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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:25
The Black Atlantic – Darkling, I Listen
GENRE: Folk, Rock, Psyhedelic
Label: Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:23:23
"...From the near classical guitar intro of the opening, brooder-song “The Aftermath”, it is clear that ‘Darkling, I Listen’ is a much different sonic animal than the intimate, and mostly acoustic, affair of The Black Atlantic’s debut album ‘Reverence for Fallen Trees.’ Clocking in at 23 minutes and 23 seconds, ‘Darkling’ contains five fully sculpted songs with a wide array of elements and influences, from 70’s psychedelic folk–rock to Phil Spector-esque orchestrated chamber pop and 60’s Motown soul sensibilities. It also takes informed cues from current indie epitomes such as Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver. The Black Atlantic wears these influences on its sleeve without sounding inauthentic. ‘Darkling I, Listen’ is an immersive listening experience, rustic and pastoral, but without the obvious pretty embellishments. It is impressionistic in its scope, full of wide-open vistas and cavernous sonic swells."
Label: Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:23:23
"...From the near classical guitar intro of the opening, brooder-song “The Aftermath”, it is clear that ‘Darkling, I Listen’ is a much different sonic animal than the intimate, and mostly acoustic, affair of The Black Atlantic’s debut album ‘Reverence for Fallen Trees.’ Clocking in at 23 minutes and 23 seconds, ‘Darkling’ contains five fully sculpted songs with a wide array of elements and influences, from 70’s psychedelic folk–rock to Phil Spector-esque orchestrated chamber pop and 60’s Motown soul sensibilities. It also takes informed cues from current indie epitomes such as Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver. The Black Atlantic wears these influences on its sleeve without sounding inauthentic. ‘Darkling I, Listen’ is an immersive listening experience, rustic and pastoral, but without the obvious pretty embellishments. It is impressionistic in its scope, full of wide-open vistas and cavernous sonic swells."
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - The Aftermath (Of This Unfortunate Event) 02 - The Flooded Road (Built on Sand) 03 - Darkling, I Listen 04 - An Archer, A Dancer 05 - Quiet, Humble Man |
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Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:54
Reverend big O - When There Is Only Light To Believe In/Hope For
GENRE: Rock, Indie, Post-rock, Slowcore
Label: 23 Seconds
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:60:00
Often described as "Sweden´s slowest band", this time Reverend Big O from Malmö explore the album formula rather than the pace. The album is put together as one long single breath and the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The music is rooted in 90´s shoegaze sounds like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine etc. as well as post-rockers like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions In The Sky.
The main contributors on this album are Nicklas Nilsson and Jörgen Dahlqvist. Nicklas is also a member of The Bell, a band with several releases in Europe and the U.S. Their music have attracted considerable attention and several of their songs have been heard in American TV-series like The Vampire Diaries, Jersey Shore etc. Jörgen Dahlqvist is artistic director for one of Sweden´s leading performing arts collective Teater Weimar, Dean of the theatre academy in Malmö 2009-2012. He was also co-founder of the legendary Swedish record label A West Side Fabrication in the late 80´s.
Label: 23 Seconds
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:60:00
Often described as "Sweden´s slowest band", this time Reverend Big O from Malmö explore the album formula rather than the pace. The album is put together as one long single breath and the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The music is rooted in 90´s shoegaze sounds like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine etc. as well as post-rockers like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions In The Sky.
