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Aluk Todolo
2009-09-19 00:03:00 Aluk Todolo are a recondite creature. Part okkult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. Somehow the doppelganger works and Finsternis proves for a second time there is brilliance in the absence of light. Dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated guitar and bass. Finsternis is the German word for eclipse, mimetic of cyclic elements, phases and unphases, endless rebeginnings, broken circles and perfect circles. A dangerous, noxious coil of all things black.Lovingly Taken From; Utech RecordsConsisting of five tracks that largely segue into one another, Finsternis begins with "Premiere Contact" and sets the intent right away: a quick blast of low-fi electronic noises and a razor sharp bass and drum rhythm that is simple, but mechanical enough to channel the best of krautrock and its antecedents such as Metal Box. Below this lock-step rhythm is a consistent level of guitar abuse and squall that mostly stays lurking behind the rhythm lik... More About: Music
Tribe Of Cro
2009-09-18 12:03:00 Tribe Of Cro play an [almost] all instrumental, exploratory, jamming form of spacerock that is sometimes Krautrock or metallic heavy, and sometimes trance electronic adventurous along the Ozrics/Pink Floyd axis. Based in England and Belgium the band was formed in December 1994 and its members come from such bands as Mandragora, Dr Brown, The Great Imperial YoYo, Cherokee Mist, Wegg, Bud, Giant Eyes, and Floating Temple. The musicians include Phil on keyboards and samples, Niall on guitars, samples, and keyboards, Mik on guitar, Ade on guitar, Marcel on bass, and Kevin on drums. Sporadic Spiro-Gyra with a core sound that often reminds me of late 60's/early 70's jam rock, but within a space context. The first two songs, the title track and "Dead Men Don't Eat Calcium", are actually two parts of a single tune, and representative of the sound on this release. The first cut sets a driving Deep Purple sounding groove that is accompanied by trippy synth patterns. Dead Men, while retaini... More About: Music , Tribe
The Movements
2009-09-18 00:33:00 When Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang went up to space in 2006, his imfamous reputation as "the astronaut who never gets to go to space" finally died, and Sweden turned into space fever. Inspired by this, and by listening to music from the so called space-rock genre from the 70's, The Movements started to work on a theme album about the Swedish space traveler. The result is a musical story of space-rock noise, kraut-rock and Swedish folk-music.Lovingly Taken From; AllthatsHeavyHere we have another interesting release offered by the Austrian Sulatron Records label. THE MOVEMENTS are from Sweden, formerly known for making garage rock music with a retro touch. They established their reputation by extensive tours through Europe delivering kick-assing live performances. This album is differing though because a kind of space prog production mixed up with krautrock and folk elements. The concept is made around the story of Christer Fuglesang, the only Swedish (and even nordic) astrona... More About: Music
Sandrine Pelletier
2009-09-16 19:47:00 Sandrine Pelletier?s sewn portraits and surreal tableaux are expertly crafted and surprisingly kinetic, but don?t expect tidy, traditional needlecraft: Her crewel is not meant to be kind. Instead, you?re more likely to see the canvases? backsides, where the vacant eyes and mouths of her zombie children and backyard fighters ?bleed? profusely by way of unruly red cotton strands. The internationally exhibited Lausanne native says she is more interested in showing evidence of the ?almost violent? way she attacks her canvas with the needle, to better show raw emotion and the truth of her subject matter. Inspired by the Surrealists, Aubrey Beardsley, gothic art, and artifacts from her childhood such as Jim Henson?s Muppets (indeed, puppet-making was her first love after graduating from design school), Pelletier straddles the divide between fine art and design with gallery shows around the world and commercial assignments from clothing retailers and pop-culture magazines. A firm believer ...
