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Live Show: Mercury Rev (11/24/2008)


Photo by Abbey Braden courtesy of ATP

Listening to this show makes me wish I hadn’t missed most of their set at ATP NY:

Mercury Rev
Novembre 24 2008
Ancienne Belgique, Bruxelles
Belgique

01. Intro
02. Snowflake In A Hot World
03. October Sunshine
04. Holes

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A Random Mp3 Trilogy (Castanets, Zach Hill, A Armada)


Castanets

I’ve begun compiling all the albums from this year I have yet to hear, but before I dive into that, I need to address the last few good albums I’ve already heard. The Castanets‘ newest, City Of Refuge, is a weird hodgepodge of electronic bleeps and sounds combined with emotional folk jams. The juxtaposition of seemingly contradictory musical ideas could result in a gimmicky feel in less capable hands, but the original avant-folk record written and recorded by Castanets’ Ray Raposa was tweaked with these digital overdubs by such big names as Sufjan Stevens, Jana Hunter, Scott Tuma, and Dawn Smithson (Sunn O)))). This album shouldn’t be missed and this song is killer:

Castanets : Shadow Valley

Buy City Of Refuge



Zach Hill

It took me a few listens to get into Zach Hill’s latest album because it doesn’t have much cohesiveness besides his unbelievable stick action. But this sonic kaleidoscope from the Hella drummer, Marnie Stern collaborator is one of epic proportions. The album features guest spots ranging from No Age to Les Claypool, so pretty much anyone who is a fan of music can find something to love here. The track I have for you is basically an eight minute drum solo from Hill, and it is ridiculous:

Zach Hill : Uhuru

Buy Astrological Straits



A Armada

Finally, when A Armada amazed me at Athfest earlier this summer, i picked up a copy of their debut EP, Anam Cara, and totally went bonkers for it. But, since the album wasn’t yet available to purchase anywhere but from the Athens band themselves, I decided to hold off talking about it until later. Well, you can now pick it up online, so you should really go do that. This Cinemechanica offshoot tackles instrumental post-rock and kicks it in the ass:

A Armada : If Only You Knew What The Lost Soldiers Did To Me

Buy Anam Cara

Monday Night In The A: The Rosebuds

Last year I had bought The Rosebuds 2007 album called Night Of The Furies, but after casually listening to it once, I put the CD in a pile with lots of other CDs and I never stumbled across it again for about a year. Before I drove up to New York back in September of this year for ATP, I started going through my library looking for CDs to listen to in my vehicle due to the lack of digital media player options. I found Night Of The Furies and ended up jamming it again on my journey and really fell in love with it. It is interesting how listening to different media can determine what you choose to hear. I recently picked up their newest, Life Like, and while it has taken me a little while to warm up to it, I’m starting to fall for it too, so I’m excited about the show tonight. The bill is also stacked with two top notch openers, fellow Raleigh, NC’s The Love Language and Atlanta’s The Preakness. Pine Magazine posted an interview with The Rosebuds and here’s some audio and video to get you hyped up for tonight:

The Rosebuds : Night Of The Furies : Silja Line

The Rosebuds : Life Like : Nice Fox

The Rosebuds : Life Like : Another Way In

Buy The Rosebuds albums

The Rosebuds myspace

“Box Car”:

“Get Up Get Out” live:

What Up In The ATL?

Best shows in Atlanta December 1 - 7:

Monday:

The Rosebuds, The Love Language, The Preakness @ The Earl

Tuesday:

The Subliminator, Adrien Barbobott, Jesse Langdale, Unit Shifters, Self Inflict, Khovicoobah (NOIZE) @ Lenny’s Bar

Wednesday:

No Face, Genital Sherman, Fashion Knee High @ Drunken Unicorn

Thursday:

Untied States, Hollow Stars, A Fight To The Death, Carnivores, Glen iris, Model T Ford @ Star Bar

Le Castle Vania, RRRump, Prince Presto (Fuck Yesss) @ Drunken Unicorn

Friday:

Polvo, Highland Space, The Liverhearts @ The Earl

Sonn Av Krusher, The Subliminator, The Sunglasses, The Doppel Gang @ WonderRoot

Saturday:

Can Can, Tenth To The Moon, The Swear, Trial By Fire @ Drunken Unicorn

Sunday:

My Brightest Diamond @ The Earl


The Love Language : Lalita
No Face : Siuil a Ruin
Polvo : Tragic Carpet Ride
My Brightest Diamond : Inside A Boy
Adrien Barbobottt : Cholza

I Heart Blastoids!

