The Elementary Revolt: December 2011

12/30/11

The Hope Conspiracy-Death Knows Your Name LP (2010)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore
Label: Deathwish, Inc.
Tracks: 11

The Hope Conspiracy is a Boston, MA based band who started out in 1999 and has been a reckoning force in hardcore and punk with many of today's bands owing to the sound pioneered by the band. The band formed from the ashes of the bands Harvest and Piecemeal and the band has releases on labels such as Equal Vision and Bridge 9 to name a few. Death Knows Your Name is the band's eighth release and shows the band heading in a stark and mesmerizing direction. From the haunting first notes of "They Know Not" to the earth shaking power of "Stolen Days," the unforgiving heaviness and rage of the album is awe inspiring. The Hope Conspiracy is a definite must for fans of Motorhead, Modern Life Is War, Converge, Give Up The Ghost, and more contemporary acts such as Former Thieves, Defeater, Touche Amore, and Raindance. Great stuff! Enjoy! This is probably my last post for 2011, so happy New Year and keep reading! I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for you!

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The Hope Conspiracy-Death Knows Your Name LP (2010)

Mixed Signals Compilation LP (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Punk, Emo, Indie rock
Label: Run For Cover Records
Tracks: 12

Run for cover records has had an amazing year in putting out incredible records and this compilation is proof positive that the label is one of the best out there. In 2011, Run For Cover records put out incredible albums by a diverse variety of bands this year including Seahaven, Young Statues, Basement, Hostage Calm, Tigers Jaw, CSTVT, and a great 7" subscription series, which will be posted in it's entirity in 2012 when the series is completely released and in my sweaty hands. Mixed Signals is the label's fiftieth release and marks a special occasion for the label at a time when its impact and influence on the modern punk scene has reached unprecedented heights. Mixed Signals provides a snapshot of today's scene, a diverse group of talented musicians creating meaningful music and making waves throughout all corners of punk rock. The roster for "Mixed Signals" reads like a best-of, must-hear list of current independent acts, bringing together new, unreleased and exclusive songs from a list of bands who collectively have released some of the most worthwhile records of the past few years, toured the world and left an indelible impact on the many they've performed for. Bands on Mixed Signals include Polar Bear Club, Balance And Composure, Tigers Jaw, Hostage Calm, CSTVT, The Mezingers, Daylight, End Of A Year Self Defense Family, Daytrader, Make Do And Mend, The Tower And The Fool, and The World Is A Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid To Die. Seriously, this is an amazing compilation. Highly Recommended! Enjoy!

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Mixed Signals compilation LP(2011)

Sinaloa-Chapel & Basement Cassette (2009)

Country: USA
Genre: Post hardcore, acoustic
Label: Self Released
Tracks: 10

Long time readers of the blog know I'm a huge Sinaloa fan and this release is testament to the unique diversity the band uses when crafting honest, sincere, and generally amazing music. Sinaloa is an emo/post hardcore band from Massachusetts, USA featuring members of Ettile Vyre and Ache. Sinaloa's sound is often compared to the distant early nineties scene of Vermin Scum, Dischord, Ebullition, and Gravity Records. Sinaloa brings the fire of that era's DIY punk sound and combines it with a grown-up sensibility and a lot of life experience. Sinaloa's sound can be described as being emotive, driving, with heartfelt anthems full of dueling vocals, meandering melodies, and slow-burning crescendos. At times Sinaloa incorporates horns and strings such as upright bass into their music. Chapel & Basement is newly realized take on their signature sound. Chapel & Basement features Oceans Of Islands in it's entirity rearranged and recorded acoustically. The cassette is called Chapel & Basement because it was recorded in a chapel back in 2009. Seriously, this is such a good cassette and I can't begin to describe how well these songs translate acoustically. Enjoy! I can't wait until they release some new material.

