Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Final - Dead Air (2008)

Dark Ambient / Industrial / Electronic

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The creepy crawly washes of ominous noise which comprise Final’s Dead Air make its title especially fitting. If you can’t afford a white noise machine, it’s worth a go.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Fear Before - Fear Before (2008)

Experimental / Metal / Noise-Pop

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Long having shaken out their scene hardcore sillies, Aurora, Colorado’s Fear Before the March of Flames now birth music equal parts metal, industrial, and pop, and fire it straight at experimental and noise-pop fans. And all without the last half of their name!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Jaguar Love - Jaguar Love (2008)

Punk / Indie / Noise

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With his flair for surrealist lyricism and “Cedric Bixler getting a root canal sans novocaine” shrieks fully intact, whatever’s hurtling out of former Blood Brother Johnny Whitney’s mouth at any given moment becomes Jaguar Love’s main attraction.

Sunday, August 7, 2005

The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn! (2003)

Punk / Art-Rock / Noise

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Like a pair of angry, toddler-aged Syd Barretts, Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney’s disgruntled mental patient vocalizations don’t just ring out over the din of volume-to-11 bohemian poetry of The Blood Brothers. They do most of the work to create it.