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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
michaelicious:
Here is a mini-album by a now defunct Toronto-area band called Arcs. It is pretty amazing. Five dudes equally influenced by pop and punk (I guess maybe more 90s emo than punk) made an album, but it is not a pop-punk album.
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Here is an EP by one of my favourite bands to ever make music. They were called the Vermicious Knid. The EP is called Days That Stand Still. If the shitty shitty town of Brantford, Ontario was Washington, DC the lead singer of this band would be Ian Mackaye. Except instead of starting a label he started a music venue that puts on cheap all ages shows for local bands all the time.
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pulpfiction21:
Okay so first up I have a band called Cursor. I bought this CD like 5 years ago and loved it, but I just recently found it again and thankfully it still plays. I cant find anything about this band or anything about this CD, I don't even remember where I bought it from. IT is a great 5 song EP that you should definitely download. To classify it would be kind of hard, has some electronica stuff, some screaming, mostly just rock stuff. Last song is an acoustic song.
Cursor - Cursor EP
I couldn't find an image anywhere so I just scanned the CD that I have.
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This next band is my friends band from Austin. It's funny cuz I never really gave it the listen that it deserved till recently, but the first song is absolutely amazing, I wish they had gone more post-rock, but it's still a quality CD.
The Bright Light Social Hour - Touches
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From CDbaby
--- Quote ---The Bright Light Social Hour is defiant. As many in contemporary music seek to continually deconstruct and subvert what it is to be a rock band in the 21st century, the Bright Light Social Hour openly resists going "gentle into that good night." Unapologetic for its titanic sound, the Bright Light Social Hour constructs majestic works of new rock music that proudly assert the endless possibilities of honest electric guitars, acoustic drums, and dynamic songwriting.
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Aussitôt Mort - Montuenga
French emo stuff, and how could you not want it with that album cover, reminds me of a Goya painting called Saturn Devouring One of His Children.
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From Sputnikmusic
--- Quote ---As evidenced by the popular split LP put out by the people's champions of French emo, Daitro and Sed Non Satiata, earlier this year, the European emo sound is both at an all-time high and an all-time low. These bands are crafting amazing songs with a distinctive style, but are doing very little to branch out past their sweet spot of groove-focused, post-rock inspired hardcore. European emo, and in particular, French emo, has gotten to the point of being too much of a good thing. Enter Aussitot Mort, a French emo band from Caen, who's more diverse style makes them a perfect stepping stone for expanding the niche sound of the region. They flew under the radar with their 2007 debut release with Level Plane, 6 Songs, but are poised to make a splash at the end of 2008 with their impressive second album Montuenga, which takes everything that characterizes the French emo sound and extends its horizons to include a wide range of genres and songwriting tactics.
To not hear French emo in Aussitot Mort's dense style is impossible. The heavier than thou opening of the album with the song "Mort Mort Mort" recalls the immediate introduction to Daitro's landmark album, Laisser Vivre Les Squelletes, which also begins on power chords and thudding drums. However, with all that's familiar, Aussitot Mort avoids contrasts from the sweet post-hardcore guitar melodies that one may expect, and continues crushing away with an introductory first minute that is essentially stoner metal with shades of post-metal. From there, the song launches into moments of interweaving guitar that rely heavily on delay effects, midtempo interludes that employ violin countermelodies, and even straight up metal riffing. In just their first 3 minutes, Aussitot Mort have crafted a song that both embraces and defies the genre's established paradigms in an accessible and exciting way.
The rest of the album fulfills the initial promise of Montuenga in a variety of ways. Beyond appending different genres and sounds to French emo's predictable core, Aussitot Mort are still in the business of writing emotionally riveting hardcore. A song like "Une Heure Plus Tard" abandons delicate guitar-work to end on a heavy and crushing climax. "Le Kid de la Plage" builds from quiet to loud, ending on an equally cathartic crescendo that fades out into static and noise by the end of the track. It sounds as if Aussitot Mort have retained just enough of emo's concern with emotional payoffs to keep that vestigial aesthetic in tact for the sake of making the tracks immediate and memorable, while leaving enough room to experiment.
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Kyte - Two Sparks, Two Stars EP (2008)
Some very soft voiced, indie/ electronica stuff. So fucking chill.
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From All Gigs
--- Quote ---The talent of Kyte is their ability to add warmth and emotion to their beautifully crafted electronic soundscapes. This makes for a compelling set of songs that are able to transport the listener into their own enchanting world.”
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Nicky Thrice:
that kyte album is AMAZING by the way, especially the song Eyes Lose their fire.
Wreckless Eric S/t
AMG Review:
--- Quote ---Wreckless Eric's eponymous debut is a ragged, endearing collection of crude rock & roll. In a way, crude doesn't even begin to describe Eric's music. A muddle of scratchy guitars, pounding drumming, and snarled, indecipherable vocals, the record is pure, primal garage rock in the old-fashioned sense. Although Wreckless Eric has the demeanor of a punk, his music is straight-out rock & roll in the old-fashioned sense -- there's even saxophones and organs popping out of the mix. What makes Wreckless Eric such fun is its combination of catchy hooks, spirited playing, and downright rudeness. Only a handful of songs are fully formed, and those -- "Whole Wide World" and Ian Dury's "Rough Kids" -- are punk-inflected pub rock classics, pure pop songs in every sense of the term. The remainder are off-kilter, idiosyncratic pop songs -- about everything from "Personal Hygiene" and "Waxworks" to "Telephoning Home" and "Brain Thieves" -- performed with sloppy, drunken abandon. Too punk for pub rockers, too straightforward for punk, and too weird for everybody else, Wreckless Eric's debut album is one of the small gems of the punk era.
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Bat For Lashes (leak) - Two Sons
couldn't find the actual album cover
Review:
--- Quote ---There is no review because it's not out till 4/16, but i've listened to some of it and it's pretty good. Definitely comparable to her first album, maybe even better. It's haunting as fuck, that's for sure
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sunexplodes:
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 11 Feb 2009, 09:40 ---Here is an EP by one of my favourite bands to ever make music. They were called the Vermicious Knid. The EP is called Days That Stand Still. If the shitty shitty town of Brantford, Ontario was Washington, DC the lead singer of this band would be Ian Mackaye. Except instead of starting a label he started a music venue that puts on cheap all ages shows for local bands all the time.
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Would there be any interest in their other 2 recordings? Also other Ford Plant regulars like the Sourkeys, White Star Line, Ryan Stanley/Arrows, Brigette, Woolly Leaves, et cetera?
michaelicious:
I've never been able to get my hands on a copy of the Knid's self-released record, and no matter how much I bribe my friend he won't give me his. So that would be lovely.
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