February 2011
1 post
It's 2am and I'm listening to static
And I’m realizing how much I miss you guys. I thought I’d got it out of my system, I thought I was through with you, but looks like I’m not, otherwise why would in the world would I be here at 2am.
(this isn’t a music post, more of a personal note)
I’ve done a lot of thinking since I was kicked from the guild and left Gaia, and most of my thinking has lead me to...
July 2009
29 posts
THIS IS MUSIC? WHAT
For about four years now I’ve been consistently listening to noise. Noise, as many are aware, is not a genre for the uninitiated. It is not something that you can just pick up out of the blue and start listening to without having a background in some extreme form of music. For me, I was introduced to noise via industrial.
But how does one explain such a genre as noise to a noise (or...
Norma Jean- Sludge Metal?
A few years ago, I would have considered myself a pretty dedicated fan of the band Norma Jean; after hearing one of my scenester friends wanking to them for a while, I decided to pick up what was, at that time, their new album Redeemer. I thoroughly enjoyed the album’s Botch-esque, noisy mathcore for about a year, but after a while, my interest in the band waned. When their most recent album,...
Sainkho Namtchylak - "Stepmother City"
A hushed wind instrument blows through your ears, making way for a high moan from the lips of Sainkho Namtchylak. Upon listening to the opening track of Stepmother City, you feel as if you’ve come upon a steep mountain, covered in snow and blown by wind. This is fitting, since Natchylak comes from Tuva, a tiny republic of Russia, bordering Mongolia.
The song ends, and we are suddenly...
Have you heard SND?
They’re quite alien. Almost too minimal, too clinical. They sound like loads of white cubes on a white backdrop reconfiguring themselves all the time. It’s more about the lines and the spaces between, kind of architectural. When they do something that’s familiar in style to something else, it’s shorn of any kind of identity it might have had. Just like looking at binary...
Andrew Jackson Jihad - "Can't Maintain"
Quirky, Phoenix-based folk-punk group Andrew Jackson Jihad have, in the five years since they formed, released a considerable volume of material, as well as become one of the more talked-about bands of the indie-folk scene. The duo (well, duo for the most part) turned-out several EPs and splits before finally releasing their official debut album People That Can Eat People are the Luckiest People...
Harry Potter and the Half-Decent Movie
Being that I was never into the whole Harry Potter deal, going to a movie is supposed to be fun because I don’t have to take myself seriously. I’ve only seen two of the movies, and they’re just fun to watch. I see the adventures of aspiring wizards in an unsually cloudy whacked-out world full of mystery, etc
I just sat through two-and-a-half hours of filler. It was cool and all,...
Me and Jared Leto
So this happened about 4 years ago, right around the the height of the shitty christian metalcore scene. Some of my high school friends decided to start a very shitty little metalcore band. Since no one else could drive, I was paid to haul equipment and just act like a dick to everyone else. They were my friends so, hey, they where used to me being a prick. So after a few concerts and being banned...
Mouth of the Architect
Amongst the most promising of the post-metal acts that have appreared since the turn of the new century, Mouth of the Architect may well be leading the pack. While many of their contemporaries can, with all right, be considered just more artistic twists on sludge metal, Mouth of the Architect are one of the stand-out acts who, rather than merely incorporating elements of other genres, truly...
Rude people and Arguments and RAGE.
You know what really angers me, ticks me off, grinds my gears, is a personal pet peev, etc etc etc? When people open their motherfucking mouths and voice their fucking useless opinion but can’t stand to have that opinion challeneged. People that say things and get into an argument but don’t provide and support to their side, they don’t argue back, they don’t fucking show...
A quick note
The soft rolls of thunder are gradually getting louder, a sound more pleasing to my ears than anything captured on recordable medium. Call it my favorite song, and no two listens are ever the same. A collection of natural percussion, blended with the rustle of trees and the soft distant roar of various automobiles rushing home to seek shelter from the audibly appealing danger looming overhead.
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There I sat, wired on caffeine and god knows what, vacant eyed and dreary in an emergency room. Surrounded on all sides by the dregs of the city. The horrors I saw were not of the blood and flesh, but that of the twisted mangled humanity that only can be seen at a hospital after midnight.
Time slinked slowly as I tried to keep myself sane, hoping that the bombings in Indonesia would proved some...
The Depreciation Guild
Not much of a discography. The group is still fairly fresh. Any good friends of mine have already heard me preaching the good news of the swirly, digital Nintendogaze revolution that is The Depreciation Guild. These wonder-workers have found the ultimate formula for pure bliss in musical form, and I have been given the O.K. to share it with everyone else. Sweet!
Obtain the pure essence of music...
Space Team Electra - "Vortex Flower"
Rising from the otherwise forgettable late-nineties Denver music scene, the dream-pop-laden, shoegazy Space Team Electra came out of nowhere to produce one of the most suprising and hauntingly beutiful albums of the decade, The Vortex Flower. Eschewing the feedback and noisy effects characteristic of most of their contemporaries within the genre, STE chose to instead focus on creating a cleaner,...
