February 2012
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BOAWS Podcast: Episode #13
01 – Friend...
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Roomrunner - Roomrunner
When Double Dagger broke up I didn’t really give much thought to the sort of groups that would form in the wake of it. I figured members would splinter off and start similar bands, in the way that typically seems to happen. It never once crossed my mind that something like Roomrunner would be the next step, but apparently for Denny Bowen it was the way to go. A band that has no problem...
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Nonagon - People Live Everywhere 12" EP
I remember some time ago I got an e-mail from a member of Nonagon promoting an EP of theirs, or it could have even been a message through MySpace (that shows just how long ago it was). It doesn’t matter though, I ended up losing the message and I remember spending a nice chunk of time trying to figure out just what band it was that sent it, as I recalled liking the tracks that they linked...
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VA - A Butcher's Waltz (4-way split LP)
Ah, good to finally be back. Incredibly sorry for the long break there, but getting settled into my new living quarters took a bit longer than I’d expected. There are still some things to take care of, however time is freeing up some and BOAWS should be back in action now. And with that said, on to the music…
A Butcher’s Waltz may very well be the first four way split that...
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MOVING!
Yes, I am once again in the process of moving and heading back over to the Missouri side. That’s why there has been such a lack of activity on here lately and I apologize. I don’t currently have Internet access but will in a couple more days (I’m writing this from my phone actually). Anyway, the address on the right side of the page will be changing, however anyone who has...
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Buildings - Melt, Cry, Sleep
Despite their debut Braille Animal coming out in 2008, I’d never heard of Buildings up until last year. It may or may not have been the best time to discover them, since just as soon as I had a chance to listen to Braille Animal I was made aware that they had a new album coming out in only a matter of a month or two. I’m not sure if that complicates things sometimes, but the...
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Britches - Demonstration
Happened upon the St. Louis trio of Britches awhile back when they had a five song online demo up for download. Admittedly I didn’t give them much thought afterward, but then this album showed up late last year and happily gave them another go around. At the very least the demo was oddball enough to warrant it. They seem to have a recurring thing with incorporating the word “demo” into the...
January 2012
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Fleshpress / Throat - Split 7'' & Throat - Pee 7''
More noise from Finland based monsters Throat. This time throwing two new 7-inches at us, one being a split with fellow Finnish sludge mongers Fleshpress. I can’t say I’ve really given much of a listen to Fleshpress in the past, but what I have heard was some incredibly slowed down and exhausting doom/sludge material on their LP Pillars. So, it goes without saying, I was a bit...
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Bestial Mouths - Hissing Veil LP
It’s odd to be able to describe a record like this as being “lively”, but as bleak and gloomy as Bestial Mouths appear to be here on their debut LP Hissing Veil, they play with a type of energy that throws most of what people have come to expect about goth/death-rock for a gigantic loop. A large chunk of this is due to drummer Ebrahim Saleh’s frenetic style often clashing alongside...
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Northern Liberties - Glowing Brain Garden LP
First thing I noticed about Glowing Brain Garden was the elaborate artwork that is featured pretty much everywhere on the record. It also includes a couple inserts that also display the same type of sprawling images. Have to appreciate the type of effort that went into putting this together, a completely self-funded venture it would appear and one that is obviously a labor of love. As for...
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Bloodhouse - Please Don't Meet Me 7''
Was pretty pumped to see this land in my mailbox roughly a month or so ago. Yeah, it’s been that long…way too much shit going on right now, blah blah blah. Anyway, got hooked on Bloodhouse from a link to download their six song cassette from One Base On an Overthrow awhile back, although I’m not necessarily sure exactly on the specifics. The Halifax group play a delay heavy...
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Eww Yaboo - Yeah, What? 7''
Got this single awhile back from Summerstep Records, who also had a hand in putting out that Kid Icarus record that appeared on these pages not all that long ago. With that said, it kind of gave me an idea as to what could be expected from this little 2 tracker (4 if you count bonus digital downloads), in that it’s probably going to be some sort of jangly indie-rock type of deal. Sure...
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His Electro Blue Voice - Dead Sons 12''
I was a bit late getting into the Italian trio of His Electro Blue Voice, not really hearing them until I listened to their Animal Versus single on Batshit Records that came out a couple years ago. After that however, I found myself seeking out whatever else they had released. As it turns out they aren’t the most prolific band, hanging around since 2006 or so and spitting out a single...
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God Bows to Math - Self-Titled
Yep, that would be a Minutemen reference you see there, however that’s pretty much where that homage stops. God Bows to Math are an Auckland, New Zealand based group that I first noticed with their EP from earlier last year and enjoyed enough to throw on a podcast. Didn’t realize an album was already in the plans, but as it turns out they’ve been trying to get this thing...
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BOAWS Podcast: Episode #12 01 – Royal...
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Reports - Dinamo Cambridge LP
Always having their feet somewhat submerged in the pool of indie-pop, Reports have seen a gradual shift from those straight forward numbers found on their first album to what has become a noticeably more garage and fuzz filled sound for this second LP Dinamo Cambridge. The single that preceded this album a couple years ago featuring the excellent “Bill Wyman Metal Detector” was a pretty good...
I'm Still Here...
Sorry folks, I expected to return sooner but busy holiday weekends kept me away and then when things finally returned to normal I came down with some sort of nasty respiratory infection. However, I think I am nearly good to go. Updates shall return soon!
December 2011
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BOAWS Top 20 Records of 2011
With 2011 nearing to an end and my schedule getting a bit busier around the holidays I figured I would take the opportunity while I had a bit of time to go ahead and get my best of list up. It was another excellent year to which I had the pleasure of hearing a number of good tunes. Thank you to everyone out there that continues to read the blog and check out new music. I wish all of you happy...
