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The_Carpathian

Latest Purchase....
It's going to be an expensive week - the Carcass & Charlie Jones albums tomorrow and GTA V a couple of days later!

Comment by The_Carpathian September 2013 permalink
What are you listening to now?
beautiful played this game 6 times on PS3 it's a must.... Right near the end, when...that moment....happens I cried like a baby. I'd read that it might do that to me but didn't expect it to come so naturally. Just the combination of …

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What are you listening to now?
Austin Wintory's utterly heart-squeezing orchestral soundtrack from the PS3 game "Journey". Noticed the option on it to "export soundtrack" and it writes it to copyable MP3 files you can have. Considering it was up for G…

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What`s the last film you watched ?
I was about 15min from the end and I'd stopped caring if they saved LA or not. Never a good sign :))

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What`s the last film you watched ?
Battle: Los Angeles. Shouting marines you don't care about shooting things you never really get to see in as noisy and shakily filmed way as possible while ensuring they get their stereotype checklists ticked as required. No, that isn't…

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Fan encounters with Alison
Alison & Will at Eden, Will at a couple of others. Came out a portaloo at Eden and there was Alison about to head in. Held the door for her (I'm a gentleman) and tried not to look very, very embarrassed at the situation!

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What's The Weather Like?
Blustery, with a side order of extra bluster. Pretty mad if you're a tree!

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Tales of Us in the charts
Number 3 in HMV stores chart.....if that means anything these days!

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
Have had to stop listening to it after a week (literally) of solid play. Got to the stage I'd be watching a film and the songs would pop into my head. Love it a lot but it's not healthy when it gets that buried in! @-)

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DELUXE BOX - Updates & information
Maybe I am abit late to the party with this release, but having had the vinyl for a week, I have now succumbed and ordered the box set. I hope the extras will be worth it, as its a lot of money for 1 extra (unreleased) track. It's all about th…

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Goldfrapp scans & photos
Other pics here : http://www.webberrepresents.com/artists/annemariekevandrimmelen/commercial/index/ :x Love the oddness of this version of the original promo pic:-

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`Tales Of Us` - Reviews By Us
ugh why placate the obvious return to assassinate.......really come on carpyEasy, tiger! I only said it was a pleasure (and surprise) to see her and it is on both counts, especially the latter. The rest was as much directed to Tatty really - I do …

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`Tales Of Us` - Reviews By Us
@la_catalina Hey there, R. Genuinely good (and equally surprising!) to see you here. Even if you're just passing through it's a pleasure. I think it's genuinely different trying try explain why something doesn't work for you tha…

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TOU Press Reviews
yes celebrity tweets are so influential...much more so than any old mag In this day and age probably a higher 'circulation' than the paper copies of some too!

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TOU Press Reviews
Not a press review but it's interesting to see where other recommendations for it find their way out into the world. A good mention from some well known people can really get a group of their fans curious. This time it's RuPaul tweeting:-…

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
I have an old but trusty pair of open-back Sennheiser HD-238's used at home for just such things (and they are right this second for the TOU ones). With being 'open' you get a nice wide soundstage and well handled bottom end (oooooer,…

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
Just finally getting to play the 24 bit WAVS for the first time - definitely a number things I'd not noticed before shining through.

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DREW
Drew initially suffered a bit for me on the album due to being so familiar as the first Tale told as a single. Now, after a weeks play, it's starting to reassert itself in the context of the others and is even stronger for that. That latter h…

Comment by The_Carpathian September 2013 permalink
How do you feel today?
In that nice warm zone after a good 40min full-on swim. I never want to go out after work to do one but feel great afterwards. Ability is easy, motivation is far tougher!

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Anna Calvi
^ have you seen her live carpy? thats what did it for me ;;) No, but it's a catch 22 - I'm not really a fan enough to buy tickets to see her. I'd have to catch her supporting somebody else.

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
Just had 40min in the pool, as I normally do on a Friday night. Up, back, repeat.....and repeat....and repeat. Leaves loads of mental time to fill. Had Clay, Alvar, Simone & Laurel burst into my head at one point or another. Whole big segments …

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Anna Calvi
It's weird - she's somebody I should love based on her style and her music but something has never quite clicked for me. I have no idea why - there's nothing that feels like it's getting in the way and I always like what I hear b…

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Tales of Us - Film
Nice find - I always forget to trawl that place for advance info! 30min long - about as expected given that it's just 5 songs.

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Stranger
The drop and lift starting with "every word is soft as fur...." about 1:30 onwards is glorious but the next "do or die" one is even better. It's ridiculously cinematic and emotive yet kept subtle & simple at the same tim…

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Gromit trail
I nearly deleted that thinking it was spam from the odd title :)) However, anything to do with walking and Gromit is a great thing all round =D>

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What's The Weather Like?
Intermittantly soggy or potentially soggy, with periods of weather uncertainty inbetween. They should just call the next six mionths "AutumnWinter" and be done with it. {sigh}

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
I'm no penguin-coloured Magpie - I'm a fully fledged Wolf of 35+ years Ahem. Sorry, got a bit footbally there :D

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TOU Press Reviews
There are certainly some albums which have so many immediate pleasures that they can be fully appreciated upon your first or second listen. I don't think Tales of Us is such an album. It's a cliche, but this album does really reward repe…

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Tales Of Us - 6th album - 09/09/2013
I'm now at the stage where I can pretty much listen to the whole Tales album in my head without needing any sort of MP3 player, cd or whatever. A weeks near solid play with little else music seems to have etched it into my memory like a 40 odd …

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Alvar
This is a great track, I can't help feeling the live version was more powerful though, you have never heard electric guitars like it in Goldfrapp before, and this doesn't translate onto record so well. I guess I am the only one who is sl…

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