Everytime that we meet I skip a heartbeat

I promise to write soon. In the meantime enjoy this great video from Three Trapped Tigers.

Until soon.
Toby

1st ever Explosions In The Sky video!

preach

Holy Roar records have put together an epic free sampler, their first for quite a while, of music that they’re putting out now and in the near future. We’re talking Gallows. Brontide. Rosa Valle. Rolo Tomassi (whose marathon Eternal Youth album is well worth a listen).

The link to it is here.

By way of a sampler of the sampler here is some Rosa Valle to listen to whilst your downloading. 

 Dust Wasp by Rosa Valle 

what from what

This self titled album comes out on 27 June, I wish it all the best and hopes it makes that whole break/cross into the mainstream as it is very good and SBTRKT, so I'm told, are from my neck of the woods.

Listening to: Brontide

Aside from slowed down dub the other thing that I have been listening to alot lately is Sans Souci, the debut full length from Brontide. There has been, understandably, alot of attention on the band as the three of them are clearly talented songwriters. Luckily Sans Souci doesn’t disappoint; you get well crafted songs, but there is less a desire to reach a crescendo and more a desire to mix up the slow and the fast.

The end result is post rock melody which almost falls into the category of easy listening. Almost. Anyway below is one of their tracks, enjoy.

 Matador by Brontide.

The palace of Sanssouci

PLANKTON WAT

Portland, OR does seem to produce an abundance of guitar-led experimental music (as I've mentioned earlier), and the music of Plankton Wat, with its instrumental guitar sound is a continuation of that fine tradition.

Known to friends as Dewey Mahood, Plankton Wat has some new material coming soon, via the Sweat Lodge label, in the form of a 37 minute EP called The Outer Lands. Thanks to the wonders of technology I’ve managed to have a bit of listen to some of it; think sparse and sparing arrangement, if you’re a fan of any sort of drone music then you’ll like this.

The song that I’ve listened to is below for you to check out. I managed to get to ask Dewey what we could expect from the impending release, here’s what he had to say:

On The Outer Lands I explored electronic sound more than any other Plankton Wat album. There aren't any acoustic instruments used except for some bells and my voice. Otherwise it's all electric guitar, synth, and drum machine. I try to leave a lot of space in the music, and focus on meditative moods.

Well it certainly like sounds worth a listen.

And the future for Plankton Wat looks bright as well, there’s an album due out in 2012 called Islands as well as a split LP with another band, Super Minerals which is in the works.

Here’s the song:

 Plankton Wat - The Outer Lands (upcoming cassette on Sweat Lodge Guru) by Solar Commune 

And here’s a YouTube vid of some of his other stuff:

who doesn't like trains

Melancholic post-rockers iLiKETRAiNS are back with a new video for their single Sirens.

It’s great to see a band put so much effort into their videos - there is a story to this one, the second part a nautically themed trilogy, which is interesting and also a little haunting. So you have been warned.