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🎵 Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill

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🎵 Slowdive - kisses

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Slowdive:
🎵 Sugar for The Pill (6 Music Session, 6 Apr 2017)

#Slowdive

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https://open.spotify.com/track/0eVz3hV2xOXdneGpnWDFpb

Slowdive - Pygmalion - 1995
#Music #AlbumSuggestions #NowPlaying #NowListening
#Slowdive #Pygmalion

Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound Review

By Owlswald

Black metal is rooted in extremity—a core toolkit of visual aesthetics, speed, power and atmosphere that naturally imbues it with an inherent spiritual essence. But that essence often collapses into a monochromatic buzz of tremolo and constant tempos. Los Angeles-based quartet Agriculture challenges this expectation with their second LP, The Spiritual Sound, moving beyond the solely dark and brutal in search of presence and illumination. Coming off their potent self-titled debut—a record that landed on Cherd’s Top 10(ish) records of 2023—and 2024’s Living is Easy EP, The Spiritual Sound is a statement of pure honesty and fearless experimentation. The record shatters typical black metal conventions, throwing out ritualistic fanfare for a vast array of influences including death metal, noise, math rock, folk, country, and punk. Self-dubbed as “ecstatic black metal,” the foursome demands you check all preconceived notions at the door as they reframe extreme in their own unique and expansive way.

While Agriculture hasn’t completely turned their backs on their blackened roots, The Spiritual Sound uses them as a launchpad to branch out into realms occupied by groups like Liturgy and labelmates Chat Pile. The frenzied, tremolotic dissonance of guitarists Dan Meyer and Richard Chowenhill still power tracks like “Serenity,” “Flea,” and “Micah (5.15am),” underpinning Leah Levinson’s manic vocals and Kern Haug’s unhinged drumming. Now, however, this approach serves as a stepping stone to more expansive horizons, as Agriculture’s originality has fully blossomed. The record’s forty-four minutes are a playful, unpredictable and complex patchwork of styles: math rock chaos (“My Garden”), sludgy down-picked riffs (“The Weight”), soothing Slowdivey shoegaze harmonies (“Flea,” “Dan’s Love Song”), punky gallops (“Micah (5.15am))” and delicate, folky passages (“The Reply,” “Hallelujah”). This diverse blend transmits an authentic ethos centered on camaraderie, collective struggle, and catharsis, grounded in themes from queer history and AIDS-era literature to historical collapse and Zen Buddhism. As unconventional as it might be, The Spiritual Sound’s mission is a clear success: to craft unique, empowering music that fosters community without pretense.

Agriculture’s experimentation largely shines through Meyer and Chowenhill’s impressive and inventive shredding. The duo injects The Spiritual Sound with tons of flashy guitar work through a hodgepodge of bends, squeals, trills, and high-pitched pick taps around more conventional bouts of thrashy riffing and smothering tremolos to create a vibrant spectrum of textures. The captivating leads in tracks like “The Weight,” “My Garden” and “Bodhidharma”—the latter of which contains one of the best solos I’ve heard in a long time—take influence from Tom Morello’s (Rage Against the Machine) boundary-pushing designs or Larry LaLonde’s (Primus) accented jams, while “Flea’s” solo elicits the expressiveness of classic rock. Song o’ the Year candidate “My Garden” explodes into a whirling dervish of frantic math fretwork before dropping into one of the most crushing riffs I’ve heard all year. It then transitions into a soothing interlude for a brief moment before bludgeoning you once more with heaviness and rapid-fire high tremolo runs. This constant shift between doom- and groove-laden weight, jarring dissonance, and soothing ethereal passages is what gives The Spiritual Sound its complex structure and feeds its absorbing, often unpredictable journey.

The Spiritual Sound’s novelty is equally defined by Levinson and Meyer’s vocal performances. Levinson shifts between extreme intensity and introspective subtlety, delivering ear-piercing shrieking rasps balanced by softer, more experimental elements like the poetic, spoken word found in “Bodhidharma” or the conversational tone of “Flea.” The strategic use of soothing clean vocals and Meyer’s beautiful harmonies in songs like “The Reply,” “Hallelujah,” or “Dan’s Love Song” also provides essential emotional contrast, amplifying the impact of the record’s heavier tracks and buttressing Agriculture’s originality. The coarse production—courtesy of Chowenhill—is compressed and somewhat lo-fi but allows the quartet’s unbridled sound to rush through the speakers with both raw aggression and clarity.

