This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket (2011) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient, Drone, Soundscapes
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Tracklist :

01. Little Smoke
02. Glass Realms
03. Communal Blood
04. Reprise
05. Killed The Lord, Left For The New World
06. Osario
07. Black Dunes
08. Powdered Hand

This Will Destroy You was formed by guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller in San Marcos, Texas, in 2005. They had met through mutual friends, and played together in various different bands throughout high school, before the line-up was finalised by around 2002. Early iterations of the band experimented with vocals, sung by Galindo, but after recording some tracks they decided the results were “awful” and didn’t fit in with the rest of their music. The band then tried writing different tracks, one of which was instrumental. Chris King said in an interview with BBC Northern Ireland, “we were … writing different kinds of songs and we wrote one [instrumental] song, and we were like, that works, lets go for it!” The band took it’s name from an early song that they were originally going to call “This Will Destroy You”, but this was rejected for being too pretentious. The band found the name “hilarious”. When asked whether he wished the band had chosen a different name, King said to Rock Sound, “It’s supposed to be a little bit obnoxious. There’s something about people automatically hating you before you play that’s kind of endearing. It gets to the point where it’s over-the-top obnoxious. It’s an attention-grabber and people will check it out I guess. Even if they hate it.”

After dropping their self-titled debut album in 2008, This Will Destroy You stuck to smaller releases for about two years. They recorded a split with Lymbyc Systym in 2009 and then dropped an EP, Moving on the Edges of Things, last year. But this May, the Texas post-rock quartet will release their proper sophomore effort,Tunnel Blanket, on Suicide Squeeze Records. With this album, the guys are looking to break away from the typical post-rock mold. And they’re doing that by presenting a record built more on soundscapes and brooding atmospherics than crescendos and reverb.

This Will Destroy You - Moving On The Edges Of Things [EP] (2010)

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient, Drone !?!?!?
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Tracklist :

1. Rituals (09:32)
2. Woven Tears (04:52)

This Will Destroy You is an American instrumental post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller with Brown playing the keyboard for live performances. They are currently signed to Magic Bullet Records.

According to their Tumblr site, they completed the recording of Tunnel Blanket on February 12, 2010 with long time collaborator John Congleton . A release date is TBA. Before 'Tunnel Blanket' is released a new two-song 12" entitled Moving on the Edges of Things is due out August 10, 2010; and a three-track single entitled "Communal Blood" is set to be released in May 2010.

[me]hmm.. this EP sounds nothing like twdy i know... i'm gonna save judgment for Tunnel Blanket :D

Hawk Moon Records : Volume I (2010)

Genre : Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1. Beneath Us, The Waves - Við Sökkvum Skipum 09:15
2. Oathless - Der Flug 05:24
3. Anna Rose Carter - My Piano Is Broken 01:50
4. Good Weather For An Airstrike - The Beginning Of The Rest Of Our Lives 02:58
5. M e m ó r - (Fin d'Hiver) Beautifully, It Was Cold 04:14
6. Inachus - One 05:38
7. evolv - Guided Through Chutes 03:17
8. Fluctuations - Daybreak 04:40
9. Arboretus - The Distant Beacon 04:44
10. Finneyerkes/Cylon - Carla Jean 09:48

Hawk Moon Records is a promotional company working from the South of England that organises gigs and events for Bands and Artists.

They organise events and Gigs for all genres of music. So get in touch.

You can join their Facebook group by clicking on the image below.

Boris – Variations (2010) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Drone, Sludge, Experimental, Japan
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Tracklist :

1. -Introduction- (Edit) / from “Akuma no Uta-”
2. Korosu / from “Heavy Rocks”*
3. PINK / from “PINK”
4. Woman on the Screen / from “PINK”
5. Yesterday Morning- / from -Mabuta no Ura-
6. Rainbow- / from “Rainbow” Boris with Michio Kurihara *
7. a bao a qu / from Mabuta no Ura-*
8. Statement- / from “SMILE”
9. My Neighbor Satan- / from “SMILE”
10.Floor Shaker / from 7inch Single “Statement”
11. Naki Kyoku- / from “Akuma no Uta-”*
12. 1970 / from “Heavy Rocks”*
13. -Farewell- (Full Length) / from “PINK”

In Japan kanji :

1. イントロ (Edit) 02:21
2. Korosu 04:47
3. Pink 04:20
4. スクリーンの女 02:40
5. 昨日の朝 03:20
6. 虹が始まるとき 05:39
7. a bao a qu 06:03
8. Statement 03:24
9. My Neighbor Satan 05:18
10. Floor Shaker 05:46
11. 無き曲 12:08
12. 1970 05:15
13. 決別 (Full Length) 09:55

Boris is an extremely prolific band and is known to regularly switch musical genres between albums, drawing from a wide variety of musical styles including psychedelic rock, punk, sludge, doom metal, drone, pop, noise, shoegaze, ambient and more. Boris music can be wildly diverse and experimental. Boris takes its name from a song on Bullhead by Melvins.