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Sinaloa - Chapel & Basement Cassette (2009)

12/29/11

Squadra Omega - Le Nozze Chimiche 10" (2011)

Country: Italy
Genre: Post Rock, Psychedelic, Jazz, Instrumental
Label: Macina Dischi
Tracks: 5
Lenght: 23'

It is said that all empires are built upon the ruins of previous empires. It is said that destruction breeds construction. In times of deadlocked aesthetics and stylistic stagnation the time is nigh for a destruction of the old and the construction of the new. From the rubble of a post-post modern world, Apollo is rising and he is accompanied by a tribe of psychedelic wasteland fellaheen – the Squadra Omega. The winds are shifting, the fog is lifting and a new age is a-coming. Spaceage Cubist-Free-Jazz clashes with Pygmy-Percussion-No Wave-Kraut Rock causing a sonic fusion leading to a complete derangement of the senses, an assault on the frontal lobe and permanent hallucination.

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Squadra Omega - Le Nozze Chimiche 10" (2011)

Living Laser - Ragged Glory Cassette (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore/Punk
Label: Tripmachine Laboratories
Tracks: 7

Living Laser is a relatively new band from the Hudson Valley, NY formed from the ashes of the post hardcore band Robots And Empire and spazzcore band Casket Architects. Living Laser play a great style of hardcore and punk influenced by Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and possibly Burn. Ragged Glory is the band's debut release and the seven songs on this cassette make me remember why I got into punk/hardcore in the first place. Seven songs of energetic, classic NYHC inspired music. The band absolutely tear things up with these seven songs, displaying a frantic energy, and reckless abandon. The vocals really stand out too and are reminiscent of Bad Brain's HR. Great stuff! Enjoy!

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Living Laser-Ragged Glory Cs. (2011)

Young Governor-Where It's Quiet 10" (2011)

Country: Canada

Genre: Garage rock, punk, indie pop

Label: 12XU Records

Tracks: 4

Young Governor is a side project of Ben Cook aka Young Governor. Ben Cook has gotten his hands dirty in bands including Fucked Up, The Bitters, No Warning, Violent Minds and Marvelous Darlings. Brian Cook has been recording under this moniker also sometimes referred to as Young Guv since 2008 and released Hidden Love as a 12" on Parts Unknown records. Since then Young Guv has been releasing a steady stream of 7"s and Where It's Quiet is Cook's best material to date. Where It's Quiet melds elements of garage rock, indie pop, and punk into a killer release of power pop brilliance that calls to mind Replacements, The Undertones, or more contemporary acts such as Estrogen Highs, Thee Oh Sees, and Ty Segall. Fans of the current Australian music scene and bands such as Total Control or The Eddy Current Suppression Ring need to give Where It's Quiet a listen. Great stuff. Enjoy!

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Young Governor-Where It's Quiet 10" (2011)

12/28/11

SSORC - Infidel Eternal Lp/7" (2011)

Country: Japan
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Magic Bullet Records
Tracks: 12

I'm not going to even pretend I'm well versed in Black Metal and my exposure is fairly limited. I'm into heavy music such as Thou, Northless, Batillus, Atriarch, Altar Of Plagues, Liturgy and similar bands of this genre. One thing I do know is when a band plays a brutal and punishing form of music and I was pleasantly surprised by what I found on SSORC's LP Infidel Eternal. Apparantly this album was originally released in 2005 and was recently repressed and released by Magic Bullet as an LP and 7".

(Label Bio.) Infidel Eternal is the debut album from Tokyo’s SSORC. Drawing heavily from Scandinavian black metal influences (GORGOROTH, DARKTHRONE, et al) and infusing the crazed, violating ethics of 80's Japanese hardcore, SSORC blast through traditional themes of nature, anti-organized religion, agony, woe, and despair at an unrelenting pace that never truly relinquishes attack. Accordingly, the band is actually comprised of former members of legendary extreme Japanese hardcore band G.I.S.M. as well os other noted acts such as MAGANE, ZOMBIE RITUAL, MÏSOGI, and MORTES SALTANTES. With SSORC, their collective goal is quite simply “to terrify people, or to give people fear.” Mantras and themes of “Black Metal Terrorism” appear throughout both the album and the band’s limited public profile. The guitar tones are cruel and menacing, the bass is distorted and sick, Mutilation Under the Moonlight’s vocals howl with a pain seldom put to tape, and the drums blast forth as if they legitimately want to kill you. This is truly Japanese extreme black metal.

