12/06/2008
TRACKLIST
001. An ê-Way To Cernical.li
002. Flaco Favor
003. Combinado Magyar
004. Rhapsodian Broken Meniscos
005. Hematíes
006. Disporic Catastrophê
007. Genderandsoger
008. Ça Ça Mirlaquerr
009. Tetracuixer
INFO
(lo:muêso) se escribe entre paréntesis, con minúsculas, con : y con acento circumflejo en la ê. Hay cosas que quedan claras desde un inicio, y (lo:muêso) dejan claro su originalidad y riesgo con tan sólo leer su nombre.
Con el paso del tiempo, la mayoría de las bandas supuestamente independientes acaban suavizando su discurso y agachando las orejas, buscando nuevo público y dejándose querer por los brazos de esa figura llamada comercialidad. Pero cuando uno disfruta de lo que hace y no necesita más que estar orgulloso de su trabajo, pasa como en “Giant Catarzêe”, que el grupo se olvida de toda la mierda que rodea al mundo de la música y entrega un disco que, desde la primera escucha, te deja noqueado.
Por que por fin, (lo:muêso) suenan como en sus directos. En estos últimos 3 años, los hemos visto romper tímpanos a las 5 de la tarde en el Primavera Sound, estremecernos tocando en acústico en La Pedrera, ser la primera banda de rock contundente en tocar en el PopArb ante cientos de ojos sorprendidos por el vendaval, deleitar al respetable en el Festival de Música Experimental de Girona, hacernos vibrar en tantísimas salas pequeñas del país… pero faltaba un disco que confirmara ese sonido, esa banda, ese grupazo. Para eso está aquí “Giant Catarzêe”.
“Flaco Favor”, “Rhapsodian Broken Meniscos” o “Diasporic Catastrophê” representan su parte dura, rocosa, molesta a los oidos no educados, cercana al post-hardcore, mientras que “Hematíes” o “Ça Ça Mirlaquerr” los acercan al indierock melódico y brillante con sabor noventero, sin olvidarse de “An ê-Way To Cernical.li” o “Combinado Magyar”, que abren una nueva vía en su carrera, mucho más experimentales y jugando como nunca con las 3 voces que siguen siendo uno de sus principales atractivos.
Si buscas en la red, podrás darte cuenta de la entusiasta respuesta del público ante (lo:muêso). Es de esos grupos que puede presumir de dejar fans allá dónde toca. Contrasta este dato con la poca atención que la prensa (especialmente la de Barcelona) les ha dedicado en todo este tiempo. Y aunque es algo habitual que las mejores bandas sigan ocultas al gran público e incluso a la supuesta prensa especializada, “Giant Catarzêe” representa una nueva oportunidad para no perderse a la banda más intensa, divertida, sincera y antetodo honesta que ha dado el indie-rock nacional en la última década. Luego, digan que no fueron avisados…
Aloud Music LTD
LISTEN: An ê-Way To Cernical.li
Etiquetas: Indie, noise rock, post-hardcore
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(0) comments12/05/2008
TRACKLIST
01. In our hands
02. This time
03. Panic and fear
04. Singing out
05. Looking for
06. Somewhere to walk
07. The gate
08. Yoshi
09. Pills of joy
10. Yoga
11. Sad endless night tours titres selam
INFO
Nous n'avons de cesse de répéter que le microcosme musical qui s'est formé autour des Diabologum, Programme, Expérience et consorts fait un bien fou à la scène rock française. Comprenant deux membres d'Expérience en son sein, Selam est là pour appuyer nos idées.
Avec son premier album, Nowhere, Selam va o-bli-ga-toi-re-ment faire mal. Dans ses compositions, Selam emprunte aussi bien aux musiques contemporaines qu'aux formations phares des années 90 (Eels, Sonic Youth), et délivre un rock accrocheur, intemporel et totalement irrésistible. Nowhere est une invitation au déboussolement, à la perte des sens, à un déracinement total, à un univers unique où l'on se perd avec bonheur, tantôt énervés via les excellents Singing Out et Pills of Joy, tantôt apaisés par le quasi-electro Yoshi.
