Hella Tripper - Out on Sargent House

sargenthouse:


Hella’s new album Tripper, will be issued August 30 on Sargent House.
Earlier we released “Hella - Track 1,” at the time it was not yet titled, now it’s called “Headless”. You can download the track here.

FREE STREAM : http://hella.bandcamp.com/

The United Sons of Toil - When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will be Beautiful [2011]

The United Sons of Toil - When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will be Beautiful
[Phratry, 2011]
genre: post-hardcore, math rock, noise rock
Album review by Goresonic

The United Sons of Toil are a three membered band from Madison, Wisconsin. “When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will be Beautiful” is their third release and the first one that I’ve heard. Their first release, “Hope is Not a Strategy”, was released in 2007 and was followed by “Until Lions Have Their Historians, Tales of the Hunt Shall Always Glorify the Hunter” the next year. Their music, as they said, is influenced by the noise and math rock that “bubbled up from the Midwest during the mid ’90s”. With their lyrics they are doing a serious political commentary that only Dead Kennedys had made before. This means that in order to have a full opinion about them you have to start by reading the lyrics of each song and their liner notes first and then listen to their music. So starting from the lyrics, United Sons of Toil set some main points for a bigger discussion over the way that human beings react or have to react in order to fundamentally change the way that capitalism overreacts over society. The quote “Fundamental societal change can emerge only through radical individual change”,that they use to describe their album, is a starting point for proper revolution in action. Musically,USoT are great too. Their music is a mix of math rock, noise rock and post-hardcore. They remind me of bands such as Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Neurosis and Unwound. There are a lot of good momemts in their music. Their anger is expressed with some awesome guitar riffs and violent drums. The opener “Alcoholism in the Former Soviet Republics” and “ The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla ” (my personal favourite song) are songs that noise rock and post-hardcore / post-metal fans will really appreciate. But there are some other interesting moments in this album – the doom metal introduction in “Operation Cast Lead”, the aggressive guitar riffs and the screaming vocals on “The Shining Death”, the post-punk / post-hardcore ending song “ State-Sponsored Terrorism”. To sum up, “When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will be Beautiful” is an album that combines very interesting and mature political opinion with great heavy rock music. I recommend this album to every fan of the genres mentioned above even if they haven’t this revolutionary feeling that these guys have.

Free streaming

http://www.myspace.com/theunitedsonsoftoil
http://unitedsonsoftoil.com/

Tracks
1. Alcoholism in the Former Soviet Republics 03:22
2. Overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act 05:53
3. ILO Convention 169 04:24
4. The Concept of the Urban Guerilla 06:37
5. The Shining Path 04:11
6. Sword of Damocles 05:30
7. The Contrition of the Addict 03:55
8. Operation Cast Lead 04:00
9. State-Sponsored Terrorism 03:56

Jardín de la Croix – Ocean Cosmonauts [2011]

Jardín de la Croix – Ocean Cosmonauts
[Noma Records, 2011]
genre: Math Rock, Metal, Progressive, Instrumental

Jardín de la Croix is a four piece progressive and instrumental rock band from Madrid (Spain). They are often categorized as math rock and post rock. The band develops complex structures and built elaborated sound trips along their songs. Some people describe their sound like a mixture of King crimson, Don Caballero, Russian Circles and Lite.
Two years after their critically aclaimed debut Pomeroy and having played with great acts such us This Will Destroy You, Russian Circles, Caspian, The Buterfly Explosion, Toundra or My Own Private Alaska, this Spanish instrumental quartet string back with amazing new LP, more technical, melodic and even more experimental, we are to proud to say these guys are one of the best examples of nowadays math rock and sincerely hope this album will remembered as the one which showed their true potential to the rest of the world.


http://www.myspace.com/jardindelacroix
http://www.facebook.com/jardindelacroix
http://www.nomarecords.com

tracks
1. Blacksnout Seasnail
2. Vostok
3. Island of Atlas
4. Maelstrom
5. Challenger
6. Math of Vortex
7. Caronte
8. Japanese Rockets

Thousands – Thousands EP [2011]

Thousands – Thousands EP
[self released, 2011]
genre: post-rock, progressive rock, post-metal



Thousands is a three piece, instrumental band that has been playing shows sporadically in Boston for a couple of years now.
They ‘ve all been part of the music community in one way or another for years and recently they released their first EP. They have moments comparable to bands like Russian Circles, Shellac, Don Caballero, and other similar bands of the genre.

free stream / download
http://thsnds.bandcamp.com

tracks
1.Braille Teeth
2.Six Records of a Floating Life

And so I Watch you from Afar – Gangs [2011]

And so I Watch you from Afar – Gangs
[Richter Collective, 2011]
genre: experimental rock, instrumental, post-rock, noise-rock, avant-prog, math rock
Album Review by Sovereign

Just read what I’ve mentioned in the review for their previous full-lenght release of 2009 . There is no much to say. Just that they are a bit more mature and their music is more inspirational and sometimes really sensational. Also last year’s Ep the release was another great work. This album is fucking awesome. Their post-rock is of course heavier than 2 years ago and their attitude is really technical and math. Progressive ideas and space rock sounds combined with excellent guitar scapes. Some tracks you listen in here, you can never find in somewhere else. There is no other band such these Irish guys. Melody and noise, punk and rock, art and experimental. For sure one of the best post-rock releases of the year. Maybe the best experimental rock release of the last 2 years. I don’t know if they are more modern than other or they follow their inspiration and influences but I think that they are great. I heard that they do have great live performances in their bio and I hope to see them around. Great album. One of the best.



