sir mix-a-lot
01-11-2006, 06:41 PM
So you wanna know what each Decoy contributor is jamming this week? Take a long gander at this week's list and feel free to add what you guys are spinning too.
Eric, by Proxy, Loves Canada and He'll Prove It by Blistering: The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch - The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/discordof.jpg
Website: (http://www.thediscordofaforgottensketch.com/) :: Listen: (http://www.myspace.com/tdoafs)
Canada is well-known for three things: hockey, beavers, and pancakes, but Canada could well be on the way to adding one more to that list: Tech-Metal. As bands like Ion Dissonance, A Javelin Reign, and The End establish their place in the genre, newcomers like The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch are currently sneaking across the border. The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch offers listeners a very diverse palette, including, but not limited to, sporadic surges of grindcore-inspired chaos accompanied by placid intermezzos. For fans of From a Second Story Window, PsyOpus, and As the Sun Sets.
Aaron and Jared Are Resuscitating the Scene by Pimping: Waterdown - All Riot
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/waterdown.jpg
Website: (http://www.waterdown.de/) :: Listen: (http://www.victoryrecords.com/Audio868/DL/Waterdown_afortress.mp3)
Aaron: The new Waterdown seems leaps and bounds beyond what any older Waterdown records were. They still manage a hard rock sound like Every Time I Die but they bring forth a more hardcore/metal feel like A Life Once Lost but also incorporating in clean parts which reminds me a lot of Evergreen Terrace. Hitting stores January 24th via Victory Records, All Riot is definitely an album to put on your want list if you like any of the aforementioned bands. The melodies will ring throughout your head like in songs "Cut The Cord" and "My Hopelessness and Me." I would like to see what everyone else thinks about this record but I myself can't turn it off. I've been missing some good music but this should take up plenty of time blaring through my speakers.
Jared: Straight out of Osnabruck, Germany comes Waterdown. I’d tell you a little more about the band, but their website seems to be mostly in German and I can’t read German. Let’s just get to the music. If I didn’t know any better, I would’ve guessed this was new Evergreen Terrace material, though not quite as heavy. Waterdown serve up a blend of hardcore, metal, and punk. The vocals split between about half clean, half scream with the band's two vocalists trading off lines. Fans of Comeback Kid and With Honor will find All Riot enjoyable. It is nice to see a band with a positive message. All too often, heavy bands stick to themes of skulls and death. They bring a positive message and preach tolerance of others; something their peers tend to shy away from. The band’s second full length for Victory Records, All Riot, will be released on Jan 25th, 2006.
Rick Is Taking the Progressive Road Less Traveled by Presenting: Blackfield - Blackfield
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/blackfield.jpg
Website: (http://www.blackfield.org) :: Listen: ( http://www.blackfield.org/?s=sound)
Porcupine Tree have put out a billion albums in their time together, most all of them being wonderful CDs but, oddly, when I think of my favorite Porcupine Tree CD, it’s not even a CD by the band. Instead, I think of Steven Wilson’s collaboration with Aviv Geffen when they created Blackfield, a much more mellow and to the point version of Porcupine Tree. There’s an extremely touching undertone to this CD that catapults it ahead of anything that Wilson’s main band has put out. This disc might be almost two years old, but I keep rediscovering it again and again, and if you haven’t discovered this wonderful artistic duo’s work, you owe it to yourself to at least give them a listen.
Kamran Wishes He Had and Was: Fu Manchu - King of the Road
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/fumanchu.jpg
Website: (http://www.fu-manchu.com) :: Listen: (http://www.myspace.com/fumanchu)
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Fu Manchu: My personal favorite in the stoner rock world. These guys are simple yet enticing, goofy yet beastly, and just a good ol’ fashioned group of ganja-loving headbangers. King of the Road is my personal favorite from Fu Manchu, and it includes one of the biggest riffs in music history on “Weird Beard.” Gargantuan riffs aside, Fu Manchu is awesome simply for the fact that they have artwork of a car (or some sort of motorized vehicle) or a reference to driving in the album’s title on seven of their nine studio albums; to me, that’s nothing short of incredible. Why? I’m not really sure. But I am sure that Fu Manchu is my standard for hugely rifftastic, mindless, melodic stoner-rock. Drink beer.
