tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46399146903099890412024-03-05T14:28:41.650-08:00Young Pilot Astraymusic is okyoungpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-89550900040134237692011-05-28T19:52:00.000-07:002011-05-28T20:16:41.390-07:00dyvnzmbr<div style="text-align: justify;">I'm a bit late to this, but one of my absolute favourite music blogs out there, <a href="http://dayvanzombear.blogspot.com/">DAYVAN ZOMBEAR</a>, has started up a Kickstarter to fund DZ TAPES, the record label that's soon-to-be-a-thing. I can't tell you how much great, great stuff I've gotten from that page; it's an absolute goldmine of everything falling under the umbrella of "Experimental", from noise to pyschedelia to lo-fi pop with a whole lot of made-up genres that sound like exactly the sort of thing you want to hear. So with your contributions, DZ TAPES is going to be releasing original up-and-coming artists (oh god, "up and coming", did I really...) which, if the rest of the blog is any measure of taste, will all be <span style="font-style: italic;">fantastic.</span><br /><br />Don't think I'd ask you to donate for nothing, though. For your donation of $8[US]/$10[CAN/MEX]/$12[THERE ARE OTHER PLACES?], you'll get a tape (and MP3s) full of ~exclusive~ tracks by a bunch of artists that fall into the (vast) DYVNZMBR <span style="font-style:italic;">vibe</span>, including some big[ger] hitters like <span style="font-weight:bold;">Foxes in Fiction</span>, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sleep In</span>, and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chris Rehm</span> (who recently put out a killer record called <span style="font-style:italic;">Worries, etc</span> which I have yet to write about and yes, I do hate myself for being so slow on it). The real cool part is that your donation also buys a tape for one of the contributing artists, so they have something to cherish/sell/show off for their efforts. And you're helping launch what's sure to be an incredible label. Win/win/win.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1449272774/dyvnzmbr-community-compilation-cassette">PUT YOUR MONEY HERE</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrp57sWC0_xs6zbczpT8nb89Oxx8cB1JnEBVO2ahpnoF_OmDd_GkHHaa9o1HM9dlQeGTjqrRrijm1f1SRdddUT2a8a2Mk90gZuwcLurkfmOUG51lvYht3dcvEFeNK7s8v4dT-8glNRAO-/s1600/photo-full.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrp57sWC0_xs6zbczpT8nb89Oxx8cB1JnEBVO2ahpnoF_OmDd_GkHHaa9o1HM9dlQeGTjqrRrijm1f1SRdddUT2a8a2Mk90gZuwcLurkfmOUG51lvYht3dcvEFeNK7s8v4dT-8glNRAO-/s320/photo-full.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611968875727450274" border="0" /></a></div>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-20217219690222421112011-05-26T21:26:00.000-07:002011-05-26T21:46:49.856-07:00you know it's b-a-d when I have to visit my own blog to remember my formatting<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Vit - <span style="font-style: italic;">-</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">[black metal, sludge, doom]<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIiFqCmqrIYY-i1N54lCtjAkEJx72t7a4SAC2YmffQsPc4SydmEEbjL0vCCb7RtIqTJtBUKC3jt1lQ-ouie-lYWrUTf3wp2h1J92MlCCXusbJrIfGLqbcPDuBFzG9Sk0zx2qquUJdyJCts/s1600/3383104740-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIiFqCmqrIYY-i1N54lCtjAkEJx72t7a4SAC2YmffQsPc4SydmEEbjL0vCCb7RtIqTJtBUKC3jt1lQ-ouie-lYWrUTf3wp2h1J92MlCCXusbJrIfGLqbcPDuBFzG9Sk0zx2qquUJdyJCts/s320/3383104740-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611249155188358194" border="0" /></a>Yeah, <span style="font-style: italic;">doom-laden blacksludge</span>. It's the sort of record you have to slowly peel and grind off your skin after listening to it - it <span style="font-style:italic;">will</span> do everything in its power to suffocate, bruise, drown, and otherwise <span style="font-style:italic;">oppress</span> you and if you're the kind of cat who's still around after reading that genre checklist and soaking in that beautifully bleak cover art then you're the ideal to candidate to be locked up in that shack yourself (look closer & don't come back until you see it). Luckily, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Vit</span> are a part of the movement in black metal that has, sadly, only really come around recently, wherein a) outside influences are a-okay, and b) "oppressive" and "bruising" don't mean triple-digit BPM all the way through (wait, is that a-okay? Am I being untrue? Can black metal be "a-okay"?). The draw here, and what makes this album infinitely more engaging, is the use of dynamics. The slow passages, the clean passages, the ambient passages - once the riff does kick in, it's a hundred times more brutal after being teased at for minutes at a time. Likewise, there's a huge doom influence, making this a fairly plodding record throughout (plodding as a positive thing, natch) meaning that when the tempo is dialed up it's all the more <span style="font-style:italic;">electrifying</span>. Really, I can't remember the last time "sort of fast" was <span style="font-style:italic;">this</span> thrilling, but it just speaks to the expert sense of pacing from start to finish. Thrilling in a "<span style="font-style:italic;">I wish I was dead</span>" sort of way.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://vitmusic.bandcamp.com/album/-">Download/listen/stream.</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.musicruinslives.bigcartel.com/product/vit-cd-mrl10-preorder">Buy from Music Ruins Lives </a></span>(ltd. to 100)youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-82884220773364117762011-04-19T09:42:00.002-07:002011-04-19T09:51:13.156-07:00Sleeping Heart<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Giles Corey - </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">"Sleeping Heart"<br />[goth-folk]<br /></span><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21320369?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21320369">Giles Corey- Sleeping Heart</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/justindonais">Justin Donais</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br />Easily one of my most anticipated albums of the year is the upcoming full-length by <span style="font-weight:bold;">Giles Corey</span> - aka one half of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Have a Nice Life</span> - which has been a <i>long</i> time coming, having demos kicking around the internet since basically HANL came out as totally a thing. Totally downer doom-country that, while not explicitly about being <a href="http://www.talesoferotichorror.com/Giles_Corey.jpg">crushed to death</a>, is nonetheless thematically heavy and oppressive with the music ranging from stripped-down voice-and-guitar suicide notes to surprisingly lush ghostly full-band Americana. Pre-orders should be going live soon, and of <i>course</i> the <a href="http://i.imgur.com/jGnXt.png">packaging is going to be phenomenal</a> and include some lengthy, vague/threatening "book" that is sure to end lives.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-21487932912985690002011-04-19T09:42:00.001-07:002011-04-19T09:42:45.288-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA3JEt-l7whIWd_ejwLK99ieQ3AIFyOxkK9c86sdIEsIBKgoiR-LDymVkicAVMwpinXG0WmUfIq8q755KLgJHzAyWqCzTr0ELQqZsZFiyg2c6cs7o3i37CMpaLYShcc7jGmni3SkQ1kiOB/s1600/Slowly%252C+Slowly%252CSlowly+said+the+Sloth.