9dw

I first heard of these guys on a split with Boris (those guys never cease to amaze me) and I thought they were pretty neat. Here's their full-length and it's some really chilled out downtempo stuff with a bit of jazz in the mix. Incredibly relaxing.

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The Stalin

Good ol' 80s Japanese punk band.

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Massgrav

Hardcore punk from Sweden and one of my favourite new bands. Great fun to listen to and straight-to-the-point, much like how I'm trying to keep this post.

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Super Numeri

Listening to music in the wee hours of the morning is an old habit of mine and I have now found the perfect music for exactly that purpose. I present to you SUPER NUMERI, a UK based band who play a great blend of post-rock, jazz fusion, oriental, downtempo, psychedelic and a bunch of other styles. It's really very interesting so do listen.

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warpaint- exquisite corpse

Indie/post-rock/shoegaze/psychedelic all girl-band. I don't think any description I can come up with will do this record justice. Listen and make your own judgements.


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Uncalm

Sick new demo by Scottish hardcore act Uncalm. For those who like Converge, Cursed etc.

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Happy Birthday

To co-creator Nespythe!

Rat King

I love concept albums, especially when they are done right. Larva is the second effort of the unconventional Rat King, who are (or should be) noted for their brilliant avant-garde industrialism. Their music can best be described as a mix of dark ambient, noise and industrial. Compared to their debut, Larva comes across as mightily ambitious and the scope of the album is lushly varied. The concept behind the album the effect of a man's dreams on his being; a difficult concept to play out without any visuals or vocals. Be that as it may, the key word here is atmosphere and there is a truckload of that. The great thing is that there's no "terror" overkill (i.e. Rat King don't try to be overly terrifying with their music). Even with varying from cavernous percussion to lush orchestration to occasional airy interludes of swirling ambience and stabbing discordance, Larva flows absolutely seamlessly.

Songs are untagged so here's the tracklist:

01 - Egg
02 - Hour Of The World
03 - The Duel
04 - The Wake
05 - Spiracle
06 - For Absent Gods
07 - Tranquility Lane
08 - Smorgasbord
09 - Vapour

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Rollo - Pinhole

Here's yet another Japanese export. Rollo is Boris drummer Atsuo's solo project. It is quite different from the usual Boris fare in that it's mostly lo-fi psychedelic stuff (the Boris connoisseurs amongst you may say it's somewhat similar to the quiet bits on Flood). Pinhole is the (surprisingly good) debut that gives you a rather mellow feeling throughout and you'll definitely give this more than one listen.

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