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Cosmos Project – Le Syndrome De L’univers [2011]

Cosmos Project –  Le Syndrome De L’univers
[Vox Project , 2011]
genre: Progressive, Psychedelic, Post-Rock

Cosmos Project is an instrumental quartet from St-Etienne, France. The band was formed in 2008 drawing its influences from prime names such as GodSpeed You! Black Emperor, Tool, Pink Floyd, Archive, Toundra, Yndi Yalda, At the drive In… and the likes. Cosmos Project sound sprawls on a wide surface,f rom 70’s to today, covering a solid mix of progressive, post-rock, math-rock all with slight feel of jazz. After 20 plus shows around ST-Etienne, The band released it’s first EP through Vox Project label in march. Vinyl and CD was presented around France during their march tour.



http://www.myspace.com/thecosmosproject
http://voxproject.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/ablaze_load
http://voxproject.bigcartel.com

Tracklist:
1.Cosmos Project - Apocalypse Snow 07:54
2.Cosmos Project - Rabbit 06:23
3.Progressiv Road 08:46

Boris - Heavy Rocks / attention please [2011]

Boris ( ボリス)- Heavy Rocks
[Sargent House, 2011]
genre: metal, stoner, post-metal, sludge, ambient metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, drone
Album Review by Sovereign

After releasing the Japan-only New Album in March, the Tokyo-based trio unveiled two more full-lengths, Heavy Rocks and Attention Please, on the same day. The new album was actually a compilation of the other two plus some other tracks. Boris will be co-headlining a European tour together with new label mates Russian Circles this Summer. Joining them on all the dates will be SAADE. Boris will also be playing a few shows on their own from July 19 - July 24. Their new edition of heavy rocks, remember that they release a same title album back in 2002. They try to redefine, their heavy sound. I thin they did it in a great way. This album is FANTASTIC. If you like Boris for their heavy sounds (like SMILE), progressive sounds, stoner attitude, noise background and dirty smell then you will find another excellent adition to your album collection. This album features guest appearances by Ian Astbury (The Cult, BXI), Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer), Aaron Turner (Isis, Mamiffer) and longtime Boris collaborater Michio Kurihara. All these years Boris explore hundreds of music sub-genres and they release so many different albums. From noise, pop, psychedelic and ambient, to thrash, metal, doom and sludge. This is one of the best albums of their and “Missing Pieces” could be their best ever composition. I could keep my enthusiasm down. This is great. They provide an album with everyhting I ask for. Post modern music with excellent drones and noises, atmospheric and psychedelic passages, stoner rock acceleration and sludge metal dirty spits. One by one the compositions are huge. I could listen to this piece of art for days and months and years…



http://borisheavyrocks.tumblr.com/
http://www.sargenthouse.com/boris_heavy_assets.html
http://www.inoxia-rec.com/boris/

1. Riot Sugar
2. Leak -Truth,yesnoyesnoyes-
3. GALAXIANS (8)
4. Jackson Head
5. Missing Pieces
6. Key
7. Window Shopping
8. Tu, la la
9. Aileron
10. Czechoslovakia
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Boris - Attention Please
[Sargent House, 2011]
genre: pop, shoegaze, noise pop, dream pop, post-rock

This is an album for different kind of music fans. This is for sure their least metal album ever. It sounds good, but I cannot compare it to the above cause are tottally different and my music taste goes closer to Heavy music they provide in their other 2011’s release, than this one! Try to explore this to. “Attention Please is the first of the two releases, and it highlights Boris’ softer side, showcasing guitarist Wata’s delicate vocals against an alt-rock, art-rock, and dance-infused backdrop.  Ambient, echoing soundscapes transition to moments of soft electronic/acoustic rumination (“You”), psychedelic solos (“Tokyo Wonder Land”), and classical guitar (“Aileron,” which gets a long drone-sludge reprise on Heavy Rocks).  It’s up and down but shows a potentially exciting new direction for the band.”

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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

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

borderline syndrome - promo [2010]

Borderline Syndrome - promo (demo)
[Self released, 2010]
genre: progressive rock, progressive metal, math rock, tech metal, psychedelic, pop
Album review by Astronaut

Surprise! I really didn’t expect that a recently formed band that have just only released their first promo could satisfy my musical needs and make me extremely optimistic about the future of this synthetic yet unidentified genre of music that some of my favorite bands play such as The Dillinger Escape Plan,  Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Tool and many more. The musical depth and knowledge of the five member band, Borderline Syndrome, that formed in Athens in 2010 is obvious and although they don’t try to impress the listener, they fatally do it by projecting each one’s music influences in a solid and modern way that pleases your heart and your mind. Their ideas are plenty and the overall result exceeds by far the average bands that try to create that complicated and demanding genre.