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA3JEt-l7whIWd_ejwLK99ieQ3AIFyOxkK9c86sdIEsIBKgoiR-LDymVkicAVMwpinXG0WmUfIq8q755KLgJHzAyWqCzTr0ELQqZsZFiyg2c6cs7o3i37CMpaLYShcc7jGmni3SkQ1kiOB/s320/Slowly%252C+Slowly%252CSlowly+said+the+Sloth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597336024719150914" border="0" /></a>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-44534467401543513432011-04-08T02:19:00.000-07:002011-04-08T02:23:24.021-07:00MUSIC IS GREATHi everyone, hi<br />Hi<br />Hey<br />Yeah<br />OK<br />Last month+ has been nonstop reading reading reading with some writing writing writing. Obviously not one of those writings was <span style="font-style: italic;">here</span> but academia called, y'know. Thousands of words later, countless hours in my <span style="font-style: italic;">study</span>, and I think I'm back in action, and I think this time I might mean it. Maybe. Hm.<br /><br />Thanks to everyone who has continued to send me stuff over the last few weeks/months - sorry to everyone who has continued to send me stuff over the last few weeks/months. I'll get around to it. Really. Feel free to resend it, and feel free to <span style="font-style: italic;">totally call me out</span> in the subject line -- I deserve it.<br /><br />YPA 2.0<br />STARTS<br />HERE<br />(soon)<br />(I still have exams ok sorry)<br /> (and like, a job)<br /> (patience)<br /><br />luv,<br />Calvin/YPAyoungpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-42020258807021380672011-03-25T23:31:00.000-07:002011-03-25T23:32:11.281-07:00guysI dunno, guys. Music is kinda lame.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-36010339552343112972011-03-09T22:38:00.000-08:002011-03-09T22:55:38.138-08:00help me out, guys<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Caddywhompus </span>- "Age of Wild Spirits"</span> (single)<br />[experimental pop, post-everything, proto-somethingelse]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGvqyqOzN1ABV4kPzTtHGUNOkIbSmvn2TYcLHuuLtbnEPbtfm15LjUlBnzPehLhm1czJUBVvCJKZbVDbbt0qharEhzNn1Eu-hNhcnSerB_81LmxvmpA2coo6BUy2YBCBpJzT7Zx1sqh_C/s1600/caddywhompus_cover3-380x380.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGvqyqOzN1ABV4kPzTtHGUNOkIbSmvn2TYcLHuuLtbnEPbtfm15LjUlBnzPehLhm1czJUBVvCJKZbVDbbt0qharEhzNn1Eu-hNhcnSerB_81LmxvmpA2coo6BUy2YBCBpJzT7Zx1sqh_C/s320/caddywhompus_cover3-380x380.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582337767302514850" border="0" /></a>Yeah, with a name like that, you know you're getting in to something good. "Experimental pop" is way too vague, I know, but that's really what it is. It's an entirely manic single: impossible to follow but curiously hook-laden thanks to the vocals. It's a total blast to actual hear something that you can't predict, from the drone-swell build-up to the spazzy bursts of blastbeats and all sorts of off-kilter mathy riffing recklessly thrown about when it's not a flattening wall of sound. The sort of song that begs to be immediately re-listened to even if you didn't like it because you'll want to try (and fail) to <span style="font-style: italic;">understand</span> the thing. But, I mean, you won't not like it, that's impossible, sorry.<br /><br />Now there is where you help me and help yourselves: if you click that link below and download the single, and do it 7498 more times (or tell your friends of whatever, this thing just needs to hit 7500 downloads total), the new Caddywhompus EP gets released <span style="font-style: italic;">right then and there</span> instead of in <span style="font-style: italic;">May.</span> I, for one, can't wait that long for more of whatever this is, so download it and get all your bros to do the same.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.communityrecords.org/ageofwildspirits"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DOWNLOAD.</span></a></span>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-83663932941085076302011-03-01T20:31:00.000-08:002011-03-01T20:56:55.056-08:00Kurdaitcha<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mamaleek </span>- <span style="font-style: italic;">Kurdaitcha<br /></span></span><br />[black metal, experimental]<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTYl4D7hendzZmL7oBQsp_GTv5eDPKylPYKfg5S8-RpbVlvZQw8cV6nzfCPcBRdxldcFWVqURoCNFYoBXKC98gVYvt0MMeP0HR5rW2jlexMqRhFEQjZOX3nePSZ406sAB2oM_qI2HqhHFH/s1600/mamaleek_kurdaitcha_sm.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTYl4D7hendzZmL7oBQsp_GTv5eDPKylPYKfg5S8-RpbVlvZQw8cV6nzfCPcBRdxldcFWVqURoCNFYoBXKC98gVYvt0MMeP0HR5rW2jlexMqRhFEQjZOX3nePSZ406sAB2oM_qI2HqhHFH/s320/mamaleek_kurdaitcha_sm.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579336956027317826" border="0" /></a> Alright, quick one today, basically to tell you to go listen to this. Yeah, yeah, it's tagged "black metal", but only because "post-black metal" would be silly. But this really is beyond what you think of as black metal; absolutely recklessly creative. I could say a million more things about this but I don't feel all that qualified having only listened to it once. What I <i>can</i> say in absolute confidence is that there are exciting things happening in black metal once again, and it's all coming from an anonymous bedroom in San Francisco. Grim, huh? (Ok, maye not <i>all</i> of it, because the new <b>Gnaw Their Tongues</b> is fantastically out there for the genre, too). The whole thing is available as a "pay what you want" download or as a high-quality, limited to 150 vinyl record.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.enemieslist.net/mamaleek/">Download | Donate | Buy</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Also, here's why I haven't been keeping up:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_69GskQ8gg05h2trglAXwqGvuVj4skJ2LMNrpxLpHX5Eofg_Hm61Zpu1JMa-NnZWvTB1XEA_OC4Wqt4S-GMLeX1Cl7p6_N7rPtdygXPAiXbAF8IwGB-hqcSb8ye-ooWYnmgG2mSH590ha/s1600/Picture0172.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_69GskQ8gg05h2trglAXwqGvuVj4skJ2LMNrpxLpHX5Eofg_Hm61Zpu1JMa-NnZWvTB1XEA_OC4Wqt4S-GMLeX1Cl7p6_N7rPtdygXPAiXbAF8IwGB-hqcSb8ye-ooWYnmgG2mSH590ha/s200/Picture0172.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579341691717216114" border="0" /></a><br />bear with meyoungpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-8361391574185091682011-02-15T08:49:00.000-08:002011-02-15T09:05:27.025-08:00untitled<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Planning for Burial</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> - </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >(Untitled</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >EP)</span><br />[doomgaze, black metal, post-rock]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5s2V1A-wIGOtGWqu0050KLwKBJqp-I-6D0GuzQhdkT7xzuv-GEuO_C_Bihvqbqx_0053qfajDKPU-GlNEdvbgd0K4_DCISUuTtnNxPIfNENC3UUf2GP1DM9MNSHplnpn35Zs3PkOXCsL/s1600/2607303554-1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5s2V1A-wIGOtGWqu0050KLwKBJqp-I-6D0GuzQhdkT7xzuv-GEuO_C_Bihvqbqx_0053qfajDKPU-GlNEdvbgd0K4_DCISUuTtnNxPIfNENC3UUf2GP1DM9MNSHplnpn35Zs3PkOXCsL/s320/2607303554-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573960243498317458" border="0" /></a>It's a bit unnerving when one single band - or, for that matter, one single <i>musician</i> - can so deftly capture and combine all my favourite things about music at once. