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Strap in!! If you liked Delete; Erase, you’ll love Wrestling Moves.
Keiko Tsuda are giving away their new masterpiece Saké Duo Kit for free. It’s sort of similar to Bad Dudes.. and then again.. maybe not. It’s a two-man guitar vs. drums project full of electronic fun. Highly recommended, anyways! The old brilliant 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 is free as well:
And from a Japanese sounding band name to an actual Japanese band: And someone who started sounding like Trans AM or UI… whatever… they have a synthesizer now. But LITE has always sounded different from themselves. And beware… beautiful promo video ahead..
Has been out on Kythibong since July. Tracks from sad cities handclappers LP:
- Marvins Revolt is releasing Patrolling the Heights in a week. New track here.
- Cinemechanica is working on a new full-length!
- Obstacles is also working on a full-length and would like to hear from any interested labels.
- Golden Antenna has released the new IRA yesterday
- Native has previewed another track on their myspace.
Hey you! Get you speakers out! It’s time for some Airpeople! And it’s time for me to admit that 9/10 bands on this blog have no singers… jolly brilliant, if you ask me.
The Golden City is their debut and a soothing collection of 9 varied instrumental rock tracks. What I think Airpeople does well (besides from reminding me of FMTM) is their catchy surface combined with a post-rockish layering of guitars… without degrading themselves to the daunting, cliché post-rock buildups, that is. Instead, most of the tracks are kept on the lighter, refreshing and positive side – like sharing the energy and dynamics of team spirit and combined, creative minds. Or as Flo from the band says:
When we started with Airpeople we had a rough idea of the creative process, not so much of the way it should sound. A focus or the idea behind Airpeople is to experiment with all kinds of styles and to create music thats exciting for us to play. We’ve known each other for a long time before Airpeople, love to play music and trying new things keeps it interesting and fun. There are so many things you can try and we like to take our time for that. So far we never had a clear picture of the song before we started working on something new. Sometimes there is a vague idea for the atmosphere, everybody plays what he likes and then we see how the pieces can become a song. In the end the song can be very different from the original idea.
Visit their site and have a listen to the first track of the album. And no, the oil drums aren’t real.
Airpeople - The Golden City
Golden Antenna, September 2009
Debut is coming up on really soon on Hello Sir, and without any further information, Antarctic has put the first two tracks, Pasea La Salamandria being a re-recording from their demo. If you liked The Littlest Viking earlier this year (or Fago.Sepia for that matter), you’re going to enjoy this a lot.
From the new album Geneva, download Malko on mp3. Their recipe isn’t worn out, and they’re still using it.
Ever tired of Monads? I am. I know a lot of people who are. In computer science this is like highlight of all frustrations. An IO Monad is (said in a humane way) something that can contain your logics separated from actual input/output. It’s something that enables you to abstract from the side-effects of communication, so it won’t poison your reasoning. And this makes perfect sense: Say you’re a band, and you have your own reasoning about music. Why care about the side-effects?
For Io Monade Stanca there seems to be a logic that music is worth the intuition it can distract and dismantle. It sounds like Shellac and June of 44, for sure dusty. Unlike their old influences they play with a sort of confused/confusing orientation towards noise rock. The band is fully in sync about their mission, yet sounding like something in chaos and without an aim. It’s a technical fascination to listen to, but at the same time played at a slow pace. Maybe I’m as insane as the music, but I’ve been listening a lot to this in the background of my work. It’s like fragments pieced together, resembling what music might be in my subconsciousness.
And like the previous review, I’ll leave you with a link, so you can procrastinate about something the band happened to mention in a song title.
Io Monade Stanca - The Impossible Story of Bubu
Africantape, October 2009
I cannot overlook the fact of a new Bats album. Finally. I receive it with all guards down, expecting something fun, technical and well… entertaining. And here it is: Exactly how I pictured it and a natural extension to the old EP. Delivered at ripping speeds and with little regards to genres. What’s so fascinating about BATS is the natural blend of danceable, mathy and heavy, a medicine against boredom, an energy that’s transferable directly from speakers to body. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. Someone certainly chose a scientific theme for this. Star Wormwood? Mythological, too. Getting to grips with a main theme for the album or even understanding basic parts of the texts is a challenge, but maybe also a wake-up call. Is it okay to listen to something you perfectly don’t have a clue about the ideas of? Is it okay to listen to the opposite? And how about the most noble ideas in modern science – to label them geek-classified and move on is just a shame. No, let’s put music on them. The album comes with a text-book, so once I’m done grooving out, I’ll check the texts. A few links…
BATS - Red In Tooth And Claw
Richter Collective, August 2009
Just available from Big Scary Monsters is the debut single from Talons. You can listen to it on myspace or buy it on emusic. They’ve already got some rec from major magazines, so let’s see if they take it mainstream or continue to sound a bit odd. Mostly it’s the very aggressive and constantly playing violins, but they’re a welcomed attribution to the delicate and heavenly mix of post-rock and math.
Another thing that should be in your record collection around September 25th is the debut full-length from Airpeople. Listen to the title track Golden City and you should agree that this is a winner. Oil drums… who would’ve thought. Thanks to Golden Antenna for releasing this. It’s on pre-order already.
