new piece up: "i"

[John]

the thing is, some of the "U.S. Black Metal"^tm that's getting made actually isn't so bad but...very little can ever beat a small metal album made by guys who don't realistically imagine anybody outside their scene will ever hear it, and that's exactly what this is

[cold before sunrise]

this applies to any kind of album... when you can sense it's being made for friends and feel like part of a close network, when a band feels like >your< jam, does it get any better? some music was never meant to guest star on late night talk shows. i want limited press 7" releases and locals only shows.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

reminds me of one of my favorite records this year, made by my friends in portland, sort of a damaged psychedelic krautrock thing. they recorded it two years ago but the whole process got stuck in mastering limbo (a bunch of masters were destroyed at one point also, if i remember correctly; they had back ups but had to redo a lot of work). they finally put it out for free in april as a kind of "fuck it, whatever, our friends want to hear it, we've put all this work into it." it's a real gorgeous thing that i've tried to put other people on but it doesn't really take. it's a really intimate communication of a few years.

[Nick Ink]

reminds me of one of my favorite records this year, made by my friends in portland, sort of a damaged psychedelic krautrock thing. they recorded it two years ago but the whole process got stuck in mastering limbo (a bunch of masters were destroyed at one point also, if i remember correctly; they had back ups but had to redo a lot of work). they finally put it out for free in april as a kind of "fuck it, whatever, our friends want to hear it, we've put all this work into it." it's a real gorgeous thing that i've tried to put other people on but it doesn't really take. it's a really intimate communication of a few years.

Not to derail John's thread, but what was this called, Brad?

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

it's a self-titled record by a band called swahili. think i mentioned them in some "albums of the year so far" thread.

EDIT: it's no longer freely available but the band have sort of given me the go-ahead to send it to whoever wants it

[YojimboMonkey]

well I'd like to hear it.

Also gotta check out this Of Antiquity, sounds pretty great

[Nick Ink]

well I'd like to hear it.

[jebreject]

Me too.