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Planning For Burial</span> has done that twice already in two decidedly different ways: once with the sprawling, heart-wrenching filthy post-gaze (whatever) <i>Leaving</i> and then again on the, relatively-speaking, clean-cut slowcore on the split with <b>Lonesummer</b>. The new single here - originally intended as a 7" which sadly never came into fruition - is self-described as a meeting of these sounds, but more than that, it's a perfection two. Opener "I Hope You Will Pick Me Out" is even more grim, ferocious and blissed out all at once than anything on <i>Leaving</i>, and "Annick" was basically born to break hearts, sounding like an even more low-key <b>Low</b> with guitar solos ripped straight from late-era <b>Talk Talk</b> (yeah, I know, right, could things get better?). This is probably going to start slipping into slack-jawed fanboyism (if it hasn't already), but really, check it out. No one is forging sounds as sublimely as this.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://musicruinslives.bandcamp.com/album/untitled">Download/stream/buy.</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">(Physical CD limited to 60 copies w/ exclusive extra-long alternate take of <i>Leaving</i>'s soul-crushing eponymous closer.)</span><br /></span></div>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-68855768155709884302011-02-11T21:46:00.000-08:002011-02-11T21:56:20.648-08:00musikdramen<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wahlheim</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">Songs That Are Not Part of Ambitious Musikdramen </span></span><br />[pop, emo, home-recording]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZhwafXcWalTFQ8CLO5xBkHgdjTSB8HHizQfRwixMRVasgbebuMtQl-bJlqzzQ74cQvwvyCxfeznofUr2Y4D1FWG9bLiIHyUw2kU_TshimoUHTC1ytoXFhgtKDIf0nWXPKzPSkqQcrwgi/s1600/lmao001.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZhwafXcWalTFQ8CLO5xBkHgdjTSB8HHizQfRwixMRVasgbebuMtQl-bJlqzzQ74cQvwvyCxfeznofUr2Y4D1FWG9bLiIHyUw2kU_TshimoUHTC1ytoXFhgtKDIf0nWXPKzPSkqQcrwgi/s320/lmao001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572675924024999874" border="0" /></a><br />Mid-fi mid-90's <a href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/57024001.jpg">emo</a>-pop with morbid goth sensibilities & irresistible melodies so you know you've already clicked that link. This is the first/only release by Wahlheim, a two-song digital 7" which might sound silly in theory but it's a 14mb download so divide that by sides A/B (i.e., 2) then go and collect the grey matter dripping out of your ears when you've realized what that means. It's shamelessly catchy and fairly upbeat but it's presented with such a killer aesthetic that you won't have a problem checking it out. Besides, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wahlheim</span> sounds grim as fuck, so you know these <s>infectious</s> plague-bearing choruses are in good hands.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://leontopithecus.org/music/LMAO-001-STANPoAM_V0.zip"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Download.</span></a><br /></span></div><br /><br />Also available: <a href="http://leontopithecus.org/bluejay.jpg">this picture of a bluejay</a>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-79223931892863046022011-02-01T09:29:00.000-08:002011-02-01T09:49:13.818-08:00blackout<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Expo '70</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">Blackout</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">[psychedelic, drone, space rock, noise]</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCptMDiXPiXNn8IE8EmNxDLrr0UMntfFLH9I8H1BOGjUGqtQB4e6pNkwJz9Npp0WQ8sqVco9hLhyHbRmzK8fShZ8uJ-PrTuFLitrBRUKQE34B_hp3psauTu5zLbrdKQGI-_uLglTBSONvA/s1600/blackout.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCptMDiXPiXNn8IE8EmNxDLrr0UMntfFLH9I8H1BOGjUGqtQB4e6pNkwJz9Npp0WQ8sqVco9hLhyHbRmzK8fShZ8uJ-PrTuFLitrBRUKQE34B_hp3psauTu5zLbrdKQGI-_uLglTBSONvA/s320/blackout.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568775290850268546" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/blackout"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Download/stream/buy here.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Two half-hour blissed-out excursions into whatever cosmic voids </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Expo '70</b><span style="font-family:arial;"> tore open in Ithaca and Manhattan (tracks 1 and 2, respectively). It's Expo '70 doing what Expo '70 do, have done, and will continue to do indefinitely at an alarming rate, made extra alarming by how </span><i style="font-family: arial;">good</i><span style="font-family:arial;"> it is. Recorded live, allegedly "on less sleep than you can imagine", the duo takes things to the more weightless side of their sound with impossibly huge, dense celestial drones that refuse to be anchored by the comparatively timid drum machine. Two sprawling pieces of improvisation and neo-psych meanderings prove the band to be at the top of whatever game it is they're playing, if for some reason their expansive </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/expo_70">and curiously/appropriately highly-rated discography</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> hasn't tipped you off yet. Stream it for free above or throw $8 out for a limited (200) CDr.</span>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-18681602188589434562011-01-20T12:09:00.000-08:002011-01-20T12:30:28.966-08:00fast reverse<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Orange Blossom Flyover</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">Fast Reverse </span></span><br />[shoegaze]<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibGcfGb4ZHDESsRtWeeCT9PIJbLJNMMwJL630kf8o4YkawiaTTRWE7JNJ8OMGKNW2EC-cbUenrO956nh_9vwyQKkbY5TgCLfZPSNRdHWSZLd-JWkSvOMJwrzPRIABBbh3ybRy6yI_G0X0H/s1600/2006620707-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibGcfGb4ZHDESsRtWeeCT9PIJbLJNMMwJL630kf8o4YkawiaTTRWE7JNJ8OMGKNW2EC-cbUenrO956nh_9vwyQKkbY5TgCLfZPSNRdHWSZLd-JWkSvOMJwrzPRIABBbh3ybRy6yI_G0X0H/s320/2006620707-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564364260888651394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://orangeblossomflyover.bandcamp.com/album/fast-reverse">Download/stream.</a></span><br /><br />Short & sweet nine-minute EP of beat-driven shoegaze. It's an interesting take on the style, pushing the surprisingly lively beats to the front but it works, especially in the closer "Vicarious Rooms of Gold" where the guitars and vocals feel more rhythmic, too; those shoes are <i>tapping</i>. The whole EP is really just <i>driven</i> - it has a sense of momentum that, elsewhere in this genre, gets lost in the cavernous reverb and swirling modulation. It's about as focused as you can get while still feeling a million miles away. <br /><br />Also worth checking out is the <a href="http://orangeblossomflyover.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-horrors-from-hades"><i>Fresh Horrors from Hades</i> "EP"</a>, which is just the 7-minute "So By Your Spells": a gorgeous, hazy backwards-looking free-fall. The complete opposite of the above EP but absolutely worth a listen.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-49035334832775540172011-01-18T08:38:00.000-08:002011-01-18T08:55:04.556-08:00Minajah<span style="font-size:130%;">True Womanhood - "Minajah"</span><br />[Moombahton]<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluQ_W1ynjHLRCrGAM3J-pA-uW7W16c3aUhSg3WZirjP84f1Kvx0qKVz_Qa9icKg8-nZZCPReFO91wX2RB5DhGUtiYYvJF66koL5gEcM_f-5ySgqYNANWD1siDQ3hmu8pW64kKCUqm75vK/s1600/artworks-000004051842-4pwg7n-crop.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluQ_W1ynjHLRCrGAM3J-pA-uW7W16c3aUhSg3WZirjP84f1Kvx0qKVz_Qa9icKg8-nZZCPReFO91wX2RB5DhGUtiYYvJF66koL5gEcM_f-5ySgqYNANWD1siDQ3hmu8pW64kKCUqm75vK/s320/artworks-000004051842-4pwg7n-crop.