Author Archives: Dæv Tremblay
Hago – Hago
The Music
The Thoughts
Rarely has a progressive metal fusion album been released with so little anticipation, praise, and attention while deserving so much of these. Enter Hago and their self-titled debut album. The Boston band is, as they put it, “a melting pot of progressive metal, jazz, and Middle Eastern elements”, and I couldn’t have said it better – they also call it “falafel djent”, but let’s not go there. Their group consists of the usual instrumental metal and jazz quartet of guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, while also having a full-time saxophonist on top.
Rooted inside the Berklee … Read more
Dear Apollo, Of Petra, Wvstelvnd, Insultanes, Filthy Young Impalers, Setter, Immortal Onion, Ben Reimer, and Burning Tree
Dear Apollo – Volume One
Oh, how far we’ve come, since the days of Look Right Penny! The Floridan quintet arrived on the map with their striking debut Sugar Lane, but soon disbanded. After many issues and obstacles, the “core couple” of Cotee Embry and Mariel Diaz-Carrion moved out and battled hard. Here we stand today, and the kids with high hopes come back with a new project called Dear Apollo. Cotee is now in charge of everything except the vocals and lyrics, and it transpires that he was the main brain behind Look Right Penny’s music … Read more
Weekly Release Dump
Sunday, 7 January
Mental Cruelty – Purgatorium (technical deathcore)
Of Petra – So onto Itself (symphonic prog/Canterbury prog)
Monday, 8 January
Decline – EP1 (grindcore)
Léguman – A Tribute to Jacqueline Picon (instrumental progressive metal)
Livia – Le blaireau riche (chamber pop/trip-hop)
Tuesday, 9 January
Feeding Fingers – Do Owe Harm (microtonal post-punk)
Wednesday, 10 January
Garrett Wingfield’s Octopod – Monoliths & Sepulchres (experimental jazz/free jazz)
Tuesday, 11 January
Venetian Snares – She Began to Cry Tears of Blood Which Became Little Brick Houses When They Hit the Ground (experimental breakcore)
Friday, 12 January
Kayak – Seventeen (progressive rock)
Scoredatura
… Read moreVenetian Snares – She Began to Cry Tears of Blood Which Became Little Brick Houses When They Hit the Ground
The Music
The Thoughts
Venetian Snares is a well-known Canadian electronic music experimenter; he’s been at it since at least 1997 with Fake:Impossible. Today, with his twenty-fourth full-length studio album (from what I can gather), Aaron Funk delivers a surprising blow to the unprepared listener. Indeed, She Began to Cry Tears of Blood Which Became Little Brick Houses When They Hit the Ground is an album most hectic that seems to be unable to keep a steady focus for more than a minute.
First of all, the twelve song titles read like surrealist snippets, each creating its very own … Read more