Archive for October, 2011

Album of the day: Nordic Nomadic – Worldwide Skyline

Posted on Friday, October 21st, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Stepping somewhat outside his role as the frontman and guitarist for Toronto psychedelic pasture-izers Quest for Fire, Chad Ross is the sole figure behind the unsurprisingly more minimal Nordic Nomadic. He released a self-titled album under the moniker after starting the project in 2007 and makes his debut on Tee Pee (also Quest for Fire’s label, by odd coincidence) with Worldwide Skyline – an album whose title speaks to its breadth.

Fans of the bedroom neo-folk of Comets on Fire guitarist Ben Chasny’s ongoing Six Organs of Admittance will recognize and delight in at least some of what Ross has on offer with these nine songs, the drone and subtle interweaving of electric and acoustic guitars and still somewhat lush feel undercutting the notion of Nordic Nomadic as a “solo project.” It is that, though, on the most superficial level; Ross is the only one in the band and is responsible for all the material.

Anyone who was touched by Ross’ gentle melodicism on either Quest for Fire’s 2009 self-titled or last year’s Lights From Paradise will find spiritual companion in his work here, as the vocals are brought even more to the forefront by the inherent lack of other layers surrounding. Nordic Nomadic, for its relative want of personnel, does still sound lush, and could just as easily be branded psych as folk. As such, no reason to limit it to one or the other: Psychedelic folk.

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Album of the day: Annapurna Illusion – Life Is An Illusion

Posted on Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Praise for Annapurna Illusion‘s Life Is An Illusion from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: We first heard Annapurna Illusion on a split with looped psychedelic drifter High Wolf. The weird thing was that we discovered the guy in High Wolf as also the guy in AI, but his (?) side of the ...read more

Album of the day: The House of Capricorn – Sign of the Cloven Hoof

Posted on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: With one of the most beautiful cities in one of the world’s most beautiful regions as their backdrop, Auckland, New Zealand’s The House of Capricorn make their full-length debut with Sign of the Cloven Hoof (Swamps of One Tree Hill), and though it seems with ...read more

Los Angeles Music – West Coast Sound: Five Bands Bringing Rock Back To Metal

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

​Trademarks such as death-growl vocals and vicious blast beat drumming have caused the term “heavy metal” to be associated in 2011 with the most guttural sounds that can be produced by mankind. It’s very easy to forget that prior to the mid-1980s emergence of subgenres like death metal, black metal, ...read more

Russian Circles Stream New Album via Spin.com

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Chicago trio Russian Circles post via Spin.com a full album stream of their forthcoming release Empros today. Listen to the album in its entirety HERE .

Ulver Counting Down To Roadburn 1967 Exposition

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Ulver‘s music career is a sonic kaleidoscopic epic that saw them start as a lo-fi black metal band, and then begin a continuous morphing through acoustic outsider folk, electronic ambient music, post-symphonic chamber music and electronic post-rock to their current sound which might be called goth / prog / electronic ...read more

Justin K Broadrick Announced As Artist In Residence For Roadburn Festival 2012

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Justin K Broadrick will be Artist in Residence at Roadburn Festival 2012. The resonance of Broadrick’s body of work — whether it’s with Birmingham grindcore godfathers Napalm Death, Head of David (1980s cult heroes), The Fall of Because, Godflesh, Jesu (most recently) or his numerous side projects — can be ...read more

Official Artwork Roadburn Festival 2012 by Voivod’s Michel “Away” Langevin

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

We’re extremely proud to unveil the official artwork for the 2012 festival by Voivod’s Michel “Away” Langevin. Inspired by sci-fi art of the 50’s, 60’s op art and early 80′s computer-game robotic creatures from another galaxy, Away depicts Roadburn as a head spinning, extraterrestrial invasion from a world far beyond ...read more

Roadburn Festival 2012: Tickets

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Tickets for Roadburn 2012 will go on sale Saturday, November 26th, 10:00 Central European Time 09:00hrs (UK), 11:00hrs (Finland | Greece), 4AM (east coast), 1AM (west coast) 3-day passes: € 177,50 + service fees (1000 available) 4-day passes, including Afterburner:  € 197,50  + service fees (1500 available) Single tickets for ...read more

Album of the day: Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis

Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: The image that Chelsea Wolfe projects dovetails with the general aesthetic put forth by her label, Pendu NYC. Granted, it’d take the tinniest of ears to conflate Wolfe’s music with the witch-house stylings of Mater Suspiria Vision or White Ring. Also, while her music is caustic ...read more