The cover art for Murder By Death’s fifth release, in bocca al lupo, is quite fantastic: a barren tree’s labyrinthine root system descends (in thick, brunette curls) into a darkness populated with winged gnome-thingies, giving way to telling, burning rings of fire. All the elements of this engaging mini-mural seem to spell out the goings on of the album itself, but, contrarily, the album itself is not nearly as fantastic. Or engaging.
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John Peel fave, Clinic will have a new album on CD and heavy weight vinyl in North America on January 23rd. Check out the first single called Harvest.
Courtesy of Soundonthesound
September 20, 2006 at Neumo’s
Upon entering the Seattle venue Neumos, I really thought it would be the Thermals night. With all the obscenely positive press The body, the blood, the machine has been receiving, (even from yours truly) I figured the kids would be primed to just eat it up. As it turns out however, it wasn’t so. Although for this, the Thermals can’t be blamed.
Hutch Harris was rocking and singing about the lord smiting the innocent to the point of looking ghoulish, and the rest of the band was supremely tight. They even played as a four piece just to add that little bit of extra rock. (Although I’m not sure how much more rock unison power chords add.) But all the same, it was nice, the effort was there.
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Hips don’t lie, and neither does Up Close and Personal, the career-spanning, double CD/DVD from London indie-rockers, South. The DVD features over 60 minutes of live footage, music videos, and behind the scenes clips. The CD includes new versions of “Paint the Silence” and “Loosen Your Hold”, and two brand new songs.
Asi es perfecto track listing:
Safety In Numbers
Something and Nothing
Autumn Morning
Bizarre Love Triangle
Paint the Silence
You Are One
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Wolf Eyes is not the sort of band you listen to if you like music. They strike me, rather, as the sort of thing you might have playing in the background while brutally murdering your family with an axe.
They do make music in the broader sense, inasmuch as they create vibrations in the air which are then picked up by the timpanic membrane in your ear, either directly (should you be present while they perform) or indirectly via some sort of prerecorded medium. But somewhere in this otherwise normal process (which I have dubbed “hearing”), something has gone horribly wrong. You see, Wolf Eyes makes noise music.
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The world doesn’t exactly wait for Jeremy Enigk anymore. Return of the Frog Queen was beautiful and brief, but that was 1996, and we’ve moved on. His next two releases with Sunny Day minus Hoerner (Rising Tide and then the Fire Theft’s self-titled) reminded everyone that wow, Diary and LP2 rocked; you don’t start calling someone the “grandfather of emo-core” if they’re still in the game. While Enigk would like you to think World Waits is the Frog Queen’s follow-up (see the orchestral first track), this album takes off exactly where the Fire Theft left off: beautifully blanding you to death.
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An MP3 of “Wasted State of Mind,” the new track from …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, is now available to download exclusively on Myspace HERE. New album, So Divided in stores November 14th.