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| Artist   : Sian Alice Group                       |
| Album   : Troubled, Shaken Etc.                     |
| Bitrate  : VBR kbps                           |
| Label   : The Social Registry                      |
| Year    : 2009                             |
| Genre   : Rock                             |
| Rip date  : Jul-29-2009                          |
| Store date : Aug-04-2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â |
| Size    : 60,1 MB                            |
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| 01 – Love That Moves The Sun          04:45            |
| 02 – Airlock                  02:57            |
| 03 – Through Air Over Water          03:05            |
| 04 – Close To The Ground            07:35            |
| 05 – Grown Again, Repeat            04:15            |
| 06 – Troubled, Shaken, Etc.          03:44            |
| 07 – First Song – Angelina           06:51            |
| 08 – Vanishing                 05:28            |
| 09 – White                   02:45            |
| 10 – Longstrakt                01:55            |
| 11 – To Thine Own Self Be True         02:14            |
| 12 – The Low Lights              04:19            |
| 13 – Salt Water                04:13            |
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|                        54:06 min          |
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| “Sian Alice Group chart transformations from psychedelic rock, pastoral  |
| folk, and piano-lounge balladry into analog-synthtronica, free-jazz    |
| breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves, and avant-classical composition. |
| The beauty of Sian Alice Group is that the band is capable of creating  |
|Â highly effective music even when they stray far from traditional torch-Â Â |
| song territory.” – Pitchfork                       |
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| “Some artists walk a fine line between the abstract and the arranged,   |
| creating a sense of spontaneity without being overly rehearsed. Sian   |
| Alice Group accomplishes just this. What’s more, it does so while     |
| simultaneously recalling great artists but sounding completely unique.”  |
| – Filter                                 |
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| Sian Alice Group (pronounced “Shahn”) – a collective of UK musicians   |
| Sian Ahern, Rupert Clervaux and Ben Crook, amongst other collaborators – |
| had quite the rookie season in 2008. From the epic 59.59 and The Dusk   |
| Line (a subdued piano and vocals only EP) to the wholeheartedly      |
| experimental Remix 12’’, the band made the scene, built up stellar stats |
| and positioned itself as a contender to be reckoned with. Now we lift   |
| the curtain on 2009. Sian Alice Group is back with Troubled, Shaken Etc. |
| – their second album of lush, minimalist, panoramic torch songs for The  |
| Social Registry.                             |
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| Ben Crook relays: “The whole of 2008 was radically life changing     |
| personally, professionally and for all of the world. For me, it was the  |
| fin-de-siecle year that 2000 never was. The dire economic, social,    |
| political and environmental state of the world could no longer be     |
| ignored.” This powerful, post-ironic conception of society and art    |
| thoroughly informs the more direct efforts of Troubled, Shaken Etc.    |
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| The band hones in on a genre-busting combination of organic        |
| improvisation, process-driven experimentation and the focused strength  |
| earned from a year of extensive traveling and touring the world      |
| together. You get your minimalist trances, electronic exploration,    |
| techno thump, jazz motifs and Eastern music tropes in a joyous and    |
| complete listening experience. It’s a snapshot (or more closely, a    |
| yearbook) from an eventful 2008 that is more raw, emotional and loud   |
| than anything they’ve released thus far.                 |
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| Let’s put the songs under our trusty microscope and see what we find.   |
| Troubled, Shaken Etc. kicks off with “Love That Moves The Sun.” It’s a  |
| bouncy realization of minimalism set to the cosmos. Arpeggios (on both  |
| guitar and vibraphone) set a repetitive tone and Sian Ahern’s powerful  |
| vocals resemble the sort of expansive clouds we learned about in a 7th  |
| grade science class. “Close To The Ground” begins with a Terry Riley   |
| meets Theo Parrish figure that slowly morphs into stomp-rock territory  |
| with organic four-to-thefloor rhythmic intensity. “Vanishing” provides a |
| unique take on techno. Rupert Clervaux’s drums are like a wild Elvin   |
| Jones who lived through the rave era, and the vocals provide angelic   |
| whole tones over the unhinged bounce. “White” is a surprise. It makes us |
| want to re-enroll in college circa 1994, take naps on a grassy knoll and |
| dream of the heartbreak awaiting us throughout the next two decades.   |
| Simply put the guitar interplay on this track is totally breathtaking.  |
| It’s automatic mixtape fodder.                      |
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| Troubled, Shaken, Etc. reveals an extremely hardworking band that is   |
| focused on process, craft and how their interpersonal relationships can  |
| serve as a catalyst to document life in an honest, original and      |
|Â innovative manner. The band (led on these technical issues by Clervaux)Â Â |
| masterfully handles the production, and we can’t emphasize enough just  |
| how strong Sian Ahern’s vocals have come through.             |
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| As Clervaux reflects: “The developing solidity in Sian’s voice naturally |
| veered us away from using as much reverb as we did on 59.59, which makes |
| the vocal much more immediate. The same can be said for the percussion,  |
| which is in abundance, as always, but is now much dryer and louder.”   |
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|Â With guest spots from live mainstays (Sasha Vine, Eben Bull and label-Â Â |
| mate Mike Bones), as well as John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack) and Graham   |
| Barton, Troubled, Shaken Etc. is a varied record with tons of       |
| collaborative hands on deck. Everything is in place and poised to make  |
|Â 2009 a huge year for the band. So much stellar work in so little timeÂ…Â Â |
| Maybe we should test Sian Alice Group for steroids.            |
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