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Posted in Experimental Rock on May 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Let’s face it: there are hardly any truly original bands these days. It’s been said before, and it’s true; the best bands are rarely innovators in the sense that they create something previously unheard. But they know how to expand upon their influences’ ideas in a way that is uniquely striking. Menomena is one of these bands.
Kareem Estefan, Stylus Magazine
Strongest Man In The World [5:36]
Posted in Experimental Rock on Mar 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Steven Wilson has been leading cult favourites Porcupine Tree since their inception back in 1987, but despite a ferocious work rate in recent years this is his first official solo album. The album confirms what fans of Porcupine Tree have been banging on about for years: that Wilson is one of the UK’s most adventurous and underrated songwriters.
Nic Oliver, Music OMH
Significant Other [4:31]
Posted in Experimental Rock on Mar 12th, 2009 No Comments »
“John Maus is a maniac on a bloody crusade - a tortured evangelist on a mercenary quest to rid our world of villainous defilers of The Gospel of True Love. By turns shockingly infectious and disarmingly unpredictable, his music conflates a perplexing marriage of Moroder’s ‘Never Ending Story’ and classical 12-tone renegades of 20th century past, harking the new path which resurrects romance from its post-modern shackles, and reignites the promise of a better world.”
Pure Rockets [3:21]
Posted in Experimental Rock on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Having spent a fair amount of time huddled under Portland’s late-year cloak in the past few months, I understand how the city—fair of roses and rain—birthed a band like Menomena. It inherits shaggy American Apparel cynics—every coffee house youth hooded and lost to you—out of swashbucklers and Shanghai pasts, much the way Menomena tangles itself in so much yore and yesterday—from the Beach Boys to Joy Division, the Flaming Lips to early-era Radiohead—in order to create something willfully idiosyncratic, and, as of 2003, downright novel against the hovel.
Song: Boyscout’n [5:18]
Posted in Experimental Rock on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Ciam, inspired by predecessors such as the Velvet Underground, Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel - acts who refused to limit their creative outlets to one medium of expression - and with nods to more modern contemporaries such as Radiohead.
Here I Am [6:16]
Posted in Experimental Rock on Jun 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
It’s odd how, with a live reputation for being masters of the quasi-unlistenable avant-garde, Animal Collective can equally endear and soothe with occasionally recorded tracks of child-like simplicity. Which is a little odd, really. But odd is, essentially, the beautiful remit of Animal Collective, and this is am engrossingly befuddling sampler for what’s to come.
Posted in Experimental Rock on May 25th, 2008 No Comments »
This Heat are widely considered a missing link between progressive rock (especially krautrock) and such later experimental genres as post-punk, post-rock, and noise rock. Deceit is now seen as a classic of the post-punk era comparable in quality and invention with Closer, Chairs Missing or Metal Box. This Heat split up in 1982 after completing their final European tour.
S.P.Q.R ( Netherlands, Live 1980 & 1981) [3:04]
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