Saturday 31 January 2009

Mono, You Are There


Japan, 2006.

MONO are a post-rock group from Tokyo, Japan. Their songs, entirely instrumental, present powerfully layered guitars, backed up by strings and piano-based melodies.

Playlist:

1. The Flames Beyond The Cold Mountain
2. A Heart Has Asked For The Pleasure
3. Yearning
4. Are You There?
5. The Remains Of The Day
6. Moonlight

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Friday 30 January 2009

Mostly Autumn, Spirit of Autumn Past


England, 1999.

This is the second album of Mostly Autumn, a progressive rock band from York, England. Their music combines celtic-influenced folk with neo-progressive rock.

Playlist:

1. Winter Mountain
2. This Great Blue Pearl
3. Pieces of Love
4. Please
5. Evergreen
6. Styhead Tarn
7. Shindig
8. Blakey Ridge/When Waters Meet
9. Underneath the Ice (Troubled Dreams)
10. Through the Window
11. Spirit of Autumn Past, Pt. 1
12. Spirit of Autumn Past, Pt. 2
13. Gap Is Too Wide

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Thursday 29 January 2009

Emery Reel, ...For And Acted Upon Through Diversions


U.S., 2003.

"Constructive noise. Destructive noise." Emery Reel are an instrumental/post-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee.

Playlist:

1. They Are Cohercing Ideas Into the Mind
2. A New Beginning
3. Hence; Therefore, Again
4. Departure of Hope
5. Cam's March
6. His Hammer Is My Axe
7. Uneasy, the Crossing Guard

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Thursday 22 January 2009

Mamiffer, Hirror Enniffer


U.S., 2008.

“Mamiffer is Faith Coloccia, a Seattle-based pianist, and a collective of song-weavers and visionaries. Under the watchful eye of Coloccia and her trusty tape recorder, friends Aaron Turner from Isis and Chris Common from These Arms Are Snakes have gathered to compile an environmental scourge of noise and atmosphere that is elegant, striking, and evocative.” Absolutely recommended.

Playlist:

1. This Land
2. Death Shawl
3. Annwn
4. Black Running Water
5. Suckling a Dead Litter
6. Cyhraeth

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Wednesday 21 January 2009

Agalloch, Ashes Against the Grain


U.S., 2006.

Agalloch is a duo founded by John Haughm and Shane Breyer, from Portland, Oregon, in 1996. Their sound is a combination of folk, doom and progressive metal.

Playlist:

1. Limbs
2. Falling Snow
3. This White Mountain On Which You Will Die
4. Fire Above, Ice Below
5. Not Unlike the Waves
6. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
7. Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
8. Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain

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Tuesday 20 January 2009

Aereogramme, Sleep and Release


Scotland, 2003.

Aereogramme were an alternative/progressive/post-rock four-piece from Glasgow. Formed in 1998, Sleep and Release is their second album. They split up on May 11th, 2007.

Playlist:

1. Indiscretion #243
2. Black Path
3. A Simple Process of Elimination
4. Older
5. No Really, Everything Is Fine
6. Wood
7. Yes
8. In Gratitude
9. A Winter's Gratitude
10. Untitled

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Friday 16 January 2009

The Doors, Self-titled


US, 1967

Everyone knows The Doors. This is their first album, released two years after the band's formation.

Playlist:

1 - Break on Through (to the Other Side)
2 - Soul Kitchen
3 - The Crystal Ship

4 - Twentieth Century Fox
5 - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
6 - Light My Fire

7 - Back Door Man
8 - I Looked at You
9 - End of the Night
10 - Take It as It Comes
11 - The End


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Friday 9 January 2009

Fen, The Malediction Fields


UK, 2009.

Malediction Fields is the first full-length by the black metal band Fen. Similarly to Alcest, Fen's music encompasses a diverse range of influences, from gentle, atmospheric post-rock to heavier avant-garde black metal.

Playlist:

1. Exile's Journey
2. A Witness to the Passing of Aeons
3. Colossal Voids
4. As Buried Spirits Stir
5. The Warren
6. Lashed by Storm
7. Bereft

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Monday 5 January 2009

Buckethead, Crime Slunk Scene


U.S.A., 2006

Having consciously neglected Buckethead for years, now I finally gave his music a try and was all but disappointed to devote some time to it.
Let's just say that Buckethead is plain freakish, and of course he knows it; he goes Morello squared on experimentalism when playing with the whammy, the killswitch and the pitch-shifting pedals – just like toys.
Being his 18th studio all along his record sheet, Crime Slunk Scene goes through a variety of textures mainly made out of killer riffs, craze, and some well-weighed masturbation.


Playlist:

1. King James
2. Gory Head Stump 2006: The Pageant Of The Slunks
3. The Fairy And The Devil
4. Buddy Berkman's Ballad
5. Mad Monster Party
6. Soothsayer (dedicated to Aunt Suzie)
7. Col. Austin VS Col. Sanders AKA Red Track Suit
8. We Can Rebuild Them
9. Electronic Slight Of Hand
10. Mecha Gigan
11. Slunk Parade AKA Freaks In The Black


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