Their continuous alternations from melodic, simple easy-listening songs to technical and challenging diatonic heavy tracks, show us that the band seriously suffers of its name, a borderline syndrome that creates them an endless need to move freely in every music region they like without belonging to any of them. Borderline Syndrome have created a quality menu that could please the majority of a demanding and hungry for innovative music audience. This menu consists of three fresh progressive tracks, “in rainbows”, “shock doctrine” and “thank you for being honest”, filled with mathcore strings and drumbeats accompanied with shredded traditional parts and finally topped with modern pop flakes. Delicious!

Of course a special reference should be made to the band’s singer, Sofia, for her amazing vocals and rare tinge that suits like a glove to the bands music profile. Overall this effort leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling at the end, cause you need more and more from these sounds. For sure this promo is a great start from a band with a great future.

Free Download
Borderline Syndrome - The promo


www.myspace.com/borderlinesyndrome
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Borderline-Syndrome
http://www.reverbnation.com/borderlinesyndrome


Tracks:
1. in rainbows
2. shock doctrine
3. thank you for being honest

Anathema - We ‘re here because we ‘re here [2010]

Anathema - We ‘re here because we ‘re here
[Kscope, 2010]
genre: rock, post-rock, melodic rock, indie rock, progressive rock, experimental rock, alternative metal
Album Review by Sovereign


If you are an Anathema fan you will probably already own this album. This is the must have album from Anathema, because it is coming seven years after the excellent ‘A Natural Disaster’ and it is probably the most beautiful album of  2010. Their music changes year per year and from an album to the next one. The band produced some of the most lyrical and sentimental albums of atmospheric metal and modern rock over the last 20 years. I do not want to talk about the past, but their compositions flow through my veins. For sure the change their sound several times, but Anathema are still heavy, they write excellent lyrics, they produce fantastic music and they build some great compositions. Their atmosphere is unique and inside this album the keys are fantastic. It is great post-rock music with bursts and a unique melody. I think he album makes you feel like a child meet some feeling for the first time.  Seven years appears as a long time in between albums, but I think it was worth the wait. We’re Here Because We’re Here is a confident step forward for the band. A step full of sentiments, atmospheres, soundscapes, melodies, feelings and great music structure. This album is one of the best in indie rock genres at this time. Great band, great imagination, great vocals, fantastic guitars, unique effects and keyboards, excellent and modern drums and rhythm section in general.


http://www.anathema.ws/
http://www.myspace.com/weareanathema
http://www.kscopemusic.com/anathema/wereherebecausewerehere/album-info.php



  1. “Thin Air” – 5:59 (

  2. “Summernight Horizon” – 4:12

  3. “Dreaming Light” – 5:47

  4. “Everything” – 5:05

  5. “Angels Walk Among Us”– 5:17

  6. “Presence” – 2:58

  7. “A Simple Mistake” – 8:14

  8. “Get Off, Get Out” – 5:01

  9. “Universal” – 7:19

  10. “Hindsight” – 8:10


 

Sovereign

Maserati-Pyramid of the sun [2010]

Maserati-Pyramid of the sun
[Temporary Residence Ltd 2010]
genre: post-rock, krautrock, progressive rock, electronica
Review by Truebelief

Maserati ’s fourth full-scaled release was halted for some time by life’s ill-fated games as prodigious drummer Jerry Fuchs (!!!, The Turing Machine, MSTRKRFT, The Juan MacLean, and LCD Soundsystem) died in an elevator accident in November 2009. But out of tragedy ,one of most exhilarating releases of the year was born. “Pyramid of the sun” is an eclectic blend of post/ psychedelic/progressive rock incorporating also electronica sounds that provide the appropriate level of freshness to a riveting and rather spacey atmosphere throughout the whole duration of the recording. Uplifting and dynamic bass lines alongside Fuchs’ precise, passionate and groove-focused drumming create a phenomenal rhythm section. Every single track is a mood booster and all eight of them have a flowing continuity without sounding pretentious at any point. Waves of positive emotions and energy fill every note. Coley Dennis and Matt Cherry execute stratospheric guitar heroics (that remind me of Porcupine Tree’s “Voyage 34” album) managing to preserve the vibrant funky (near dance floor) feeling throughout. I could not avoid mentioning the exquisite production and the versatile songwriting of this record. Despite being difficult to distinguish a single track, I dare to say that “We Got the System to Fight the System” with its rebellious pulse is a real highlight while “Bye M’Friend, Goodbye” is a joyful, emotive epitaph, a true celebration of Fuchs’ memory and achievements. The best Maserati release to date and a true monument of experimental musicianship.

http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr172.php
http://www.myspace.com/maseratirocks
http://ihaveadagger.net/

tracks
1. Who Can Find the Beast?
2. Pyramid of the Sun
3. We Got the System to Fight the System
4. They’ll No More Suffer From Thirst
5. Ruins
6. They’ll No More Suffer From Hunger
7. Oaxaca
8. Bye M’Friend, Goodbye

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