The Mary Onettes have been writing some of my favorite pop records over the last few years and recently they announced they'd be releasing another by the end of this month. However, Love Forever will be the first time they're reportedly ditching their 80s guitars and echoey vocals in favor of more avant-garde themes. New directions may not always be welcomed at first, but we'll see how well they're able to execute it as a whole. In the meantime, enjoy. Love's Taking Strange Ways [...]
Thursday things: ► M83 , thunderously good at the Music Box in November, returns to L.A. for a sold-out two-date stand beginning tonight at Club Nokia. ► Robert Schwartzman is joined by Sleeping Bags and Emily Greene at the Satellite in part of the free "Satellite Nights" series. ► The Milk Carton Kids — the acoustic folk duo of Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan we told you about last summer — play Largo. ► La Sera , the new project of the Vivian Girls' Katy [...]
Something dark and immense haunts the pop that Ben Heywood (Summer Darling) masters on his new release Skills for the Long Emergency under the name Heywood . From the depths of a post rock, shoegaze haze, Heywood will just as readily produce mind-melting noise as it will dive into an obscure, dream-like melody. The former is where we find ourselves at the early moments of "Spectacular Violence", with a wild guitar riff. But Heywood is not one to stay in once place too [...]
If you're so inclined check out "Spectacular Violence" off the debut record from Ben Heywood, Skills For The Long Emergency . http://www.velvetbluemusic.com
[Updates on three bands we've previously covered:] Heywood , "Spectacular Violence" — In August we reported that Summer Darling frontman Ben Heywood had completed a solo album, "Skills for the Long Emergency," a concept record about the societal chaos that ensues after the West depletes its natural resources. The album has been picked up by SoCal-based Velvet Blue Music , which will release it Dec. 13. Heywood has also been playing in Pyyramids, the new project fronted [...]
Odd Future tend to get the credit for being L.A.'s most violent act, but consider Summer Darling frontman Ben Heywood. "Spectacular Violence" is a vicious song, from the hailstorm guitars of its opening moments to his matter-of-fact depiction of a drunken murder. It's fiction, of course, or so Heywood says: the track joins seven other narratives on Skills For the Long Emergency , his solo debut and a concept record chronicling the aftermath of "a state's war over dwindling natural resources" that's "forced the dissolution of the Union." Is it his Stephen King moment? Decide for yourself: [...]
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