Recorded from December 2008 - January 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio, The Overlook was a cassette limited to 75 copies and sold during the band's recent European tour. Both sides of the tape are untitled. I've been telling everybody about this avant/experimental trio for some time, likening them to a mixture of Wolf Eyes and the first two Klaus Schulze records on Kosmiche Kuriere. The Emeralds sound is synth-heavy, guitar-littered, minimalist ambient tunes. These are some seriously beautiful, excellently-textured drones. You would be wise to turn off all the lights and pop some pills and enjoy this sonic goodness. [...]
okay let's rewind a year almost and pretend that, hey this's just come out. king tupou v is crowned as the 23rd monarch of tonga. there's a total solar eclipse. north korea declares sweden its enemy. somali pirates! barrack obama! hurricane gustav! bombs in baghdad! earthquake in china! the leader of malaysian opposition anwar ibrahim is [...]
A couple of things to clarify from the outset: firstly, this isn't strictly a new release. And secondly, yes, that is a particularly stupid title. Allegory Of Allergies originally appeared in 2007 on C120, but has now resurfaced on Weird Forest as a limited (everything seems to be limited these days, this one [...]
Monday 4/27 * Bowerbirds, Bell, La Strada, Lost in Trees @ Mercury Lounge ( MP3: "Magic Tape" ) * Arizona, Parlor Grand, Myles Turney @ Union Pool Tuesday 4/28 * Mogwai, The Twilight Sad @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ( MP3: "The Sun Smells Too Loud" by Mogwai) * Throbbing Gristle, Alan Vega, Emeralds @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple Wednesday 4/29 [...]
Monday: Bowerbirds, Bell, + La Strada @ Mercury Lounge 7pm $12 Opening up the week you have a solid lineup with three mid-level indie bands. Bowerbirds, Bell, and La Strada have all had some mild successes in their careers and always seem to be right on the verge of breaking through. Catch them tonight together, before they finally do break through! Bowerbirds - "In Our Talons" Bell - "Magic Tape" La Strada - "The Sun Song" Tuesday: Throbbing Gristle + Emeralds @ [...]
Hey friends, this is my first official post as a 26-year-old. Let me tell you, it feels not bad. In fact, I wouldn't hesitate to say it feels "pretty alright". Thank you Nicci for posting yesterday so that I could enjoy my birthday. You're a real pal. Scarily, the first time I read through that post I thought, "Wait a minute - didn't I just write this yesterday?" I guess it just goes to show that anybody can imitate my style of writing, and those of you who leave comments praising me are clearly unaware of my utterly pedestrian abilities. [...]
[Zola Jesus] Our brethren over at the FADER have a bi-weekly column written by Jamie Johns called The Freak Scene . Well, maybe we're freaks, because she talks about a lot of the music we cover on a regular basis, including this week's installment with Zola Jesus and Emeralds. Just to catch you up to speed, we saw both bands in the past two weeks - Emeralds in Brooklyn and Zola Jesus in Texas - but along with interviews, Jamie [...]
This was a different kind of show from the beginning, and it was more difficult than most shows to get press into. However, I decided to walk the million blocks from the L train to Glasslands and pay the ten bucks to get in, as Eric Copeland is one of my favorite noisemakers and I wanted to see what Thurston Moore and Carlos Giffoni (No Fun's organizer/curator) would treat us to (plus the Glasslands is a real cool place to [...]
Mist - Untitled (Side A) I'm pretty sure most people have at least heard the name Emeralds before but I guess it doesn't really matter either way. Mist is Mist, not Emeralds, even if half of Mist is also in Emeralds. Certain Expansion is a very limited edition tape (100 copies) that takes an aspect of Emeralds (in this case, synthesizers) and just fucking runs away with it. Mist is pretty much all [...]