Agriculture may have stumbled into black metal during their formation, but the genre—and The Spiritual Sound—is all the better for it. Though their ambitious scope results in some unevenness (“Flea” and “Serenity” rely on tropey structures and interlude “The Spiritual Sound” is confusingly split into its own track), Agriculture is unafraid to walk its own path, successfully blending various styles into a great record authentically rooted in the power, community and pure enjoyment of extreme music. Black metal purists should look elsewhere—however, those who approach The Spiritual Sound without pretense will find a unique, genre-defying experience that only gets better with every play.

Rating: Great!
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: The Flenser
Websites: agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/music | agriculturemusic.com | facebook.com/agriculturemusic
Releases Worldwide: October 3rd, 2025

#2025 #40 #Agriculture #AlternativeMetal #AmericanMetal #BlackMetal #ChatPile #ExperimentalMetal #Liturgy #Oct25 #Primus #RageAgainstTheMachine #Review #Reviews #Slowdive #TheFlenser #TheSpiritualSound

Slowdive(band) - Pygmalion
(Shoegaze, Experimental, Electronic / Sony Music Entertainment)

"Mit ihrem dritten Album "Pygmalion", das zwei Jahre nach "Souvlaki" im Jahre 1995 erschien, schlugen Slowdive einen völlig neuen musikalischen Weg ein."

Wie dieser neue musikalische Weg klingt hat @oranje1986 euch in der review beschrieben.
https://vinyl-keks.eu/slowdive-pygmalion/

#slowdive #pygmalion #shoegaze #experimental #electronic #sonymusic #fleetunion #neuauflage #vinyl #review

Slowdive(band) - Souvlaki
(Shoegaze, Dreamwave / Sony Music Entertainment)

"Nach ihrem starken Debütalbum "Just For A Day" 1991 veröffentlichten Slowdive 1993 ihr zweites Album "Souvlaki". Es gilt heute als ihr bekanntestes und einflussreichstes Werk – ein Album, das den Sound des Shoegaze-Genres entscheidend mitgeprägt hat und weltweit den Bekanntheitsgrad hochgeschraubt hat."

Review von @oranje1986
https://vinyl-keks.eu/slowdive-souvlaki/

#slowdive #souvlaki #shoegaze #sonymusic #fleetunion #vinyl #review

Slowdive(band) - Souvlaki
(Shoegaze, Dreamwave / Sony Music Entertainment)

"Nach ihrem starken Debütalbum "Just For A Day" 1991 veröffentlichten Slowdive 1993 ihr zweites Album "Souvlaki". Es gilt heute als ihr bekanntestes und einflussreichstes Werk – ein Album, das den Sound des Shoegaze-Genres entscheidend mitgeprägt hat und weltweit den Bekanntheitsgrad hochgeschraubt hat."

Review von @oranje1986
https://vinyl-keks.eu/slowdive-souvlaki/

#slowdive #souvlaki #shoegaze #sonymusic #fleetunion #vinyl #review

Slowdive(band) - Souvlaki
(Shoegaze, Dreamwave / Sony Music Entertainment)

"Nach ihrem starken Debütalbum "Just For A Day" 1991 veröffentlichten Slowdive 1993 ihr zweites Album "Souvlaki". Es gilt heute als ihr bekanntestes und einflussreichstes Werk – ein Album, das den Sound des Shoegaze-Genres entscheidend mitgeprägt hat und weltweit den Bekanntheitsgrad hochgeschraubt hat."

Review von @oranje1986
https://vinyl-keks.eu/slowdive-souvlaki/

#slowdive #souvlaki #shoegaze #sonymusic #fleetunion #vinyl #review

Slowdive(band) - Souvlaki
(Shoegaze, Dreamwave / Sony Music Entertainment)

"Nach ihrem starken Debütalbum "Just For A Day" 1991 veröffentlichten Slowdive 1993 ihr zweites Album "Souvlaki". Es gilt heute als ihr bekanntestes und einflussreichstes Werk – ein Album, das den Sound des Shoegaze-Genres entscheidend mitgeprägt hat und weltweit den Bekanntheitsgrad hochgeschraubt hat."