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SSORC - Infidel Eternal LP+7" (2011)

Sneeze - Grandma In Trenches EP (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Punk, Grunge, Indie Rock
Label: Bear Records
Tracks: 8

Sneeze are a great Boston, MA based band featuring former members of L'antietam and Genders. I was a huge fan of L'antietam, but haven't heard anything by Genders, so I have no idea what they sound like. With that aside, Sneeze sound nothing like L'antietam, so if you're expecting emotive screamo, you're out of luck. Sneeze play a great style of music that fuses elements of pop punk, grunge, garage rock and indie rock into a style of music that has fuzzed out guitars, great hooks and at times, gruff sounding vocals. People into 1994!, CSTVT, and Brain Worms will dig the vocals. I think the vocals work too and the band sort of reminds me of a poppier and less heavy version of Post Teens. The Eight songs on Grandma In The Trenches are short and leave you wanting more. Hopefully we'll hear more from Sneeze soon. Great stuff! Enjoy!

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Sneeze-Grandma in the trenches 7 in. (2011)

12/27/11

Peace Be Still - 64 LP (2011)

Country: Canada
Genre: Posthardcore, Emo, Indie Rock
Label: Sometimes I Get Drunk Records
Tracks: 11

This came as a request by Poo, who runs the kick-ass blog Sometimes I Get Drunk At Night. Peace Be Still is an emo band hailing from Mississauga, Ontario. Their influences include Bear vs. Shark, The Casket Lottery, as well as modern contemporary bands such as Algernon Cadwallader, Snowing, Native, Coping, and Laurtec. The music is angular, tense, melodic, and gives nods to late 90's/early 2000's "screamo" bands such as The Shivering and Life At These Speeds. 64 is Peace Be Still's debut LP. Great stuff. Give Poo some love and purchase some music. Great debut release by the label as well. I hope to see more by Peace Be Still soon. According to the blog, there's also an Adaje/Lizards Have Personalities split 7" in the works and Jet Set Sail's S/T Lp.

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Peace Be Still-64 LP (2011)

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The Slow Death - Born Ugly Got Worse LP (2011)

Country: USA

Genre: Pop-Punk, Garage Rock

Label: Kiss Of Death Records

Tracks: 12

The Slow Death are a Minneapolis, MN based band featuring members of The Soviettes, Pretty Boy Thorson & The Falling Sparrows, Dear Landlord, and a guest bass appearence by the Dillinger Four's Paddy Costello. The Slow Death play a great style of garage rock informed pop punk. Ugly Got Worse is the band's debut LP and contains 12 songs of great music that's inspired by gruff 90's inspired punk and indie rock. The Slow Death's influences include Cock Sparrer, Lemonheads, Crimpshrine, Replacements, and Jawbreaker. 12 songs with great hooks and just the right amount of somberness to keep thing varied. Great stuff, enjoy!

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The Slow Death-Born Ugly Got Worse LP (2011)

12/26/11

No Sir - Holy Land 7" (2011)

Country: USA

Genre: Hardcore/Punk

Label: Family Drugs

Tracks: 5

No Sir are a California based band featuring members of Sabertooth Zombie, Strike To Survive, and All Teeth. The band plays a great style of emotive hardcore and punk that's sure to please fans of All Teeth, Comadre, and Loma Prieta. Holy Land is the band's debut 7". Five tracks of noisey punk influenced music. Great stuff. Enjoy!

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No Sir-Holy Land 7" (2011)

12/25/11

Toasted Plastic - Ares Vallis (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Math Rock, Pop
Label: Double Double Whammy
Tracks: 6