Hassara
2009-09-16 00:03:00 Here?s some total goner death trip glory blues from Jimmy James Wand. Serious roach motel summer scorch mind fog. A real cd release collecting 3 separately self-released, and long out of print, CDRs. With new, dripping mystic / egg hatching baby angel artwork from Robert Beatty of Hair Police.Squalled out, smoke billowing jitter flop. Heavy blinding waves of searing ooze. Lots of bad man / dead end / wasted soul vibes. Lonesome death ride hells angel crust. Some real smooth pitch black desert / alleyway slow groove too. When it's all over you open your eyes to discover you?ve ended up exactly nowhere and are stuck in endless repetition. Total life image! Total death image! Total silver dollar saloon ass shake at 4am image! Don?t let the sun burn a hole in your eyes.This is an insane collection of essential recordings. One-time pressing of 500Lovingly Taken From; Foxy digitalis The "Backyard" series was originally issued by (Wooden Wand) Hassara in 2005 and 2006 as three micro editi... More About: Music
Siena Root
2009-09-15 00:03:00 There's a moment in ?We Are Them,? the lead track on Siena Root 's fourth full-length, Different Realities, where the band effortlessly and expertly channels Rush on the Canadian band's debut. On past releases, Siena Root's shown they've got the skills to pay the retro hippie rock bills, so this new foray into meatier territory was a welcome addition to an already well rounded sound.What was also noticeable was the singing, in the sense that it didn't sound much like Sartez Faraj, lead crooner on the band's last full-length, Far From the Sun (their website confirms he's no longer with the band, thanks to the usual ?creative differences?). Nor did it sound like Sanya, the vocalist on sophomore release Kaleidoscope, or original frontman Oskar Lundstrom. Which means the band once again is sallying forth with a different voice.That sort of line-up inconsistency is never a good thing ? something the remaining, core members of Siena Root took to heart, as eight out of ten songs on ... More About: Music
An Emerald City
2009-09-14 20:03:00 Saw this band last Friday, they were opening for the Datsuns in Leiden (Hol.). And i was thinking why i havent heared from these guy before. They make some sort of ambient spacerock, and i kinda liked it right away, when they were playing they reminded me a little on Hawkwind they werent that loud but... maybe it was the beer, maybe it was their organ... Anyway tell me what you think about this band... Here comes another review, from someone who is more then a writer then i am.[mr.A]This extraordinary four-track EP by an Auckland band which is long on instrumental elegance and very short on pretention is a diamond, and like a precious gem you can turn it many ways and appreciate different refractions.These swooning, grand and widescreen instrumentals have something in common with the great US band Explosions in the Sky but they also have a more exotic element through the presence of violin, cello and what sound like discreetly placed sitar and Chinese lute.The pieces sway into each... More About: Music , City , Emerald
Loan
2009-09-14 17:36:00 This trio from Spain brings us some awesome tunes in the same vein as Rebreather, Electric Wizard. They shared the stage with Unsane, The Ocean, Lair Of The Minotaur, Birushanah and a few others. After a demo (Hautsa) and their first full lenght (Kobazuloan Saiakerak) ?Hontziria? is their second full lenght album and it sounds very good... Be your own judge, and buy this one if you like it.Links;Loan - HontziriaLoan @ MySpaceLoanOdio Sonoro
Eternal Tapestry
2009-09-13 12:53:00 This Portland-based psychedelic rock group play heavy ? almost Swedish ? style repeat-o raunch in a mind-erasing style that makes you think of a less benign Harvester/Trad Gras/Parson Sound crew or maybe the whole Loop/Spacemen 3 scene. Two-chord drug jams that move between levitation and heavy gravity.Something about the tour 2009 cdSo when these guys came into the shop to drop off their newest tour cd-r, we expected to hear more of the usual E-Tap free bluesy psych jamming. And psych-heads be assured there is a fine amount of freak-out guitar and hypnotic, driving drums here, but the Bindemen brothers and their third, Dewey Mahood have reached an all-time best with this one. They seem to have taken a more gritty and punk influenced direction here, instead of bluesy, the riffs are gritty and damaged in a Black Flag meets Wooden Shjips kinda way. Still very cosmic and sprawling, this shit is waaay darker and waaay more heavy then any other E-Tap stuff we've heard to date. There's ... More About: Music , Eternal , Tapestry
Bird From The Abyss
