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quinta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2013

Pause!

Christmas truly is the worst of times. Regular activity will resume in 2014 as I work on the design and future plans for the blog.

No top x of 2013 here either, there are plenty of those around.

Happy holidays.

domingo, 15 de dezembro de 2013

This week in news

Though there have been some releases this week I haven't paid much attention to them, so I can't really vouche for that. Here's a few memorable things:

Announcements

Birds Are Indie - Love Is Not Enough
Birds Are Indie are a small portuguese indie (surprise!) band that make the sort of campfire-singalong-love-tunes that would make you cringe if they weren't so mind-bogglingly adorable. Their new album should be out on their bandcamp on January the 8th. Meanwhile you can either get their older stuff or just loop this song to eternity.

Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers (4LP)
Doom bannermen Reverend Bizarre are issuing their last album on vinyl and they have something to say about it: "Reverend Bizarre's final opus is a 130 minute juggernaut, thought by many as impossible to fit on vinyl. Well, you thought wrong." This made me laugh, and they had to fit the damn thing on a 4 LP release to prove everyone wrong. Comes out on January the 17th, you can preorder it here.

Interesting shit

"Blackened Everything" is a must-listen CVLT NATION mixtape. One hour of terror? Sign me in. Check it here.

Church of Fuck Mystery Box is a special christmas promotion by Manchester blackened hardcore band Church of Fuck. Also the main reason I'm featuring this here is to celebrate that Church of Fuck Mystery Box is an actual thing that exists. Life is good.

quinta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Julia Brown - i will do this for the rest of my life



Julia Brown is a noisy indie pop act that I've been listening to recently, they are catchy enough to appease the masses while seeming to me innovative in the way that they fill the simple guitar chords with layers of dream pop and shoegaze elements. I has that "work of passion" feel to it and it shows both in the carefree aesthetics of their bandcamp and in the groovy flow of their songs.

The thing about making noisy sound, the trick, or rather the thing that has some noise stand out in relation to other cases, is whether or not it sounds "natural". Noise can't be forced into a music through either technique or a sort of mathmatical precision. In my mind, it eases its way into your brain as it would ease out of the musician's - an organic communication through the medium of sound.

Though not without its less exemplary moments, Julia Brown seem to understand this and their brand of noisy lo-fi pop can really hit the nail when they build up for it (check out "i was my own tv show..." as another song that stands out).

quarta-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Diane Cluck & Jeffrey Lewis - Travel Light




Diane Cluck is a personal favourite. I love her music, her voice and her lyrics; this Jeffrey Lewis guy, I don't know who he is. But I've found this bandcamp and it has three nice little songs from both her and him, they're light and amusing songs that seem to have been recorded on a binge. Here's one of them, check out the bandcamp for those other three:

terça-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Earth - His Teeth Did Brightly Shine



I love Earth and I love Angels of Darnkess, Demons Of Light. There's nothing more to that. What a kickass band, damn.

segunda-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Dead Combo - Aurora em Lisboa



Today I'm bringing you a song by the portuguese band Dead Combo - mostly because I was thinking hey, shouldn't I feature some good portuguese bands? Of course I should. Meet the jazzy-bohemian-western-spaghetti-fado-playing duo:

domingo, 8 de dezembro de 2013

This week in news

It's been a slow week, but here are some highlights:

Interesting shit

Nefarious realm are compiling 666 songs from 666 bands in a free playlist for the masses. Check it out here.

Releases

Mammatus - Heady Mental
The new album by rock psychonauts Mammatus is now available at stores. You can buy it here. Listen to the bands s/t here.

Announcements

Bossk - Pick-Up Artist/Albatross
Bossk are a post-metal ("post-everything, it says) band that have paved a solid path in the scene these past years. An EP is announced to release December the 13th this year. Check it out here

Conan - Blood Eagle
What I believe will make the top releases of 2014, Conan's Blood Eagle now has an official (awesome) artwork and tracklist. Check it here

sexta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Drudkh - W Krainie Drzew



A song of the upcoming split between Drudkh and Winterfylleth (which I covered already I think) has been released for streaming at Stereogum: it's a cover of a song by an obscure Polish band called Hefeystos. You can check it out at the Stereogum website alongside a bit of a background into this split, here.

Also, that cover is pretety fucking badass, isn't it? Damn!

quinta-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Thee Silver Mt Zion - Austerity Blues

I noticed I never got to post this song, I just shared the news that the album is coming up. So here it is. Austerity blues are, after all, what make our everyday lives here in the margins of Europe nowadays.


quarta-feira, 4 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Alcest - Opale



Today I bring you Alcest's latest song/videoclip Opale, off the recently released single vinyl by the same name and also from the upcoming album Shelter. They are coming to Portugal next February, I hope I get to catch them then.

Embedding has been disallowed for blogs, so here's a link to the Vimeo page

terça-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Josephine Foster - Good News

Yes, there is a bandcamp. Enjoy!

segunda-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2013

SotD: Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day



I have mixed feelings towards Sufjan Stevens, his music is to me the whole range between "oh hey this is pretty nice" and "ok that's just too indie for me". Truthfully, I grow easily tired of his albums, they start to blend in and sound mashy and confusing.

It's not really my genre anyway. This song is pretty nice though, so here's to Sufjan and to me giving another shot at Illinoise.