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Showing posts with label non serviam. Show all posts
This is what I've been listening to all week. Thanks to Thom.
Goblin Cock is headed by Rob Crowe, of Pinback fame. Bagged and Boarded was their debut, and it's toned down metal with an old-school feel that's reminiscent of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and the like. If the band's pun of a name doesn't grab you, hopefully the music will.
From Bagged and Boarded (2005)
Bubbles misses you, man.
Tortoise is credited with helping to usher in the genre of Post-Rock, along with Mogwai. Their 90's releases garnered a good bit of praise from critics and fans of eclectic rock music everywhere. Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) and TNT (1998) represent groundbreaking forays into more jazz influenced compositions and experimental production techniques that were heard rarely in standard radio rock. The track length of some of their songs is intimidating, and sometimes frustrating (it's much harder to find a specific movement within a song than it is to find a certain track on an album), but it's by no means a dealbreaker.
From Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
From It's All Around You (2004)
I've been trying to get my hands on White Light Strobing since hearing one of the singles in a SXSW promo video a few months back. Desolation Wilderness has a knack for writing laid-back, ethereal songs that owe a bit to My Bloody Valentine, as well as more the recent songwriters Kurt Vile and Devendra Banhart. This album is very consistent. I found all the tracks worth listening to, and there are multiple gems, some of which I'm posting here. The only complaint I have is that the vocals are a little bit downplayed and maybe a tad too saturated with reverb to really understand, but I couldn't really picture myself enjoying DW's sound nearly as much if they were different. Enjoy heartily, folks.
From White Light Strobing (2008)
May 19, 2009
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Etiketter:
dance,
electronica,
folk,
non serviam
Animal Collective has been blowing people's minds for quite some time now, and their newest release, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is yet another exciting addition to their already extensive catalog. Like much of their more recent releases, the songs on this album definitely reflect the band's ever-changing interests and sounds very similar to the more electronica-influenced music Panda Bear's been putting out on his own. Deeply layered tracks, unique rhythms, and a certain amount of playfulness are the MO here.
from Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
The Beta Band were a commercially underappreciated band from Britain. They performed a blend of psychedelic rock, trip-hop, and electronica that critics creamed over.
Mp3's come from a collection of their early EP's. "Dogs Got A Bone" is a personal favorite.
from The Three E.P.'s (1997)
So Boxstr decided to kill my account by not allowing me access and proclaiming that they'd never heard of my email address before when I tried to reset my p-word. So if my old links are broken, I apologize. I'll try to re-upload them and change the links when I can.
New account is up. Username = boxstrsucks
Chiggety-cheers, all.
XTC is one of the more interesting bands to spring from England's 80's post-punk / new wave movement. The band was much more popular with critics than with public consumers, though XTC did see some moderate chart success later in their career. The first two mp3's come from their 1982 album, English Settlement. The third is a cover of one of their more popular singles, "Making Plans For Nigel", performed by Primus. God bless you, Les Claypool.
from English Settlement (1982)
from Primus' Miscellaneous Debris (1992)
April 24, 2009
The Octopus Project / Black Moth Super Rainbow
Etiketter:
electronica,
instrumental,
non serviam,
post rock,
video
The Octopus Project is a personal favorite of mine. Their album Hello, Avalanche, is one of the most consistently fun and addictive albums I've ever heard. Their sound is a mixture of analog and electronic instrumentation, with an extremely solid rhythm section that faithfully drives every song. from Hello, Avalanche (2007)
The Octopus Project Website
The video is for the song Truck.
Black Moth Super Rainbow is another band along the same lines as The
Octopus Project, though a bit more experimental and laid back. They
collaborated with The Octopus Project on a split album entitled The
House of Apples and Eyeballs, but I have been unable to get a
hold of it yet. They have a new album on the way entitled Eating Us.
