TAG: SELF RELEASED
THE DEPTHS OF OUR TRAUMA IS THE WELL FROM WHICH WE DRAW OUR COMPASSION BY EVE BEEKER
I’ve been listening to this album a lot for the last couple of weeks.
Go get it.
IF THE STRAW IS DRY, IT WILL LIGHT UP BY MATERIC
This band is Russian, so I apologize right off the bat if Google translate has mangled the original untranslated Russian title of this song: “если солома высохла, она загорится”.
Sort of droney post rock with some 90s emo touches, particularly in the vocals.
Its free on their Bandcamp page.
BY TOBE NWIGWE
The Bill Burr line is pretty awful, but other than that, I really like this song.
WITH THIS DAGGER IN MY HEART I SHALL TURN THE WORLD TO ASH BY CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
This sounds like a band that named themselves after a Thou song and its great.
They have a new album out, go get it.
WOE TO ALL (ON THE DAY OF MY WRATH) BY LINGUA IGNOTA
The first 5 minutes and 15 seconds of this are fantastic, then it loses me until the 12 minute mark. But at 15 total minutes, this is tough listen.
But those first 5 minutes.
FERMIN ROMERO DE TORRES BY CHARLES THE OSPREY
The liner notes for this album include “We made this album just as we made Consider, with no overdubs, loop pedals or effects pedals so we could preform it live exactly as it is on this record.” My dudes, effects pedals, even loopers, are portable. You can easily use those in a live setting, many bands do.
HELPLESS SORROW BY IRON GAG
Metallic hardcore with some thrash elements.
Album of the year material.
WAR WIDOWS BY AMINALS
A bandcamp supporter comments sum this up perfectly: “Been a fan since 06/07 which is scary to think about. Phenomenal band. A total mystery as to how they aren’t bigger.”
How does a band like this fly under the radar for 10 years (at least as far as I can tell)?
An incredibly hard to search band name already doesn’t help. Neither does a great though sort of generic sound. Aminals are good, they are totally nailing that early 00s metal/hardcore Converge thing, but so have lots of bands.
Despite what it might sound like, I do like the album and its free on their bandcamp page.
Photo by Trevor Roper (stolen from Facebook).
BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU BY LOW CLOUD
Great, but short lived band from Grand Rapids MIchigan.
Go download their last release for free (pay what you want) from bandcamp.