Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Hellas Mounds - New Heaven / New Earth





Sometimes an album is able to capture a moment in time and this EP by Phoenix, Arizona's six piece Hellas Mounds does just that with an instrumental offering of dark, brooding post-rock that reflects the turmoil raging in my mind. The songs build from glacially paced emotive moods to crashing crescendos reminiscent of GYBE! and the best of the genre.


Tracklist :

1 Passage I
2 Movement I
3 Movement II
4 Passage II
5 Movement III








Website : http://hellasmounds.blogspot.com/

Label : Saw Her Ghost Records

Release Date : March 2nd 2010


Sunday, August 14, 2011

A Death Cinematic - Your Fate Twisting, Epic In Its Crushing Moments





A Death Cinematic is a one man project originating from the midwestern United States that features multiple layers of looped guitar and improvisations done  with minimal post recording manipulation. The EP begins menacingly  and sets the tone for a journey through madness including washes of anger and detuned wonder. The final track opens with amp noise and feedback but gives way to a beautifully simple guitar that awakens emotions  long thought dead. I can't end without mentioning the packaging for this disc. A Death Cinematic is an artist of many disciplines and the digipack is entirely hand made with wood veneer, cardboard, artwork, and a poem typed on paper that he constructed. In an increasingly digital era this is a release that I treasure for it's visual and tactile art as well as it's audio.



Tracklist :

1 Your Fate Twisting, Epic In It's Crushing Moments

2 .

3 In The Tumbling Dawn Lights, Their Eyes Fall Frozen Through The Mist And Rain







Website : http://www.myspace.com/adeathcinematic

Label : simple box construction

Release Date : July 3rd 2011