2009-09-13 12:03:00 Bird From The Abyss, a oneman anti-band, hails from Finland?s primeval forests,and combines drone/doom(metal) with acoustic elements; folk and world music to form ritualistic compositions.Promo/Demo/EP ?I? was released on April 30th 2009 as CD-r and was sold out on July 2nd 2009The upcoming full lenght album will be released by Starlight Temple Society, which states the following:?Bird from the Abyss comes from Finland, a land where nighttime dominates the dayside and where inside deep, dark forests still dwell the ancient creatures of the mythological north. But the music of BFTA is more exotic, more mediteranean - it?s aura is one culled from the ancient Egyptian ethos, it?s ritualistic nature is foreboding and sinister. When one hears the music of BFTA. they will uncover many styles from doom to ambient to folk to progressive- all synthesized and textured in a way which births a new and completely original dark sound. ?And check this review of ?I? on Avantgarde-Metal.com.Links;Bi... More About: Music , Bird
Ga?an
2009-09-13 11:13:00 Sometimes you will find something on the internet and you just don?t know what it is is or how to call it. Ga?an is something i can?t really place. They are probably a progressive-experimental-psych-space-krau trock band... And damn i like it. Anyway they are from Chicago and have Jeremiah Fisher on Synthesizers, Jason Sublette on Bass Guitar/Synthesizers, Lindsay Powell on Vocals and Seth Sher plays the Drums. And sometimes they remind me of La Otracina, and that is a good thing believe me.Here is a article from NEWCITY;If monks discovered percussion, it might sound a lot like Ga?an. Driven by a blend of real and synthesized vocal chants, and backed by tirelessly precise drumming, this band is one of Chicago?s most unique musical acts. The group, which has been active since early 2008, deftly creates mournful soundscapes that pulse and quiver with hungry emotion.?It?s meditative and makes me feel like I?m purging all the yuck,? says vocalist Lindsay Powell.Accompanied by drummer Set... More About: Music
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
2009-09-13 00:03:00 In 1993, Mazzy Star?s Hope Sandoval released the dream-pop gem ?Fade Into You,? a dusty, lilting ballad that served as the soundtrack to make-out sessions for Converse-clad alterna-dorks everywhere. The notoriously reclusive Californian hasn?t cracked the mainstream since, opting to release a few records here and there with various projects.But there?s good news: Sandoval is back. With her band Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions (which features My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig), Sandoval is gearing up to release her second record since the act?s 2001 debut Bavarian Fruit Bread. The new disc Through the Devil Softly ? out September 15th ? is a lovely, 11-track collection of narcotic, folk tunes centered by Sandoval?s breathy, irresistible seductive croon. So what took so long? ?I don?t really notice the time,? says Sandoval coyly. ?We don?t keep track of the days and months. And the years.?Sandoval and Ó Cíosóig cut the disc with their crack band over the last few years ... More About: Music
Marijn Akkermans
2009-09-12 16:31:00 Marijn Akkermans1975, NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS, LIVES AND WORKS IN AMSTERDAM. (...) In the artist?s recent works these scenes are replaced by a more portrait-like presentation of the figures, to the extent that they look out directly at the viewer in classical portrait poses. Like vague memories, echoes of early 19th-century portraiture shimmer through the surfaces, recalling a time when the emerging bourgeoisie began to define itself by way of the inwardness and intimacy of family relationships. Did this promise of warmth and security not at the same time secretly entail a loss of personal autonomy and psychological integrity, making room for a kind of dependency on others that was heretofore unknown in the firmly defined roles of earlier eras? When in Marijn Akkermans? drawings monstrous metallic-looking women?s hands encircle a child, or hair cascades down to form a cage that constrains movement, the borders between emotional bonds and ties that bind, between protection and poss...
The Crimson Jazz Trio
2009-09-12 00:03:00 With The King Crimson Songbook Volume 1, (DGM Live, 2005), the Crimson Jazz Trio reinvigorated some of the best tunes from one of the most influential progressive rock bands of all. The trio's drummer, Ian Wallace, played with King Crimson in the 1970s and was crucial to the sound of their fourth album, Islands (Island, 1971), while pianist Jody Nardone and bassist Tim Landers are clearly fans of the band and together the three musicians form a tightly knit ensemble. The King Crimson Songbook Volume 2 showcases yet more of their re-interpretations of classic King Crimson compositions.Stripped of their progressive rock production and Robert Fripp's distinctive guitar sounds these tunes are remarkably fresh and pliable, standing on their own merits even for those unfamiliar with the originals. The Crimson Jazz Trio's arrangements expand on the possibilities of the originals while adding new dimensions to their emotional impact. The one track that retains its lyrics, "Inner Garden,"... More About: Music
Rose Hill Drive
