Monday, November 24, 2008

Transistor Transistor - Ruined Lives (2008)

Screamo / Rock / Hardcore / Noise

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Transistor Transistor’s splatterpunk sonics crossbreed blasting, Refused-style guitar riffs with vocal hooks welded out of impure noise. End result? Completely mosh-worthy, albeit unsurprising screamo rock.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Enter Shikari - “We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape” [SINGLE]

Metal / Hardcore / Trance Electronica

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Fun one-off single from British “Nintendocore” rockers Enter Shikari is pure, off-your-ADHD-medication energetic fun, with lyrics scraping at the place of humanity in the cosmos. End result: you, dancing in your chair like Gary Brolsma.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The Arusha Accord - Nightmares of the Ocean EP (2008)

Technical Metal / Prog

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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.

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.