More California psychadelia, this time from Sacramento weirdos Ganglians. Posted by Alison at AM 0 comments. Tags: , captured tracks , ganglians. The Wake are a pretty well kept secret. They're a great listen; especially if you're jonesing for something similar to early New Order that isn't a copycat throwback from In the early days, they were even labelmates.
They put out a good amount of material between the early eighties and nineties. This is the first of two singles released by The Wake on the legendary Sarah Records label. The two songs on this single are unlike anything else that they released. I don't know what was going on but everything works here better than on any of their other efforts; shame it's only two songs.
Not only are these my two favorite songs by The Wake, they're also two of my favorite songs ever and I'm not afraid to say it. Both are in my top five Lastfm play count. They are two beautifully and brilliantly written perfect pop songs. If anyone would like to see more music by The Wake up here, just comment and let me know.
Posted by Daniel at PM 3 comments. Tags: , sarah records , the wake. I have to admit, I was really wary of this album because of the hype. More Pitchfork bullshit, I thought. However, casting aside all of that and actually listening to it, I really like this album. The mishmash of pop, surf rock, and psychedelia is pure California but there is something very beautifully and uniquely sad about the way Girls execute it. Frontman Christopher Owens delivers his uncomplicated, lonely lyrics in such a way that it is jarring how easily relatable they are without seeming cheesy or contrived.
To me, Album is much more suited to the colorful cold that is Fall. Tags: , girls , true panther. The Zombies are one of those bands whose songs have made their way into the collective consciousness. Oldies radio, TV commercials, spoofs, etc We've heard them whether or not we know it. I first listened to Odessey and Oracle a little over two years ago.
I know, I was a little behind on that one. I was astonished at how much Of Montreal shamelessly borrows or steals from their vocal arrangements among other elements.
Being their only proper studio album, I wondered where I could find all of their other songs, which I assumed were only released as singles. Naturally, I forgot about this and never bothered to look. Two weeks ago I was in the library. I literally stumbled upon this cd and figured; why not?
It's free after all. The act of "purchasing" a physical cd took me back quite a few years Not only is this compilation thorough including both A sides and B sides of all their singles , It also includes a few bonus tracks and is presented in the originally recorded mono format. Listen to this one with your mom and dad! Tags: the zombies.
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Of the 20 tracks, you could count on one hand the number you'll remember even after a dozen listens. The chronologically arranged set gets less dunderheaded and more tuneful as it plays, and once you get around to the Summertime Suicide EP-- with its appropriately sunny "Anxiety of Influence" and true shitgaze anthem "Nothing Is New"-- you do start to see a band worth giving a damn about emerging, even if you're not having much fun in the discovery.
Psychedelic Horseshit at times recall the early Pavement singles later collected on Westing By Musket and Sextant -- snide charm and crappy sound figure heavily into the success of both. And, like Westing , you're better off listening to Oldies in their original EP-size chunks. This much scuzz at once, coupled with Matt Whitehurst's oft-impenetrable but generally downtrodden lyrics, can be too much bum-out for a single sitting.
The snide charm thing's still very much the thing on the six songs that make up Shitgaze Anthems ; the first song is called "We're Pink Floyd, Bitch", which, even with the spacey keyboard lick around the chorus, they are so not. But the song-to-skronk ratio strongly favors the former, the sound occasionally veers into the middle-fi, and the tunes typically don't just go from noisy to noisier as they do on Oldies ; if you don't find yourself pumping your fist to the chugging X-like intro of "Dreadlock Paranoia", you might just find yourself nodding your head to the dub that closes out the track, and that the song spans genres should tell you what you need to know about the progress that's been made between discs.
Sure, in the band's past work there are hints of the twangy, stoney rave-up of "Are You on Glass" and the can't-believe-I'm-calling-this-gorgeous 5 a.
But never before have so many of their good ideas worked out quite so well. It's still squelchy, uncompromising, uneven music, still not quite meeting the "pop" part of "noise-pop" halfway, but these are far better songs for them to squelch over, and far more vibrant squelching is taking place here.
Shitgaze is not exactly brilliant, and it's still far from what most people consider fun listening. But if these truly are the cast-offs from the next full-length, well, Too Many Hits might have a couple, actually.
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