Review von @oranje1986
https://vinyl-keks.eu/slowdive-souvlaki/

#slowdive #souvlaki #shoegaze #sonymusic #fleetunion #vinyl #review

Slowdive(band) - Souvlaki
(Shoegaze, Dreamwave / Sony Music Entertainment)

"Nach ihrem starken Debütalbum "Just For A Day" 1991 veröffentlichten Slowdive 1993 ihr zweites Album "Souvlaki". Es gilt heute als ihr bekanntestes und einflussreichstes Werk – ein Album, das den Sound des Shoegaze-Genres entscheidend mitgeprägt hat und weltweit den Bekanntheitsgrad hochgeschraubt hat."

Review von @oranje1986
https://vinyl-keks.eu/slowdive-souvlaki/

#slowdive #souvlaki #shoegaze #sonymusic #fleetunion #vinyl #review

I still remember seeing Neil Halstead performing solo at The Evelyn in the early 2000s, and @acb dashing home to get his copy of Pygmalion to get a signature on it. I was still catching up at the time, but it’s definitely one of those albums you either Get™ or you don’t. I’m glad I do, and the connections to Bark Psychosis aren’t lost on me.

#music #shoegaze #slowdive #pygmalion https://mas.to/@tangleofwires/113944622818591608

Saturday & Sunday, #indierock / #emo festival Something In the Way fest 2025 ft Saturday: #BalanceAndComposure #SoccerMommy #AmericanFootball #SweetPill #Anxious #Dazy #Enumclaw et al

Sunday: #Slowdive #Fiddlehead #MannequinPussy #militarieGun #Glare #miniTrees et al

Afternoon start in #boston at Roadrunner - resale single day passes start at 65+ fees
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#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 6/x

Saturday & Sunday, #indierock / #emo festival Something In the Way fest 2025 ft Saturday: #BalanceAndComposure #SoccerMommy #AmericanFootball #SweetPill #Anxious #Dazy #Enumclaw et al

Sunday: #Slowdive #Fiddlehead #MannequinPussy #militarieGun #Glare #miniTrees et al

Afternoon start in #boston at Roadrunner - resale single day passes start at 65+ fees
https://roadrunnerboston.com/events/detail/?event_id=674809
#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 6/x

Saturday & Sunday, #indierock / #emo festival Something In the Way fest 2025 ft Saturday: #BalanceAndComposure #SoccerMommy #AmericanFootball #SweetPill #Anxious #Dazy #Enumclaw et al

Sunday: #Slowdive #Fiddlehead #MannequinPussy #militarieGun #Glare #miniTrees et al

Afternoon start in #boston at Roadrunner - resale single day passes start at 65+ fees
https://roadrunnerboston.com/events/detail/?event_id=674809
#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 6/x

Septaria – Astar Review

By Steel Druhm

Written By: Nameless_N00b_87

It’s hard to believe Gojira’s From Mars to Sirius will be celebrating its twenty-year anniversary next year. The now famous metal quartet from Bayonne, France has ascended the metal hierarchy since the release of their landmark record, culminating this year in a mainstage spot in the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics. But as a longtime fan, I feared that their performance, no matter how awe-inspiring, would add further fuel to an ever-growing wildfire of imitation by a legion of aspiring musicians seeking to emulate their captivating sound. Enter Septaria, one such young aspiring band from Southern France who are ready to unleash their debut album Astar.1 The foursome has garnered somewhat of a buzz with their existential blend of Gojira’s modern metal and Slowdive’s dreamy post- rock, resulting in the group becoming the latest signees to Guillaume Bernard’s2 Klonosphere label. Let’s find out if these young lads can escape the shadow of their Godzilla-like influences and carve out their own path.