When I went on tour with This Piano Plays itself and Kebert Xela earlier this summer, they played with an incredible band in Murfreesborro, Tennessee called Blastoids. At times they wear their Animal Collective influence on their sleeves a bit too much, but they have quite a range of psychedelic deliciousness that sound great even in the songs where they steer far away from that sound. Hopefully they’ll come down to Atlanta and play a show soon, but until then, they just released some new music videos for a couple of their songs, so check those out, and a few mp3s to get acquainted with an elite southeastern band:

Blastoids! : Kids And Candy

Blastoids! : Space Mountain

Blastoids! myspace

“Cowboy”:

“Trout Dick”:

Live Videos: Sian Alice Group, All The Saints (10/18/08) Drunken Unicorn


Sian Alice Group

Ever since catching this show last month, I have been re-obsessed with both of these bands’ latest albums. I’ve talked about Atlanta’s All The Saints several times, but for those who haven’t jumped on the bandwagon with me yet, check this video out:



I realized I hadn’t posted much about Sian Alice Groups‘ album, 59′59, so here are a few tracks from it followed up with a couple live videos from this show:

Sian Alice Group : As The Morning Light

Sian Alice Group : Contours

See all of Clint Miller’s photos from the show here.


All The Saints

On The Road: 2008 Is Ending Soon

It’s been a little quiet around here because I’m OTP at the beach for the week, but I’ve got some holiday posts coming soon. As 2008 draws to a close, it is time to put together my end of year lists. From the beginning, Ohmpark was primarily a music research project for myself, and these lists are the final culmination of that research. I strongly urge all of my readers to tell me the albums from this year that you love that I might not have covered because I want my lists to be as comprehensive as possible. Feel free to hit the comments of this post with your suggestions.

Much like I did last year when I headed to the beach for Turkey Day, I listened to a bunch of new albums on my way down here, so I’m going to go through them and talk about my first impressions of each. Before I started listening to new albums, though, I jammed some Deerhunter to get rolling. While Microcastle is certainly getting plenty of good hype around the web, I think the bonus disk, Weird Era, is getting a bit overlooked, because I like it as much, if not more, than Microcastle. It is great that on top of making such a perfect pop album they still gave a little something weirder for us Cryptograms fans. Here is a couple tracks from it I heart:

Deerhunter : Operation

Deerhunter : Vox Celeste

Next up I popped in the new Anathallo album called Canopy Glow, and it was so good I listened to twice in a row. I’m not sure how I overlooked this band up into now, but luckily the guys from Sorry No Ferrari turned me on to them when I went to Fest earlier this month. I’ll gush about Canopy Glow more later, but right this second I’d rather respond to Pitchfork’s lame review of it they posted yesterday. First, it is quite amusing to me that The Mars Volta has become the Anti-Christ to Pitchfork, and anytime they talk about a band they don’t like that can play more than 3 chords they invoke a TMV comparison. I really don’t hear much of a parallel except that both of these bands are clearly great. Also, they whine over and over how the singer from Anathallo sounds too much like Sufjan Stevens. Yes, their voices are a bit similar, but the vocalists from Fleet Foxes and Band Of Horses sound way more like Jim James than the guy from Anathallo sounds like Sufjan, and they sure love those cheap ripoff bands to death, so either get consistent or shut up and stop being a hater. Enjoy the new hottness:

Anathallo : Noni’s Field

Anathallo : The River

Next up I listened to Final Fantasy’s Plays To Please EP, which is a tribute to some Canadian musician I’ve never heard. It was a nice listen, but nothing that wowed me like Owen Pallett normally does.

Final Fantasy : Ultimatum

After that I listened to the latest album from The Notwist, The Devil, You + Me. It came out early this summer, but I never got around to it until now. This German band sounds really good and chill, and this album will be in my heavy rotation for a while:

The Notwist : Where In This World

The Notwist : Boneless

The next two albums I tried were the newest from Ruby Isle and The Streets respectively. I didn’t like either one. I’ve never loved The Streets, but Mike Skinner’s lyrics have been pretty interesting most of the time. Unfortunately Eveything Is Borrowed seemed so boring and cliche. Ruby Isle seemed like music for 15 year old pre-ravers, and totally annoyed me. It sucks because I truly love all of the cover songs I’ve heard them do, but I just can’t get into their originals.

Finally, I finished my journey listening to the new Wilderness album, (k)no(w)here. At first I didn’t think I liked it, but by the time I finished the album I was fairly intrigued and then listened to it a few more times since. The vocalist is certainly an acquired taste, but once you can get beyond that, this album is pretty stellar. If you’re like me and you enjoy a challenging listen, this album will provide a just reward.

Wilderness : (p)ablum

Ok, hit me up with your 2008 hottness!

Live Show: Russian Circles (11/16/08)

If you haven’t gotten hip to this badass instrumental rock power-trio, you are missing out. Here’s a great live show:

Russian Cricles
BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB LEEDS UK
2008_11_16 (AUD FLAC)

01. intro noise
02. Harper Lewis
03. Station

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