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563570459481672178" /></a><br /><object height="225" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F512901"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="225" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F512901" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/truewomanhood/sets/reel-too-real">REEL TOO REAL</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/truewomanhood">truewomanhood</a></span> <br /><br />Sublimely catchy new one from <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/True+Womanhood/+tags">post-indie</a> forerunners <b>True Womanhood</b>. This is part of their immensely cool "Reel Too Real" series which is cool for reasons other than the dense punning I mean, look, all the songs are recorded on <a href="http://www.yoursistersmusic.com/tascam388-9.JPG">this.</a> Did you see <a href="http://www.yoursistersmusic.com/tascam388-9.JPG"></a>? Yeah, this synth-heavy stuttering grove was done through that monstrosity and, I am explicitly told, not through Ableton. I don't have a strong grasp of how electronic music is made & performed, really, but I have the inkling that Ableton makes it easy and this was not and that's <i>good</i>: reverb-drenched analog anti-technology fun-times dance tune. Bear with me when I say it's not "<i>obvious</i>" dance music aside from the rave synths (Moombahton synths?); no grating 4/4 drum machine beatdown, just organic & beat-driven & incidentally danceable.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-64650319270874372912011-01-04T08:50:00.000-08:002011-01-04T09:13:59.830-08:00whatever, dude<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tree Hopping</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Beat Band</span></span><br />[tropical lo-fi]<br />Recommended if you like: dancing in an exotic tin can telephone<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsiN7_PkH0sikDpPvQi8cgrOiF_XLBUDgAjPy9rc33TiBDfVHtHCm6SWo28AXgHzqXkbMfpYze8JnSBqYI51vEh3pNd1Ua0PmkvcKy4QLmXOQjtCToMPiSYLkN1WXSS0glbMxauoWasUi/s1600/beatband.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsiN7_PkH0sikDpPvQi8cgrOiF_XLBUDgAjPy9rc33TiBDfVHtHCm6SWo28AXgHzqXkbMfpYze8JnSBqYI51vEh3pNd1Ua0PmkvcKy4QLmXOQjtCToMPiSYLkN1WXSS0glbMxauoWasUi/s320/beatband.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558375827666969874" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://treehopping.bandcamp.com/album/the-beat-band">Stream it.</a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?eazujrbv5rmyq7i">Download.</a></span><br /><br />Back to school back to work it's January oh man <span style="font-style: italic;">c'mon</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tree Hopping</span>, though: we have Tree Hopping, thank god. <i>The Beat Band</i> is ferociously energetic and, despite being apparently composed mostly of loops and samples, is a coherent little package. It's a brisk half-hour but really, anything longer would've been exhausting because this LP is <span style="font-style: italic;">relentless</span>, chock-full of funky rhythm and wooping and sloppy guitar and shimmery keyboards; really, all in all, an album put out in entirely the wrong season 'cause it's summer in a .zip. Or maybe this is entirely timely - rays of tropical post-punk shining through yr S.A.D. Yeah there's tons of "no-fi bedroom pop" or whatever making the rounds right now, but Tree Hopping has <i>flavour</i> rather than the drab dourness that is most of the contemporaries. Fun fun fun and really a <span style="font-style: italic;">feel-good</span> record throughout; every bit as colourful as the album cover. If the first two tracks don't hook you then winter has claimed your soul and you need this more than you know.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-33146406179653427652010-12-26T10:26:00.000-08:002010-12-26T11:07:38.001-08:00viddy well, little brotherPeople still make music videos. Did you know? I was surprised, really; thought that it was a bit of an anachronism in an age when people can't be bothered to look at an album <i>cover</i>, never mind commit themselves to a video. But they're happening, and they land in my inbox from time to time, and it's the holidays, and I'm still behind, so let's both take it easy then, right?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Mickey Brown - </span> <i>Soul Glo</i> promo<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16547755" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16547755">Mickey Mickey Rourke- "Glo"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/abrampineda">A.P. Fischer</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br />I can barely keep up with the emails I get, so I've fallen <i>really</i> behind on <b>Mickey Mickey Rourke</b>'s manic release schedule (here as <b>Mickey Brown</b>, collaborating with <b>Lester Brown</b>). Which is really lame on my part, because his material is some of my favourite in "the genre", whatever it is. Droney, noisy, ambient, electronic, whatever. Y'know, that <b>Oneohtrix Point Never</b> / <b>Emeralds</b> / whatever psychedelic swath of <i>sound</i>. Fantastic stuff.<br /><br /><a href="http://mickeymickeyrourke.bandcamp.com/album/soul-glo"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Listen to all of "Soul Glo".</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Keith Canisuis - </span> <i>Inner blue, outer red</i><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17812680" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/17812680">Keith Canisius - Inner blue, outer red</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5480460">Keith Canisius</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a><br /><br />Speaking of psychedelic mess, <i>good lord</i> - I feel like should be dancing to this track but I'm afraid of my brain leaking out. So just sit tight at let this vaguely catchy, maybe danceable, wash over your ears/eyes. Very cool, lush electronic beats and synths practically drowned in delay and reverb. Almost like <b>Panda Bear</b>, only I promise you it's not nearly as boring.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/keithcanisius"><b>More tracks/more albums and some of them are even free</b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Pregnant</span> - <i>Wiff of Father</i><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15635046" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/15635046">Pregnant - Wiff of Father</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/cinemacaldera">Cinema Caldera</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a><br /><br />Very slick, even professional-looking video: the kind of which you might have actually seen on TV in an era gone by. Story-telling intercut with "performance" footage & what-have-you. Incredibly tight song, too, with hypnotically minimal guitar work and enthralling repetition that really hits its stride when the vocals come in. Lots of layers all barely fitting together, as maximal as minimal can get. I'm also super late on this one, so, like, is this guy popular yet? He should be. I'll definitely be writing more about this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.danielispregnant.com/music.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hear more/buy more.