It's been seven years since The Wilderness came out, but this instrumental post rock band has not lost any of their quality on this 7-song, 45-minute new album called End. While they have grown musically, a lot of their principal sound is still intact and feels like returning home after a long vacation. Sprawling sonic landscapes with great use of dynamics to evoke emotional…
Today marks the release of Cleanse by Joywave. You will like it. I will like it. Really hoping the title has something to do with cleaning out your colon. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLylRvWa8MIr0tY58-iK7DaGKrAuktnKU&feature=share
Here we are one last time. The final album of the Convocations series. Once again, Sufjan Stevens delivers the soothing sounds of reverberated and delayed synthesizers. The sweet warmth of synth pads and plinky dinky of the arpeggiated melodies. There isn't as much atmospheric tension present in this one as some of the others, but it's a nice bookend to the other pieces. Sometimes…
Here we are again. This time it's the penultimate Convocations album called Celebrations. At times, it reminds a bit of Radiohead's Kid A album. Other times, it sounds like a Brian Eno ambient record. There is a calmness about the smooth synth pads employed. Occasionally, you get some tinky winky sounds with delay like on track V. Back in 2006, Sufjan released a 5-disc…
Git yer pacifiers and X ready, because we're going clubbin'! I first heard Porter Robinson on a Coachella livestream and it was the best sounding DJ/EDM artist I'd heard in awhile. I don't particularly care for this type of music and I recognize that the younger generations are hella into it for some reason. Nurture does not have the bombast of other EDM DJs,…
About everyone who listened to the radio in the mid-1990s has heard Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr. but probably not much else. They went through some career ups and downs, but they are back now, rocking, and pretty old. You can't deny the guitar virtuosity of J. Mascis, and his tortured vocals are pretty good, too. Lou Barlow, also from Folk Implosion, plays…
Field Music is a British band I've been listening to for awhile. They are very stylistically all over the place. I usually just say Indie Rock, because it's too hard to get into the details. This album, Flat White Moon, is a romping good time of Indie Rock. The song Not When You're In Love has such a fun rhythm to it. It's like…
Annnnnnd we're back! Sufjan's third part of the five-part Convocations album is called Revelations and I'm digging this one a bit more than the last one. It's light and airy. Soothing at times and kind of jarring at others. The 8th track Revelation VIII sounds like something you'd hear in a Poltergeist movie, almost like Sufjan is stuck inside a TV static. I also…
Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer/guitarist for Coheed & Cambria, has a solo side project called The Prize Fighter Inferno. The first Prize Fighter album, My Brother's Blood Machine, came out in 2006 as a kind of acoustic electro, weirdly folk album. It was meant to be kind of a side story to the grandiose sci-fi story being told with Coheed & Cambria's music and…
It was recently announced that all of The Mars Volta's catalog of albums would be released in a ginormous box set of vinyl called La Realidad De Los Suenos. As part of that set is this newly remastered and compiled recordings from the first sessions for De-Loused in the Comatorium, The Mars Volta's first album. Due to its historical significance, they also decided to…
