There's a couple things you'd expect from a solo album of a member of the Black Moth Super Rainbow: vocoder, funky drum beats , and woozy analog synths. On BMSR's The Seven Fields of Aphelion 's new album Periphery , you only get the last one. Closer in sound to Emeralds or Stellar OM Source, Periphery is full of gorgeous ambient synth music that would probably have sounded as natural in 1985 as it does in 2010. On tracks like "Sunburst Chemicals," "Lake Feet," and "Mountain Mary," The Seven Fields of Aphelion plays real live piano, [...]
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I don't know that the bedroom solo projects of people recording under monikers will come to an end anytime soon. Sure, we've heard the "chillwave" of Washed Out and Toro Y Moi and we've heard the lo-fi experimental stuff of tUnE-YaRdS and U.S. Girls, not to mention countless others (Wavves, to mention one glaring omission), but now we have Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis). Like the others, he's great. Just a fact. He'll be releasing some sort of EP this year on the up-and-coming Terrible Records . Twin Shadow – "Castles In The Snow" [...]
Black Moth Super Rainbow member The Seven Fields of Aphelion is set to release her solo debut, Periphery, later this month on Graveface. The record is a collection of soothing "fragile ambient soundscapes" created using piano and vintage synths, which lend these floating sleep jams a warm, nostalgic glow. Our new go-to dream soundtrack: mp3: The Seven Fields of Aphelion :: Grown The Seven... click through for more...
by BBG If one stands back from the mayhem of life around them and will honestly realize what has been done on volume one of Low Level Owl, they will be floored. Here is a band who has, for the most part, orchestrated a symphonic masterpiece and glides effortlessly from one track into another. Odd for the average indie rock fan? Perhaps. Unapproachable? Hardly. Ambience and environment are the keys here. Through a number of experiments and hard work, the band has made a piece that is truly [...]
San Francisco sextet Maus Haus play an frantic, yet refreshing sound that oozes the nostalgic innovation of acts like The Silver Apples tinkering with a psych-jazz flow and wobble bass runs played alongside a hairy Krautrockers's synth collection inside their collective bedrooms. Yes, the guitarless music is sort of in league of it's own one could say. Though, at it's very basic, it's dream-pop music played by six vintage-obsessed guys, who all [...]
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THE hot new media/blog darlings, Freelance Whales , stepped into the WOXY studios for a live session in December and laid down a new track, called "Rise & Shine", which is much folksier than their previous tight, electronic material. And while I love what I've heard so far of the older stuff (how am I calling it "older" - they're so NEW!) "Rise & Shine" shows the band can craft more than their typical (albeit complex) electronic pop. Check it out below! Freelance Whales - "Rise & Shine" (live at WOXY) [MP3] [...]
By Jeff Kollath Since 2007, ABX (Aaron Brant) and DJ STV SLV (Steve Reidell) have performed, mixed, and mashed as the Hood Internet . Based in Chicago, the duo began putting tracks on the web, but eventually began performing live at clubs around the city. 2009 saw ABX and STV SLV hit Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, and has much bigger things on the horizon for 2010. In the coming months, they will hit the road with Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow ), heading out West for a series of dates, before finishing back in [...]
Click image to download these albums While assembling a top list for 2009 I found that there were four albums that really blew me away and stuck with me for the entire year. Trying to choose another six seemed a little silly to me, so here are my top four, with an honorable mention category for number five. Lhasa de Sela and Jay Reatard put out fantastic albums in 2009 and both died young in early 2010. I highly recommend checking out "Lhasa" and "Watch Me Fall." 4. Animal Collective – "Merriweather [...]
Click image to download these albums While assembling a top list for 2009 I found that there were four albums that really blew me away and stuck with me for the entire year. Trying to choose another six seemed a little silly to me, so here are my top four, with an honorable mention category for number five. Lhasa de Sela and Jay Reatard put out fantastic albums in 2009 and both died young in early 2010. I highly recommend checking out "Lhasa" and "Watch Me Fall." 4. Animal Collective – "Merriweather [...]
Disclaimer: Years are fairly arbitrary time periods. The only thing that makes a decade is the human conditions' odometer fetish. Unfortunately, like you, I'm human as well and fall prey to these tendencies. I can't claim to know everything, I'm just an educated observer; and here are my educated observations. They are not perfect and neither you nor I will completely agree with them in a years time, but that is the fun of lists. Alright, it took me awhile, but I've finally got 2009. Part of me didn't want to put Animal Collective in the top [...]
