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[mrph]

Oh, and the missing CDs from Amazon.de finally arrived today.

The Elegant Machinery album ('Degraded Faces') sounds bizarrely like Tears For Fears (circa 'Elemental'), with slightly mopey vocals. I won't rush to see them at Leipzig, but if there's nothing spectacular opposite their set, they might be fun...

The Inchtabokatables album, "Too Loud", is the one I've been after for ages. Even if I didn't know which one that was, for most of the time. :-) It's the source of most of the rowdy folky stuff I really liked in their live sets - Odie thinks that it sounds like the Pogues, for some reason (I don't agree, needless to say).

"I'm grinning like a Cheshire Cat
I'm grinning like a fool
You hold my face and I feel the scars
And I got every single one from you"

And the Letzte Instanz album ("Kalter Glanz") is a bit heavy, and generally excellent. Folk-Rock-Metal (in a similar style to Subway to Sally) with violin and cello, leaning a bit close to nu-metal in someplaces. I need to lend this one to imago, mrbear and drivenapart, I think, just for starters.

Now, if only my boots would arrive in the post, too..

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[mrph.livejournal.com]

You may have a point. I'm a sad old TFF fan myself (I was listening to Elemental a few days back, which is probably why that comparison sprang to mind).

I think the difference is that TFF had mopey vocals in a slightly sad and world-weary way, whereas Elegant Machinery have mopey vocals in a burnt-out depressed not-quite-monotone sort of way.

The vocals let it down a little, on the whole. I think. For all I know, that could be precisely the sound they wanted, of course...