Ne cherchez pas à cataloguer Selam, vous vous y casseriez les dents. Tout ce qu'il vous faut savoir, c'est que Nowhere sent bon la sueur, l'originalité et dégage une maîtrise des atmosphères impressionnantes. Totalement bluffant d'efficacité, cet album devrait propulser Selam vers l'avant. Non. Doit.
scar(e) Culture
LISTEN: Pills of joy
Etiquetas: Indie, noise rock, post-hardcore
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(0) comments12/04/2008
TRACKLIST
01. origin contact
02. mask
03. carbon 14
04. neutrolized
05. cut off
06. clonin' masses with bouddha adn
07. dieselblood
08. vostock VI
09. golhäb
10. values (r) evolution (le dub de mâdhva) v 2.0
11. jacomito
INFO
Formés en 1989 et émigrés à Bordeaux en 1993, aux avant-postes d'une scène locale en plein renouveau les Sleeppers sortent 3 démos qui aboutiront en 1995 à l'élaboration de leur 1er album "Illogical Moody Mind" et leurs permettra d'assurer les premières parties de Bastard, Kepone, Today is the Day, Gober Patrol, NRA, ...
Après un Maxi 4 titres, "Noise Pollution", ils frappent de nouveau quelques mois plus tard, les esprits curieux avec un second L.P encore plus abouti "Subconscious Nocturnal Activity", et enchainent les concerts avec des groupes comme Todos tus Muertos, Chokebore, Headcleaner, Unsane et Neurosis (Tournée française 96), Hammerhead (Tournée française 97), No Means No, Hellworms...ou encore des formations françaises telles que Prohibition, Tantrum, Belly Button, Portobello Bones, Near Death Experience, Well Spotted....
Après toutes ces expériences scéniques et une première tournée européenne (Suisse, Allemagne, Belgique, Espagne) les Sleeppers retournent en studio et sortent en 1998 "Adrenalien", un 5 titres définitivement hypnotique et torturé. Ils se lancent alors rapidement dans une tournée française, au cours de laquelle ils enregistrent des morceaux, qu'ils sortiront en 1999 sur un vinyl "live" 25 cm. Cette nouvelle production sera suivie d'une longue tournée européenne qui les emmènera en Allemagne, en Suisse, en Belgique, en Espagne, au Pays Basque, en Italie, en Hollande, en Tchéquie, en Slovènie, en Croatie et bien sûr en France.
Après plus de 500 concerts à leur actif, ils décident de s'attaquer à la production du 3ème album "Cut Off" qui sortira en octobre 2000 et qui marquera un tournant dans leur production sonore. De nouveau produit par Fred Norguet, celui-ci l’enrichira et fera prendre au groupe une nouvelle dimension avec cet album qui sera plébiscité à sa sortie.
Après avoir de nouveau tourné en France et en Europe, les Sleeppers créent un collectif : TRIGGER, constitué de nombreux groupes qui ont croisés leur chemin (Burning Heads, Seven Hate, Near Death Expérience, Improvisators Dub…) et qui remixeront des titres du groupe.
Le projet Trigger figurera en MP3 sur « Interaction », leur 4 ème album, toujours enregistré avec Fred Norguet, au printemps 2003.
L'arrivée d'un nouveau guitariste "Raph" (ex. TOMY) depuis la tournée « Cut Off » aura motivé le groupe pour composer rapidement ce nouvel album et l'influence plus "mélodique" du nouveau membre se fait ressentir.
En novembre 2005, pour fêter leur 15 ans d’existence, ils sortent le DVD « 15.597_Making Noises » [At(h)ome / Wagram]. Ce DVD réunit des morceaux enregistrés au cours de la tournée « Interaction » (Eurockéennes de Belfort, Noumatrouf de Mulhouse et Rock et Chanson à Bordeaux),.mais aussi la totalité de la discographie du groupe (jusqu’à « Cut Off » - 2000).
En avril 2006, les Sleeppers seront de retour avec leur 5ème album « Signals from elements » toujours chez At(h)ome. Fruit d’une nouvelle collaboration avec Fred Norguet, cet album enrichit l’univers sombre et teigneux des Sleeppers , et ouvre de nouveaux horizons, notamment par des collaborations avec Reuno de LOFOFORA et avec les RAGEOUS GRATOONS.
