Rosa Yemen/Mars//The big no wave post + other shit

some shit you may have heard before some stuff you may have not

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Rosa Yemen is a post-punk no wave band fronted by french female vocalist Lizzy mercier descloux yelping and singing in french, english and who the fuck knows what else language over some sick angular and jagged no wave guitar. (Lizzy mercier descloux has a solo project thats also good no wave but didn't hit me nearly as hard as rosa yemen did)
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Mars doesn't need any explanation: essential no wave, on brian eno's no new york comp. get this shit..listen to SCORN on repeat

Solid Space I found out about while lurking last.fm's similar artists to minimal synth bands..Im just going to say Blank Dogs ripped this band off in its entirety (ironic since i've posted a ton of captured tracks stuff here) no but seriously, this shit is like..if you like blank dogs you'll love solid space... the album art is really rad too

this is legit lo-fi

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oh yeah and scope the new ducktails track its really rad---

Long time no see

well i started school and i know this blog craves albums so here is some good $Hit 4 u

MINKS- Funeral Song 7"

Minks are a captured tracks band (shit this whole blog is so captured tracks) that sound a bit like the cure and are reminiscent of the 80s the guitarwork is really rad and so are the vocals if you dig that whole blank dogs style of unintelligible vocals

DREAM BOAT- Fevers EP

Dream Boat could be classified as a "witch house" band what with them sampling oOoOO but don't let this fool you, "Your Beaches" really hit me hard and this album isn't trying to be lumped into groups- definitely worth checking out

ARCH M

Arch M's music is pretty hard to describe...most of it is lo-fi (so of course I dig it) and all is FREE...he has three album links on his last.fm page (http://www.last.fm/music/arch+m) Grab Land Huxt and Mountain tan commercials...My fav tracks are MLK jr Blvd off Land Huxt...It really brings about a sense of nostalgia and sounds not of this time period, such a trick done by Ariel Pink or some chillwave artists. Cat Grave(off Mountain tan) which is a simple lo-fi drum machine backed summer guitar jam..the vocals don't kick in until midway but you are anxiously waiting for the song to transition and transition it does with heavily reverberated vocals and a full on assult of tape hiss and distortion

GRIMES- Geidi Primes EP

Grimes are a new Canadian drum machine driven female vocalist backed band that few people have heard about but need to check out! It reminds me of Zola Jesus if she was less goth and incorporated more instruments and abandoned the minimalistic approach to her music. Though I wouldn't compare Grimes to anyone...she's going to be blowing up soon

Imaginary Softwoods 7

the best drone song i have ever heard in my life. haze haze ~*HAZE~* link

I can totally see myself fucking some girl to this song. in the middle of a forest. broad daylight, birds are chirping, there is a bear in the background far from his bear home. long branches and leaves to conceal lewd acts.. reminds me of boards of canada's Boards of Canada - A is to Bas B is to C.

The Pink Noise

The Pink Noise is a Canadian lo-fi noise/psyc/punk/synth driven + drum machine using group that has been on many labels i'm fond of (Kill Shaman, Sacred Bones, Night People) Here is Alpha EP + If you are feeling more adventurous try the "Dream Code"LP

hanging coffins

THIS SHIT IS REALLY GOOD. LO-FI PUNK on NIGHTPEOPLE <---RAD LABEL GET THIS SHIT HOLY CRAPPP IM JIZZING OVER THIS

WILD SAFARI

DREAMY LO-FI TAPEY GOODNESS

NO SONG IS OVER 3 MINUTES -----

DRONE 4 PUNX

GET THIS SHIT

8 days no update

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first off, how are you?

second: i've made new songs:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du3TnaOgB8Y AND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGDdLYvKJ4

third: i suck at checkers-challenge me for an easy win

third and 1/2: i ripped shit at uno today

fourth: dear blog readers-listen to the slits. post punk is amazing get into it. Also check out WEAVE!

fifth: this isn't a traditional blog post, rather a list that should be long enough to take care of 8 days of negligent posting. (i'm sorry san diego)

sixth: MOVIE DAYS WITH KELLY ARE AMAZING IN COLLEGE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE LIKE "WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER AND I'M GOING TO SAY SAY "WATCHED LIKE OVER 100 MOVIES"

7th: no download links in this post-mysterious change hard to understand

8th:

Teen Fuqq

darkwave///synth heavy give you nightmares industrial sound to rock yr brain (Featured on a witch house compilation!)

