 since day one of their blog buzz, and we'll most certainly continue the support, despite the fact that I feel the rerelease was pretty much unnecessary, and probably just to try to score a Pitchfork review. However, like I said, some of the songs benefitted from the tweaking... so what's done is done, their music is still beautiful, and still deserved of all of your praise.
When I first heard Eagle Seagull, I named them a must hear band of 2006. That was months ago in a small Eastern Washington college-town called Pullman. I reviewed their debut album, Eagle*Seagull for KZUU and after all this time, it appears the band is finally gaining some traction. And all of it is warranted.
Fans of Sub Pop's Wolf Parade might enjoy the vocal tracks, though the backing music is much more mellow and comforting. It's a mesmerizing mix that is both calming and heartbreaking.
"Photograph" takes these contrasting elements and effortlessly makes them one. The percussion commences at a rapid pace, complimenting a keyboard fronted instrumental section. The lyrics are stark with emotion: I must say you make me constantly aroused / It's the way you're always smiling... again after the song slows down: So what if I carry your photo around with me everywhere / I don't care / It's not such a bad thing to do / And so I try and I try to do what you tell me to do / I try I try to forget about you.
"Your Beauty is a Knife that I turn on my Throat" is a peppy track with the signature vocals described above, remaining upbeat despite such a dire title. A catchy piano part takes precedence over guitars throughout the song, keeping it light but for the slow melodramatic mid-sections. "Hello Never" draws from more country-style influences with twangy guitars and a laid-back shuffle in the percussion.
I clearly remember the first time I listened to Eagle*Seagull; I was sitting alone in my room with the door shut, working on an extensive essay for one of my MBA courses. As the first track played, I stopped typing, stopped pouring over books, stopped thinking... and just listened. You know a band is good when you virtually cease to exist just so you can hear one more note.
"Der Provinzgenius und seine verschworene Clique"
Das Debütalbum der Band Eagle*Seagull aus Nebraska klingt nach durch Außenseitertum gestählten Snobismus und nach einer Melancholie, die nicht langweilig wird. Eine Platte mit vielen kleinen klanglichen Überraschungen.
"Album of the Week"
Der Begriff Art-Pop ist seit dem Debutalbum der britischen Spaßformation „Art Brut“ wieder in aller Munde – auch wenn der Zusammenhang nicht so recht passen will. 
Eagle*Seagull gehören zu dieser Band-Gattung. Die Musik des Sextetts aus Lincoln, Nebraska ist alles andere als regelkonform und trotzdem – vielleicht aber auch gerade deswegen – äußerst angesagt. Ähnlich den hochgelobten „The Arcade Fire“ oder „Clap Your Hands Say Yeah“ wird die Band in Internetforen und Blogs bereits als heißer Geheimtipp gehandelt.
Der leicht verschrobene, stellenweise androgyn-extrovertierte Stil von Eagle*Seagull erinnert stark an den frühen David Bowie, Lou Reed oder den kunstvollen Bombast-Pop von Cockney Rebel. Die Musik lässt sich – und auch das hat die Band mit ihren Vorfahren und Kollegen gemein – in keinerlei Schema einordnen. Die Songs folgen nicht dem üblichen „Strophe, Refrain, Strophe“-Aufbau, sondern einer weitaus komplexeren Struktur ohne festes Gefüge.
Auch die Länge der Songs ist mit durchgehend über fünf Minuten alles andere als Radio- oder Chart-tauglich und daher nichts für das schnelle Hörvergnügen zwischendurch. 
Art pop a la Blonde Redhead. The bittersweet sublime of David Bowie in something like Hunky Dory. The eccentricity of The Arcade Fire, the moods of Interpol, the casualness of Pavement. Eagle*Seagull have been compared to many artists and bands, yet they sound like none of them. This US underground seasons must-have record comes from five oddballs plus a lady, straight from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Eagle*Seagull played their first shows in Lincoln and Omaha in October 2004. They soon started playing concerts regularly and caused quite a lot of hype in the Nebraskan scene. This, in turn, caught the attention of a certain Brian Vaughan: the former Sup Pop and Saddle Creek trainee was on the verge of founding his own label, Paper Garden Records, and chose eagle*seagull to be catalogue number 001. The occasional recordings they had made in his bedroom were compiled for the album and in October 05, one year after their first concert, eagle*seagulls debut album was released on the new mini-label.
What happened next can only be likened to a buzz of almost Clap Your Hands proportions. Capital reactions in online forums, euphoric reviews in the underground press, listings in various Best Of 2005 and Bands to watch 2006 polls  there were too many to name all of them here. In the months that followed, our boys (and girl) from Lincoln progressed from just being a hip name to drop, and Paper Garden  although still without a national distributor  had to / was able to re-press the debut CD for the umpteenth time.
And all this turmoil  this has to be said  was caused by a band that doesnt even fit into any existing genres  and that is precisely where parallels can be drawn to The Arcade Fire and Clap Your Hands. They created a world of their own. And their songs are so chart-hostile that they rarely stay under the 5-minute mark, preferring to reveal their secrets bit by bit. A sailors lullaby waltz Death Could Be At The Door provides the missing link between the Decemberists and Disintegration by The Cure. On the other hand, Your Beauty Is A Knife I Turn On My Throat features a music-hall piano, Hello, Never welcomes the lost cousin of Pavements Range Life, while the frantic Photograph chases The Arcade Fire through a New Order disco at fast forward.
Yet this too is just another mass of reference points that merely hint at what eagle*seagull really sound like. The question of direction has never been crucial for Eli anyway: We love the songs and love each other. Its great fun and thats our main priority. You wanna bet? We too will have lots of fun with eagle*seagull this season.
Following the acclaimed European release of their debut album in September 2006 and a hugely successful European tour in January/February 2007 (which took them from London to Zurich via 8 countries) the band is about to go into the studio with producer Ryan Hadlock (The Gossip, Blonde Redhead, Strokes etc.) to record their second album.Give it a few years and people will realize how badly we already are in a corner. Huge corporations are driving climate change. They can and should be nationalized if not shared globally among all people, for the benefit of humanity. It has been estimated that this planet can sustainably support a lifestyle similar to Switzerland in the 1960s for over 10 billion people. That means less air travel and less ipads, but more quality time with friends and family and comfortable housing, food and healthcare. Doesn't sound too bad to me.

I understand that reality seems super bleak right now, but a defeatist mindset will be the last nail in our coffin. My optimism may seem unwarranted, but it is all we got. Laugh in the face of the absurd and let's do our best.<gh_stars>0
﻿using MahApps.Metro.Controls;
using SystemSpecs.Helpers;
using System.Windows.Media;
using SystemSpecs.Infrastructure.Repositories.NetworkDevices;

namespace SystemSpecs.View
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : MetroWindow
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            ThemeManagerHelper.CreateAppStyleBy(Brushes.Brown.Color, true);

            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }
}
130    // without first making sure that the rest of the framework is prepared for it.
165     * for several seconds to work around a VFS caching issue.
185     * Available for testing purposes.
194     * package manager's own lock.
204     * Available for testing purposes.
229                // Prune out any partially created/partially removed users.