Disclaimer: Years are fairly arbitrary time periods. The only thing that makes a decade is the human conditions' odometer fetish. Unfortunately, like you, I'm human as well and fall prey to these tendencies. I can't claim to know everything, I'm just an educated observer; and here are my educated observations. They are not perfect and neither you nor I will completely agree with them in a years time, but that is the fun of lists. Alright, it took me awhile, but I've finally got 2009. Part of me didn't want to put Animal Collective in the top [...]
Yeasayer, riding a wave of publicity on the eve of the release of their second album, are poised to earn an even bigger following with the fantastic and accessible Odd Blood ( Album Review ). Singer, guitarist and songwriter Anand Wilder tells onethirtybpm all about the recording of the album, from their influences to its sequencing, explains their visual style, and comments on the album's early internet leak in an eye-opening interview. onethirtybpm: So, you guys have sort of blown up since 2007, how does it feel to [...]
So here we are, my favourite songs of the year. What be they? How sound them? All is revealed. I think what strikes me about the music of the last twelve months is the blizzard of originality. An awful lot of new sounds were made. It's a little like the melting-pot at the centre of western music worked very well this year, because a lot of these songs have influences that are wide and disparate. Is this list, taken as a whole, better than that of 2008? I think it just might be. But only just. The artwork is what [...]
This improv piece was made under the influence of Side A of "Zero Time" by Tonto's Expanding Head Band. Drawings = Carolina Suarez-Purdum, color = Gumshoe This improv piece was made under the influence of Side B of "Zero Time" by Tonto's Expanding Head Band. Drawings = Carolina Suarez-Purdum, color = Gumshoe The front cover of this edition's music, "Zero Time" by Tonto's [...]
Onlangs is hij weer uitgezonden, de Feestelijke Vijftig. De vijftig liedjes, gratis en legaal te vinden op het internet. Bij elkaar gezocht en in de juitse volgorde gezet door het hitteam van audiosport. De editie van 2009 was alweer de zesde. Een typisch Anglo-Amerikaanse lijst was het dit jaar niet. Er was ook ruimte voor hits uit Duitsland en natuurlijk uit Zweden, maar misschien belangrijker, we werden verblijd met drie Nederlandse songs in de lijst, met de hoogste op nummer 4, de hoogste Nederlandse notering in de geschiedenis van de Feestelijke Vijftig! [...]
For the 12th year Brainwashed Readers have voiced their opinion on the best and worst music of the year. While some of the results shouldn't come as a surprise, there are, as always, plenty of anomalies. Brainwashed Readers have once again, and probably moreso than any other previous year, distanced themselves from the mainstream. Thanks to all who took part. As always, the Brainwashed Staff have added their comments. Album of the Year:Sunn O))), Monoliths Dimensions Their best album by a country mile. I get the feeling their collaborators have a lot to do with [...]
Now that we've made it through the year in rejects, it's time once again for the yearly wrap-up of our favorite tracks by US. STV SLV's favorite ABX tracks of '09: 1. Dead Prez vs Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks Of Hip Hop 2. Modest Mouse vs Kanye West - Floating Paranoia 3. Ghostface vs Beirut - Save Me Concubine 4. Michael Jackson vs Ratatat - Billie "Wildcat" Jean 5. Lil Wayne vs [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =hLIdD5UfXIo Brought to you by our sponsors, Brother Love and The Honky Tonk Man. 25. Diamond District - In The Ruff [ Mello Music Group ] Taking artists at their word is a notoriously tricky enterprise. Even allowing for 100 percent sincerity, intentions and ambitions are often discordant with the final results. Luckily, anyone attempting to [...]
The man known under the pseudonym of Philip Seymour Hoffman sent over a new track titled "Duckfangs Tickle My Ankles" in which he stated that the lyrics are originally from a Black Moth Super Rainbow song, though Im not sure which one. In other news PSH has just released his first physical piece of music in the form of a cassette through Breakfast Of Champs with the intriguing title of the lighthouse itself is the rocket which you can purchase for four bucks here ; furthermore PSH has assured us he made love to each [...]
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