ThisDayWeDie, Regression

Ireland, 2008.

I think I first found this band at TheSirensSound. While Regression is but a compilation of demos, I found it interesting enough to share since ThisDayWeDie distinctively fuse shoegaze, ambient, electronic, progressive, industrial and black metal.

"Their music explores depths of personal destruction and despair, resulting in a uniquely desolate, macabre sound. The dysphoria with which the music is based around is intensified by the coalescence of apocalyptic atmosphere and dark progressive, and is suffused with haunting vocals, industrial undertones and pounding rhythms."

Playlist:

1. A Quiet Theme
2. Untitled
3. Solitude
4. The Rift
5. Indifferent To All
6. Transcendence
7. Downfall
8. Eternal
9. Regression
10. Requiem

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Tristeza, Fate Unfolds

US, 2009.

Instrumental/ambient rock band from San Diego, California. Perfect for fans of Maserati and The Album Leaf.

Playlist:

1. Castellon
2. Floripa
3. BLKFLMNGO
4. Celestians
5. Hazed
6. Manitas
7. Mr. Beat/Street Tax
8. Tension Futura
9. Camco
10. The Punch

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UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start, Firewolf

England, 2009.

UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start are an instrumental rock band from Kent, but this latest release shows a heavier and more progressive style.

Playlist:

1. The Tavern
2. Black Lodge
3. Smiling Bag
4. Agent Cooper
5. Def Zeppelin
6. Dad Rock
7. Firewolf
8. Grandead

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The American Dollar, The Technicolour Sleep

US, 2007.

"Started by high school friends from Queens in 2005, The American Dollar creates cinematic, electronica-tinged instrumental rock. The duo fuses processed drums, spacious keyboards and powerful organ swells with electric guitar and bass, creating deep sonic textures while maintaining the passion and energy of a live band. The swirling soundscapes build and swell, punctuated by glitchy beats, breathing and expanding into crashing guitars and soaring leads: precisely constructed symphonies for a new era."

Playlist:
1. Rudiments of a Spiritual Life
2. The Technicolour Sleep
3. Signaling Through the Flames
4. Tonight, Let's All Make Love in London
5. Daytrip
6. The Swamp
7. Supernova Landslide
8. Time
9. Summer of War
10. DEA
11. Raided by Waves
12. Palestine

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Oceans, Nothing Collapses

US, 2009.

Oceans were a post-rock/primarily instrumental band from Urbana and Chicago, Illinois formed in the fall of 2005. They released their first full-length album, Nothing Collapses, in early 2009, and playing their last show later the same year.

Playlist:

1. Lit Up Under Streetlights
2. We Are Ruins
3. Ways With Wolves
4. Boy Detective
5. Sound Of Static
6. City At Peace
7. Terrified Of What We Might Become
8. Traps And Traps
9. Your Plane Leaves Tomorrow

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Rudi Arapahoe, Echoes From One To Another

Unknown, 2008.

"Born of a shadowy unconscious, Echoes From One To Another weaves poetic verse through sleep, dreams and the afterlife. A strange and beautiful tale, voiced across the windswept plains and forests of purgatory."

Beautiful ambient/experimental/modern classical artist.

Playlist:

1. I Close My Eyes And Float To The Ceiling
2. To Gather Flowers
3. Forest Of Arches
4. Dionysian Birds
5. Every Time I Sleep
6. Echoes From One To Another
7. Lunar Semaphore
8. Conversation Piece
9. Vulture Phantasy
10. Pleroma
11. Last Words Unspoken
12. My Shadow (Vanishes)

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Lampshade, Because Trees Can Fly

Denmark, 2003.

Lampshade blend post-rock instrumentals with indie/alternative rock melodies. It's a little more pop than usual, but the beautiful vocals make it all worthwhile. Will please fans of Logh and Audrey.

Playlist:

1. He Is Right In My Mirage
2. Clean
3. Because Trees Can Fly
4. Angel In Stockholm
5. Come On In
6. Within Symmetry
7. As I Left the Room
8. Adorable Void?
9. Raindrops
10. Plakka Plakka
11. The Hug
12. Treasure Is

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Hammock, Kenotic

US, 2005.

Hammock is an American two-member ambient/post-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. With music created in between production and songwriting projects over the course of two years, Hammock combines live instrumentation, electronic beats, and droning guitar into atmospheric music similar in style to the work of Boards of Canada, Explosions in the Sky, and Stars of the Lid.

Playlist:

1. Before the Celebration
2. The Air Between Us
3. Through a Glass Darkly
4. Blankets of Night
5. Winter Light
6. Miles to Go Before Sleep
7. Wish
8. Overcast/Sorrow
9. Glacial
10. Kenotic
11. Stars In the Rearview Mirror
12. You May Emerge From This More Dead Than Alive
13. What Heaven Allows
14. The Silence
15. Dawn Begins to Creep
16. Rising Tide

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The Tumbled Sea, Songs By The Tumbled Sea

US, 2008.

The Tumbled Sea is a one man project from Boston, Massachusetts. Its sound ranges from minimal ambient to modern classical, from glitch to post-rock. Very good stuff.

Playlist:

1. 97202
2. Walking
3. Emily's Song
4. Children Building This Rainman Out Of Snow
5. A Song For Staying In
6. Growing Recognition Of The Genius Of Birds
7. Sleeps
8. May
9. We're Turning Into Regular People
10. Doves
11. Love Song
12. The People You Never Knew About
13. Untitled (For Piano And Violin)
14. Untitled (For Piano)



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Everything Is Made In China, 4

Russia, 2007.

Everything is made in China is a Russian three-piece post-rock/experimental band formed 2005 in Moscow. Despite being inspired in post-rock, EIMIC's music integrates shoegaze influences, electronic samples and nice, mellow vocals that sets them apart from other bands.

Playlist:

1. Catch & Carry
2. Buy 4 Take One Free
3. My Marshell
4. .
5. Fetters
6. After Rock
7. Closer
8. Day Out (Unpopular 90's)
9. Speed My Way
10. Breathe In
11. Make Trade Fears

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Sonic Youth, SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century

U.S., 1999

A noise & experimental kind of homage/retrospective on 20th century music, namely the works of influential artists such as John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff and company.
Ought to clear your head right up.


Playlist:

1. Edges
2. Six (3rd Take)
3. Six For New Time
4. + -
5. Voice Piece For Soprano
6. Pendulum Music
7. Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
8. Six (4th Take)
9. Burdocks
10. Four ⁶
11. Piano Piece No. 13 Carpenters Piece
12. Pièce Enfantine
13. Treatise (Page 183)


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Battle of Mice, A Day of Nights

US, 2006.

"Battle of Mice was a post-metal supergroup consisting of Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies), Josh Graham (Neurosis, ex-Red Sparowes, A Storm of Light), Joel Hamilton (Book of Knots), Tony Maimone (Book of Knots, Pere Ubu), and Joe Tomino (Fugees, Dub Trio, Peeping Tom).

The album, which was released under Neurot Recordings, is heavily influenced by metal, post-rock and noise rock roots. The atmosphere is decidedly eerie and unnerving, with one song, At the Base of the Giant's Throat, featuring a recorded 911 call between vocal sections. The lyrical content is wide in scope, touching on love, lust, jealousy, and rage."

Playlist:

1. The Lamb and the Labrador
2. Bones in the Water
3. Sleep and Dream
4. Salt Bridge
5. Wrapped in Plain
6. At the Base of the Giant's Throat
7. Cave of Spleen

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