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Hear Hums</span> - <i>Cerebellum/Woo</i><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/17473778" frameborder="0" height="265" width="400"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/17473778">Cerebellum/Woo - Hear Hums</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2116713">Hear Hums</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a><br /><br /><i>Young Pilot Astray</i>: getting to you two months late or within the day. No compromise. I guess <b>Hear Hum</b> lucked out, emailing me the same day I planned on updating. Or, rather, I guess I lucked out that such a fantastic band emailed me. I hate to equate bands with other bands other than for the sake of "check this out if you like x" (what no I didn't already do it in this exact post what are you talking about no), but I am obligated, personally, to carry this one out: this is the band I wanted Animal Collective to be. This is what they hinted at on <i>Feels</i>, this is the sort of sound they fleetingly held dear, and that is what really breaks my heart about <i>that</i> band is that they were so close to being something really cool. Instead, bless 'em, we have Hear Hum, who don't exactly reference that per se (ok ok Avey Tare comparisons will be made in the vocals, ok ok that's it, sorry), but have the same <i>essence</i> if I may be a complete jerk-off and use a word like that. It's a huge sound, it's an organic sound, it's full of discovery and wonder and bombast and between the introduction and the climax is all fits so remarkably <i>naturally</i>. Incredible. Definitely going to post their LP here ASAP.</p>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-91876286601302104162010-12-14T20:48:00.001-08:002010-12-14T21:21:46.310-08:00pretend nothing happened oh wait it didn't<span style="font-size:130%;">Planning For Burial/Lonesummer - Split<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">[black metal/doomgaze/whatever]<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Recommended if you like:</span> the colour black, emotions [negative]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5g7aLN6Dxg0X9zdNY3AmQgFCoYj6Oy9rII_Cf7Dztvi0mnFZx4I5lvJW9B_ycWcbKm3YY9KUpbjC4cg0hH21_G0nikggiuwEjzjzbda7Z7q3N3J0PoA90bWcJLKEBNfjP4hAABVamDHle/s1600/PFBLS_Large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5g7aLN6Dxg0X9zdNY3AmQgFCoYj6Oy9rII_Cf7Dztvi0mnFZx4I5lvJW9B_ycWcbKm3YY9KUpbjC4cg0hH21_G0nikggiuwEjzjzbda7Z7q3N3J0PoA90bWcJLKEBNfjP4hAABVamDHle/s320/PFBLS_Large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550767391745785250" /></a><br /><br /><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F6109063&secret_url=false"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F6109063&secret_url=false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/planning-for-burial/preview-for-planning-for-burial-lonesummer-split">Preview for Planning For Burial Lonesummer Split</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/planning-for-burial">Planning For Burial</a></span> <br /><br />OR <a href="http://musicruinslives.bandcamp.com/album/planning-for-burial-lonesummer-split">stream/download/buy the whole thing here.</a><br /><br />If you're anything like me - and I daresay any casual readers here <i>are</i> - then genre-blending (done correctly) is something that probably tickles you <i>in a way</i>. Mount Eerie's <i>Wind's Poem</i>, for instance, was my favourite album last year thanks in no small part to its sublime and entirely natural fusion of black metal and Elverum's trademark timid folk. Now if we could just get John Darnielle to drop a hyperliterate death metal opus, we can officially be done with music. But until then, I guess, the search goes on.<br /><br /><b>Planning For Burial</b> <i>should</i> be familiar as the project that released one of my <i>other</i> favourites from last year, <i>Leaving</i>, which melted together some of my favourite things in the world (post-rock, shoegaze, doom, black metal) into a lurching beast of a record. He's back, with no-fi necromancer <b>Lonesummer</b>, who plays bedroom black metal with a big helping of sad on top, and together they've put out a fucking <i>downer</i> of a record which, of course, I implore you to buy.<br /><br />The Lonesummer half is possibly my favourite Lonesummer material to date, opening with the absolutely punishing )ironic old-timey radio samples aside) "Joy is a Burden" and sort of pulls off a black metal/noise fusion that I really thought <b>Wold</b> were going to do after all this "herp derp My Bloody Valentine meets black metal" bullshit I read but no no no this is much better, don't let the Wold comparison scare you off; this is what I wish Wold were like. Elsewhere, "I Wish I Could Delete Last Night" is the poppiest black metal track this year and will make a really neat song for your Myspace profile. And yeah, "Your Eyes Always Shake Me" is nothing like either of those either - essentially the ballad of his batch - and yeah, yeah, and yeah. This is black metal loves black metal as much as it loves telling it to go fuck itself.<br /><br />The flip side is the first new Planning for Burial material in too long and dials back the kitchen sink approach of <i>Leaving</i> into a more focused set of tracks, which is refreshing because it really makes this EP feel separate from the rest of his canon so far, as an EP should. Glacially paced, morbid and brooding and dense fog music that downplays the (comparative) bombast of the full-length. "Sleeping in Separate Rooms" is an entirely gorgeous daydream, all blurred and half-speed, and "If I Knew What to Say" eventually collects itself into a surreal, lush synth-heavy slowcore rumination.<br /><br />Also worth mentioning is that Thom - Mr. Burial himself - put this split out on his Music Ruins Lives label, which is ideologically my best friend-turned-record company and has already put out a few really worthwhile releases (including a Have a Nice Life cassette and a full-length by blackened genre-mockers Airs), so pay attention and don't miss anything.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.musicruinslives.bigcartel.com/"><span style="font-weight:bold;">MUSIC RUINS LIVES</span></a>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-24429913236629952942010-11-23T08:35:00.000-08:002010-11-23T08:58:25.378-08:00Yeah, we're doin' thisOh 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 <i>after having read the blog</i> & 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 <i>wow I am behind</i> but I haven't forgotten.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">True Womanhood - "Night Prowlers"<br /></span><br />[dream pop, sort of]<br /><b>Recommended if you like</b>: reverb, beats, bass; all of the above but not in dance music<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDtwQy8fMlvpdnWNUe8Fn_6ezML7vNK09bIVIUB66ilS6J4SJUFLw6QEdiwnbjffdQF1qkQ6Shyux_8jwftCcAlVKtXw0fKAtKdTE6HRCYGA4GmtuoEfibbmW4h-r9tJLTXJ4nYk4iKhg/s1600/niteprowl.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDtwQy8fMlvpdnWNUe8Fn_6ezML7vNK09bIVIUB66ilS6J4SJUFLw6QEdiwnbjffdQF1qkQ6Shyux_8jwftCcAlVKtXw0fKAtKdTE6HRCYGA4GmtuoEfibbmW4h-r9tJLTXJ4nYk4iKhg/s320/niteprowl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542785989810791170" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?c2t3wovuad53n9p">Download "Night Prowlers</a><br /><br /><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F6866118&secret_url=false"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F6866118&secret_url=false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/truewomanhood/nite-prowlers">nite prowlers</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/truewomanhood">truewomanhood</a></span> <br /><br />If I can just quote the email I got from the band: <i>"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."</i>... are you not already enthralled, allured, <i>excited</i>? 