The main contributors on this album are Nicklas Nilsson and Jörgen Dahlqvist. Nicklas is also a member of The Bell, a band with several releases in Europe and the U.S. Their music have attracted considerable attention and several of their songs have been heard in American TV-series like The Vampire Diaries, Jersey Shore etc. Jörgen Dahlqvist is artistic director for one of Sweden´s leading performing arts collective Teater Weimar, Dean of the theatre academy in Malmö 2009-2012. He was also co-founder of the legendary Swedish record label A West Side Fabrication in the late 80´s.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - 03.16 02 - Words Like Clouds 03 - This Street Is Connected (To Other Streets) 04 - Then We Fall 05 - A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose 06 - Walk Inside 07 - I Feel Such Rage (Toward You) 08 - Love Is A Two Headed Dog 09 - It's Not The End Of The World, It's Not |
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Monday, 30 April 2012 14:19
wecollectskies - Of Clouds
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Post Metal, Shoegaze
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:17:42
wecollectskies' new 4 track EP has an ambitious approach to how the entire albums sound was architected. It has been in the works for four months as Josh Elliot's final project on university and aims to suit the modern days listening habits.
And it shows, the mixture of metal 'cohones', shoegazing bliss⦠it exhales an energy that grabs you from the first notes and will continue to surprise by breaking barriers and blending genres within the realm of post-rock and post-metal. And it all sounds spectacular.
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:17:42
wecollectskies' new 4 track EP has an ambitious approach to how the entire albums sound was architected. It has been in the works for four months as Josh Elliot's final project on university and aims to suit the modern days listening habits.
And it shows, the mixture of metal 'cohones', shoegazing bliss⦠it exhales an energy that grabs you from the first notes and will continue to surprise by breaking barriers and blending genres within the realm of post-rock and post-metal. And it all sounds spectacular.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Apocalisse Morti 02 - Last Word Of Home 03 - Remote Controlled Skies 04 - Withered Hands |
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Wednesday, 06 July 2011 04:10
Esgi - Echoes In Time
GENRE: Rock, Fusion, Pop Rock, Ambient, Guitar
Label: Bandcamp
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 01:09:34
Essentially a concept album comprising twelve tracks of varying pace and feel. Written over the space of a few months in 2007 initially for a sound track, the project developed into this album. Now re-edited and remastered, 'Echoes In Time' is intended as a chilled out escape and something to drift away to.
From the rhythmic pulse and guitar of 'With No Beginning', the Eastern orchestral chants of 'Dawn Of Mind', the smooth melancholy of 'Alone Again' and the filmic feel of 'Destiny', Echoes In Time seeks to explore the world of fantasy, film and emotion.
'I Wonder' with its Close Encounters influence proves this in point and 'A Paradise Lost', which takes us back to primordial lands after a Great Extinction and its rebirth in 'A New World'.
The title track drifts between here and then, slightly disconnected from the rest of album, while 'Of Wars And Power' explodes with violence and fury.
'The Drifter' captures the relief of surviving absolute terror. (Ripley in the escape pod at the conclusion of seminal classic 'Alien').
'In Your Heart' is a more contemporary, guitar solo based track and 'There Is No End' completes the journey with a strings and breakbeat style affair.
I hope you enjoy the album!
Love,
Esgi.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Bandcamp
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 01:09:34
Essentially a concept album comprising twelve tracks of varying pace and feel. Written over the space of a few months in 2007 initially for a sound track, the project developed into this album. Now re-edited and remastered, 'Echoes In Time' is intended as a chilled out escape and something to drift away to.
From the rhythmic pulse and guitar of 'With No Beginning', the Eastern orchestral chants of 'Dawn Of Mind', the smooth melancholy of 'Alone Again' and the filmic feel of 'Destiny', Echoes In Time seeks to explore the world of fantasy, film and emotion.
'I Wonder' with its Close Encounters influence proves this in point and 'A Paradise Lost', which takes us back to primordial lands after a Great Extinction and its rebirth in 'A New World'.
The title track drifts between here and then, slightly disconnected from the rest of album, while 'Of Wars And Power' explodes with violence and fury.
'The Drifter' captures the relief of surviving absolute terror. (Ripley in the escape pod at the conclusion of seminal classic 'Alien').
'In Your Heart' is a more contemporary, guitar solo based track and 'There Is No End' completes the journey with a strings and breakbeat style affair.
