Words by Brendan I love The Spires . Let's be clear about that right now. So why should you read this review? Why do you care what I have to say about a band for whom I've had more subtle, structured, critical opinions than you've had remote thoughts? Yeah, I could tell you why Forever City Chorus represents The Spires ' mid-20s maturation, but what do you care? You never saw their adolescence! They're infants, as far as you're concerned! Well, here's why, friendos: this could [...]
After launching in fine fashion with Luke Slater wielding his L.B. Dub Corp alias against textured cuts from ASC, the second instalment of Mote-Evolver's Parallel Series presents more forward-thinking sets this time from Shifted and Finish vanguard Samuli Kemppi.
For your Saturday, a movie (including the Movies) and plenty of good shows: ► "Pass the Music," a music documentary filmed between 2008 and '10 focusing on the Silver Lake/Echo Park indie scene, screens for the first time publicly tonight at the Bootleg Theater. Following the 8 p.m. screening, there will be live music from Manhattan Murder Mystery, Tenlons Fort, Joey Siara (of the Henry Clay People), Radars to the Sky and a set saluting the late, great Silver Lake band the Movies. Check out the trailer right here . ► [...]
Back in September we shared a track from SoCal indie pop veterans, The Spires. The track, entitled Waves, quickly became one of our favorite songs of 2011. Yesterday they unveiled a shiny new tune on their BANDCAMP page, from their upcoming LP Forever City Chorus, set to drop December 20th. This is Clock Out The Clocks . <p>&amp;amp;lt;p&a mp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp ;amp;lt;a href=" http://thespires.bandcamp.com/ track/clock-out-the-clocks"&am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Clock Out The Clocks by The Spires&amp;amp;amp;lt; /a&amp;amp;amp;gt;& ;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp ;amp;gt;</p>
Thursday things: ► Jonathan Wilson [see our interview with him Wednesday ] plays the Troubadour behind his 2011 release "Gentle Spirit." ► The Kooks are back for a second night at the Music Box. ► Buzzing NYC quintet Caveman make their first visit to L.A. behind their first release "CoCo Beware." the five-piece plays the Echo, supported by Races, Hands and more. That's Caveman's video for "Easy Water," above. ► And the Spires — who teased with the great song "Waves" back in [...]
There's not much known about this Midlands band but their music is haunted psych-folk with a woozy, moody, new-agey quality. The plinky, jangly 'Bending the Rules of Time', with male and female voices in harmony, sounds both pastoral and vaguely menacing, as if soundtracking Witchfinder General. The other two tracks are hypnotic and repetitive, 'The Book of the Dead' being six and a half minutes of folky psychedelia gaining power from the constantly looping cycles. It sits within the folkatronica firmament but it's an intriguing and skewed take on English folk too.
Aanrader! Black Spires // Dat gaat lekker hard! Black Spires zijn Gentse bulldozers die zonder omkijken over ons aller trommelvliezen walsen. Denk Millionaire en Creature With The Atom Brain . — (de meest onuitspreekbare titel sinds () van Sigur Rós) willen ze geen album noemen, maar eerder a collection of demo's (sic). Ons kan het niet schelen hoe je het noemt, als je maar luistert. Tes de max .
Plenty of Sunday fun: ► If it's the first Sunday of the month, then it must be time for the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite . Hosted by Daniel Ahearn and the Jones (and co-presented by Buzz Bands LA), tonight's installment is headlined by Liz Clark , the Denver-born singer-songwriter cultivated her craft in the New York scene before settling in Ireland. Her fourth album "Lonely and the Moose" is due early next year. Above, the video for "Who's Your Angel?" And below: Check out and download "Feet on the Ground" [...]
Song: "Waves" Artist: The Spires Is there a poem about poetry? Is there a novel about fiction? Is there a film about films? Maybe, but really, I have no fucking clue, and you and I and everyone we know can spend our entire lives, and then some, debating these very questions (which may or may not have any meaningful content, themselves). That's beside the point, though. I want to say that The Spires ' tune, "Waves", is a song about sound, but who am I to say? And who are you? And who are [...]
