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album cover HAINES, D Emo (Sigma) cd 14.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
It's hard to not simply fall back upon the immediate observation that D. Haines' Emo album is the fictional remix that Wolfgang Voigt (aka Gas) should do for drone label Troum. With the Gas records (especially Konigsforst) and the Troum / Maeror Tri records holding righteous positions within the Aquarius pantheon for sustained drone bliss-outs, such a qualification should be taken as very high praise. Attesting to the music's monumentality, the lengthy tracks on Emo have been named after various geological formations -- "Kosciousko" (Australia's closest relative to an alpine region), "Peak Communism" (a massive vertical slab found in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan), and "Gibraltar" (as in the Rock of). Throughout the album, Haines weaves sublime slashes of digital squiggles between laptop-tricked-out drones probably originating from accordions and orchestral warm-ups. The record slowly reveals the force of opposites between the analog source material and the digital processing, with Haines' strategy intent on stalemating each other. The resultant push and pull between the two processes adds a majestic tension to the swirling drones, making for a fantastic dreamy album.
RealAudio clip: "Kosciousko"
RealAudio clip: "Peak Communism"

album cover GREY DATURAS Live At Emo's In Austin Texas (Diagnosis... Don't!) cd-r 13.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
As we've mentioned before, Australia's Grey Daturas are an amazing live band. And no matter how great their records are (and they are great), they can't compare the the furious improvised heavy-as-fuck spectacle of the live Daturas experience. Bonnie is a seriously formidable axemaster, emitting the unholiest of heaviness from her guitar, pealing washes of coruscating distortion, dreamy swaths of washed out chordal blur, while the two Rob's do their own brand of damage, throbbing pulsing low end bass, and bombastic drum fury...
So any chance to see these guys live, or even hear them live is one to not be passed up. Here we have a document from their 2006 tour, recorded live in Austin at Emo's, 35 minutes or primo Daturas beautiful brutality.
Beginning with a blown out wall of guitar and freaked out feedback, crumbling and distorted, roiling and billowing, the drums kick in around minute 6 and the band launch into some serious sub-Stooges stomp, plowing through dense washes of downtuned buzz, the band plod and pound, the guitar not so much riffing as freaking out, huge clouds of psychedelic skree, the bass holding down the central riff, this is Dead C meets the Brainbombs, furious and heavy and brutal as fuck. But after about 10 minutes the drums peter out, and we're back in abstract free noise guitarscape territory and it's awesome. Glorious and epic. But before too long, the drums gradually return, the guitar slowly transforming into some sort of mid tempo riffage, and before you know it, the band are pounding out another garage-y noise rock psych drone barrage, and again the guitar seems dead set on getting away, squealing and flailing and freaking out over the relentless metallic trudge beneath it. As always, so fucking awesome. Can't wait to see these guys again...
Limited as all get out, just like always, packaged in plain brown sleeves, the artwork a torn scrap of paper with the liner notes, in the style of all the Diagnosis... Don't! releases.
MPEG Stream: "Live At Emo's In Austin Texas"

album cover MB (BIANCHI, MAURIZIO) Oirt Emo-Dne (Mirror Tapes) cassette 10.98
A reissue of a private cassette Maurizio Bianchi made in 1981, whose ghastly noises would become the foundation for Endometrio, one of Bianchi's undisputed masterpieces of grim powerdrone electronics. Endometrio was a self-released LP from 1982 that formed a diptych with Carcinosi, which explored Bianchi's self-described 'bionic' music, and which metaphorically described the encroachment of technology within the human body as a form of self-annihilation by way of cancer. The heavy drones of thick vibration seemed to be a magnification of cancerous cells growing within bone tissue. Yeah, Bianchi's work is fucking bleak.
Oitr Emo-Dne features many of those spectral vibrations, slumping drones, and frigid noises that would later form the monolithic wall of sound Bianchi would deliver on Endometrio; but this tape is far more composed than most of Bianchi's proper albums, which pretty much begin and end with rough edits and hardly anything as subtle as fade-out. Instead of a relentless torrent of sound, Bianchi allows his sounds to ebb and flow with various cracklings (possibly left over from his early turntable experiments as Sacher-Pelz), sounding very prescient of Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith and especially the NWW track "No Longer His Dominant" with its arrangement for swelling low-end feedback. This tape is pretty limited itself, with just 216 copies of this edition, although the tape and the inserts are professional grade. An exceptional artifact of early '80s noise culture!