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 <i>guess</i> 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 <i>do</i>. 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.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.truewomanhood.com">TRUE WOMANHOOD</a>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-81720718503063871892010-10-27T12:43:00.000-07:002010-10-27T12:46:53.141-07:00Hey folks, still here. Sorry if you've emailed me regarding wanting to be posted: it's actually <span style="font-style:italic;">super cool</span> that I can't keep up with it. That sounds sarcastic, I admit, but I'm being serious. I'm now at the point where, if this pace keeps up, I'll be able to run this blog solely on artist submissions. So keep 'em coming. I've got a lot on the backburner right now, so if you've emailed me in the last couple weeks then just hang tight, it will be coming!<br /><br />In the meantime, been five kinds of obsessed with this jam, so dig on it while I take care of life.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k1F37VmwKJE?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k1F37VmwKJE?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-24914088336680942152010-10-13T10:32:00.000-07:002010-10-13T11:15:08.914-07:00skinnypricks<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">High in One Eye</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">Skinnypricks</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">[noise rock, hardcore]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended if you like:</span> Lightning Bolt (but they feel too tame for you), Jesus Lizard (but they're not noisy enough for you)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQ3GcjHgk8pFLvo9e1-KWHTkqntk-tzhrtFwcuJJmb_aDTYum6f-T5Bq7MHbFvpzmlg0uudbDWHt5_jPPu0HRozbJ9fRlZyIRDw3FSav1GmN1TN8ghBW-IWAGYHIUow8dA9_Y6dLvgnDq/s1600/sp.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQ3GcjHgk8pFLvo9e1-KWHTkqntk-tzhrtFwcuJJmb_aDTYum6f-T5Bq7MHbFvpzmlg0uudbDWHt5_jPPu0HRozbJ9fRlZyIRDw3FSav1GmN1TN8ghBW-IWAGYHIUow8dA9_Y6dLvgnDq/s320/sp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527586035272603602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://highinoneeye.bandcamp.com/album/skinnypricks"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Download/stream here.</span></a></span><br /><br />Less than 10 minutes of spontaneous, lo-fi aggression, apparently written and recorded in the space of two hours. This either is completely your thing or it is not at all, but it's free and <span style="font-style:italic;">less than ten minutes long</span>, so make it your thing. It's surprisingly good for something more or less unplanned; there's a lot of really cool ideas going on. Especially in the drum-heavy assault and battery of "Tease" (best vocals on the EP?) or downright doom-laden "Jack-of-all-trades". Which eventually segues into 80's thrashy black metal worship before devolving into Daughters-esque dissonant riffing. But really, you saw <span style="font-style:italic;">that</span> coming. Absolutely primal. <br /><br /><a href="http://highinoneeye.bandcamp.com/">High in One Eye bandcamp page<br /></a> (also includes another EP and a single up for free)youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-51394080343259547502010-10-08T17:05:00.000-07:002010-10-08T17:35:46.867-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Neil Milton</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> - </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Elements</span><br /></span><br />[modern classical, ambient]<br /><br />Recommended if you like: aching beautiful modern composition; elegant piano work; <span style="font-style: italic;">An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death</span> by Eluvium<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27-v29aQMXlh-OVDYgGgQQmBcn-ZAk-rqcPjZPqLZnl8P7lUa8qmlmzyrTtvdi9z873-B96LB4G9nNz9wdVd4AfTlVPGdc9xDSbXim6OTBLduljXR-C8HKNC23xfrox_bx_XIj6tej83y/s1600/elements.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27-v29aQMXlh-OVDYgGgQQmBcn-ZAk-rqcPjZPqLZnl8P7lUa8qmlmzyrTtvdi9z873-B96LB4G9nNz9wdVd4AfTlVPGdc9xDSbXim6OTBLduljXR-C8HKNC23xfrox_bx_XIj6tej83y/s320/elements.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525835453675029138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><object height="225" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F317956%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-DwY9h&secret_url=false"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F317956%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-DwY9h&secret_url=false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="225" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/beneathusthewaves/sets/neil-milton-elements-2mf012dd-1">Neil Milton - elements (2mf012dd)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/beneathusthewaves">beneathusthewaves</a></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7fbpckjqf66a9ah">Download "Air (or, The Dragonfly)”</a></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Neil Milton is relaunching his label, Too Many Fireworks, <span style="font-style: normal;">with a personal EP dubbed </span><i>Elements - </i><span style="font-style: normal;"> devoting a track to each of the four elements and its finale to “Aether”- and talk about making a comeback: fans of Eluvium and early A Silver Mt Zion material should take note, because this is minimalist modern classical at its finest. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A brisk eighteen minutes divided into five tracks is ideal: enough time for thematic development and listener engagement without becoming rote like so much “ambient” music can. I'm not entirely sure if music this lovely can really </span><i>command</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> attention; I'd say it politely requests it and you'd have to be inhuman to say “no”. In any case, it never becomes background music, as each of the tracks does bring an idea to the table, like the fluttery “Air” or the appropriately weighty, tectonic “Earth”. Hands down the best part of the release is its subtle adherence to theme: “Air” doesn't begin with sampled </span><i>wooshing</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and “Water” is entirely devoid of prefab waterfall recordings. Instead, a track like “Fire” excites with its vibrant strings and “Aether” is minimal, spacey and gorgeous. You're forgiven for your preconceptions, though, because such a broad and general subject matter could be handled entirely tactlessly. Thankfully (mercifully) Milton handled the concept wisely and colours his compositions with the concept instead of forcing them to fit it.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The whole thing streams for free </span><i>right there, a few inches up</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, so you have no excuse to not already be listening to it. For your listening convenience, you can also download an MP3 of the first track. And if you're the type to do so, please support both Neil and his revived label. At the </span><i>very least</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> check out the stream: this is truly sincere and majestic music.