Monday XXXXIV

Just for fun.

Octaves - Greener Pastures (2010)

Octaves are a chaotic hardcore band from Baltimore that totally rip shit up. They were also the surprise band that played with Duck. Little Brother, Duck! last week. 'Surprise' because they weren't put on the bill and advertised and 'surprise' because once they got set up they just started going to town on their tracks and blasted some sweet and heavy hardcore music into my and all those there to witness's ears with no real warning or chit chat. No messing around. It was fast, it was intense, it got really intense, it was loud, and it was over just like that. They may have had the biggest and loudest amps I have ever seen in a little punk house basement. When congratulating these guys on a job well down after making my friend's ears bleed, they mentioned that, "this was the quietest we have ever played". Damn.

These guys have definitely done their homework on experimental and post, yesterday and today hardcore. Stay tuned for more of these guys to come as they got themselves a new one coming in the fall, supposedly!

Also: mad props to these guys for the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! reference with, "Fix The Fern Back". If you don't know what I mean, check this out!

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Lester Freamon - Natural Police (2011)

After the DLBD!/Octaves show (local math wizards The Waldos and local new doom, old faces Horace played them on) I picked up Duck. Little Brother, Duck!'s new album, 'Don't Take Our Filth Away' (which everyone should check out before I butcher it with a boring review) and with it I got a nice little sampler from Friends For Life Records that featured some, if not most, of what they've got to offer as far as bands go from their label. Along with familiar names like The Sky Above and Earth Below, Cower, DLBD!, The Caution Children, others that aren't, and Grandfather (the metalcore one); I also noticed that Lester Freamon was on it and remembered that I was going to write about them... I didn't but now I am. That is the card I'm playing.

Lester Freamon is a hardcore/punk/screamo band probably from Portland, Oregon. This is Natural Police, a four songer about killing cops and blowing things up. Maybe not but I like to think so. Their name and album name comes from the HBO series The Wire, based out of Baltimore, Maryland and the fictional character in it named, Lester Freamon. I've watched one episode of The Wire and he wasn't in it.

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White Savages - White Savages Live (2010)

White Savages is a punk/math rock band from Connecticut that features Spencer Shoop who was in a pretty gnarly instrumental math rock band know as Good Citizens who, lasting only a year and a half, broke up sometime last year. White Savages though are much more on the, well... savage side than Good Citizens ever were. White Savages Live is no work of art by any means. It's rough man, but so is life... that's why I like it.

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