Ben Loves Pork Chops and Also Kinda Likes: Messer Chups - Crazy Price
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/messerchups.jpg
Website: ( http://www.ipecac.com/bio.php?id=37) :: Listen: ( http://www.ipecac.com/audio/067.mp3)
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail here. If you've ever seen shitty '60s beach party and sci-fi movies, Crazy Price is the encapsulation of both. To put them into the musical spectrum, imagine fusing everyone's favorite masked surf-rock instrumentalists Los Straitjackets with a more restrained Fantomas. All the kooky blips and bleeps of the latter with all the snazzy quirk of the former. It's pretty damned good.
Tim Refuses to Let the Present Tarnish the Past by Introducing: Adonis Battlefield/D'amore [Split LP]
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/adonisdamore.jpg
Website: ( http://www.delianleaguerecords.com/) :: Listen: (http://www.hxcmp3.com/bands/6530/index.php)
While the term 'screamo' has been forever tarnished by misguided fans and critics alike who mistakenly aligned it with watered-down crap that's put out by Tooth and Nail, Victory, and other major-backed indies, that doesn't mean the music it's supposed to represent doesn't still exist. In fact, it does, and two of the best bands doing it right now are present right here on this massive epic of a split vinyl released in 2005 by Delian League Records (not to be confused with the band we've featured a couple times here on Decoy): Adonis Battlefield, who before this came out with one of 2003's most abrasive demos, and D'amore, who marks this split as their arrival (although they've had one other, smaller split release before this with a band called Towers) to a community that's been thriving for so long despite so many obstacles. Adonis Battlefield is the more experimental of the two bands here, mixing some grind and even metal into their tight screamo sound. D'amore is a fast-paced, emotional band that has a lot on their mind and is good at conveying their message with sincerity. Fans of real screamo or anything released on Level Plane and Alone Records, really, definitely need to pick this vinyl-only release up even if they have to sell their firstborn to get it. This is one of the best records to come out in some time -- it will scare your parents, annoy your friends, and make you remember why you fell in love with true emotional music in the first place.
Eric, by Proxy, Loves Canada and He'll Prove It by Blistering: The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch - The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/discordof.jpg
Website: (http://www.thediscordofaforgottensketch.com/) :: Listen: (http://www.myspace.com/tdoafs)
Canada is well-known for three things: hockey, beavers, and pancakes, but Canada could well be on the way to adding one more to that list: Tech-Metal. As bands like Ion Dissonance, A Javelin Reign, and The End establish their place in the genre, newcomers like The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch are currently sneaking across the border. The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch offers listeners a very diverse palette, including, but not limited to, sporadic surges of grindcore-inspired chaos accompanied by placid intermezzos. For fans of From a Second Story Window, PsyOpus, and As the Sun Sets.
Aaron and Jared Are Resuscitating the Scene by Pimping: Waterdown - All Riot
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/waterdown.jpg
Website: (http://www.waterdown.de/) :: Listen: (http://www.victoryrecords.com/Audio868/DL/Waterdown_afortress.mp3)
Aaron: The new Waterdown seems leaps and bounds beyond what any older Waterdown records were. They still manage a hard rock sound like Every Time I Die but they bring forth a more hardcore/metal feel like A Life Once Lost but also incorporating in clean parts which reminds me a lot of Evergreen Terrace. Hitting stores January 24th via Victory Records, All Riot is definitely an album to put on your want list if you like any of the aforementioned bands. The melodies will ring throughout your head like in songs "Cut The Cord" and "My Hopelessness and Me." I would like to see what everyone else thinks about this record but I myself can't turn it off. I've been missing some good music but this should take up plenty of time blaring through my speakers.
Jared: Straight out of Osnabruck, Germany comes Waterdown. I’d tell you a little more about the band, but their website seems to be mostly in German and I can’t read German. Let’s just get to the music. If I didn’t know any better, I would’ve guessed this was new Evergreen Terrace material, though not quite as heavy. Waterdown serve up a blend of hardcore, metal, and punk. The vocals split between about half clean, half scream with the band's two vocalists trading off lines. Fans of Comeback Kid and With Honor will find All Riot enjoyable. It is nice to see a band with a positive message. All too often, heavy bands stick to themes of skulls and death. They bring a positive message and preach tolerance of others; something their peers tend to shy away from. The band’s second full length for Victory Records, All Riot, will be released on Jan 25th, 2006.