http://www.last.fm/music/Teen+Fuqq

Fluker Love

taken from last.fm bio:

Fluker Love is Hertfordshire’s Andrew Goldspink. It’s a project that attempts to capture the faded, elemental harmonies of Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, using minimalist drum samples, “icy” synths and saturated guitars.

myspace.com/flukerlove

Releases include:

‘Fluker Love’ - the eponymous debut LP (self-release)

‘Soaked EP’ (self-release)

link to ^^^^^ here

Experimental TV and/or Radio

The term 'Experimental Rock' is thrown around a fair amount nowadays. Anything that throws abstract, leftfield sounds together can be considered Experimental. A lot of the time I think that this label is unjust. For example, Autolux carry the Experimental tag, yet their sound, to me at least, is closer to a modern, tightly produced Noise Rock band. Or hell, maybe they're Alternative.

TV on the Radio, however, are the epitome of Experimental. Everything about them screams unconventional. They have songs laden with sitars ('Wash the Day'; 'I Was a Lover'), they dash between rap and soul, funk and rock, and they seem to stuff enough ideas to carry several albums into one disc. They are an inspired band, and just because it's also relatively unheard of in the music industry today, the fact that they're a mostly all-black group serves them well in the unique stakes. It's criminal that one band should be allowed two fantastic vocalists (Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone) and not be burdened by such expertise. Yet TV pull it off. What other band could have whistles reminiscent of the 'Hi-ho' song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as an outro to their most gorgeous song? (That would be 'Tonight', by the way)

It's unfortunate that TV currently seem to be on something of a hiatus with recording. Kyp's alone under a rock somewhere with a guitar under his Rain Machine guise, whilst Sitek is producing various albums by other often Brooklyn-based bands. If TV on the Radio never released another album there would be a lot of disappointed fans; although these lucky listeners could also take some solace in the fact that TVotR never released a dud record. Better to cut things short when at their absolute best than after they have lost some of their spark, as sad as the truth may be.

Reunited better than before

A lot of the time when bands break up for whatever reason, they return to their recording lives years later less than the sum of their parts. It doesn't take a genius to see a steady decline in a bands output after extended periods away from recording. Look at The Verve and their 2008 album, Forth. It was a messy album, full of Richard Ashcroft-worthy solo material (that's not a compliment) and nothing to rival their early stuff. You can mark 1997's Urban Hymns as their benchmark, but I personally think that their strongest record was their debut, A Storm in Heaven. It was enchanting; the sound of a band that took all of their creative juices from the ethereal Verve EP and turned it into an impressive dream-world for 40+ magical minutes. This was before their first break-up, and it was when their chemistry worked best.

But come on. Dinosaur Jr. must defy all known musical laws by being just as incredible now as they once were; in fact, perhaps even moreso. Their big (early) albums are always seen to be You're Living all Over Me and Bug, and you can definitely hear the three core artists (Mascis; Barlow; Murph) working their kinetic socks off. Green Mind? Groovy in some parts, but lacking this serious connection between band-mates.

Which is why Beyond and Farm are fantastic records. You have the three core members of Dinosaur Jr. returning ready for action. Mascis' guitar solos are grander than ever before; Barlow's rich bass compliments him wonderfully; and Murph carries perfect percussion to gel it all together. It's the sound of a band reforming as something greater than it ever was, as if all three of the artists involved have learnt from their outside projects (The Fog; Sebadoh) and gone back into the Dinosaur Jr. name with gusto. You can argue that Dinosaur Jr. never left (Mascis continued releasing albums under the name), but by the strength of Farm especially, it's proof that a band truly works best when it pools it's efforts, rather than stumbling in blind and hoping for the best. An extended break from recording, then, can be a wonderful thing.

Slow Animal

4 songs on this EP from lo-fi garage rockers Slow Animal...really catchy real lo-fi GET IT!

Woodsist Remixed

Saw this posted by theneedledrop (great guy) had to show the world this fantastic remix track. 30 minutes of giving woodsist (one of my favorite labels) a hip hop twist..get down....really funky and dance-able. It's very interesting to hear bands like Wavves, Real Estate, and Woods shown in an entirely different light. My favorite tracks are the first track by the Fresh & Onlys +++ Vermin by Wavves.

here

someone needs to rap over this omah gahhhh

Sealings///Wu-Lyf

Two amazing bands I've been into lately

Sealings (prounounced ceilings?) are a hard to describe drum machine heavy dark brooding rock act that frankly I don't know too much about. I have one EP thats been on constant play for a while

here.

