Friday Streamin'

Here's some new/newer stuff you can listen to.

Sirs - Sirs (2012)

The Sirs self title has been out for a little while now but I just got around to giving it a good listen for myself. I'm not sure if I like it as much as their first EP, 'Vas Deferens' (just got what they means), but it seems like it'll grow on me after a few more listens. Definitely try it out for yourself if you haven't already. It won't hurt. I swear.

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Solos - Beast of Both Worlds (2012)

Solos is the new project of Spencer Seim of Hella/The Advantage/sBACH and Aaron Ross - that guy who sang for Hella for a while there. That being said, Solos is a lot like what would happen if There's No 666 in Outer Space-era Hella would have been like if there was no Zach Hill. I'm not saying that the drummer Solos has is not a good drummer... they're just not, well... Zach Hill. So, if you were a fan of Hella when they focused on putting Aaron Ross in the spotlight, you're really going to like Solos! If you found 'There's No 666 in Outer Space' to be Hella's weakest album, I would still say that you should give this project a listen, especially since Solos aren't Hella and clearly don't want to be.

Solos' bandcamp describes their sound to be a cross between Led Zeppelin and MGMT. "As ridiculous as this may sound".


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Vultures of Cult - Fathoms (2012)

Vultures of Cult have a kind of shitty name. The fact that they play really nasty stoner metal out of Vermont is not as shitty. The fact that these bros probably ripped shit up in Portland last weekend with KYOTY is not shitty at all. The fact that I couldn't go to the show... is pretty effin' shitty.

If you purchase the digital downloads for 'Fathoms' on their bandcamp, you receive a bonus track entitled, "Running From the Eye".


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Cage Match - Cave Math (2010)

Cage Match plays that smooth emo music that twinkles and shines when you look at it from an angle.

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Iron Chic - Demo (2008)

Iron Chic is a pop punk out of New York that features members from other familiar names in underground pop punk like Small Arms Dealer, Latterman, Jonesin', Get Bent, and Capital.

The track, "Timecop" features vox by Matt Canino of RVIVR/ex-Latterman/ex-Shorebirds. Yes, Timecop as in the Van Damme movie, Timecop.

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Nai Harvest - Feeling Better 7" (2012)

Two guys from the UK playing emo punk stuff with lots of noodles and other made up music expressions.

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Jared Fairfield/Afraid - EMF (2012)

EMF is a split by Jared Fairfied and Afraid AKA Jakob Battick's new electronic project.To hear more from Battick himself about this project, check out the interview he did with Hilly Town's own, Kevin Steeves. The interview does a lot more justice to this project than this post could ever do. So yeah, please check it out.

Jared Fairfield's Last.fm
Jared Fairfield's Facebook
Afraid's Last.fm

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HOST / KYOTY - Split

I meant to post this a little earlier, but the times got ahead of me. Anyhow, here is both sides of the Host/KYOTY split starting with KYOTY.

KYOTY's side

Man oh man, if you haven't read any of my previous rants about KYOTY yet, you best start doing so now! KYOTY (Keep Your Opinions To Yourself) are a post metal juggernaut from New Hampshire. They play some of the heaviest and just flat-out intense shows around (if you live in the New England area)! Wall after wall of sound and shear man-power, right here.

This split only has one track by KYOTY but it is one of their best; and one of their newest. No matter how loud you play this song, it will never capture the sound and intensity of hearing and witnessing it live.

The track is called, "Taking the Red Blood for Granted... Oh, How We Walk On Green Grass".

To further prove KYOTY's awesomeness, these guys played a show last month at Castle in the Clouds in New Hampshire. I'm not sure how the show went, but they played in the courtyard of a castle on top of a mountain during a car show! If that's not metal as fucking metal itself... then I don't know what is.

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Host's side

Host is also from New Hampshire. They also play some dark and intense music, but in the form of hardcore. I have yet to see Host play their music in front of my face, but I'm guessing it would be pretty hardcore.

Host bring 3 tracks to this split. They are titled, I, II, and III on Hydrogen Man Records's bandcamp, but are listed as "I Tarry", "Keep Your Opinions To Yourself", and "On Drowning", on their bandcamp.

They're pretty hardcore.

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P.S. KYOTY will be playing at Genos in Portland, Maine this weekend. I'll be home from school and in the Portland area, but unfortunately am not 21 yet... Shit happens. Go to this if you are 21+. You lucky bastards. I mean it! DO IT!

Grazes - Myths

Grazes -Myths (2011)

Upon first listen of the opening track, "Intro/Black Death" one could have the impression that this is just another screamo/post rock/what-have-you album, but once the voice of spoken word lets up and the instruments start to fade out, a common sound enters. It's the sound some are very familiar with; a sound that reminds them of that phase they went through in high school where they stitched patches on their denim jacket or contemplation running away to become a common day street urchin. It's the sound of old school punk rock music - the kind that was mixed with a little lot of hardcore and made to trash around. Grazes hasn't forgotten those days and neither should we. Even it those days never actually existed...

The rest of the album after the opening track is a head-on freight train of hardcore punk nostalgia. Grazes proves that they are here to keep that sound alive while staying somehow relevant by adding in other influences such as metal and even shoegaze. All in all, it still sounds like the punk music of yesterday; just played for us today.

Similar acts/sounds: Bastions, Pariso, Jackals, Best Friends, Goodtime Boys, Beartrap, Lester Freamon, Cower, Witch Cult and a bunch of other hardcore acts that miss old school punk music, too.

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14 Foot 1

14 Foot 1 - Christ Grenades (2007)

14 Foot 1 play twinkly math rock driven jingles. They are either from Massachusetts (according to their Bandcamp) or Rhode Island (according to Last.fm) and look something like this:

14 Foot 1 are signed to New Neighbor Records along with The Devil and a Penny - the band that led me to these guys. Not to get off subject, but The Devil and a Penny have a new release due out tomorrow and everyone should check it out. I say them (The Devil and a Penny) a little while back, opening for Algernon Cadwallader, and they totally killed it. 14 Foot 1 also kill it from what I'm hearing on this release entitled, 'Christ Grenades'. Very progressive stuff. Very toe tapping stuff. Very good stuff. 

Similar acts/sounds: The Devil and a Penny, Flesh Forest and The Elephant Only Zoo, Tiny Hawks, Japandi, Good Citizens, Royal Blood, The Rice Cakes, and other instrumental G-tappers. 

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Last.fm (free DL's)

NORD

Nord - Nord (2012)

Nord was a short-lived screamo/post hardcore act out of Chambéry, France. If you are a fan of other French screamo bands such as Daitro, Sed Non Satiata, Le pré où je suis mort, or Aussitôt Mort, you'll most likely enjoy the six songs that these gents put out.

Though this album was just released, they called it quits sometime last year.

All props go to My Endless Minute for this one.

Bandcamp
Last.fm (nothing about them)

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2011)

Car Seat Headrest is Will Toledo. He makes fuzzy lo-fi music of which most of the vocal recordings were done in his car... hence the name. This album entitled 'Twin Fantasy', has a very interested story behind it much like Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum's 2009 release, 'Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head'. Unfortunately, like the Jordaan Mason album I've mentioned above, I can not remember the story or if it's true. If you like Jordaan Mason though, you may also like this guy.

Similar acts/sounds: Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum, The Sarcastic Dharma Society, Foot Ox, Coma Cinema, Midnight Ghost, Alligator Indian, Long Walks On The Beach, Camp Island, The Whiting Brothers, and, and, and, and.


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