
Difficile de ne pas confondre Godspeed You ! Black Emperor et A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orcherstra , essentiellement sur les premiers opus du second notamment. Non seulement le post-rock mélodieux et torturé d'Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau et Thierry Amar fait écho aux inspirations de leur précédent groupe, mais en garde également la même structure mélodique et ce goût prononcé des tracklists réduites au maximum dont les morceaux s'étirent toutefois jusqu'à parfois vingt minutes. Pourtant cette nouvelle mouture qui remplace le « A » par un « Thee » marque un changement notable, et pas seulement dans l'orthographe [...]

Silver Mt. Zion's sixth LP Kollaps Tradixionales is out today, and the band celebrated by releasing this semi-live video for "I Built Myself A Metal Bird." After some careful scene-setting, Mt. Zion play the song in front of a very small, very serious audience (everyone has their brows furrowed). The seriousness is appropriate enough for this song -- with fewer members in the mix, SMZ's players work twice as hard to create the track's feverish crescendos. Even the breakdowns remain tense here. Doing a live version for the video also makes sense, since "Metal Bird"'s been a live [...]
An oddball week. No major highlights of note, but there might be a few for you collectors. The Acacia Strain have a new live DVD; both Baroness and Mastodon are releasing some 123 vinyl; Mumford & Sons has a new one; fans of Black Moth Super Rainbow should check out the debut solo LP from the group's pianist The Seven Fields of Aphelion ; Story of the Year is holding strong in the screamo department (or maybe not?); an unexpected full-length from [...]

Free at last, free at last. My hellish work schedule is over for the moment and I have time -- just a little bit of time -- to put up a proper new music post. Of course, I feel like I haven't given nearly enough due to all the great albums that have either come out already this year or are coming out soon. I really wish I had the time to go into each in detail but for now, these are the albums you should be listening to if you want to listen to good music. Some are available [...]

I've come to the conclusion that I don't write enough about post-rock, a genre that I know and love very much. With 2010 still freshly started, I hope to talk more about the genre and releases from it in the coming year than I have in years past. Of course post-rock isn't exactly the most popular form of music around, as the lengthy songs and sometimes instrumentals can get under people's skin and come off as "boring" or just generally "off-putting". As Gareth from Los Campesinos! so accurately put it on his band's latest album, "I think we need more [...]

i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. so said shakespeare. and course when iago speaks, it's meant in the pejorative. but what i dig most about thee silver mt. zion (and every obsessive-alphabetisers nightmare variation of) is that willingness to open up, holler fuckit here i am, here's what i am, jackdaws be damned. constellation described their last album, 13 blues for thirteen moons, as a big raw angry tender racket. a summation so succinct it rendered any review following [...]
I just got back from playing with the cutest little black lab puppy I've seen since the day my mom brought home our black lab. This event has jump started my, uh, biological clock - if a dude can even have a biological clock. But instead of an annoying child in my life, I suddenly feel the urge to bring a dog into my world. I would name him either Gangu, like the little pup in Audition , or Xasthur, because well...that would rule. I guess if I wound up with a girl dog I'd name it something like [...]
Nella forma scompare Tra-La-La Band e viene ridotta la line-up a cinque soli elementi, eppure, venendo alla sostanza, appare concreto il ritorno ad una coralità strumentale (quantomeno per densità rispetto ai recenti malesseri blues). Lo specifico sono abrasioni elettriche ad altissima intensità, retaggi quasi rock esportati nella dilatazione e la voce di Efrim [...]

Giusto ieri vi avevamo parlato di post-rock, segnalandovi le tre date italiane dei Mono . Oggi torniamo in ambito post-rock (genere molto ampio, che comprende gruppi molto diversi fra di loro) per segnalarvi una delle più importanti uscite discografiche di questa primissima parte di 2010: il nuovo album dei A Silver Mt. Zion . In verità per il nuovo album (che si intitolerà "Kollaps Tradixionales") si fanno chiamare Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, ma in passato hanno cambiato diversi nomi: The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra [...]

Οι πρώτες ημέρες κάθε χρονιάς, με τη φημολογία για την επερχόμενη κυκλοφορία άλμπουμ αγαπημένων ονομάτων, τα πρώτα leaks, και τα πρώτα νέα ονόματα που περίμεναν υπομονετικά το ξεκίνημα της χρονιάς για να κάνουν κι αυτά το δικό τους ξεκίνημα, είναι από τις πολύ αγαπημένες μου, μουσικά τουλάχιστον. Ιδού λοιπόν είκοσι από τις κυκλοφορίες αυτές. Άντε να δούμε σε πόσα θα πέσουμε μέσα και φέτος.. [Κύριε Sufjan Stevens και κύριοι Radio Dept. , σας φοβήθηκε το μάτι μου οπότε φέτος δε σας αναφέρω] 1. Owen Pallett - Heartland [...]

This page wasn't described by eMusic as "The most self-centered thing on the Internet" without just cause. Would you believe me if I told you I have never read another person's blog before? I've read "blogs" like the one at Wired.com, or the unofficial Mets websites... is that website "The Frisky" a blog? Who cares. Really, I just use the Internet for chatting with friends and reading the same six or seven websites every day to keep myself informed about news. I don't think I've ever willfully clicked onto another person's blog before. I couldn't really care what happens in [...]
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"Kollaps Tradixionales" heisst das sechste Album der kanadischen Band um Efrim Menuck und steht sinnbildlich für die Entwicklung der Gruppe, die absichtlich immer wieder an ihren Grundfesten rüttelt um sich treu zu bleiben. Einem Felsen gleich trotzt Silver Mt. Zion den Gezeiten, wird unverrückbar umspült von zehn Jahren Bandgeschichte, die den Trupp um Efrim Menuck und [...]
Otto febbraio, "Kollaps Tradixionales". Disco dell'anno 2010. Qui è possibile ascoltare "Bury 3 Dynamos" e qui la presentazione sul sito Constellation.
On February 16th, the band formerly known as Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band will return with its sixth full-length effort, the seven track Kollaps Tradixionales . This time around, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (they dropped the Tra-La-La Band part after shedding three members, Eric Craven, Rebecca Foon, and Ian Ilavsky, and recruiting a new drummer, David Payant, in the summer of 2008) will attempt to demonstrate that, despite the new lineup, "the band has lost none of its raw and frazzled anthemic power and continues to forge bold new [...]
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra are going to be releasing their new album next year titled "Kollaps Tradixionales". The band tested many of the songs on the new album during their European tour in the fall of 2008 and recorded in the studio that winter. The band has... Click the link to read more