Shepperd presents: his ninth album, LANDLORDS

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Tracks: 16
Length: 46 minutes
Genre: Noise Pop/Rock and Art Pop/Rock
Influences: Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Spacemen, Six Organs Of Admittance.

About the Creation of the Album: I was sort of confused about what I wanted to do for my ninth album, what kind of approach I wanted to create and such. During the process of the creation of this album I made very different kind of songs so wasn't sure how to come out with a cohesive album. In the end I finally decided to leave only the instrumental tracks here (with exception of the last song that works as a final mantra that gives the album a closing). Therefore this album doesn't have all the songs I created this year, and I plan to keep the ones I left for another kind of album which could even be titled LANDLORDS II, and would have a different focus and more sung songs.
In LANDLORDS, I present a set of instrumental tracks that offer different moods and themes such as nostalgia, pride, grandeur, lonelyness, hypnotism, and such.
Some songs are straightfoward Noise Rock/Pop, that impact right on, like "All In All", "Flux State Forever" and "A Next Reality".
There are a couple of songs that are just repetitive but that is its merit as it gets an hypnotic sound that I consider to be very alluring. There are also a couple of noodling tracks which is what I call "playing with silence" a la Moonchild. These might be a bit boring to some people but I think it adds charm to the album.
There are alsomy fair share of rare tracks, like "Life Has You", which is a noise pop song but has such an unique expression it is one of my favourite tracks of the album, or my take on electro-acoustic engineering in "Rain Chambers", or the weird funk of "Early Rounds".

About LANDLORDS: Why such title? LANDLORDS is something I felt when I went to the Patagonia (South Argentina) to do adventure on top of mountains, thru forests and across lakes. It enlightened my perception of reality. It was like a huge take of fresh new air. The philosophy of LANDLORDS is that everyone is LANDLORD on their own. Every person is the owner of the little space on what they are standing, every person belongs to the place where they are standing right now. It is a feeling of being in touch with space. Of course, this is not the conventional meaning of landlord, it even has a derogative connotation. But I don't mind. To me, LANDLORDS means a sense of pride of owning yourself in this place, that like piece of territory from where you're standing, that piece of space and time that NOBODY CAN TAKE AWAY FROM YOU.


DOWNLOAD LINK: http://rapidshare.com/files/137407654/Francis_Guini_-_LANDLORDS.rar.html


Comments on the album are encouraged

Well I'm going to download this, I'll comment later.

It's good to see you have a download link.

I'm downloading.  Will give thoughts.

Ok, so I haven't gotten a chance to listen to all of this yet, but I will comment on it as no one else has.

First of all, I'm glad this is a mostly instrumental album. I've always thought you did your best work with instrumentals and it seems you are more creative with vocals out of the way. I like how in most of the tracks there is this just thin layer of noise that while noticible it doesn't distract from the music and it adds a lot. The tracks range from nice and pleasing to just mind altering, which I think is the best combination an album can have. My only complaint really is that some of the songs seem just a bit too randomly put together, but that's nitpicking.

Overall it's good, and I can't say I've disliked any of it yet.

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awesome album, I listened the whole way though and liked it.

the melodies have a fleeting feeling too them, you don't rely on repeating yourself too much although there were moments that I wish you had and others where I wished you didn't. all-in-all it was an enjoyable listen.