Variations CD is a greatest hits album Boris song selection focused on the heavy rock side. "Although there is interest, I know you hear from any" one good one that hit the listener. And not just a collection of albums, however, recorded five new songs in the same four people live in the current organization welcomed the support Michio Kurihara / 4 songs first published in Japan / the first version of the CD recording, all instruments continued to follow I am very happy that the fans content. (translate from Japanese with google)

So.., Variations is a "greatest hits" compilation of their "heavy rock" material, with some songs re-recorded with Michio Kurihara on second guitar.

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Noise, Electronica, Drone, Experimental, UK
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Tracklist :

01. "Surf Solar"
02. "Rough Steez"
03. "The Lisbon Maru"
04. "Olympians"
05. "Phantom Limb"
06. "Space Mountain"
07. "Flight of the Feathered Serpent"

Fuck Buttons is a two-piece experimental group based in London, England.

Formed in late 2004 and signed to the ATP label, releasing the “Bright Tomorrow” b/w “Little Bloody Shoulder” 7” single during the fall of 2007. They released their first album, Street Horrrsing, in 2008 and received widespread acclaim. A single, “Colours Move”, followed later that year.

The first album was pretty amazing; just a wall of noise that managed to somehow have melody, and even a hook... it filled a gap between the shoegaze revival and the electronic/lo-fi thing going on, and it did it well.

“Tarot Sport” is, in many ways, quite different. If there’s a connection with “Street Horrrsing”, you could see it as a sleek weapons upgrade of “Colours Move” and “Sweet Love For Planet Earth”; or, significantly, the Andy Weatherall remix of the latter, since Weatherall replaces Mogwai’s John Cumming in the producer’s chair for “Tarot Sport”.

Weatherall’s presence would suggest a dancier bent, which is accurate. But curiously, it’s also an album that seems far more indebted to Mogwai than its predecessor.The opening “Surf Solar” sets the template: kosmische squiggles, followed by squelching beats and slow, melodic chords that grind on epically for over ten minutes. The cumulative effect is something like Mogwai’s “New Paths To Helicon” combined with the vaulting ambition – the desire for bigness - of mid-‘90s stadium techno, especially that of Orbital (“Satan”, maybe?).

It’s a kind of music that tirelessly strives for grandeur, and consequently is always in danger of sounding pompous, or at least absurd. But Fuck Buttons – and perhaps their very name is a clue to how they can deflate pretensions – just about manage to pull it off. “Tarot Sport” seems to pile on remorselessly, building and building , even through the echo-chamber hyper-clank of “Rough Steez” and “Phantom Limb”, in which Weatherall’s past in the Sabres Of Paradise acts as a rough analogue.

Inevitably, though, it’s that monolithic pomp that provides the lasting impact: the fuzzy church organ chords and martial beats of “Olympians”; or the closing double whammy of “Space Mountain” and “Flight Of The Feathered Serpent”, which bracingly suggest an army of Boredoms-influenced drummer boys atop some craggy peak. Or, maybe, a hipper soundtrack to the next series of “Coast”…-John Mulvey/uncut.co.uk

Montauk – The Moment Lasts A Second, But The Memory Lives On Forever (2008) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Classical, Electronica
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Not much info i could find about this band. Montauk’s music sits somewhere between classical, ambient and experimental but always beautiful. Highly recommended.

Tracklist :

01 2:49am (2:01)
02 Canzonet (5:25)
03 Setting Sun (Frag. 1) (1:30)
04 Remembered (2:43)
05 Polly (8:52)
06 Gone (4:56)
07 1986 (Part 1) (2:55)
08 Radio Waves (2:45)
09 Come On Lets Go (2:41)
10 1986 (Part 2) (6:15)
11 How It Began (4:35)
12 Tranquility (2:45)
13 She Dreamt It Was Fall (2:30)
14 Her Whisper (11:39)
15 Exit Music (Arthur's Waltz) (1:27)

[me]Thx to Nick of Montauk for the link :)

Nadja - When I See Sun Always Shines (2009)

Genre : Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Shoegaze Canada
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Tracklist :

01. Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine cover)
02. Pea (Codeine cover)
03. No Cure For The Lonely (Swans cover)
04. Dead Skin Mask (Slayer cover)
05. The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-ha cover)
06. Needle In The Hay (Elliott Smith cover)
07. Long Dark Twenties (Kids In The Hall cover)
08. Faith (The Cure cover)

Nadja—a duo from Toronto, Ontario featuring Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff—create what is often described as ’ambient doom.’ Nadja’s music combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock , experimental, and neo-classical.
Their new album, ’When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV,’ features eights covers of some of Baker and Buckareff’s favorite bands. ”Consider this album an exploration of the roots of Nadja,” says Baker. ”Everyone compares us to My Bloody Valentine, so we had to cover them; Codeine and Swans were both bands exploring the heaviness of metal without actually being metal; The Cure have that lovely, bittersweet gloominess; Elliott Smith's 'Needle in the Hay' is simultaneously so simple and so devestating; no one believed us when we said we covered a song from The Kids in the Hall movie, a staple of our live set, so we had to get that one to tape; how could we resist the opportunity to cover A-ha's heaviest (but oh so catchy) tune? And Slayer is just Slayer. In an effort to illustrate our motivations behind this album, we asked our friend Mathew Smith to create a series of children's-storybook-like drawings to go with each song.”

