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Modest Mouse veröffentlichen am 5. Juni ihr neues Album „An Eraser and a Maze“, das als Nachfolger zu ihrem 2021er Werk „The Golden Casket“ erscheint. Ich freue mich darauf. Mit „Third Side of the Moon“ hat die Band nun die dritte Single ausgekoppelt, die auf die bereits veröffentlichten Songs „Look How Far…“ und „Picking Dragon’s […]
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#indiemusic
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
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Modest Mouse haben heute ihr neues Album „An Eraser And A Maze“ angekündigt, das am 5. Juni über ihr eigenes Label Glacial Pace erscheint. Es ist ihr erstes Indie-Release seit dem Album „The Lonesome Crowded West“. Produziert wurde es von Isaac Brockzusammen mit Jacknife Lee, Suzy Shinn und Justin Raisen. Vorab wurde bereits der Song „Look How Far“ […]
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicFestivalLive
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Float Onhttps://jalaya.bandcamp.com/track/modest-mouse-float-on-jalaya-remix
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Modest Mouse sind derzeit viel auf Tour und haben bei einigen Konzerten bereits ihren neuen Song „Look How Far…“ gespielt, der nun offiziell erschienen ist. Der Track ist die erste richtige Single der Band seit ihrem 2021 veröffentlichten Album „The Golden Casket“. Musikalisch präsentiert sich der Song als typische, leicht hektische Modest Mouse-Nummer mit einer […]
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" If there were a chest of gold on offer to the viewer who could predict how the scene where Michael is mugged turns out – how it is utterly absurd, then deeply moving, then both at once – nobody would be able to claim the prize."
Two personal favorite moments: The rabbit on the cul-de-sac, and the #ModestMouse scene.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Float Onhttps://jalaya.bandcamp.com/track/modest-mouse-float-on-jalaya-remix
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Float Onhttps://jalaya.bandcamp.com/track/modest-mouse-float-on-jalaya-remix
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Dashboardhttps://allthehyperecords.bandcamp.com/track/modest-mouse-dashboard-dane-gill-rework-2
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"Well, King Rat has me on his list again
I can never be on the fence again
I found out it's all loud open like an organ and it
Talk, talk, talk, talk again..." -
#ModestMouse were strongly influenced by #TheCure and #ThePixies (as was I). Yup. #NeverGiveIn #WeDontNeedYourUsOrThem!
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Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West - 1997
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Modest Mouse:
🎵 Float Onhttps://jalaya.bandcamp.com/track/modest-mouse-float-on-jalaya-remix
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Modest Mouse:
🎵 Dashboardhttps://allthehyperecords.bandcamp.com/track/modest-mouse-dashboard-dane-gill-rework-2
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Modest Mouse:
🎵 Lampshades On Fire -
BONE BATS – Entry-Level
#Punk #indie #indiepunk #indierock #jazzemo #modestmouse #noncorporateapproveditem #postpunk #Philadelphia
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
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I've had a couple of folks thank me for my positive posts today. ☺️ I guess, to put it in the words of #ModestMouse, I had good news for people who like bad news? Lol. Just kidding. SPS is always a nice change from my usual #Doomposting!
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"(Alright, already) and we'll all float on
Alright, already, we'll all float on, alright
Don't worry, even if things end up a bit too heavy, we'll all float on..."- #ModestMouse , from 2001's #GoodNewsForPeopleWhoLoveBadNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk
#IndieRock #HopePunk #SteamPunk #SolarPunk #FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic
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I *think* these were some of the lyrics. Hard to tell... Brand new #ModestMouse! Third Side of the Moon!
"Dadadadadidida…
Yeah, things were shaky, As I know they always are..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVj49AZy56k&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=28
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock
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"Gonna dance hall, dance hall everyday
I'm gonna dance hall, dance hall everyday
I'm gonna dance hall, dance hall everyday
Well, I'm giving myself another one, I have too much to say"-- #ModestMouse, from 2001's #GoodNewsForPeopleWhoLoveBadNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv1-knVNDkI&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=17
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock
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"Wooden soldiers storm through burning, buildings on the top floor
Lives the zoo king's neckties, preventing them from breathing
Oh, it's such a fuzzy feeling
Oh, it's such a fuzzy feeling making plans"-- #ModestMouse, from 2021's The Golden Casket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8zQrVgmVI&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=16
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock
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This is one of my favorite #ModestMouse songs. I haven't heard them perform it since 2005! So needed!
"Woke up this morning, and it seemed to me
That every night turns out to be
A little bit more like Bukowski
And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read
But God, who'd wanna be
God, who'd wanna be such an asshole
God, who'd wanna be
God, who'd wanna be such an asshole..."From 2004's #GoodNewsForPeopleWhoLoveBadNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Z9KpPNun8&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=19
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock
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"Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
God, I sure hope you are dead!"- #ModestMouse, Satin In A Coffin, from 2004's "#GoodNewsForPeopleWhoLoveBadNews".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bNcftfcTdk&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=4
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock
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"A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard one day
My father got his gun, shot it up, they ran away ok
A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard
And as my own dog ran away with
them, I didn't say much of anything at all
A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard
As my little sister played, the dogs took her away
And I guess she was eaten up ok, yeah she was eaten up ok
My mother's cryin' blood dust now
My dad he quit his job today, well I guess he was fired but that's ok
And I'm sittin' outside my mudlake,
waiting for the pack to take me away
And right after I die the dogs
start floating up towards the glowing sky
Now they'll receive their rewards, now they will receive their rewards"- #ModestMouse, Wild Pack of Family Dogs, from 2001's "The Moon and Antarctica".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfsxyFmM-WI&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=21
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock
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"Hey, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know!"