album cover ANATOMI-71 / NEMO Anatomi-71 Vs Nemo (split) (Rage Of Achilles) cd 10.98
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From our pal Duncan at Rage Of Achilles comes this thrashing, pummelling head banging death/splatter/grind/metal doubleheader. Two bands we'd never heard of, battling it out, both pretty awesome. The first 21 tracks, almost all clocking in at a minute or less, come courtesy of Anatomi-71. Crusty, sort of lo-fi, not-quite-hyperspeed grind. Two vocalists (or one doing double time) grunting growls and hellish screeching. All furious and fast and complicated. Good stuff, but the final 12 tracks are where it's at! The band Nemo are responsible for these, and they are soooooo fast, and so insane sounding. They incorporate lightning speed drum machines, video game samples, and all sorts of bizarre bleeps and blips and buzzing into the mix, turning their metallic grind into some sort of grindmetal alien video game soundtrack. This stuff is so nuts it's kind of hard to even describe. If I was making a horror/alien invasion/splatter flick, the is the music I would want as the soundtrack. Think some fucked up mix of the Locust, Orthrelm, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Crom Tech, Man Is The Bastard, Space Invaders, Galaga, Missle Command, Joust and Rastan. Or the best death metal video game they never made for the Commodore 64! Fucking great!
RealAudio clip: "Fever Dreams"
RealAudio clip: "Robosong II"
RealAudio clip: "Du Ar Inte Ni Med Mig Gubbjavel"

BEHEMOTH Demonica (Century Media) 2cd 30.00

MPEG Stream: "Summoning Of The Ancient Gods"
MPEG Stream: "Cursed Angel Of Doom"
MPEG Stream: "Transylvanian Forest"

JEFFERSON, BLIND LEMON Long Lonesome Blues: Lemon's Texts Revealed (World Arbiter) cd 16.98

album cover 1349 Demonoir (Prosthetic) cd 14.98
It seems like we were the only people who loved the last 1349, the experimental black industrial aboutface that was Revelations Of The Black Flame. A twisted, lurching tangled of convoluted blackness, and abstract black drone, some of the darkest weirdest black metal shit we'd heard in ages. But folks pissed and moaned, "why isn't it fast?", "where are the blast beats?" and on and on and on. But c'mon, were we the only ones who did NOT want to just hear Liberation Part 4, or Beyond The Apocalypse Part 3? Seems like it.
Well, all the haters can breathe easy, cuz Demonoir is a return to the frenzied black blasts and insanely furious buzz that defined 1349's sound, but listen close, and there's still some weird shit going on. First off, every song is separated by a short instrumental track, each one denoted "Tunnel" plus a digit, contributing to the seamless flow of the record, and allowing the more by-the-numbers blackness to get some breathing room. These interludes range from effects drenched metallic drones, to creepy backwards pianos and acoustic guitars, woozy minor key melodies, and blackened industrial wastescapes, super tense Herrmann like cinematic ambience, to deep cavernous drones, and washed out shimmery white noise.
But it's not just the interludes, the band may have managed the impossible, melding their grim frosty blast of old, with their obvious desire to twist and transform and experiment. The result is some seriously epic and convoluted and yeah sort of experimental black metal, but subtle enough that folks how just want to bang their hands or thrash about, will be perfectly happy, while the rest of us can strap on headphones and get way lost.
"Atomic Chapel" is total classic 1349, but not quite, creepy spoken word, some weird start stop arrangements, some atonal piano buried in the mix, mysterious voices, chanting, all tangled up with some of the fiercest black metal ever. It's a pretty potent mix. Elsewhere the blasting blackness gets weirdly melodic, almost NWOBHM in parts, but then the band stretches it out, transforming it into a droned out chugscape, rife with wild moaning leads, that turn into effects drenched squiggles.
The pianos pop up now and again throughout the record, as do some more surprising melodies, more unlikely arrangements, the title track being maybe the strangest of the bunch, a woozy midtempo workout, all hissed and whispered vox, tangled spidery guitars, a super progged out arrangement, psychedelic and moody and fucking awesome.
On first listen we were sort of bummed out, thinking that the band had caved, and ditched the experimental stuff to placate the naysayers, but after listening a bit closer, we're beginning to think that in some ways, it's almost MORE subversive than Revelations Of The Black Flame, not so overtly fucked up, but infused throughout with a sort of insidious weirdness, that will worm itself into the minds and souls of the grim kvlt masses, whether they realize it or not.
MPEG Stream: "Atomic Chapel"
MPEG Stream: "When I Was Flesh"
MPEG Stream: "Psalm 7:77"

