Little Limbs "Young Vessels EP" review

Jimi Hendrix oftentimes referred to music as a pallet of colors, something that conjures images and shades in the mind. This is something that I've experienced. Black Metal conjures greys. Noise conjures static and disassociating pictures. Folk is deep brown and denim and dust. Ambient never changes. Ambient is always white.

At least, almost always. With Young Vessels, their debut EP, Little Limbs have brought some color to the usual IDM/Ambient proceedings.

Clocking in at three tracks, the album is short but makes up for its brevity with its fullness. It's dynamic, with thick, bassy beats and soft, silky drones, sprinkled with some well placed and suitably atmospheric samples of animals, fire, and speech.

"Everything at Once" is a soulful blast of ambient electronica, perfect for being for being in a club alone.

"Canadian Wilderness" is the highlight of the album for me, a joyful and dangerous romp through indie pop-electronica. It manages to feel wild, a feat in a genre as thought out and pre-planned as electronic music.

This album is many colors, royal blue, green, orange, and magenta, but it's also many images. The forest at daybreak, pale skin, a city made by sega where everything is pink, a boy with deer antlers, an open flame in a spaceship, a polaroid of something sad.This album is  many things but it is never white.

Stream it here

Merzbow/Full of Hell Teaser

Profound Lore records has released a 35 second teaser for the new Full of Hell/Merzbow collaborative album. Some strong black metal vibes.  Check it out below. 

The album is due for release sometime in November. Perfect for the frostbitten winter months.

Come on! Get Free! We Pour Light On Everything!

Psychedelic music is making a comeback. In a world of lockstep thinking and a speed of life too rapid for any kind of mental growth, groups of dedicated psychonauts all over the world are spreading the seed of expansion in the ear-holes of all who will listen. These records are the ones who stood out to me, in no particular order. 

 The Gonzo- Esoteric EP

Mixing psychedelia, Disco, Funk, and techno, The Gonzo, helmed by Chris Drew and Ben Wayne, is a good-vibes musical journey from another world. Infinitely danceable and approachable, yet doubtlesly psychoactive, it's an interesting listen. Jam it if you want to dance.

http://thegonzone.bandcamp.com/


 Lesbian- Forestelivision 

Alright, this is progressive doom metal, but it is so rooted in psychedelic music I can't help but include it. It's bone crushingly heavy but, I swear, if you listen to this enough, preferably in the forest, you will feel the earth move.

http://lesbian.bandcamp.com/

The Venus Extraction- FOUR

Bad-trip, dirtbag freak-folk from a Mr. Jeffrey Cambell. Criminally underrated and totally creepy. Buy all their records.

http://thevenusextraction.bandcamp.com/album/four

 Copkiller- Alien Soccer

Psychedelic, beat-heavy noise from the productive mind of Justin Marc Lloyd, there's a sense of humor to this tape that isn't normally present in avant-garde music. Almost Death-Grips esque.

 Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats- Blood Lust

A modern classic of retro, psychedelic proto-metal. This is the underbelly of psychedelic expression, The overdoes, the arrest, the murder. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSpsffboOAc

 Katje Janisch- Dulce Muse

An etheral effort by this psychedelic neo-folk artist. Transcendent, beautiful tones.

http://katjejanisch.bandcamp.com/

 Fuzzphorous- Dare! You fuzzy basterds

Psych desert rock that fucks your sister. From France of all places. Crushing bass, soul-kicking groove. What more do you need?

 The Boo Jays- MIXTAPE II

Dark, organ based, classic psych rock. Think The Doors fronted by Glenn Danzig. Absorbing stuff.

http://theboojays.bandcamp.com/

 The Brian Jonestown Massacre- Revelation

The latest record ejaculated from the fertile mind of Anton Newcombe, Revelation is a lush, eastern-influenced piece of psych rock. I can't imagine anyone listening to this album and not wanting to change everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-JV18_K1V4

Acid Mothers Temple- The Ultimate Dream Cloister

Probably the most dedicated mind-discoverers of all time, Japan's Acid Mothers Temple have put out over 100 albums since 1995. This album, their latest, is breathtaking. A long form, ambient-inspired piece of music, it simply demands to be heard. 

Rez Epo- Stices review

Nearly all noise music is indebted to two people, Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow, and John Cage. Cage, with his classical training and black and white aesthetic, represents the intellectual, structured portion of noise while Merzbow, with his 300+ releases and free-form style, is the naked expression of the soul. 

