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Haha, why? Because I like to go off talking about music? I would never do a video thing. That just seems so... weirdly egotistical. I like writing this shit, because its just how I think/feel. I guess it just feels good to freak out and be poetic about music? Haha, I don't know exactly where it comes from. It's just how my brain works. Actually... no, it probably comes from my friends in high school. This is kind of just what we did; talk animatedly and exaggeratedly about music. Using big crazy descriptions to make ourselves laugh and be ridiculous.

Is it? I'm not familiar with this genre at all. I'd love some suggestions for more stuff like this, though! I mean, I can hear the black metal influences, especially that first track there. But yeah, it was interesting to me because it definitely is more screamo/post-hardcore at its roots.

That was one thing that immediately struck me when I opened my package, how slick the whole presentation is. And the white vinyl playing buttery-smooth was the icing on the cake. I wish everybody could release shit like this.

Hey guys, I've got some stuff I'm looking to get rid of to help pay some bills and flesh out some other things in my collection. My first offering is special limited edition of Gates "Bloom & Breathe" album that comes in a numbered outer slipcover. This is the super awesome-looking Coke Bottle Green with purple and oxblood splatter. So sick. Per Discogs: Pressing Info: 200 Coke Bottle Green w/Grimace Purple & Oxblood Splatter + Custom screened LP jackets assembled and hand numbered by Gates. This copy is sealed and unopened, and numbered 140/200. The slipcover has imperfections due to shipping, with bent corners on the jacket and the slipcover having some bends as well (it was not shipped in an outer plastic sleeve) but still looks great. Ideally I'm looking to trade for a copy of If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky (any variant). Or, I'd like to more or less recoup my cost, so I'm asking $45, which includes Media Mail shipping. I'll have more things for sale, with some stuff going for super cheap, so keep your eyes out! Thanks guys!

I can't believe I forgot these guys!!!! So, this is one of the first groups I got into besides If These Trees Could Talk when I was discovering post-rock for the firs time. I never see them talked about here much but I think they are tremendous songwriters and have an awesome, powerful sound. Heavy post-rock with piano always hits me hard, haha. Tides From Nebula. My favorite album is "Earthshine". The opening track is my favorite, I think. These guys incorporate delay pedals for making guitar rhythms a lot like If These Trees Could Talk and Jakob do, using the dotted 8th note rhythm that The Edge from U2 uses and which David Gilmour from Pink Floyd used a lot on The Wall. (Think "Where The Streets Have No Name" and "Run Like Hell"). These guys are so awesome, and deserve tons of recognition.

So here's something interesting that was talked about in the Deafheaven thread. These guys are an interesting group... and kind of laid the groundwork in a way for what Deafheaven does, with the shoegazey dark/clean framework they use. The band is called Cease Upon The Capitol. They're an interesting group, and I'm not totally sure what to make of them, but their stuff from this 2007 EP is fucking awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1K05XuIGQ&list=FLU7IlvaWdrM8wO_hd0u9NkQ&index=1

I get that not everybody always gets along with everybody else, I'm just being myself, man. There's no need to inject negativity or turn on each other. Shouldn't places like this be a safe place to discuss and freak out about music, and be ourselves? Away from the shitty assholes in the real world who would judge us for spending assloads of money on wax circles and who don't really get the power and magnitude of transcendence that we're able to find and experience in songs like Sycamore or Gone In Bloom and Bough? Whole album is fucking great. I really like that they've kind of gradually worked their way into new and different elements; I'm really loving the percussion/electronic loop elements that they incorporated on this record. This was an interesting record for me because when I finally was able to spin the vinyl, a lot of the slower songs took on wholly different shapes and identities for me; I'd only been listening to the CD in my car, driving places. I think that colors how you relate and internalize the ebb and flow and energy dynamics of the songs; you're able to "see" the songs completely differently when its just you sitting alone with the music and not doing anything else. The title track has also grown a lot on me; at first I thought it was really weird how the song is broken into two parts, and how it has that first resolution and denouement about 4 minutes in, before the last main build sequence begins.

I'm glad that I'm liking this album a lot more as I listen to it more and more. I was fully expecting to hate it, especially given how untoppable I thought Sunbather was.

I can't believe I'm actually responding, but holy shit dude, really? Relax! Why do you have to be such a dick? Am I saying not-nice things about you? No, I'm not. I don't do that, because that's a shitty thing to do. I'm not going to leave; just because you say some mean shit and try to posture on the internet. I hope it made you feel better, at least. I mean part of me is kind of chuckling that I'm driving you so crazy here with how I post, because that's such a weird thing to care AT ALL about to begin with. I'm just going to chalk it up to you having had a bad day, because I know people have reasons for losing it, and they can come from tons of different places. Take a deep breathe, man. It will be okay.