O Record Player
Even after becoming an adult, we never really put our toys away. They just look a little different than they used to. Some things, however, never change.
Collecting records is unexplainable fun. It’s a simple, rewarding hobby. I can own digital music and still have the motivation to buy a hard copy. A Compact Disc could be convenient, but in this day and age an mp3 player can plug into...
By golly that man is talking about race!
Here I drew a picture:
People should grow a pair when it comes to racism and other similar differences. Stop worryng about being offensive and don’t bother to be offended.
In fact people should stop getting all offended over everything. Lot less stress that way really. See if/when I get called a cracker or a fence hopper or what ever slur I just kind of brush it off. I don’t put so...
Discordance Axis - "The Inalienable Dreamless"
Something that might interest the more savage of listeners about Discordance Axis; the band only split up due to the fact that one of their guitarists began having seizures from standing too close to the amps. So, literally, this music will give you seizures.
I’ve yet to experience any literal seizures, however I have had mental seizures due to this album. From the opening of the...
flashlights
pouring their soul into their particular brand of lo-fi, this band haunts the houses of brevard county, florida, with their specter like sounds. there’s a legitimate honesty and sincerity that pervades the music, beyond what’s offered by the (intentionally)undeveloped sound quality. it’s something like if casper the friendly ghost grew the fuck up and met the world.
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There's A Joke Somewhere In This, I Just Don't...
Sex Music There has always been a linking between the two. It seems that music has a fundamentally erotic nature. It releases our primal urges, and allows us to get down the basest of animal instincts. But the combining of the two always seems to go hand in hand in the media’s eye. Sex is music and music is sex. So whats my point exactly? None really. But can the proper tune make you the Genius...
Perceval Gage - "Perceval Gage / Eye of the Horus...
Perceval Gage, a post-metal quartet founded in 2004 in London, England, is one of the acts that I’ve been enjoying the most recently. The group is more driving and up-tempo than your trypical post-metal band, infusing elements of death metal, progressive rock, and even a touch of the melodic sensibilities of viking metal, into a thoroughly enjoyable product. The band has two EPs currently...
This is bloody chickentown.
If you’ve seen Control, recall the scene where a lanky man in a suit with sunglasses is reciting a poem where “Fucking” is every other word. That man was John Cooper Clarke. For the sake of those who have not seen Control, here is the poem Evidently Chickentown, which is also in an epsode of The Sopranos It is by far his best. Another one of his poems was placed inside The Arctic...
What did I just do?
SPOILERS AHEAD
So, I just watched the movie Knowing. Nicholas Cage may very well be my favorite person on the planet. I’ll go ahead and skip saying the obvious things that should be said (but have already been said and are still being said) about this mess of thrilling confusion and blasphemy and simply say this: Ridiculous. I had an unimaginably sinful good time watching this retarded...
Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils
I was told to listen to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum by a co-worker of mine. I listened to a couple tracks, they were decent, but I kept thinking to myself “This band would be so much better if they stayed instrumental.” The male vocalist in the band would absolutely kill every song he was in for me. So today I was listening to Last.fm radio and Miasma & the Carousel of Headless...
Art and You Slut! - Critical Meat Review
Here’s a gift from me to you, chaps:
Well now that’s out of the way expect to see more random shit drawings from me. Since I have nothing better to do than doodle and what not you might see this kind of stuff pretty frequently.
Now then onto a music review no one will care about.
Critical Meat by You Slut!
You Slut! is a four piece instrumental math-rock band from...
Fantomas - "Suspended Animation"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6WvyYDimA
The term “avant-garde”, when used as a genre name, is not particularly specific. It can mean merely just a more abstract brand of progressive rock, or it can be used to describe an entirely different envisionment of the concept of the song itself. Fantomas’ 2006 album, Suspended Animation, is a shining example of the latter. As it...
Joe - Grimelight / Rut
Hessle Audio, HES007
I found this single (and this label) at a time when it felt like Dubstep and Grime could show me nothing new. Caspa and Rusko have ushered in a new era of Jump Up for Dubstep and promising Grime MC’s can’t seem to find a good beat.
These tracks, rather rhythms, just murder almost anything around at the moment. There’s a sleekness to them, all extraneous...
Cult Ritual - 1rst LP
Tampa’s Cult Ritual can be described in two words: noisey fun. They sound like everything a good hardcore band should sound like; pissed vocals, blistering feedback (without trying to sound like quasi-noise rock wankery), and abrasive lyrics (“EVERYONE GETS FUCKED TONIGHT, EVERYONE GETS FUCK ALL NIGHT”). For someone who primarilly listens to grindcore and noise, I was...
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The Hipster's Civil War
Format Wars. The fight between to analogues choices of digital media. A war between opposing spectrums that unite the masses of the people, leading to a would be blood bath that can darken even the most morally ambiguous soul. It bleeds all over, crossing lines between entertainment and art. So what’s left? Mix Tapes vs Mix CDs
_________________ Of course I’m biased. I prefer the old analogue...