Ouzo Bazooka – Songs from 1001 Nights
The Music
The Thoughts
This sound is not brand new, not anymore. Last year, Aussie psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard treated us with the first of five albums in a year: Flying Microtonal Banana. The album used quarter-tone instruments in the band’s own blend of surf, psych, and prog rock. Although the effort was a bit hit and miss, it was interesting and showed great potential for this sort of “desert surf” rock sound.
Enter Ouzo Bazooka, and their latest album, Songs from 1001 Nights. While not their first release, it seems to … Read more
Containor, I.O, Arnaud Bukwald, Blame, Aviations, Clavicus Vile, Tolstoys, 死リーパー (Death: The Reaper), and Xenosis
Containor – Asshole
Continuing a long series of musical experiments in the vague vein of black metal, the Hathenter page offers us Containor‘s Asshole. This one in particular is a brutal display of aggression towards the poor, innocent drum kit, layered with a variety of acoustic and electronic nonsense. It’s perhaps the most free-jazz-like metal album I’ve heard, and it’s amazing!
I.O – Fragments Humming for Sun and Stars
Oddly enough, this is quite similar in mentality to the previous album in this post, but within the experimental or math rock realm. This one-man expectoration is a drum-centric … Read more
Weekly Release Dump
Saturday, 13
Containor – Asshole (experimental black metal)
Filthy Young Impalers – Pattern Blue (progressive technical death metal)
Slvmbvr – War in the Sky (drone)
Sunday, 14
Arnaud Bukwald – La marmite cosmique, menu numéro 4 (progressive rock)
Dawnwalker – Human Ruins (stoner/alternative metal)
I.O – Fragments Humming for Sun and Stars (experimental math rock)
Monday, 15
Deconstructing Sequence – Cosmic Progression: An Agonizing Journey through Oddities of Space (experimental death metal)
Wüst – Deform (experimental folk/pop)
Tuesday, 16
Dear Apollo – Volume One (progressive metal/metalcore)
Wednesday, 17
My Deathbed – My Deathbed (atmospheric depressive black metal)
Necronomidol – Strange
… Read moreWe Pyrrhic Conquerors – The End Is Nigh
The Music
The Thoughts
The general free-flowing complexity of zeuhl music and the band name We Pyrrhic Conquerors suggest a sizable ensemble of musicians, performing with some level of loose improvisation. Yet Bandcamp informs us that the richly composed The End Is Nigh is the product of one Joey M. Bishop. That’s about all the information I can glean about the artist; there’s no Facebook page to refer to, no specific location given (Bandcamp tags the project as United States, but the drums were recorded at a studio in Indonesia?), and even Google currently returns zero results for the band … Read more