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://toomanyfireworks.co.uk/releases_2mf012dd.html">Buy the EP</a></span><br /></p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.toomanyfireworks.co.uk/"><br />Too Many Fireworks</a><br /><a href="http://www.neilmilton.co.uk/">Neil Milton</a><br /></span>youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-16325816875073594392010-10-06T18:28:00.000-07:002010-10-06T18:52:36.904-07:00chin up<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Former Ghosts - </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Welcome to Old Love</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">[electronic, synthpop, post-punk]</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Recommended if you like: </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">sad 80's bands (New Order, The Smiths), sad 00's bands that sound like sad 80's bands (Cold Cave)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodSE08DVPpzv4YyEDTFqYUOo8zlU_wRfUEbZf6-BRulWImgVjoS53ZY0qf6I72VytlRM4Dzsbx975Nh28UT7PBrLulamR7E4-JjPoggYlhdNHFrj1SkiZzaGq6m861E7uMznXi7aGYmO6/s1600/oldlovemixtapeart.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodSE08DVPpzv4YyEDTFqYUOo8zlU_wRfUEbZf6-BRulWImgVjoS53ZY0qf6I72VytlRM4Dzsbx975Nh28UT7PBrLulamR7E4-JjPoggYlhdNHFrj1SkiZzaGq6m861E7uMznXi7aGYmO6/s320/oldlovemixtapeart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525111145953931586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.freddyruppert.com/Welcome%20to%20Old%20Love.zip"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Download.</span></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">I dare you to find an artist who is simultaneously as prolific while remaining as [relatively] unknown as Freddy Ruppert. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >This Song is a Mess But So Am I</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> put out a ton of great, great music before he retired that moniker and started work on </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Former Ghosts</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, where he's finally beginning to get some of the attention he deserves.<br /><br />TSIAMBSAI (oh, wow) was rightfully put to bed after it accomplished what it needed to, and its short but brilliant existence alluded to an incredibly heartfelt, sincere and disarmingly honest songwriter who, for a moment, seemed to have finished with music altogether. Luckily, he came back with Former Ghosts, which tackles much of the same musical territory but with perhaps a bit more reservedness, which is not meant to be a qualitative judgment in any sense. This Song was a deeply personal, cathartic outburst in the truest sense of the word: it was an out</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >burst</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, it was violent, it was messy and noisy and tragic and equal parts full of energy and defeat.<br /><br />Former Ghosts, by contrast, is more contemplative and refined, while retaining the personal intensity that Ruppert has become known for. And if the man has any other calling card, it's for working working working nonstop on whatever musical project he's invested in; I'd reckon Former Ghosts has more b-sides than album tracks. </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Welcome the Old Love</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> culls together some outtakes from his forthcoming LP, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >New Love</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, again recorded with </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Xiu Xiu's </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Jamie Stewart and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Zola Jesus</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, aka Nika Roza Danilova (who has since become a bit of a household name since the first Former Ghosts album dropped, I hear). Accompanying the b-sides are remixes and covers curated by Ruppert, highlighted by (personally speaking) "Chin Up" as remixed by </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Friendzone</span><span style="font-size:85%;">. Also worth noting is the unreleased "Old Love Introduction" featuring </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Sam Mickens </span><span style="font-size:85%;">and a </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >blink-182</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> cover. Oh yeah</span>.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-81373466001900051082010-10-05T09:18:00.000-07:002010-10-05T09:48:43.205-07:00'I don't wanna leave the swamp tonight'<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sun Hotel - </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Coast</span></span><br />[Post-gospel/swamp (indie-)rock]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Recommended if you like:</span></span> the idea of country-doom era Earth having a teenage son with Fleet Foxes (oh yeah, we doin' this)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmk3AaImooCdv-bFmR35vL0sV5WfqTVF2SCQTj1C_Tykokiu10HuFxsxsMC6A-k1BiC3ed4KcssHt-9fWuO4MdOuHkxeY5Y-sy7ZGdJ8oLaRi02SohMKPSF6utxAgjiQnqeluA_uGPzPxv/s1600/Sun+Hotel+-+Coast+-+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmk3AaImooCdv-bFmR35vL0sV5WfqTVF2SCQTj1C_Tykokiu10HuFxsxsMC6A-k1BiC3ed4KcssHt-9fWuO4MdOuHkxeY5Y-sy7ZGdJ8oLaRi02SohMKPSF6utxAgjiQnqeluA_uGPzPxv/s320/Sun+Hotel+-+Coast+-+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524598706692215330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://music.sunhotelsounds.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Download.</span></a></span><br /><br />Sleeper hit of the year? I'm going there. Completely out of left-field, <span style="font-style: italic;">Coast</span> arrived in my inbox recently and completely floored me, it came and perfectly filled a little void in my musical life where there was a quiet (hidden) craving for something <span style="font-style: italic;">uplifting</span> and fantastically full of life. (Not to knock any of the brooding downers I've received lately - my heart is still with you cats (or not with you, if that's the more appropriate, brooding downing answer).<br /><br />Seriously, though, click that big, blue link above and listen to "Palms". Go on, I'll wait. I'll even give you enough time to listen to it twice, because you <span style="font-style: italic;">will</span> listen to it twice. You're welcome for that new mixtape staple. An absolutely perfect blend of melody, harmony, and dynamics; the sweetest, swampiest, most concise faux-post-rock you've ever heard. And that's it, you're hooked.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sun Hotel</span> have a wonderful energy about them, a youthful sort of abandon, but instead of throwing it all to the wind and hoping something comes out of it, there's an undeniable focus and maturity to the songwriting. There's adolescent desperation and earnestness coupled with sublimely refined vocal harmonies. I don't mean to tout my own analogies here, but really: give <span style="font-weight: bold;">Earth</span> a pulse and give <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fleet Foxes</span> some grit and you've got a vague idea of what's going on. Calculated clean guitar play can and will, at any minute, shift into tweedy Americana dirges and so to does the warm crooning twist into shouts and chants. This is probably completely brilliant live, so see to it that you catch them if they're in your town. Punk rock energy without punk rock bullheadedness.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Coast </span>is really just an entirely charming record. Down-to-earth lyrically, undeniably infectious musically, and, above all, cohesive despite all its disparate elements. An incredible spark captured on tape - a bright, bright flash of brilliance and life you should <span style="font-style: italic;">already be listening to</span> if you've read this whole entry/have faith in me. Have faith in me.