Late of the Pier & The Whip are giving fans 100 tickets to their Chicago show Sat, April 11th! CLICK HERE TO ENTER & WIN! Deadmau5, Crookers, Late of The Pier, The Whip Zebo, Willy Joy, Brad Owen, Loyal Divide, Noise/Floor Crew Saturday April 11th 17+ /21+ to drink - 7:00pm – 3:00am $21.00 in advance Congress Theater 2135 [...]
ANOTHER ZEN STARRED, TEN TRACK PLAYLIST There are somewhere in the region of a billion bands and solo artists on this relatively small planet. FACT. You've never heard of most of them, and with good reason. The enormously overwhelming majority of them are so teeth-clenchingly awful that exposure to as little as ten seconds of their work is likely to make your ears limp down to your lapels and
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Quick, Simple Takes Andrew Bird - Noble Beast - The highly intelligent, always far-flung stylings of Bird are a little more focused on Noble Beast. There are few surprises. The album has girth as well, clocking at close to an...
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It's so pleasing when an email comes through with some seriously impressive music on the other side of it. Chicago's The Loyal Divide recently ended up in my inbox with a free download of their new EP, Labrador . The way the cut up electronics flowed out of the first track (and the following ones) I could have easily been listening to Prefuse 73, but then soft pop vocals come in at just the right time to really set this thing off. I don't know much about the band except that they play music to ride the [...]
Psychedelica might be the new posh thing to emerge in 2009. Only reason why I say that is because of the mass amount of hype surrounding Animal Collective, and the recent 9.6 rating they got on Pitchfork (nobody has scored that high since The Arcade Fire back in 2004). And when a band creates sounds comparable post OK Computer Radiohead, Sebastian Tellier, and Explosions in the Sky sans 20 minute track lengths... you have a good thing going. Chicago outfit Loyal Divide do just that, and they're playing a gig at Subterranean in Wicker Park to [...]
Psychedelica might be the new posh thing to emerge in 2009. Only reason why I say that is because of the mass amount of hype surrounding Animal Collective, and the recent 9.6 rating they got on Pitchfork (nobody has scored that high since The Arcade Fire back in 2004). And when a band creates sounds comparable post OK Computer Radiohead, Sebastian Tellier, and Explosions in the Sky sans 20 minute track lengths... you have a good thing going. Chicago outfit Loyal Divide do just that, and they're playing a gig at Subterranean in Wicker Park to [...]
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This makes me sick! (Well, the sick feeling probably comes from the dizzying bout of Neuritis I've been battling for the past week. Makes typing a bit tedious.) Peeved may be a better word. Either way, I can't believe I let 2008 lapse without mentioning my favorite EP to come our way at the end of the year. Chicago's Loyal Divide is at once cold and earthy, shoe-gazey and trip hop, Nine Inch Nails and Autolux, Laurie Anderson and Portishead. Your not so typical post-industrial-shoe-goth if you don't mind me taking such liberties. "Labrador" is tethered to time as the [...]
Loyal Divide , a quintet from Chicago, sounds like "euphoria with a strawberry-banana smoothie". Or so they say. In fact it's more like an electronica outfit that likes to twiddle all the knobs on their instruments, coming up with left-field noises that dig deep and might hurt the ears of the uninitiated. Their Labrador EP is a slow moving musical chainsaw with eerie vocals that wander off into psychedelic pastures. Kind like a Vanilla Fudge exposed to exhaustive listening to Sonic Youth, Loyal Divide is busy carving a niche for their own with [...]
On the band's MySpace page , the Loyal Divide casually lists off its influences as consisting of Brian Eno, My Bloody Valentine, Talk Talk, and DJ Shadow. In other words, a man who invented a genre, two progressive rock bands that created arguably two of the most influential albums of their decade, and one of the premiere American hip-hop producers of all time. You've got my attention. The band's debut, Labrador EP , is a most impressive one. Four tracks totaling seventeen minutes seems about standard standard for an EP, but these [...]
One of the benefits of living in a major metropolitan area is the endless supply of places to wander and things to discover. The urban environment is an open book of people, places and entertainment. I've discovered so much great new music just by wandering into a bar or venue on a Friday night and checking out a group I've never heard of. Loyal Divide , a 5-piece Chicago band, recently contacted me with some of their tunes. After checking out their second EP, Labrador , I just keep wondering how it's even possible that [...]
Tracklist: 01. Young Blades 02. Labrador 03. Love I Can Tell You 04. Vision Vision Genre: Electronic Indie Website: Myspace | Buy! Release Date: 2008-12-05 Label: Self-Released Does anybody out there want to get their genre-blend of electronic and indie on? ME. And you should too. I'm glad that Loyal Divide delivers a dynamite package of tunes without fail because I have a personal interest in this band and [...]
Sprouting from increasingly revered metropolis, Chicago, come Loyal Divide . Their second EP Labrador sounds like a telepathic chess match between Radiohead and Apparat , or a sandwich of trip hop, paranoid electronic beats, and a haunted dream like atmosphere. Young Blades sounds like Timbaland stuck in a nightmare and put through a blender. Labrador sounds like Ellen Allien drowning in a layer of feedback and then rescued. Lover I Can Tell You feels like Banjo Or Freakout and Animal Collective's daydream set to a fluttering heartbeat. Vision Vision's wobbly synth and alien slap bass get masked [...]
I first wrote about Loyal Divide upon FBF's recommendation back in April. I had their MySpace up and listened through the afternoon, but it wasn't until I trekked up to Boston for the wedding weekend that I was able to really dive into their self-titled EP on both legs of my drive. The EP begins with "Backes", a slightly more boisterous song than I'd grown to envision from the band. This style reappears on "Tulips" later in the album. "The Tease" immediately pulled me into the album and [...]
FBF has been pretty silent with the music recommendations since our magical days in Athens, so I was happy when he answered my gmail challenge with The Loyal Divide . Of course, it came as no surprise that they were originally from Columbus, but had moved onto Chicago, FBF's two favorite cities. Most of their shows remain in those two cities, but the guys were in New York for CMJ and competed in Austin's Independent Music World Series last fall. It's ambient, shoegazer music, which I always need to listen to a few times [...]
The Loyal Divide / June 16, 2007 / Skully's Here in the sheltered Donewaiting world we don't look too far outside the walls of the message board to discover new local bands. It's true. Like, when The Loyal Divide showed up to pimp an upcoming show, they were met with "hey doodz, nice spam" and "never heard of ya, never will" type comments. But figuring, "ah, what the hell, I might as well hear what these guys sound like so I can avoid any further posts in the board that they might make", [...]
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