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Seeing Child Bite was a bizarre, unexpected experience. Trying to recall if I’ve seen a band successfully balance as many disparate elements as they did without becoming completely inaccessible, and I’m drawing a blank. Some bands live in the studio and fall apart the second they step on stage, and while Monomania is a great [...]
8 Lines or Less covers albums from small, often regional bands with the occasional major release thrown in. The idea is to give coverage to artists self-releasing great, under-appreciated and under-covered albums. If you’ve got a band and you’ve been grinding away at getting coverage, drop us a line and we’ll check out your stuff. [...]
Axe to Fall was an incredibly fun record to listen to; a band who’d long since figured out the formula that worked for them figured out how to further reduce their own sound to its basest elements and then barreled forward for 42 minutes straight without coming up for air, “Cruel Bloom” and “Wretched World” [...]
Breathe Like a Dragon was a good record. Certainly not perfect by any stretch, but insofar as the bedroom recording artist genre is concerned, it was an incredible (if not slightly inconsistent) debut. Dre Perish has a great ear for melody and a voice to go along with it and they served him well on [...]
An entire Brain Rot series could be devoted to the music videos of Seven Sisters of Sleep. Häxan, The Holy Mountain, Lucifer Rising have all been used to great effect in past releases, providing a perfect complement to the band’s enormous, sludgy albums. Their self-titled 7″, released this past May, featured a bonus 24-minute video [...]
After a few false starts and a few changes in personnel, Western Medicine’s (who we’ve covered here and here) debut EP In Transit is finally here. There’s a very mournful confidence that permeates the album, even on some of the more upbeat rockers, though not to the point of being oppressive. Even though the album [...]
The videos for “Scissor” and “No 1 Against the Rush” were solid, unique efforts from the Liars. It’s hard to think of another band that’d take the story of a man lost at sea and turn it into a story of nature rebelling in the strangest — and still threatening — way. Or make Los [...]
I’ve watched this video three times and I’m still not entirely certain what’s happening, if Native Americans should be pissed or stoked, if the Black Lips were clear on the concept themselves, if Ray Ban could get any more hipstery, if a homeless guy really could setup a teepee in a park and get away [...]
It has only been two short years since the phenomenal My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky was released, but the Swans are already gearing up to release a new album entitled The Seer. “The Apostate,” the first official release from the album, evolves the sound of My Father further into [...]
Crystal Castles have just released a new track entitled “Plague” via Soundcloud. No word if it’s part of a bigger/upcoming release, but it doesn’t stray too far from their sound with Alice yelping away under blown out synth lines. Crystal Castles on the web.