album cover 5IVE The Hemophiliac Dream (Tortuga) cd 10.98
Boston's 5ive (who may be changing their name to Continuum Research Project, as that's what the top obi on this li'l disc says -- I think the Euro boy band 5ive's lawyers might have something to do with that) unleash another super heavy and mesmerizing instrumental metallo-drone experience, consisting of the 23 minute track "Part I: The Hemophiliac Dream" and then "Part II", a quite worthwhile 14 minute remix done by the Jim O'Rourke of the avant-metal underground, James Plotkin (Phantomsmasher, Khanate, OLD, Joy Of Disease, Flux, Romance, Lotus Eaters, etc.), giving 5ive the computer/electronics treatment for some this-side-of-Merzbow-noisy (yet quite listenable), stereo-panning-gone-wild weirdness. A claustrophobic headphone trip. In sum, "The Hemophiliac Dream" is psychedelic, sludgy, and a little post-rock in places -- total beauty-in-heaviness stuff for fans of Boris, Acid Mothers Temple, Old Man Gloom, Melvins, Tarantula Hawk, Swans, Kyuss, all that. And Pink Floyd fans might recognize its origins...
RealAudio clip: "Part I: The Hemophiliac Dream"

album cover A PERFECT CIRCLE Emotive (Virgin) cd 16.98

MPEG Stream: "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie"
MPEG Stream: "Let's Have A War"

album cover A STORM OF LIGHT As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Ê Memories Fade (Profound Lore) cd 13.98
Latest slab of epic, apocalyptic, psychedelic doom from A Storm Of Light, the project of Josh Graham, who also plays in Red Sparowes, Blood And Time, and of course the psychedelic doom sludge granddaddies of them all Neurosis. So it makes sense that Graham's project explores similar sonic territory, but where Neurosis is all downtuned crush and bellowed howl, ASOL is more spaced out, more Hawkwind, more melodic, more atmospheric. Even moreso than the last full length, As The Valley spends much of its time drifting, and smoldering, hovering and shimmering, but when the songs do lock in, and get heavy, it's still on the melodic psychedelic side of heavy, the vocals the driving force, way up in the mix, wreathed in echo and delay, giving the sound a bit of a Kyuss vibe, which is definitely not a bad thing, but when the band do crush, the sound MASSIVE, the guitars impossibly heavy, the production epic, but those stretches of extreme heaviness surprisingly brief with the tracks more often than not slipping back into the broodier moodier minimalism that much of the record explores, and those pronounced vocals, and the vocal heavy mix, definitely give this As The Valley a distinctly pop vibe, which probably screams sell out to some, but to us, just makes this less a doom metal record, or a post doom record, or whatever you want to call it, and transforms it into something tougher to pigeonhole, a sort of pop flecked metallic psych, or psychedelic doom pop. But let's to put too much of an emphasis on the pop element, cuz this stuff is still pretty goddamn heavy, it just happens to have hooks and melodies, and chooses not to bury them, and instead flaunts them, and often lets the melody, instead of the riff, drive the song. Which is actually pretty refreshing...
MPEG Stream: "Missing"
MPEG Stream: "Collapse"
MPEG Stream: "Black Wolves"

album cover A STORM OF LIGHT As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Ê Memories Fade (Burning World) 2lp 33.00
Latest slab of epic, apocalyptic, psychedelic doom from A Storm Of Light, the project of Josh Graham, who also plays in Red Sparowes, Blood And Time, and of course the psychedelic doom sludge granddaddies of them all Neurosis. So it makes sense that Graham's project explores similar sonic territory, but where Neurosis is all downtuned crush and bellowed howl, ASOL is more spaced out, more Hawkwind, more melodic, more atmospheric. Even moreso than the last full length, As The Valley spends much of its time drifting, and smoldering, hovering and shimmering, but when the songs do lock in, and get heavy, it's still on the melodic psychedelic side of heavy, the vocals the driving force, way up in the mix, wreathed in echo and delay, giving the sound a bit of a Kyuss vibe, which is definitely not a bad thing, but when the band do crush, the sound MASSIVE, the guitars impossibly heavy, the production epic, but those stretches of extreme heaviness surprisingly brief with the tracks more often than not slipping back into the broodier moodier minimalism that much of the record explores, and those pronounced vocals, and the vocal heavy mix, definitely give this As The Valley a distinctly pop vibe, which probably screams sell out to some, but to us, just makes this less a doom metal record, or a post doom record, or whatever you want to call it, and transforms it into something tougher to pigeonhole, a sort of pop flecked metallic psych, or psychedelic doom pop. But let's to put too much of an emphasis on the pop element, cuz this stuff is still pretty goddamn heavy, it just happens to have hooks and melodies, and chooses not to bury them, and instead flaunts them, and often lets the melody, instead of the riff, drive the song. Which is actually pretty refreshing...
MPEG Stream: "Missing"
MPEG Stream: "Collapse"
MPEG Stream: "Black Wolves"

