collider - strobos ep

June 2010 | self-released

i posted the EP schemes by san francisco's sea exchange a few days ago. since then i've been wishing i had posted this album, strobos, released by the same band under their other name collider. i seriously/literally/really/honestly/adverbly can't get enough of this band- or this genre. i find the whole album uplifting, or hopeful-- beautiful and easy to absorb.

music that can really take you away.

tracklist:

1 amarind sashes

2 schemes

3 !ex ex!

4 take off

5 v-k test

6 glory lights

7 separate / return

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Current - Discography

1992-1994 | various self-releases

early emo from ottowa. i can't take credit for discovering this band, or even listening to them when i was at the ripe age of six years old. some old dude from baton rouge who happened to marry my best friend was showing off his records last christmas and broke out their full length, coliseum (released in 1993 on council records). i listened and loved. this discography moves backwards in time, beginning with the band's final 7" and ending with their earliest releases (total 180 on the vocals, right? i really just prefer the later stuff)

here's a video. (probably should figure out embedding on blogspot...)

tracklist:

1 basis

2 repetition

3 countinued rantings

4 overbearing

5 leech

6 bastille

7 frayed ends

8 monument

9 key

10 representation

11 dial

12 pave

13 bag of threads

14 two and a dime

15 ruin

16 outside is better

17 coliseum

18 she can't write

19 hark

20 member

21 could i

22 silvered lead

23 come down

24 left at the right

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Moment of Collapse Records - VA Collections Part 1 & 2

2008 & 2010 | Moment of Collapse Records

two compilations of screamo, post hardcore and emoviolence from around the world. (oh plus super rad artwork by sebastian weiß).

Part I

1 Arse Moreira - Intro

2 Arse Moreira - How many times...

3 Arse Moreira - Tela Blanca

4 Eucalypt - A spotlight

5 Eucalypt - The six

6 Amalthea - The clank of chains scared him

7 Amalthea - Reciting poetry with a mouth full

8 Orbit cinta benjamin - choke strangle cake

9 Orbit cinta benjamin - fuck tomorrow

10 Dodewaard - here is all killing and eating

11 Dodewaard - haunted by a cyberpunk...

12 Hiro - nous marchons encore

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Part II

1 Suis la lune - In a deep hole with clay and remorse

2 Suis la lune - postlude to 5 years of hurting

3 The saddest landscape - the actress and the funeral

4 The saddest landscape - the temptation that is you

5 Captain, your ship is sinking - Always giving parties to cover the silence

6 Kias Fansuri - Apa yangtinggal hanyalah kiasan

7 Kias Fansuri - Kabus ribut datang menjemput

8 Kias Fansuri - Satira politik dunia

9 Kias Fansuri - Hati plastik, nafsu serakah

10 Isaiah - Qu'ils crèvent enfin …

11 Isaiah - … et nous laissent décider

12 Adorno - Missing a warm light

13 Adorno - Connections

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the birds are spies, they report to the trees - s/t EP

2006 | self released

oslo screamo (as in screamo from norway). yes, it is SO good. moody, straightforward screamo. i like pronouncing the acronym of their name TBASTRTTT because at the end it's an excuse to stutter alot.

Tracklist:

1 is subjective

2 unreleased

3 holding a grudge

4 typewriter

5 get away with blasphemy

6 pity you, pity me

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and none of them knew they were robots - s/t

2001 | Pigdog Records

picture/video

honestly i had only heard playsets with lights until a few months ago when i remembered i knew that song and needed the rest of their stuff. not totally hot on this dude's vocals but i mean, i couldn't do it so whatever. this is still a totally legit album.

Tracklist:

1 falling figures

2 idle vessels

3 division formed thus

4 instrument

5 playsets with lights

6 an equation

7 twenty-six one

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bulletproof tiger - starving hearts ep

June 2010 | Self Released

new screamo band from miami. i have a piece of this guy's totaled car in my car.

tracklist:

1 conversations in prague

2 starving hearts

3 cut. burned. broken. whole

4 subtle like train wreck

5 windmills

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I, Robot - Et Cetera

2002 | Immigrant Sun

you're thinking the only reason i like this band is because they're named after an Asimov novel, which is partially true. if they sucked i would probably still have it. but it doesn't suck, in fact, it's awesome. i like the end of "call me killer" because it does the twinkly... but i always used "the mullets vs. the mustaches" on mixtapes. i guess these dudes are in a post rock band now called homesick for space that sounds like moving mountains. they should have at least kept the vocals...

Tracklist:

01 the answer

02 call me 'killer'

03 James Earl Jones

04 what if

05 the mullets vs. the mustaches

06 frida ridder

07 exodus

08 save me

09 I Who Cares Not Loses in the End

10 2017

11 now i owe you a favor (live)

12 et cetera (live)

13 I Can not Swim (live)

14 the answer (live)

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Commander Venus - The Uneventful Vacation

1997 | Wind Up Records (not saddle creek, whoa!)

This is an early conor oberst band, commander venus. I love his young shaky voice much more than anyone should. I still love his voice more than I should.

Tracklist:

1. Jean's TV

2. Refused By Light

3. We'll Always Have Paris

4. The Uneventful Vacation (Part 1)

5. Lock 'n' Chase

6. Life As Expected

7. The Way Things Had to Be

8. Dress to Please

9. The Walk-Around Problem

10. My Collapsing Frame

11. The Raining Holiday (Part 2)

12. The Role of the Hero in Antiquity

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Sea Exchange - Schemes

2010 | Self-Released

First off all, sorry I'm bad at being a host of something on the internet.

Second first of all, Let me just say that right now i can hear the ice cream truck outside, my roommate learning the drums in the basement, and kids screaming outside. All of those sounds individually are annoying, much less all at once. Fortunately I'm listening to the song spacedrft9 from Sea Exchange's (formerly Collider) album Schemes, which is kind of laying a drifting soundtrack layer to the sounds of life. It's always a little magically awkward when mundane real world sounds are laced with the music you're listening to. This is the perfect album for that. Also very good highly recommended driving music.

Also, I should add the last song- Lucid Dream (ITC Edit) is unbelievable on good, loud speakers.

Tracklist:

1. Mono

2. Tired Angles Make New Shapes

3. scenes of ourselves vox

4. LED

5. Reject 14

6. anxi ixi

7. Fight Till You're Right

8. Iduro

9. Pass On and On

10. MirrorsrorriM

11. spacedrft9

12. Scenes Of Ourselves (Slow Jam)

13. Lucid Dream (ITC edit)

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