Sleeping Village – Page 11 – A website for music you probably hate and pictures of the sweaty people who make the music you probably hate.

I’LL TAKE THE CRAB JUICE BY DEFORESTERS

Deforesters aren’t the most original band in the world, but they are good at what they do, taking org-core/ no idea punk and adding some pop-punk on top.

Its catchy as hell.

TO SHREDS, YOU SAY? BY IRON CHIC

Scream along if you know the words:

“I was playing with matchesNow I sift through the ashesIt’s cold nowThe fire’s outI might never be warm againAnd the rain comes to wash it downWorse to burn than it is to drownLet the cool waterFill my lungsAnd I won’t have to breathe again“

Like I said with the last Iron Chic post, Sad songs about being a fuck-up, feeling like you’re wasting your life, missing people (this album is pretty heavy on missing people) and not giving up, sung like this is the last chance you’ll ever get.

Iron Chic is hands down my favorite band. I can’t say enough good things about them.

THE BUTCHER BY THE BODY

I’ve never liked Full of Hell. I think its the vocals. Its either too Cookie Monster or too high pitched scream.

The Body, I just kind of overlooked. I checked out “No One Deserves Happiness,” I remember some hype and something about Beyonce, but it didn’t do anything for me. But after listening to “One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache,” the collaborative album this track is from, I will be revisiting it.

The doomy sludge of this track is fantastic.

THE HAUNTING PRESENCE BY GILES COREY

Jesus this is dark.

”Sometime in the Spring of 2009 I tried to kill myself. Six months before that, I used a Voor’s Head Device for the first time.“ This line opens the 150-page book that accompanies Giles Corey, an intensely personal, intimate portrait of depression that took me almost 4 years to make.” - Dan Barrett (Giles Corey)

Here is more about the album, and what a “Voor’s Head Device” is.

RUNNING BY BULLY

This isn’t normally my type of thing. I’m not big on 90s throwback stuff. But there is something about this album that rises above 90s grunge worship. It’s a little rougher, some songs even have a touch of noise rock, and her voice is great.

ITS YOUR RIGHT BY THE ERADICATOR

Everything about this is perfect and ridiculous.

The music style, the silly lyrics/theme the fact that it’s an entire band based on a single Kids In The Hall sketch.

I bet Eradicator shows are fun as hell.

WOMB BY MUSCLE AND MARROW

“Of all the types of music you listen to, I hate this kind the most.”– My wife.

Slow and moody and maybe a little sexy?

I really like the first track from the almum, “My Fear” a lot. Its like the rest of the album, but with John Carpenter synths on top of it. Its really good, but not a great resprentation of the album as whole, “Womb” is beter at that.

UMBRAL VALE BY BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH

A friend made a Facebook post about a doom band name generator. I gave it a try and I got “Void Architects,” which pretty good, but I thought “Architects of the Void” sounded better. So good that there is no way that a band isn’t called that. So I did search on Bandcamp, and I ended up on Behold! The Monolith’s page. Their latest album being called “Architects of the Void.”

I don’t dally go for the super growly vocals, but they work on this track. They are more or less texture, another level of sound. Other tracks from the album don’t fair as well (more me) with the vocals basically becoming exactly what I don’t like about growling.

Umbral Vale probably isn’t the best representation of the album as a whole. Its shorter and sludgier than most of the album and lacks real vocals, which is probably why its my stand out track.