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-91243307481954721752010-10-03T13:02:00.000-07:002010-10-03T14:11:32.520-07:00voiceless & floating<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mickey Mickey Rourke - </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Inner Gazing</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>[Ambient, drone, noise]<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended if you like</span></span>: Birchville Cat Motel (but you wish Campbell Kneale didn't want to kill you with music), chill-as-hell dreamgaze or something like that I don't know<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUi0vClP7i5UeKbHhDtwg-5Gpy0XrgV60DjFx8e8l22f4kQ0iSQvCZtjf9Zpbvrrftbz2pNdXjwKfRtR9kf3DjFho0jwABhL_RVV5StdXtbQPNTmLf0WUubR8UUMoaY9bsl-YeYFcnpoT/s1600/342559734-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUi0vClP7i5UeKbHhDtwg-5Gpy0XrgV60DjFx8e8l22f4kQ0iSQvCZtjf9Zpbvrrftbz2pNdXjwKfRtR9kf3DjFho0jwABhL_RVV5StdXtbQPNTmLf0WUubR8UUMoaY9bsl-YeYFcnpoT/s320/342559734-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523915128031393282" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://mickeymickeyrourke.bandcamp.com/album/inner-gazing"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Download.</span></a><br /><br />Massive collaborative introspective blissed-out drone excursions, boring straight into yr daydreamin' skull. Incredibly warm, full-bodied, slow-breathing tunes that will either pass right through you or entrance you, but eventually will add up to a meaningful experience. Not to say <span style="font-style: italic;">Inner Gazing</span> isn't immediately gratifying - it absolutely is - but it's something you'll want to [digitally] spin a few times to let it sink in and really discover what the collaborators bring to the table.<br /><br />If you're going to be uncooperative and demand <span style="font-style: italic;">immediate satisfaction,</span> then just listen to <a href="http://mickeymickeyrourke.bandcamp.com/track/stay-with-me-ft-universe">"Stay With Me"</a> (feat. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Universe</span>) because this is probably one of my favourite jams of the year. Maybe not the best representation of the album as a whole because it's decidedly darker in tone than a lot of what else is going on here, but it's insanely menacing, sort of in a Grouper or Giles Corey kind of way; a subtler menace. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Foxes in Fiction </span>joint is pretty sweet, too - called <a href="http://mickeymickeyrourke.bandcamp.com/track/koopa-ft-foxes-in-fiction">"Koopa"</a> - so a song featuring an artist you probably already know as being super cool and with a title referencing Nintendo should get you to at least check <span style="font-style: italic;">this</span> out. I know you kids like Nintendo.<br /><br />Additionally, there's a fairly <a href="http://mickeymickeyrourke.bandcamp.com/">expansive collection of Mickey Mickey Rourke tunes online</a>, either for free download/stream or a dirt-cheap download, so if you're digging all this spaced-out drifting (and I can't see how you're not), then definitely check it out.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-73534871291884406132010-09-30T11:39:00.000-07:002010-09-30T12:41:37.586-07:00The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?<span style="font-weight: bold;">...And The Earth Swarmed With Them</span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?</span><br />[Post-rock/experimental/shoegaze]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCdub5OLn44mKhyphenhyphenDfWk2IseqNflS1J5Z9B__hPHha31RhqPkP3xQ1Mvs4YnINAx-qFXipCx-9zh7Kaany2sYyBFMvHJDaQ_rHOg46thrjhI7bdxBJc-uaWCbI12pELHbcsx_hFTGqOavfi/s1600/2982771410-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCdub5OLn44mKhyphenhyphenDfWk2IseqNflS1J5Z9B__hPHha31RhqPkP3xQ1Mvs4YnINAx-qFXipCx-9zh7Kaany2sYyBFMvHJDaQ_rHOg46thrjhI7bdxBJc-uaWCbI12pELHbcsx_hFTGqOavfi/s320/2982771410-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522779841000064434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vaGF3a21vb25yZWNvcmRzLmJhbmRjYW1wLmNvbS8=">Download.</a></span><br /><br />Core members Mitchell Johns and Kat Stanbridge may not exactly be household names quite yet, but the fact that they've roped in Ted Parsons (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Swans</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesu</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Godflesh</span>) to play drums and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justin Broadrick</span> to mix the thing certainly says something.<br /><br />Admittedly, <span style="font-weight: bold;">...And The Earth Swarmed With Them</span> sounds nothing like the help they've roped in (okay, aside from the Jesu-y intro) but instead go for the murkier, darker end of post-rock: no triumphant, cathartic crescendos, but instead brooding, slow-burning cascades, like the moody-as-hell opener "Everyone Will Fade" or the apocalyptic "The Slow Decay Had Already Begun". And not to underrate the rest of the EP - it's incredibly atmospheric and solid throughout - but it's the closing "Slow Decay..." that really elevates the album. It feels like the whole record was building to this moment, slowly introducing the tones and colours and voices for the first 15 minutes and then dragging it all together for the last 6. The incredibly smooth bass/violin interplay in the intro is cool enough, but the frankly earth-shattering full-band eruption - complete with wailing, chill-inducing female guest vocals - is astounding.<br /><br />Really, the band is setting itself up for success: a free EP, with an all-star supporting cast and stellar artwork, all backed up with a unique sound and hints at even greater creativity. And don't doubt them because of the tags here: it's post-rock, but it's not formulaic; it's heavy shoegaze, but it's not Jesu-worship; and yeah, it's experimental, but it's far from pointless self-indulgence. Truly music from - or maybe causing - the end of the world.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639914690309989041.post-56648405400748210032010-09-27T17:10:00.000-07:002010-09-27T17:17:26.754-07:00Sick Twisted Fuck<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1NQkXti8IHjyzQ-myLWdM97HIXMuEk2u03nIBSJeAs-BeHS48PTim_9WxuGQvycppFNDGzwaWblpUPPbLx1Ng9-DZqAaKd_FQ33_Og6iUWCjnJ_cDL6jeJfdnAlx4-aZuDz2bab5D_asN/s1600/Guinea.Pig.2-Flowers.Of.Flesh.And.Blood.avi_000584039.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1NQkXti8IHjyzQ-myLWdM97HIXMuEk2u03nIBSJeAs-BeHS48PTim_9WxuGQvycppFNDGzwaWblpUPPbLx1Ng9-DZqAaKd_FQ33_Og6iUWCjnJ_cDL6jeJfdnAlx4-aZuDz2bab5D_asN/s320/Guinea.Pig.2-Flowers.Of.Flesh.And.Blood.avi_000584039.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521751523834456370" /></a><br /><br />Not music related, but if you're into gory, horrific, violent, misogynistic, misanthropic, disturbing films - the kind that only Japan seems to deliver good and proper - check out <a href="http://sicktwistedfucks.blogspot.com"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sick Twisted Fuck</span></a>. I'm a fan of his Youtube videos (under the moniker <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sculpting Fragments</span>), so its nice to get more reviews, and with added stills and (hopefully) clips and such.youngpilotastrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06123264201435565589noreply@blogger.com0