- #ModestMouse, Dashboard, from 2007's "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penvn9VL32Y&list=PLMMeqQl_oGNpO6lYjQPERdCwLcWggvGyP&index=12
#FridayNightJukebox #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #IndieRock #DeepOnes #Lovecraftian #Rlyeh
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Excerpt from "Tragic Details About #ModestMouse" from 2023...
#IsaacBrock suffers from #EcoAnxiety
"Isaac Brock has long been vehemently opposed to #urbanization and the #DestructionOfNature, and these have remained central lyrical themes going back to the band's earliest material (per Paste Magazine). As Healthline notes, such feelings of frustration towards environmentally destructive practices, anger at the seeming inevitability of #ClimateChange, and fear for the Earth's future are called eco-anxiety –- and Brock has been suffering from it for years.
"In Pitchfork's 2012 '#LonesomeCrowdedWest' documentary, he described living in Washington State in the '90s as having a 'front-row seat to watching #forests disappearing and #UrbanSprawl begin,' lamenting the constant clearing of natural places to make way for #StripMalls. In fact, he was still thinking about it in 2021 when he told Uproxx that his childhood home regularly flooded due to forest #clearcutting.
"Many Modest Mouse songs center on shameless human destruction, with the 2015 hit '#LampshadesOnFire' -– in which Brock sings about mankind going to space to find a new planet after destroying Earth -– serving as a notable example. But in recent years, he's making an effort to focus on the positive, as evidenced by hopeful songs like 'The Sun Hasn't Left,' in which he sings, 'You're not wrong, things are a mess but there's still something left.' 'I found optimism where it actually existed because I needed it,' he told NME in 2021, adding, 'Y'know, I got three kids ... I don't think s***'s gonna get easier for everyone.' "
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/1159159/tragic-details-about-modest-mouse/
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Today #Bandcamp Friday supports #LA fire recovery
90 song 'today only' compilation:
https://goodmusiccomp.bandcamp.com/album/good-music-to-lift-los-angelesFeaturing tracks by: #PerfumeGenius
#KFlay
#REM
#FayeWebster
#Dawes
#DeathCabforCutie #PostalService
#MacDeMarco
#NekoCase
#TVOnTheRadio
#Blondshell
#JeffTweedy
#TheWaronDrugs
#ToroyMoi
#TenaciousD
#ModestMouse
#LittleDragon
#LALOM
#MJLenderman
#CourtneyBarnett
#RealEstate
#MyMorningJacket
#HurrayForTheRiffRaff
#JasonIsbellandThe400Unit
#SoccerMommy
#AnimalCollective
#ColdWarKids
#RickyMontgomery
#Lucius
#TheMidnight
#SpiritualCramp
#KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard
#MadiDiaz
#Interpol
#MilitarieGun
#ChelseaWolfe
#iRo
#DirtyProjectorsAndStargaze
#PUP
#Porches
#AnnieDiRusso
#HippoCampus
#NewPornographers
#TySegall
#NealFrancis
#MikiRatsula
#Dr.Dog
#TheDip
#LocalNatives
#TundeAdebimpe
#Gustaf
#WaterFromYourEyes
#Mudhoney
#Centro
#SilversunPickups
#RYX
#ManchesterOrchestra
#PoolKids
#FIDLAR
#TheArmed
#HEALTH
#Momma
#SYML
#MiyaFolick
#JoshRitter
#TheHeavyHeavy
#Pachyman
#NickThune
#SoulAsylum
#HotlineTNT
#BEL
#Sycco
#TheHoldSteady
#cumgirl8
#RichyMitchAndTheCoalMiners
#CunninghamBird
#LalaLala
#TheoKatzman
#CassandraJenkins
#brotherkenzie
#ImWithHer
#ChrisCohen
#FlockofDimes
#Friko
#GeorgeAlice
#ThisIsLorelei
#ShannonLay
#Eggy
#AlyciaLang
#JamesHenryJr
#WatkinsFamilyHour -
Today #Bandcamp Friday supports #LA fire recovery
90 song 'today only' compilation:
https://goodmusiccomp.bandcamp.com/album/good-music-to-lift-los-angelesFeaturing tracks by: #PerfumeGenius
#KFlay
#REM
#FayeWebster
#Dawes
#DeathCabforCutie #PostalService
#MacDeMarco
#NekoCase
#TVOnTheRadio
#Blondshell
#JeffTweedy
#TheWaronDrugs
#ToroyMoi
#TenaciousD
#ModestMouse
#LittleDragon
#LALOM
#MJLenderman
#CourtneyBarnett
#RealEstate
#MyMorningJacket
#HurrayForTheRiffRaff
#JasonIsbellandThe400Unit
#SoccerMommy
#AnimalCollective
#ColdWarKids
#RickyMontgomery
#Lucius
#TheMidnight
#SpiritualCramp
#KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard
#MadiDiaz
#Interpol
#MilitarieGun
#ChelseaWolfe
#iRo
#DirtyProjectorsAndStargaze
#PUP
#Porches
#AnnieDiRusso
#HippoCampus
#NewPornographers
#TySegall
#NealFrancis
#MikiRatsula
#Dr.Dog
#TheDip
#LocalNatives