Rez Epo, with their second solo release, has taken heavy influence from the former. With fourteen minutes and two tracks they've presented slab of abstract sound that flirts with drone, ambient, and middle eastern music. It's hitting on every artistic statement made by Merzbow in his early laptop era, down to the production. What makes it stand out is it's focus on rythm.

Parts of the album are downright dance-able. The second track, Share Delpha, features what could be the harsh noise equivalent of a dubstep breakdown.

This is music for nihilist noiseheads who get loaded enough to dance at a show, when they should be standing with their arms crossed in thoughtful anguish.

http://rezepo.bandcamp.com/album/stices

Now Showing: GG Allin's Last Day

GG breaks a microphone. The sound guy quits on him. GG storms out, throwing microphones and cursing him out. He somehow got another working microphone and played three more songs. He punched two people, shit on himself, and threw the shit at everyone else. Everyone ran for the courtyard, most of the 200 strong crowd out of the venue. Ten people were left to watch the show. There was a fight and GG lost his mic. He chases the last ten into the courtyard. GG wanted to throw hands. The crowd made use of recycling container full of bottles and pelted GG and his coked up-entourage. GG chased them into the street, 75 to 100 pissed-off concert goers yelling in the street. GG in a skirt and combat boots and shit and blood and he lay down in front of the city bus on Avenue B and the bus couldn't pass. The cops were coming. GG tried to escape, but he didn't know New York. He didn't know New York.

Pillbox

There's something to be said about powerviolence bands that put out LP's. Powerviolence is, at its core, an art of brevity. It functions best in small increments, 45's, splits, cassettes, lathe cuts. For that reason, very few powerviolence full lengths are held with the acclaim showered on their shorter brethren.  Outside of the first Man Is The Bastard album, no one really gives a shit.

So, when I decided to review Pillbox, the debut LP by New York New York's grindviolence trio Water Torture, I was less then enthused. But fuck me was I wrong. Pillbox is a great album that captures the essence of the band and the crushing despair of working-class urban life.

This album is dynamic in a way that very few PV albums are. Sure, a big part of it is fuzzed out, low-end, hateful grindviolence, best exemplified by tracks like "Massive Regression", there's a lot more going on with this album.

Pieces of pure noise are present on every track, greatly enhancing the overall tone of the album. Whether it is the intro, fantastic album closer "Product 2," or the noise ending every track, it chokes the listener with human fat and distinctly industrial despair. The whole album conjures some of the most bitter auditory hate I've ever heard. It sounds like dust-bowl suicides, crying children chained to work benches. It can be crushing.

One track is a total curve ball, however. "Creature of Repetition" is a three-minute experimental rock jam similar to late-era Swans or Codeine. It's an out there track for a PV band, and its inclusion is welcome.

If you're interested in depressive, hopeless, hardcore. Check this out. But be warned, it's pungent.

http://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/pillbox

Tape 3

This mix features music from Fasci Di Combattimento, Popiol Kurhanow, MEMORY, Zerivana, Gil Galad, and Hrungnir in neo-classical, neo-folk, and martial industrial stylings. I did my best to avoid national socialist bands and I'm fairly sure I succeeded.

It has also come to my attention that I provided a review to a nazi band last week, an experimental group called Mauloch. I was unaware of their political views. Don't listen to their music.

Also, a friendly reminder to the band, if they happen to read this, that if they lived in the society that they fight for, they would be the first to be imprisoned. Nazis fuck off.

Vomir

Vomir is nothing. Vomir is nothing. Vomir is nothing. Vomir is nothing. Vomir is nothing. Vomir is neutrality.

Neutrality is nothing. Neutrality is nothing. Neutrality is nothing. Neutrality is nothing. Neutraity is dirt.

Dirt is nothing. Dirt is nothing. Dirt is nothing. Dirt is nothing. Dirt is nothing. Dirt is nothing. Dirt is you.

You. You. You. you. you you you youyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyouyou

Wolf release new video!

Swedish heavy metal fuckers "Wolf" have released a video for their track Shark, a toothy cut taken from their new album Devil Seed.

It rules. Accept/King Diamond vibes without being annoyingly retro. Just kick ass, classic sounding heavy metal. Check it out and buy the album.