Seven Sisters Of Sleep
Opium Morals
A389 (2013)
Think long and hard and decide just what it takes for a band to enter your own personal rarified air (sure this personal status can be mutable over time with bands falling out and joining in depending on how quickly your tastes might change); for me it can be as little as one record and can last an entire “Career” (however long a band continues to release great music) or “forever” even, and it is not always taste that determines my personal echelon because you might hear something out of the blue that you normally would not listen to that you immediately cling to the artist, band, what have you. Then there are those bands that always impress the hell out of you whenever a new record of theirs comes out but then fly under your radar in the lull between releases, and that is precisely where Seven Sisters Of Sleepreside in my mind’s eye; and with Opium Morals, they do it to me again.While their first self titled album was seemingly a manic crushing slab of monolithic hardcore mixed with a tad bit of doom-y riffing, Seven Sisters Of Sleep go a slightly less “let’s bulldoze over the people … Read more
30,000 Monkies
Somewhere Over The Painbow
Consouling Sounds (2013)
Somewhere between rock, stoner, sludge and noise, 30,000 Monkies manage to find a point of equilibrium and they are now … Read more
Pinkish Black
Razed To The Ground
Century Media (2013)
Last year's self titled record from Pinkish Black was a distinctly (un)pleasant surprise from a duo that have been making … Read more
Janelle Monáe
The Electric Lady
Wondaland Arts Society (2013)
It's encouraging that after releasing one of the best records of 2010, Janelle Monáe wasn't rushed into releasing the follow-up … Read more
Radioactivity
Radioactivity
Dirtnap (2013)
Each time I write the phrase “garage-punk” I like it less and less. Still, how else to describe a band … Read more
