"Local four-piece Blackfox play sludgy, guitar-driven rock rooted in a kind of grungy blues that’s both dirty yet melodic...hints of early Soundgarden, Bowie and Sonic Youth spilling out all over the place, but the group never buckles beneath the weight of so much hero worship. Instead they hold their ground, keep the mood dark and eerie..."
Check out the whole review at Latest Disgrace
The new ambient / IDM effort from tay0 is available now in all those awesome Bandcamp formats:
A new set of skittery beats and ambient textures is on the way from tay0, and you can get a little taste right here:
You should also follow tay0 on Twitter (@tay0music) for all the latest.
You guys come on out to The Earl for some of that crystalline mad sound...(http://www.badearl.com)
Rat Mass track Only The Weak Die At Home gets a great write-up on Latest Disgrace - with awesome phrases like "thundering drum blasts, improvisational guitar freakouts and foreboding subliminal textures." That's how we do.
They like us! They really like us!
"After years of playing together in a wide-ranging assortment of Atlanta bands, musicians Mitchell Sosebee (drums) and Ryan Taylor (guitars, electronics) converge their creativity to the core with their new mano-a-mano venture Rat Mass. The duo’s five track, instrumental EP1 is a compelling wallop of torrential percussion, inexorable bass annihilation, jabs of electric guitar and pervasive electrical sonic accents, all improvised live in the studio. At times it borders on metal, but most metal bands I’ve heard can’t muster this sort of prolonged intensity, usually because the singer opens his mouth and starts croaking some comical demonic nonsense." - Stomp and Stammer
Go check out a track from the upcoming AkuYou record Body as Weapon. The official release is March 1 at the Earl.
James Blake just brings it.
This will hit Soundcloud sometime next week, but for now I wanted to play with the Squarespace player. Here's a new track called Uncommunicate that didn't make the final track list for the new EP, but I really dig it.
