Monday, January 29, 2007

The Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons (1996)

Just wild stuff, just really wild

French Radio
In Her Many New Found Freedom
No Identifier
Sounds Of Sebring
San Cristolbal De Las Casas
You Can’t Be Told It You Must Behold It
Pony
Do Any Of You Know Anything About Love?
Two Girls Kissing
Sterling Moss
Boys, Protect Yourselves From Aliens
Sunn
The Vehicle Is Invisible
Bonus Track (Untitled)

More delicate records from the shoegaze era are usually graffitied [...]

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses (2006)

Sweet solitude

Sweet Leaf
The Burden is Mine… Alone
Maybe?
Alone
9-29-045 -
Part 1: My Greater Cause
Part 2: Homecoming
Part 3: House of Cards
Child’s Play Part 3
High Tide Waves

“The Acoustic Verses” strives to time travel back to the Middle Ages with a multi-track recorder sitting next to the flux capacitor. It’s a bit of a mixed bag. The record has a [...]

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (2006)

Explosions in the Sky above the Swamp of Sadness

Limbs
Falling Snow
This White Mountain On Which You Will Die
Fire Above, Ice Below
Not Unlike The Waves
Our Fortress Is Burning… I
II - Bloodbirds
III - The Grain

An American metal band influenced by heavy European guitar music that doesn’t sound like Iron Maiden or In Flames? With a “Loveless”-inspired album cover? [...]