It was just announced this week that Veronica Falls
will have a new album out this coming February. It sounds like Slumberland
Records will be supporting the release of this album and will have pre-order
information up as soon as they can. In the mean time you can stream the track
called Teenage from the upcoming album. I am hoping for a 7” release for this
single but haven’t yet heard anything.
Sigur Ros world tour tickets have gone on sale, in most
cases yesterday or today (Saturday). I got my set of tickets yesterday.
Actually, I got them the day before but they were standing room only. I had
them switched for seats the following day. There will also be a three track
digital EP given out with the tickets but the EP will not be released until a
month before the tour starts. The EP will have all new music from the group.
It looks like Devildance Records is back up and running. You can now order the new Let Me Run album, Mad/Sad from them.
Here we go...
It looks like Devildance Records is back up and running. You can now order the new Let Me Run album, Mad/Sad from them.
Here we go...
The lead singer for Family Force 5 (FF5),Soul Glow Activator, is hosting a show
on the online radio station called Ngen radio. The show is called Phenomenon. He has put together a song to
promote the show. You can download the song still here for a limited amount of
time. The song is simple in the lyrics department but still meaningful. The
title of the song is repeated as it the additional lyric, “I’ll show you love
if you show me love.” There are some other lyrics to the song but those are the
ones that stand out in my head as important. The song is excessively electronic
and is the direction that the group seems to be going recently with their
music. That has always been their direction I think anyway. I have had some
friends complain that the group are becoming too dub step. I don’t think that a
rock group can be too dub step since most rock groups, even with electronic
influences, don’t want to be fully electronic. I think this song is more like
Justice or Ratatat than anything like a Skrilex. All I can really say is keep
making music FF5 I will be the one buying it for sure.
This is a digital only EP from Foxes. I will never
understand why they started calling a single song with remixes of that same
song an EP. It should be called a single. Anyway, There are four songs in this
collection. The first song is called Echo (Radio Edit). It is a little
disappointing that we couldn’t get the original studio version of this song. It
is done in her usual style, electronic style drums with a good beat, synth
backgrounds and bass with twinkly sounding piano. It is a really great song
that I like a lot. I think that this song will be on her futured full length
album. I think I heard a release time of next summer.
The next version of this track is called Echo (MONSTARemix). It is a big beat version of the song. I am not sure that I like it all
that much really. It is just a lot of big hits in a row that follow the tune of
the music. Some of the lyrics are included but are a bit sped up to follow the
speed of the remix. Foxes was happy with the remix but I think it is a little
over the top.
The third song on the EP is called Echo (French FriesRemix). This version seems slower than the Radio Edit version but I think it is
just as fast. This version is mainly a drum and bass version of the song. I
like this remix a lot better than the previous remix. Not much on the words but
the bass line reminds me of a camera taking multiple shots in a row. It is the
same repetitive sound happening all through this remix. Some would get board or
cringe at the repetitiveness of this song. I think that it is perfect.
The last version of this song on the EP is called Echo
(Instrumental). Obviously this is the music to the studio version of the song.
I love it when artists are willing to put out just the music behind the song. I
usually love the music more than the lyrics for most songs anyway. This is no
exception either. The music behind this song is beautiful and has a great beat
behind it. It reminds me of the ends of movies that have people standing on the
edge of a cliff with a sunset going down behind the mountains. All of the
beautiful oranges, reds and yellows that shine out from behind the mountains as
the sun goes down.
I would recommend downloading a copy of this if at least to
hear the instrumental version of the song.
It is here, it is here, it is finally here! Volume two if
the Analog Series is out and I have my copies. The sad part is that I will
probably never listen to them on vinyl because I would have to break the foil
seal to get them out. It is not a big deal because I can download the music
without a problem and hear the music that is contained that way.
This is a three track 7” record that contains three tracks.
The first two tracks will be on the up coming full length album and the last
track is only to be found on this 7”/download. The first track is called Communication
Breakdown Part II, as of this point there is no part one to this song. The
group likes to make titles of songs like this. For example, on their last full
length album, A Spectrum of Infinite Scale, they have the title of a song
called: Obligatory Part 2 Song In Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1,
Nor The Plans To Make One. I can only assume that there will be no part one to
Communication Breakdown Part II. The song starts with an electronic wind down.