ABIGOR In Memory... (Napalm) cdep 10.98
Prolific (and very "cult") black metal act Abigor from Austria return with a 5-song ep, featuring two cover tunes (of Kreator and Slayer, both originally recorded for appearances on those ubiquitious Dwell-label tribute comps) and three other rare tracks, one from the "With Us Or Against Us" compilation and the others rehearsal or rough-mix versions of old stuff. So, more a disc for Abigor completists, but as we said, they're a cult band, and this will whet fans' appetites for their upcoming "Satanized (A Journey Through Cosmic Infinity)" album due out in 2001.

ABIGOR In Memory... (Napalm) cdep 10.98
Prolific (and very "cult") black metal act Abigor from Austria return with a 5-song ep, featuring two cover tunes (of Kreator and Slayer, both originally recorded for appearances on those ubiquitious Dwell-label tribute comps) and three other rare tracks, one from the "With Us Or Against Us" compilation and the others rehearsal or rough-mix versions of old stuff. So, more a disc for Abigor completists, but as we said, they're a cult band, and this will whet fans' appetites for their upcoming "Satanized (A Journey Through Cosmic Infinity)" album due out in 2001.

album cover ACID BATH Demos: 1993-1996 (Rotten) cd 14.98

album cover ACID MOTHER'S TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space (Riot Season) cd 16.98
What if we'd never reviewed an Acid Mothers Temple release before? Let's pretend... the first thing we'd say would be, what's with the matching Hawaiian shirts the band sports in the photo on this cd's back cover?? Then we'd go, like, check it out, they're this weird hippy rock group from Japan, maybe more like a cult than a band, with this hairy bearded crazy guitar player named Kawabata Makoto, the band's called Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno and they obviously love krautrock and Hawkwind and other druggy '70s psych stuff. They have this new album with the weird title of Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space, and boy howdy is the music trippy, even trippier than the crazy colorful cover art collage. Recommended if that's your scene. We can't wait to hear more, let's hope they follow this one up with another album soon, if that's possible after expending all this cosmic pink lady energy!
But of course AMT have about 1,000,000 previous releases, you know 'em and you love 'em, so we probably should add just a little more info (or maybe actually DON'T need to add any more info?). FYI, as you might guess from its title, this disc features another revamped, reinterpretation of the AMT concert fave "Pink Lady Lemonade". We count different versions of that epic track on at least nine other AMT cds/dvds that we've previously listed!! So obviously it's something special in Acidmothersland. Making it extra special here, perhaps, is the presence of a brand new drummer/vocalist recruited from Japanese all-girl groop Afrirampo, the "cosmic shaman" known as Pikachu. Must be her offering up all the haunting vocals with the mildly Yoko-ish waver, that soar through the gentle kosmiche bliss of this album's lengthy space-outs, "songs" which eventually tend to swirl into something a little more intense and chaotic and guitary. "Pink Lady" is split into two parts, 24 and 11 minutes, bookending between them this disc's two other tracks, "Message From Outer Space" and "Take Me To The Universe". And oh yeah, what IS with the matching Hawaiian shirts?? Have AMT gone yacht rock? Well you could sip a margarita to this, if it was appropriately dosed.
MPEG Stream: "Message From Outer Space"
MPEG Stream: "Take Me To The Universe"

