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Somehow For Posterity seems a slightly curious title for Ten Kens ' second album. Surely that phrase implies something carefully wrapped up for discovery by future generations, but if the children of ages hence were to find this record in a time capsule I'm not sure they could handle the contents, especially if they were played at their proper volume, which is of course loud. Hailing from Toronto, Ten Kens present here a guitar album of almost the purest kind, navigating a region overlapping both the hectic unpredictability of math rock and the cavernous bleakness of sludgier [...]
Ten Kens are a Toronto based Indie/Alternative/Experimental band, the members include Dan Workman , Brett Paulin , Sully Sullivan and Ryan Roantree . I was luckily able to catch these guys at NxNE this year.. can't tell you where as my memory isn't what it used to be, but they literally killed it. I was able to catch a bunch of shows during NxNE in Toronto and these guys definitely stuck. Ever since then I've been jamming hard to these ripe bananas [...]
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This song immediately conjured up the image of someone, waking up on the floor of a bar in the middle of the desert, something or someone slapping his face in time to the languid beat. That would've been my Treatment*(without Elvis Mitchell) for the video. What the band went with instead, is a simple and compelling tale of a monkey. And while it won't win its director a fetching portrait on the cover of Time, the video's got all you need in a story: corruption, justice, and an ending similar to my idea, and, to the [...]
Here we are again. A round up of our favourite postings of the month. Twenty one outstanding songs from July plus three new ones to make the perfect mix tape. From folk to garage to stoner rock and summer pop it is all here for you. Download, burn to CD, play - groove! 1) Sharon Van Etten - Love More mp3 A slow burning, mesmerising song that envelops like a soft blanket with that always captivating and haunting voice to the fore 2) Roadside Graves - Everything mp3 [...]
For Posterity is the second album from Toronto four-piece Ten Kens . Having not come across them before, the blurb with the release mentioned inspiration from psychedelia to hardcore, which had to make them worth a listen. Now, we also know better than most that the blurb can often bear no relation to the sounds coming from the speakers. But not this time! Johnny Ventura , the first track from the new album is a prime example, introducing a Roky Erickson -like howl over the top of a crushing guitar riff, before stopping abruptly [...]
Ten Kens' previous release, a self-titled, 2008 effort, was a vastly underrated rock album which treaded in indie rock royalty (Bends-era Radiohead and The Pixies to name a couple touch-points), art-rock, and heavy, yet managed to sound fresh, not reverential or redundant. "Screaming Viking, the first song released from their follow-up, For Posterity, certainly has the heavy covered as a Thom Yorke-like falsetto is paired with a monster riff many a retro-rocking, doom band would gladly plunder, maraud, or pillage. The tom and bass heavy rhythm only adds to the foreboding nature of this track, making it an [...]
Brokered Heart by The Acorn By burning acorns, I just meant that The Acorn seem to be on fire lately. And good for them, they deserve it. Not only is the band currently supporting Fleet Foxes and Elbow in the UK, the were recently touted as something beautiful by a guy who breaks indie bands these days. I'm a big fan of their songs on Bandstand Busking (a site along the lines of La Blogotheque ) that film bands performing acoustic impromptu sessions [...]
Woot! Part three of the a series I have going on record labels ( part 1 , part 2 ). This time we have the ever impressive "FatCat Records" from Brighton (and Brooklyn). FatCat Records is pretty much an "ahead of the curve" indie label with a few great "straight ahead" indie artists. If you are a bit sketchy on what I am trying to say, think of starting at Animal Collective and move towards Frightened Rabbit. See, now you [...]
Sensible Seelen und deren Ohren sollten bei dieser Musik besser schnell zur letzten Platte von The Killers greifen - denn jetzt gibt es Schweinebauch statt Salatteller, Wagner statt Vivaldi: Ten Kens! Klingt: Wie Musik zum Bastille stürmen. [mp3] Ten Kens / Bear Fight
Ten Kens made one fucked up video. First of all, it's called "Bearfight" so I'm sure you can use your imagination with that. But that's just the beginning. Literally, the bear fight happens at the start of the video and it just gets more and more fucked up from there. And there are some parts that are seriously disturbing. Like the moaning dead deer? Fucking terrifying . I think I'm gonna go pet my bunnies for a little bit to cheer me up.
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I'm officially on vacation. Woo hoo! Good tunes to follow. This Boy Is Exhausted by The Wrens The Thief & The Heartbreaker by Alberta Cross Bearfight by Ten Kens image from madeyoulaugh.com
Here's another three artists for you to ponder for the new year: Passion Pit For those who like : The Postal Service, Weezer This Cambridge, MA band is already making waves in the indie scene, and their debut album hasn't even come out yet! Passion Pit play Zaphod Beeblebrox in Ottawa on Jan. 23rd and the Horseshoe in [...]
Frank Yang I'm not even kidding when I say that a typical Friday night for me usually wraps up sound asleep before midnight. Rock'n'roll lifestyle indeed. But I had been quite looking forward to seeing Brooklyn's Parts & Labor , what with their latest album Receivers growing on me more with each listen, so instead of being properly crashed out from the week that was last Friday, I was at Sneaky Dee's taking in a full lineup of local acts before the headliner. Kicking things off were [...]
Ten Kens are a Toronto quartet (not dectet) that make enough noise for ten people named Ken; I suppose the fact they're about to tour the UK with A Place To Bury Strangers suggests as much. They also make pretty awesome music videos, as you're about to see. This could have something to do with the fact that band member Dean Tzenos used to work on the popular animated kids show Backyardigans (ask my niece, it's her favorite) but decided to use his powers for evil and not good, resulting in the incredible videos for "Bearfight" and [...]
Many of the songs on Ten Kens debut disc follow the same pattern, that is they follow no set pattern at all. You're never quite sure if they want to be Radiohead, Blur, Boris, Black Mountain, or My Bloody Valentine, and where a song begins is no indication of where it will end. "Refined" begins with early era-Radiohead, as the guitars clip on the off beats and vocalist Dan Workman mumbles his best mouth of marbles Thom Yorke. Later it's all acid rock keyboards, heavy riffage, and Workman's evoking the full throated scream of a young Robert [...]
Ten Kens, Ten Kens (Fatcat, 2008) MP3 : "Refined" Despite how awesome it would be if the band Ten Kens was comprised of ten men named Ken, it isn't. But these four guys from Toronto do manage to create the sound of ten guys. Like Broken Social Scene meets Shudder To Think, their debut album is sonic layer over sonic layer of dramatic, fuzzed out guitar-centered indie anthems. Formed five years ago by founding members and songwriters [...]
Pour ouvrir ce sujet avec une rime à deux balles, je dirai "septembre pour faire sortir sept chansons de l'ombre". septembre qui n'est bizarrement pas le septième mois de l'année, va savoir pour quoi alors qu'il commence par un sept. J'y vais. Selon mon dictionnaire hachette, septembre signifie "septième mois de l'ancienne année, qui commençait en mars (d'où le fameux mars et ça repart) . neuvième de la nouvelle" . Vu mon âge , des anciennes années j'en ai tout de même connu et pourtant un septième septembre ne m'a jamais croisé, [...]
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