this town needs guns

this town needs guns = wonderful, wonderful uk math rock. think minus the bear/maps & atlases/american football style elaborate guitar with the wistfulness of death cab for cutie. beautifully complex arrangements which come across as effortless. their full length lp animals is their finest work, but their earlier stuff offers something a little different with some distorted guitar and piano which isn't present on that album. and nothing on animals is quite as upbeat as "26 is dancier than 4." plus you don't get the quirky song titles (which must be some math rock thing... again, see minus the bear. hey! is that a ninja up there?)


26 is dancier than 4


it's not true rufus, don't listen to the hat


hippy jam fest (the likes of which has never been seen)


wanna come back to my room and listen to some belle and sebastian?


try using that last one as a pick-up line on that cute indie kid.

the thirty years war

pre-fall of troy in the band's high school days. original line-up [thomas erak, tim ward, andrew forsman] plus a second guitarist, mike munro. pretty damn good for high school. you can hear the potential already. it'd be cool if they re-recorded some of this stuff.

a tribute to orville wilcox


the thirty years war = martyrs among the casualties

1. a tribute to orville wilcox
2. chain wallet, nike shoes
3. tears of green eyed angels
4. mirrors are more fun than television
5. reassurance rests in the sea
6. the day the strength of men failed
7. knife fight at the mormon church

the fall of fucking troy

oh man, nothing gets me pumped like this band. i remember learning i just got this symphony goin' on guitar and thinking i was pretty fuckin awesome [i am].

they've got an album due out soon. they've played a number of songs live. some songs point toward a different direction, like manipulator except with even more of a pop sensibility. it actually all sounds very promising. however, it would be a shame if they completely abandoned the sound that defined them. luckily, there are still songs with the same frantic craziness as self-titled/doppelganger tfot. the song above is a good blend of the two sounds. i dig the bluesy end with thom's guitar hero solo. that kid can sure play.

straightjacket keelhauled is a song which is purely old school tfot with as much packed into two and a half minutes as possible, in the same vein as laces out, dan! i'd say that's my favourite song on doppelganger, but really every song on doppelganger is my favourite. that's an album i greatly enjoy listening to straight through. it was pretty much a mindfuck the first time i heard it. still kind of is.

laces out, dan! [live]





the fall of troy = live at bbc sessions

tracklist:

semi-fiction
f.c.p.r.e.m.i.x.
laces out, dan!
straightjacket keelhauled

found objects

a local [bloomington, in] band. atmospheric, ambient, epic, shoegaze, perhaps post-rock, full of feedback. i saw them a year ago at "hugefest" here at iu, which admittedly wasn't exactly huge with about ten people in attendance. unfortunately i missed them at culture shock, but i'm seeing them this friday at a house show. should be overpowering in a small space.

[myspace]

all the kids [mp3]

voiles [mp3]

hold on tightly

ccc's first original compilation. mostly acoustic-based stuff full of wistful smiles.

in lowercase for artistic effect.

enjoy.

hold on tightly

1. wilco = wishful thinking
2. bright eyes = you will. you? will. you? will. you? will
3. minus the bear = burying luck (acoustic)
4. bang gang = find what you get
5. U2 = drowning man
6. this town needs guns = zebra
7. thrice = a song for milly michaelson
8. balmorhea = baleen morning
9. radiohead = gagging order
10. the honorary title = everything i once had
11. the sleeping years = islands
12. a voice less vivid = lullaby