Album: As We Draw - Lines Breaking Circles

Band: As We Draw
Album: Lines Breaking Circles

Label: Throatruiner Records (FR), Free Edge Conspiracy (FR), Guranje S Litice (CR), Demon Spawn Records (DE), Dare the Divine (CR)

Year: 2010






Tracklist
01. Shame
02. Sin Of Addiction
03. Shield
04. Burst Of Colour
05. When Crowds Are Trapped... The Lonely One Dies
06. Fault Lines
07. Drowned In Flames
08. Draft
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As We Draw is a french band developing an intense, powerful and violent music, an avant-garde musical output, based on texts in relation with the artwork.
As if you haven't had enough of these Isis, Cult Of Luna fuckers, with their so-called cheesy parts and bad-ass cathartic sonic explosions... Of course, one can wonder about the relevance of playing some post-metal in 2010. But when it's done with such talent, such faith as these three young guys from Laval, either you take your hat off to them, or either your heart is made of dog food.
«Lines Breaking Circles», is made for those who are still crying over Breach's split and years when Cult Of Luna still made you have a boner. This is quite a severe reproof to all those who spend more time twitting their promo photos than polishing their art in the studio. These guys are true workaholics and such gifted aesthetes that they're starting to get sickening. Especially knowing that they can kick your ass on stage as well as on your turntable. But you can't really hate them, can you? Not when you listen to these killer choruses sponsored by Kleenex on «Scum Of The Earth» or those huge slaps on «Draft» or again...
Alright, enough of this, you already got that it is the same deal as their buddies from Birds In Row : LAVAL EQUALS LIFE

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Album: Maserati - Pyramid Of The Sun

Band: Maserati
Album: Pyramid Of The Sun
Label: Temporary Residence Limited
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. Who Can Find The Beast?
02. Pyramid Of The Sun
03. We Got The System To Fight The System
04. They'll No More Suffer From Thirst
05. Ruins
06. They'll No More Suffer From Hunger
07. Oaxaca
08. Bye M'friend, Goodbye
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Maserati is a rock band from Athens, Georgia, USA whose sound is best described as post-rock with math, progressive and psychedelic rock influences. Their music is instrumental, relying on the standard rock instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums. Maserati brings in experimental sounds to produce a unique and complex musical experience.

Maserati began in 2000 with Coley Dennis on guitar, Steve Scarborough on bass, Phil Horan (later replaced by the late Jerry Fuchs) on drums, and Matt Cherry on guitar. They are currently signed to Temporary Residence Limited, based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Album: Mugstar - Lime

Band: Mugstar
Album: Lime
Label: Important Records
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. Sunburnt Impedance Machine
02. Serra
03. Radar King
04. Beyond The Sun
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Mugstar's third album (their second on Important Records) maintains the power and heaviness of sonic assault laid out in their previous releases whilst extending musical manoeuvres and textures into new territories.
Sunburnt Impedance Machine moves through driving riff passages with soaring guitars and voice recalling touches of early Pink Floyd before locking into a repetitive keyboard and drum driven outro, - power on, power on!
Serra is an extended voyage through a shimmering Krautrock landscape, continuous and expectant grooves that call to mind a turbo-charged Neu! - combine with heavy waves of churning Minimalist synth ala Phillip Glass or Steve Reich. Clinic’s Hartley guests here – adding distant bursts of haunting clarinet skronk - inducing flashes of Nik Turner or Beefheart (you gotta hear it).
Radar King launches with mesmeric drums and bass whilst guitars weave and build to near climax before descending to an eerie space – hanging, drifting with a stretched moment of tape fx weirdness before the energy inevitably re-emerges, it builds and charges with looming and crunching guitars to a colossal tornado apocalypse finale. A noisefest Sonic Youth would revel in.
Beyond The Sun closes in a more reflective mood with incessant rhythms punctuated by arpegiated synths and distant voice evoking a feel of pastoral phsycadelicism. The mantra-like effect driven this time with restraint, atmospheric shifts verge on enlightenment and dark uneasiness.
Take the list of band names mentioned above, add a few others along the lines of Bardo Pond, Oneida, Circle, Kinski, – wind the intensity and volume levels up to blistering and you’ll be entering the universe of Mugstar.

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Album: Third Eye Foundation - The Dark

Band: Third Eye Foundation
Album: The Dark
Label: Domino
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. Anhedonia
02. Standard Deviation
03. Pareidolia
04. Closure
05. If You Treat Us All Like Terrorists, We Will Become Terrorists
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Third Eye Foundation is the project of Matt Elliott, a protagonist of the Bristol scene, first active with Flying Saucer Attack and then with Amp, but stylistically affiliated to the jungle scene. His approach to dance music harks back to 1970s industrial music, in particular to Throbbing Gristle’s cacophony, and therefore resulted in sonic puzzles of difficult appeal. On the debut album Semtex (Linda’s Strange Vacation, 1995), and on the collection of collaborations In Version (Linda’s Strange Vacation, 1996), Elliott was helped out only by Debbie Parsons.

Semtex (Linda’s Strange Vacation, 1995) is all about lo-fi production, atmospheric guitar textures (Seefeel-grade guitar-based ambient music) and jungle breakbeats. Sleep is the best amalgam of shoegazing and jungle. When the beat chills down, 3EF drifts in Orb-grade trance (Dreams On His Fingers, the 12-minute Once When I Was An Indian). Among attempts to build a classical music out of dance music, 3EF’s non-dancefloor drum’n’bass ranks as one of the boldest ideas.

A stronger dub vibration permeates the collaborations on In Version (Linda’s Strange Vacation, 1996). Short Wave Dub (with Amp), Superconstellation (with Crescent), Eyes (with Hood), the 17-minute Way Out (with Flying Saucer Attack) tend to be spacier and trancier. Each episode is stretched to the limit and ultimately annoys. This version of 3EF resembles Bill Laswell’s omnivorous and interminable dub jams.

Ghost (Domino, 1997) replaced guitars with samples, and generally increased the disorienting puzzle of sounds. The seven lengthy tracks are avantgarde experiments, like the tribal musique concrete of I’ve Seen The Light And It’s Dark, or psychedelic vignettes bordering on ambient/cosmic music, like The Out Sound From Way Out, overflowing with dreamy drones and unfriendly noises and harsh beats, or the closing Donald Crowhurst, a minimalistic sequencing of drones. What To Do But Cry represents the wilder side of the project, with its sudden bursts of “raga-fied” guitar within cyclic maelstroms of noise.
The magniloquent, horror visions of Corpses As Bedmates (the guitars literally screaming, the drums pounding frantically) and Ghosts (evoking robotic dinosaurs in alien jungles) better express Elliot’s metaphysics (often derailed by a sense of fear). The Star’s Gone Out is a soundtrack for the creaking clockwork of the universe: one can hear the giant mechanism rotating and the metallic clangor of galaxies rolling along their orbits

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