Mar. 03, 2010 - Issue #750: Megadeth

Various artists: Berlin Songs Volume 3

Various artists: Berlin Songs Volume 3
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Berlin Songs Volume 3, a 27-song compilation of Berlin's burgeoning "anti-folk" scene reveals a surprisingly varied group of lo-fi musicians crafting fine, acoustically anchored music on the other side of the globe. Lone Canuck act the Burning Hell provides its usual quirky lyric/sincere melody mixture with "The Berlin Conference," but it's the little curiosities in each track—the sweet wistfulness and galloping six-string of Martha Rose's "In The End," the spacey, echoed calm of Sarsaparilla's "Earthling" and how the Sufjan Stevens horns spice the bass groove on Turner Cody's "Back in the Land of the Living"— that make listening to the lot of them varied and worthwhile. There are a lot of songs to get through, but it's an undiminishing well of returns; the deeper you listen, the better Berlin Songs gets.

Various Artists
Berlin Songs Volume 3
(Fächerwurm)

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