Wu Lyf: an enigmatic band that plays "HEAVY POP" hailing from Manchester...amazing vocals think of a tom waits-ish animal collective-ish gravelly voice that is guaranteed to keep you listening. Has almost a soul sound, very catchy. very strange. Download tracks here

Nick Drake's Family Tree

Nick Drake is a posthumously famous English musician from the 1960s who died tragically before he became well-known. Although there's a fair bit of ambiguity surrounding his death, suicide seems to be the general consensus. Nick's music touches on themes of death and melancholy, so perhaps it comes as no great surprise that such a talented young artist would one day be consumed by his own cynical view towards life. You only have to look at the names of some of his more famous tracks ('Parasite' being a atypical of Nick's voyeurism) to see the sheltered individual within.

Sheltered, yes, but also immensely talented. Albums Five Leaves Left and Pink Moon are incredibly robust, beautiful albums that seem synonymous with waking up in the morning with the sun shining on your face. In comparison, Bryter Layter is a little more heavily produced, which in my personal opinion detracts a little from Drake's individual flare. It's far more intimate to see Drake starting out in Leaves, or alone with a guitar and a piano in Pink Moon than it is to imagine him in a proper recording studio, which Bryter seems to do.

Nevertheless, of all of Drake's recordings, the most compassionate and, dare I say it, interesting, is Family Tree, a 2007 compilation of home recordings taped before Drake's stunning debut. There are a few reasons why Family Tree is a fantastic album from start to finish. Fans of lo-fidelity music will be in their element with Drake's sound here; the album is scratchy and raspy, spinning like an old vinyl. This is naturally due to the quality of the recording systems that Drake had at the time. However, today, lo-fi has become something that a lot of artists deliberately attempt in order to make their sound seem more rustic. Family Tree is there relevant today, failing to sound turgid or aged in any respect.

Drake covers famous songs on Family Tree; he duets with his sister; there are little piano-led ditties by Drake's mother. It's all very quaint and twee, but it truly is fascinating to see Drake's influences as well as original material from this early period in one compilation. Family Tree is the sound of an artist finding himself; but after a couple of listens, it soon becomes apparent that Drake always knew what he was doing.

Canada plans

9 days-house to myself-chillwave song in the works w/ unknown guest. Mysterious project hard to understand-

prepare your headphones for ⊆Hi††\/\/▲\/≤

Win's Technicolour Dreamcoat

No need to frown, Win. The future is coming on.


So the news has been around for a few days now, but it's been revealed that The Suburbs, the third Arcade Fire LP, will be released in several different colour variants. I think the number stands at eight, now. This is all well and good, but I can't imagine that even die-hard fans will be prepared to go out there and purchase all the different copies. I'll take a dull grey cover, if it's available. It'll go with the overrated sound of Arcade Fire's music. Or maybe I could go for blue. It'd match my eyes.

I kid about Arcade Fire being overrated, by the way. Well, sort of. Funeral was a good album, but I'm not sure that it's deserving of the myriad accolades that have been thrown in its direction. Neon Bible, on the other hand, was far too operatic and menacing for my liking. There was always a sense of optimism in Funeral, despite the subject matter of the album focusing on death, and Neon Bible took a complete turn into moody territory that I didn't appreciate.

That said, a few leaked songs like 'Month of May' and the titular 'The Suburbs' have been quite promising, so hopefully they'll discard that sophomore slump when the new album comes out sometime around August.

Interestingly, sixteen tracks are apparently going to be on the LP. This is far more than the previous albums, suggesting that this will be their longest release yet. Quantity is there, clearly. We'll have to cross our fingers for the quality.

Semen stains the Mountain Tops

Wasn't that the name of a Captain Pugwash character? Something tells me that it wasn't, although there was that whole fiasco about how they were sneaking subliminal names into the children's TV show. I think, in the end, only Master Bates was in the cartoon, although Roger the Cabin Boy may have shown his delicate head once in a while.

The name of the blog conjures up a few images for me. One is that of the aforementioned salty pirate with a disgusting, degraded name. The other is the film Brokeback Mountain. Probably because a lot of semen was splattered on those lofty peaks.

'Eh. Go and listen to Cymbals Eat Guitars. They explain why there are mountains in the first place. Maybe then we can work out where semen comes into the equation.