album cover ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO Demons From Nipples (Vivo) cd 16.98
Demons From Nipples? Of all of Acid Mothers Temple's most ridiculous titles (eg. St. Captain Freak Out And The Magic Bamboo Request, Hypnotic Liquid Machine From The Golden Utopia, or Does The Cosmic Shepherd Dream Of Electric Tapirs?), that might be the mostest! And the music does its best to live up to that title. It's a heavily effected, way-out Kraut/psych love frolic, howling in space, kinda like an imaginary Can/Hawkwind/Guru Guru acid test jam fest with what sounds like some sort of warped, sci-fi bagpipes thrown in for good measure. That weird bagpipe sound is what's really getting us excited about this (though doubtless some might disagree). It's kinda like Comets On Fire's Echoplex or the 13th Floor Elevators' electric jug. Must be the "uilleann pipe" that a guest is credited with playing in the liner notes! Stirred in there with guitars, drums, electronics, etc. it's part of a pretty wild and dense sound. And when things calm down a bit (like, about a half hour into the title track) the combination of heavy-duty electric guitar splooge and mantric cosmic slop vocal chant is primo, with or without the pipe (any sorta pipe).
This release (imported from Poland, not sure if we'll be able to get 'em again all that easily!) is the third new document in, like, the last three months to be spawned by the latest incarnation of Kawabata Makoto's Acid Mothers Temple troupe (now known as AMT & The Cosmic Inferno), featuring new members including Tabata Mitsuru (Zeni Geva, Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine). And like the other two Cosmic Inferno discs, this consists of but two tracks, one long and one really long. If you liked their previous disc Just Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno you'll really dig this one. Ultra-trippy to say the least!
MPEG Stream: "Demons From Nipples"

album cover ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Inner Space (Alien 8) cd 15.98
One could be excused for thinking that a new cd from Acid Mothers Temple might be surplus to requirements... yet, while that's for each individual to determine, it must also be said that prolific as these Japanese psych purveyors are (and this isn't even the only new AMT we have, there's another that's a collaboration with Italian band Stearica), there's been nary a dud in their discography.
This one is probably a must for serious fans, since it's devoted to their longtime live staple, an extended track entitled "Pink Lady Lemonade". They've recorded it before, but this is intended as the definitive version. Presented here in four distinct parts, the total piece over 66 minutes long. It's quite a trip, with repetitive chiming guitar, freeform freakouts, sci-fi sound FX, and lots of droned-out whoosh... another endless hour and then some, trance-time well spent with the Acid Mothers!
Nice packaging/design, in a colorful digipack, the cover art oriented in sideways fashion.
MPEG Stream: "Part I"
MPEG Stream: "Part III"

album cover ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Inner Space ( Alien 8) 2lp 26.00
Now also available on vinyl!
One could be excused for thinking that a new cd from Acid Mothers Temple might be surplus to requirements... yet, while that's for each individual to determine, it must also be said that prolific as these Japanese psych purveyors are (and this isn't even the only new AMT we have, there's another that's a collaboration with Italian band Stearica), there's been nary a dud in their discography.
This one is probably a must for serious fans, since it's devoted to their longtime live staple, an extended track entitled "Pink Lady Lemonade". They've recorded it before, but this is intended as the definitive version. Presented here in four distinct parts, the total piece over 66 minutes long. It's quite a trip, with repetitive chiming guitar, freeform freakouts, sci-fi sound FX, and lots of droned-out whoosh... another endless hour and then some, trance-time well spent with the Acid Mothers!
Note: Not to be confused with the Acid Mothers Temple & Cosmic Inferno album Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space, from a few years ago.
MPEG Stream: "Part I"
MPEG Stream: "Part III"

album cover ADAMS, RYAN Demolition (Lost Highway) cd 14.98
This new album from Ryan Adams compiles a baker's dozen of the demos from his Nashville, Hollywood and Stockholm recording sessions of the last couple of years. Nice to hear his music at this stage before every speck of immediacy and grit were swept away in the recording process (which seemed to be the downfall of his 2001 Gold album). Reportedly each song was recorded in one take without overdubs. That said, they do already sound very very polished, full and finished. Overall, he sounds much older and more weathered than on Gold or his fine debut Heartbreaker. Some of these songs completely resemble the catchy college rock of the Replacements - he *really* sounds like Paul Westerberg! - while others are more in the Americana vein of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. Actually those latter songs really reminded me of the Traveling Wilburys too which says a lot considering the caliber of artists on that group's roster. The standout track however is the final one, the solemnly moving "Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby)". So beautiful, it veered away from any of the other songs and reference points, and left me wishing the rest of the album were more along those lines.
RealAudio clip: "Starting To Hurt"
RealAudio clip: "Gimme A Sign"
RealAudio clip: "Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby)"

