Heaters: Baptistina (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond, 2016)

August 5, 2016 at 9:10 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Heaters: Baptistina

Heaters: Baptistina

Second album from a Grand Rapids-based band doing the noisy surf-y psych-rock thing. This is exactly the type of band that seems tailor made for Austin Psych Fest/Levitation. Some of the tracks are more straightforward psych-rock tunes, some are more drifty, some are longer and go through different sections. “Elephant Turner” has a tiny bit of a “Jump Into the Fire” groove to it, while “Dali” has a bit of an “I Am the Walrus” bite to the vocals. “Seafoam” is appropriately the surfiest one. Pretty good overall, definitely sounds like the mitten state’s equivalent of Holy Wave or the Black Angels.

Crush Collision: 8/4/16

August 5, 2016 at 1:20 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:02 pm Pvre Matrix ~ “Hyper Object”
10:05 pm Cathode Ray Tube ~ “Abundance”
10:11 pm FaltyDL ~ “Mean Streets Part Three”
10:14 pm Container ~ “Soak”
10:18 pm Silvershower ~ “Ice Fractions 1B”
10:22 pm Figure-Ground ~ “Figure-Ground 13”
10:24 pm Anybody Anytime ~ “Where the Head Goes (Ruff Mix)”
10:29 pm Mental Overdrive ~ “Higher”
10:39 pm David Meiser & Marc Solsona ~ “Snake of the Ganges”
10:42 pm Carl Finlow ~ “Bleem”
10:47 pm Jeroen Search ~ “Tensile Force”
10:53 pm Dos Attack ~ “Flue (Minor Science Remix)”
10:55 pm Rezzett ~ “Doyce”
Hour 2
11:02 pm Silvestre ~ “Floresta”
11:06 pm Nick Beringer ~ “Sidewalk”
11:12 pm Cool Tiger ~ “Warehouse for All”
11:19 pm Hieroglyphic Being ~ “Spiritual Alliances”
11:23 pm Vapauteen ~ “Blood On the Moon”
11:29 pm Subradeon ~ “Clacson”
11:34 pm Exercise One ~ “Timetrap (Locked Groove Remix)”
11:40 pm Liar & Mutual Friend ~ “Sidewinder”
11:43 pm John F.M. ~ “Jchx”
11:48 pm DJ Béeso ~ “Zajj Lid2”
11:54 pm Randomer ~ “Concierge”

Essential Tremors: The Visitor 12″ EP (Third Man, 2016)

August 2, 2016 at 9:23 pm | Posted in Reviews | 1 Comment

Essential Tremors: The Visitor 12" EP

Essential Tremors: The Visitor 12″ EP

It’s not easy to find information about this band, because Googling their name brings up information about nervous system disorders. As it turns out, they’re a Nashville-based post-punk/synth/darkwave band and the EP was produced/engineered by Dan Tomzack, formerly of Detroit groups Terrible Twos and Johnny Ill Band. Booming drum machines, goth-y bass guitar, distorted vocal, noisy effects. Pretty surprised to hear this on Third Man, but it fits, especially after they released a Wolf Eyes album last year. This is sort of somewhere between that and some of their more typical garage rock releases. “MTA” is probably the bleakest and coldest of the tracks, and “Death Perception” is maybe the danciest. They’re all good, really.

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