#TundeAdebimpe
#Gustaf
#WaterFromYourEyes
#Mudhoney
#Centro
#SilversunPickups
#RYX
#ManchesterOrchestra
#PoolKids
#FIDLAR
#TheArmed
#HEALTH
#Momma
#SYML
#MiyaFolick
#JoshRitter
#TheHeavyHeavy
#Pachyman
#NickThune
#SoulAsylum
#HotlineTNT
#BEL
#Sycco
#TheHoldSteady
#cumgirl8
#RichyMitchAndTheCoalMiners
#CunninghamBird
#LalaLala
#TheoKatzman
#CassandraJenkins
#brotherkenzie
#ImWithHer
#ChrisCohen
#FlockofDimes
#Friko
#GeorgeAlice
#ThisIsLorelei
#ShannonLay
#Eggy
#AlyciaLang
#JamesHenryJr
#WatkinsFamilyHour -
Today #Bandcamp Friday supports #LA fire recovery
90 song 'today only' compilation:
https://goodmusiccomp.bandcamp.com/album/good-music-to-lift-los-angelesFeaturing tracks by: #PerfumeGenius
#KFlay
#REM
#FayeWebster
#Dawes
#DeathCabforCutie #PostalService
#MacDeMarco
#NekoCase
#TVOnTheRadio
#Blondshell
#JeffTweedy
#TheWaronDrugs
#ToroyMoi
#TenaciousD
#ModestMouse
#LittleDragon
#LALOM
#MJLenderman
#CourtneyBarnett
#RealEstate
#MyMorningJacket
#HurrayForTheRiffRaff
#JasonIsbellandThe400Unit
#SoccerMommy
#AnimalCollective
#ColdWarKids
#RickyMontgomery
#Lucius
#TheMidnight
#SpiritualCramp
#KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard
#MadiDiaz
#Interpol
#MilitarieGun
#ChelseaWolfe
#iRo
#DirtyProjectorsAndStargaze
#PUP
#Porches
#AnnieDiRusso
#HippoCampus
#NewPornographers
#TySegall
#NealFrancis
#MikiRatsula
#Dr.Dog
#TheDip
#LocalNatives
#TundeAdebimpe
#Gustaf
#WaterFromYourEyes
#Mudhoney
#Centro
#SilversunPickups
#RYX
#ManchesterOrchestra
#PoolKids
#FIDLAR
#TheArmed
#HEALTH
#Momma
#SYML
#MiyaFolick
#JoshRitter
#TheHeavyHeavy
#Pachyman
#NickThune
#SoulAsylum
#HotlineTNT
#BEL
#Sycco
#TheHoldSteady
#cumgirl8
#RichyMitchAndTheCoalMiners
#CunninghamBird
#LalaLala
#TheoKatzman
#CassandraJenkins
#brotherkenzie
#ImWithHer
#ChrisCohen
#FlockofDimes
#Friko
#GeorgeAlice
#ThisIsLorelei
#ShannonLay
#Eggy
#AlyciaLang
#JamesHenryJr
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Stuck in the Filter: June 2024’s Angry Misses
By Kenstrosity
Managing this Filter is a full-time job. Or it would be if I paid anyone, or got paid myself. I doubt anyone in this godforsaken facility has seen a greenback in the last two decades.1 Nonetheless, I grabbed my clipboard and my flogger and I made my way to the lockers, where my dutiful minions await my first order of each day. It’d been a minute since we cleared out the ducts in the south wing of AMG Headquarters, so that’s where I ushered my team first. The poor souls shivered at the thought of tackling a highly neglected section of the system. But, as always, work needs doing and this is the work.
At long last, just when I started considering replacing my whole crew outright and leaving the current one for dead, they returned, battered and winded, but alive. And they brought wares! O blessed day! Without further ado, I bring you our June Filter!
Kenstrosity’s Medieval Mutton
Aklash // Reincarnation [June 20th, 2024 – Self Release]
Proving the unlikely flexibility of black metal as a medium, tales of knights, castles, and fantastical clashes of class marries with charred extremity so effortlessly that it comes at no surprise to me how UK Medieval melodic black metal troupe Aklash came to be. Kicking fourth record Reincarnation off with an incredible one-two punch, “Reincarnation” and “Communion with Ghosts,” Aklash’s melodic black metal-meets-Vulture Industries-meets-Modest Mouse-meets-Æther Realm concoction charms its way deep into my very being. These songs, burgeoning with lush compositions, incredible guitar work, and multifaceted personalities, evoke imagery of the ancient and the arcane so vividly that it often feels like traveling through time in an alternate universe of magic and mirth. The rabid “Babylon” takes this initial salvo and stabs yet another 1,200cc of pure adrenaline into my veins.2 As my neck swings and spirals with great velocity, giant mugs of mead spontaneously manifest in both fists. What is a sponge to do but imbibe? Against all odds, such infectious energy sustains into the magnificent closer “My Will Made Manifest,” making this record a wall-to-wall festival of sound. If it weren’t for a couple of frilly interludes and the teensiest spot of bloat in a couple of places, I could see Reincarnation growing into a year-end contender. In the end, it might do just that.
