My first review for InYourSpeakers was Truce Opium by Dark Meat. The assignment doubled as my audition for the site. It was a stroke of luck that they wanted a review of this album. At the time the assignment was given to me, it had already been in heavy rotation in my apartment. It was the most exciting release of the year so far, and I was excited to tell everyone just how great I thought it was. Looking back at the review, I don't have any reservations or regrets about what I said. Sure, [...]
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[ Download ] 1. Elephant Stone - Strangers 2. Aloha - Moonless March (03:18) 3. Ted Leo and the pharmacists - Ativan Eyes (07:46) 4. Annuals - Loxtep (12:00) 5. Nada Surf - Elecrocution (15:52) 6. Burnt Ones - Gonna Listen To T.Rex (All Night Long) (18:57) 7. Pylon - Stop It (22:12) 8. Super Wild Horses - Golden Town (25:00) 9. Dark Meat - When The Shelter Came (27:32) 10. Double U - Breathing In The Wind (31:42) 11. Bill Wells - Perfect [...]
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Thanks for everyone who tuned in this week to Public Education. We had a heck of a time with Moses Campbell busting out the live jams. Check out the playlist and grab some! Hiking - Radding the Flesh Alexander "Skip" Spence - All My Life (I Love You) Brad P and The Celebrities - The Ghost of Our Love Toro Y Moi - Blessa Turtle Ambulance - Tamaulipas Plates Onipa Nua - Anuanum Adofo Baths - Mecha Joy [...]
From their album Truce Opium Combining such ludicrous and disparate sonic obsessions as Albert Ayler, Neil Young and Neu!, Athens Georgia's Dark Meat radiates a sound as layered, multivariable and insane as its improbable membership roll. The band's hometown scene, in fact, makes key attitudinal contributions to its expansive sonic tumult: Dark Meat inherits much from the halcyon days of Elephant 6 psychedelia. Not only has the band contained, at times, several key E6-ers, they've also taken big cues in musical methodology: [...]
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Universal Indians was an album that bathed in obscurity. After all, opening track "Freedom Ritual" was a blissful track in which Dark Meat flirted with psychedelic trips and prog afterthoughts. It opened with a near two minute a capella before the epic guitars suddenly burst forth to rip off your face. It also had its painful moments, when over-the-top experimentation left little but a gut-wrenching noise. Truce Opium picks up right where Universal Indians left off, but in a way much stronger. Truce Opium [...]
Sup, yawl. So maybe you were at Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend, that is rad, good work. I spent the weekend with Dark Meat. It was sweet. They had a FFF aftershow at Mohawk (a $15 ticket for them, Trail of Dead and An Albatross) on Sunday that hardly anyone was at, most likely due to the fact that it was wet and nasty as fuck, and I'm assuming people had had their fill after being at FFF all day. I really wish I could have seen Broadcast, and am a bit grumbley that [...]
Date 11/8/09 Location Mohawk Doors 900pm Tickets $13 from FrontGate I think most of us will be about done from our Fun Fest weekend on Sunday, but if you're still raring to go, head to Mohawk for a headlining after show by locals Trail of Dead . Joining the guys on the outside [...]
Perhaps psych-rock has been this exciting before, but never has it been so cool and cacophonous as Dark Meat's Truce Opium . Take Elephant Six, add some MC5 and a dash of Seattle Seven, and you get…well, 18 and change, which is as apt a description as you will find. Reminds us of: Rocket from the Crypt | Black Mountain | Blue Cheer Dark Meat: ( Label | MySpace ) dark meat truce [...]
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If you're currently in New York, this week's Friday Mixtape will probably see little love - why listen to something on record when there are thousands of bands, many of which are featured on this week's Mixtape, performing live, at a venue near you? But for everyone, hopefully this week's mix of new singles, remixes, covers, and mp3s from some up-and-comers you just might want to check out will help curb some of that jealousy. You know, the jealousy resulting from not being about to see the thousands of bands, many of which are featured on this week's Mixtape, performing [...]
Oct 14, 2009, 3:21pm Fmly
Leslie and the Badgers - Los Angeles Monsters of Folk - Temazcal Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land Thao With the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster Sleepy Sun - White Dove Volcano Choir - Island French Miami - Mulit Caliber Rifles Cobraskulls - Thicker Than Water King Kahn - Desert Mile Vampire Weekend - Horchata The Zookeeprs - Chicken So Many Wizards - Fly a Kite Dark Meat - When the Shelter Came [...]
Dark Meat Truce Opium (Emergency Umbrella) Releasing: 20 October The Athens, Georgia-based gaggle of musicians known as Dark Meat will be putting out another album of psychedelic jazz-punk, their follow-up to 2006's Universal Indians, which we found to be "organic and meticulous and well-executed". SONG LIST 01 The Faint Smell Of Moss 02 Future Galaxies 03 Flaps 04 No One Was Here 05 When Shelter Came 06 Last Of The Frontiersmen 07 Yonderin' 08 Song Of The New Year Dark Meat The Faint Smell of Moss [MP3]
Sep 28, 2009, 10:44am
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Dark Meat - Truce Opium Out 10/20 on Emergency Umbrella CD • LP • MP3 Dark Meat - "The Faint Smell of Moss"
An Albatross's live show is highly energetic and chaotic. It's certainly a must-see. So it's good that the band have plotted some tour dates for the months of October and November. Two of the early dates are at Union Pool in Brooklyn on October 24 and Cake Shop in Manhattan on October 25. The rest of the tour follows. Check out the full list of dates after the jump. An Albatross tour dates: Dates marked * w/ Dark Meat Dates marked + w/ All Leather 10.02.09 - Montreal, QC - [...]
Despite the scenic, picturesque image to the left, don't be fooled: Dark Meat , when excited, can expanded up to 20 members strong. If only Viagra could make that sort of promise with each of our own dark meats. Drug and sex jokes aside (and that's always hard to do), the Georgia multi-piece band is returning to compact disc with the October 20th release of Truce Opium , to be released via Emergency Umbrella . Dare you need something other than wandering words or a little blue pill to make you excited enough to grow [...]
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