Isengrind - Night of Raining Fire 2012

MOAR ISENGRIND

1. Lost Girls
2. Cygnus
3. Horselberg
4. Valeria Underground
5. Nadirs of the Sun
6. Lit by the Rain
7. Ascending
8. White Bone Snake
9. Spine of the Night
10. Still Voyager

http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/39508607/file.html

Mirroring - Foreign Body 2012

*some rambling about retaining sanity in the face of overexposure to world news*

but yeah. this album is a pleasant distraction. grouper is there. sounds kind of like grouper but egregiously stretched out and meandering. her singing is more prominent than in the past, which...i dunno. seems to lessen her impact, somehow.

1. Fell Sound
2. Silent From Above
3. Cliffs
4. Drowning the Call
5. Mine
6. Mirror of Our Sleeping

http://www.mediafire.com/?4psja5sqmo87lyc

Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution & Earth Sound System 2009/2011

their 10th and 11th albums.

the reviews of these two are kind of weird. in the pitchfork sense. lots of really hesitant enjoyment.

you can definitely tell that ballads is closer chronologically to flags of the sacred harp/valley of fire than earth sound system is. and guess what? flags of the sacred harp is still one of the most insanely amazing albums there is. i debated bumping that one up again, but then my charts would be wrong. and i debated posting valley of fire, because 'the tree' next to 'we are/chanel zero' is fucking retarded.

but instead, these. here. because ive been rampantly switching back and forth between poppy DnB and psychdrone as i replay STALKER again and again and contemplate the abject moral decay of my life.

also 'the corner' contains the out-of-context lines "i trust you...keep me drunk...i trust you" which i cant stop thinking about.



Ballads of the Revolution:

1. Nightingale
2. Dark Falcon
3. Skylight
4. The Corner
5. The Cryin Sea
6. A Mania

http://www.mediafire.com/?jtgdz2kffm5





Earth Sound System:

01. In The Willows
02. Raga Joining
03. Bring It To Me
04. Dedication
05. Raga Separating
06. Where We Go

http://www.mediafire.com/?dlpc37td6yv5l0g

"Velvet Cacoon" - "How The Last Day Came And Stayed Then Faded Into Simulated Rain" 2005

This, as you should know, is actually most of an album called Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette, by Korouva. Below are the VC titles, which are made up. After Atropine and P aa opal 'came out', Josh and Angela started Clair Cassis; I'll let you know how it is (update: well, i made it 13 seconds in before turning winterglow back on; maybe tomorrow). The picture they had originally used as cover art was also stolen, but I can't seem to find the one they used, so here's an alternative.



more info



The reasons I'm posting this, and the reasons I'm posting it as Velvet Cacoon, are a little muddy at the moment. But it's really nice, and there's no reason everyone shouldn't hear it. I'm looking for the original, which obviously has all of the tracks and as they should be (you'll hear how they are supposed to flow together).



I wanted to believe that this was actually them for fucking years. This one, more in contrast with the also-stolen "dizzy from eternity", was pretty believable. Both of them made up one of the first CDs I burned for Sanchez ('Big Mioco And The Chairs' was the first, and I think this was the 4th, of about 160 that ended with Sanchezes engine block immersed in acid. Thanks Obama).



Christ the flow itself is...otherworldly. Impeccable. The way the songs shift, both fluidly between individual tracks and the intra-play between the layers themselves is absurd. Listen to the tape hiss bass pulses. It sounds like there's a completely separate album of sleepy noise drone occurring simultaneously, occupying the same dimensions...



She has two more albums, je pense.





"Annndd I fffound a little sheet music store, that I love, and I went in and I just wanted to curl up on the ground and fall asleep....amidst all the, all the piles of music because, I don't know, I haven't played music in so long..."



again, this interview is highly recommended









Keep in mind, especially if you are familiar with Velvet Cacoon, that this is NOT Velvet Cacoon, despite years of wishing. Like the dieselharp, live shows, DXM overdoses on a frozen lake, and Josh's suicide, the claimed reality is highly unlikely.



Which, of course, in turn lends a new level of credibility and authenticity to it for me. A pretentious statement, to be sure, but...how much of the notes I like to play are stolen? Not an excuse, but there really are several reasons why the absurdity and nihilism of stealing just fits the tone (of the actual Velvet Cacoon) so well. Again, not me excusing them. If I had found this in 2005/6 as Korouva, my opinion of the music would be largely unchanged. Maybe it's just VC seducing me in the way that some people are obsessed with Crystal Castles.



Je ne sais pas. I feel like...I wanted to believe so absolutely that the people behind the black metal, etc that I trusted weren't as despairing and misanthropic as I felt, and that maybe we didn't live in a world consumed by liars and thieves, and that anyone could be capable of such transcendent beauty and form simultaneously, but I guess we were all young once.





Update: oh my god the original is just....like....the most horrifically perfect thing I have ever heard. Infinitely superior, and the two are, + or -, the same goddamn album. So, not really + or - at all. Oddly enough, the 'interlude' tracks on How The Last Day are not Korouva, and are thus VC's contribution to the album (? maybe?), and they have actually remained more resonant in my mind. So the interludes are either Angela talking, or clips from something, or possibly the two songs from myspace mentioned in the article. Let me know if you recognize them, please.



Goddamnit just listen to the fucker, it's short. The original, proper version is here. Fucking christ the original is something else. I'm not surprised that VC chose not to include 'dne eht ton', it's pretty upbeat, relatively. Think...Cat Power playing in a bookstore on a stormy afternoon.

1. Chesapeake Tide 3:38
2. Tidal Dub 0:52
3. Lavender (Interlude) 0:51
4. Frost & Ash In My Bed 2:15
5. Laudanumb (Interlude) 0:22
6. Candlelit Constellations 2:13
7. Phantasievolle 0:21
8. Lilac Wine, Black Leaves And Me 2:47
9. Un Jour Comme Un Autre (Outro) 0:29

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzmlz2mjxwy

Natural Snow Buildings - Chants of Niflheim 2011

read the review of their last album. add psych- to the beginning of every word and -drone to the end.



1. Chants of Niflheim Part I
2. Templars Ritual
3. Chants of Niflheim Part II
4. H Scudder

http://www.mediafire.com/?o5vea8l8di5utl8

Windmills by the Ocean - Windmills by the Ocean II 2011

i thought it was never coming out! also i havent listened to it yet and it just went up so get quick in case it goes down. lol goes down.

expect additional words on it later.

up: it's like...keyboard and fuzz-laden psych rock. pagan sun is awesome. also the entire thing is real short.

1. Pagan Sun
2. Azure
3. The Circul
4. Star
5. Occul

http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/QT3SX14B/wind-ocean2.rar_links