Goofy Lynching

2009-08-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

A Picture For The Anger

2009-08-08T16:06:00.000-07:00

Returning a favor to Tomas Halberstad for sending me his album The Anger illustrated with 1/6 of a painting. Each country to mail him for it get's one copy, each containing a piece of a painting. The album itself was a breezy piece of energy pumping electronica and vocals that make for a solid combination that went perfect with the heat these days. It grabbed me and got me moving again.

Get it here if you're country isn't claimed yet.

TomasHalberstad.com/

Yesterday's mail. (Sleep Whale, MGR, Isis)

2009-08-08T04:07:00.000-07:00

Sleep Whale (used to be Mom, like it reads on the disc label) - Little Brite.

A twenty-six minute electro-acoustic soundtrack to a summers-day is what this Texas outfit offers on their six track EP. Imagine laying on your back in a park, drifting away on the tones of a skilled fingerstyle guitarplayer sitting on a bench improvising on the downtempo electronica from some kid down the street checking out the latest hip Japanese cupboard idm. Add the organic flow of waves caressing - and subtly refracting - a production floating on warm strings and you end up with half an hour of breezy summer bliss. A successful exercise in a genre labeled as electro-acoustic from a band we hope to hear more from in the future.

myspace.com/sleepwhale

MGR (Mustard Gas and Roses) - Wavering on the Cresting Heft.

I love MGR; it's slow, it's dark, it's beautiful sadness on vinyl I want to be devoured by at massive volumes...

The sleeve note describes it rather well:

MGR is an emotionally charged amalgamation of sounds that, much to it's credit, refuses to fit neatly into any particular category. MGR's effectiveness stems from how fluidly Mark Gallagher - of renowned dirge architects Isis - is able to gradually add texture upon texture, building up the intensity of the tracks until they reach a tragic momentum. Imagine Isis with much of the bombast stripped away, leaving only dark, moody and melancholic soundscapes...

myspace.com/mgrsounds

There even is a print on the inside of the gatefold sleeve... wow.

Read up on my findings of Wavering Radiant here.

myspace.com/isis

Both the Isis & MGR albums are released by Conspiracy Records with much love and eye for detail, as always. ConspiracyRecords.com