2009-09-11 00:03:00 THIS is the hardest POPPING Rock album I have heard in years. It is balls-out rock but alongside the bite and grit are some of the most pile-driving melodies in a rock structure this side of - well, I can not think of a band they remind me of in this context. But move this one to the head of my favorites of 2008 - THAT I am sure of. Now, this one is not for many of you, more than likely. DO humor me and go listen to the songs below, though. Really. Pretty please. Seriously, if the stronger of the songs here(and they ALL are great, for my ears), do not make you pick up that imaginary guitar and rip up the air around it in front of some kind of mirror, you just do not rock, dude. Which IS fine, of course - just move on to the more poppy offerings here. No hard feelings but if you are reading still and not gone and listened below - get going!" Exploiting a classic rock sound that owes a large portion of their royalty check to the likes of Led Zeppelin and MC5, Rose Hill Drive unleash a... More About: Music
Litmus
2009-09-10 00:03:00 Planetfall's strong enough of an album to negate the fact that the band's so blatantly inspired by Hawkwind. Planetfall could've been released under the Hawkwind name and nobody would be the wiser. This is more than just an homage to a legendary band ? Litmus has done its homework. The songs work, from the classic riffs and blazing solos to the simple, persistent drumming, to the bass lines that are about two notes away from being too busy. What really does the trick is the band's use of dynamics. Whether quickie songs like ?Tempest? and ?The Machine Age? or ten plus minute pysch epics like ?Under the Sign? and ?Expanding Universe,? Litmus knows exactly how when to pull back and when to just let completely loose. Just as Entombed's ?Seeing Red? is the best song Motorhead never wrote, Planetfall may well be the best Hawkwind album that didn't involve the band.Lovingly Taken From; Stonerrock.comCome; let us explore the vast unknown that is outer space. Leave the microcosmic worl... More About: Music
Thee Oh Sees
2009-09-09 00:03:00 No need to get John Dwyer's lawyers on the phone. This is still, for all intents and purposes, the same band that has gone by minutely different handles such as OCS and TheOhsees and The Oh Sees. On the surface, this would seem like (sigh) OCD; jokes about that TV show are pretty much hacks-only at this point, and if Dwyer isn't particularly happy with what we thought of his last album, it's still showing up at the bottom anyway. But on The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In, consider it a flare gun signaling an impending about-face, as the undercooked folk of 2006 release The Cool Death Of Island Raiders is jettisoned for an album of a very particular sort of desert summer, as influenced by oil stains and scorched blacktop every bit as much as gutbucket garage and primordial rock.Master's Bedroom conjures vast stretches of I-10 through the Inland Empire, with an occasional heat-stroke mirage along the way (the true-to-title "Graveyard Drug Party"). And while this te... More About: Music
Candlemass
2009-09-08 00:03:00 During the mid-80's, the European heavy metal scene was dominated by countless thrash, death, and black metal bands playing at breakneck speeds and screaming in a high-pitched frenzy. So when Candlemass released their debut, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus in 1986, its songs (featuring slow, lumbering riffs straight out of the Black Sabbath handbook and vocals delivered in a baritone, operatic style) offered up a stylistic curve ball of shocking proportions. After disposing of its deceptively optimistic introductory acoustic guitar, opener "Solitude" develops into a complete monster, replete with lyrics of suicidal depression and churning with the most colossal, down-tuned guitar riff since Sabbath's "Iron Man." And that's just the beginning, as succeeding tracks "Demon's Gate," "Crystal Ball," and "Under the Oak" (later re-recorded in its definitive version for the band's fourth album Tales of Creation) trudge by with deliberate, immutable doom. Although the group's vision was sta... More About: Music
Chylde
2009-09-07 00:03:00 Within the first three or four minutes of the opening track ?Stride?, I am almost sure that the grinding boogie punished one of the speakers to the point where it blew out a woofer. No kidding. That is probably exactly what Buffalo?s Chylde was going for across this thoroughly impressive debut of boomy, doomy riff rock. Call it what you want: ?real? metal or ?stoner rock? or ?doom.? Whatever the proper nomenclature might be, it?s a lock that the psychedelically-tinged, smart, and virtuosic 8-song full length of unabashed heaviness is right in the path of lineage from Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, St. Vitus, Soundgarden, Kyuss, and Black Mountain. Now It Can Be Told trades mightily on the strength of the muscular twin guitars of Jon Bobo and Bryce March and the steady and unrelenting pound from rhythm section bassist Thor Johnnson and drummer Michael Ozimek. Chylde has that rare thing that most bands long for but rarely attain: they lock. There?s a precision that runs across Now It Can ... More About: Music
Hooker & the Hogs
