Lebanon - Planet Rubble

A band from Tel Aviv named Lebanon? Go figure. Well, whatever the band’s moniker, this group can certainly meld a lot of genres. The quartet gets the ball rolling with “Finland” (not a Monty Python cover) that fuses a spacey, psychedelic hue with some arty Yo La Tengo-meets-Explosions in the Sky arrangements. Lebanon also toss in some Metallica-ish metal during the, at times, breezy “Buried in the Avenue” that also has many Floydian touches. But the eerie, Barrett-like “The Dying Dying Man” seems to bring the album to another level. This format is revisited during the spooky and aptly titled “Poltergeist”. Other gems here are the winding, deliberate and somewhat dark “Megalith” and the equally pretty “Joan of Arc” with its slightly hard rock feel.

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The Snake Trap - At Home in a Hostile World

The Snake Trap are an Austin TX Trio that defy explanation. they are instrumental in the vein of lebanon, green milk from the planet orange etc. ... Since I cant explain things like this very well, just do yourself a favor and check this out.
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Witch S/T

If you come into this record with preconceived notions, thinking this is a side project of J Mascis and that it will bear any similarities to his solo work with the Fog or Dinosaur jr you will be mistaken. This is a band of it's own, a smoldering entity with a true 70s inspired sound. A mesmerizing cloak of blue cheer and black sabbath-esque tunes, featuring dark enchanted lyrics, and guitar solos to make your head spin right off. Pick this up, turn down the lights, and watch the shadows dance to their evil delight
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sgt - stylus fantasticus

Formed in 1999. The music of sgt is classic music, and the sounds of the noise, experimental, jazz, and the improvisation, etc. have mixed,It is like the technique of film music. The noise of the guitar wraps the melody that the violin plays. In addition, The base and the drum unite into one, the sound repeats development, it uplifts the person who listens, It seems to see scenery. This is by far the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. don't let that detour you from checking this out tough guy. maybe you can play this with your girl and I bet she's be inclined to shine that dome piece. It's hard to try to wrap this up in one neat little package but imagine a band like red sparrows or a mellow Isis that got invited to play with a band that makes the river dance music and you re getting there. my daughter said it best today and said "this is the kind of music flowers would make if they could." and I smiled at how simple but to the point a 5 year old can be.


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Megazilla - Please, Please, Sorry, Thank You

MEGAZILLA are a bass / drum duo from Texas that put most of the recent rudderless post-rock and stoner bands to shame with Joey Hook's nimble, tumultuous drum crashes and Corey Cottrell's stirring slacker vocals and nimble bass rifferama. "Puffy, Fuzzy Cheeks" is just ruthless, fuzz on top of fuzz, chords crackling almost to the point of total disintegration. "Grave Robbing in Texas" packs all the intensity of "Ozma"-era MELVINS. Speedier stuff like "Shanghaied" and "Gay is the New Straight" are insanely tight, crisscrossing and swerving close to the edge a la LIGHTNING BOLT. Perhaps the greatest compliment I can pay to this CD is to say that it doesn't sound like a duo band; I was convinced some sadistic power trio had attached electrodes to my brain until I checked out the liner notes. For those of you that need it me to get out on the runway with the lights, here it is: THE MELVINS and LIGHTNING BOLT are two quality bands. If you dig 'em, let MEGAZILLA kick you in the teeth for thirty minutes.

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Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa

Some bands you just have to hear. Japan's KOENJIHYAKKEI (aka Koenji Hyakkei aka Hundred Sights of Koenji) are just such a band. Headed by vocalist / composer / drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida (of the renowned bass and drum duo RUINS), advance listens have yielded head-scratching comments comparing KOENJIHYAKKEI's fourth album (and USA debut) "Angherr Shisspa" to Stereolab, Yes, Queen, Melt-Banana mr. bungle, sleppy time guerilla museum and "something so far off Broadway it's on the moon". All that makes the band sound indecipherable and impenetrable. Fortunately, that's not the case, there's plenty to latch onto, densely packed into the album's 50 minute running time. In the heady, heavy prog-circles, Koenji is already firmly established; renowned as the ultimate contemporary progressive rock outfit; with three albums and a live dvd released in their native Japan (and heavily exported around the world). KOENJIHYAKKEI explodes with glittery keyboard lines, speedy bass/drum workouts, emotive reed respites, and operatic female vocals that take the listener from sheer exuberance to absolute apocalypse... And all this is performed with superhuman technique in extremely catchy, complex arrangements.

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