Yeah, we're doin' this

Oh man, what a month, man. And man, you would not believe the amount of things to which I had to attend. But, man, we're back, and thank you cats for keeping the submissions rolling in & I gotta say, the readership is on the small side but "quality of quantity" all the way because I haven't disliked a single thing I've been sent so far. I guess I'm not on the "master list" that gets a line every time a band drops an album, but instead I seem to get things on a case-by-case basis; people send things in after having read the blog & getting a feel for what I'll dig. & I dig it, cats, I dig it. So if you're in Cygnets, Mickey Mickey Rourke, Planning for Burial, Lonesummer, Bikini, Pre-compass, Dongles, Aura, The Slaves, or wow I am behind but I haven't forgotten.

True Womanhood - "Night Prowlers"

[dream pop, sort of]
Recommended if you like: reverb, beats, bass; all of the above but not in dance music



Download "Night Prowlers

nite prowlers by truewomanhood

If I can just quote the email I got from the band: "The song is almost entirely made up of samples we made by clanging pieces of metal around in a mile-long sewer tunnel + bass guitar, 808 drumz, and vocals- all run through a severely malfunctioning tape delay."... are you not already enthralled, allured, excited? This track really straddles the line between "totally bangin' good-time" and "dark experimental whatever", especially in the opening where the sewer-pipe Cthulhu beckons against ominous drones and drum machine clapdowns (of course). Then the whole thing eventually swells into throbbing basswork and that promised 808, which is I guess danceable but there's just so much going on all around the core here that it's hard to really tell what you're supposed to do. Well, to start, go download the track above & give it a couple listens, try to figure it out & grab the Last Rites 7" coming out soon.

TRUE WOMANHOOD