the radio dial that gives support to underground artists that would otherwise have no airplay and this album is a stand to protect and raise awareness of it.
College Radio Day // The Album Volume Two is released under College Radio Day Records, a label that grew out of the annual College Radio Day event. College Radio Day, which over 700 college stations in 43 countries participated in this year, has been growing annually with both President Obama and Vice President Biden giving federal recognition of the importance of the event.
As the second volume, College Radio Day // The Album Volume Two, has a lot of expectations to live up to, but they take those in stride and have created an album worth many repeat listens. With previously unreleased tracks from bands like My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Lucius, San Cisco, Jukebox the Ghost and Passenger along with in studios submitted by radio stations around the country, College Radio Day // The Album Volume Two has many gems to uncover. The in-studio recordings submitted by college radio stations like KXLU, WPSC, WIUX and WSCS feature not only well-established bands but also some of the outstanding bands in the local scene surround their campuses. This small taste of the local music scene around the country gives a homespun feel to the second disc of the album.
College radio is an integral part of the music media landscape and many of the well-known established bands of our era owe their big break to the underground college stations that played their album. Nels Cline, the guitarist of the Grammy Award winning band Wilco, who donated a track to this album, states “It is college radio where I heard almost all of the music that fueled my creativity… It is one of life’s great pleasures and, for me, indispensable.” College Radio Day // The Album Volume Two, is released digitally and also listeners can buy limited edition physical copies on Nov. 12, and proceeds will raise funds for college radio stations in need of financial aid.
By: Sarah Thompson
Reach Sarah at salothom@indiana.edu