| BILLY CHILDISH |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|01:35 am] |
Hey all,
This site is great, you guys are great. If anyone has any Billy Childish related stuff I would be super grateful! Once I figure out how to upload stuff I will!
Thanks, Max. |
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| Youth Pictures Of Florence Henderson Demos |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|07:00 am] |
i was doing a search this morning hoping to find more albums i didnt know about but it turns out they didnt have any others. =T
butttttt, i found these 4 demos off their site. yay!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EOX0GIHB
and also, a National Skyline song that's unreleased called "Pack Up":
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P3UGIQBA
enjoy!
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[Oct. 29th, 2006|07:08 am] |
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MUKAPHD0
Some doom metal for the end of the non-post rock week.
I hope some of you will check it out.
Review from StonerRock.com:
How do you describe an album that starts with an explosion, ends with Gregorian chants, and has nothing but genius in between the two? That's the only problem I have with The Unreal Never Lived, the fourth album from Portland, Oregon's YOB. It's left me speechless.
( rest of review )
Buy at Amazon |
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| Request |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|11:49 am] |
I'm looking for Cale Parks' album and any July Skies. Could someone please help me?
Edit: Also Grace Cathedral Park. Sorry. Lots of requests. |
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| Mare Vitalis + Low Level Owl |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|02:12 pm] |
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The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
11 songs; 54.1 minutes; 72.57 mb
This is my favorite album of all time. If you don't know The Appleseed Cast, this is the best album to start off with of theirs. The drumming is phenomenal too.
Allmusic review:
"Like an anthem to the reasons there is even a genre called "emo," Mare Vitalis is a record of pure feeling for people who think a lot, heavy on flow, flowing on heavy. Flow from the equally dreamy and dreary sparseness of long, edgy buildups, emphasized by carefully articulated drumming and unassuming swirls of clean guitar, and erupting into melodic bursts of power and explanation. Christopher Crisci's straining, honest vocals come alive after heart-wrenching musical peaks and valleys symbolized through crescendo and decrescendo as well as masterful use of intensity and lull. The atmosphere is kept on constant edge, and the untraditional rhythmic creations of drummer Josh Baruth make Appleseed's cast signatory. Even more emphatically "head" music than their debut full-length, The End of the Ring Wars, this record illustrates the ability of adults to make music both nurtured and impressive while simultaneously capturing the zeitgeist of hardcore rebellion. Recorded by Ed Rose in the spacious Red House Recording Studio in Eudora, KS, the high-ceilings and big-rock sound notable to his production legacy cater well to this recording, allowing the band's depth and mass to breath and take up every available inch of space. The end result is a captured work of dark beauty, a challenge to fully grasp, but a great starting point in their developing catalog."
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Vol. 1
14 songs; 52.9 minutes; 72.67 mb
Second favorite album of all time. It's one of the most beautiful albums you will ever hear. I guarantee it.
Allmusic review:
"If one stands back from the mayhem of life around them and will honestly realize what has been done on volume one of Low Level Owl, they will be floored. Here is a band who has, for the most part, orchestrated a symphonic masterpiece and glides effortlessly from one track into another. Odd for the average indie rock fan? Perhaps. Unapproachable? Hardly. Ambience and environment are the keys here. Through a number of experiments and hard work, the band has made a piece that is truly larger than what many people may be able to appreciate. A few drawbacks of the album, however, are to be noted. While the drumming is nothing short of superb, much of the guitar work seems trivial and uncreative. It almost borders on the needlessly repetitive, which leads to another point: It seems as though many of these tracks are almost used as filler. Three minutes of drums played backward is interesting for about the first 30 seconds. After that, it's kind of pointless unless it's integrated into some sort of song. Therefore, out of the 14 tracks, one can see that quite a few of these might possibly be tossed, although the final piece, "View of a Burning City," is hypnotically hallucinating in its drone. Regardless of the few drawbacks, the more this is played, the more there is to find to enjoy. The setting and time put into such a work shows how the whole is easily a sum of its parts. This is definitely not an album to be picked apart song by song. In fact, it seems a shame that both volumes weren't released at the same time. While it might take a while for a listener to realize the full implications of what Appleseed Cast has done here, at the least it's no worse than Mare Vitalis, which was a quality album. At its best, Appleseed Cast might be America's closest answer to Radiohead."
The ^s were from charlatantric.
Enjoy,
Skyler =] |
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| Skinny Puppy - Last Rights |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|08:09 pm] |
1992/320k/121mb/52:55/megaupload
my favourite album of all time.
Last Rights, Skinny Puppy's final album before a five-year hiatus, and their second to last overall, is a hailstorm of electro-distortion ten years ahead of its time. Even while industrial pop stars like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry were strutting their way across the charts and media outlets trumpeting the industrial revolution, Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key's ambitious production talents reached what is easily a technical peak (and, arguably, an artistic peak). "Inquisition" is the pinnacle, a heart-stopping single whose production contributed just as much to the air of menace as Ogre's vocals. Skinny Puppy even attempts a ballad on "Killing Game," with surprising success. Though the dense production occasionally masks Ogre's vocals and songwriting, Last Rights is a sonic masterpiece that undoubtedly influenced sound manipulators from Autechre to White Zombie. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
This is possibly Skinny Puppy's lovliest nightmare, a harrowing doomsday journey in which reality itself seems to be manipulated almost beyond recognition. Vocalist Nivek Ogre screams and whispers deep admissions of guilt and denial on "Love In Vein" and "Circustance"; musician/programmers Cevin Key and Dwayne Goettel conjure haunting sonic visions in "Mirror Saw" and "Riverz End." "Killing Game" is a chilling confessional of savage honesty while "Inquisition" unfolds with confident anger. "Download" closes the album with a broad sonic image of world self-destruction, followed by an organic drone of post apocalyptic beauty. --Mark McCleerey, amazon.com
another good, more indepth review
i remember telling people when i first heard this in 1996 that "this is what pop music will sound like in 10 years". obviously we're not quite there yet so i'll chuck the prediction another 10 years into the future, when obviously soulless robots and radioactive mutants (read: right-wing politicians. haw haw) will control the earth keeping the rest of us "normal folk" in mental/physical/emotional/spiritual bondage, etc. and this will be the everyday soundtrack to those dark times. my fav track (and the most inaccessible one) is song 3 "knowhere". if anything in recorded music is the aural equivalent of doomsday and the skies going black and chariots of demons raining down fiery holocaust and the ground splitting open with volcanic thundering blood guts and your soul raped to hell, etc. nice descriptive horrorterror ... it's this song. turn off the lights and play it very loud. when the keyboards hit at around 2:49, hold on and pray for mercy.
"you will have no one to run to..." |
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| The Silent Ballet Volume II |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|09:09 pm] |
I know it's "non post-rock week" and all, but if anyone is looking for some new instrumental music to inject in their ears, you can download the new compilation by clicking below
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| Iris - Rebel Without A Pulse [EP] |
[Oct. 29th, 2006|09:42 pm] |
Iris - Rebel Without A Pulse [EP]"
3 songs; 13.3 mintutes; 10.53 mb
This short EP is made up of two wonderful metal songs and one haunting post-rock song. My favorite is the third song. Please download if you like metal. I know it's short, but it's worth it.
Enjoy,
Skyler =] |
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