EXCLUSIVE // The Planet You are back in fine form with their math rock epic ‘Techxture’
It’s been three years since we first worked with rambunctious math rock trio The Planet You. A band...
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EXCLUSIVE // light mill explore math rock minimalism in their latest video
There’s always been a small handful of bands that tend to break down the genre to its delicate fibers. They eschew the guitar noodles, the intense drum rolls, the pedals and other digital toys.
The top 25 math rock albums of 2019
As we pack our bags for holiday travel and prepare to usher 2019 into oblivion, our staff banded...
EXCLUSIVE // Watch Vasa’s video for their brand new single ‘Heroics’
How great it is to watch a band grow. I first heard instrumental rock quartet Vasa back in 2012, an off-the-cuff discovery I made from trawling the deep troughs of Bandcamp. Never Have Dreams had this powerful, monolithic sound, exactly what I needed at that time in my life. No vocals; just instruments bellowing out the narrative.
EXCLUSIVE // Shipley Hollow are bringing the zest with new track ‘Nymph Chimpski’
Math rock and contemporary emo are like chalk and cheese in many ways. Emo is warm and inviting;...
EXCLUSIVE // Hikes return in fine form with new single ’empathy’
There are 62.4 million acres of forests and woodlands in Texas, roughly 38% of the state. Within this collective cover, there are 14 protected sites, including the Guadalupe Mountains, Big Bend, Padre Island, the Big Thicket, and a section of the Rio Grande. Why wouldn't you go for a hike?
EXCLUSIVE // Gorgeous throw a sackful of weird at their new single ‘Material World’
A diamond has more open space in it's crystal structure than matter. Ain't that a thing? The majority of a diamond's content is open space. So it is with bands like Gorgeous. I don't mean that in any pejorative sense, like their music is void of substance. Naye, I mean literally.
VIDEO // Behold the off-kilter riff fest in Øgïvęš Big Band’s new single ‘Tethra’
Øgïvęš Big Band is not just an exercise in exotic symbology, it is a supergroup in the Bristol underground prog and math scene. Comprising the troupe are guitarist Ben Harris (Øgïvęš, ANTA, Rainbow Slicer), bassist Ben Holyoake (Lambhorn), and drummer Oli Cocup (Lambhorn, My Octopus Mind). Sharing a passion for musical experimentation and the avant garde, the trio set out to warp all your favourite heavy rock tropes and throw your expectations back in your face.
EXCLUSIVE // Listen to some of the face-melting cuts off Body Hound’s instrumental masterpiece ‘No Moon’
In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5, Billy Pilgrim is a war veteran with a peculiar predicament: he's got himself 'unstuck in time'. WHAT. 'All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist'...
EXCLUSIVE // Yoink announce new album ‘Interactome’ and premiere new single
Where does one start with describing New York math rock trio Yoink? Allow me to give it a...