EXCLUSIVE // PAPER MICE RETURN WITH 1-800 MONDAYS
It’s been nearly 9 years since Paper Mice released last album, The Funny Papers, and it’s glorious news...
BACK TO THOSE GOLD SOUNDZ
NEW MUSIC // FOCO FOR THE WIN OF SOUTH AMERICAN MATH ROCK REVIVAL
FFO: Rob Ford Explorer, Floral, Hella. Well, who hasn’t had their minds blown away by a math rock...
NEW MUSIC // SPIKE YOUR AFTERNOON TEA WITH HONEYBENDER’S NEW SINGLE “AN EMPTY ROOM AT MIDNIGHT”
Honeybender release their salty sweet new single today, entitled “An Empty Room at Midnight,” and it’s the band’s...
NEW MUSIC // GET TO KNOW THE EVISCERATING SOUNDS OF ELAINE THE SINGER
Last month, Elaine the Singer released a feral self-titled debut into the wild. Combining a no-wave styled stream...
EXCLUSIVE // CHAMPAGNE COLORED CARS TRANSCEND THIS EARTHLY PLANE ON NEW SINGLE “DIMENSIONAL feat. ELLIE PRICE”
Champagne Colored Cars beam us up for a space cruise today courtesy of their new single, “Dimensional (feat....
EXCLUSIVE // sewingneedle take math rock back to the 90’s with their new album ‘user error’
You might agree that the mid-1990’s were the salad days of math rock, a time where the term ‘math rock’ was still a joke phrase and only just picking up traction from the zines and journos. There were bands like Chavez, Polvo, Shudder To Think that added rhythmic complexity to their combinations of grunge, slacker rock, post-punk, and post-hardcore with a mathy edge. What made these bands so good is that their discordant was well-balanced with palatable hooks and sing-alongs.
LAC – Vostok (2018)
•LAC•'s first EP 141/146 was a varied beast. In parts it was a tight, almost minimalist piece of instrumental rock, clipped down to clicking drums and relaxed guitar lines. In others it exploded into walls of reverb'ed guitar that sounded like a band of hundreds rather than three.
Eyes On Lips – Sounds From A Theme Park (2017)
The consolation of math rock is that the unexpected is expected. The listener is often presented with a non-conventional sensory overload and, as the song finishes, are left picking up the many pieces and trying to make sense of them.
The EFFECTS – Eyes to the Light (2017)
Full disclosure: I have never listened to Faraquet. Yes, I know. Feel free to opine to me on...
tricot – 3 (2017)
Kyoto trio tricot return with jangling math rock in their highly anticipated third album 3. The sheer musicianship of Ikkyu, Motifour and Hirohiro slapping the listener in the face with the sound of the first trademark high-pitched snare of 'Tokyo Vampire Hotel', the album’s opening track.
