when austra shifted tonality a few years ago, they badly lost the plot. this is the first i've heard of this, so i may have missed it come through here, but it seems like it's a return to the basics of the austra sound. these aren't the tasseomancy singers, are they? i saw austra several times, and i'd see this if it came through here.
but, i hope this singer can perform in real time a bit better than kate stelmanis could. the fact is that she fluctuated between bad and awful in a live setting.
https://ghosttwin.bandcamp.com/
Monday, May 20, 2019
this is maybe a bit adolescent, but it is very dark in the process, and the darkness is more up my alley. it's maybe not there yet, but massive potential, here.
https://lovelaceloud.bandcamp.com/
https://lovelaceloud.bandcamp.com/
this is at least a little bit more interesting, even if it's stale and overdone, but a first demo like this broadcasts an immediate fork in direction as well. if they move in the direction of funky space-out jams, there's some potential here for something more interesting; if they move towards a poppier aesthetic, they will get horrifically boring very fast.
https://jemmihazeman.bandcamp.com/album/kozmic-maze
https://jemmihazeman.bandcamp.com/album/kozmic-maze
i'm going to make a general point rather than a specific one, because i'm no doubt completely ignoring things that people probably think i ought to like.
i've actually been pretty explicit in my absolute disdain for the hippie movement, and if you look at the things i like from the 60s and 70s, there's really almost no overlap with anything "hippie" or "mod". i have a soft spot for beatniks specifically, and i am of course vocal about my affinity for punk rock, but i would have gone out of my way to avoid anything at all to do with the hippies if i had been alive in the period. i've stated this before: i would not have been at woodstock, but i may have had an initial pressing of come out.
the music from the 60s that i actually connect with was in the realm of cultural satire like zappa, jazz fusion like davis or mclaughlin, minimalist classical music like glass and reich and progressive rock like floyd and crimson. there is a small amount of more ordered psychedelic music (like hendrix) from the period that i'm fond of, but the stuff i actually like tended to be disliked by hippies, and the creators tended to dislike them just as much.
i can't stand bowie's hippie period, or his glam or disco phases for the matter, either. he was best with the spiders, or with eno. i think his high point, artistically, was actually in the 90s.
so, the reality is that i wouldn't have liked any of that stuff the first time around, and i have absolutely no interest in it at all in it's fourth or fifth incarnation, when it's gone beyond farce and into novelty territory. you should really be sort of embarrassed for your own generation's lack of creativity.
so, i'm not going to even bother slamming it as done or boring or cliched. it's just, like, "ugh, grandma rock. next.".
i've actually been pretty explicit in my absolute disdain for the hippie movement, and if you look at the things i like from the 60s and 70s, there's really almost no overlap with anything "hippie" or "mod". i have a soft spot for beatniks specifically, and i am of course vocal about my affinity for punk rock, but i would have gone out of my way to avoid anything at all to do with the hippies if i had been alive in the period. i've stated this before: i would not have been at woodstock, but i may have had an initial pressing of come out.
the music from the 60s that i actually connect with was in the realm of cultural satire like zappa, jazz fusion like davis or mclaughlin, minimalist classical music like glass and reich and progressive rock like floyd and crimson. there is a small amount of more ordered psychedelic music (like hendrix) from the period that i'm fond of, but the stuff i actually like tended to be disliked by hippies, and the creators tended to dislike them just as much.
i can't stand bowie's hippie period, or his glam or disco phases for the matter, either. he was best with the spiders, or with eno. i think his high point, artistically, was actually in the 90s.
so, the reality is that i wouldn't have liked any of that stuff the first time around, and i have absolutely no interest in it at all in it's fourth or fifth incarnation, when it's gone beyond farce and into novelty territory. you should really be sort of embarrassed for your own generation's lack of creativity.
so, i'm not going to even bother slamming it as done or boring or cliched. it's just, like, "ugh, grandma rock. next.".
yeah, this is too cock rock for me.
they could be pretty good if they'd tighten up and focus, though.
https://dearlybeloved.bandcamp.com/album/enduro
they could be pretty good if they'd tighten up and focus, though.
https://dearlybeloved.bandcamp.com/album/enduro
if i'd heard of this band previously, i don't remember it. a quick survey of past tour dates suggests that while they've been near me, they've also been associated with a type of garage rock that i don't spend much time listening to. sloan, for example, is a band i'm well aware of but don't have much time for. it is possible that i'd skipped through sound samples and forgotten about it; more likely is that i wouldn't have even gotten that far in an interaction with the marketing.
further, the write-up on the record suggests they're shifting their sound and, without surveying their entire discography, i could hypothesize that i'm reacting positively to the new direction.
even with that stated, this newest record of theirs seems to be pretty front-loaded. if their older material sounds more like the second half, this is not in my sphere of interest.
but, i'll always have a space for dynamic punk rock performed by playful musicians and there is something here, even if it's accidental, or regretted in hindsight.
https://dearlybeloved.bandcamp.com/
further, the write-up on the record suggests they're shifting their sound and, without surveying their entire discography, i could hypothesize that i'm reacting positively to the new direction.
even with that stated, this newest record of theirs seems to be pretty front-loaded. if their older material sounds more like the second half, this is not in my sphere of interest.
but, i'll always have a space for dynamic punk rock performed by playful musicians and there is something here, even if it's accidental, or regretted in hindsight.
https://dearlybeloved.bandcamp.com/
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