Botch
Unifying Themes Redux / American Nervoso / We are the Romans (Reissues)
Hydra Head (2006)
How does one measure the influence and impact of a band on music? Sure, you could look at album sales, which in the case of The Beatles is a corollary that works, but then you could see how many albums a band like Godsmack or someone like Kenny Chesney has sold and just throw that idea out the window. Truly, the best way to gauge a band's importance in music is to take a look at the world of music before and after their existence? There are artists like Black Sabbath, The Ramones, and Black Flag, among others, that completely flipped the music world upside-down when they unleashed their sound on the unsuspecting masses. Then again, the first guy to "create" electronica music did the same. Nevertheless, this is how we should find Botch's place in music, something that would have been a hell of a lot harder to do so while the band was still alive and breathing. Though, I'm sure someone was listening to the first Ramones recording and screaming, "This is going to change everything," Oh, and before someone flips out and thinks I'm comparing the impact of The Ramones and Botch, I'm not. I am, however, … Read more
Grizzly Bear
Friend
Warp (2007)
Having heard Grizzly Bear's Horn of Plenty when it was first released and liking it quite a lot, I was … Read more
