18.10.10

Caddywhompus EP

2009? Self Released
whoever said cajuns don't make good music can gtfo. here's a band from the great deep south-- most of their songs are references to places in/near where i grew up which is awesome. plus, they're just suuuuuuuuuuuuuper good. it's 2 guys. their live set is even better than recordings. this shit is extremely catchy with serious sing-a-long-ability. i should just rip the cd i have with more than 4 songs, but this will have to do for now. they also have a new record that was just released on community records!

Tracklist:
1. This is Where We Blaze the Nuggz
2. Fun Times at Whiskey Bay
3. Absinthesizer
4. Untitled #4708

download it from the caddywhompus website

4.10.10

Bring Back the Guns - Unmastered Futures

2005 | Self Released
They played some show in Lafayette years and years ago, I still hung on to the cd. BBTG used to be known as The Groceries back in the day- they toured with The Toadies. You're going to listen to this and think Pavement made a dance rock record, which is ok. They also did a split with So Many Dynamos, which is not this file you are considering downloadinginginginging

Tracklist:
1 No More Good Songs
2 The Art of Malnutrition
3 Let's Not
4 Dry's Future
5 Take it like a
6 Face Smear Pt. 1 (All Right Now)
7 The season for Treason
8 Radio Song '04
9 I am the voice of Sarah Stricklands Rage

2.10.10

Skeletons - Life and the Afterbirth

2003 | Shinkoyo
if you give me the chance, i'd like to fuck away your memory.. fuck away mistakes i've made..

this band is good. their lyrics are brilliant. i have distinct memories associated with my first apartment on 9th & hoosick in troy. they recently played around here, but i couldn't make myself go alone. i imagine if i made music, it would sound like this building's on fire.

Tracklist
1 crash
2 death and the afterlife
3 let's get out of here or i better get going or i hope i can
4 a male angel means business
5 my friend drowned in his own vomit
6 the telephone rings
7 this building's on fire
8 this is the part of the story where everyone is having sex
9 try not to aim your airplane at me

Radical Face - Ghost

2007 | Morr Music
Here is one of my most favorite albums in the world. Easily top ten, maybe higher than that. The first time i heard this album was when I was going through the thousands of new cds coming in to WRPI. 99.8% of them were shit, but things like this came along and really made sorting through the new bins worthwhile. I should have spent more time going to class than sitting in that studio....

Radical Face is a solo effort from a guy Ben Cooper from Florida; Ghost is a concept album about the stories that stay with homes. That's all I can say really.. the label should say enough. Belgium's Morr Music consistently releases A+ material. But damn! This dude can make a catchy album (he is also one half of electric president- great shit- which I'll post soon). Wrapped in piano strings is the obvious winner here, but start to finish the album goes through as many moods as an episode of Battlestar, and is much better listened to in its entirety. The artwork on the LP is gorgeous, too.

Oh, and two songs were on the soundtrack for The Vicious Kind. It's always really surprising when music you have a deep fondness for shows up publicly- like on a random movie Netflix gave 4 stars that you decided to watch one night when it was too late but you were feeling sad or sorry for yourself so you put it on anyway.

Tracklist:
1 Asleep on a Train
2 Welcome Home, Son
3 Let the River In
4 Glory
5 The Strangest Things
6 Wrapped in Piano Strings
7 Along the Road
8 Haunted
9 Winter is Coming
10 Sleepwalking
11 Homesick