Coast Jumper / Grand Opening (2011)

I started listening to hip hop because I like it.

And lucky me I like it, because I find easier finding good hip hop than good rock, nowadays.

So, when everybody says "hip hop is dead", I think "if it is dead, rock is already decomposed".

Then, like everything, like zombies, things come back.

And you have the Coast Jumper.

Yuo have guitars, you have bass, drums, voice SINGING and not only talking on fucking stupid stereotyped, thin guitar sounds backed by fake bass players that pays more attention at the shoes they're wearing than playing the bass, along with little idiot-march like drums. Oh, and maybe everything amalgamated with random synth sounds.

Yes, I HATE that fucking indie rock going on in these days, but this album, while can be described as indie, is FUCKING WELL DONE. 

The Coast Jumper here are playing because they like it, and you can hear it, you can hear their engagement inside these 10 well assorted tracks, filled with rhytm and melody changes, and with REAL OVERDRIVEN GUITARS.

10 tracks that make you feel something, reflect, excite and then slow down to a more reflective phase again, 10 tracks that you for sure have to

Listen.

Freeeeeee.......

Les Chats Persans OST / 2009

Back. Is so hard to find new music. So, here's something old. hehe.

Well, you know, I love OSTs. But this isn't a simple OST.

First of all, you must watch this movie, really.

Second, this isn't a simple OST because the movie is about the underground Iranian underground rock scene, so you will actually see in the scenes the real authors of these songs playing them. And they're all great. Going from electro-indie sounds with english lyrics, to persian rap, torugh acoustic songs, this album really covers a very interesting reality.

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(I canìt find an international buy link, you must search the best seller for your country)

Kno / Death Is Silent (2010)

Today, I feel like I need something relaxing, but sad. Some music that makes you think, about everything. You know, that sounds that makes you contemplate the universe.

Maybe instrumental music would be better served that purpose, but this album is really what I wanted.

Kno is an american rapper from CunninLynguists, and released this solo album in 2010.

If I can remember well, it tells a story. A story about a girl. A sad story. But it doesn't only tells this story.

You can feel it.

Thanks to the rap, because Kno (and all the ones featured on this album, people such as Tonedeff and Kno's mates Deacon and Natti) really succeed in transmit the rights emotions.

Thanks to the productions, because they're just perfect, mixing in the best manner touching acoustic guitar sounds and electronic parts, giving the right bounce that every hip hop track need, but also the sentiment that only an instrumentally-played song can give.

Thanks to your ears, if you take a little of your time and listen to this masterpiece.

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The Dead Pirates / Malevolent Melody EP (2010)

Sometimes, you need to go back.

Nowadays, you can have all kind of synths, sample movies or songs more than easily, you can pull out whatever type of sounds out a computer.

But, sometimes, you need to go back. You want to go back.

Sometimes, you only need "5 members,greg on drums, pat's got a bass, two brothers on guitars and elliott plays the rhodes.

Sometimes, you just need some fucking energetic old-school (but NOT trivial) rock 'n' fuckin' roll inside your eardrum.

Sometimes, you don't have to say or write too much about a great think.

Sometimes, yyou only have to check their great videoclip, with his unique and great style.

And, sometimes, you only have to listen.

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YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN / YT​/​/​ST (2011)

I'm back. Sorry for all this time passed with nothing. I was listening. Maybe I have to change the title of the blog. "Every day" isn't true. Sorry :D

At least, in these days I've found new and new-old thing to post.

One of the new-new things is this album.

I wasn't so sure to post this, because, after a first listen, it generated anxiety in me. A lot of it. So, I was ready to erase it from my pc, when I listened to it for the second time.

You may say "why you downloaded it if, after a first web-listening, you didn't like it? Only for being more a music pirate?". Well, no. I've done it because I tought the idea was great.

YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN are a collective, so lots of people, trying to mix oriental sounds with rock, metal and a lot of "western" sounds, using instruments and electronics.

Well, this is interesting.

Then came the second listening. The dreamy atmospheres of these sounds from the east (mainly coming from the voice), that I found annoying after a while, get back on the earth with distorted guitars and drums like we use to play it in the west. THANK YOU.

Oh, also the cover is GREAT.

Believe me, this is interesting. Make your move.

Listen.

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http://www.ytstlabs.com

Spaces / Nothing Exists but Atoms and the Void (2011)

I thinked about them sometime before decide to make this post. Then, I decided I like them enough.

I must admit it, I love sci-fi books settled in space. I mean, the intelligent one, like Asimov's Foundation etc.

So, when I saw Spaces, I was very curious. I was asking myself if, while listening to this music and closing my eyes, I would be able to imagine the open space, like I would when I read these books.

Well, it works.

They say they try to play post rock without "the bombast and crescendo". Surely, there's something particular in this album. Electronic quantity is well equilibrated, and it alternates with guitars that goes from Latin music like bend notes, toghether with brass instruments, to powerful old-school ovedriven wah sounds, then coming back to oneiric arpeggiated riffs.

