HI GUYS! It's been a while since our last album. This new one is called Rowboat Villainy and it's weirder and fresher and cooler. Please leave feedback! All kinds appreciated.
DOWNLOAD LINK Track list: 1. hello rabbit - intro track, robot bunny? 2. nanjing 3000 3. trivia - featuring smix! 4. wonder festival - my favorite song on this 5. filmed at 11 brighton knolls ct. - movie soundtrack-ish 6. the clap 7. dogs!!! - one of our staple live songs. 8. batman - plays backwards 9. leavening
thanks for listening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ps: still need album art. we can credit you! something inspired by the album, rowboat themed, abstract and trippy. any ideas? maybe something similar to thisthis (that xeofreestyler made)?
edit: 4th song - Wonder Festival... are those voices from some movie? 2nd edit: ok finished listening and although this isnt my favorite music genre, I really enjoyed it. Thank you very much.
edit: trivia and 11 brighton knolls are pretty good. nanjing 3000 is good too, but the drums in the background seem a bit lost in the mix. overall good work though!
cool, some tracks makes me think of the flashbulb, and anything that makes me think about the flashbulb is a good thing! ill prolly download this when i get home, even though im not in to as much "strange" music as i was before.
good job, anyway. strongly advise you to keep going!
Going to listen to it right now. I really liked the first album and I'm still listening to it from time to time! I'll edit this post with my thoughts about this new album
message and meaning? up to your interpretation, really. my gf describes our songs as "waking up from a dream about your childhood and not being sure where you are" =]
edit: 4th song - Wonder Festival... are those voices from some movie?
I feel that most of the songs are quite too abstract to be enjoyable - the great number of additional sounds/effects make a barrage to the flow of many songs (such as dogs). The best one in my opinion, Wonder Festival, kicks ass because its melody/theme/chords are super cool AND because the electronic weirdness floating around goes in its direction.
re: the software, i used ableton live, kontakt 4, symphobia, fm8, and a shit ton of random samples culled from various places/recorded. the vocals and guitars were recorded through my laptop mic and an m-audio fasttrack respectively.
wow cheers for bumping, this managed to go unnoticed for me the first time
Now i'm commenting on each tune in length at 5:30 am.. cause to put it frankly, this shit is good.
nanjing 3000 - blissful piano ambience turning into a mess of hazy distortion... so goood n dreamy trivia - O________O such an amazing mood from the get go, crescendoing while getting more abstract and then falling off. Unexpected to say the least. Comes off as a beautiful moment/happening that culminates, then kind of decays in .."awesomeness" and doesn't leave you unconditionally yearning for the same thing, yet still makes you feel good about what you just experienced :D wonder festival - that atmosphere is immense! when the glitched phased percussionwork, it kicks up a gear and for me personally, just explodes in awesome and emotion when the beat intensifies and that arp kicks in, immense O___O I'm a sucker for drawn out string sections And jebus, distorted distant guitar riffs a la Mogwai (just a personal fav) just make it even better :D
filmed at 11 brighton knolls ct. - is following a similar pattern of starting seemingly harmonically sound n settled, yet spirals out of control into a hazy postrock ambience with abstractions. Unconventional? Yes. Is that good? Yes, for that exact reason. Hah, i'm even instantly reminded of Sigur Ros when the new harmonies kick in after the plucked solo.. Technically though, this is the first time ive noticed so far that the strings sound too unnatural and synthetic, but that impression soon wears off when the layers keep adding to .. the cake :D MMMM I love low end drones. People don't clearly use enough industrial sounding low end drones in conjunction with more conventional yet perfectly contrasting hugely reverbed and delayed piano and guitar/cello loops :D I'd even desire for more flow to it, a stricter underlying sense of progression, be it through a similar recurring percussion pattern or a melodic loop, but thats, once again, just my personal preference :D Ha. The next part. Loving the creative use of percussion. And the escalation at 7:20+.. I like where this is going :D
Lol this is turning more into a stream of concious style writing than a reasonably short review on what i hear :F
OH WELL :D the clap - this is nice. the vocals and the bass progression following it make it flow soooo nice. LONGER PLZ
dogs!!! - I'm not sure the beat that first comes in compliments the overall mood/atmosphere enough to warrant it being there (so harsh all of a sudden, sry :F). Okay, now the noise kicked in O__O omg, this is better than i would've expected.. I mean, im usually all for slight abstractions and white noise to compliment the main harmonies and atmosphere, but this... is surprisingly good. Order in chaos. And now getting slightly tiring @ the 6 minute mark The high frequencies popping back up briefly and then everything fading out in an orderly fashion ... aaaahhh, into a perfect ambience (:D) give a wicked impression. Making me wonder what just happened