I would fucking love to have Language on vinyl. That album is SO fucking good. I'll need to revisit Exoplanet because that stuff didn't grab me, but when I saw them open for BTBAM and was exposed to the Language material live...... ::::head go splode::::

You also need: Jakob Sleepmakeswaves Pg.Lost Giants Beware of Safety Rosetta Junius Isis Baulta Pray For Sound I/O North Maybeshewill Audrey Fall Joy Wants Eternity This Will Destroy You

Spinning my white copy right now.... this is fucking gorgeous. Rioseco is probably my new favorite... getting to sit with this on vinyl instead of spinning the CD in the car or just at my computer has given me a whole new perspective on this song. Truly massive.

So I just got my package from Monotreme Records in Britain.... I ordered Sleepmakeswaves "In Today Already Walks Tomorrow" EP. The first track on both sides of the record is scratched, marring both tracks' intros. And the A side has some gnarly abrasion marks, and the center of both records has this weird spidering thing going on like a cracked windshield. The record is super noisy too. It's 180g vinyl so I'm going to try to clean it, but the scratches are unfixable. GRRRRRRR. Will be contacting them about this to see what can be done. I fucking knew something like this would happen... so far, EVERY TIME i've ordered a record from an overseas label, it has ALWAYS come with some problem. Either it's scratched, or the record is warped and the jacket bent to fuck... etc. Monotreme is cool in that they use anti-static sleeves, but... that won't protect shoddy packagine. The record was shrink-wrapped, and simply wrapped in some bubble wrap inside a big mailer. The CD I ordered was placed in between the cardboard folds of said mailer. Very weird.

So I was listening to Somewhere Along The Highway again the other day, and that mayyyyy be my new favorite. Salvation still has a special place in my heart because of "Echoes" but SOTH might be a better overall album. Finland and Dim are my favorites. Although I realize I have been listening to a sped-up version.... which I kind of like better than the real edition, haha

I think it fits perfectly with what George was talking about in regards to the mundane routine of living a regular adult life. I like it.

My hardcore pit moves will keep me alive. Spin kicks 4 lyphe!

Quit whining. You're getting "Loft". That is all that matters.

This is a good point. At Godspeed in Hudson, there was a good group of us kind of midway back in the crowd, lengthwise, who were opening ourselves up. Its not really thrashing about, but more... shaking your body while keeping your feet more or less where they would be if you were simply standing still. Bopping back and forth, side to side, maybe adding 3-4 extra inches of space to your personal bubble. The crowd wasn't packed there anyway, so it didn't really matter. But it was just weird how totally stoic and disinterested most people seemed. I mean, for music that impactful, I would expect people to be losing their shit. I donno, just my observations. Anyway, we'll continue this more later because I'm late for work!

The 2nd part I can agree with. It's super inconsiderate of others' space. But whats your gripe with dancing? Fucking loosen up man! Music should make you move and feel. It probably also comes from the fact that I see lots of jamband shows, because I love dancing and that music is made for dancing-to. But you guys should check your judgement... you're projecting some very negative energy towards people who are experiencing a very positive, joyous thing at a show. That's not very cool, is it?

I fucking LOVE Alcest. "Shelter" is my favorite album, that thing is fucking sick. It's less black metal and more shoegaze, but I fucking love that thing. Their older records are great too, but the pop melodies mixed with the distortion and shoegaze guitar work on "Shelter" just blow me away. Definitely go see them. ALWAYS go see music.

My favorite track is easily "Arcs of Command" but the big grower track for me without question "Run Dry". I love all the weird new things they did on this record.

I don't want people standing next to me, I want them dancing too! "like a madman" is actually a little excessive... it was a healthy grooving. Dancing to Godspeed was like a religious experience for me. I can't wait to do that again. What a beautiful, beautiful thing to be able to do.

Who gives a fuck? He obviously wasn't being directly talking about gay people with the use of that word. Nobody uses that word to actually refer to gay people. At least that's the case where I live/grew up. Gay people are cool. Faggots aren't gay people. That is the classical definition, yes, but noooobody uses it in that context any more, and if they do, they're stupid and lame. Anyway, this is a pathetic excuse for news.

Hmmmm.... It was never really about anything more than the music for me, at least. And when you say everyone was just standing there, are you talking about the crowd? That's the way it mostly was at the show I saw, except for the ones around me who I was able to loosen up and get grooving. I was dancing like a madman for that shit, and the people next to me I think felt less self-conscious enough to let themselves open up and move, too. Post-rock crowds are so fucking weird, it's like everyone's too fucking scared to show emotion and let loose and move their body. Way too self-conscious. I was fucking JUMPING during Godspeed. That shit was so amazing for me, the power of that music. Especially the new song, I was going nuts during that fast dancey hi-hat part in the middle, when everything was kind of like wavering and shaking and quaking back and forth as it rose to a climax. I dance to most music anyway, because dancing to music is the greatest fucking thing. But yeah, most of the crowd just stood there. I don't get how that's at all enjoyable.

Can't decide whether I want to go for the tour press, or the Newbury Comics edition of this record.... Also, HALP! Does anybody have an extra ticket to the Boston show on 10/24???