An Atlanta Mp3 Trilogy: The Selmanaires, Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun, Snowden
There is an unreal amount of good music coming out Atlanta just this month, and here’s a tiny fraction of it:
The Selmanaires
Photo by Biluxi
Seemingly out of nowhere, The Selmanaires just dropped their newest album, a 6 song, 30 minute EP called Tempo Temporal. You can find plenty of info on it at their blog. In the past I generally found about 25% of The Selmanaires stuff brilliant, and the other 75% not very enjoyable, but after just one listen I’m loving everything about this newest effort. I had heard rumours that the new stuff was something of a departure, and they have definitely veered in a much more palatable direction for me. The new record will be available on their upcoming tour that begins at The Earl this Thursday with Atlas Sound and Broadcast, but they are streaming the entire thing on their myspace and I highly recommend giving it a listen. Here’s the single they released that features guest vocals from Adron:
The Selmanaires : Resonance Alright
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun
This weekend the great band with the long name will be dropping their 3rd album. It is yet another EP, containing 5 new songs along with a few old favourites remixed. It is titled Heavyweight Champions, and will be available at their release show this Saturday night at the Drunken Unicorn. Fans of TTMTTS will find this new release as enjoyable as their previous work, but there is an energy and magic this band possesses live that they have still yet to fully capture in the studio. I love the remixes, but the original section seems to lack a bit of momentum at times. It might be more a matter of preference for me than quality though, and overall it’s still well worth checking out. They will be posting new songs all week on their myspace page, but here is my favourite from it:
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun : Bones
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun myspace
Snowden
While we continue to anxiously await the follow up to 2006′s Anti Anti, Snowden has given us a little something to hold us over for now. They recently contributed a cover to a tribute album for Bauhaus offshoot Love & Rockets. The compilation features contributions from the likes of Black Francis and A Place To Bury Strangers along with many others. Here is their take on “No Words No More”:
Snowden : No Words No More (Love & Rockets cover)
Buy New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets
- Posted by Davy Minor on October 13, 2009 at 3:25 am
