Friday, May 30, 2008
Pitchblend - The Lines of Unreason (2008)
Pitchblend have occupied a coveted position in the underground rock consciousness, grabbing accolades like “Best Unsigned Band of the Year” around the same time like-minded space-rockers/pseudo-shoegazers My Vitriol were tearing up the UK charts. Like that band, they have taken their sweet damn time in putting out new material. Whether due to label pressure, pressure to find a label, or something else, it has proved taxing even on the patience of diehard fans. The question remains: is it worth the wait?
Sunday, April 1, 2007
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005)
Blade Runner… without the blades or the running.
Moon Child
Don’t Save Us from the Flames
In the Cold I’m Standing
Farewell/Goodbye
Fields, Shorelines and Hunters
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I Guess I’m Floating
Teen Angst
Can’t Stop
Safe
Let Men Burn Stars
Car Chase Terror
Slight Night Shiver
Guitar and a Heart
Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun
Let’s define beauty. There’s a couple types. There’s “as beautiful as a rock [...]
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 [...]
Monday, October 16, 2006
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (2006)
You’ll be picking it up over and over and over and over and over and…
Melatonin
Well Thought Out Twinkles
Checkered Floor
Little Lover’s So Polite
Future Foe Scenarios
Waste It On
Lazy Eye
Rusted Wheel
Dream at Tempo 119
Three Seed
Common Reactor
Silversun Pickups get a lot of Corganishishness thrown their way for the [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
My Vitriol - Finelines (2001)
My Vitriol take influences like Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, and shoegazing in general, and synthesize them into something that puts those influences on prominent display, yet which is completely their own. If “Loveless” cost My Bloody Valentine half a million dollars to produce, My Vitriol’s sound here is worth a million bucks.
