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Showing posts with label electronic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic. Show all posts
Thursday, 15 September 2022
XO Skeletons
Saturday, 21 March 2015
Foxes in Fiction
Foxes in Fiction is the solo effort of Warren Hildebrand, who began the project in 2010. Initially, it was rooted in Toronto, Ontario, but has since moved to Brooklyn, New York. Foxes In Fiction began in conjunction with Hildebrand's record label, Orchid Tapes, which puts out all of his own music, in addition to others (perhaps most notably for this blog, Elvis Depressedly and Alex G). The album that began it all was 2010's Swung From The Branches, the first album from both Foxes In Fiction and Orchid Tapes. They put out a second full-length, Ontario Gothic, in 2014, which is much more collaborative, and even features Owen Pallett on a few tracks.
Foxes In Fiction's sound is very ambient, and predominantly electronic-based. Hildebrand creates long, looming, quiet landscapes that can be just as dreamy as they can be catchy in some parts. They feature sparse vocals and percussion, but always manage to fill up space. The Atlas Sound influence is quite apparent, and even cited by Hildebrand himself. Foxes In Fiction can be described as ambient, dream pop, shoegaze, electronic, whatever you want to call them. Overall, they are just a really good band to relax to, and I would highly suggest checking it out and giving it your support. Enjoy.
1. Operating Room
2. Basement Window
3. Thank You, Sunday Morning
4. Sleeping Building Unsuspecting
5. Coffee Cups That Won't Break Down
6. Ninth Floor View
7. Cream Screen
8. 8 / 29 / 91
9. Mialectric
10. Bronte Balloons
11. New Panic Cure
12. Jimi Bleachball
13. Please Note
14. Snow Angels
15. 15 Ativan (Song for Erika)
16. To Go Home
17. Memory Pools
18. Insomnia Keys
19. Visiting Hours
1. Bathurst
2. School Night
3. Sadiya
4. Borders (Galleries & Foxes in Fiction)
5. Fifteen Ativan (Alternate Version)
6. To Josef, in Texas
7. OCAD Flu
1. Rain Falls
2. Along
3. Courtyard Summers
1. Hospital District
2. Static Cults
1. Foxes In Fiction + Benoît Pioulard - Ground Glass
2. Foxes In Fiction + Benoît Pioulard - Etalon
1. March 2011
2. Into The Fields
3. Glow (v079)
4. Shadow's Song
5. Ontario Gothic
6. Amanda
7. Altars
Monday, 8 December 2014
Full Of Hell
Full Of Hell are a four-piece hardcore/noise/experimental band from Maryland and Pennsylvania formed in 2009. They are known for their insane blend of punk, sludge, grindcore, powerviolence, noise, and electronic experimentation into their sound, which makes them stick out as one of the most blistering acts modern hardcore has to offer. They also put on a crazy live show, so be sure to take advantage of that if the opportunity is ever presented. Their sound is incredibly dark and dissonant, and can at times be droning, and others completely frenzied. So far, they've put out two crushing full-lengths, as well as numerous splits with other great bands. Most recently, they released a collaborative album with the legendary Merzbow, which has been getting a ton of attention, and for good reason. As the year ends, I'm sure it'll slide into a lot of best-of 2014 lists very soon. Enjoy.
1. Intro/Lead Tongue
2. Black Iron
3. Horus
4. The Inevitable Fear of Existence
1. there is a beginning...
2. a dream
3. walking dissonance
4. and an end...
