Torche

yeah i love this

which is probably predictable

happy floor/20 :)

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HIGH DERE

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Surprised by my dislike for this EP - really liked Meanderthal, but this seems pointless and drab.

there's this piercing sound in "Out Again" and pretty much every time I heard it today I had to take off my headphones because I thought some alarm was going off

oohhhhh shhittttt it's 7:54 PM, clearly my alarm must be going off!

Didn't find this today, will have to try again later this week. Damn me and my physical media demanding ways.

http://i51.tinypic.com/11j7ymv.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/ou4c1x.gif

^love this dude^

i like this band for being a better version of the foo figthers songs i like

This thing is great, love it from front-to-back. Could do without seeing the Foo Fighters pop up in nearly every Torche discussion though. Sure, there was a time when that kinda fit, but I don't hear anything on this one that sounds even remotely like them. Not calling anyone in this thread out solely, I've also seen this in quite a few reviews of this.

ya this is sweet esp. hideaway

i really like the long jam at the end of "out again." am i wrong, or is this as blissed out and joyful as torche has ever been?

well see i think it does sound a lot like the foo fighters and i've never even really read anything about these guys it just struck me that way.

also the foo fighters are a pretty good band at the end of the day

no & no

foo fighters have some solid singles

i like torche, a lot, but they sucked live last night. like, a whole set of thudding muddy sludge instead of the pop stuff. homeboy has never been great at the straight up thud and anyway this is new orleans and we have more muddy sludge than we know what to do with.

(kylesa were boring/pleasant as usual)

i know people are big on floor or cavity or whatever but the best floor song is "downed star" which is basically a downtuned hum song.

new ep is really good though, wish they'd played some of that stuff.

Floor rule (as did Cavity)

Man, Torche ruled live when I saw them open for Boris. Very fun set.

I kinda like the Foo Fighters too, at least many of their singles, but I look for completely different things from each band. I won't hate on anyone for hearing a similarity, but "sounds like a sludgier Foo Fighters" has become sort of a lazy shorthand for Torche at this point.

there goes my ufo, watch it as it goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuMF8ssiK0

THIS SONG. THIS. SONG.

just bought my ticket for 10/23 @ mideast--you should come or i'll have no friends there

what's the price yo?

22 after ticketweb raping

dope! I'll buy a ticket tomorrow

:D

Come up to Portland on the 21st! Only $15 and change.

i like that torche song markers posted. it doesn't seem especially "metal," tho. more like just heavy rock.

listen to meanderthal right now

yeah? what little i recall about the meanderthal samples suggested that it was more "metal" than the new one. i'll check it out now.

the new one has more straightup melodic stuff but meanderthal has the better songs overall. i guess just listen to both. but the song markers posted is VERY reminiscent of "across the shields" which is one of the best two meanderthal songs.

just paid 4 my ticket

So the Floor box set has been staring down at me from the shelves of my local for the past three months (the $40 8-CD version), is it worth taking the plunge?

they r kewl live band. big business was good too

Oops.

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46038-bat-pisses-in-torche-guitarists-eye/

I'm glad he's alive and doing fine, but that would've made one of the best rock n roll death stories ever.

Whoa whoa ho ho
You're a rock and roll
Batpisscide

New album is criminally good and catchy. Would have sold multiple millions in 1994.

solitary traveler

Harmonicraft has become my go-to headphone record while working out at the gym. My gym is on the 2nd floor of a building across the street from a beach and has floor-to-ceiling windows that look out at the ocean.

This evening while on the cardio machine, with the sun setting and my heart rate way up, just as the chorus of "Kicking" dropped i saw a Humpback Whale breach and splash down in to the shimmering water. It was awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/blwjFHL.gif

Just jogged to this about 2 hours ago. ^5 bro

o/

https://soundcloud.com/season-of-mist/floor-war-party

http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/floor-oblation-600x600.jpg

Vinyl release got put back a month thanks to damn RSD hogging the pressing plants but the label gave us a free download (but not flacs)

۩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxp77nZcm9k

new song on itunes and spotify

new to Torche. obv into stoner stuff but I had a hard time convincing myself to listen to Torche because of the descriptions given of them; I like my sludge/stoner stuff to be dank and depressing and the idea of poppy melodies and shit didn't appeal to me.

they came by a few weeks ago and I was bored and it was $10 so I figured why not check it out and the opening strains of Meanderthal were like the coolest fucking thing ever and on listening to em this is pretty great stuff. really love the s/t and Meanderthal, still need some more time to determine what I think of Restarter.

also got the Floor box cos it was only $26 on Amazon, have enjoyed listening to each disc at random to see their progression. On Dove right now..