can always count on contenderizer to be overcome by enthusiasm when a record is playing
at the moment weed sound to me kind of like hum if hum were a lot dumber and weeded out and had never listened to rush
― j., Tuesday, 12 November 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
like hum if hum were a lot dumber and weeded out and had never listened to rush
all to the good. and guilty as charged, but i'm liking it just as much today, in retrospective afterglow. just ordered vinyl from couple skate!
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
my hum comparison wore off after i left my office and put my headphones back on, but there is still a bit of it in the vocals and the general haze of the guitars.
ah, 90s harmonies.
― j., Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
this Weed is pretty dank stuff
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
feelin this description, otm
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
every once in awhile a riff will remind me of gish-era pumpkins
yeah just think if they had a jimmy chamberlain
― j., Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah don't mind this drummer tho, gives it a more pounding thuggy vibe than pumpkins or hum
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
been cleaning out the basement, ran across this CD, what a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuWBPtLu4k
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah, great song. production's a little slick though.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
lol
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
new audacity is so fucken great. ambitious, crafty, memorable: everything good. riyl exploding hearts, redd kross, supergrass, early xtc, squeeze, power pop and/or music.
the audacity record rules - they get so much mileage out of those big tempo/key changes. sounds great as a slightly mellower west coast counterpart to that so so glos record, almost (aka the other recent thing i love that openly apes exploding hearts, which is a reference point i'm REALLY okay with more bands having in 2013)
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
I liked the exploding hearts but is that comparison a bit overused? I mean they were just a Boys homage with a tragic story. You could just say "they sound like The Boys".
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
or you could say, they sound like The Exploding Farts
― flopson, Thursday, 14 November 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
to me, the exploding hearts make a tighter comparison where audacity are concerned simply because i hear the same "squeeze-like" sense of melody & harmony in both. not saying that either owes anything directly to squeeze, just that i can't help hearing a commonality. and sure, the boys, yeah.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Friday, 15 November 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
guitar romantic is a perfect thing
and i thought that before they died so it's not that
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 November 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
this audacity is good....but basically there are 3 albums in that sorta vein that are so good i almost never listen to anything else in that vein: Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic, Marked Men - Fix My Brain, and Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 November 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
yeah, those are all-time, can't deny it. dunno that audacity is quite at that level, hook-wise, but i like the (relative) complexity of their song construction, the tension between flailing chaos and ambitious pop craftsmanship. each of their albums has half-impressed me at first, but only really opened up over a substantial number of listens.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Friday, 15 November 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
("flailing chaos" dialed back on the new one)
yeah i like how they throw in a lot of tempo and feel changes in their songs a lot of those bands don't do that
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 November 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
new Fake Limbs album: http://fakelimbs.bandcamp.com/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 15 November 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
What's the name of the Audacity LP? I'm only seeing a 2012 one on their Bandcamp (I am bad at Google)
― Walter Galt, Friday, 15 November 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
new one's called butter knife and features an incandescent chest wound. i owe know why their bandcamp is still pushing last years's model.
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Saturday, 16 November 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
i like the audacity. seems a bit monochromatic. but i can give it time.
prefer gaytheist at the moment as far as bratty/snotty guitar records go
― j., Saturday, 16 November 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g2KNxYVPd54
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2KNxYVPd54&feature=youtu.be
― flopson, Friday, 6 December 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
that's so cuet :) the church of punk!
have we talked about the new Cheap Time...it's fucking great!
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 December 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
I see the guy who does Church of Punk at gigs all the time. Crusty dude with face tattoos. Don't know him tho.
I skipped Cheap Time gig last week to see the Cockney Rejects/Spizz Energi/Chron Gen/Vice Squad instead. Keeping it old school. Going to Conflict/Subhumans all-dayer tomorrow, not sure if system will be comprehensively smashed but I'm sure they'll have a good crack at it.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 6 December 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
I haven't listened to the Cheap Time album yet but the Jeffrey Novak solo album (Lemon Kid) is pretty good.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 6 December 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
I googled this band so you wouldn't have to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i07jeinliKE
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
brainbombs have a lot to answer for
(awesome track tho!)
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Sunday, 8 December 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
got the Hoax LP in the post today. the packaging is awesome, with six hueg doublesided foldout posters with artwork and lyrics for each song. the only thing is their lyrics are basically terrible so it kind of comes off as absurdly hubristic
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
can u post some lyrics
― flopson, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
band from Mpls:MRS.
they have a new album:https://mrsband.bandcamp.com/album/cave
it's pretty 90s non indie underground, but i'm really into it. it's got this hyper percussive white funk goes Am Rep/Pigbag meets DEVO...the vocals could be a love it or hate it deal...i dunno...the hyper fussiness of the arrangments is doing something for me
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 December 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
I've been loving the Weed and Ovlov albums people mentioned in this thread - what other bands are doing that 90s-aping Dino jr. Worship stuff?
― Walter Galt, Friday, 13 December 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Whoa I hadn't listened to Ovlov yet and it's fantastic and I'm not even really that big of a Dino Jr fan.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 13 December 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
xp
California X is very much a bubblegum-y take on Dino jr. worship and very good
― i have sounded the very dub step of humility (anonanon), Friday, 13 December 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Milk Music too, not bubblegum, just Dino
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 December 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
This rules: http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/
noisy/goth-y/punk stuff. First song reminds me a bit of Pissed Jeans; third track is probably the most hypnotic
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 29 December 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
whoops; specifically meant this e.p.: http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/album/last-house-ep
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 29 December 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
thx, that's some good shit
― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 05:56 (ten years ago) link
(to give credit - I was hipped to it via Mosurock's tumblr: http://still-single.tumblr.com/)
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 08:26 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/216461958/first-listen-potty-mouth-hell-bent
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Since the album was from 2013 and is still streaming and they're on tour in the US now (DC tomorrow night) I posted that here. Does NPR streaming status make them no longer non-indie?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link