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The hardcore group's self-titled demo is available through Filler Distro. ...BY THE DEED makes angry, anarchic music that regards the existing structure of the world with a spiteful eye. "TO THEIR GALLOWS AT A QUICKER SPEED" whips up a froth of angular guitars, powder-keg drums, and bellicose shouts, and sends it crashing toward the forces … Continue reading Daily Yinz – …BY THE DEED – TO THEIR GALLOWS AT A QUICKER SPEED
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### lucite spine - rabbit ear chamber Snow-static melodic drones fashioned from cassette tapes, cymbal vibrations, and sea shell resonances. More from lucite spine ### Mimichree - Lemonbalm Chemical-warped vocals flit over subdued synths, strafed by blips that sound like … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 09.27.24
As Good as a Kiss is the black metal maverick's second release of the year. The three-track EP spans everything from menacing stomp to whispery ambient thrum. A bird introduces Part One of the title track, chittering away for a few seconds before its call is subsumed by sonorous guitar notes that resemble the sequenced … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Genital Shame – As Good as a Kiss, Pt. 1
The country duo recently released the first chapter of their ninth album, End of the Drive. I just got back from a vacation in Maine. Every year I go up there, it gets harder to leave. It's silent on the far-flung dirt roads and the air smells fresh blowing off the Mount Desert Narrows. Acadia … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Mixus Brothers – I’m Gone
A psychedelic new release from the always-fascinating Astral Research collection. Astral Research releases often feel fossilized, like they were unearthed, weathered but fully intact, from an archeological dig site. FADE TO PHARAOH and LONGRANGER's self-titled joint venture contains four pieces that play out like traces of songs, engravings etched into moisture-rusted metal plates. Closing track … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FADE TO PHARAOH & LONGRANGER – Shell
The two musicians collaborated on a series of bass-and-sax improvisations. Saxophonist Derek Bendel and double bassist Dylan Zeh found themselves so inspired by their chemistry on a Sam Rivers tribute album (the jazz musician, not the Limp Bizkit bassist) that they recorded this self-titled collection directly afterward, sans discussion or direction. The result is a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Derek Bendel / Dylan Zeh – Turbine
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### The Faintest Glow - Tiny Heart A wry serenade, complete with buzzing acoustic guitar plucks and crooked harmonies, that looks mortality in the face and says, "Eh." More from The Faintest Glow Follow on Instagram and Facebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR09fw8JhAs&list=OLAK5uy_lAMTOwe85-LnbxBCWNikDcwX3Tk07iiSk ### … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 09.13.24
The thrashy punk trio recently released a split with Indiana's Thlurm. "HELLRAZOR" shares certain aspects with the similarly-titled film, a gore-fest full of chains, knives, and strange metal contraptions. Both deploy grimy atmospheres and pained shouts, and the song's guitar solo is gnarly enough that you could picture it being played by a Cenobite with … Continue reading Daily Yinz – RAZORBLADE – HELLRAZOR
The electronic artist's new album is Spectrum of Perception, Vol. 1. You might expect a track called "pink pushpop" to be full of summery synth pads and sugar-spun melodies, but that's not the case here. A percussive heartbeat skips along like it's powering a body in flight from some shadowy pursuer. Grating horn blasts and … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Oscar Celedon – pink pushpop
For You is another collection of scruffy goodness. It's hard to write a song, especially a good song, one that feels natural, one that sticks in the head and comes out hours later as an absentminded hum. But the guys in Fisherman's Paradise make it sound easy. For You, the trio's fourth release in two … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Fisherman’s Paradise – Coming up
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