shark bait - still growing

hey, this thing.

it's been a while since i've found something to be excited about. here's a band of young dudes i don't know from my home town. it's twinkly and screamy.. (appropriately) overly emotional.. angry. but mostly sad. that's about all i ask for anymore.


i still believe south central louisiana puts out the best musicians/music. kinda wish these dudes were playing this kinda thing in 2003 so i could go see them at main street.


1. masks
2. inside your head
3. growing pains
4. water wings
5. still growing


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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

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

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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

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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

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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

download at bandcamp

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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