Thus Spoke’s Forgotten Findings
Cainites // Revenant [June 21st, 2024 – Scarlet Records]
It was once rumored across Eastern Europe that those who rebelled against the Orthodox church were cursed to become vampires after they died. Revenant, however, follows an Orthodox priest, whose induction into the class of bloodthirsty monsters happens irrespective of his religious devotion. Crafting a spooky tale with Scandinavian-inspired melodeath and flourishes of synthy blackened death, Italian duo Cainites strike a little like a less-polished Tribulation, but with bags of their personality. These guys know how to write a riff that shivers its way up your spine (“Theotokos,” “God’s Wrath,” “Redemption”) and dance around in your belly (“Darkness Awaits,” “Forgive Our Sins”), and damn, can it be catchy. Using a dueting mixture of growls and moaning cleans, choruses jam their way into your brain and don’t budge (“Vampire God,” “We Lost Our Sanctity”), amplifying the gleefully malicious bounce of the riffs with tongue-in-cheek melodrama. Solos have just enough yearning depth while staying grounded with a gritty tone, and not outstaying their welcome. The album generally treads the line well between camp and serious, discounting, perhaps, the extended spoken-word Bible recitation where God curses Cain (“Cainites”). In all, it’s a very good time and only grew on me the more I listened. One to check out for true fans of melodeath.3
Inherits the Void // Scars of Yesteryears [June 21st, 2024 – Avantgarde Music]
Scars of Yesteryears took me so much by surprise that I had to be informed by another staff member that it even existed. Having reviewed last year’s The Impending Fall of the Stars, and finding it quite an uplifting piece of melodic black metal, I was keen to see where the project had gone, musically, in the intervening time. The answer is nowhere, but that’s not entirely negative. This is still soaring (“L’effigie Du Déclin”), epic (“Scars of Yesteryear,” “L’eternelle Course Des Astres”), blistering (“Celestial Antler”), and sometimes beautiful (“The Endless Glow of Twilight”) meloblack. With lightning-fast and stormily dynamic riffing and enough of a melodic through-line to keep things going. The highs are not as high as they were on the previous record, the slower moments lacking the atmosphere and grandiosity that former work showed (though coming closest on “L’eternelle…” and “The Endless…”). However, the whole feels more consistent and steady, with the first half whizzing by on the tailwind of “Celestial Antler,” “The Orchard of Grief,” and “Ashes of Grievance”‘s bubbling energy, and the second dipping in intensity only to be saved by the final couple of tracks. Above-average, fiery meloblack, and worth taking for a spin even if it won’t be making any lists.
Dear Hollow’s Dumpster Disturbance
Bilmuri // American Motor Sports [June 28th, 2024 – Self Release]
Everyone loves easycore.4 In an alternative universe where easycore is a natural progression of pop country rather than pop/punk, it becomes an international treasure and that treasure is American Motor Sports. Of the crabcore alum of Attack Attack!,5 Johnny Franck is least likely to be featured on Octane Radio,6 as the Bilmuri project has been a means for musical exploration since his departure. Offering the most streamlined homage to the three M’s (‘Murica, memes, and the Midwest), get ready to crank your hog to ten songs of heartbreak, beer, and landscaping through arena pop country with needlessly heavy djent guitar riffs – alongside Franck’s signature insanity coursing through all the movements. From the deathcore-meets-honkytonk and sub drops of “Better Hell” and “Spinnin’ You Around,” the blaring and sexy sax solos of “2016 Cavaliers (Ohio),” “Straight Through You,” and “Drunk Enough,” the blazing fiddle of “Talkin’ 2 Ur Ghost,” to the Kevin James breakdown call out of “Emptyhanded,” Bilmuri creates an infectious blend of the safely predictable and the utterly apeshit. It features guest artists from country scenes (Dylan Marlowe, Mitchell Tenpenny) and indie pop spheres (Knox, Arizona) who all add yearning and theatricality to Franck’s already emotive performances. American Motor Sports is twenty-eight minutes of catchy melodies, scathing grooves, and tastefully tragic lyrics with a penchant for memes. We’re all supposed to hate it, but much to my assigned promos’ dismay and Steel Druhm‘s chagrin,7 I haven’t been able to listen to much else.
Dolphin Whisperer’s Maritime Musing
Houle // Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire [June 7th, 2024 – Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions]
We all know that black metal hits harder when it’s actually something else wrapped in a blackened and shrieking package. France’s Houle offers Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire as a one part Iron Maiden, one part Immortal, and two parts unstoppable siren screaming as vocalist Adsagsona shreds throat through each of the blazing numbers on this debut (minus the beer-swinging sailor intro). Her ear-stabbing cries tally high, and if it weren’t for her glottal punishments and accompanying guitarists’ breaks into tremolo melodies, tracks “Sur Les Braises de Foyer” and “Sel, Sang et Gerçures” could be instead the backdrops to something of the dark power metal world, replete with Maiden bass gallop and anthemic flair. She has a fine narrative croon too, but it’s her flagrant vocal flayings that sell the extremity of what Houle packs as ballast. With terraced guitar lines and thrashed-out drum breaks (“La Danse du Rocher,” “Mère Nocturne”), Ciel Cendre has the forward energy of battle and doesn’t let go to the very end, joining bands like Aorlhac and Passièsme in the modern melodic black metal field fit for castle raids. But as long-form closer “Née des Embruns” reinforces with calls of the ocean in its open and fade, Houle attacks from the sea. En garde!
Mark Z.’s Musings
200 Stab Wounds // Manual Manic Procedures [June 28th, 2024 – Metal Blade Records]
Following a rapid rise to fame during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio death metal troupe 200 Stab Wounds thrust their Slave to the Scalpel debut onto the masses in 2021. While I was about as mixed on that one as Felagund was, their second album Manual Manic Procedures has proven these wounds cut far deeper than originally thought. The beefy chugs that the band has become known for are still here in full force, but now they’re paired with sharper hooks and a heightened sense of maturity. On Procedures, you’ll hear acoustic plucking, immense Bolt Thrower riffing, grooves that will blow your guts out, and even some melodic death metal influence—and that’s just on the first song. The band also knows when to give you a breather, be it a well-placed atmospheric instrumental (“Led to the Chamber / Liquefied”) or an extended ride on a great groovy riff (“Defiled Gestation”). With a monstrous guitar tone, plenty of killer moments, and a track flow that’s smoother than liquefied human remains, Manual Manic Procedures feels like modern death metal coming into its own.
