Posts Tagged ‘post rock’

Album of the day: Deafheaven – Roads To Judah

Posted on Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from CVLT Nation: Roads to Judah is the debut album from San Francisco based band Deafheaven. In 2010 the band released a demo as a limited cassette and digitally through bandcamp. After receiving positive reviews from various blogs, the band was picked up by renowned label Deathwish Inc. Part of what makes this band so compelling is the inability to assign them to a specific genre.

They have influences that include shoegaze, black metal, post rock, screamo and are on a predominantly hardcore label. Oh, and you’ll also hear the word “hipster” being tossed around. What makes Roads to Judah so successful is their ability to take all these seemingly disparate styles and blend them into a cohesive, and more importantly, enjoyable record.

Roads to Judah is an album of balance. The music alternates between beauty and brutality. The intensely personal lyrics are tempered with metaphor and abstraction. Rather than having schizophrenic switches from genre to genre, the different stylistic elements flow in and out of each other.

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Album of the day: Atlantis- Mistress of Ghosts

Posted on Saturday, June 4th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Rocked Up: The opening track of Atlantis’s second full-length studio album on Field Records, fizzes and clangs with an industrial hue beneath a wash of synthy fuzz that perhaps wouldn’t sound out-of-place on the Blade Runner soundtrack. It sets the tone for what is in the main, ...read more

Album of the day: A Storm of Light – As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade

Posted on Friday, May 27th, 2011

Praise for A Storm of Light‘s As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Latest slab of epic, apocalyptic, psychedelic doom from A Storm Of Light, the project of Josh Graham, who also plays in Red Sparowes, Blood And Time, and of course ...read more

Heinali and Matt Finney’s Town Line Now Streaming At BandCamp

Posted on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Heinali and Matt Finney reuploaded their first album Town Line. “It hasn’t been available anywhere”, says Matt Finney, “so we thought we’d put all of our releases together in one place. it’s available for free or you can name your own price, as always. anything donated will go towards paying ...read more

Album of the day: Seidr – For Winter Fire

Posted on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Hellbound: From seemingly out of nowhere, Louisville’s Seidr, formed in 2009, have raised the doom bar high with their debut full-length for Flenser. Allying throbbing, sub-zero sludge / doom riffs with poignant post-metal passages, beared up with throatgurge-ing vocals whose epic lyrics illustrate frozen paths of Nordic ...read more

Album of the day: Oskoreien – Oskoreien

Posted on Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Lurker: With all instruments, arrangements, production and mixing handled by one isolated soul, Oskoreien is essentially the solo black metal vehicle perfected. All accoutrements associated with one-manbands have been virtually excommunicated from Oskoreien’s self-titled debut album. The wafer thin guitars and pots-n-pans drumming of the swathes of ...read more

We Want Your Top 10 Albums Of The Decade

Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Update:  The votes are in, the points have been awarded and the math has been done. More than 150 of you have taken the time to forward your Top 10 list for the Roadburn Album of the Decade. Continue Reading (please note: the comment box down below is closed!) As ...read more