We had a new Giles Corey album from Connecticut singer-songwriter Dan Barrett earlier this year. Awesome! Now, I guess we've got ourselves a new demo from the project that pushed this guy into the spotlight he's currently in: Have A Nice Life. In true Barrett fashion, this track is dark, overblown, and massive.
Mamaleek is an unlikely black metal project hailing from San Francisco. The band's two members are brothers, and they bring elements of noise, electronic drums, and the occasional synth jumps in the mix, too. It's got a gritty bedroom-recorded sound, and even though this thing is rough around the edges, it kind of sounds like they toiled over the sonic qualities of this thing. A light, fuzzy guitar distortion hazes over light bass drum hits on "The White Marble Stone," but things get much heavier on "You Can Bury Me In the East." On "The [...]
Enemies List is a CT-based label that doesn't get enough credit. There aren't dozens of albums in their discography, because they're more about quality than quantity. What few albums they have released include underground essentials from NAHVALR and Have A Nice Life, and they'll be adding another great release to their store on Sept. 30th, too. The album is Xasthur's Defective Epitaph . It'll be the first time the album has ever been on vinyl, and the LP is only seeing a print of 600 copies. That's it. [...]
America Addio - Monster Show Ok, so I have a bit of a love affair with/hard on for Enemies List . I remember feeling this way about some other labels when I first found out about them (Temp Res, T&G) but I wasn't always 100% in line with their aural aesthetic and I wasn't with them from the beginning. Not so with Enemies List. Every release is a fucking winner and I feel like that creepy fan who [...]
<a href=" http://onethirtybpm.com/2010/0 7/29/album-review-planning-for -burial-leaving/" Planning For Burial Leaving [Enemies List; 2009] Links: Planning For Burial | Enemies List | Purchase on Insound Posted by Ray Finlayson on 29 July 2010 A few weeks back I got in a terribly excited state upon receiving a package in the mail. Because of the [...]
Sleep In - The Woods I generally try to stay away from reviewing records like Carnival . The ones where each song is different from the next and it's really hard to peg the album. I feel like I inevitably talk about the record on a song-by-song basis, and that makes me it seem like I don't "understand" the album. If I can't talk about the mood or overall sound, then it feels like I'm not doing my [...]
Planning For Burial - Oh Pennsylvania Your Black Clouds Hang Low Planning For Burial's Leaving was available as a free download for quite a while, since sometime last year actually. Despite its shear fucking awesomeness and the dozens of times I've listened to it, Leaving never managed to get any time on AGB. That is absolutely despicable. Now that it has a supremely packaged physical release on one [...]
In addition to looking Mexican, I apparently now look like a hooker. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against hookers, but, I always thought of myself as a modern Princess Diana, you know, classy but hip. This all started with having Babyshambles on the other night (courtesy of Clemence Poles promotions). Now, I may not know any Libertines or Babyshambles songs, but I do know that hanging out with Pete Doherty is number 3 on my 'Things to in London" list, just after 'Visit Buckingham Palace' and 'Try Fish and Chips'. Why so high on the list you ask? [...]
Because now is as good as time as any! I figured I'd post my Best of '08 post before Sarah, because hers is going to be a lot more complete than mine. Here goes! Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances I have a full review here , but that said, The Airing of Grievances is a really full on awesome record. It's complete with existential crises, Camus references, and really great borderline shoegaze guitar work. And it even has a [...]
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness ( Enemies List , 2008) SHOEGAZE/POST-ROCK/AVANT METAL/DOOM El debut de estos americanos (Middletown, US) será recordado a finales de este año en muchas listas... tiempo al tiempo, un doble CD no voy a decir perfecto, pero casi, a medio camino entre el shoegaze , el dark metal atmosférico o el ambient doom y donde han sabido picotear un poco de aquí ( My Bloody Valentine , [...]
The Needle Drop
Anti-Gravity Bunny
One Thirty BPM
Clemence a quelque chose a dire
War on Radio
...and the world smiles with you
Childish Gambino
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
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Niki & The Dove - The Fox [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Chromatics: “Into The Black”
Download: The Violet Lights - "Sex and Sound"
Whitney Houston uncovered
Saltillo – Monocyte, soundtrack voor een donkere strip
Download: Lissy Trullie - "It's Only You, Isn't It"