#200StabWounds #2024 #Aklash #AmericanMetal #AmericanMotorSports #Aorlhac #Arizona #AttackAttack #AvantgardeMusic #ÆtherRealm #Beartooth #Bilmuri #BlackMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #BoltThrower #Cainites #CielCendreEtMisèReNoire #DeathMetal #DylanMarlowe #FrenchMetal #Houle #Immortal #InheritsTheVoid #IronMaiden #ItalianMetal #Jun24 #Knox #LesActeursDeLOmbreProductions #ManualManicProcedures #MedievalBlackMetal #MelodicBlackMetal #MelodicDeathMetal #MetalBladeRecords #MitchellTenpenny #ModestMouse #OfMiceAndMen #Passièsme #Reincarnation #Revenant #Review #Reviews #ScarletRecords #ScarsOfYesteryears #SelfRelease #StuckInTheFilter #Tribulation #UKMetal #VultureIndustries
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Stuck in the Filter: June 2024’s Angry Misses
By Kenstrosity
Managing this Filter is a full-time job. Or it would be if I paid anyone, or got paid myself. I doubt anyone in this godforsaken facility has seen a greenback in the last two decades.1 Nonetheless, I grabbed my clipboard and my flogger and I made my way to the lockers, where my dutiful minions await my first order of each day. It’d been a minute since we cleared out the ducts in the south wing of AMG Headquarters, so that’s where I ushered my team first. The poor souls shivered at the thought of tackling a highly neglected section of the system. But, as always, work needs doing and this is the work.
At long last, just when I started considering replacing my whole crew outright and leaving the current one for dead, they returned, battered and winded, but alive. And they brought wares! O blessed day! Without further ado, I bring you our June Filter!
Kenstrosity’s Medieval Mutton
Aklash // Reincarnation [June 20th, 2024 – Self Release]
Proving the unlikely flexibility of black metal as a medium, tales of knights, castles, and fantastical clashes of class marries with charred extremity so effortlessly that it comes at no surprise to me how UK Medieval melodic black metal troupe Aklash came to be. Kicking fourth record Reincarnation off with an incredible one-two punch, “Reincarnation” and “Communion with Ghosts,” Aklash’s melodic black metal-meets-Vulture Industries-meets-Modest Mouse-meets-Æther Realm concoction charms its way deep into my very being. These songs, burgeoning with lush compositions, incredible guitar work, and multifaceted personalities, evoke imagery of the ancient and the arcane so vividly that it often feels like traveling through time in an alternate universe of magic and mirth. The rabid “Babylon” takes this initial salvo and stabs yet another 1,200cc of pure adrenaline into my veins.2 As my neck swings and spirals with great velocity, giant mugs of mead spontaneously manifest in both fists. What is a sponge to do but imbibe? Against all odds, such infectious energy sustains into the magnificent closer “My Will Made Manifest,” making this record a wall-to-wall festival of sound. If it weren’t for a couple of frilly interludes and the teensiest spot of bloat in a couple of places, I could see Reincarnation growing into a year-end contender. In the end, it might do just that.
Thus Spoke’s Forgotten Findings
Cainites // Revenant [June 21st, 2024 – Scarlet Records]
It was once rumored across Eastern Europe that those who rebelled against the Orthodox church were cursed to become vampires after they died. Revenant, however, follows an Orthodox priest, whose induction into the class of bloodthirsty monsters happens irrespective of his religious devotion. Crafting a spooky tale with Scandinavian-inspired melodeath and flourishes of synthy blackened death, Italian duo Cainites strike a little like a less-polished Tribulation, but with bags of their personality. These guys know how to write a riff that shivers its way up your spine (“Theotokos,” “God’s Wrath,” “Redemption”) and dance around in your belly (“Darkness Awaits,” “Forgive Our Sins”), and damn, can it be catchy. Using a dueting mixture of growls and moaning cleans, choruses jam their way into your brain and don’t budge (“Vampire God,” “We Lost Our Sanctity”), amplifying the gleefully malicious bounce of the riffs with tongue-in-cheek melodrama. Solos have just enough yearning depth while staying grounded with a gritty tone, and not outstaying their welcome. The album generally treads the line well between camp and serious, discounting, perhaps, the extended spoken-word Bible recitation where God curses Cain (“Cainites”). In all, it’s a very good time and only grew on me the more I listened. One to check out for true fans of melodeath.3
Inherits the Void // Scars of Yesteryears [June 21st, 2024 – Avantgarde Music]
Scars of Yesteryears took me so much by surprise that I had to be informed by another staff member that it even existed. Having reviewed last year’s The Impending Fall of the Stars, and finding it quite an uplifting piece of melodic black metal, I was keen to see where the project had gone, musically, in the intervening time. The answer is nowhere, but that’s not entirely negative. This is still soaring (“L’effigie Du Déclin”), epic (“Scars of Yesteryear,” “L’eternelle Course Des Astres”), blistering (“Celestial Antler”), and sometimes beautiful (“The Endless Glow of Twilight”) meloblack. With lightning-fast and stormily dynamic riffing and enough of a melodic through-line to keep things going. The highs are not as high as they were on the previous record, the slower moments lacking the atmosphere and grandiosity that former work showed (though coming closest on “L’eternelle…” and “The Endless…”). However, the whole feels more consistent and steady, with the first half whizzing by on the tailwind of “Celestial Antler,” “The Orchard of Grief,” and “Ashes of Grievance”‘s bubbling energy, and the second dipping in intensity only to be saved by the final couple of tracks. Above-average, fiery meloblack, and worth taking for a spin even if it won’t be making any lists.
