Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Adebisi Shank - This Is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (2008)
Hard Rock / Bitpop / Experimental
Two-handed tapping, spastic bitpop bleeps and blops, octave pedaled guitar and incredibly tight playing: when their powers combine, the result is the refreshingly spry rock ‘n’ roll of Adebisi Shank. Not Captain Planet, as you may have guessed.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Bolt - Movement and Detail (2005)
Instrumental / Progressive Math Rock / Indie
Bolt’s mathy prog-rock isn’t quite “take no prisoners” rock by numbers, but it does put rocking first and foremost, and will accept homework questions from envious tone geeks after class.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The Arusha Accord - Nightmares of the Ocean EP (2008)
Technical Metal / Prog
Not for the faint of heart, the music of The Arusha Accord is heavy like a calculus exam, and does justice to all those folks who like to compare heavy metal to classical music.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Watersigns - Watersigns (2007) [FREE MUSIC]
Rock / Instrumental / Technical
Hard-edged music theorists Watersigns forego a singer in favor of wandering guitar suites that toe the line between technical/math rock and pop repetition.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
The Kidcrash - New Ruins (2004)
The what?
Your Valley Is Our Volcano
Until The Light Kills The Film
New Ruins
Scalpel Cuts Concrete
Gun At The Parade
The Afterburn Of Being Born
Talking Underwater
Eyes That Never Hit The Sky
The Drowning Swans Song
Better than The Adultcrash, I suppose… unless the name has something to do with goats…
Ahem. More to the point, this band is not so terrible as [...]