Jasper-TX - Singing-Stones (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electronica, Drone, Experimental
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Tracklist :

1. Stillness
2. This Barren Land
3. They’ve Flown Away And Left Us Here
4. Last Boat In
5. A Box Of Wood In The Storm
6. Not Leaving, Not Really
7. Sleeping Rivers
8. Into The Sea
9. Mornings After

Very much a talent on the ascendence, Dag Rosenqvist returns with a swift follow-up to last year's Closet Ghosts EP, and the full-length on Miasmah, Black Sleep. While those two releases marked out career highpoints for Rosenqviist, Singing Stones finds him continuing on his upward trajectory, serving up a truly beautiful - not to mention accessible - collection of cinematic electronic compositions. You won't hear many artists who are this adept when it comes to wringing emotion from their laptops, and introductory track 'Stillness' provides an instantly breathtaking blend of lyrical digital timbres and immersive field recordings; you'll hear footsteps trudging across muddy ground and far off bells pealing out in the distance - it's lovely stuff. Next comes the exquisitely subtle 'This Barren Land', an electroacoustic drone piece that doesn't initially seem to be doing anything that's especially out of the ordinary, but the subtlety and depth of the piece ensures it worms its way into your heart. Now the tone is set, Rosenqvist opens up with some melodic developments, bringing delicate tuned percussion and filtered guitar progressions to 'They've Flown Away And Left Us Here', while 'Last Boat In' brings together fluttering vibraphone melodies and crashing waves on a beach. The set-adrift feel persists throughout, as cued by titles like 'A Box Of Wood In The Storm', 'Into The Sea' and 'Sleeping Rivers', the latter of which cultivates an Oren Ambarchi-like low-end drone, while flickers of hiss bombard slow-swelling chords. Singing Stones is an exceptional album, artfully constructed and sequenced in a way that preserves its enigmatic feel, continually shifting between coy tunefulness and glorious abstraction. Superb.

Thisquietarmy - Unconquered (2008)

Genre : Post-rock, Drone, Ambient, Shoegaze, Experimental
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Tracklist :

01. Immobilization
02. Battlefield Arkestrah
03. Warchitects
04. The Sun Destroyers
05. Death Of A Sailor
06. The Great Escapist
07. Mercenary Flags
08. Empire

Just recently released at the end of this past March was the debut from Thisquietarmy titled Unconquered out on Foreshadow Records. Some may already be familiar with Thisquietarmy and that the man behind the moniker, Eric Quach, is also a guitarist for the fantastic post-rock/shoegaze group Destroyalldreamers. Taking his love for fuzz and ambiance further (which is already hinted at in the space defiant band names), Quach has turned to his solo project for an outlet and the results of it certainly speak for itself.

Unconquered is a record that takes on a few different shapes and sounds as it progresses through the eight tracks that make up the album. The opener “Immobilization” is a fantastic joint effort between Quach and guest collaborator Aidan Baker. To little surprise it resembles Baker’s work on his past textural/ambient albums and it’s obvious that the two teamed together create a fairly captivating creative force. However, one of the things that makes Unconquered such a strong debut is that Quach doesn’t try to mimic these results for the rest of the album and the structure and mood shifts considerably after the first track. It follows up on the next couple tracks with a semi-abrasive wash of rising and falling distortion. “Battlefield Arkestrah” is a notable punishing piece of work, which is featured further below. One of my favorite tracks off the album is easily “The Great Escapist”, which features vocals from female singer Meryem Yildiz. The implementation of vocals is a fantastic addition and although it may be one of the more structured tracks on the album, it still fits right along with the rest of the album.

While Unconquered may not be something completely new to drone/ambient fans, it’s surely something that should and likely will be enjoyed by fans of the genre. Quach’s execution and unique approach to the genre is certainly worth checking out.-Jonathan

[me]Thx to sir Mayo @ IP ;)

Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect EP (2008)

Genre : Post-metal, Post-rock, Shoegaze, Drone, Sludge, Ambient, Electronica
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Tracklist :

1. Farewell
2. Blind And Faithless
3. Why Are We Not Perfect
4. Farewell [Alternative Version]
5. Why Are We Not Perfect [Alternative Version]

Jesu is an experimental rock band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Jesu was the name of the last song on the final Godflesh release, Hymns, and Broadrick decided to adopt it as the name of his new project.

Jesu's sound is heavily layered and textured, drawing from and incorporating an eclectic mix of influences, ranging from ambient music, post-metal and drone doom, to shoegazing, downtempo and industrial music. Their recent releases have been described as "avant-pop" and avant-garde doom.

Why Are We Not Perfect, is a CDEP that will feature the Jesu songs originally only available on the Eluvium split vinyl album, as well as new two new remixes. Daymare will release the album in Japan, with an additional third remix not available on the American release.