Dear Hollow’s Dumpster Disturbance
Bilmuri // American Motor Sports [June 28th, 2024 – Self Release]
Everyone loves easycore.4 In an alternative universe where easycore is a natural progression of pop country rather than pop/punk, it becomes an international treasure and that treasure is American Motor Sports. Of the crabcore alum of Attack Attack!,5 Johnny Franck is least likely to be featured on Octane Radio,6 as the Bilmuri project has been a means for musical exploration since his departure. Offering the most streamlined homage to the three M’s (‘Murica, memes, and the Midwest), get ready to crank your hog to ten songs of heartbreak, beer, and landscaping through arena pop country with needlessly heavy djent guitar riffs – alongside Franck’s signature insanity coursing through all the movements. From the deathcore-meets-honkytonk and sub drops of “Better Hell” and “Spinnin’ You Around,” the blaring and sexy sax solos of “2016 Cavaliers (Ohio),” “Straight Through You,” and “Drunk Enough,” the blazing fiddle of “Talkin’ 2 Ur Ghost,” to the Kevin James breakdown call out of “Emptyhanded,” Bilmuri creates an infectious blend of the safely predictable and the utterly apeshit. It features guest artists from country scenes (Dylan Marlowe, Mitchell Tenpenny) and indie pop spheres (Knox, Arizona) who all add yearning and theatricality to Franck’s already emotive performances. American Motor Sports is twenty-eight minutes of catchy melodies, scathing grooves, and tastefully tragic lyrics with a penchant for memes. We’re all supposed to hate it, but much to my assigned promos’ dismay and Steel Druhm‘s chagrin,7 I haven’t been able to listen to much else.
Dolphin Whisperer’s Maritime Musing
Houle // Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire [June 7th, 2024 – Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions]
We all know that black metal hits harder when it’s actually something else wrapped in a blackened and shrieking package. France’s Houle offers Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire as a one part Iron Maiden, one part Immortal, and two parts unstoppable siren screaming as vocalist Adsagsona shreds throat through each of the blazing numbers on this debut (minus the beer-swinging sailor intro). Her ear-stabbing cries tally high, and if it weren’t for her glottal punishments and accompanying guitarists’ breaks into tremolo melodies, tracks “Sur Les Braises de Foyer” and “Sel, Sang et Gerçures” could be instead the backdrops to something of the dark power metal world, replete with Maiden bass gallop and anthemic flair. She has a fine narrative croon too, but it’s her flagrant vocal flayings that sell the extremity of what Houle packs as ballast. With terraced guitar lines and thrashed-out drum breaks (“La Danse du Rocher,” “Mère Nocturne”), Ciel Cendre has the forward energy of battle and doesn’t let go to the very end, joining bands like Aorlhac and Passièsme in the modern melodic black metal field fit for castle raids. But as long-form closer “Née des Embruns” reinforces with calls of the ocean in its open and fade, Houle attacks from the sea. En garde!
Mark Z.’s Musings
200 Stab Wounds // Manual Manic Procedures [June 28th, 2024 – Metal Blade Records]
Following a rapid rise to fame during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio death metal troupe 200 Stab Wounds thrust their Slave to the Scalpel debut onto the masses in 2021. While I was about as mixed on that one as Felagund was, their second album Manual Manic Procedures has proven these wounds cut far deeper than originally thought. The beefy chugs that the band has become known for are still here in full force, but now they’re paired with sharper hooks and a heightened sense of maturity. On Procedures, you’ll hear acoustic plucking, immense Bolt Thrower riffing, grooves that will blow your guts out, and even some melodic death metal influence—and that’s just on the first song. The band also knows when to give you a breather, be it a well-placed atmospheric instrumental (“Led to the Chamber / Liquefied”) or an extended ride on a great groovy riff (“Defiled Gestation”). With a monstrous guitar tone, plenty of killer moments, and a track flow that’s smoother than liquefied human remains, Manual Manic Procedures feels like modern death metal coming into its own.
#200StabWounds #2024 #Aklash #AmericanMetal #AmericanMotorSports #Aorlhac #Arizona #AttackAttack #AvantgardeMusic #ÆtherRealm #Beartooth #Bilmuri #BlackMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #BoltThrower #Cainites #CielCendreEtMisèReNoire #DeathMetal #DylanMarlowe #FrenchMetal #Houle #Immortal #InheritsTheVoid #IronMaiden #ItalianMetal #Jun24 #Knox #LesActeursDeLOmbreProductions #ManualManicProcedures #MedievalBlackMetal #MelodicBlackMetal #MelodicDeathMetal #MetalBladeRecords #MitchellTenpenny #ModestMouse #OfMiceAndMen #Passièsme #Reincarnation #Revenant #Review #Reviews #ScarletRecords #ScarsOfYesteryears #SelfRelease #StuckInTheFilter #Tribulation #UKMetal #VultureIndustries
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Stuck in the Filter: June 2024’s Angry Misses
By Kenstrosity
Managing this Filter is a full-time job. Or it would be if I paid anyone, or got paid myself. I doubt anyone in this godforsaken facility has seen a greenback in the last two decades.1 Nonetheless, I grabbed my clipboard and my flogger and I made my way to the lockers, where my dutiful minions await my first order of each day. It’d been a minute since we cleared out the ducts in the south wing of AMG Headquarters, so that’s where I ushered my team first. The poor souls shivered at the thought of tackling a highly neglected section of the system. But, as always, work needs doing and this is the work.
At long last, just when I started considering replacing my whole crew outright and leaving the current one for dead, they returned, battered and winded, but alive. And they brought wares! O blessed day! Without further ado, I bring you our June Filter!
