Showing posts with label [Rock]. Show all posts
Showing posts with label [Rock]. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

[Rock] From Safety to Where - Irreversable Trend


Discovered this track through randomly clicking on "suggested artists" on the weird part of Spotify... You know what I'm talking about. For every 20 forgettable noise rock/lo-fi you get a gem of flaming intensity like FSTW that makes it all worth it.

Joy Division + Post-hardcore?

From the band's Youtube page:
"From Safety To Where was a post-punk trio from Columbia, South Carolina, USA, known for its jarring guitar/bass interplay and frantic, screaming vocals. The Joy Division reference in the band's name was only slightly evident in its music, which evolved from terse, minimalist, post-hardcore into dark, melodic post-punk. In 2002, the band signed to Radical Records in New York City, which released their most notable album, Irreversible Trend. The album ranked in the Top 75 of the College Music Journal Top 200 albums chart that July, spawning the college radio hit, "Only Now". Propelled by the appearance of its ethereal instrumental, "Monument" on MTV's The Real World and several tours of the East Coast and Midwest in 2002, the band recorded its final album, Interference, over the course of the next two years. However, the band succumbed to a souring internal relationship before it could be released."

Also recommended-
From Safety to Where - Only Now

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

[Rock] Devo - I Can't Get No Satisfaction


Devo disturbs me in a very gestalt way... The twitchy movements that appear neither robotic nor human, those random forward flips, the video concepts that appear to come straight from their unfiltered psyche, the album titles posed as questions (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!). Anyways, this came out in 1978 and was produced by none other than Brian Eno. We're 2/5 for 1978 this week, so let's go ahead and also dedicate the next three days to that apparently prolific year!

Also, does anyone get Can vibes from this?

Also recommended-
Can - Vitamin C