LISTEN: Mask
Etiquetas: metal, noise rock, sleeppers
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(0) comments12/03/2008
TRACKLIST
01.Weeping Minds of Silence - broad spaces of clinical white
02.Weeping Minds of Silence - mythology
03.Weeping Minds of Silence - a(ch)ile systrid zabor
04.Weeping Minds of Silence - nera faez (two dimensional)
05.Weeping Minds of Silence - a peaceful line
06.Ximel - gabeziaren barruan ihesi
07.Ximel - burua makurturik
08.Ximel - palabras ocultas (verdades ensombrecidas)
09.Ximel - gela batean
10.Ximel - elkarrizkatearen arau zintzoak
INFO
This one was laying around close to my stereo for some – oh my gosh! – I think months now. I listened to it regularly but never found the time or ease or words to get down to a review. Which I am sorry about, because a) it is an independent and modern release on a small label from a French label and b) it offers great post-hardcore of the complex and emotional (WMOS) as well as of the raudy and noisy screaming side (Ximel). Both things are usually intriguing to me and never fail to catch my attention. Maybe I was just getting used to the sight of the nice bluish-grey cover next to my CD-player that I blended it out of my conscious perceptance. Well, let’s get it over with, it definitely is deserved.
Apart from all the discussions about sound quality and business tactics, overprizing and copyright enforcement, one thing is clear: the concept of a split release has clearly deteriorated with the introduction of the Compact Discs. Because it is one-sided[1]. Simple enough, and that means, that an order of the bands is established. I fondly remember those double-A-sided vinyl platters, with one band on the one side and the other on the other side. That imposed a sort of equality upon the bands and liberty and emancipation on the listener, who was free to decide, which side would be his favourite, his a-side. Well, that’s gone and since it is no use to cry about spilled milk and what’s done is done, I’ll leave it at that. But I’ll mention Weeping Minds Of Silence first, because they are the first band and Ximel second, because they are. One more word beforehand: both bands get five songs to show their talents and that is just fair enough.
Weeping Minds Of Silence offer a complex and emotional dynamic that is usually called post-hardcore. Songs take their time to evolve, to grow and to finally erupt into the explosive and impressive bits they have hidden in their core from the beginning. For minutes they are content of going at it without vocals at all, giving the listener time to relax. They never get harsh or overtly brutal, not at all, no screaming and shouting there. No heads banged against walls till the blood comes. WMOS remain in control and in command of the tidal wave of music they produce. Well, they have been around for quite some years, so it is to be expected that they have gotten rid of the youthful eagerness to trash about in chaotic excitement during those years. Think of quieter bands on ebullition, if you will (Policy of 3 always were some of my favourites) but more melodious and amicable than them. Every band that reaches the stage where sound becomes more important than songs is enviable for that truly revolutionary step. (Just don’t start talking about Brian Eno to them.)
In spite of all that said about Weeping Minds of Silence, I actually find myself preferring Ximel. (Already in the olden days it was always usus to name your favourite band when reviewing a split-release.) And solely for the pure intensity and old-fashioned noise-rock they deal. In my experience there is an old-fashioned noise-rock band in every region. In Austria you might turn to Bug or Turn Out or Sensual Love. When in Portugal turn to Ximel. The classic three-piece formation, reigning the parade of noise bands ever since Jimi Hendrix lit a guitar on fire on stage and then rammed it into oversized amps. Heavy bass and guitar-riffs, distorted screaming, banging drums – every noise rock cliché you have been looking for, you’ll get it with Ximel. There might be a lot of thought or (political) message in the lyrics of Ximel, but actually I ain’t interested. That guitar sound, those unrelenting songstructures and that destructive-aggressive atmosphere of the music are all that I need to know. The global language of noiserock, a call to arms for all dissatisfied and disgruntled citizens of the western world.
monochrom.at
LISTEN:Ximel - burua makurturik
LISTEN:Weeping Minds of Silence - Mythology
Etiquetas: Indie, metal, noise rock, post-hardcore, postmetal, weeping minds of silence, ximel
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(0) comments11/26/2008
TRACKLIST
01. This Kid I Know
02. BFF Riff
03. Take Another One
04. Junkies
INFO
We take a lot of influence from breather resist, harkonen and jesus lizard.
LISTEN: BFF Riff
Etiquetas: bad lovers, noise rock, post-hardcore, Rock
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(0) comments11/25/2008
TRACKLIST
01. ride your ride
02. late arriving rock dudes
03. stretched too thin
04. in the four years to come
05. every minutes sucker
06. tornado season finale
07. better still if they don't know
08. piss alley
09. you will wish me dead
10. blood relative
INFO
Hoover broke up after returning from a US tour, at a time when they were probably at the height of their popularity. They split leaving a number of new songs unrecorded and many people disappointed. Ex-Hoover members Fred Erskine and Joe McRedmond continued to play together, and joined by Vin Novara, formed a new band: The Crownhate Ruin. They played their first show barely two months after Hoover's demise. The band's music moved into a darker area, with more challenging arrangements and time-signatures, and while they didn't immediately connect with some of the Hoover fans, The Crownhate Ruin began to develop its own following through touring and the release of a single and later a single album on Dischord in early 1996. After Crownhate Ruin, Erskine moved to Chicago and played in many more projects, including June of 44.