Kenstrosity’s Medieval Mutton
Aklash // Reincarnation [June 20th, 2024 – Self Release]
Proving the unlikely flexibility of black metal as a medium, tales of knights, castles, and fantastical clashes of class marries with charred extremity so effortlessly that it comes at no surprise to me how UK Medieval melodic black metal troupe Aklash came to be. Kicking fourth record Reincarnation off with an incredible one-two punch, “Reincarnation” and “Communion with Ghosts,” Aklash’s melodic black metal-meets-Vulture Industries-meets-Modest Mouse-meets-Æther Realm concoction charms its way deep into my very being. These songs, burgeoning with lush compositions, incredible guitar work, and multifaceted personalities, evoke imagery of the ancient and the arcane so vividly that it often feels like traveling through time in an alternate universe of magic and mirth. The rabid “Babylon” takes this initial salvo and stabs yet another 1,200cc of pure adrenaline into my veins.2 As my neck swings and spirals with great velocity, giant mugs of mead spontaneously manifest in both fists. What is a sponge to do but imbibe? Against all odds, such infectious energy sustains into the magnificent closer “My Will Made Manifest,” making this record a wall-to-wall festival of sound. If it weren’t for a couple of frilly interludes and the teensiest spot of bloat in a couple of places, I could see Reincarnation growing into a year-end contender. In the end, it might do just that.
Thus Spoke’s Forgotten Findings
Cainites // Revenant [June 21st, 2024 – Scarlet Records]
It was once rumored across Eastern Europe that those who rebelled against the Orthodox church were cursed to become vampires after they died. Revenant, however, follows an Orthodox priest, whose induction into the class of bloodthirsty monsters happens irrespective of his religious devotion. Crafting a spooky tale with Scandinavian-inspired melodeath and flourishes of synthy blackened death, Italian duo Cainites strike a little like a less-polished Tribulation, but with bags of their personality. These guys know how to write a riff that shivers its way up your spine (“Theotokos,” “God’s Wrath,” “Redemption”) and dance around in your belly (“Darkness Awaits,” “Forgive Our Sins”), and damn, can it be catchy. Using a dueting mixture of growls and moaning cleans, choruses jam their way into your brain and don’t budge (“Vampire God,” “We Lost Our Sanctity”), amplifying the gleefully malicious bounce of the riffs with tongue-in-cheek melodrama. Solos have just enough yearning depth while staying grounded with a gritty tone, and not outstaying their welcome. The album generally treads the line well between camp and serious, discounting, perhaps, the extended spoken-word Bible recitation where God curses Cain (“Cainites”). In all, it’s a very good time and only grew on me the more I listened. One to check out for true fans of melodeath.3
Inherits the Void // Scars of Yesteryears [June 21st, 2024 – Avantgarde Music]
Scars of Yesteryears took me so much by surprise that I had to be informed by another staff member that it even existed. Having reviewed last year’s The Impending Fall of the Stars, and finding it quite an uplifting piece of melodic black metal, I was keen to see where the project had gone, musically, in the intervening time. The answer is nowhere, but that’s not entirely negative. This is still soaring (“L’effigie Du Déclin”), epic (“Scars of Yesteryear,” “L’eternelle Course Des Astres”), blistering (“Celestial Antler”), and sometimes beautiful (“The Endless Glow of Twilight”) meloblack. With lightning-fast and stormily dynamic riffing and enough of a melodic through-line to keep things going. The highs are not as high as they were on the previous record, the slower moments lacking the atmosphere and grandiosity that former work showed (though coming closest on “L’eternelle…” and “The Endless…”). However, the whole feels more consistent and steady, with the first half whizzing by on the tailwind of “Celestial Antler,” “The Orchard of Grief,” and “Ashes of Grievance”‘s bubbling energy, and the second dipping in intensity only to be saved by the final couple of tracks. Above-average, fiery meloblack, and worth taking for a spin even if it won’t be making any lists.
Dear Hollow’s Dumpster Disturbance
Bilmuri // American Motor Sports [June 28th, 2024 – Self Release]
Everyone loves easycore.4 In an alternative universe where easycore is a natural progression of pop country rather than pop/punk, it becomes an international treasure and that treasure is American Motor Sports. Of the crabcore alum of Attack Attack!,5 Johnny Franck is least likely to be featured on Octane Radio,6 as the Bilmuri project has been a means for musical exploration since his departure. Offering the most streamlined homage to the three M’s (‘Murica, memes, and the Midwest), get ready to crank your hog to ten songs of heartbreak, beer, and landscaping through arena pop country with needlessly heavy djent guitar riffs – alongside Franck’s signature insanity coursing through all the movements. From the deathcore-meets-honkytonk and sub drops of “Better Hell” and “Spinnin’ You Around,” the blaring and sexy sax solos of “2016 Cavaliers (Ohio),” “Straight Through You,” and “Drunk Enough,” the blazing fiddle of “Talkin’ 2 Ur Ghost,” to the Kevin James breakdown call out of “Emptyhanded,” Bilmuri creates an infectious blend of the safely predictable and the utterly apeshit. It features guest artists from country scenes (Dylan Marlowe, Mitchell Tenpenny) and indie pop spheres (Knox, Arizona) who all add yearning and theatricality to Franck’s already emotive performances. American Motor Sports is twenty-eight minutes of catchy melodies, scathing grooves, and tastefully tragic lyrics with a penchant for memes. We’re all supposed to hate it, but much to my assigned promos’ dismay and Steel Druhm‘s chagrin,7 I haven’t been able to listen to much else.
Dolphin Whisperer’s Maritime Musing
Houle // Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire [June 7th, 2024 – Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions]
We all know that black metal hits harder when it’s actually something else wrapped in a blackened and shrieking package. France’s Houle offers Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire as a one part Iron Maiden, one part Immortal, and two parts unstoppable siren screaming as vocalist Adsagsona shreds throat through each of the blazing numbers on this debut (minus the beer-swinging sailor intro). Her ear-stabbing cries tally high, and if it weren’t for her glottal punishments and accompanying guitarists’ breaks into tremolo melodies, tracks “Sur Les Braises de Foyer” and “Sel, Sang et Gerçures” could be instead the backdrops to something of the dark power metal world, replete with Maiden bass gallop and anthemic flair. She has a fine narrative croon too, but it’s her flagrant vocal flayings that sell the extremity of what Houle packs as ballast. With terraced guitar lines and thrashed-out drum breaks (“La Danse du Rocher,” “Mère Nocturne”), Ciel Cendre has the forward energy of battle and doesn’t let go to the very end, joining bands like Aorlhac and Passièsme in the modern melodic black metal field fit for castle raids. But as long-form closer “Née des Embruns” reinforces with calls of the ocean in its open and fade, Houle attacks from the sea. En garde!
