Wednesday, August 18, 2010
In (just) two weeks..!
Docile's EICV7" (the debut EVERYTHINGISCHEMICAL Virtual 7 Inch) comes out on September 1st.Can't wait to share!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
REVIEW: Thrushes - Night Falls
Thrushes are a four-piece Indie-Dream Pop/Shoegaze band based out of Baltimore. "Night Falls" is the groups second album. I first came across this group via an Amazon Shoegaze List of some sort, they (the lister) recommended "Sun Come Undone" by Thrushes. Sidenote: If you've never used "Listmania" on Amazon you are missing out on one of the greatest ways to discover things you have never heard of. Any-who back to the point at hand.. 3 years later the group is back and ready to share some more Blissful Pop Fun and I couldn't be happier.
For the most part "Night Falls" is an "uplifting/fun album". It's upbeat and poppy in all the right parts. Great bass lines, tight drums, soaring vocals that are both endearing and triumphant. But the parts that really get me are the accomplished guitar melodies/distortions that are somewhat reminiscent of MBV. If this albums gets the attention it deserves it
If Phil Spector (I'm actually re-going through a Spector phase right now--so this is good) had the ability to produce Indie Pop albums for likes of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and other bands of that nature I imagine it would sound something like Thrushes. Recommended.
Standout Tracks: They're all pretty catchy.. Trees, Crystals, Night Falls (love the guitar and drum work on this one), Juggernaut (←yeah, what he said)
Wild Nothing 2010 US Tour..
Wild Nothing '1008-28 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09-22 Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall
09-23 Boston, MA - House of Blues
09-28 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
09-30 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
10-01 Williamsburg, VA - College of William and Mary
10-02 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
10-03 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
10-05 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
10-06 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird Nightclub
10-07 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
10-08 Madison, WI - Barrymore Theatre
10-09 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
I know I haven't gotten around to reviewing this album yet, but trust me when I say it's a contender for one of the most listenable albums of the year.
PS HERE's a
Monday, August 16, 2010
EIC'S10Q'S w/Greie Gut Fraktion
"..the sense of something being constructed inside your ears. You are there witnessing a convoluted piece of machinery do it's job while possibly breaking down and piecing itself back together again.."
Greie Gut Fraktion
Dismantled Fabricated Apparatus
Greie Gut Fraktion Bio:
Crafting what the duo calls "post-kraut-dub-industrial-techno," Greie Gut Fraktion brings together East German-born poet/producer Antye Greie and West German experimental producer Gudrun Gut. Greie also releases music under the moniker AGF, was one half of Laub and has worked with Ellen Allien, Craig Armstrong and Vladislav Delay, among others; Gut, meanwhile, was a member of Mania D, Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten and Matador, and runs the label Monika Enterprise. The project began in 2008, when Greie invited Gut to collaborate with her on a work commissioned for the BBC program Late Junction; the pair were inspired by the propulsive sounds of construction sites and made hours of field recordings. Throughout 2009, Greie and Gut formed songs out of these sounds plus vocals, beats and guitars in their respective studios in Finland and Berlin. The duo played shows in Copenhagen, Berlin and London before their first release, the Wir bauen eine neue Stadt ("we’re building a new city") EP arrived in spring 2010 on Monika. A cover of the 1981 hit by Palais Schaumberg (which included Gut collaborator Thomas Fehlmann among the band’s members), it also featured remixes by Wolfgang Voigt and Alva Noto. Greie Gut Fraktion’s first full-length Baustelle ("Construction Site") was released in summer 2010.
Hello, how are you?
Thanks fine.
What are you currently listening to?
I am listening to the new Four Tet album over and over again. Quite like it.
How long have you two been writing music together?
I met Antye at a festival in Moskau and we talked all night- that was 2008- shorty afterwards she invited me to join in to this collab project for BBC radio and we quickly found the theme "Baustelle/construction site" for us. That was the first time we ever worked together. And we both really enjoyed this- so we decided to continue and make a full length album. But I knew her from Berlin music scene before.
Can you explain your sound in 5 words or less?
Powerful, sensual, direct, loud.
Your debut full length “Baustelle“ translates into Construction Site, can you explain why you chose this title?
A construction site is a place of progress. Its..
Who are your current favorite underground electronic musicians at this time?
Natalie Beridze/tba
What‘s next for you guys?
We have prepared a live set up and are planning gigs for Autum.
Will Einstürzende Neubauten ever see the light of day/tour North America again?
I am the wrong person to be asked that question. I haven't had anything to do with EN since 1981.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?
I'll get a bird.
Are you living your dream?
Yes. but I am living reality at the same time.
Thanx Brian & GGF!
Greie Gut Fraktion are currently playing shows here and there in EU, who wants to fly em' out here and get a show set up? (I'll go)...