Rick Is Taking the Progressive Road Less Traveled by Presenting: Blackfield - Blackfield
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/blackfield.jpg
Website: (http://www.blackfield.org) :: Listen: ( http://www.blackfield.org/?s=sound)
Porcupine Tree have put out a billion albums in their time together, most all of them being wonderful CDs but, oddly, when I think of my favorite Porcupine Tree CD, it’s not even a CD by the band. Instead, I think of Steven Wilson’s collaboration with Aviv Geffen when they created Blackfield, a much more mellow and to the point version of Porcupine Tree. There’s an extremely touching undertone to this CD that catapults it ahead of anything that Wilson’s main band has put out. This disc might be almost two years old, but I keep rediscovering it again and again, and if you haven’t discovered this wonderful artistic duo’s work, you owe it to yourself to at least give them a listen.
Kamran Wishes He Had and Was: Fu Manchu - King of the Road
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/fumanchu.jpg
Website: (http://www.fu-manchu.com) :: Listen: (http://www.myspace.com/fumanchu)
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Fu Manchu: My personal favorite in the stoner rock world. These guys are simple yet enticing, goofy yet beastly, and just a good ol’ fashioned group of ganja-loving headbangers. King of the Road is my personal favorite from Fu Manchu, and it includes one of the biggest riffs in music history on “Weird Beard.” Gargantuan riffs aside, Fu Manchu is awesome simply for the fact that they have artwork of a car (or some sort of motorized vehicle) or a reference to driving in the album’s title on seven of their nine studio albums; to me, that’s nothing short of incredible. Why? I’m not really sure. But I am sure that Fu Manchu is my standard for hugely rifftastic, mindless, melodic stoner-rock. Drink beer.
Ben Loves Pork Chops and Also Kinda Likes: Messer Chups - Crazy Price
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/messerchups.jpg
Website: ( http://www.ipecac.com/bio.php?id=37) :: Listen: ( http://www.ipecac.com/audio/067.mp3)
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail here. If you've ever seen shitty '60s beach party and sci-fi movies, Crazy Price is the encapsulation of both. To put them into the musical spectrum, imagine fusing everyone's favorite masked surf-rock instrumentalists Los Straitjackets with a more restrained Fantomas. All the kooky blips and bleeps of the latter with all the snazzy quirk of the former. It's pretty damned good.
Tim Refuses to Let the Present Tarnish the Past by Introducing: Adonis Battlefield/D'amore [Split LP]
http://www.decoymusic.com/images/ListeningStation/adonisdamore.jpg
Website: ( http://www.delianleaguerecords.com/) :: Listen: (http://www.hxcmp3.com/bands/6530/index.php)
While the term 'screamo' has been forever tarnished by misguided fans and critics alike who mistakenly aligned it with watered-down crap that's put out by Tooth and Nail, Victory, and other major-backed indies, that doesn't mean the music it's supposed to represent doesn't still exist. In fact, it does, and two of the best bands doing it right now are present right here on this massive epic of a split vinyl released in 2005 by Delian League Records (not to be confused with the band we've featured a couple times here on Decoy): Adonis Battlefield, who before this came out with one of 2003's most abrasive demos, and D'amore, who marks this split as their arrival (although they've had one other, smaller split release before this with a band called Towers) to a community that's been thriving for so long despite so many obstacles. Adonis Battlefield is the more experimental of the two bands here, mixing some grind and even metal into their tight screamo sound. D'amore is a fast-paced, emotional band that has a lot on their mind and is good at conveying their message with sincerity. Fans of real screamo or anything released on Level Plane and Alone Records, really, definitely need to pick this vinyl-only release up even if they have to sell their firstborn to get it. This is one of the best records to come out in some time -- it will scare your parents, annoy your friends, and make you remember why you fell in love with true emotional music in the first place.