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FTR Drama returns with the ominous "Rainfall." The Devin Miles-produced instrumental on "Rainfall" sounds like the walkout music for a thirty-foot-tall boxer. Melodic tones swirl with the menace of thunderheads before a storm, and the bass thumps like footfalls hitting the ground with metric tons of weight behind them. FTR Drama takes full advantage of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FTR Drama – Rainfall
go home//worms is a two-sided single released in advance of the album i eat truth. An image that stood out to me when I first heard "fall out//call out," the spooky opener from 1000z of Beez's 2019 album wands served, was that of Trash Isle, a place mentioned in the song that brought to mind … Continue reading Daily Yinz – 1000z of Beez – whale fall #4 (go home)
Tough Cuffs' latest EP is the searing All Dogs Go To Heaven. "One Track Mind" opens with two wordless barks and a riff that features about as many banshee-like feedback screeches as it does sledgehammer power chords. It's the same energy that an attack dog exudes as it snaps at the end of its rusting … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Tough Cuffs – One Track Mind
The latest single from a band whose music is both dreamy and crushing. Eyewash's 2023 debut EP featured gauzy swirls and metallic chugs alike, and "Bound" finds the quintet pushing its sound even further in both directions. The track's heavy parts hit like battering rams, as the guitars sink down into churning sludge and the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – eyewash – Bound
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Luwidakid - Too Playa Luwi and guest Freddo Filial daydream over a Julio-produced instrumental that sounds like it could be playing in a Grand Theft Auto cabana. More from Luwidakid Follow on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z85-JTukOTI ### Calvin Stanley - Functional Amnesia … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.19.24
Chains of Desire creates abrasive synth music that seems to disintegrate as it plays. Centralia is a town in Northeastern PA in which a coal fire burns permanently underground. Its buildings have been condemned, its ZIP code discontinued. Five people still live in Centralia despite extended eviction efforts by state and local government bodies. Stubbornness … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Chains of Desire – Centralia
Frequent collaborators team up for the Two Guns EP. It's fitting that a track named after a Swissvale corner bar would open with the sounds of muddled chatter and music strains warped as if filtered through a haze of heavy smoke. When the instrumental kicks in properly it's with the sampled smolder of a lounge … Continue reading Daily Yinz – BOSSY x JVGGY HENDRIX – Murrays Cafe Pt.2
Today's exercise features an interaction between a parking attendant and a person whose hobby is asking to speak to the manager. RESTRICT FIREPLACE POST CHEW Don’t restrict my movement. Don’t do it. Don’t tell me that I can’t park here. I can park here if I want to park here. And what was that tone? … Continue reading Random Word Generator 04.16.24
Ames Harding penned his latest song for The Mirage while living in Cuba and Chile. I just finished reading Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, a hilarious and surreal historical novel in which 1920s white America finds itself knocked back on its heels by a cultural "virus" spread through jazz music and dancing. The novel also concerns … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Ames Harding & The Mirage – The Governor’s Dead
The experimental multimedia duo conjures a dark billow of sound. A screeching clamor introduces "INTIMATE FIGURES"--a chorus of faceless augurs foretelling a storm. Then on cue the piece rises up and blots out the sun in an all-encompassing cloud. Its eight and a half minutes whirr by like pages in a thumbed flip book, each … Continue reading Daily Yinz – slowdanger – INTIMATE FIGURES
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