Well it sure as hell took these guys long enough. Four years after As The Roots Undo, they started a blog hinting at a future release. Then we were treated to a roughly one blog post per year over the next three years. And I may or may not have been checking their blog obsessively [...]
Quatre Tete-Arm of The State
Quatre Tete Arm of The State: Math-rock with clean vocals. Musically Quatre Tete is steeped in blues based music more than most math-rock, a genre which usually goes for more dissonant harmonies. The riffs remind me a bit of Mastodon, but they change at a pace reminiscent of The Mothers of Invention. A really interesting [...]
The Dillinger Escape plan- Irony is a Dead Scene
The Dillinger Escape plan Irony is a Dead Scene: Mike Patton and Dillinger Escape Plan come together for a single E.P. which stands out as both artists best work. Dillinger has always been plagued by crappy vocalists, and luckily they caught Mike Patton during one of those brief time periods where he’d rather sing than [...]