Dischord
LISTEN: every minutes sucker
Etiquetas: Indie, noise rock, post-hardcore, The Crownhate ruin
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(0) comments10/29/2008
TRACKLIST
01. My Last Shred Of Decency
02. Hospital
03. Pig Crazy
04. The Brazen Bull III
05. Stab
06. She Pulled Machete
07. Brine
08. The Brazen Bull II
09. Hold My Hand
10. Winter Formal
INFO
Always A Six, Never A Nine is the second album and the follow up to the 2006 self-titled debut from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk, whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. This new album features ten songs of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push and awesome freaked out, Yow-esque vocals of singer Tom Glose that made their debut a fave among anyone who remembered the days when Amphetamine Reptile ruled the underground rock scene, but with some interesting new elements (bleak, blackened guitar ambience, a smattering of piano, skyreaching guitar harmonies, etc.) that add new shadows to Black Elk's ferocious sound.
Crucial Blast Records
LISTEN: Hospital
Etiquetas: black elk, metal, noise rock, Rock, sludge
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(0) comments10/23/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Prelude to Amber Pays the Rent
02. Stop Talking, Let's Fuck
03. A Wilderness, Except by Sight
04. Cocktown and the G Boys
05. Sportsfister
06. Theme From Diana
INFO
This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out and raw rock infused with a bone-rattling recording and covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion.
As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything for coordinates) is combined with violent, chaotic noise and tainted with blurred VHS cassette visions and vague allusions to BDSM, and then jammed through an orgone accumulator, forming a ferocious, crushing rock beast that reveals it’s powerful hooks and melodies underneath the churning distorted bass rumble and sludgemetal riffage , blasts of psychedelic drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. The sound is immense, and the first five tracks on Die Verbrechen Der Liebe deliver Geisha’s in-the-red heaviness and hooks in surplus. “Prelude To Amber Pays The Rent”, “A Wilderness, Except By Sight”, “Sportsfister” - every one is a crusher.
But then Geisha pull out the monstrous thirty-minute, thirty-five second closer “Theme From Diana”, and the tone changes completely. This track is a re-working of a “metal percussion” set that Geisha originally performed live several years ago, and it begins as a slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improvised percussion. It’s a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until suddenly in the last few minutes the drifting drones and psychedelic guitars and sampled voices suddenly explode in an immolating nuclear blast of overdriven, speaker-annhilating noise and the track immediately, terrifyingly changes shape into a monstrous lumbering noise-metal dirge that bulldozes out of your speakers, whooshing Hawkwind effects swooping overhead, the band knotted together into a white-hot blast of ultra heavy riffage, distortion, and a wall of percussive force. “Diana” is one of the most crushing pieces of music that I have ever heard from Geisha, like some majestic and brutal conglom of Swans, Skullflower, Merzbow, and Burmese forged into a destructive space-metal supernova.
Bcore
LISTEN: Stop Talking, Let's Fuck
Etiquetas: noise rock, Rock, sludge
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(0) comments10/18/2008
TRACKLIST
1. Depart (I Never Knew You) ft John Darnielle
2. Bones To Pick
3. Thorn Bird II
4. Walking Distance
5. Telling the Hour
6. Run Rabbit Run
7. Geography
8. Arctic
9. Stranger
INFO
Bellafea call Chapel Hill, North Carolina – a small college town famed mostly for its booming, influential 90s indie rock scene – home. The rich, independent music history and their subsequent Southern upbringing play obvious roles in structuring their individuality. Bellafea teems with the punk spirit of local townies Superchunk, while the trialing dissonance of Polvo shine through in their string parts. There is an earnest aggression in their music, perhaps channeled from their struggles with the vastly conservative Southeastern United States – the patriarchal, Bible-belt countryside where they grew up. There is resistance, and there is also a secular nod to their heritage and its inevitable and inspiring impact on their songwriting.
