Pensatos: The Unheard Notes

Welcome to your only source for new music on the net. Pensatos was created to spread some of the best unheard music on the planet beyond the radio waves and store shelves.

The goal and promise of Pensatos is to bring you new music, interviews, and more on today's best unheard indie and urban acts.

Unveiling Notes: The Kristoffer Ragnstam Interview

Kristoffer Ragnstam might just be on an unappreciated path to somewhere. His brand of pop-rock that breaks all the Swedish molds he grew up surrounded by may have done its part to set him apart. With the release of his latest Wrong Side of the Room, Ragnstam makes a grand argument for the most-improvement-award while also getting honorable mention as least-likely-to take credit where credit is more than due. Not since the turn of Beck's career in the early 90's has another artist come close to such a re-creation of themselves and his snug genre. We catch up with Kristoffer on the road to discuss his next big step, avoiding stereotypes stateside [hey - we're guilty], and publishing his life one song at a time. ‹read more›

Thursday, October 2, 2008

- Such Fun
- by Annuals
- label: Canvasback Music [2008]
Dylan Champagne – New Equation
GZA - Pro Tools
Make Up Break Up - We Prefer Not To…
The Subways - All Or Nothing
The Coast - Expatriate
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
What Laura Says - Thinks and Feels

Peaceful The World Lays Me Down
Noah and the Whale

Soft Airplane
Chad VanGaalen

Mean Sea Level

Mean Sea Level

Such Fun
The Annuals

Exit
Shugo Tokumaru

This week, we speak with Nate Willet of Cold War Kids on his music style and talk about their new album Robbers & Cowards.

The Subways | All Or Nothing

Nothing writes better than what? That’s right: a man scorned. In the case of English act The Subways, it was predictable; what with the makeup of the band as two boyhood comrades and the girlfriend - you could smell the inevitability on their 2005 inaugural effort Young For Eternity. Fast forward several years to a band now seemingly rebuilt from more than just the ground up. Gone is ex-bassist and hex fiancée Charlotte Cooper and in her place is All Or Nothing, a raucous coming-to-terms album in the purest form of Brit rock revival and leaps-and-bounds beyond its predecessor.

Lead singer and guitarist Billy Lunn is working it all out along the path of Nothing’s twelve tracks as evident in the post heartbreak couch session ‘Obsession’ and its spontaneous mood swings or the forgiveness of ‘Always Tomorrow’. But you can thank heartbreak for only so long before you give credit to Butch Vig’s masterful assembly. The man behind the production of Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dreams) and Sonic Youth (Dirty) has found his rock inner-child once again in Billy Lunn’s vocal growls and Josh Morgan’s striking drum work.

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