I hope you enjoy the album!
Love,
Esgi.
Available in FLAC!
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Saturday, 02 July 2011 06:57
Bosques de mi Mente - Colores
GENRE: Rock, Indie, Acoustic, Electronic
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:59
Colores is the result of a process of experimentation that started after the release of “Inocencia” back in 2009. I decided then to experiment with toy instruments and keyboards, many of them bent or modified to alter their sound or to generate noise. I decided also to explore the posibilities of the voice and vocal harmonies, wordless sounds and chants used as another instrument, not to transmit a message. “Colores” is nothing but a simple album half-way between indie and electronic, easy listening and experimental music, past and future. The graphic design is the work of Juls Gars Menta, who added the collage of paintings and figures to the wonderful photographs of Antonio R. I am in debt with both for their collaboration in the project, and for making “Colores” a reality.
Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:59
Colores is the result of a process of experimentation that started after the release of “Inocencia” back in 2009. I decided then to experiment with toy instruments and keyboards, many of them bent or modified to alter their sound or to generate noise. I decided also to explore the posibilities of the voice and vocal harmonies, wordless sounds and chants used as another instrument, not to transmit a message. “Colores” is nothing but a simple album half-way between indie and electronic, easy listening and experimental music, past and future. The graphic design is the work of Juls Gars Menta, who added the collage of paintings and figures to the wonderful photographs of Antonio R. I am in debt with both for their collaboration in the project, and for making “Colores” a reality.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - estuvimashen 02 - dehardeiorar 03 - heyonitseh 04 - yerih 05 - forheisaun 06 - deiestuhdaunha 07 - giesh 08 - nitsih 09 - aauash 10 - hirey 11 - mooder mooder |
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Friday, 01 July 2011 03:58
These Animals - These Animals
GENRE: Rock, Indie, Shoegaze
Label: Ah Records
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:25:12
These Animals are four wild and charming creatures from the urban jungle in the great city of New York. Their music is just as diverse as the jungle itself. Imagine dreamy guitar soundscapes crossed with a motown dancy rythm section. Sounds weird? Well, listen for yourself and discover a mix of dreamy pop and dance-able rock and roll that comes along with sixties-inspired harmonies, floating shoe-gaze guitar textures and toe-tapping rhythms. All sitting very comfortably next to each other.
The boys met while attending art school in New York where they studied studio production for music. Their personal musical journey as a band began with a songwriting project in the early months of 2010. After a few lineup changes, These Animals came to be described as a “supergroup” of bands in their college circuit, hailing Greg Baldwin and Brian Crimmins from Greg Baldwin & The Aesthetics, Jon Rick from Wyldlife, and Will Whatley, from seemingly every band at the college.
Using the elements of pop music to guide their writing process, the four New York boys simultaneously embrace and redefine their genre. In their first self titled EP Greg’s sixties-inspired melodies float over chaotic guitars, syncopated rhythms, visceral textures, and hard-hitting rock.
Label: Ah Records
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:25:12
These Animals are four wild and charming creatures from the urban jungle in the great city of New York. Their music is just as diverse as the jungle itself. Imagine dreamy guitar soundscapes crossed with a motown dancy rythm section. Sounds weird? Well, listen for yourself and discover a mix of dreamy pop and dance-able rock and roll that comes along with sixties-inspired harmonies, floating shoe-gaze guitar textures and toe-tapping rhythms. All sitting very comfortably next to each other.
The boys met while attending art school in New York where they studied studio production for music. Their personal musical journey as a band began with a songwriting project in the early months of 2010. After a few lineup changes, These Animals came to be described as a “supergroup” of bands in their college circuit, hailing Greg Baldwin and Brian Crimmins from Greg Baldwin & The Aesthetics, Jon Rick from Wyldlife, and Will Whatley, from seemingly every band at the college.
