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The Multidimensionality of Music

by Dæv Tremblay

Too often music blogs, including ourselves, have rejected, or ignored, the fact that music is not a one-faced art.

From now on, Can This Even be Called Music? will treat albums, and music, as they should be : a multidimensional art.

With our future reviews, we will review music, obviously that’s what interests us the most, but we will also rate the artwork of an album, and the lyrics to it.

Visual artists can spend countless hours on an album’s art, and yet it mostly serves the dull purpose of telling one album from another at first glance. Similarly, a … Read more

Car Bomb – Third Revelation (w^w^^w^w, 2012)

by Dæv Tremblay

AT FUCKING LAST!

Car Bomb’s first single from their upcoming album w^w^^w^w (some will call it sinewave or whatever, but be a true one and call it “double-u-caret-double-u-caret-caret-double-u-caret-double-u”).

And guess what! It features Joe Duplantier from Gojira! It’s not as if it was written in the video title!

Car Bomb’s album Centralia left a permanent mark in my mind, and hearing this song makes me think that double-u-caret-double-u-caret-caret-double-u-caret-double-u will be at least as fucking great as Centralia was.

Car Bomb official website

Car Bomb facebook page

Double-u-caret-double-u-caret-caret-double-u-caret-double-u comes out september 25th, be ready.

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Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman trailer

by Dæv Tremblay

OH. MY. FUCKING. VOID.

What? God doesn’t exist!

If there is a band that I theoretically should not like, it’s Coheed and Cambria. Pop-rock with a tiny touch of prog. What’s more to hate than this?

But man, what drives me here is the story. In this case, it has gone by the name The Bag.On.Line Adventures, before eventually changing to The Amory Wars. And I’ve been buying every single comic that has been done by Claudio (lead singer and guitarist), and even the novel for The Year of the Black Rainbow.

I’ve been dying to know what would … Read more

As We Draw – New Songs

by Dæv Tremblay

Behold! Two brand new songs from power-trio post-core experimental French band As We Draw, who blew us away with their albums Lines Breaking Circles and Background/Frontside, respectively downloadable for free here and there.

This live video shows the band playing their new shit at Le Klub Paris, probably in Paris, France. And this only makes us foresee the best for their next album!

As We Draw facebook page

As We Draw official site

As We Draw myspace, if you really want to go on myspace

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Sunn O))) Tour Dates

by Dæv Tremblay

We here at Can this even be called Music? Defend since the very beginning the true music, which is often at the antipode of what most people today considers music. Sunn O))) makes no exception. Although many will call them noisemakers, asking “Can this even be called music, dude? Put back LMFAO and shut the fuck up!”, we find them truly amazing, and quite unique, although there are some other bands like this one.

Music, since the dawn of times, is there to convey emotions, before conveying messages, and Sunn O))) seem to have brought music to its original purpose, … Read more