Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Noyes


Year: 2002
Genre: Indie, Math Rock
Similar: Ghosts and Vodka, Owls
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This is Victor Villareal's (Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Ghosts and Vodka) solo album. Really short, just 4 tracks. Vic's got a really unique way of playing that combines unconventional strumming and finger picking to create jumbled melodies that kind of just float along despite the wild feel shifts hes throwing around.
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O Lucky Man!


Year: 2008
Genre: Math Rock
Similar: Planets, Hella
Really raw, honest math rock with thoughtfully placed vocals. Planets esque in the Spazzyness, but they keep it really skeletal and stripped down, almost lo fi sounding with just an ever so lightly distorted guitar a drum kit and vocals. Adding to the mayhem is a Rhodes piano which the drummer plays simultaneously with his kit.
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Monday, February 23, 2009

T.I.M.E.


Year: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Soundtrack

Nosdam scored a skate movie for Element called This is my Element (T.I.M.E.). This is much more of an upbeat effort when compared to other formal releases of his, your head will be bobbing.
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Trinitron Meets the Mars People


Year: 2008
Genre: Math Rock, Dance Math?, Fun Rock?(jk)
Similar: Actarus, The Red Light Sting, El Ten Eleven
Really young math rock trio from California. These guys arent doing anything super impressive technicality wise or even in pushing the math rock boundaries. They're just into making really fun instrumental songs that one minute make you want to get up and dance, and the next minute, just lay back and take in all of the crazy sly time shifts and warped melodies. This band gets me stoked because i'm pretty sure they're still in high school and they already have a 17 track long album with not a bad tune on it. P.S. hella sick track titles: "The Fawn Stole My Shoes and Now i Need Blues Clues" "Bear Grylls Ate my Fuckin Turtle!"
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Them, RoaringTwenties



Year: 2008
Genre: Math Rock
Similar: Yowie, Tera Melos
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2 Crystal Clean Guitars, a Rhodes Keyboard in place of a bass, and crisp skittery drums make up this Math Rock quartet from Chicago. If any band has ever truly deserved the label "Math Rock" it is these guys. Though it is some of the zaniest instrumental music you will ever hear, these guys truly know how to keep it beautifully melodic, while producing some of the most technicalally challenging rock music you've ever heard. Yes the random vocal outbursts can be offsetting at first, but this mostly instrumental album is about surprises.
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You.May.Die.In.The.Desert.













http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3T3RANFZ
Sweet Instrumental band from Seattle. Post Rock in the texturey(?) guitar work. Not Post Rock in that the songs actually move along/don't take ten minutes to get to that one sweet spot. If your an impatient Intrumental Rocker you will dig this band.
Year: 2008
Genre: Post Rock, Math Rock
Similar: The Mercury Program, Loose Lips Sink Ships
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Vignetting the Compost



Bibio's new album. To put it simply: if you love Bibio you will love this album.
Year: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Folk
Similar: The Books, Kaki King, Boards of Canada
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