Using the elements of pop music to guide their writing process, the four New York boys simultaneously embrace and redefine their genre. In their first self titled EP Greg’s sixties-inspired melodies float over chaotic guitars, syncopated rhythms, visceral textures, and hard-hitting rock.
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| 01 - Side By Side 02 - Miles 03 - Pocket 04 - A Word At Sea 05 - Ebb And Flow 06 - Four To The Floor |
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Monday, 20 June 2011 12:42
Matt Stevens - Live in Blackpool
GENRE: Rock, Post Rock, Progressive, Guitar
Label: Self
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:21
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
And now here is with the fresh "Live in Blackpool".
"It is just me, a guitar and a loop pedal in front of an audience at the Electric Garden Festival. There is a full review of the festival here" Matt Stevens
Label: Self
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:39:21
Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists as diverse as Radiohead and Robert Fripp. He plays live all over the UK.
He has released 2 albums Echo in 2008 and Ghost in 2010 . Echo was a "word of mouth" success thanks to the support of hundreds of bloggers and podcasters.
And now here is with the fresh "Live in Blackpool".
"It is just me, a guitar and a loop pedal in front of an audience at the Electric Garden Festival. There is a full review of the festival here" Matt Stevens
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Saturday, 18 June 2011 06:56
Andrew Howes - Set
GENRE: Rock, Electronic, Experimental
Label: suRRism Phonoethics
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:17
Set – a new work from Andrew Howes is available for free download on Surrism Phonoethics. A fine mixture of jazz, rock and experimental guitar sounds build up a fascinating sound collage, which brings a wonderfull inner cinema. Fans of the music of Frank Zappa or Buckethead will love this album – Taste it!
Label: suRRism Phonoethics
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:17
Set – a new work from Andrew Howes is available for free download on Surrism Phonoethics. A fine mixture of jazz, rock and experimental guitar sounds build up a fascinating sound collage, which brings a wonderfull inner cinema. Fans of the music of Frank Zappa or Buckethead will love this album – Taste it!
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| 01 - Condo 02 - Running Sequence 03 - Roofscape 04 - Supalube 05 - Set 06 - Field of flagstone 07 - Split the crimson sun |
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Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:28
Ghostfog – Hear Them Whisper
GENRE: Rock, Metal, Noise, Industrial
Label: AF Music
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:37
Released out of an eternal dream, Ghostfrog, after a successful collaboration with Seetha Rao (Frightnights – Bad Night Stories, 2010), crawls through the the attenuated fields of industrial music on his own. The single “Hear Them Whisper” and the proper video underline the musical growth of the Industrial artist from Essen (Germany), for whom classic conventions and common success-concepts are foreign words, in an impressive way.
For one it will be dystopic noise, for the other a mysterious cry of lust out of a machine in the moment of its awakening. Industrial impressions of the daily grind are bound to an excessive consumption of cold music in this interpretition of an avantgardistic thinking artist. The 5-song single is completed with a really complex animation video, which catches the threatening atmosphere of the title song.
Label: AF Music
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:37
Released out of an eternal dream, Ghostfrog, after a successful collaboration with Seetha Rao (Frightnights – Bad Night Stories, 2010), crawls through the the attenuated fields of industrial music on his own. The single “Hear Them Whisper” and the proper video underline the musical growth of the Industrial artist from Essen (Germany), for whom classic conventions and common success-concepts are foreign words, in an impressive way.
For one it will be dystopic noise, for the other a mysterious cry of lust out of a machine in the moment of its awakening. Industrial impressions of the daily grind are bound to an excessive consumption of cold music in this interpretition of an avantgardistic thinking artist. The 5-song single is completed with a really complex animation video, which catches the threatening atmosphere of the title song.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Hear Them Whisper 02 - The Night After 03 - Hear Them Whisper II 04 - December Nightingale 05 - Hear Them Whisper III |
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Friday, 10 June 2011 10:27
Jonny Rumble - JR
GENRE: Rock, Indie, Alternative
Label: Rock Proper
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:30:52
Jonny Rumble knows about hurricanes: During 2003-2004, the members of Jonny Rumble lived in Cocoa, Florida. In the summer of 2004, their area was hit by three hurricanes in 40 days; Charley, Ivan, and Jeanne. The last hurricane in the series, Jeanne, put a tree through Brian’s roof and completely destroyed the home of Patrick, Seth, and Jeremy. They moved to Chicago a few weeks later.
