New Prefuse 73 album “Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian” is out April 14. It’s a 29 track oddity with most cuts not making it past the 1 minute mark. It shows a new direction for Prefuse 73 after his last rather dull album Preparations. Reminds me quite a lot of Flying Lotus.

Prefuse 73

This track Digan Lo has the usual strange beats mixed in with breathey female vocals and is probably the most classicly “Prefuse” sounding track on the album.

Digan Lo [7467 KB]

The Golden Palominos album Dead Inside was one dark motherfucker. They released the remix ep Dead Outside online for a month only in 1997. I think it would be near impossible to find now so I thought I would put it online for those looking for it.

Tracklist:

Download:  Golden Palaminos – Dead Outside.zip [24400 KB - 5 MP3s in a ZIP file]

Dodadoodoo Dodadoodoo

Bang bang bang on the wall, from dusk til dawn

I’m not sure if I even like this song I just cannot get it out of my fucking head.

Ladyhawke

Dusk Til Dawn [4231 KB]

Another Post-rock band in the mould of Explosions In The Sky and This Will Destroy You (they sound a little more like the latter than the former) comes From Monument To Masses. You can tell they are post-rock because they have a 4 word band name. Is it just me or is every post-rock band in the world have a 4 word name? (Do Make Say Think, Set Fire To Flames, Godspeed You Black Emperor some more examples…)

So do these guys breath new life into a genre rapidly going stale?

Maybe. They use movie samples and synths, though they are by no means the first to use them, yet they do so in a way that is quite fresh. They also incorporate some twisting-guitar sounds that are reminiscent of overhyped and overrated band Battles.

Like many far-left political bands they sometimes annoy, though the fact they don’t use vocals lessens the irritation, the message comes through in their choice of samples. For instance in this track, An Ounce of Prevention, Mario Savio’s famous Free Speech Movement speech is sampled:

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop

From Monument To Masses

These guys won’t change the world, or even Post-rock but they play with energy, and even wit and they are the first band to come along that has actually made me care about post-rock since Explosions.

An Ounce of Prevention [17610 KB]

James Blackshaw plays a 12-string acoustic guitar and makes a big sound. This track (from album of same name) comes a 14th century book that explains the best way to love and serve God is to simplylive and experience and not try and understand everything and seek knowledge.

It’s a nice thought, though not one I generally agree with as a staunch atheist and believer in reason. This music does however sound quite reverential, religious in a way, a good way. It’s repititive, though not boring and puts you in a trance-like state.

James Blackshaw

Recommended for rainy Autumn Sundays, lying in bed and watching beads of water streaking down your window.

The Cloud Of Unknowing [21595 KB]

I keep this blog as a way to share new (and sometimes old) music that I am enthusiastic about but right now I’m going to share a song I am very, very unenthusiastic about. I downloaded the new Love Is All album “A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night” out of curiosity, but is it just me or is it a horrible piece of shite?

Tuneless, annoying, grating, dull and derivative. Ugh

Love Is All

I really can’t stand the singer, she reminds me of the retarded bitch from awful Aussie indie band The Grates Patience Hodgson.

WORST. SONG. EVARRRR!

Last Choice [3322 KB]

Yet another indie band channeling My Bloody Valentine. Wall-of-noise buzzsaw guitars? Yep. Thin drums with a boxy sounding snare? Yep. Whispery, dreamy female vocals? You bet your arse.

As indie shoegazing rock goes these guys and girls are pretty damn good, they are obviously inspired by MBV, Ride, Lush, all them but they put enough of their own sound into it to make it interesting.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Stay Alive [11877 KB]

The first episode of the new season of the fucking bizarre Adult Swim tv show Tim and Eric aired last night. It’s a funny (and fucking trippy) take on the traditional sitcom.

Download aaf-tim.and.eric.awesome.show.s04e01.pdtv.avi [103766 KB]

Dead Can Dance’s Severance is a classic. Ride’s cover (from the album Waves) does it justice.

Ride

Chunky guitars, spastic drums, that classic heavy-shoegazing sound Ride perfected. An excellent cover.

Severance [3370 KB]

Heavy Water Factory were (or are still, not sure if they are still together) a small time Industrial band that put out one album called Author Of Pain. It wasn’t very good but it did have a cool track on it called Connected. Probably won’t be of interest to anyone who doesn’t like mid-to-late nineties electro-Industrial but I like it.

Heavy Water Factory

Connected [6806 KB]