Behind Enemy Lines - The Global Cannibal

This has been the only album I have been listening to lately, and by lately I mean the past four or five days. If you're unaware of this band, they are a ridiculously awesome crust band with ex-members of Aus-Rotten and The Pist. Think of a faster Aus-Rotten but a lot heavier. Politically charged punk just the way I like it. Listen and love it.

Favorite Track: Global Cannibal

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Twelve Hours Of Turning Dreams (Twelve Hour Turn)

I had a dream last night.

This band was the soundtrack.

It was weird.

I posted Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction already.

These are their other releases, although they have a ton of splits:

Bend, Break, Spill

The Victory Of Flight

Gang Green

Gang Green is my jam today.

It should be yours too.

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Lariat - Means Of Production

I had recently found myself going through my cd collection and looking for albums that I haven't listened to in quite some time. Means of Production by Lariat was one of the albums that I dusted off the shelf and put in the cd player only to remember why I purchased this album in the first place. Putting it in brought me right back to Hellfest 2001 which was the first time I had seen and heard them and I remember being completely blown away by their set. I remember there being a pretty large sing-a-long to the song "Cubicle" (which is on their split with At War With Shadows) and just being pulled in by everyone screaming "This is not forever, we are not immortal/If you knew you were dying tomorrow how would you have lived today?" Unfortunately that was the only time I had caught these dudes live. Excellent hardcore and crust influenced metalcore with a big political agenda to boot. Think Unbroken meets His Hero Is Gone meets Deadguy...kind of. Just give this a listen if you have not heard them, this release will NOT disappoint. I know I say that about a lot of things, but I MEAN IT!


Favorite Track: Monsanto

Rating: 8 Out Of 10

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Chain Of Strength - What Holds Us Apart 7" / True Till Death 7"

No review needed, just going to say that this is the way the songs were supposed to sound in all of it's raw and passionate form.

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Le Fly Pan Am

I recently gave this band a second chance. Being that they did share members with a band that is HUGELY important to me, I figured it was worth it.

Le Fly Pan Am really redefines post-rock for me (keeping in mind that they did emerge from the birth place of post-rock). However, I do question whether this is an appropriate genre for them, but in retrospect it is the most fitting. This mostly do to the fact that (and I really hate using this term) they do have a 'groovy' ambiance to them.

With driving and at times funky bass lines sitting under straight noise or shoegazey guitars, the band moves between an interesting variety of songs. Keeping this confidence in musical freedom in mind, dead silence or abrasive noise is a frequent antithesis to the previously described style.

Check it out, you might dig it.
Hell, all the titles are in French, it must be good.

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Favorite Track: Rompre L'indiffйrence De L'inexitable Avant Que L'on Vienne Rompre Lesommeil De L'inanimй

Rating: 7 Out Of 10

Akron/Family

There really hasn't been any indie rock posted on here since we've started this blog. Not that I'm particularly into the genre, but I do think there are a few gems floating around out there among all the hipster nonsense.

Akron/Family is one of my recent favorites. Not that they haven't been churning out music since 2003, but they've only recently come to my attention in the last year-or-so. Unafraid to slip comfortably between noise and well-developed/folky melodies the group's self-titled debut album was released in 2005 on Michael Gira's (of Swans fame) label; Young God records. Akron/Family would also come to serve as the backing band for Gira's solo project Angels of Light on the album 'Sing "Other People"', as well as numerous subsequent tours that Akron/Family would also serve as the opener for.

On this their self-titled debut, the band uses a variety of instruments to obtain their strange brand of folk-influenced, experimental indie rock spanning from trumpet to guitars to sythesizer to accordion to a variety of circuit-bending electronic equipment, they are even able to still develop a comprehensible harmony. Using both awkward and more straight forward melodies they create a unique sound that will interest even the most hipster-hating metal heads.

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Favorite Track: Afford

Rating: 9 Out Of 10