Ted Brown - An Unwide Road review

Year : 2013
Genre : Massively Acoustic Folk/Soft Rock
Official site : > - here - <
Origin : United States

Playfully morose and relentlessly self-reflective, LA based Ted Brown brings you the music that casts orthodoxly behaved-, yet inventively spirited lights on sonic domains showing equal amount of polite compatibility with traveling sessions, stove-based private socialization and public bonfire events. What's not to like out of the three? At surface level inspection, the disc dares to summon and present extremely wide volumetrics in its generic behavior, mapping out all key segments of intensity of the timeless acoustic guitar charms - although, as you will see and hear, decisive favor is observable in the context of ultra-mellow "me and my guitar will make you FEEL!"-statements, the bulk of things to come on this tastefully paced and soberly presented full length.

Brown, luckily enough, does not satisfy easily via simply throwing guitar lesson 101 chords around, and, oftentimes manages to surprise/entertain the ears with thoughtful and muscular harmonic structures that invite all the superb anatomies known to women and men to revisit their inner images of what is possible with the utilization of "mere" moods. These moments truly are magical, and are showcased primarily in the pre-climax segments of track number 4, "Blue and Grey" : a perfect example of Brown's adept inner image of chords and how to throw those around like they mean a thing OR two. Because they do, you know. Listen to this song from 1:15: it is like a badass Nirvana song, now arranged to an odd retirement home intensity, for which it submits for entertainment. Read on to know more about the disc.

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The Legend of Xero - Ascension extended preview

Year : coming in 2014
Genre : Dark Pop
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

On the Official site linked above and here, you could find all the relevant historic/narrative information you'll need to decipher the autonomous agenda-character of this rebellious commodity. The central figure of the flow demands a separate and uncompromisingly (self)honest methodology to approximate the most significant truths of consensual reality, and the music, not surprisingly, is willingly imbues itself with a contemplative and relatively restrained artistic disposition. So far so good, since, if you are angry while searching for a truth, you are quite suspicious.

A reliance on archaic elements - male chorus and other exotics, well made enigmatic ingredients - is observable, offered on ultra-orthodox, albeit timelessly efficient mid-tempo 4/4 pulsations. It remains to be seen whether the full face value spin will contain the Billy Idol-esque High Octane Heft Power Feral Animal, and me mentioning Billy is of no coincidence, as I'm picking up on intriguing/authentic mood similarities between the direction represented by this effort, and, between Billy's timelessly relevant 1993 outing, "Cyberpunk". The song "Heroin", from the Cyberpunk album, - as a more intense one - and "Adam in Chains" - as the mellow extreme - reveal(s) quite similar spiritual flavors to the obligatory ethos of being rebellious while you are young. If you are not young, you suck, anyway. But you only have 20 years to be a proper punk. Be a punk while you are 30, and I find you in the need of a wake up call. Be a punk while you are in your 40s, and I despise you wholeheartedly. Be a punk while in your 50s, and you are probably dead, OR better off. Read on to know more about this disc, which dares to be punk without claiming the right to cause harm in anything, let alone in anyone.

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Chopin Cthulhu - a Fantasie Impromptu Extravaganza!

GyZ covers : the first two movements of Frederic Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu - Cthulhu style.

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The Yellow Dress - Faint Music Ordinary Light review

Year : 2013
Genre : Soft Rock with a Psychedelic tint
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

This review starts out with a snippet section quoted from the original press release, revealed in Italic.

San Francisco's The Yellow Dress will release their third and heavily-anticipated album, "Faint Music // Ordinary Light," in less than a month. Recorded and mixed, entirely analog, at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone Studios, produced by Ian Pellicci (Deerhoof, The Dodos) and mastered by Paul Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Sonny and the Sunsets), the album features an 8-person line-up of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, plus guest vocals from several more, mostly from the underground DIY scene in San Francisco and Oakland. The Yellow Dress has been called a "supergroup" several times throughout its 6+ year lifespan, which is appropriate since every member has at least one other local project in which they perform. The band draws much inspiration from the local literary community and often finds themselves performing at events for folks such as McSweeney's and The Rumpus; the name of the album comes from the Robert Hass poem "Faint Music." Preorder digital and vinyl editions of the album from Bandcamp before the official release on January 4, 2014.

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Vonairs - Fucamo single review

Year : 2013
Genre : House with a Hardstyle taste
Origin : Sweden
Official site : > - here - <

Stockholm's Vonairs is imminent to release a full scale sonic declaration of subwooffer-doom through an illegal space-time rift opening near you on the probable reality surface, and the ensemble is about to stimulate interest in the upcoming attraction via releasing a single from the impending full length. Read on to know more about this track, or, even better, listen to it yourself while observing some related worded thoughts about it, right after the experience is freshly soaked in.

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KAVA - Shikaakwa review

Year : 2013
Genre : Doom Metal, Psychedelic Rock
Origin : United States
Official site : > - here - <

KAVA brings you the music that fills responsible dads with the relentless urge to hide their daughters in the closet with earplugs attached to their appropriate orifices. This is a take on doom metal that definitely comes from the blackened heart, with an uncompromising determination to offer only such elements of doom eloquence that assume you to be a competent and exigent partner in the music deciphering process. The complexity and compositional/structural base is delightful per installments throughout, while the most prominent directive of what makes doom truly harvest your dopamine levels, is communicated with a pretty much masterful understanding of the involved productional rhetorics. The album is not particularly heavy sounding, - and thank God & Satan for that! - and this, in fact, is the reason why Black Sabbath is so timeless, too. It is not the sound that needs to be heavy, but the "mere" meaning of the sound. You can't substitute the meaning with weight, and, once your meaning is there, everyone will relate to it, you don't need to over-emphasize. OR not always. KAVA understands this connotation, and exhibits its craft accordingly. The music either dooms about with majestic promise of the imminent soulcrush, or, it gets deceitfully spaced out in an almost transcendental fashion, giving you apt opportunity to reflect on the sight the tinkering of decay so willingly offers. "So ecstatically pleasing decay", the Meshuggahs would say. Read on to know more about this spin.

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SleepingBabys - Idolize EP review

Year : 2013
Genre : Tarantino Surf Rock, Spaghetti Rock
Label : Independent
Origin : Australia
Official site : > - here - <

Armed with the seemingly perfect excuse to do so, today I was anti-inventive enough to deem a certain sub-set of '70s surf rock to be regarded as Tarantino Rock, or spaghetti rock, as renowned blood poet and rampant/evident foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino doubtless made an eloquent job letting you know the types of auditory stimuli he most enjoys sucking female toes on to. And what's not to like in the equation, correct? (Expect that it is not you doing the sucking, maybe? Corruption = something you left out of.)

SleepingBabys claim they have no idea what they sound like - no artist ever did, because every artist covertly hopes of being über-original - and it is my delightful obligation to inform relative consensus that they deliver the music the aforementioned film director would kill masses for, any minute of the day. This EP reflects solid command and ripe understanding of the pretty much timeless chemistry which necessarily and insatiably reveals itself once surf rock fascinations meet head on with spaghetti western sentiments, and, the lead singer lady of the duo really is doing a natural - which always is the hardest - job conveying the violent-love found in Tarantino's inner and outer vision. Rabid gunfire violence and black stockings are pairing up in the so smartly/timelessly noirish and comically sexist moments of the Pulp Fiction movie - and this set of emotional mood, as so willingly and unashamedly exhibited by this duo, continues to affect human psyches on the planet surface. Read on to know more about the "Quention Tarantion"!

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