http://asiwyfa.bandcamp.com/album/gangs

http://www.myspace.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar

tracks
1 BEAUTIFULUNIVERSEMASTERCHAMPION – 5:52
2 Gang (Starting Never Stopping) – 5:26
3 Search:Party:Animal – 5:18
4 7 Billion People All Alive At Once - 5:44
5 Think:Breathe:Destroy - 4:43
6 Homes - Ghost Parlor KA -6 To… - 2:46
7Homes - Samara To Belfast - 9:50
8 Lifeproof - 5:05

Swear jar – Cuss [2010]

Swear jar – Cuss
[Phratry, 2010]
genre: math rock, noise rock , post-hardcore
Album review by Goresonic

“Cuss” is the debut release from these Cincinnati based “sound killers” named Swear Jar. It’s another great release from Phratry Records that reminds me of noise rock and post-hardcore bands of the 90’s. “Cuss” combines Shellac’s and Jesus Lizard’s noise-screaming rock with Fugazi’s post-punk attitude. All the songs in “Cuss” are really heavy. This album produces different feelings to the audience: sometimes makes the listener wanna headbang and sometimes it makes him wanna scream and act violently. Swear Jar with “Cuss” share their passion about noise and hardcore. They tried to find new ideas in order to apply them in their heavy hardcore rock.I believe that people that are not used in this kind of music won’t like “Cuss” but I’m 100% sure that funs of Shellac’s post hardcore or Minutemen’s Post-Punk will appreciate Swear Jar’s effort.
Favorite Songs: “Bad News”, “Ready”, “U.S. Us”

Free streaming
http://swearjarband.bandcamp.com/album/cuss

http://swearjar.tumblr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/swearjarband
http://www.phratryrecords.com/bands/band_22.html

tracks
1. Sasquatch
2. Bad News
3. Old Shake
4. On the Prowl
5. Lonely
6. Rastallica
7. Blinders
8. U.S. Us
9. Heavy Corpse Song
10. Narcissist Artist
11. Bury My Body
12. Cheating Death
13. Ready

Ruined Families - Four Wall Freedom [2010]

Ruined Families - Four Wall Freedom
[Self Released,2010]
genre: hardcore, grindcore, punk, black metal, indie rock, math rock
Album review by Edenbeast

This band from Athens, Greece has balls. The music they play is heavy as hell. You can smell their sweatness while listening to this release. It’s a very good hardcore metal creation with black metal, death, punk, doom and sludge influences. The energy that flows in your veins while listening to every track, shows that we have something special here. Beside the fact that the tracks are too small, they manage somehow to give you the feeling that you heard a normal length track. The reason is too obvious to leave you without any doubts. Many changes, great riffs, and amazing power. The production may be clean but the instruments and the vocals sound extremely dirty. It is a mix of Cursed, Lighting bolt, Converge and Black Flag. These musicians revealing their fantastic technique at any speed. Do we really have this kind of band in Athens? I believe Ruined Families have a potential so uniquely great that I can’t remember now any other band giving me this feeling from an album or an EP before. And don’t forget that all these ideas are coming from a creation which length is something less than 17 minutes!!! The release is only available on 12” and cassette format. They do steal some words from interpol, orchid and pj harvey!! I have to thank the band for helping me discover this little diamond and I really hope for another release.


http://www.myspace.com/ruinedfamilies
http://www.ruinedfamilies.blogspot.com/

Tracks:

01.Modern Man
02.Sense Pleaser
03.Basement Rats
04.Visual Pain
05.Holy Weight
06.Temporary Companion
07.Seasons
08.Patriarchy

Edenbeast

A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen - A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen [2011]

A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen – A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen
[JezusFactory Records, 2011]
genre: progressive rock, experimental, math rock, noise
Album review by Astronaut

A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen is the debut album of the homonym band from Belgium that consists of Craig Ward,  Bootsie  Butsenzeller and Zahnoun Ben Younes. This skillful trio is blending random amounts of progressive, experimental, math, noise, in a very awkward but surprisingly interesting way. The album contains eight tracks of randomly distributed progressive dirt that bathing may be necessary after listening to it, as the band aptly describes itself. The filthiness of the guitars accompanied with raw bass lines in tracks like “Safety Shot” or the insane “Pigeon Song” is one of their major characteristics of the band that seem to come out so naturally as they create them. Of course it is not an album that addresses to the majority of the audience because the chaotic complexity in ACKIAHK’s compositions cannot be tolerated by everyone. Personally I found the album really interesting and I strongly recommend that if you are pleased by dirty-styled progressive then this is an piece of work that will enthuse you. Overall ACKIAHK will become a perfect friend of you given that you are a little bit psycho or you meet the basic requirements in order to be one.

http://cleankitchen.bandcamp.com

http://www.jezusfactory.com/
http://www.myspace.com/riefenstahl23

Tracks


  1. Farmers With Televisions

  2. Event Horizon

  3. Safety Shot

  4. Wife Did Gather

  5. Brambles

  6. Priss

  7. Exercise Program

  8. Pigeon Song


Astronaut