Toasted Plastic, a math-rock influenced punk band, from Ridgewood, presents something completely different for me. I’ve gone to school with all three of them for years, and know them all personally. And while you may think me biased with that fact, I’m not. I don’t need to be to love this record. Over the past two years, it has been simply incredible to watch this band grow from a two-piece with a novelty song about Saturn, to a powerful, proficient, and brilliant punk band. And the fact that I know very well the perspective where all the six songs on this new EP come from make them all the more amazing to hear. Opener “So Much Time” is perhaps the band’s finest song yet. A brilliant opening riff powers the song’s opening section, in a remarkable display of the band’s punch. This album doesn’t sound like it was made by a band of teenagers, it sounds remarkably professional, while sacrificing none of the band’s intimacy and impact. Math-rock picking and blissful chord changes alternate in the song’s second bridge. As they have always done, the band switches tempos, tone, and key effortlessly, and with a smoothness that is simply awesome. All of the other five songs have these elements but use them all differently, and with other ideas mixed in. The songs are never dull, constantly changing, stopping and starting without warning. Verses burst suddenly into huge choruses only to fall into mellow instrumental sections. And this occasionally can all happen in about thirty seconds. The vocals are often screamed, but these screams are not out of place at all. They mirror the pace and emotions of the music they narrate. And the harmonies of the shouted vocals with the vocals that are sang are done beautifully and with great timing. All eighteen minutes of the music on this EP are packed, fast, and full of energy. But they are all efficient, melodic, and catchy to balance. There isn’t a weak track to find.

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Angkor wat._.St(2011)

Country: Peru

Year: 2011

Genre: punk, hardcore, screamo

Label: DIY

Tracks: 4

Lenght: 9´

Y por fin acabo con la última banda que tenia pendiente para postear y compartir con todos vosotros, esta banda que como las otras dos solo una vuelta le he podido dar al disco, practican un screamo con mezcla de hardcore/punk.

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Tyrabbudide._.demo

Country: Netherlands

Year: 2011

Genre: punk, hardcore.

Label: DIY

Tracks: 3

Lenght: 7´

Solo una escuche le he podido dar a este disco que nos mandan de Amsterdam, pero este disco es para los amantes del hardcore punk en su estilo más clásico. Con una escucha poca más información os puedo dar, lo siento.

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Hermanastra._.tic galopante(2011)

Country: Spain

Year: 2011

Genre: punk,rock.

Tracks: 7

Length: 13´

Label: Diy

Aqui os dejo este disco que nos llego hace varios días pero que por diferentes motivos hasta hoy no he podido ponerlo. Nos encontramos con una banda influenciada por los Mistfis, y por los Cramps (sobretodo) a parte de las otras muchsa influencias que tendrán, claro esta. Mucho más no puedo decir porque no pude darle muchas vueltas al disco, pero se las daré puesto que me dejo un buen sabor de boca.

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12/23/11

Soziedad Alkoholika - S/T & Sesion #2 (1991 / 2009)

Country: Spain
Genre: Thrashcore, Punk, Hardcore, Metal.
Label: Overdrive, Roadrunner.
Tracks: 14 / 15
Lenght: 40' / 82

Well, this is my most personal post in the blog. Soziedad Alkoholika is a band from Basque Country, in their early years played a fast, furius agressive mixture thrash and punk, with really nice lyrics, punk actitude, that was I was searching in those times, bored with the fucked "punk patatero ibérico" spanish bands. Immediately they was one of my favorite bands in this times, more than ten years ago, and so were for years until my musical and personal perceptions of them changed. Two years ago, more than 18 after of the original recordings, they decide re-record these songs and some from their previus demo; "Intoxicación Etílica", with better and new resources; result: obviously better production, but but the essence of the songs is the same?. You decide.

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Soziedad Alkoholika - s/t (1991)
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Arcs & Trauma-S/T EP (2011)

Country: United Kingdom

Genre: Math Rock/Indie Rock

Label: Self Released

Tracks: 5

Alright, so here's my last post for the week, so have a great holiday and see you back on Monday. I decided to post Arcs & Trauma because they're criminally underexposed and decided to give the band some coverage. Arcs & Trauma are a Hartlepool, UK based trio who play a great style of math rock tinged indie rock. The band's sound encompasses math rock played by bands such as Future Of The Left, Double Dagger, as well as indie rock played by bands such as Owls, Cap N' Jazz, and American Football. Overall, the five songs on the band's self titled EP are a definite must for fans of any of the above mentioned bands. I also included Arcs & Trauma's 2010 EP entitled Tennis Player To Dragon Slayer for you to check out as well. Great stuff. Enjoy!