1. Full Of Hell - Vessel Deserted
2. Full Of Hell - Kopf Meines Vaters
3. Full Of Hell - The Void Awaits
4. Full Of Hell - Rat King
5. Goldust - Entrails
6. Goldust - Ruine
1. Pile Of Dead Horses
2. Endless Drone
3. The Bed Is Burning
4. Rat King
5. The Mare
6. Dregs Of Pluto
7. Black Iron
8. Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home
9. Pisces Legs
10. The Oars Are Broken
11. Affirmation of Nothing
1. Deafening Echoes
2. ...Of A Vacant Dwelling
1. Full Of Hell - Fox Womb
2. Full Of Hell - Damp Reeds In A River, Dry
3. Code Orange Kids - IV (My Mind Is A Prison)
4. Code Orange Kids - V (My Body Is A Well)
1. Dead Mudlark In Thames
2. Output 1-2 6
3. Atmosphere
1. The Guilt Of - Election Of The Severed Hand
2. Full Of Hell - Attrition of The Elm Claw
1. Full Of Hell - Return To The Mines
2. Full Of Hell - Kopf
3. Full Of Hell - The Lonely Path Of The Cestoda
4. Full Of Hell - Molluck
5. Calm The Fire - Paralyzed
6. Calm The Fire - We'll Be Fine
2. Framecode (Orchid cover)
1. Passed Past
2. Airstrike #304 : Civilians Become Soot
3. Secular Form
4. Birth Of Trog
5. Paint Peels Listless From Every Wall
1. Dichtomoy
2. Vessel Deserted
3. Coven of The Larynx
4. Throbbing Lung Fiber
5. Indigence And Guilt
6. Embrace
7. The Lord is My Light
8. Bone Coral And Brine
9. Rudiments of Mutilation
10. In Contempt of Life
1. Dichotomoy / Vessel Deserted
2. Coven of The Larynx
3. Return To The Mines / Throbbing Lung Fiber
4. Fox Womb
1. Full Of Hell - Thee Unsurmountable Wall
2. Psywarfare - The Exotic Sounds Of...
1. Burst Synapse
2. Gordian Knot
3. Humming Miter
4. Blue Litmus
5. Raise Thee, Great Wall, Bloody And Terrible
6. Thrum in The Deep
7. Shattered Knife
8. Mute
9. High Fells
10. Ljudet Av Gud
11. Fawn Heads And Unjoy
Sister Fawn
1. Ergot
2. Merzdrone
3. Aphid
4. Crumbling One
5. Litany Of Desire
1. Halogen Bulb
2. Amber Mote
3. Barb And Sap
4. Oven (The Melvins cover)
1. One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
2. Fleshworks
3. The Butcher (Leonard Cohen cover)
4. Gehorwilt
5. World Of Hope And No Pain
6. Himmel und Hölle
7. Bottled Urn
8. The Little Death
9. Cain
10. Abel
Note: Collaborative album between The Body & Full Of Hell
1. Halogen Bulb
2. Pile Of Dead Horses
3. Vessel Deserted
4. Burst Synapse
5. Humming Miter
6. Amber Mote In The Black Vault
7. Thrum In The Deep
8. Shattered Knife
9. Mute
10. The Lonely Path (of the Cestoda)
11. Barb And Sap
1. Nails - No Longer Under Your Control
2. Full of Hell - Thy Radiant Garrote Exposed
3. Full of Hell - Bez Bólu
1. Deluminate
2. Branches of Yew
3. Bound Sphinx
4. The Cosmic Vein
5. Digital Prison
6. Crawling Back To God
7. Fractured Quartz
8. Gnawed Flesh
9. Ashen Mesh
10. Trumpeting Ecstasy
11. At The Cauldron's Bottom
1. The Body & Full of Hell - Light Penetrates
2. The Body & Full of Hell - Earth is a Cage
3. The Body & Full of Hell - The King Laid Bare
4. The Body & Full of Hell - Didn't The Night End
5. The Body & Full of Hell - Our Love Conducted With Shields Aloft
6. The Body & Full of Hell - Master's Story
7. The Body & Full of Hell - Farewell, Man
8. The Body & Full of Hell - I Did Not Want To Love You So
1. Full of Hell - Loom Of Jewels
2. Full of Hell - Collateral Damage
3. Full of Hell - Latched And Snared
4. Intensive Care - Diprivan
5. Intensive Care - Cancer Causes Rats
1. Burning Myrrh
2. Haunted Arches
3. Thundering Hammers
4. Rainbow Coil
5. Aria of Jeweled Tears
6. Downward
7. Armory of Obsidian Glass
8. Silmaril
9. Angels Gather Here
10. Ygramul The Many
11. Cellar Of Doors
1. Guided Blight
2. Asphyxiant Blessing
3. Murmuring Foul Spring
4. Derelict Satellite
5. Burning Apparition
6. Eroding Shell
7. All Bells Ringing
8. Urchin Thrones
9. Industrial Messiah Complex
10. Reeking Tunnels
11. Non-Atomism
12. Celestial Hierarch
1. Aurora Leaking
2. Swarming Hornets
3. Blinding Erasure
1. Full Of Hell & Primitive Man - Trepanation For Future Joys
2. Full Of Hell & Primitive Man - Rubble Home
3. Full Of Hell & Primitive Man - Bludgeon
4. Full Of Hell & Primitive Man - Dwindling Will
5. Full Of Hell & Primitive Man - Tunnels To God
1. Full Of Hell - A Ladder Made Of Warped Light
2. Full Of Hell - All Knew None
3. Gasp - Impact Miracles
4. Gasp - Byflower Babel
1. Full Of Hell & Nothing - Rose Tinted World
2. Full Of Hell & Nothing - Like Stars In The Firmament
3. Full Of Hell & Nothing - Forever Well
4. Full Of Hell & Nothing - Wild Blue
5. Full Of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
6. Full Of Hell & Nothing - Spend The Grace
1. Half Life Of Changelings
2. Doors To Mental Agony
3. Transmuting Chemical Burns
4. Fractured Bonds To Mecca
5. Coagulated Bliss
6. Bleeding Horizon
7. Vomiting Glass
8. Schizoid Rupture
9. Vacuous Dose
10. Gasping Dust
11. Gelding Of Men
12. Malformed Ligature
Friday, 25 July 2014
Jon Kohen
This is the solo project of Jon Kohen, a member of Kismet. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, his debut album came out this year titled The Heart Of The Machine. The acoustic/folk aspect of Kismet is present, but with a much darker tone, and a lot of atmospheric electronics to fill in the space behind Jon's delicately haunting vocals. As far as comparisons can go, the Elliott Smith influence is evident, the daint melancholy and acoustic meandering resembles Carissa's Wierd, and the electronica hints could be attributed to Radiohead circa Kid A or In Rainbows (but more as a background atmosphere). Overall, Jon Kohen has crafted four beautiful songs here that envelops the listener in a gentle despair. I highly recommend giving this a try, there is some true talent here. This is an album that grabs your attention and takes you to another place to wallow in the music, both by sympathizing with Jon's loss as well as relating your own. Be sure to give it a listen and support what you can.
