Alpha Male Tea Party / Real Ale and Model Rail: The Lonely Man's Guide to Not Committing Suicide (2013)

So, summer is passed. You start to work/study again, the sun is gone and other post-holyidays things.

Like mornings on crowded buses, while outside rain and its cold and you aren't still well awake. These moments where you might start to think "I'm on this bus with my useless life, surrounded other useless human beings, all grey, everyday as the one before and bla bla bla bla".

Well, that's the very right moment to push play on this album.

The first track slowly penetrate you, bypassing your brain's morning defenses. But it grows, it grows, and seamlessly goes into the second one.

And everything explode. Greyness, sadness, melancholy; everything goes away, and you get submerged by a powerful and well calculated chaos. Like a sound tsunami, that push you in every possible direction but, at the same time, let you emerge from that boring condition you were in before.

So you can concentrate on what you have to do, without wasting yourself digging your own morning grave.

Instead, you can

Listen.

I think I'll post only free/Pay what you want music, as soon as I think it's good. And hey, this one is very good.

One Leg Mary / Yes exactly, maybe not. (2012)

So hard to find things that I really want to post because I like them a lot.

But, searching and searching, you always find something. Maybe in Greece, just across the Adriatic sea for who writes.

I don't really know what to write about this band. But I can feel their music very well. Rough and often simple but perfectly fit sounds, that in some passages breaks your listening like a fault in your brain's connections. And that is good. Compact, solid, modern melodies, with a voice that reminds you of someone who is reflecting about himself speaking. And probably  is just like that, because lyrics, in my opinion, shows signs of reflections that surely needs more than ore read to get the message from letters to heart and brain.

So, read.

And

Listen.

Oh yes. Another freebie for you and your ears.

Father Figure / Congratulations On Your Loss (2012)

Ok, this one is huge.

During my last research for new music I wasn't finding something that I liked enough to be worth writing about.

Then, click after click, this album came out.

I admit that I've never listened to a lot of jazz. My fault, but after a while it gets me bored. And it's a shame, because, rhythms and sounds are great. Instead, I love post/math/nonsense rock.

So, when I first listened to one of these tracks, starting jazzy smooth then going mad with rhyhm like listening to a vinyl while driving on a moon like surface, well, the only thing I could do was listening to the second track. Discovering that basslines were great, and I loved them, deep but very clear and "agile". So I went on another track, but at this point I had already understood that this album is great, and that this time was worth write something.

So, believe me, if it's worth to write about it, it means that is a lot more worth make another thing

Listen.

PS: this time we also have a clip!

What?? I forgot to say that this GREAT album is also FREE? Well, now I've said it.

Chris Randle / The Cat That Got the Milk OST (2011)

The last post I made was about a soundtrack.

Now, the first new post is again a soundrack. You know, continuity.

The Cat That Got the Milk is a freeware game released in 2011, and I discovered it some days ago. It is graphically inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky, so it's just visually stupendous, and I really recommend you to play it. It would take just 10 minutes of your time.

So, back to the music, you could say "what a videogame and a painter would have in common with music?".

Well, for the ones who knows, Kandinsky theorized that graphical elements, such as points, lines and surfaces, has time and rhythm like music, and graphical compositions are like musical ones. (You can find all about this in his book "Point and Line to Plane", that I was accidentally reading when I found this game).

And nothing prevents the happening of the inverse process: music inspired by graphical compositions.

This little album will bring you inside a world of continuous and looped segments, like circles, suddenly stopped by points, while arpeggios of music lines chase themselves.

You just need to close your eyes and

Listen.

This album is free, and I'll try to post more and more free albums if I can.

I believe in free culture, so, from my little blog, I'll try to push peoples who also believes in it.

Culture is freedom. Paying for culture is like pay a bail after have done nothing. Music is culture.

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.

Listen.

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

Cougar / Patriot (2009)

In this period is hard to post something, because of the short time I have, but I won't give up ;).

Cougar is a american post rock band. Well, from my point of view, they're not exactly post rock. At least, my ears wouldn't accept this as post rock. I feel them mostly rock, with the right quantity of post. I don't know why, but thats what I feel like.

Apart from my deliriums, their instrumental music focus on their instruments, using few electronic sounds. Maybe is that use of modern distorted guitar and solid, groovy rhythms that make me feel them more "rock" than "post".

Well, for today I wrote enough incomprensible things. But trust me; listen to them.

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PS: I love their drummer style; he plays also in another great band, that I will surely post in the future ;)

Piglet / Lava Land EP (2005)

When I have less time to post, I have to go back in my music library, searching for something good to share.

This is not the case. Because this is not good; this is FANTASTIC.

Piglet are an american post/math rock band, with only this EP published. Sadly.
Only six songs, a perfect mix of great technique and musical taste; fast arpeggios, syncopated rhythms and sometimes dissonant sounds, but everything in place. Another way of saying that you can do post rock in your own original way, without necessarily having to make slow and boring 12 minutes long songs.

Please, listen to the song "Little bubble, where are you going?" with a lot of attention. Close your eyes. I know you can see that bubble going up and down, now she's slowly climbing the air and then fall, in a heartbeat.

This is what music should be. Music.

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65Daysofstatic / The Fall Of Math (2004)

For this second day, I choose a classic. At least, I think that this album should be considered as such.

Directly from 2004, this is the first album from the post rock band 65Daysofstatic, that gained more and more (deserved) fame during this years.

Atmospheres are epic, full of energy, giving feelings like "I am alone against all the world, but I'm doing it". Electronic sounds are perfectly dosed and integrated, the rhythmic section is devastating ( I saw them live two times: every time I thought their drummer could pull down the walls of the room).

Rhythms are very often fast but very "compact" and moved, they penetrate inside you, not like these band making 12 minutes songs with some guitar arpeggio and only one bass drum and one hat hit every bar and calling this post rock.

THIS is fucking well done post rock, very original and unique. Not stereotypes.

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"This negative energy just makes me stronger; we will not retreat, this band is unstoppable"

65Daysofstatic