TAG: LOS ANGELES

This goes so goddamn hard.

Go get it.

When this album came out the band made an Instagram post the listed each song and the various mental health organizations you should could contact if you identified with the song a bit too much. Shit was heavy. I couldn’t really listen to it when it came out. Work was a real shit situation and listening to this album made me want to drive into Into on coming traffic.

Its a great album, and if they had been able to tour and really promote this album last year I think they would have really blown up.

Go get it.

The internet  (the band’s band camp page included) keep referring to this band/album as Black Metal.  If this really fits into that genre, I probably need to examine my “Back Metal is bullshit” theory.

My favorite track on the album is actually “Dried Blood and Old Earth, ” a 13+ minute ambient sludge track. But “Take This Pain Away” is a better representation of the album as a whole.

Open Mike Eagle records are all slow burns with me. I feel I never really get into an album until the next one is announced.

You already know Phoebe Bridgers is great.

If you some how don’t already have this fantastic album, go get it. 

Hard as hell. Full stop.ACAB. Full Stop.

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.

I wasn’t really into this album when it came out. Something about it just seemed off for me. But that something kept pulling me back to give it another try. It took some time but “Anime, Trauma and Divorce” grew on me, hard, until it became one of my favorite albums of 2020.

Go Get it.

What if Josie and the Pussy Cats were real and late 90s/early 00s pop-punk band?

Got get it.

PS, they just put out a cover of “3 Small Words” from the Josie and Pussy Cats movie.

The album is called “Schmaltz,” and dear lord is it, but I love it.

One of my favorite albums of 2018.

This song has been stuck in my head for the last 4 months.

This is the only Rilo Kiley song I’ve ever liked. No matter how many people in their heyday tried to convince me they were great, I wasn’t having any of it.

A couple months ago this song popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. It start playing and I was super into, then I checked to see what is was and I out loud said “God Damnit.”

Photo stolen from Rachel Brooke.