01 ‘Terrible Love’ – High Violet (2010) – The National
- December 11th, 2011
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- trashy demo quality
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High Violet (2010) – The National
- December 10th, 2011
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- low register vox
- slow tempos but with fast internal rhythms
- simple base structure (3 or 4 chords per song) but intricate parts interwoven
- repeated melodic phrases over changing chords
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- Berlin (1973) – Lou Reed
- Build a Rocket Boys! (2011) – Elbow
- Cure For Pain (1993) – Morphine
- For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver
- High Violet (2010) – The National
- House of Balloons (2011) – The Weeknd
- In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead
- James Blake (2011) – James Blake
- Julian Plenti … Is Skyscraper (2009) – Julian Plenti
- KEY IDEAS to plunder
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- Me and Armini (2008) – Emilíana Torrini
- Miike Snow (2009) – Miike Snow
- Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006) – Augie March
- Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution
- Pop Artificielle (1999) – LB
- Sea Change (2002) – Beck
- The Downward Spiral (1994) – Nine Inch Nails
- The Suburbs (2010) – Arcade Fire
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