The song kicks in at a low point in the wind down. It seems like a slower song
and sort of drags along. Surprisingly this song has lyrics. There was also a
track with lyrics on the previous album. This means that the full length will
have two tracks with lyrics on it. This has been a rarity in the past. Maybe
there will be more than just the two tracks on the album that will have lyrics?
Anyway, the song is about losing contact with head quarters via their only
contact, the radio. It is a simple song, not their best, but a good song still.
I think that the music, when they include lyrics, suffers a little and becomes
not so interesting. Maybe if they had a extra person dedicated to lyrics and
other instruments it could work. On the other hand, I really like what
Starcrunches (Lead guitarist and vocalist) voice sounds like when he does sing.
The second song on the single is called All Systems To Go. I
really like the soft tones that are used to start this song out. They remind me
of the racing video games that I played in the 80s. It is a soft beep, beep,
beep, beep where the last beep is in a higher tone to signal start. Coco The
Electronic Monkey Wizard (the bass player) uses the electronic vocalizer that
they have used in the past to get the words for this song. The system says the
title of the song, All Systems To Go, along with other words that seem
unintelligible with the music playing over the top. I think that it may be
counting down from nine but I am not sure. The song is very interesting but
kind of mellow for the group. I would think that this song and the previous
song were written at about the same time because they have a similar flow. I
have done this in the past. What I mean is that I have written a song and still
have other ideas that I want to get out at the same time. This leads to two
songs that have a similar feel but are still different music.
The last song on the single is called Chemical Cats. This
song can only be found on this single. I usually think of The Cure when I think
of a two word title with the last word being cats. This is because of the song
they did called Love Cats. This song is nothing like Love Cats. This song is
deep with great guitar pops and fun drum lines. The song is short but drills
into your head then makes its way into your heart and sits there for a while
making you think about what you just heard. It is a great song and is classic
MOAM?
This is really great stuff but if you are not a super fan
then just wait for the full length next year. Four of the six songs contained
on these two volumes will be there.
Don’t forget, if you missed out on the orange version of the
first volume they were repressed on red vinyl so you can still get your hands
on a limited color version of Volume One.
This is the eighth edition of the Live Current series. My
wife and I have been collecting this series since the start of the radio
station eight years ago. It all started when she got the founding members
album. She got two copies of that, one on vinyl and one on CD. It continued
from there. After she met me we started collecting them together. We have even
picked up a memory stick that had an extra 5 tracks on it and the special
birthday album. This volume was available on vinyl, CD and a box set. The box
set has a vinyl copy, CD copy and a limited poster with the cover art on it. It
was not so much of a box set as it was a record packaged separate from the CD
and the poster rolled up in a shipping tube. I got all the things it said I was
going to get and I guess that is what counts.
I am never a fan of many of the tracks on these compilations
and this is no exception. Although there are seventeen tracks on this
compilation. There are just a couple of tracks that I really like from this
compilation. The first track that I really like from this is from Nada Surf. I
have been a fan of their music since the first album that they put out, High/Low.
The song that is on this album is called Waiting For Something. This song comes
from their album The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy. This album was
released in early 2012. I wrote a review about it in Vol. 3 Episode 4. The song
that is here on this album is an acoustic version. It is really just as good as
the album version. I have a problem with acoustic versions though. They always
seem to lack the presence that the original studio versions have. I am not sure
if that is because of the production or if it is something else. I am leaning
toward production because if you record something live, acoustic or not, it can
sound amazing. With this The Current version it seems a bit flat.
The other track that I really liked from this collection is
from Polica. They are a local band from Minnesota.
The group was pushed very hard in the local scene and as a result I never
bought the album (if you are pushing that hard it must be mediocre). The song
that is on this collection is called The Maker. It is a simple song with the
chorus switching between two chord changes in a lower bass register synth
sound. It becomes mesmerizing. There are a few more instruments that come in
over the top of that and it then becomes a smooth rock song. This song is so
good that I am going to look up more from the group. Maybe the group was pushed
for a good reason, they are that good. I will look into them more and give info
as soon as I can.
That is all I have for now...
That is all I have for now...
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