Chattanooga, TN has produced one of the more interesting punk bands that has floated across my radar recently. 40oz. is very much inspired by old-school punk but is not shackled by its cliches. Biting riffs give way to well thought out, almost Sonic Youthlike solos backed by a ballsy rhythm section, which sports an awesome [...]
Morbo Y Mambo-Das Papier
Geezer Butler Bass lines, Melt Banana vocals, and echo drenched trumpet. You aren’t high, you are listening to Morbo & Mambo. Argentina’s weirdest sons & daughters can groove as well as they can screech. The tight-as-fuck rhythm section is the perfect foil for the possessed rantings of Noelia Pollini and the noir trumpet riffing of [...]
Nohari-Fuck Your Scene
Raw and visceral yet tasteful. I am floored that only three dudes contributed to this album. The sheer amount of original guitar parts and the surplus of different vocal timbres sounds like a four-piece with guest vocals. For the most part Nohari follows the, “nothing can last for more than five seconds,” attitude of grindcore, [...]
Crippling Fear-Demo/assorted facebook tracks
Do you like screeching dissonant cacophony interspersed with catchy riffs? Then you will love Boston’s Crippling Fear. Punk as fuck, Crippling Fear’s predominant desire is to play super fast songs for their friends. Given how good their output is they deserve a lot more friends. Check out their facebook. http://www.facebook.com/cripplingfear?sk=app_178091127385
Buried at Birth-Pestilent Hallucinations
Kick Ass grindcore with awesome dualing vocals. While Badass guitar riffs abound Buried at Birth’s true marker is their rhythm section. Donovan Kelley is an excellent finger-style bassist who is actually audible in the mix and Ryan Fassler mixes up the blasts with excellent tom and cymbal work. Go to Grindcorekaraoke.com and download Pestilent Hallucinations [...]
Cloud Rat-S/T LP
May the blastbeats never stop, except of course for the crushing mid-tempo sections. Cloud Rat is one of my favorite grind-core acts and this LP will show you why. Cloud Rat mix it up, I hear inklings of Napalm Death, Converge and Agoraphobic Nosebleed in their sound along with Doom and Noise influences. In a [...]
薔薇の葬列-Blacklight Beauty EP
Truly beautiful guitar music. Drones and static walk hand in hand with acoustic guitar lines to create an oddly pop drone album. All of the untitled tracks flow together, while each has its own personality they are fairly similar pieces. You touched my stomach breaks the album in two with eight minutes of bassy static [...]
Kyle Bobby Dunn-Ways of Meaning
Ambient music is often reflective of spirituality, distance, space. Cold sounds promoting meditation and emptiness. Combining ambient music with a visual, such as in a TV show, lends the music a new emotive quality. Ways of Meaning invokes all of the typical ambient feelings and provokes various emotions without the aid of a visual. Track [...]
Veedu-Sueños de Fronteras en Llamas
It may be worth hopping on a plane to Venezuela to catch these guys live. While the EP consists of two full songs with spoken intro and outro tracks, you only need two tracks to know that Veedu is legit. Crusty verse-chorus-verse-chorus sections are broken up by longer instrumental sections and well-timed samples. The recording [...]
The Fierce & The Dead-If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe
Wow. Sometimes it sounds like Merzbow. Sometimes it sounds like Joshua Tree era U2. Sometimes it sounds like Bill Frisell and Flea are jamming out. This album is the polar opposite of boring. Though it touches on many genres If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe draws in reoccuring musical themes [...]