Mark Z.’s Musings
200 Stab Wounds // Manual Manic Procedures [June 28th, 2024 – Metal Blade Records]
Following a rapid rise to fame during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio death metal troupe 200 Stab Wounds thrust their Slave to the Scalpel debut onto the masses in 2021. While I was about as mixed on that one as Felagund was, their second album Manual Manic Procedures has proven these wounds cut far deeper than originally thought. The beefy chugs that the band has become known for are still here in full force, but now they’re paired with sharper hooks and a heightened sense of maturity. On Procedures, you’ll hear acoustic plucking, immense Bolt Thrower riffing, grooves that will blow your guts out, and even some melodic death metal influence—and that’s just on the first song. The band also knows when to give you a breather, be it a well-placed atmospheric instrumental (“Led to the Chamber / Liquefied”) or an extended ride on a great groovy riff (“Defiled Gestation”). With a monstrous guitar tone, plenty of killer moments, and a track flow that’s smoother than liquefied human remains, Manual Manic Procedures feels like modern death metal coming into its own.
#200StabWounds #2024 #Aklash #AmericanMetal #AmericanMotorSports #Aorlhac #Arizona #AttackAttack #AvantgardeMusic #ÆtherRealm #Beartooth #Bilmuri #BlackMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #BoltThrower #Cainites #CielCendreEtMisèReNoire #DeathMetal #DylanMarlowe #FrenchMetal #Houle #Immortal #InheritsTheVoid #IronMaiden #ItalianMetal #Jun24 #Knox #LesActeursDeLOmbreProductions #ManualManicProcedures #MedievalBlackMetal #MelodicBlackMetal #MelodicDeathMetal #MetalBladeRecords #MitchellTenpenny #ModestMouse #OfMiceAndMen #Passièsme #Reincarnation #Revenant #Review #Reviews #ScarletRecords #ScarsOfYesteryears #SelfRelease #StuckInTheFilter #Tribulation #UKMetal #VultureIndustries
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Selected influences (part 3)
#ScottWalker #VinylWilliams #ConnanMockasin #TheCharlatans #CharlatansUK #TheChurch #FieldMusic #Pond #TheGrowlers #Growlers #CDuncan #JoannaGruesome #ModestMouse #Temples #KurtVile #PrimalScream #IOEcho #Mansun #Clinic #PhilipSelway #SimpleMinds #Spiritualized #TheByrds #Byrds #Chairlift #JDilla #JoannaNewsom #MeineMeinung #TheVelvetUnderground #VelvetUnderground #AndrewBird #FairportConvention #AnimalCollective #BlackRebelMotorcycleClub #BRMC #NewOrder
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Selected influences (part 3)
#ScottWalker #VinylWilliams #ConnanMockasin #TheCharlatans #CharlatansUK #TheChurch #FieldMusic #Pond #TheGrowlers #Growlers #CDuncan #JoannaGruesome #ModestMouse #Temples #KurtVile #PrimalScream #IOEcho #Mansun #Clinic #PhilipSelway #SimpleMinds #Spiritualized #TheByrds #Byrds #Chairlift #JDilla #JoannaNewsom #MeineMeinung #TheVelvetUnderground #VelvetUnderground #AndrewBird #FairportConvention #AnimalCollective #BlackRebelMotorcycleClub #BRMC #NewOrder
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Selected influences (part 3)
#ScottWalker #VinylWilliams #ConnanMockasin #TheCharlatans #CharlatansUK #TheChurch #FieldMusic #Pond #TheGrowlers #Growlers #CDuncan #JoannaGruesome #ModestMouse #Temples #KurtVile #PrimalScream #IOEcho #Mansun #Clinic #PhilipSelway #SimpleMinds #Spiritualized #TheByrds #Byrds #Chairlift #JDilla #JoannaNewsom #MeineMeinung #TheVelvetUnderground #VelvetUnderground #AndrewBird #FairportConvention #AnimalCollective #BlackRebelMotorcycleClub #BRMC #NewOrder
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Selected influences (part 3)
#ScottWalker #VinylWilliams #ConnanMockasin #TheCharlatans #CharlatansUK #TheChurch #FieldMusic #Pond #TheGrowlers #Growlers #CDuncan #JoannaGruesome #ModestMouse #Temples #KurtVile #PrimalScream #IOEcho #Mansun #Clinic #PhilipSelway #SimpleMinds #Spiritualized #TheByrds #Byrds #Chairlift #JDilla #JoannaNewsom #MeineMeinung #TheVelvetUnderground #VelvetUnderground #AndrewBird #FairportConvention #AnimalCollective #BlackRebelMotorcycleClub #BRMC #NewOrder
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Selected influences (part 3)
#ScottWalker #VinylWilliams #ConnanMockasin #TheCharlatans #CharlatansUK #TheChurch #FieldMusic #Pond #TheGrowlers #Growlers #CDuncan #JoannaGruesome #ModestMouse #Temples #KurtVile #PrimalScream #IOEcho #Mansun #Clinic #PhilipSelway #SimpleMinds #Spiritualized #TheByrds #Byrds #Chairlift #JDilla #JoannaNewsom #MeineMeinung #TheVelvetUnderground #VelvetUnderground #AndrewBird #FairportConvention #AnimalCollective #BlackRebelMotorcycleClub #BRMC #NewOrder