1. Melatonin
2. Your New Name (Phoenix)
3. Dusk
4. A Light
1. Searchlight
2. With Monsters at My Heels
3. Day by Day
4. Conversation With A Friend
5. Dead Reckoning
6. Home II
7. God Bless You,
8. These Are All Lies
9. Wonderful Ghost
10. Keep Moving Forward
1. A Light
2. Between The Bars
3. Dusk
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Foxing
Foxing are a five-piece band that formed in 2011 from Saint Louis, Missouri. What's their genre? It's somewhere between a blend of emo/indie/post-rock/math rock/electronic music, as if that narrows anything down. Alright, think of a band influenced by the likes of Explosions In The Sky, This Town Needs Guns, Listener, The Antlers, Tera Melos, Maps & Atlases, Death Cab For Cutie, Brand New, and A Silver Mt. Zion (and their 1000 names). Now imagine that said band came from the same music scene that spawned The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Crash of Rhinos, and Prawn. And what do you have? Foxing.
This band utilizes a range of instruments in addition to the basic guitar, bass, drums setup. A trumpet is prominently used, as well as various string arrangements, and electronic tinkering, among others. Their guitars are very clean, often laden with delay and reverb. The drums focus more on forming rhythms than keeping basic beats. The vocals are varied, often ranging from spoken word parts to cracking shouts and sputters of intense emotion ("Why don't you love me back?"). The lyrical relatability and poeticism is painstaking, to say the least. The band crafts songs featuring endless crescendos, cathartic climaxes, and eventual breaking points, the formula of post-rock, but structure their songs to remain unpredictable and adventurous, which sets them apart from the predictably that plagues the genre. The Albatross in particular is an amazing piece of work that I highly, highly recommend everybody check out in its entirety. It has got to be one of the most solid albums put out in this realm of music in years, in my opinion.
Foxing released their debut full-length on Count Your Lucky Stars, and were quite quickly signed to Triple Crown Records, for good reason. Below is the aforementioned full-length and their earlier material. Be sure to support the band, and they are a must-see live band if you have the chance. Enjoy.
1. Friendly Homes
2. Sunspotting
3. Gold Cobra
1. Foxing - Ocelot
2. Send Away Stranger - Still Figures
3. Send Away Stranger - You Look Like a Basketball Pro
1. Japanese Breakfast - The Woman That Loves You
2. Foxing - Tom Bley
1. Bloodhound
2. Inuit
3. The Medic
4. Pent up in a Blind
5. Rory
6. Bit By a Dead Bee pt. I
7. Bit By a Dead Bee pt. II
8. Den Mother
9. Calm Before
10. Quietus
1. Weave
2. The Magdalene
3. Night Channels
4. Laundered
5. Indica
6. Winding Cloth
7. Redwoods
8. Glass Coughs
9. Eiffel
10. Coda
11. Three On A Match
1. Indica Two
2. Redwoods Two
1. Grand Paradise
2. Slapstick
3. Lich Prince
4. Gameshark
5. Nearer My God
6. Five Cups
7. Heartbeats
8. Trapped In Dillard's
9. Bastardizer
10. Crown Candy
11. Won't Drown
12. Lambert
1. 737
2. Go Down Together
3. Beacons
4. Draw Down The Moon
5. Where The Lightning Strikes Twice
6. Bialystok
7. At Least We Found The Floor
8. Cold Blooded
9. If I Believed In Love
10. Speak With The Dead (feat. Why?)
1. Carly Cosgrove - Bloodhound
2. Insignificant Other - Inuit
3. Sweet Pill - The Medic
4. Prince Daddy & The Hyena - Rory
5. Home Is Where - Bit By A Dead Bee, Pt. I
6. Hey, ILY! - Bit By A Dead Bee, Pt. II
7. For Your Health - Den Mother
8. Colleen Dow - Quietus
9. The Medic (2023)
10. Rory (2023)
1. Secret History
2. Hell 99
3. Spit
4. Greyhound
5. Cleaning
6. Barking
7. Kentucky McDonald's
8. Looks Like Nothing
9. Gratitutde
10. Dead Cat
11. Dead Internet
12. Hall Of Frozen Heads
13. Cry Baby
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