DOWNLOAD: Finn Riggins - Some Are Knightz
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Well, I don't know much about Idaho, but Finn Riggins is teaching me a thing or two. The trio seems to forever be on tour, which may be why its live show has won quite the growing audience. "Some Are Knightz" instantly pulls you in with a prog-pop indie hybrid that sounds made for the stage. Combining a wide range of percussion (hand claps included) with pulsing guitar and Lisa Simpson's distorted vocals wafting in and out, the song stretches its legs for four minutes without letting up. The band's fourth album and third on the label, Vs. Wilderness is out now on Tender Loving Empire.
Finn Riggins - Some Are Knightz
PREMIERE: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Weight Of The Sun
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(Photo: Boris Draschoff)
Before the internet had proven its worth, bands like …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead were the only glimpse post-rock kids had into the promise lands of Washington and Texas (where life was way cooler and more relevant than in say, Massachusetts, which was the 7th circle of hell). Fifteen years, seven albums, and dozens of imitators later, we’re happy to report that if the prog-rock vets have changed, they’re not showing it here. Preview track “Weight Of The Sun” is poppy, scream-filled, and fully subscribes to the power-murk-power formula Trail Of Dead made famous back in 1994. Fingers crossed for the rest of the album, Tao Of The Dead, which the band will promote via dates with Surfer Blood.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Weight Of The Sun
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DOWNLOAD: Ancestors - The Ambrose Law
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We're going to be real with you: this Ancestors song is over thirteen minutes long. You might've surmised from the photo that these dudes aren't into brevity, but really you guys this is an almost quarter-hour of swashbuckling, organ-smeared doom riffage. It's a freaking leviathan. In terms of getting the most bang for you download or whatever, this trumps everything else. Should you need more, the album from whence it came is available from Tee Pee.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cougar - Foil Épée Sabre
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Whoa. We got a hold of a b-side from Cougar’s single “Stay Famous,” and found a calming, instrumental, banjo ditty that made us feel like the world was right again. Understand the Wisconsin five-piece usually blows our ears out, Battles-style. Patriot comes out September 15th and we’re excited and chagrinned—we promise never to pigeonhole a band (however awesome) ever again.
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Cougar - Stay Famous (Mike Ladd Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Lightning Bolt - Colossus
They say with the passage of time comes change, and for Lightning Bolt that means actually playing on a stage. The Providence duo's first LP in four years, Earthly Delights, also comes out October 13 via Load, "Colossus" being the MPfree that's pinballing around. Still can't really decipher what Brian Chippendale is screaming about into that mangy face mic (probably nothing!), but it's seven minutes of free, brain-pulverizing, sounds-like-it-was-recorded-in-a-meat-locker music, so words are rather futile.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Majeure - Timespan (Edit) + Teleforce
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Pittsburgh duo Zombi puts the og in prog, so you might guess at the sound of Majeure, the new solo project from Zombi drummist-synther A.E. Paterra. And you’d be right, but—so? Majeure focuses on the Tron-disco aspect of his main band, and even if he’s obvious in his inspirations, his soon to be released debut, Timespan, is consistently, evocatively powerful. Both this exclusive edit of the title track and “Teleforce” sound like the ’80s futurism they had in the ’70s, perfect for your next all-night drive along the autostrada.
DOWNLOAD: Gyratory System - Cargo Cult
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Why do people hate Mark Ronson so much? The Londoner seems to attract an extraordinary amount of bile for someone whose arrangements are so basically inoffensive. Perhaps Ronson's problem is that his strings are just too heroic, to the extent that at times they appear to come tooting and parping from between Lois Lane's legs. Superman, as we all know, is incredibly boring. Not just the most boring of all superheroes, but probably more boring than 75 per cent of the mortal population, among which lurk Gyratory System, whose strings are anything but heroic - the instrumental quartet's sound is paranoid and pent-up, reassuringly human. For them, strings wriggle and throb like fraying nerves. They'll probably never have to worry about stopping a runaway train or get to gunge-race prime-era Teri Hatcher, but they're infinitely more interesting than Superman and that's what counts.
Sounds Like: Emperor Machine, Talking Heads, Valerio Cosi in a rush
Previously:
Gyratory System - Utility Music
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DOWNLOAD: Cougar - Stay Famous + Mike Ladd Remix
Wisconsin agit-prog quintet Cougar just linked with Ninja Tune's Counter imprint for their new album, Patriot, due out September 1. "Stay Famous" is the first MP3 to surface; a buggy, beastly, three-headed worm of a jam that moves from polite post-rock to what sounds like Fugazi riffs dunked in battery acid. We've also got a line on Mike Ladd's smashed-up remix of the tune, a version we are feeling for its blatant disregard of proper gain levels. Remember kids, distortion can be beautiful. Cougar head out on tour with Maximo Park in September, dates up at their MySpace.
Sounds like: Battles, Mr. Bungle, Japanther
Cougar - Stay Famous (Mike Ladd Remix)