Greie Gut Fraktion
Dismantled Fabricated Apparatus
Greie Gut Fraktion Bio:
Crafting what the duo calls "post-kraut-dub-industrial-techno," Greie Gut Fraktion brings together East German-born poet/producer Antye Greie and West German experimental producer Gudrun Gut. Greie also releases music under the moniker AGF, was one half of Laub and has worked with Ellen Allien, Craig Armstrong and Vladislav Delay, among others; Gut, meanwhile, was a member of Mania D, Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten and Matador, and runs the label Monika Enterprise. The project began in 2008, when Greie invited Gut to collaborate with her on a work commissioned for the BBC program Late Junction; the pair were inspired by the propulsive sounds of construction sites and made hours of field recordings. Throughout 2009, Greie and Gut formed songs out of these sounds plus vocals, beats and guitars in their respective studios in Finland and Berlin. The duo played shows in Copenhagen, Berlin and London before their first release, the Wir bauen eine neue Stadt ("we’re building a new city") EP arrived in spring 2010 on Monika. A cover of the 1981 hit by Palais Schaumberg (which included Gut collaborator Thomas Fehlmann among the band’s members), it also featured remixes by Wolfgang Voigt and Alva Noto. Greie Gut Fraktion’s first full-length Baustelle ("Construction Site") was released in summer 2010.
Hello, how are you?
Thanks fine.
What are you currently listening to?
I am listening to the new Four Tet album over and over again. Quite like it.
How long have you two been writing music together?
I met Antye at a festival in Moskau and we talked all night- that was 2008- shorty afterwards she invited me to join in to this collab project for BBC radio and we quickly found the theme "Baustelle/construction site" for us. That was the first time we ever worked together. And we both really enjoyed this- so we decided to continue and make a full length album. But I knew her from Berlin music scene before.
Can you explain your sound in 5 words or less?
Powerful, sensual, direct, loud.
Your debut full length “Baustelle“ translates into Construction Site, can you explain why you chose this title?
A construction site is a place of progress. Its..
Who are your current favorite underground electronic musicians at this time?
Natalie Beridze/tba
What‘s next for you guys?
We have prepared a live set up and are planning gigs for Autum.
Will Einstürzende Neubauten ever see the light of day/tour North America again?
I am the wrong person to be asked that question. I haven't had anything to do with EN since 1981.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?
I'll get a bird.
Are you living your dream?
Yes. but I am living reality at the same time.
Thanx Brian & GGF!
Greie Gut Fraktion are currently playing shows here and there in EU, who wants to fly em' out here and get a show set up? (I'll go)...
REVIEW: Greie Gut Fraktion - Baustelle
This was another random album sent into me. I had never heard of these two lovely ladies before, and I wasn't all that familiar with their music. But out of random obscure submission came an intense surge of ear pleasure-ness. Greie Gut Fraktion are a German based Electronic duo. Both of them have been in and out of the best parts of the underground electronic music scene for the past 20+ years or so. (They are indeed masters of their craft.) Their music, although could be danced to, is best really listened to/soaked in. The intricate layers of samples with haunting & seductive vocals among other obscure electronic sounds really makes "Baustelle" one of this years best electronic albums.
"Baustelle" means "construction site". Now you know the theme; this album was made up (almost) entirely of sampled construction site sounds. Sure, you've heard of "themed" albums before where the band goes and gets a few field recordings.. But the way GGF put their samples back together gives you the sense of something being constructed inside your ears. You are there witnessing a convoluted piece of machinery do it's job while possibly breaking down and piecing itself back together again. If Ben Frost's "Theory Of Machines" is about the life and-or lack-of life in machines, then Greie Gut Fraktion's "Baustelle" would be about the corruption and decay of machines. As for "sound specific"; the songs on this album range anywhere from Minimal Techno (Ellen Allien) to Industrial (in it's truest sense) to Post Apocalyptic Dub (somewhat reminiscent of Burial). It's relaxing, unique, a little dancey, and complex. It's exactly the way I like my Electronic music.
If the thought of Ellen Allien teaming up with Midaircondo to release a Post-Dub Industrial Electronic-Ambient album excites you.. You need to be obsessed with this now. RECOMMENDEDddDddDdD.
Standout Tracks: All ..Drilling An Ocean(boom.), Grossgrundbesitzer, Baustein, White Oak
EverythingIsChemical Presents: Android Lust Live
Monday September 13th 2010Please come to the show and enjoy some quality Industrial/Goth/Dance music as well as good company..
Android Lust
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Strap On Halo
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mACID: The Acid Astronaut Cowboy Ninja
= lot's of black shirts and probably some dudes with makeup
Look forward to seeing you there..
(The bands + EIC would like to thank you ahead of time for attending:)
& (as always) ~njoy.
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