Some albums are suited for the freeing sunshine while others make more sense under the guise of perpetual rain and overcast mind. London duo Savaging Spires' self titled debut fits the latter. Check out "Apostrophe Lake" and "Bending The Rules Of Time" to see if this is your destination. http://criticalheights.com/ http://savagingspires.bandcamp .com/
A mysterious tour-de-weird-cum-tour-de-awes ome. Shrouded in a cloak of mystery, freak/acid folk-rock outfit, Savaging Spires, rumored to be from England, is the stuff of unsettling late night walks home alone and a good ol' dose of mushroom tea. Weird warbling and witching instrumentation make things all the more mysterious and inviting. The band eschews conventional song structures--if that's not already painfully obvious--for trips such as "When The Devil Says She's Dead", "Apostrophe Lake" and "Cemetery Lounge". The six-minute-plus closer,...
Listening to Savaging Spires ' debut album was an experience akin to picking up a secret radio signal that no one knows about. The music is plenty eerie and atmospheric enough, and when I googled their name to find out more about them, not much came up. Not only does Savaging Spires' not have a Wikipedia entry, but I also read somewhere that they are intentionally keeping a low profile perhaps to propagate their mysterious image. According to their Facebook page, Savaging Spires is a band "originally from the Midlands - but now scattered around the country." Midlands is [...]
Evocativa, a folk segundo os ingleses Savaging Spires faz-se de pedaços de nostalgia e uma ligação umbical à força telúrica da floresta, com todo o imaginário a ela inerente. Fábulas, mitos e lendas alinhadas não num esoterismo obscuro mais expectável, mas em canções luminosas e inspiradoras, de certa forma, estranhamente familiares. Com um álbum homónimo estreia na Critical Heights - casa de Wooden Wand - e com destaque na última compilação de novidades da revista Wire, os Savaging Spires permanecem contudo envoltos numa identidade um tanto ao quanto enigmática. Biografia à parte, Apostrophe Lake é um dos mais [...]
Critical Heights released the long anticipated self-titled debut of mysterious London duo, Savaging Spires yesterday. The album is a wonderful exercise in haunted, ambient folk, drone and hazy melancholia. By way of celebration the band have given up a new track, the twinkling, sunlit Apostrophe Lake . You can buy the album from Boomkat here . Download Savaging Spires - Apostrophe Lake mp3 (from Savaging Spires) Download Savaging Spires – Bending The Rules Of Time mp3 (from Savaging Spires) Follow @madmackerel
- by Black Spires Some dark, loud, and noisy rock 'n' roll on this new Black Spires demo set. Download it for free at Bandcamp or here . Scope the cover art below. / via /
A slight detourn from the one at Freq Imagine that Animal Collective could be reformatted like a hard drive. (((imagine that Animal Collective could be reformatted like a Kek hardrive, like the Werneck Wretchmondings I talked about here ))) Imagine some mad urfolk indie scientist, their senses dulled by slow cracks and too good weed, decided that the shimmering pop tarts of Merriweather Post Pavilion was just too much to bear, too damned hummable [...]
"Psychedelic pastoralism" - that's how record label Critical Heights neatly summarises its new London charges Savaging Spires . The phrase is perfect: this is the music of crazed circuses careering down country lanes; of peaty cottages filled with firewood and dead bodies; of mistakes in muddy haystacks; of begrizzled farmers and questionable ancestries; and yes, of The Wicker Man. Theirs is a kind of spooked folk, witch house with cowbells. A debut album is due sometime this autumn. Bending The Rules Of Time by Savaging Spires Savaging Spires - Bending The Rules Of Time [...]
9/23/11- Friday's featured mp3's are; Wavves; 100% (Sonic Youth Cover) Atlas Sound; Te Amo The Spires; Waves Youth Lagoon; Bobby
We posted back in May about mysterious UK duo Savaging Spires and their spooky mix of freakish aicd-folk and psychedelic drone. Recently we received a copy of their self-titled debut album on vinyl which is a lovely object in itself, and a few plays has revealed plenty more delights too. There's is a world of twilight and shadowy murmurs, of glimpses of overgrown country houses where old ghosts can walk imparting doses of dread and joy - part ambience, part melody, and sometimes choral, it feels spontaneous and shadowy in equal parts. Songs range [...]
Ventura CA's, The Spires, have released a new track off of their forthcoming LP, Forever City Chorus, due out this fall, it's solid, check it out. This is Waves . The Spires; Waves
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