Jonny Rumble knows justice: Patrick spent three days in Cook County Jail when he was mistakenly picked up after a show in Logan Square for an erroneous bench warrant. Brian had to spend the night in the Kalamazoo city jail for a college house party that simply grew out of control.
Jonny Rumble knows grand theft: Seth’s Dodge Caravan, better known as “Cara” or “Dennis Rod-Van,” was stolen from Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood on MLK Day, 2010. The Chicago Heights Police Department recovered the van a week later with a broken steering column, missing radio and a layer of graffiti covering the interior.
In an unrelated incident in Daytona, a fan was held at gunpoint after a show; the assailant took the fan’s blowhorn.
Jonny Rumble knows dentistry: In the band’s first few months together, Jeremy lost several teeth and cut his lips in a terrific frisbee related face-plant. He had trouble singing for weeks because of the stitches in his mouth and lips. During a show in Chicago, Seth lost a tooth when he broke a drumstick hitting a symbol. A piece of the stick hit him in the mouth and knocked one of his front teeth out.
Jonny Rumble knows Credence Clearwater Revival: During a rowdy camping trip, Patrick had to be hopitallized for several days after he walked over hot coals to prove his love for Credence Clearwater Revival. He played a show in Miami the day of his release with bloody bandages wrapped around his right foot. To help soothe the pain the bar played CCR all night in between bands.
Label: Rock Proper
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:30:52
Jonny Rumble knows about hurricanes: During 2003-2004, the members of Jonny Rumble lived in Cocoa, Florida. In the summer of 2004, their area was hit by three hurricanes in 40 days; Charley, Ivan, and Jeanne. The last hurricane in the series, Jeanne, put a tree through Brian’s roof and completely destroyed the home of Patrick, Seth, and Jeremy. They moved to Chicago a few weeks later.
Jonny Rumble knows justice: Patrick spent three days in Cook County Jail when he was mistakenly picked up after a show in Logan Square for an erroneous bench warrant. Brian had to spend the night in the Kalamazoo city jail for a college house party that simply grew out of control.
Jonny Rumble knows grand theft: Seth’s Dodge Caravan, better known as “Cara” or “Dennis Rod-Van,” was stolen from Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood on MLK Day, 2010. The Chicago Heights Police Department recovered the van a week later with a broken steering column, missing radio and a layer of graffiti covering the interior.
In an unrelated incident in Daytona, a fan was held at gunpoint after a show; the assailant took the fan’s blowhorn.
Jonny Rumble knows dentistry: In the band’s first few months together, Jeremy lost several teeth and cut his lips in a terrific frisbee related face-plant. He had trouble singing for weeks because of the stitches in his mouth and lips. During a show in Chicago, Seth lost a tooth when he broke a drumstick hitting a symbol. A piece of the stick hit him in the mouth and knocked one of his front teeth out.
Jonny Rumble knows Credence Clearwater Revival: During a rowdy camping trip, Patrick had to be hopitallized for several days after he walked over hot coals to prove his love for Credence Clearwater Revival. He played a show in Miami the day of his release with bloody bandages wrapped around his right foot. To help soothe the pain the bar played CCR all night in between bands.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Cox Road 02 - Handgun Blues 03 - BRZRKR 04 - Victim of the Times 05 - Stumped 06 - Courtney's Basement 07 - To Foolishness 08 - Opportunities 09 - Toe The Line 10 - Time |
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