This year's list of favorites is fairly sedate (even for me), with just a little ruckus here and there. Lots of morning-coffee music, which I guess says something about my 2011. But music's strength is its pliability. It can be whatever you need it to be at the moment, especially when we have instant access to virtually any song ever recorded, often for free . Judging by this list, I needed music to be a salve more than a release valve this year. I also never expected my favorite album to come from someone who held the [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. MP3:Path- Wes Eckmayer MP3: Path- Matt Whitehurst MP3:Path- Keith Lawson MP3: Path- Ron Barker Columbus rapper/producer Path made an interesting instrumental album. He titled each song on Peasant LIfe after the government name of someone that influenced him. Real [...]
Froissements éléctroniques, collages reel-to-reel à la hache, voix sur-mixée dans une ambiance étrangement déliquescente: ce deuxième album du groupe de Columbus (Ohio) - après un premier opus sur Siltbreeze et de nombreux singles - attaque très fort. French countryside verse dans le tropicalisme foutraque avec un refrain en forme de comptine folk d'un autre âge. Le groupe est à géométrie variable. Son membre permanent est le fantasque Matt Horsehit et il est accompagné ici par le percussioniste expérimental Ryan Jewell. Ensemble, ils prennent un malin plaisir à brouiller les pistes, [...]
Douglas Martin keeps 'em laced in the illa snakes. Psychedelic Horseshit's name is instantly recognizable among the lo-fi horde, but for all the wrong reasons. Psychedelic Horseshit jokingly created the rather abhorrent term "shitgaze," one used to describe scuzzy-as-fuck-but-otherwise-g reat bands like Times New Viking and Eat Skull. Psychedelic Horseshit is far more famous for this particularly candid discussion with the Washington Post than any piece of music the band has ever released. As far as a lot of people are concerned, this is the comprehensive and unabridged version of [...]
You'd have a hard time pinning down Psychedelic Horseshit ... though the band's name kinda says it all. The Columbus, Ohio two-piece coined the term "shitgaze" to describe their music, thus giving music scribes something to cling on to (Does this count as a pun? Maybe a really bad pun?). Their latest LP Laced is slightly less shitgazy, a little less soiled if you will. That's a good thing if you ask me. Lo-fi/shitgaze/pee-twee/poop punk-whatever you want to call it this week-has ruined many a good song. The new record [...]
The Braincast is not so called because it unusually filled with penetrative insights, but because if you listen to it this weekend it will be while I am down at the Brainlove Festival either listening to bands, DJing or sneaking off to watch the Champions League final at the nearest pub. This week is another relatively haircut-friendly playlist actually, with words like 'remix' to be found and some fashionably hazy production and everything. In fact I may have to do another 'tedious old shite' podcast soon, just to make up for it. Anyhow, next week looks [...]
Psychedelic Horseshit - French Countryside from FatCat Records on Vimeo . Half Machine alumni Psychedelic Horseshit have a new record out on Fat Cat. 'Laced' is a far cry from the 'sprinkler solos' from our EP. Mid-fi shitgaze.
I first heard about Psychedelic Horseshit when they signed to Fatcat Records, but they have a lot more history than that, so I can't claim to be anything like an expert on their music. All I knew of them prior to this release was the free (and brilliant) Acid Tape they released to celebrate their signing, and this meltdown of an interview with the Washington Post from a good couple of years ago. In that interview, which is worth reading, not least because it's pretty bloody hilarious, the band effectively have a gigantic tantrum [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars When one is a member of a genre that has been dubbed 'shitgaze,' you must know how to walk the tall tightrope between producing music that is entirely listenable and enjoyable, and producing music that sounds like, well, shit. If used simply to add a slight layer of distortion that mostly fades away to reveal solid tunes then it falls into the first category. If a band simply mixes layers of ill-fitting instruments, the result is that of the second. Thankfully, it seems as though Psychedelic [...]
Omdat gewone popmuziek ook maar zo gewoon is, vandaag drie keer pop met een twist. Een beetje psychedelica brengt immers kleur in het soms zo dorre, grijze muzieklandschap. Van de hoes van Alvarius B. 's nieuwste plaat, Baroque Primitiva , worden we alvast een beetje draaierig. De menselijke mandala op de voorkant beeldt onverbloemd de schoonheid van het naakte vrouwelijke lichaam uit, een goede reden om op jacht te gaan naar het vinyl. Mits je daar genoeg $ voor over hebt, want de lp was in een vloek en een scheet uitverkocht (de cd versie bevat overigens 32 [...]
Sorry we are running late today, but hey better late than never. Plus there is a ton of cool stuff out this week that hopefully will help make up for our delay. Arc In The Round; Arc In The Round Arc In Round; Spirit Pink Skull Remix. EMA; Past Life Martyred Saints EMA; Anteroom Other Lives; Tamer Animals [...]
This week is overwhelming. There are so many good albums being released that some are going to go relatively unnoticed and that is a shame. Do yourself a favor and listen to everything I posted today. Seriously it is all pretty great, especially The Antlers , Wild Beasts , Gang Gang Dance , Psychedelic Horseshit (seriously forget everything you know about these guys because the new album is awesome), Other Lives and Man Man . Currently I am a bit disappointed in the new Okkervil river ; I'm hoping it's a grower. [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Arc In Round, Asobi Seksu, Greg Brown, Brown Bird, Peter Case, the Clutters, EMA, Gang Gang Dance, Gardens, Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies, Kyp Harness, Helado Negro, Here We Go Magic, Inzinzac, Joan Of Arc, Daniel Knox, Liturgy, Man Man, Jared Mees [...]
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This is a HUGE week for new records; the sheer number is sure to be a little overwhelming, but here's hoping we can make some sense of it all. Quite a few EPs from the likes of Asobi Seksu , Thieves Like Us , Here We Go Magic , and Hey Champ (just for starters) should be cause for excitement. Television makes its mark on the music world with Matthew Morrison (of Glee fame) and Christina Perri (who got a big boost from So You [...]
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This interview with Psychedelic Horseshit originally appeared on Altered Zones last week. Below is the unedited, director's cut of the conversation, with bonus features and shit: The ethos of Columbus, OH's Psychedelic Horseshit is self-evident - write great songs, record with what you have, don't take yourself too seriously. The band formed concurrently with hometown contemporaries Times New Viking in 2005. It was here where " shitgaze " was born - a form of wall-of-sound pop that utilizes antiquated home recording equipment, resulting in accessible songs washed in grating, treble-heavy [...]
This podcast is, as you will already know, very, very late. Personally I blame a combination of the RNLI, gin, and the fact that Mrs. Toad is away all week, which meant that yesterday wasn't really available for blog things. It's also not very new music-orientated either, so hopefully those of you who come here pretty much just for that won't be too disappointed. I think what happened was that I got so into a handful of new releases recently that I neglected all the others, so when I came to sit down and write about [...]
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Jim Shepard's low-fi recording of Van Morrison's seminal classic 'Astral Weeks' from a '90s coffeehouse set surfaces over a decade later.
You are on notice, Panda Bear and Animal Collective, Neon Indian, Com Truise, Ducktails, Small Black and all the rest of you Chillwavers. Columbus' Psychedelic Horseshit have heard your loopy, homespun electronics and your sunshiny, cutesy, easy-livin' fantasies, and are none too pleased. Any day now I expect to an interview like this one, the one where Matt Horseshit tore into pretty much every lo-fi band getting press, to drop . There will probably be a new line of "Animal Collective Suxx" t-shirts, and those t-shirts will probably have kittens on them, too. In the meantime, there's "I Hate [...]
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