2009-02-23 17:29:00 McPhee and the Groundhogs' most important musical legacy, this 1996 reissue of Hooker & The Hogs has an unusual history. Tony McPhee and the Groundhogs first played with John Lee Hooker in June of 1964, when John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were unable to fulfill a commitment to back Hooker on the final week of his British tour. The Groundhogs were deputized on the spot and played their first show with him at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. At the end of the week, Hooker told McPhee how much he liked working with his band and agreed to use the Groundhogs as his backing band on his next visit to England. Hooker was back in May and June of 1965, and not only used them as his band but recorded this album with the Groundhogs. The band was Tony McPhee on guitar, Peter Cruickshank on bass, Dave Boorman on drums, and Tom Parker on keyboards ? some of the stuff here may have surfaced elsewhere, on the Interchord label (as Don't Want Nobody) with brass dubbed on, but this release consists ... More About: Music
Hooker 'N' Heat
2009-02-23 17:28:00 When this two-LP set was initially released in January 1971, Canned Heat was back to its R&B roots, sporting slightly revised personnel. In the spring of the previous year, Larry "The Mole" Taylor (bass) and Harvey Mandel (guitar) simultaneously accepted invitations to join John Mayall's concurrent incarnation of the Bluesbreakers. This marked the return of Henry "Sunflower" Vestine (guitar) and the incorporation of Antonio "Tony" de la Barreda (bass), a highly skilled constituent of Aldolfo de la Parra (drums). Sadly, it would also be the final effort to include co-founder Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, who passed away in September 1970. Hooker 'n Heat (1971) is a low-key affair split between unaccompanied solo John Lee Hooker (guitar/vocals) tunes, collaborations between Hooker and Wilson (piano/guitar/harmonica), as well as five full-blown confabs between Hooker and Heat. The first platter focuses on Hooker's looser entries that vacillate from the relatively uninspired ramblings of ... More About: Music
Baby Grandmothers
2009-02-20 14:52:00 Unbelievably fantastic archival recording by this unbelievably obscure Swedish psychedelic trio that included Kenny Hakansson on guitar. The package is extremely informatative and all of the music is impressive, but special note must be made of the two LONG live (35' total) tracks are extremely good quality for the era and just amazing power-fuzz-freakout psychedelia, which is much, much heavier and out than one would have imagined anyone in Scandanavia doing in 1967. If this sounds like your thing, this will blow your socks off!"Baby Grandmothers were a short-lived Swedish band, but one of the most prolific and unique psychedelic, modal, experimental power-trios to emerge out of the Scandinavian psychedelic underground-scene in 1967. Although hailing from Stockholm, Sweden they only released a single in Finland, which has since become one of the most sought after pieces of vinyl from the era. Baby Grandmothers were formed out of the legendary R&B / beat band T-Boones in the summer... More About: Music
Outskirts Of Infinity
2009-02-20 14:51:00 Because i didnt know these guys, and was curious because they play on this years Roadburn festival. I searched for some files on the net, and found some. And damn it was a happy suprise to see these guys rock like Cream met Hendrix in a psychedelic hardrockin? way. These recodings are mostly live, and the quality is pretty good most of the time. I wanna share a few of these tunes with you guys/gals, I?m not uploading every thing but i hope you have fun with these tunes, and tell me what you think of this band... Peace [mr.A]The Outskirts of Infinity are a British Psychedelic trio who have been boiling away since the eighties. Their sound is a Hendrix scream of fuzz, flower power and syrupy acid blues, created to blow minds and wig-out squares. Guitarist Bari Watts is their not-so-secret weapon, his freely-freaking axe is a riot of Purple Haze and Creamy slashing. The Outskirts are reportedly so good live that clean shaven punters spontaneously sprout weird beards and UFOs crash int... More About: Music
Maserati
2009-02-19 17:06:00 Much has changed in the four years since Maserati 's last release. In that time, the band's sound has evolved so significantly that only shades of the reverb and delay-drenched guitars resemble their previous output. The rhythm section has been overhauled, with Gerhardt Fuchs (!!!, Turing Machine, LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean) replacing Phil Horan on drums. The result is Inventions For The New Season, a bloodshot, 3AM soundtrack to a Michael Mann movie that hasn't happened yet; a sweaty, delirious mix of mid-to-late 70s Pink Floyd, German psych-rock, Krautrock, and mid-80s action film scores. Produced by longtime friend Andy Baker in his Athens, GA home studio, Inventions drags the glory years of psychedelic arena rock kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, with the pomposity (and vocals) carefully removed. The mix is pushed firmly in the red, giving the songs a white-knuckled energy that - coupled with the ethereal guitar theatrics - puts one foot on the dance floor an... More About: Music
Bill Durgin