batman - oooh uptempo :D and a HA, a reversed track. Always a slipperly slope to take, but yet so rewarding when it's done right, and this might as well be one of those examples ^__^ leavening - a worthy outro to a great album, great backdrop to watching the sunrise creep up right now :D
And why did i leave ze robot out? To me thats the track that felt completely out of place, in terms of both overall album integrity and personal preference. I tried, but just couldn't get myself to enjoy that one. That perhaps made the transition into nanjing even better. Perception's a funny ting. And haters gonna hate, right? also because i started writing this 'review' right after starting nanjing
All in all, Sorry for such a long-winded wall of text haha. But kudos to you guys and godspeed. This album is great as a package, progresses nicely, has a mixture of sounds and styles, but with a strong underlying theme / signature. Call it electronic, experimental, post-rock, or all of the aforementioned, it truly is a nice work. And i guess the fact that i sat down in the middle of the night and got stuck on listening to the whole album and even writing this hugeass wall is another way of saying how much i like this :D Emotional, intelligent, progressive & full of thought. And being food of thought. To me, atleast :D
Looking forward to more! And since I'm personally also interested in bringing my sounds out of my bedroom and into a live setting without it necessarily being a DJ-set, I'm very interested to listening to some of your live performances, if at all possible somehow.
It's effin great music. Intrigue is a music P.I.M.P. 8 biting that shit left and right. If you're cool you should listen to it. If you don't you're not only not cool but you're also not intrigued enough.
I think hello rabbit would have been absolutely incredible had it not been for the weird sounds kicking me off the beat every few seconds. Good melody though
On October 17 2011 10:30 boesthius wrote: Dear God, I know I’m saved, I know I’m saved!! I saw a ball of fire fall down from heaven and strike me to the land.
lol this track always catches me off guard. it starts out so funky too
fusefuse it's awesome you wrote down your experience as you listened to the tracks. so cool to read! and aldehyde yeah i'll see if i can get the FLAC versions up, i've had some other people ask too.
as a side note this documentary on hairdressers is using our songs! http://www.hairbrained.tv/salonint2011 it's sweet our songs are played to imagery of beautiful women and high fashion. lovely
On October 18 2011 03:23 Wohmfg wrote: I love both your albums, this one sounds so much like World's End Girlfriend, did you ever listen to him? Great music too.
my bandmate who writes the sickest shit loves WEG, he uses the same effects pedals and would love to blow the guy
On October 21 2011 15:01 intrigue wrote: fusefuse it's awesome you wrote down your experience as you listened to the tracks. so cool to read! and aldehyde yeah i'll see if i can get the FLAC versions up, i've had some other people ask too.
npnp ^___^ twas clearly emotional and inspiring enough for me to do so
would even be interested in perhaps remixing and/or collaborating on a track or two hehehe ive been looking to get out of the pattern/formula based stuff ive been making + i really think some of your stuff needs a proper beat to drive the groove even bettah :D
Thank you everyone for the support! It's always incredibly insightful to read other people's reaction to the music, to see what moved people and what left them unsatisfied. As always, we're working hard to get better, but in the meantime, here's a FLAC copy of the album for those that were asking for it.
Was playing this in my office today and my completely-devoid-of-good-musical-taste-pop-country-radio-all-day-long coworker totally got into it and is now fully immersing himself in droney post rock. Changing hearts and blowing minds, thanks again for sharing these albums!
Mad-steezy bump to this. Three songs in, likin' it so far. You been listening to some Japanese artists? I listen to a lot of Japanese composers and IDM artists and it I can hear them a bit in this.
*Edit* just saw that your band-mate listens to World's End Girlfriend, which is exactly what I was thinking. Kashiwa Daisuke of WEG is a fucking amazing artist. Guess that answers my question XD
Just clicked something that reminded me of this. Album is awesome and anyone who hasn't listened should. It makes me sad I haven't had access to my itunes for somewhere around 8 months now. Oh well!
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good job!
And jebus, distorted distant guitar riffs a la Mogwai (just a personal fav) just make it even better :D
