Posts Tagged ‘Neurot Recordings’

Album of the day: U.S. Christmas – Run Thick In The Night

Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Stonerrock.com: U.S. Christmas are one of those rare bands who can meld seemingly disparate elements together to form their own cohesive and distinct sound. Think Neil Young jamming with Hawkwind, Spacemen 3 and Pink Floyd, and you’re in the right direction, but comparisons like those don’t even give them their due credit. Bands like USX (as they’re commonly referred to…) are more than the sum of their parts. Although the influences are distinct, they’ve got their own thing going on, and its fully righteous.

Their last album, Eat The Low Dogs, was hailed as a masterpiece, and Run Thick In The Night doesn’t depart drastically on the sound they’ve already established. It begins with the moody, brooding 13 minute track ‘In The Night’, with its heavily textured, wall of sound “outlaw country gone shoegaze” guitars and spacey keyboard sweeps, and morphs quickly into the Hawkwind inspired rager ‘Wolf On Anareta.’

‘Fire Is Sleeping’ is a tender ballad, really upping the ante on the Southern and Skynyrd influences without resorting to the usual cliches, and adds some weepy violin and mournful slide guitar to the mix. The next few songs continue in this style, country-tinged, acid drenched, and melancholy, until the bass and drum driven track ‘The Quena’ breaks the spell and gives a much needed change of pace.

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U.S.Christmas: Run Thick In The Night Cover Art And Track Listing Revealed

Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010

Neurot Recordings is proud to unleash the latest full-length from psychedelic, high-volume blues rock ensemble U.S.Christmas. Entitled Run Thick In The Night, the band’s fifth long player was recorded by Sanford Parker at Fahrenheit Studio in Johnson City, Tennessee, mixed by Parker and USX members Nate Hall, Matt Johnson and ...read more

U.S. Christmas To Release Run Thick In the Night This Fall Via Neurot Recordings

Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Appalachian troubadours U.S. Christmas will be releasing, Run Thick in the Night, their fifth album, this fall via Neurot Recordings. The band, whose quirky name is pulled from the 1973 Sam Peckinpah film “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” peddle a “unique brand of psychedelic, high-volume blues rock,” according to ...read more

Neurosis Reissuing Fourth Album, Enemy of the Sun, With Fully Redesigned Package

Posted on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Neurot Recordings is proud to announce the reissue of one of the most groundbreaking releases in the ever-expanding lineage of icons Neurosis, Enemy of the Sun. With Neurosis’ earlier releases — 1987’s Pain of Mind, and even 1990’s The Word as Law — the band’s jagged and eerie blend of ...read more

Album of the day: Harvestman / USX / Minsk – Hawkwind Triad

Posted on Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Praise for Harvestman / USX / Minsk’s Hawkwind Triad from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  It would be pretty much impossible to fuck this one up. Steve Von Till’s (of Neurosis) Harvestman, along with psych heavies U.S. Christmas, and sludgy metallic post rockers Minsk, all covering their favorite Hawkwind jams. Exactly. ...read more

Album of the day: Harvestman – Trinity

Posted on Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Praise for Harvestman / Steve Von Till’s Trinty from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  We’ve got a bountiful harvest of, ah, Harvestman this list, two releases from the psychedelic alter ego of menacing Neurosis guitarist Steve Von Till, and that’s very much okay by us, seeing as how we loved the ...read more

Album of the day: Skullflower – Strange Keys to Untune Gods’ Firmament

Posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010

Lovingly pinced from The Obelisk: What starts out as a litmus test for how much drone punishment a listener can handle not so quickly becomes an encompassing ritual nearly religious in its scope. Skullflower’s Strange Keys to Untune Gods’ Firmament (Neurot) is a double-disc, 12 track excursion to the outer ...read more

Red Sparowes Complete New Album

Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010

Los Angeles post-rock quintet Red Sparowes, featuring Bryant Clifford Meyer of Isis, have completed their third album, The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer. The follow-up to 2006’s Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun (Neurot) was recorded at Infrasonic Sound by Toshi Kasai of Melvins and ...read more

Playlist: January (Sarah Kitteringham)

Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010

The Roadburn playlist is a monthly update from the Roadburn staff reflecting what we are spinning here in the head office. These are the records that get us through the day as we work on Roadburn Festival business and our blog. Much as you’d expect, our playlists feature heavy rock, ...read more

Album of the day: A Storm of Light – Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Big Takeover: A Storm of Light is a side project for members of Neurosis, Battle of Mice, Book of Knots and other avant-garde underground metal acts, but Forgive Us Our Trespasses is more accessible than the parts of which it is the sum might indicate. Continue ...read more

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