New Music Update January 28th 2006

[diablojesus]

I moved last week, so nothing got added.
These things are new this week...

Heavy Rotation

The Fully Down -- Don't Get Lost in a Movement
If there were not already a million bands in the scene that sound just like this, it would seem fresh and unique. Melodic emo punk that is actually pretty good musically. If you like Punchline, Aiden or Somerset then play 2, 3, 9 or 6.

Somerset -- Pandora
Melodic emo-punk for fans of Brand New, Alkaline Trio, Armor for Sleep and Moneen. Interesting instrumentation and some odd timing outside the standard 4/4 punk stuff. Play 4, 6, 10 or 1.

Excepter -- Sunbomber
Strange industrian sounding art-noise with casios, samplers and percussion. Fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes or the end of the world may want to check out 1, 3, or 4.

ft (the shadow government) -- Guns of August
Noisy and Post-Rockish band from Iowa City includes former members of Ten Grandand Forstella Ford. Utilizing lots of samples and spoken word tracks, fans of The Books or Ministry should give this a try. Start with 2, 5, 9, 3, 7 or 12.

Aids Wolf -- The Lovvers LP
Noisy and spazzy rock like Arab on Radar without the dance beats. Fans of Erase Eratta, Arab on Radar or nudity in liner notes should give 2, 5, or 6 a listen.

Test Icicles -- For Screening Purposes Only
I'm a dance album pretending not to be a dance album. Maybe I'm a little edgier than Bloc Party but I'm in the same catagory. UK dancehiphophardcorenewwaveoldwavemicrowave trio. If you dig Blood Brothers, Bloc Party or Death From Above 1979 should go with 2, 5, 13, 6, 10 or 12.

Ian Love -- Ian Love
Former Rival Schools and Cardia member goes the stripped down singer/songwriter route. This is a really pleasant record along the lines of Jeff Bukley, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Adem or onelinedrawing. Play 1, 4, 8, 2 or 6.

Compass -- Munchy the Bear
Stradling Bedroom Pop, Collaborative Folk-Pop and Avante Garde. This Album turns out some catchy and up-beat pop jams. Like Magnetic Fields meet Akron/Family. Try 1, 4, 14, 6 or 2.

Heros Severum -- Plague Dogs
Athens, Georgia melodic indie pop/rock with dueling male/female vocals and a heavy J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines) influence throughout. Play 5, 8, 2, or 1 if you like Channels, Poster Children, Pixies, Sleater Kinney, Shellac or Ted Leo.

The Society of Rockets -- Where the Grass Grows Black
Rocks drawing from 60's Garage Fuzz and 90's indie pop. Like Beulah meets the Rolling Stones. Try 1, 6, 8, 2 or 5.

The Strokes -- First Impressions of Earth
An interesting departure from the previous two releases. However Casablancas sounds like Lou Reed + Mason Jennings now. Weird... Play 5, 1, 12, 13, 2 if you like Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground, a slew of other bands from NYC.

Arctic Monkeys -- When the Sun Goes Down
Current NME darlings. Smarmy British garage Rock and F'ing Roll. Former KURE DJ (and native Brit) Paddy Smith says "Quite good in a libertines kinda manna probably better number of good songs on than the libertines." This EP is a sample of the forthcoming full length on Domino. Try 1, 4 or 3 if you like Beutiful New Born Children, The Jam, Kaiser Chiefs, or Louis XIV.

The Ladies -- They mean Us.
Rob Crow of Pinback and Zach Hill of Hella collaboration. This delivers exactly what you should expect from both of these guys, in quality and content. Start with 1, 4, 6, 11, 9 or 12 and go from there. RIYL: Sweep the Leg Johnny, Hella, Pinback....

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice -- The Flood
Yet another release from the prolific Psych-Folk act. This sounds like it could have been a K Records release. If you like Animal Collective, or Little Wings then give 1, 4, 5, 2 or 6 a listen.

