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What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:35 am
by caix_Archive
johnnyshape wrote:Paradox surrounds Nozomi Phoenix. Sophisticated yet raw, unconventional while still accessible, alternately atmospheric and hard-hitting: the band is adept at lending congruity where there should be none, and in this rectification of duality sits their inner essence. The band's style of moody evolutionary rock has garnered comparisons to artists such as Jeff Buckley, Sonic Youth, and Pink Floyd, to name several. The band itself is influenced by visual and aural artists such as: Akira Kurosawa, Sebastiao Salgado, Amon Tobin, Slayer, Charles Mingus, Anton Corbijn, U2, Richard Avedon, Mamoru Oshii, Fugazi, Massive Attack, Neil Young, Quasimoto, Diane Arbus, and Tracy Silva-Barbosa. The mission of Nozomi Phoenix is not to evoke images of imitation, or ideas of surface things, or of egomania and closed doors, but to heal, to awaken, and to enable.
Our debut EP is available to anyone in the US for an affordable $8,
That's extraordinary. Someone sat down and wrote that.
Amazing.
All bands with
public 'mission statements' or 'manifestos' are invariably shit.
I wouldn't say "all," unless you're not a fan of bands like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Public Image Limited, etc.
I never read stuff about the band, unless it's a bio. I just listen to the music. There's a ton of stuff out there I'd just hate because of shit like this, but I'd rather just hear what they sound like and have that be the explanation.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:34 am
by Matthew Taylor_Archive
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
This album is exciting me.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:44 am
by Christopher_Dragon_Archive
Matthew Taylor wrote:A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
This album is exciting me.
This is good news to me.
That group is fucking awesome.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:45 am
by GuyMercier_Archive
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:31 am
by sunlore_Archive
GuyMercier wrote:Le Sport!
There must be another Le Sport around.
The one I heard was totally generic eurotrash electropoop. This sounds like fun.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:23 pm
by Peripatetic_Archive
Old: Brian Eno's Another Green World I've owned it for years and just recently realized how amazing it was.
New: Pit er Pat. Did I mention that I can't say enough good things about them?
The newest specific record that is exciting the fuck out of me is Cheer Accident's What Sequel?. It's the long-awaited sequel to The Why Album and it fucking rules.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:32 pm
by caix_Archive
Peripatetic wrote:Old: Brian Eno's Another Green World I've owned it for years and just recently realized how amazing it was.
Hell yeah. All his rock stuff is great, though Before and After Science still hasn't quite grown on me.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:25 pm
by GuyMercier_Archive
sunlore wrote:There must be another Le Sport around.
... This sounds like fun.
yeah, the other Le Sport is swedish shit
this is the new wave of french r'n'r
I saw them last saturday, it was stupendous!
more of where they come from
is here!
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:34 pm
by endofanera_Archive
johnnyshape wrote:All bands with public 'mission statements' or 'manifestos' are invariably shit.
Nation of Ulysses was not shit.
What was the last band or album that excited you (old-new)?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:40 pm
by chopjob_Archive
Christopher_Dragon wrote:Matthew Taylor wrote:A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
This album is exciting me.
This is good news to me.
That group is fucking awesome.
I think he's playing soon at the Hideout or 'Bottle, yes? Or he played in the recent past and I forgot about it, as per usual.
I dunno, nothing especial is turning my crank right now. A lot of Xenakis, I s'pose.