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Arcs & Trauma -EP (2011)

Arcs & Trauma - Tennis Player to Dragon Slayer(EP) 2010

Jet Set Sail - S/T Lp (2011)

Country: USA

Genre: Indie Rock, Emo

Label: Self Released

Tracks: 10

Jet Set Sail are a Philadelphia, PA based band who formed in 2008. They play a great throwback style of indie rock and emo influenced by bands such as Jets To Brazil, The Promise Ring, and Algernon Cadwallader. This is the band's debut LP and is definitely sure to impress fans of the music currently being released by Topshelf records and Run For Cover records. I also included the band's Magnet Mountain EP released in 2009. Great stuff! Enjoy!

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Jet Set Sail-ST LP(2011)
Jet Set Sail-Magnet Mountain EP (2009)

Post Teens-S/T 7" (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Punk, Garage rock
Label: Sound Study Recordings
Tracks: 6

Now, here's another kick-ass release from Sound Study Recordings. Sound Study was also responsible for the release of the latest The Future Now-Hangman 7" as well as the Burning Love/Coliseum-Live split LP reviewed and posted on the blog as well. Post Teens are a Gainsville, Fla based band featuring members of Asshole Parade, Torche, Averkiou, and Dead Friends. This impressive line-up of musicians don't disappoint with their debut 7". Post Teens play a great style of music that's aggressive, blown out, fuzzed out, and catchy as hell.. The band tears through these six songs with reckless abandon in a manner that would have made Darby Crash proud. The best way for me to describe Post Teens music would be to picture garage punk bands such as Obits, Hot Snakes, Night Owls, and Marked Men mixed with the heaviness of Torche. A latecomer for sure and I'm starting to think I should have included this 7" in my year end best of lists. Great stuff. Highly recommended! Enjoy!

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Post Teens-S/T 7" (2011)

12/22/11

Criaturas - Oscuridad Eterna (2011)

Country: USA
Genre: Punk, Hardcore, D-Beat.
Label: Trabuc
Tracks: 12
Lenght: 18

Criatura is composed by two members of Deskonocidos, the singer who officiates at the here and bass guitarist who is a true machine riff and solo is not just expect that good. The song we find the girlfriend of one of the two, I forget which, the voice remind me of some Spanish groups 80's with this little reverb effects, we immediately think in Ultimo Resorte, in 1000 times faster and aggressive. For the lyrics is super pessimistic and No Future, we still believe in Ultimo Resorte, I love this state of mind. It's worth dwelling on this demo and I hope that other productions will follow.

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Criaturas - Oscuridad Eterna (2011)
Criaturas - Arañas en el Corazón EP (2011)
Criaturas - Demo (2010)

Weak Teeth - What A Plague You Are LP (2011)

Country: USA

Genre: Hardcore/Punk

Label: Tor Johnson/Flannel Gurl Records

Tracks: 11

Weak Teeth are a relatively new band from Providence, RI who first caught my attention with their self titled 7" released last year. Weak Teeth play a style of hardcore and punk that seamlessly blends modern sounding hardcore with a healthy nod to late 90's and early 2000's emotive hardcore. The end result is 11 songs in about 24 minutes. Weak Teeth is chaotic, melodic, and destructive all at once. At times, the band reminds me of modern bands such as Comadre, Olde Ghost, Birds In Row, and Loma Prieta. At other times the band makes me reminesce about late 90's and early 2000's bands such as Bullets In, Bread And Circuits, Books Lie, and The Fiction. What A Plague You Are is an amazing album. Highly recommended! Enjoy!

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Weak Teeth-What A Plague You Are LP (2011)
WeakTeeth - S/T 7in.(2010)

Best Of 2011(7"/10"/12")

Ok, so here's the third and final post of my best of lists for 2011. This part really has no specific genre requirements and focuses on what I think are some of the best 7"s, 10"s, and 12"s that were released in 2011. Overall, I hope you enjoy the music that our blog covers and I'm looking forward to what 2012 has to offer. Keep reading, downloading, and keep supporting indie music, because without your support we'd be stuck with the top 40 mainstream crap that permeates the airwaves these days.

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