Anyway, enjoy the video and the mp3s.
from Start A People (2004)
Black Moth Super Rainbow Website
Shugo Tokumaru's Exit was one of my most anxiously awaited releases. Critically acclaimed, multi-talented, and always surprising, Tokumaru has a gift for creating extremely inviting music that involves a very intricate interweaving of both traditional and eclectic sonic palettes.All I'm saying is when you perform in a diaper, you're destined to be famous.
Metal is an underappreciated genre. Granted, the current trend of lyrical delivery that most contemporary metal bands employ is in many cases an aquired taste, and in many more an immediate deal-breaker. Metal still lies for the most part outside of the mainstream. But underneath all of this lies an abundance of aggressive compositions unexplored in most modern pop music and an emphasis on technical mastery seen little outside of most jazz clubs.
Cynic was one of the most influential and experimental groups to emerge from the early 90's Death Metal scene then experiencing its birth in Florida. Pioneering a complex and innovative brand of what can best be described as jazz-metal, Cynic released a groundbreaking debut, Focus, in 1993. This album explored the aggression, technical prowess, and speed typical to other death metal releases, but set Cynic apart from other bands with smooth clean breakdowns, rhythmically challenging songs, and an interesting mix of death growls and vocoders.
Cynic's most recent release, Traced In Air, takes the band in a much more mature direction, abandoning the laser speed and chug based riffs in favor of slowing down and mellowing out without pussying out, leaving them with a more balanced, and overall much more awesome sound. This band is without a doubt one of the most shining examples of what metal has the potential for. They come with a very high recommendation.
April 4, 2009
Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
Etiketter:
80's,
mission of burma,
non serviam,
post punk
Mission of Burma were an influential Bostonian punk group active in the early 80's. Pushing past earlier, simpler punk formulas of kicking ass and taking names in an effort to weave more thoughtful songs, with deeper lyrical and compositional currents than their predecessors.
This is from their debut EP Signals, Calls, and Marches.
February 13, 2009
WTF Happened To Them? Cocteau Twins
Etiketter:
90s,
non serviam,
shoegaze,
wtf happened to them?
Cocteaus Twins were a highly prolific Scottish outfit active throughout the 80's and early 90's. Extremely influential to both the Post-Punk and Shoegaze bands that followed them, Cocteau Twins had a sound that was like no other, as well as a consistently evolving and maturing style. Walls of effects-saturated guitars propelled by Elizabeth Fraser's impressive and almost nonsensical vocals (buried in the mix, of course) are pretty much the M.O. here.
After a few releases in the 90's, Cocteau Twins broke up, due to creative differences. No dead members, drug problems, just plain ol' fading away.
"Cico Buff" is a track from their fifth LP, Blue Bell Knoll, released in 1988. I consider this their best release, as later albums are more radio-friendly pop than the more dreamy, ethereal 80's releases. The video is of a live performance of "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" from 1984.
The group's second album, Labcabincalifornia, was produced (for the most part) by J-Dilla, whose name should be familiar to fans of other alternative groups (The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common). "Drop" is from this album, and the video is directed by Spike Jonze (omgwtfreally?).
Hopefully, if Bootie Brown sounds familiar to you it's because you know he guested on the Gorillaz track "Dirty Harry," and not because you know someone named Bootie Brown. And if you DO know someone named Bootie Brown, PAY HIM THE $5,000 YOU OWE HIM, BITCH!!!
January 14, 2009
Crystal Castles
Etiketter:
crystal castles,
dance,
debut album,
electronica,
non serviam
Crystal Castles - Courtship Date
Obsessive is the only word that can describe my listening habits of late. Crystal Castles is not the sort of band one can forget about after turning off their music. It lodges itself inside of your mind with an agreeable sort of tenacity.
Hailing from Toronto, Canada, this duo (Ethan Kath and Alice Glass) combines digital effects passages, dripping with synthesized drumbeats, with Glass' distorted vocals. Hot stuff.
Crystal Castles on Myspace
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