p.s. i'm back

in case you didn't notice

here are some pokemon

and here is some math rock from this year

Enemies - We've Been Talking

Kyte - Kyte

Been back at uni for a few days, has been interesting, more interesting than I'd anticipated actually. Have really been into Kyte at the moment. They're a dream pop/shoegazey/post rock concoction from Leicestershire in England. Their music is fairly unoriginal but it's so well done and beautiful that those reservations I had about it were quickly shunted aside. Vocals also do the trick. They're quite subtle too; you'll hear something in the music that you didn't notice had been incorporated, like a violin hum or an electronic shimmer. The production on this is also quite interesting. It was all recorded in one of the band members' bedrooms, lending a quite ethereal effect to the music, as a lot of the instrument tracks bleed into one another in the music.

very pretty listen.

Here's the opening track and lead single from the album, "Planet:"

Japan can bring the skramz

If Envy weren't proof enough of this then thankfully we have Heaven In Her Arms and Killie to bolster the ranks of really fucking good screamo. Now this might sound a little offensive but I'm kind of surprised these Japanese folks can come across as quite so emotional, normally they seem a bit, well, lacking on the emotional front (fuck yeah, sweeping generalisations). Regardless - new Heaven In Her Arms album right hurr. It's intense, sort of black metally and just plain awesome i.e. just listen to it because I said so.

Heaven In Her Arms - Paraselene

In Japannnnnn

Got in to Tokyo yesterday. Place is so humid right now goddamn. It's cool though coz I got to see my family and KITTENS fuck they're cute. They're not really kittens anymore actually, they're basically fully grown. Still adorable though.

Anyways here's some Japanese music

Envy - Insomniac Doze - post rock screamo

Corrupted - El Mundo Frio - sludge

1000 Travels of Jawaharlal - 終わりは来ない - screamo

Intestine Baalism - Anatomy of the Beast - melodic death metal

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - neoclassical, electronic

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Live

Since Godspeed is playing live in England (fuck you SlightlyEpic) I thought I'd celebrate their reunion by posting a live bootleg from L'Olympic in 2003.
You cannot miss this. It's a terrific live performance.

And if you can't make it to any of the venues in England, this is your best alternative.

Hey it's really sunny right now

Sup qwe how are things all the way on the other side of the world treating you? Oh man, it's raining? Aww, that sucks I'm sorry man, hey listen up did you hear Godspeed You! Black Emperor are touring and shit! Hell yeah man, they're touring the UK or something, shit's going to be intense - like seriously, you do not want to miss it. I get the feeling it'll be a completely life-changing experience, I mean who knows how long they're even going to stay around this time? I'm not exactly sure why they've chosen the UK pretty much exclusively, particularly given that they're actually Canadian, but I'm sure as hell not complaining. You know you want to hop over the ocean and come chill with me, right? Anyway here are their tour dates and they're also doing the Nightmare Before Christmas festival thing along with Neurosis (yeah I would kill to go to that too but I'm pretty sure it's all booked out, not that I could afford it anyway).


F# A# Infinity

Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

Lift Your Skinny Fists To Heaven

Rain

Just tried sleeping a bit but rain keeps fucking hitting the roof and the roof is made of tin so it makes a monumental racket and I'm all FUCKOFF RAIN and it's all NO in the form of continuous noise.

Goddamnit.

Rain music for y'all


Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind and Pillor black/folk/post rock

Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells atmospheric black

Film School - alwaysnever shoegaze

Mobb Deep - The Infamous hip hop

Add some rain to it

Red Dead Redemption

I've been playing this game all day, it's pretty sweet. It has guns and horses and cowboys and shit. And lassos! Oh man, lassos. I lassoed this bitch, tied her up and dropped her on the train tracks. Hell yeah. Then I waited close to 10 minutes for the fucking train to come along, what a waste of time and just to put insult to injury it wasn't even that gory or anything. There is, however, no moral to this story. Other than that cowboys are still badass despite what that stupid fucking Brokeback Mountain movie wants you to think. It must be gay propaganda. Cowboys don't take shit from nobody.

I'm a cowboy, motherfucker. The only downside to being a cowboy is that there are people out there trying to stop whatever badass things you want to do. You know, sheriffs and stuff. I'm not too sure if a sheriff actually qualifies as being a cowboy himself, but he's a cowboy killer. He kills cowboys. Well only if he's good I guess, if not I suppose the cowboys kill him. A Day in Black and White are a band that support the killing of cowboys. How edgy is that?

A Day in Black and White - My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys

Blackfilm - Blackfilm

Pessimistic comfort and unholy relation in a post-rock sort of way. Listen up you goons.

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Blackfilm - Blackfilm