if you saw boris you saw him play rhythm guitar "quietly" in the corner. he plays like someone is going to show up tomorrow morning and take his guitar away forever. listen to wind waltzes (#3).http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K8N6I8FY
11.20.2009
Michio Kurihara - Sunset Notes 2009
if you saw boris you saw him play rhythm guitar "quietly" in the corner. he plays like someone is going to show up tomorrow morning and take his guitar away forever. listen to wind waltzes (#3).http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K8N6I8FY
Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back 2009
monstrous. like someone being drawn and quartered while on acid wrote an album. and they do that thing with the downtempo beat and the 16th note cymbal ride that they have in a few songs on "i dont care" and it still sounds amazing. its distinctly gaza, but for some reason the vocals sound way less varied and much quieter. and a lot of the songs sound the same, but im glad theyre opening for baroness.http://www.mediafire.com/?ttjm2wo1tee
11.12.2009
11.11.2009
Cylon - Resonanz 2009
sounds like : tor lundvall + william basinski + cliff martinez + aiden baker
http://rapidshare.com/files/288096926/Cylon_-_Resonanz-CDR-2009-ZzZz.rar.html
11.04.2009
11.01.2009
Dillinger Four - More Songs About Girlfriends and Bubblegum 1997
they have one of the best sounds in the world, and they never ever ever depart from it but it still works so well. 11 years of releases and they sound the exact fucking same and its everything pop punk should be.http://www.badongo.com/cfile/5563832
Review! By someone who posts as Jeff Rosenstock at http://re-music.blogspot.com/. Not sure if thats legitimate or not.
"Dag, yo. I guess I was sixteen when I first heard Dillinger Four and although at first I couldn't stand the singer who my friend said "sounded like a fucking girl" in-between choices like Fenix TX and Showoff in his car, this band gradually changed my life. Every aspect about that first record not only grew on me, but changed my opinion on the matter at hand. For example, at first I thought "man, this record sounds funny." At this point, I think all records should sound like Dillinger Four records. They sound perfect. At first I thought "man, those guys don't sing so good" and now I think people should only sing exactly like that, and bands that try to can't pull it off.
I guess the most interesting (read: uninteresting) thing about my discovery of what punk rock could be is that while Midwestern Songs... did completely change my life, this 7" is what made me realize what a great band Dillinger Four really was. If it was still available, I would suggest everyone listen to it as a crash course in the band. Like a real punk band, they cram two songs onto each side. One side is sung by Paddy, who if you're unfamiliar sounds like a bear who has been up all night drinking and smoking. The other side is sung by Erik, who if you're unfamiliar sounds like a tenor choirboy who has been up all night drinking and smoking. On this record in particular, his voice sounds at it's best - more pop-punk than squealy, more Billie Joe than "a fucking girl." The guitars, basses and drums sound like they've been bombed by an analog tape squadron and they explode just off-time enough to make it feel like it's real people playing the best rock and roll you've ever heard.
Dillinger Four makes a lot of astute points about politics, economy, social stereotypes and religion on this 7" without ever feeling like they're telling you what to do with your life, and fuck, man... at this point in my life it was about time I heard a band talk about things that were important to me without being dicks about it. There is a ton of this now, but I feel like in the mid-90's it was very hard to find a good punk band that wasn't either sucking the teat of major labels or so anti-establishment that they lost the idea that punk is about connecting with the disaffected youth, not alienating them even further.
And this is why Dillinger Four are the proper heirs to Minneapolis wunderkind the Replacements. The four songs on this record, despite all that was mentioned before, are four perfect pop songs. Like the Replacements, their live shows can be train wrecks, on record they still sound like they could fly off the rails at any second and they can tackle heavy subjects like your friends at the bar instead of like your professors. And like the Replacements, they really don't sound like anything that came before it, which is ironic because there are a ton of bands that are trying to do the Replacements thing now and completely failing. I guess the problem is that their trying, and people who are as ahead of their time as Dillinger Four was in 1997 just kinda do it.
It's also worth mentioning that this was one of the very first 7"s I ever bought and I'm very sad to say that I can't find it anywhere now. Even sadder is that a 7" I bought around the same time turned up out of nowhere the other day, and that was the Social Climber 7" by Civ. Sometimes life ain't fair."
The Chariot - The Fiancee 2007
i dont even know what to say. yeah i feel guilty, but goddamn they do some amazing things with noise.oh and the end of "and shot each other" sells the entire album.
http://www.mediafire.com/?uqolm3yrtzr
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - GUN
i dont even know when this came out, but it is stunning. ive had it for a long time but every time i hear it it sounds brand new and better than most of the shit out there. you may as well listen to it, its only 6 songs.http://rapidshare.com/files/266214318/The_Grasshopper_Lies_Heavy_-_GUN__Remastered_2008_.rar
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt 2009
i really miss gaahl and king. and frost on session drums. and the entire production of ad majorem. but its still definitely gorgoroth, and theres only a few lame songs. and the vocals are dope, but not gaahl dope.http://www.mediafire.com/?y2vgegyn2wt
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