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It is officially summer.
Therefore, I share with you the greatest summertime song of all time.
Review
For footsore wanderers and weary champions alike
Zwei Schwerter | artist: Gilgareth — A dungeon synth album that is afraid neither of progressive house beats nor arpeggiators. I will ignore the deployment of the word "doth" in setting the theme. Good music for a campaign – and part of an ever evolving set of tales and places evoked
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I'll have what he's having.
Catalyst | artist: Imrryr — Sawing synths and skittering drum machine patterns with toms and complex and overaturistic melodies (yes, I think Imrryr just helped me coin a new word) carry themes that occasionally will remind you of John Harrison's score to Day of the Dead. Going back to the
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In the studio
Missed publishing the last two days as we've been in the studio finishing up the mix and mastering of the third Towerhouser album. In this part of the ongoing Dungeon / Fantasy Synth series, we get more than a bit beat-driven. Downright funky, if you ask me. Plan is
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But you're not my baby
Mean Bone | artist: Buzzard — "Good evening, sir. How about some fuzzy doom from Massachusetts?" "Why yes, that sounds splendid. I'll have one of those." A half-hour later. "Your Buzzard, sir." I dig in to find a fuzz-faced melange of bassy riffing with
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Fun time
The Majestic End | artist: Ghoëst — I just listened to the album Faith by the Cure because I needed to listen to a pick-me-up feel-good fun-time record after hearing the new Ghoëst. | 2.75 out of 5 stars
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Owlbear, with advantage
Feather and Claw | artist: Owlbear — Owlbear gets right to it. This is bedroom poster metal (in the best possible way to think about such a description) and it fully holds its own against any of the scotch-taped poster bands of a previous era. Proving that the galloping beat is the
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True hardcore is hard to find.
NEVER ENOUGH | artist: Turnstile — I can remember a contemporaneous review in MRR saying that Lungfish had gone soft — saying that "Creation Story" from 1993's Rainbows from Atoms was nothing more than a bad U2 song. It is, of course, something of a tradition going back to
Reflection
Nothing comes to the faithless firsthand.
I want to talk very briefly about one of my favorite albums of all time, sort of in prep for what we'll be publishing tomorrow. The album is Rainbows from Atoms and the band is Lungfish. It was released in the summer of 1993 on Dischord Records. And
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High Weird (and you can take it jogging).
I’ve always liked Philip K. Discs. Beyond being purveyors of fine high weirdness, they’ve also got a knack for extending their weirdness beyond sonics into the physical domain in unexpected ways. Case in point — go pick up one of their limited edition customized portable cassette players. It’ll
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Rock and Roll Man.
Charge of the Love Brigade | artist: Escape-ism — Sometimes the bad is so good it makes you feel like life is not fair. This is that real good bad. The good good bad. Outlaw rebel bad. And this outlaw rebel swaggers around knowing that he’s got a bigger rock-a-rolodex then
Interview
The Moth and The Newt
Interview with Eveale | Music on Ampwall and Bandcamp Tremelo guitar in the right speaker. Chug in the left. Blastbeats up the middle. Solid bass. Lots of blackened howls, but also something somewhat progressive. A hint of an allusion to more recent Mayhem and then we're on to something