Wild Nothing/Beach Fossils

Lazy Sumer music (relax in a hammock enjoy the sun/surf bro)

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Before I delve into this elaborate review/posting of two of my favorite releases this summer, Wild Nothing's Gemini and Beach Fossils' Self Titled. I have some important news! As touched upon in the previous post you may well be aware I have acquired some help around the blogosphere. Well, let me explain: I have known Alex for 6 fantastic years and over this time we have both watched each other grow into the people we are today. As we have similar interests in terms of music as well as the ability to see eye to eye on most social issues I thought, "why not have him contribute to my recently started blog?" Now I know the majority of this blog will be about music but I am not one to be afraid of touching upon other subjects such as: literature, art or even politics/the goings on of the world we live in today. I want this blog to be a center for creativity, entertainment, news, reviews and most importantly FUN!-in fact this might be the most serious I will ever be on this blog (maybe). Anyway in case you didn't read that big heartfelt post I will sum it up for you: This blog now has two members, they are really good friends +++ have similar interests +++ blog output will increase twice-over.

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Wild Nothing's Gemini is a lo-fi dreamy guitar driven pop splendor that seems to evoke feelings of mopeyness, lazy days, fuzzy guitars and a strong sense of 80's revivalism. Gemini is released on Captured Tracks- a somewhat new label that is pioneered by the man behind Blank Dogs. Fans of 2009's The pains of being pure at heart's self titled release will feel right at home with Wild Nothing. Gemini may also enlighten fans of record labels such as slumberland, 4AD, and Factory. People who enjoy bands such as Cocteau Twins, The Smiths and perhaps even The Cure with it's messages about lust and death. ("I'd rather live in dreams, and I'd rather die" croons Jack Tatum on the track "Live in Dreams".) There is a lot of emotion in this album and it definitely goes on my top 10 list of 2010.

Beach Fossils' Self Titled AKA perfect summer album #2 (ALSO on the Captured Tracks label) reminisces guitar work of Joy Division or perhaps fellow "beach-fi" rockers Real Estate the music is very much centered around really catchy guitar hooks supported by a basic drum track and vocals that are coated with reverb. It doesn't claim to be complex, in fact it's quite the opposite. Songs are direct with their intentions and lyrics are seen straight as what they really are. The song "Vacation" clearly means "Vacation" etc. This music wants to be predictable so that it can be enjoyed as a really lazy summer album which it accomplishes extremely well. Beach Fossils is very simple/minimal music but not done in a way similar bands have done simplicity (Wavves) Even the album artwork: a white picket fence or door isn't trying to be flashy or esoteric. It is what it is.

The science of my mind...

Well this was surprising. Came online at midnight to find that I've been offered a position as co-editor of the blog. I guess I could have seen it coming, owing to the fact that I have known Brian for many-a-year.

So what exactly will I be doing here? I guess my primary role is to be going on insightful soliloquys about music that I'm listening to, as well as ranting from time to time about what irks me. Hopefully I'll reach some cadence between the two. On the whole, I'll be contributing with my own take on various new genres like Chillwave and Hardbag and Shitstorm or whatever the youngsters like to invent now.

I'm going to save my rant about musical genres for another day (describe to me in one sentence what the term 'indie' means nowadays - I dare you) but for now, contributing to this blog will be on my immediate agenda.

Foxy Baby/Matrix Metals

Lo-Fi Tropical Drone to watch magnum P.I. in a pink ski jacket to.

Foxy baby-Foxy baby: Think an even more lo-fi and poppier ariel pink if possible (it sure is)

key tracks: Dancin', Foxy Baby, Driving at night

Matrix Metals-Flamingo Breeze: Imagine sun araw meets ducktails meets ariel pink doing the production for droney haze fun time 2 corrupt yr mind.

key tracks: This is a vinyl rip so there are only two tracks but I much prefer side A to side B. (especially the first track on side A)

Hey Punks!

Check out mess folk! lo-fi distorted punk rock n' roll from Nova Scotia Canada!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?nin2mhjnmjj

+++ interview

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/01/19/mess-folk-is-from-the-worst-city-in-canada/

Intro (or a brief explanation of what you have found and why it should matter to you)

what is this blog exactly? Well with a name like "semen stains the mountain tops" it can be all sorts of things. This blog is a place for: music, ideas, friends and is just an altogether wild mesh of all things interesting and strange. So come join me and let me stain YOUR mountaintop with semen.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Comical 19 yr old, extensive music taste, vinyl collector lives in Texas hard to understand.

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