Loud Rock

Nevermore -- This Godless Endeavour
A Combo of Thrash and Power Metal with well written songs and kick ass solos. Fans of Megadeath to Blind Guardian should try 9, 11, 1, 3 or 4.

Chimaira -- Chimaira (reissue with bonus disc)
Roadrunner milks their fanbase with the standard reissue with bonus material about 6 months after the album comes out. 90s American Metal for fans of Machinehead or Pantera. The Bonus disc includes live material and a few b-sides. Play 1, 10, 2, 4 or 3 or any of the 3 clean tracks off the bonus disc.

Himsa -- Hail Horror
Seattle exports Swedish Metal now instead of Grunge. Play 2, 4, 5 or 6 if you enjoy The Haunted or At the Gates.

Bullet For My Valentine -- The Poison
Melodic Hardcore out to capture the hearts of 16 year olds everywhere. Atreyu and Funeral for a Friend fans will like 3, 5 or 6.

RPM

Jordan Fields -- presents 2084
Chicago house and downtempo. Sometimes funky, sometimes jazzy, sometimes boring. If you dig Ian Pooley, C. Craig, DJ Logic or The Propellorheads then try 1, 8 or 3.

grey area -- and then the clouds
Ambient dubby electronica that sounds like Orb, Thievery Corp. or Plastikman. Play 6, 1, 4, 5, or 8.

Ian Allen -- Nova's Lounge
Jazzy, dancey downtempo try 4, 7, or 10

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -- Gay, Black and Married
How this band keeps putting out the same record over and over again is beyond me. Funky Disco Jams with lots of Vocoder and sexual innuendo. For fans of DaftPunk, Happy Mondays or any other Thrill Kill Kult record ever made. Play 1, 4, 11, or 6.

[lovefan]

this is way more than just a "pleasant"cd -it is not only simply beautiful and sincere, but brilliant, musically and vocally!!!!!!

[Cousin Carl]

this is way more than just a "pleasant"cd -it is not only simply beautiful and sincere, but brilliant, musically and vocally!!!!!!

What are you, like a fan or something?

[Guest]

I moved last week, so nothing got added.
These things are new this week...

Heavy Rotation

The Fully Down -- Don't Get Lost in a Movement
If there were not already a million bands in the scene that sound just like this, it would seem fresh and unique. Melodic emo punk that is actually pretty good musically. If you like Punchline, Aiden or Somerset then play 2, 3, 9 or 6.

Somerset -- Pandora
Melodic emo-punk for fans of Brand New, Alkaline Trio, Armor for Sleep and Moneen. Interesting instrumentation and some odd timing outside the standard 4/4 punk stuff. Play 4, 6, 10 or 1.

Excepter -- Sunbomber
Strange industrian sounding art-noise with casios, samplers and percussion. Fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes or the end of the world may want to check out 1, 3, or 4.

ft (the shadow government) -- Guns of August
Noisy and Post-Rockish band from Iowa City includes <b style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">former</b> members of Ten Grandand Forstella Ford. Utilizing lots of samples and spoken word tracks, fans of The Books or Ministry should give this a try. Start with 2, 5, 9, 3, 7 or 12.

Aids Wolf -- The Lovvers LP
Noisy and spazzy rock like Arab on Radar without the dance beats. Fans of Erase Eratta, Arab on Radar or nudity in liner notes should give 2, 5, or 6 a listen.

Test Icicles -- For Screening Purposes Only
I'm a dance album pretending not to be a dance album. Maybe I'm a little edgier than Bloc Party but I'm in the same catagory. UK dancehiphophardcorenewwaveoldwavemicrowave trio. If you dig Blood Brothers, Bloc Party or Death From Above 1979 should go with 2, 5, 13, 6, 10 or 12.

Ian Love -- Ian Love
<b style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">Former</b> Rival Schools and Cardia member goes the stripped down singer/songwriter route. This is a really pleasant record along the lines of Jeff Bukley, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Adem or onelinedrawing. Play 1, 4, 8, 2 or 6.

