Monday, March 3, 2008

MyCrack attack:

I've been adding a bunch of bands on mycrack today because I'm A) not interested in listening to anything I have on hand, and B) am horribly out of touch.

I just now got around to listening to Red Sparowes, a band that Wardell recommended to me forever ago. It's like the music of Explosions In The Sky as played by the Cure, with little bits of GYBE! thrown in just for kicks. (I just noticed a little guitar part toward the end of the song "A Message of Avarice Rained" that sounds a bit like the outro to a Quicksand song...)

Also, Sparowes tourmates Russian Circles sound pretty killer. I'm sure they're sick of being called math rock, but if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and is a two-piece instrumental band that plays in odd meter like a duck, then...well, you know.

Another band who's name I've heard but ignored is Tilly and the Wall. I want to hate this band. I think I might hate this band. But I have a feeling that it's going to turn out like El Perro Del Mar turned out - it'll be too cute for me to stand, and make me angry and all Hulksmashy (because that's what twee does to me), but then I'll listen to it more and think it's the greatest thing since Tiny Tim.

Murder By Death: Nick by Cave. Bet they're sick of that too. In any case, it's pretty rockin' country Gothic (no, not like Fields of the Nephilim).

One last one: General Surgery. It's death metal. Or goregrind. All these fucking subgenres of metal confuse the shit out of me. And if you get any of these bands confused and put them in the wrong subgenre, they're liable to sacrifice you to Odin and then eat your liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti. Anyway - General Surgery plays what I think is death metal, with the vocals pitched down an octave so it sounds like the sound your guts make after eating at Taco Bell. It's pretty sweet.