2009-02-18 17:40:00 My photographs reflect a fascination with the body as form. The complex figurations, undulating arrangements of flesh, as the body seems to collapse onto itself, image an almost abstracted figure lacking appendages and hair. The physical structure becomes not just a shell, but a moving sculpture of skin, muscle, fat, and bone.The gesture within each photograph is created through exploring my own physical limitations and collaborative improvisation with dancers and performers. Often I will come up with a pose and demonstrate it and then ask the model to repeat or respond to it. Each pose transmogrifies the figure towards abstraction; exaggerating or diminishing the skeletal structure until it approaches an amorphic form. I want the bodies to be recognized as bodies, but also to be detached from common perceptions of the figure. Bound within each singular view, the uncanny figures convey the body as both abject and marvelous.Composed through a 4x5 view camera, I place the figure withi... More About: Bill
Novadriver
2009-02-17 17:33:00 Good to know, that the long wait is over and Detroit?s NOVADRIVER were able to record their second album for Small Stone. The past years have been very heavy for the band, due to some tragic and problematic circumstances, but finally the have re-ignited their rocket-booster and returned in best shape. ?Deeper High? is not very different from the debut release, maybe a bit darker and more matured, but it contains all the good things I love about this band: well-structured songs, which are rooted strongly in melody without being to pop-inflected, a double-dose of guitar and bass-driven heaviness as well as the significant and charismatic vocals of Mark Miers. The powerful opener ?You Want Yours, You Want Mine? shows, how moody and mighty this band can sound. But this is only a perfect start for an excellent album, and the following ten tracks are showing a band, which can write some real kick-ass tunes like ?Roll You?, while ?Dark Aftermath? is a dark and emotional semi-ballad. This... More About: Music
Callisto
2009-02-17 17:31:00 Combining metal, progressive and experimental music, trying to fit the Finnish Callisto into one single category hardly does the band justice. Founded in 2001, the quintet play diverse, timeless, downbeat music that is rich in nuances, draws from numerous sources and doesn't really have any obvious fellow creatures or point of comparisons.Callisto's debut "True Nature Unfolds" (2004) received an enthusiastic response and earned the band a worldwide license deal with the British Earache Records.The band's sophomore album "Noir" was released in 2006 and it exceeded all the high expectations set by the debut. Still drawing from modern sludge, "Noir" also introduced subtle jazz leanings, heavy use of mellotron and experimentation with unconventional metal rock instruments such as the saxophone and the flute.Callisto's cryptic lyrics contain strong Christian themes and the band's combination of heaviness and delicacy paints a hazy, almost hypnotic picture that has won over critics a... More About: Music
...And Stars Collide
2009-02-15 14:40:00 And Stars Collide are a band from Nottingham, England that fit most closely into the genre labelled post-rock, playing guitar-driven instrumental music with a strong emphasis on dynamics. RecordsOnRibs.com note that while ?post-rock is 99% tedium?, ?And Stars Collide prove ?there?s still plenty to be done with that 1%?.Having recently self-financed their debut record in the form of a half-hour EP, the band are now seeking opportunities to promote the release through live performances, compilation appearances and press coverage. Though the band may draw inspiration from the delicate tones and textures of artists like Explosions in the Sky, a wide range of influences converges to create a sound wholly their own. Never afraid to throw in a power chord to add to the impact of a crescendo, ?PlayYour Winter and Night Spent in Disguise? sends a subtle nod to the post-metal world of Isis, while ?PlayEvery Step Takes Me Further From Home (Part II)? draws on the energy of 65daysofstatic.Follo... More About: Music
Burnt Hills
More articles from this author:2009-02-15 14:37:00 The latest missive from our intrepid heroes from the wilds of Albany, NY. Easily their loudest and most PURE assault on the senses yet. Wild, wooly, and singular-minded in its pursuit of psychedelic Krautrock-inspired oblivion. We can't say it any better than the good folks at Aquarius: "Another glorious blast of blown out bong smoke free rock dope jams the way only these Burnt Hills cats can do it... Burnt Hills, on this particular evening in May of 2007 consisted of NINE members, seven guitars, five drummers, one bass, folks obviously swapping back and forth, and it sounds like it. A super fluid, chaotic confluence of sound. Like some lost subterranean Crash Worship Drum jam wrapped in thick sheets of Haino-like guitar skree, everything enveloped in thick clouds of smoky FX, like some musical opium den. The bass and the guitars are thick and slippery, swooping amidst the relentless percussion, and the wild squalls of psychedelic freakout. At times it almost sounds like some DJ... More About: Music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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