Compass -- Munchy the Bear
Stradling Bedroom Pop, Collaborative Folk-Pop and Avante Garde. This Album turns out some catchy and up-beat pop jams. Like Magnetic Fields meet Akron/Family. Try 1, 4, 14, 6 or 2.

Heros Severum -- Plague Dogs
Athens, Georgia melodic indie pop/rock with dueling male/female vocals and a heavy J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines) influence throughout. Play 5, 8, 2, or 1 if you like Channels, Poster Children, Pixies, Sleater Kinney, Shellac or Ted Leo.

The Society of Rockets -- Where the Grass Grows Black
Rocks drawing from 60's Garage Fuzz and 90's indie pop. Like Beulah meets the Rolling Stones. Try 1, 6, 8, 2 or 5.

The Strokes -- First Impressions of Earth
An interesting departure from the previous two releases. However Casablancas sounds like Lou Reed + Mason Jennings now. Weird... Play 5, 1, 12, 13, 2 if you like Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground, a slew of other bands from NYC.

Arctic Monkeys -- When the Sun Goes Down
Current NME darlings. Smarmy British garage Rock and F'ing Roll. <b style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">Former</b> <b style="color:black;background-color:#a0ffff">KURE</b> DJ (and native Brit) Paddy Smith says "Quite good in a libertines kinda manna probably better number of good songs on than the libertines." This EP is a sample of the forthcoming full length on Domino. Try 1, 4 or 3 if you like Beutiful New Born Children, The Jam, Kaiser Chiefs, or Louis XIV.

The Ladies -- They mean Us.
Rob Crow of Pinback and Zach Hill of Hella collaboration. This delivers exactly what you should expect from both of these guys, in quality and content. Start with 1, 4, 6, 11, 9 or 12 and go from there. RIYL: Sweep the Leg Johnny, Hella, Pinback....

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice -- The Flood
Yet another release from the prolific Psych-Folk act. This sounds like it could have been a K Records release. If you like Animal Collective, or Little Wings then give 1, 4, 5, 2 or 6 a listen.

Loud Rock

Nevermore -- This Godless Endeavour
A Combo of Thrash and Power Metal with well written songs and kick ass solos. Fans of Megadeath to Blind Guardian should try 9, 11, 1, 3 or 4.

Chimaira -- Chimaira (reissue with bonus disc)
Roadrunner milks their fanbase with the standard reissue with bonus material about 6 months after the album comes out. 90s American Metal for fans of Machinehead or Pantera. The Bonus disc includes live material and a few b-sides. Play 1, 10, 2, 4 or 3 or any of the 3 clean tracks off the bonus disc.

Himsa -- Hail Horror
Seattle exports Swedish Metal now instead of Grunge. Play 2, 4, 5 or 6 if you enjoy The Haunted or At the Gates.

Bullet For My Valentine -- The Poison
Melodic Hardcore out to capture the hearts of 16 year olds everywhere. Atreyu and Funeral for a Friend fans will like 3, 5 or 6.

RPM

Jordan Fields -- presents 2084
Chicago house and downtempo. Sometimes funky, sometimes jazzy, sometimes boring. If you dig Ian Pooley, C. Craig, DJ Logic or The Propellorheads then try 1, 8 or 3.

grey area -- and then the clouds
Ambient dubby electronica that sounds like Orb, Thievery Corp. or Plastikman. Play 6, 1, 4, 5, or 8.

Ian Allen -- Nova's Lounge
Jazzy, dancey downtempo try 4, 7, or 10

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -- Gay, Black and Married
How this band keeps putting out the same record over and over again is beyond me. Funky Disco Jams with lots of Vocoder and sexual innuendo. For fans of DaftPunk, Happy Mondays or any other Thrill Kill Kult record ever made. Play 1, 4, 11, or 6.