album cover AGALLOCH The Demonstration Archive: 1996-1998 (Licht Von Dammerung) cd 14.98
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Herein we find some early, early material by Portland's grim forest lurkers, the artistic, atmospheric black metal entity known as Agalloch. Eight songs taken from limited edition demo tapes circa 1996-1998, recorded before they got a record deal. Only a couple of the songs, meant for a 7", were later released on a limited cdep now also long gone. And listening to this, you can hear why they eventually got signed (and went on to develop the cult following they have today). These songs are both heavy and depressive, and metallically, melancholically melodic, coming off way more Iron Maiden-y than some black metal for sure, with extra folkiness that makes us think of early Abigor. And definitely fans of old Opeth should investigate this (you'll like the 11 and 13 minute long songs). Coming as no surprise to anyone whose heard their later material, Agalloch's demo archives incorporate rasping anguished vokills, jaunty folk-like melodies, trance-inducing battery, buzzing guitars, and calm, near-ambient interludes. One song is all acoustic strum and woodfires burning.
If you're already into this band, you'll want this. And it's also as good a starting point as any (considering these songs were THEIR starting point). Actually some of us here who hadn't really gotten into Agalloch before are finding this to be a bit of a treat, and realize we should pay more attention to what they've been up to lately, as well.
MPEG Stream: "The Wilderness"
MPEG Stream: "Of Stone, Wind, And Pillor"

album cover ALASKA! Emotions (B-Girl) cd 13.98
The first album from this indie rock super duo! Alaska's roster boasts the talents of Russ Pollard (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion) and Imaad Wasif (Lowercase, Folk Implosion). This is all soft'n'mellow pop prettiness with whispery male vocals over subdued jangly guitars, some cello and piano. The song "Sun Don't Shine" features '80s poptart Josie Cotton (!) singing backups. Have to say, this is sooo much better than the new album from the Folk Implosion on which these two fellows make up the new F.I. line-up (along with a gent known as Lou Barlow). Like early summer sun beams glinting through tree leaves, these songs glisten and lull you ever so warmly. Very very nice.
MPEG Stream: "S.S."
MPEG Stream: "Sun Don't Shine"

album cover ANDROSACE Demo (self-released) cd-r 4.98
A friend of aQ has been travelling / living in China, and recently sent us some records by bands he discovered and dug and thought we would dig too. Elsewhere on this list you'll find the noisepop shitrock duo Pairs, who we've sort of flipped for, and then there's this, a demo from a group called Androsace, who while based in China, actually boast an international membership, with their co-ed ranks made up of musicians from China, as well as Italy and France, and their sound, well, the band actually describe it as 'minority grunge' (not sure whether they're joking or not), but it's maybe not that far off the mark, the music sinewy and yeah a bit grungy, the band's most distinctive feature being the female lead vocals, a sultry, witchy croon, that slips into a fierce raspy and abrasive wail, the guitars usually following suit, getting downright metallic, and yeah, grungy, we're reminded of groups like Dickless, and L7, although the band definitely have some punk rock / garage rock going on. But the grunge thing is undeniable, especially when they whip out the wah wah, and it's like some lost Sub Pop single from the nineties, which as far as we're concerned is most definitely a good thing. We also saw a review online that described them as sounding like a female fronted Motorhead, and while that sounds pretty appealing, not sure it's totally accurate, but once in a while it does come close, it is heavy, and metallic in places, and for sure noisy, and when the band erupt into grinding distorted punk, kick out the metal jams, we can see why they're one of the more hyped underground bands in China...
Packaged in nice homemade screened, folded brown paper sleeves, with all the song titles and other info written on each and every one by hand.
MPEG Stream: "Warm Pee"
MPEG Stream: "Mr. Laughter"

album cover ANIMAL HOSPITAL Memory (Barge) cd 12.98

album cover ANIMAL HOSPITAL Memory (Barge) lp 21.00

album cover AOA Emotion Vacation (Psy-Harmonics) cd 16.98
AOA is a Boredoms related group featuring newest member E-da and bassist Hilah (formerly Hira). "Emotion Vacation", their second full length, was recorded in Melbourne, Australia by "deep house / industrial techno / trance" producer Ollie Olsen. Eye supposedly makes a guest appearance on one track -- playing gong -- nothing exceptional, though. Very drum heavy and trancey, but unfortunately doesn't quite live up to our high expectations or overall high quality of most Boredoms-related projects (Z-Rock Hawaii, anyone??). Certainly worth seeking out for hardcore fans, but if you're looking for more psychedelic drum circle trance-out, best to seek out Psycho-Baba first.

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