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Friday, January 10, 2014

Word of Mouth #7: Manners - Pale Blue Light

Pale Blue Light cover art 


'Pale Blue Light' is a release courtesy of Morsecode Recordings.

This very somber, very bluntly worded album dropped six days ago, and it's definitely worthy of a shoutout. You may think that, based on the previous description, this album is of the emo category. Well, you're pretty much dead wrong. This release sees a kind of post-hardcore that is seemingly quite rare these days; down-to-earth, heartfelt, and pissed-off all the more for it. There's no time wasted in pelting you, the listener, with the sonic onslaught of mosh-inducing riffs coupled with the sad, self-reflective lyrics. One example of that can be found in the first link provided above.

Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be a review, but if that's what it takes to get people to hear them out, then so be it. Give this one a whirl, and don't get too lost in that haunting album cover, if you know what's good for you.




Friday, December 20, 2013

Word of Mouth #5: Future Of The Left - How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident



From the album 'How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident', released through the band's own label Prescriptions Music.

Holy shit...

This one dropped this past October, and somehow I only became privy to its existence tonight, after watching TheNeedleDrop's video review on this album. In retrospect, I feel deprived of stimulating aural bliss from works like these. So anyway, after watching the video review, I checked them out, given that he mentioned the band's past works (McLusky was name-dropped) and the music seemed genuinely interesting just from his description of the music within this album. With all of that in mind, and getting hooked just from the opening song (which I linked to up above), I came to really like this shit.

So I'll shut up about all that and tell you that if you haven't heard this album yet, and you think you could appreciate their music (if Anthony Fantano's review of the album is anything to go by at least), then GIVE IT A LISTEN. 

Oh and in closing; spread the word! I'm doing that here, and good god if you love music like this as well then you'd share the love, too.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Word of Mouth #1: Mutoid Man - "Helium Head"

Mutoid-Man-cover 


Stream the entire album on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/earsplit/sets/mutoid-man-helium-head

From the album 'Helium Head', courtesy of Magic Bullet Records.

Enjoy, and spread the word! This supergroup consists of the awesome man behind the kit at Converge & All Pigs Must Die, amongst others, and the voice that has carried Cave-In since their inception in the mid-90's.

Mutoid Man is Stephen Brodsky & Ben Koller.