And, if you want, in this sounds, you can find the space. From scenes on green, nature dominated planets, to descents into the darkests voids, totally alone, screaming with no voice coming out from your mouth.

Or maybe I just take heavy drugs. But you but you can not know whether this is true or not. So there's only one way you can discover if what I wrote about this album is true.

Listen.

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Invalids / Eunoia (2012)

Pay attention, because this will be seriously good for your ears.

Music is probably the greatest thing ever.

Not comparable in the same terms, but also great, is Internet. For a lot of reasons. One is creating A LOT of possibilities regarding music. You can easily spread yours around the world, or listen other's. But also you can make music that you probably wouldn't have ever done. For example, with a person that you wouldn't have ever known.

Guitarist, songwriter, singer and drum programmer lives in Oregon. Bassist lives in Pennsylvania. The first sends his music to the second. The second rearrange the previously VST-made bass part, then send them back. The first likes it a lot. Together called themselves the Invalids, and this album is a BOMB.

Freaky-fast guitar parts followed by unstoppable drums, the bass fills up. Then everything change, all goes slow... then explode again in that freak way. Over this, very melodic vocals, with lyrics availables on their site. Everything together sounds to me like a sort of Blink182 on cocaine. And if you want to know, I think Blink182 on cocaine just sound GREAT.

But please, stop reading my mind trips.

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PS: the download is shitty 128 kbps, if you want good quality music, buy it. It's only 8 $ ;)

Geographer / Animal Shapes EP (2010)

Still posting old things. But still having not so much time. Fuck.

Once I wouldn't have never listened to music like this. Maybe my ears are widening their range. Maybe their tastes are getting softer and in 3 years time I will find myself listening to Rihanna all time. Who knows.

Ok, no, I don't think it will happen. I just appreciate good melodic structures. And this EP is full of them.

Geographer comes from San Francisco. They don't have a bass player, but they sounds good anyway.

Their music is a very melodic indie, with songs filled with very nice vocals and synths all around, sometimes making you think they come out from a 16 bit videogame. But, alternating between happier and "striggle" tracks, everything here sounds just great.

Just great.

Don't forget to follow their site; on the 28 of this month they will drop their new album. And by signing up in the mailing list you can download one of their new songs, "Kaleidoscope".

Just great.

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http://myth.geographermusic.com/

Papir / Stundum (2011)

I'm a bass player.

And one of the thing I like to do most are jam sessions. Yeah, making songs is fantastic, you can put your feelings and ideas into them. But jams are different. You don't put feelings into them; they automatically come out from you, and enter your music. You can travel into yourself, making music, and you can go everywhere you want, just play the note you feel like, at the moment you feel like.

Papir is a band from Copenhagen. A so called "power trio": drums, bass, guitar. Their approach is simple, like "the ones you see playing are the ones you will hear". No computer programmings, overdubs.

They define themselves "semi-improvisational psychedelic rock".

And this album is a huge and powerful jam session.

Today, in 2012, with computer that can make even the poorer and incapable popstar able to sing and have behind so much sounds that you can believe that a single machine can do this, this band made an album made only of the three fucking pillars of rock, without adding shit or studying songs to make them sell better.

Thank you. We NEEDED an album like this.

Put your earphones on. Start listen. Travel.

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http://papirband.com

Doomtree / Wugazi (Mashup, 2011)

And now something not so new, but today I'm tired and searching for working links is getting harder every day(fucking copyright. You don't have money? Well, you can't increase your knowledge. Because music,but also books, films ecc. ,is knowledge, and discs want money. I want to listen before, THEN, if I respect your work, I'll be very pleased in buying everything has your logo on. But now I stop, I'm too tired for such discussions).

Well, if you like old school boom-bap HARDCORE hip hop, you will surely know the Wu-Tang Clan. I can't describe them. The only word that came up in my mind is HARDCORE. You click Play on your pc on one of their tracks, and a demon with destructive intent take control of your body and your mind as they spit rimes.

HARDCORE.

Or, you will probably know Fugazi, one of the most influent post-hardcore american bands, created after some of the most important years for american hardcore punk music. I personally prefer post-hardcore sounds: rage, but also great melodies.


Or, you know both of them. Or none.

It doesn't matter. American hip hop collective Doomtree mixed them togheter.

And then?

This.album.destroys.everything.

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http://wugazi.com/

PS: I made a first try for my logo :D

Foster The People / Torches (2011)

Ok, let's start the week with something relaxing.

Foster The People are an american indie pop-rock band. Well, from what I read they're enough famous in the USA, but I didn't know them before listening to this album.

Usually I don't like indie rock sounds, but this album was made pleasant to listen to. Tracks have good grooves, and enter inside your mind like Orwell's Big Brother. You can't get them out, believe me. Also, you will probably find yourself dancing and singing 5 minutes after listening to the first track.

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(Link removed due to DMCA complain, but trust me, this band rocks)

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Have fun.