“Everything you hear is guitar + pedals,” reads the cover of Depress, a three-song EP by Justin Marc Lloyd’s Dementia And Hope Trails.
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Archive for June, 2011
Dementia And Hope Trails, “Depress”
Lefolk, “Weather To Shore” download
This album is as dynamic as it is beautiful.
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Peter Wright, “Let’s Hide Under the House Until They’ve Gone” LP
Dronescapist Peter Wright has been one of the greats for a long time and will be for a long time to come as far as I’m concerned.
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Thurston Moore, “Demolished Thoughts”
Greil Marcus once said that he’d even listen to a record of Bob Dylan breathing; I would listen to a record of Thurston Moore plugging in.
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Blown Doors / Hunted Creatures split tape
Hunted Creatures has gone from being a solo project to a quartet, and their side of this tape is flipping fantastic.
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Chora, “The Wax Heel”
The latest record from Chora opens with as a tension is initiated between strings and reeds, creating a helix of jarring lines and audible spirals.
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Cian Nugent’s “Doubles” album released on VHF
“Doubles” by Cian Nugent is now out on VHF Records. There will be a release party at The Button Factory in Dublin next week, with performances by Wooden Wand and Seth Horatio Buncombe. A video for an excerpt of the piece “Sixes and Sevens” by Dylan Phillips can also be viewed here:
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Rafael Toral
Few contemporary artists are as honest and progressive with their work as Rafael Toral - his music is always pushed forward into new territory without returning to previously treaded ground, and this is especially true of the point of departure that occurred a decade ago, after the release of his album Violence of Discovery and...
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FRKSE, s/t tape
This totally bad-ass cassette from Jamaica Plain (MA) beat structuralists FRKSE feels and looks like a military operation in crunching plunder-phonic rhythm mixed with something alltogether more mystical.
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