I know a lot of people will be excited to hear this one. New Secret Chiefs 3 is always good news, and this 7inch is possibly some of their best music yet. sure its only two tracks but you will be super pleased. what else can i say but........it should speak for itself.
It has Arrived! i heard about Fat32 through them touring with Secret chiefs 3 and am totally blown away by this record. released on Trey Spruence's label Web Of Mimicry, Fat32's self titled debut with artwork by Seldon Hunt is a all killer mash up of freaked out strangled 8bit keyboard sounds and drums. Heaps of awesome samples and fucked up time signatures at break neck speeds. I am a true fan of these guys and really hope to see it for real live some day. get it down your gullet!
This incredible Melbourne Duo consisting of Anthony Pateras on Piano, Electronics and Max Kohane from Agents Of Abhorrence on drums. Gravissima is a ground breaking album with the coming together of piano and grind drumming. Its extremely experimental but not to disjointed that art wankers are the only ones who will enjoy it. Play it loud for maximum enjoyment and you will understand why Pivixki stands with some of the best in art grind.
When you have to wake up at 4:30am in Cairns for a flight to Melbourne that turns into a grueling 12 hours in transit, Mamiffer is pretty much the perfect thing to help you get some shut eye on any flight. This duo is made up of Faith Coloccia and husband Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, ISIS). Distributed on their own record lable SIGE. Mare Decendrii is a piano based hallowing dark ambient release that easily drifts you off to sleep away from those 2 year old little shit heads that cant keep their mouths shut while in the air.
I missed both of these guys playing a house gig in San Diego by a week which I heard got shut down anyways but Alpinist would possibly be my favorite Crustcore band to date. Sure they decided to name there band after Alps mountain climbers but these German Lads are Extremely Dark, brutal, and melodic in all the right places. The German langage is perfect for all these things. Masakari are pretty similar to Alpinist by delivering super gritty angry hardcore with good old blast beat now and then but once you get to their section of the album it sounds some what lacking after Alpinist.
The first thing that had me look at this album was the artwork by Justin Bartlett, Then after the first listen I was convinced this was exactly what was missing from my collection. The Secret who are strait out of Italy play nothing but flat out Hardcore Crust Grind with epic Doom breakdowns. This album sits on the longer side of 34 minutes but its worth every second.
Tracklist:
1. Cross Builder
2. Death Alive
3. Double Slaughter
4. Where It Ends
5. Antitalian
6. Weathermen
7. Pleasure In Self Destruction
8. Eve Of The Last Day
9. Pursuit Of Discomfort
10. Bell Of Urgency
11. War Desire
12. 1968
Hailing from Olympia Washington. these guys put us up in their house and made killer burritos. when the cops rocked up to the house party we were playing at because of the volume, Hail Seizures finished the night completely acoustic and rocked out more then i've ever seen any acoustic act before. And as a band they travel bloody light with the drum kit consisting of a snare and a kick drum made out of a suit case. much respect!
During my touring in America everyone we were hanging out with wouldn't stop going on about this band. It wasn't until we got to Montreal/Canada that i found one of their CD's on our merch table which was happily supplied by our booker and friends Meow Pow Now. Blackbird Raum play some pretty fucking amazing Anarcho fueled acoustic folk punk made up of Accordion, Banjo, Mandoline, washboard, washtub bass, and singing saw. vocally they have incredible gritty three part harmonies and even pay homage to our own Ned kelly. its perfect music for road tripping and hopefully i'll get to see then once i return to the states.
If you are in the need of some doom/drone but dont want the backing of a wall of distorted guitars and dudes in robes, this album is for you. The Name itself is pretty much exactly what to expect, and If you are wondering what Doomjazz as a genre is? Its pretty much doom played on acoustic instruments. You will find moments of electric guitar and electronics but most of it is traditional jazz instruments under the pressure of studio delays and reverbs This is the first of three albums from TMFDJC but they have also released music under their alias The Kilmanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, it's pretty much the same thing but without the doom/drone aspect.
My Disco's second release Little Joy has spoken to me a lot more then their last releases Paradise. Songs have a little bit more structure and generally have more chords. everything is pretty minimal here but there is some polyrythmic vocal content here as well which splits it up nicely. Little Joy a great album to listen to in a huge dark empty house really loud. I highly recommend.