Septaria wastes little time channeling Gojira’s signature sound. From the rhythmic staccatos and pummeling double-kicks of From Mars to Sirius, to the double octave pitch shifts highlighted on Magma‘s “Centaure,” to the harmonic tremolos and melodic tapping of L’Enfant Sauvage, the Gojira tropes dominate Astar’s drawn-out runtime with lackluster results. And to cover the vocal inconsistencies that shredders Hugo Thevenot and Maxime Ayasse produce, the duo run their ethereal cleans, guttural roars, and reverberating screams under thick layers of reverb and delay while toying about with periodic bouts of throat singing and ethnic chants. Drummer Hugo Leydet, who offers his best impersonation of Mario Duplantier’s heavy grooves in both performance and tone, teams up with the low rumble of Baptise Trébuchon’s bass to round out the quartet’s familiar backbone. Though clearly talented, Septaria fail to show much originality outside of a few strong swelling and groove-laden moments peppered throughout Astar that provide a glimpse of the ensemble’s artistic vision.

Septaria’s overindulgence and lack of originality make Astar’s excessive length unjustifiable, bloated, and monotonous. Clocking in at 68 minutes, Septaria’s twelve lengthy, Gojira-inspired tracks rely on post-rock’s epic builds stretched out beyond necessity, resulting in a listless and tedious listening experience. “Being,” for example, is an immense ten-minute track that takes forever to arrive at its apex before the energy dies against four minutes of atmospheric feedback and ominous bass tones. Elsewhere, the lifeforce of Ledet’s hypnotic drumming in “Skys Words” deflates in the song’s bloated second half, offering an uninspired, spacey, and drawn-out construction that clashes with its grandiose form. And the cacophony of whammy bar manipulations and screams of “Saggitarius” shatter all momentum after its midpoint. Meant to offer respite, Septaria attempts to combat Astar’s bloat through strategically positioned intermezzos (“Abyss,” “Persephone”) intended to break the record’s flow into more palatable portions. Instead, these diversions quickly devolve into filler, serving as stagnant pools of rogue riffs.

Astar’s stronger moments appear when Septaria rely on their post-rock and groove-laden core to drive creativity. The dreamlike and celestial bridge that triggers the ending in opener “Moment Présent” signals that these Frenchmen have the capacity to write catchy, somber, and atmospheric grooves with emotional impact. Astar’s best moment arrives with the closing of “Embers” where Ledet’s back-beat shuffle coalesces with Thevenot’s and Ayasse’s harmonic tapping and ominous low tremolos to create a head-bobbing groove. Despite these highlights, however, Septaria’s hesitancy to escape the comfort of their predecessors’ shadow stifles their creativity, leading them to eventually revert to a predictable, borrowed riff.

Septaria is a young band that possesses loads of talent and ambition. However, Astar falls victim to Septaria’s overindulgence and lack of originality. This reliance on a well-established formula, coupled with the inability to craft compelling and concise compositions, results in tedious and underwhelming listen. Astar is a testament to Septaria‘s potential, but it is potential that remains largely untapped. I’m left disappointed with what could have been with Astar, and hope Septaria strives to step outside of the confines of imitation with their next steps.

Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 192 kbps mp3
Label: Klonosphere Records
Websites: septariaofficial.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/septaria.band
Releases Worldwide: November 15, 2024

Show 2 footnotes

1. Stylized as A*. Seriously… – Dolph ↩
2. The guitarist and founding member of art rock band Klone. ↩

#20 #2024 #Astar #FrenchMetal #Gojira #KlonosphereRecords #Nov24 #PostRock #PostMetal #ProgressiveMetal #Review #Reviews #Septaria #Slowdive

Slowdive share ‘Kisses’ remixes by Grouper and Daniel Avery

https://thequietus.com/news/slowdive-share-kisses-remixes-by-grouper-and-daniel-avery

#music #IndieMusic #shoegaze #slowdive #Grouper #DanielAvery

“#Slowdive #Brighter #SlowdiveOfficial” / “Slowdive - Brighter (Official Audio)” (1 user) https://htn.to/4tNojAsZWP

And a whole new batch of reviews on #Shfl! Besides @joemuggs, @burningambulance, #JeffTreppel, #MeganIacobinideFazio, #HaroldHeath, #ChrisCatchpole, #FlowState and #AndyBeta, there's me talking about #SwanseaSound, #OliviaRodrigo, #Slowdive, #Hualun and #AuntyRayzor. #music https://news.theshfl.com/p/shfl-update-921

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~ Sonic Shakedown 50 ~
the big five-oh
enjoy!🧚‍♀️

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