Emeralds have returned with yet another release in their ever expanding catalog of nebulous drone clouds. Radiating with light and most certainly locking into the sympathetic tones of the universe, the band have made a career out of making improvisation sound like bliss. What Happened is no deviation from this path, as songs bubble and throb, begging for headphones or at least a quiet moment when you can turn the stereo up as loud as possible to allow yourself to simply fold into their psychosomatic analog void. The band are so prolific that its hard to keep up [...]
Alive In The Sea Of Information - Emeralds I'm seeing stars. Specks of light: either on or off. Computer chips in the sky, whispering their chorus of If, Then, Else. And they're coming closer. We're calling out to them. Showing them our souls, screaming out our heart breaks. Come help us! Come Save Us! So close now, that they have bonded with the very air we breath. Our atmosphere has become analogous to [...]
Monday morning. London is covered with a thick, sparkling white icing, more snow than at any point over the last twenty years. Some are overjoyed at getting the day off work, and busy themselves making snowmen in the garden (my neighbour made a crap one. "Where are his arms?", I asked. [...]
I read a line on some blog (my apologies I don't recall which one at the moment) that stated something to the fact that Bruce Springsteen is the over-30 equivalent of Animal Collective. Basically they were trying to say that Bruce is everywhere these days, from rocking for Barack to headlining the Super Bowl halftime show Bruce is doing all the promotion he can for this record. But is all of the attention over the new album really deserved like Animal Collective's is? Obviously his stature and legacy dictate that any Springsteen release will be an event but this album [...]
Tuesday 27th Jan - The Croft, Bristol Menschenfleisch were brilliant… combining the talents of both Greg from Dsic and Anton Maiof of Geisha / DTV fame… They spewed out some tasty full-on noise, caked in lots of strange textural candy / scribble. Anton making Nosferatu [...]
We mentioned War Child's Heroes and offered a listen to the contributions from Lily Allen and Hot Chip . Remember the concept behind the compilation: 15 "ultimate icons" chose a song from their own back catalogs and chose a new act to cover it. David Bowie chose TV On The Radio to take on the collection's namesake. If you recall, he sang backing vocals on Cookie Mountain 's "Province," so look at it as returning the favor. Or as trust. It doesn't approach the 1977 original, but then, how do [...]
Emeralds - Up In The Air This Cleveland trio's carpety grandeur shimmers at it's most cosmic on their new full length. They've taken a slightly different approach to this than they did for the multitude of cassettes they've released; it's less improvised than before and the results are much more direct, this full and opaque sort of ambient that somehow always attains some genuine humanist sort of feel. Even if it's true that you may listen to this post duboire and be all like '...woah' but it's no mean feat to carve such transcendence with gritty [...]
you know the sound of gods' (omni)potent orgasm drawn out for all eternity? you know the solar-system destroying filthy vibrating climaxes that come from deified sex? you know the feeling of the mighty cockclit sliding surprisingly easily into yr earhole, filling yr brain cavity with all that is meaty, pure and holy and finally (oh [...]
Hi everybody. I'm glad you could all make it. Welcome to the annual "Best Albums Of..." post, which is usually the time I put effort into composing a blog entry. In 2005 I wrote small blurbs about the top twenty-five albums of the year. In 2006 I wrote three-word reviews for the 50 best records of the year. Last year I went so far as to craft a complete sentence for my favorite 100 albums of 2007. This year...I don't know, I haven't started the list yet. I think I'm just going to write blurbs about the albums for which [...]
Hangover mixtape from Oxford-based experimenters, Youthmovies this weekend. check out the tracklist and other stuff in the read more. 01 Emeralds - 'Magic'. 02 Neil Young - 'On The Beach'. 03 Grouper - 'Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping'. 04 Adam Gnade - 'The Winter / Their Apartment'. 05 M Ward - 'Let's Dance'. 06 Fennesz - 'The Point Of It All'. 07 Red House Painters - 'Katy Song'. 08 Tall Firs - 'So Messed Up'. 09 Jason Molina - 'Everything Should Try Again'. 10 William Basinski - 'DP3'. [...]
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