Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2009

Son Volt - American Central Dust


1. Dynamite
2. Down To The Wire
3. Roll On
4. Cocaine And Ashes
5. Dust Of Daylight
6. When The Wheels Don’t Move
7. No Turning Back
8. Pushed Too Far
9. Exiles
10. Sultana
11. Strength And Doubt
12. Jukebox of Steel

After touring in support of their 1993 masterpiece Anodyne, the seminal alternative country band Uncle Tupelo split up over long-simmering creative differences between co-leaders Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy. Tweedy recruited much of the band to form Wilco, while Farrar teamed up with original Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn to form Son Volt, the more tradition-minded of the two Tupelo offshoots.

Son Volt returns with ‘American Central Dust,’ out July 7 on Rounder Records, a plaintive 12-song collection that recalls the melodic succinctness of the band’s debut album ‘Trace.’ After the musical experimentation of 2007’s ‘The Search, ’ ‘American Central Dust,’ the band’s first album on Rounder, refines the band’s robust sound. Fiddle, pedal steel, lap steel and sparkling piano add an atmospheric nuance to Son Volt’s Americana inspired rock, surrounding band leader Jay Farrar’s stream of consciousness lyrical imagery.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Blakfish - See You In Another City


1. Preparing For Guests
2. My Stomach Feels Like My Throat's Been Cut
3. Jeremy Kyle Is A Marked Man
4. Make Your Bed And Lie In It
5. Carnival Carnivore

See You In Another City, the latest release from Birmingham’s Blakfish, almost blasts you there in the second you press play – first song Preparing For Guests is prefaced with a throat slicing, vocal chord cutting, bloodcurdling scream, before the rest of the song kicks in.

It’s the first of five hard emotional punches that knock your heart and brain about with their deadly delivery.

Blending strains of post-hardcore with full-throttle rock and an underlying indie mentality, Blakfish offer up a delicious dish of brutal confessionalism that twists and turns with each intricate guitar note, guttural songs such as the brilliantly titiled ‘Jeremy Kyle Is A Marked Man’ and ‘My Stomach Feels Like My Throat’s Been Cut’, which reach deep down and eviscerate you as you listen, slicing through your guts to reveal your innermost self and leaving it strewn all over the ground.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Light FM - Black Magic Marker



01. The High
02. Black Magic Marker
03. Golden SUV
04. Trick
05. Loneliest People
06. Glory Dayz
07. Shame
08. What Good is a Man?
09. IJWUTBM
10. Try 2 Make You Happy

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Peter Adams - I Woke With Planets In My Face



01 In the Great Green Room
02 The Observatory
03 Conversation With the Moon
04 Into the Mist
05 Sprinkler Song for Jessica
06 Ziggurat
07 I Was Looking At the Ceiling, and Then I Saw the Sky
08 Antarctica
09 Ghost in the Fen
10 Annabel Lee
11 Eyelids
12 The Seventh Seal