Cavalcade could be Bellafea’s “call to arms”. Recorded over two years during multiple sessions with Chapel Hill engineers Brian Paulson and Nick Petersen, focused on the ideas of plurality and layers, friends and enemies, dedication and rejection, decoding the feeling of fight. Bellafea’s urgency and battle cry is apparent; well-known for their captivating sold-out hometown performances, they have gained the loyalty of local musicians/friends John Darnielle (Mountain Goats), Dave Laney (Milemarker), Ben Davis (Sleepytime Trio, Bats & Mice), Daniel Hart (Polyphonic Spree, St. Vincent, John Vanderslice), Eric Moe (Zegota) who all – along with a choir of friends – lend a hand on their debut full-length.
Southern Records
LISTEN: Depart (I Never Knew You) ft John Darnielle
Etiquetas: Bellafea, Indie, noise rock, post-punk
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(0) comments10/13/2008
TRACKLIST
01. odprostit
02. duna
03. otázka deštì
04. T.N.È.D.D.P.
05. jsme teï 3
06. gottavila
07. matka zemì
08. chlív náš
09. sestup
10. tetsuo
LISTEN: jsme teï 3
Etiquetas: Děti deště, industrial, metal, noise rock
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(2) comments10/01/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Roses
02. Codification
03. Music box
04. No moan
05. Baby man
06. Aquarius
07. That lover
08. ...binds...
09. The date
10. Sleep tight
11. The butcher's shop
LISTEN: Aquarius
Etiquetas: Indie, Laetitia Shériff, noise rock, Rock, trip-hop
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(0) comments9/20/2008
TRACKLIST
01. More Hookie
02. Tay
03. Justice Yeldham
04. Daddy Thirsty
05. Maximum Bletchley
06. Beatings
INFO
Action Beat are an improv noise/no-wave band which is often made up of musicians who are available to play the gig on any particular date. We sound quite like early sonic youth, Glenn Branca, Swans and Rhys Chatham. We normally have at least 4 guitarists, a bassist and between 1 and 4 drummers.
LISTEN: More Hookie
Etiquetas: action beat, improve, noise rock, post-punk, Psychedelic
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(0) comments9/12/2008
TRACKLIST
01. A Blues
02. The Destruction Most of All
03. Carriage
04.-
05. New Moon
06. Februaries
07. Tundra
08. The Achievement
09. Kosovo
10. Bells
11. Four Women
INFO
Enablers. Those cunning, compulsive and malevolent compatriots we eagerly allow to drag us along to our willful destruction. Those little demons that flutter in our ears encouraging us to do what we know best not to do.
Fitting to its name, the San Francisco quartet Enablers writes songs that are equally manipulative and encouraging to our darkest desires. The band made up of journeyman veterans of Swans, Tarnation, Nice Strong Arm and Toiling Midgets merges dramatic and flowing melodic soundscapes -- of which SF Gate calls "possibly the world's best power trio" -- with the visceral spoken narratives of underground literary veteran Pete Simonelli. It's almost as though the band's fluid and often soothing music exists to distract our better instincts while Simonelli whispers above it all, urging and lulling us into the dark, decrepit world of his words.
Guitarist and recording engineer Joe Goldring has collaborated with Swans, Toiling Midgets, and Doug Scharin of June of ’44 under the moniker Out in Worship, as well as with Neurosis’ Steve Von Till’s solo projects.
Guitarist/bassist Kevin Thomson, veteran of Timco and Nice Strong Arm, has been playing and touring for twenty years and with his own projects and has been a writing partner with Goldring for ten of those years collaborating on Morning Champ, Touched by a Janitor, and now Enablers.
Drummer Yuma Joe Byrnes has lent his unique take on the trapset to Tarnation, Broken Horse and others.
Pete Simonelli has been continually writing and publishing his efforts in underground literary journals for years and now brings his poems to the table for Enablers.
Output Negative Space picks up where Enablers' previous Neurot Recordings album End Note left off, adding more soaring melody to the sometimes parched and brittle, sometimes coiling and steeped in tension. It's musically reminiscent of the dynamics of Slint and the raw neo-beat intellect of Saccharine Trust. And, above it all, Enablers make music that exists in a realm beyond the typical sing-song gestures of traditional tunes. It's something altogether as powerful and motivating as our own psyche.
Neurot Recordings
LISTEN: Carriage
Etiquetas: enablers, noise rock, post-hardcore