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Psychic Teens - Teen LP
First release for Golden Voyage records is this LP from the Philly based Psychic Teens, simply titled Teen. As the big heart with an “X” through it would indicate, this isn’t exactly your feel good record. This one rides the 80’s goth/darkwave era hard, but with a bit more added noise and distortion that will likely draw mentions of influence from shoegaze, etc. The singer...
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Fat History Month - A Gorilla 7''
Fat History Month is a Boston group that seemingly enjoy gracing their album covers with crudely drawn sketches of odd things. This single in particular, as you can see, features a sketch of a gorilla. I haven’t had the chance to hear their latest album Fucking Despair yet, but from what I’ve seen it features a bizarre sketch of a pear with a penis hanging off of it. Yep. In what...
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Kim Phuc - Copsucker LP
As one of the many “music listeners” or “dipshits” (as Kim Phuc lovingly put it on their blog) that take pleasure in crafting an admittedly pointless top whatever list of records at the end of the year, I held out starting work on said list until I had a chance to hear the bands full-length debut Copsucker. C’mon guys, I was smart enough to not make one until I heard YOUR record! But...
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Trabajo - Slow Pageant
Can’t say that I get too many 3-inch CD’s in the mail. In fact, I don’t think I ever have until this little four song EP from the Brooklyn duo Trabajo showed up. I wasn’t really too interested in ripping it to my computer as I remember the only other time I had to deal with one of these was a lengthy and troublesome time spent getting it out of my computers CD tray. ...
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Shores - To Volstead
It disappoints me some that I never wrote anything about Shores and their debut album from last year Coup de Grace, as it proved to be an album that really grew on me over time. The duo (a foursome live) from Grand Rapids, Michigan play a convincing set of sparse slow moving indie-rock that would easily fall under the umbrella of “slowcore”. As it was with their first album, it’s always...
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BOAWS Podcast: Episode #11
01 - Video -...
November 2011
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Weird Party - Honey Slides 7''
Yep, you folks get another one from Texas this week, this time from the Houston area in the form of the debut single from Weird Party out on Sex & Death Records. Containing former members of Fatal Flying Guilloteens and Sugar Shack, I’ve seen them described as some sort of super group. I don’t know about that, but I sure as shit loved me some Fatal Flying Guilloteens, so...
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DBCR - Bikes 7''
Although I really have no confirmation other than what’s already been written in other places, apparently DBCR stands for Drunken Belligerent Confrontational Rock. If that’s the case, I can certainly see why the band decided to go with just the simple DBCR. While the name does a nice job in basically summing up what they in fact sound like, it’s probably best to not really...
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deep Snapper - Bipedal Disorder
Longtime readers probably recognize deep Snapper by this point. I’m pretty sure most of their albums have ended up on here at some time or another, releasing one I think pretty much every year since around 2006 when they initially formed. For a band as prolific as they are, their hit/miss ratio is fairly impressive. I know having a large enthusiasm for what you’re doing...
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Titan Blood - Too Much Talk 7''
Five song debut here from Houston’s Titan Blood, squeezing them in on this quick 7-inch at 45rpm’s. Although quite brief, the band manages to get across plenty of attitude and certainly aren’t watering it down for anyone either by declaring that “everyone here is fucking annoying” or simply with song titles like “Too Much Talk” or “Can’t Stand You”. Quite simply, I...
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Powerblessings - Stunt Whale 7''
Got this 7-incher in the mail awhile back along with a note basically stating to do what I please with it, even suggesting that I throw it in the trash if it didn’t float my boat. It raised the question as to whether I would even do that if this single did somehow suck shit and in the end I decided that I probably wouldn’t. Listening to this single didn’t force me to revisit...
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The In Out - The Venal Column
Having been around for a number of years now, mainly to those within the Boston underground, The In Out have found enough time to emerge once again to release their new LP The Venal Column. It’s been a lengthy period of time since the last release from the band, but it’s to no surprise really considering that the bands mentality has never really been about getting their name out...
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Pop. 1280 - Thirteen Steps 7''
There probably isn’t much to be said about NYC inhabitants Pop. 1280 that I haven’t already thrown on here before. A band that has consistently impressed me with their disgustingly warped brand of synth driven post-punk and one that has soaked in their surroundings to help emit the sort of pollution that they spill. Their latest offering is in the form of this two song single on...
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Brief Candles - Fractured Days
Boy this has been a long time coming. It’s been what, five years since Brief Candles put out an album? All the while in between feeding listeners with a two song single that was kind of hard to get a hold of unless you got out to a show. To be honest, after finally getting a chance to hear the two songs on that single I was a bit weary. They left me with some mixed feelings in that...
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Multicult - Costume 7''
I’ve fallen behind some over the past week or so due to a number of things, one being a nasty cold that I somehow picked up during that time. So now I have a backlog of stuff that I want to get up here, which is actually kind of a good thing I suppose. Anyway, I’m basically cold free now and hopefully can be a bit more productive in something other than generating snot at a great...
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Hebosagil - Herätys 7''
Three new cuts here from Finnish group Hebosagil. Not all that long ago I had the chance to hear their album Ura, which was some rather killer sludgy influenced noise. However these three tracks kind of caught me off guard as these are very well the noisiest and most aggressive sounding tunes that I’ve heard from them yet. The two songs featured on the a-side in particular are pretty...
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Cop Warmth - Die Slow 7''
Not entirely sure if this is the first official single for Cop Warmth or not. They’ve been around in some capacity since around ‘06, so I am guessing not or at the very least there is some homemade DIY stuff floating around out there. Whatever the case may be, this is the first single that I’ve had the chance to get a hold of from the band after sampling some of these tracks...
Hum tonight @ Record Bar
Looking forward to this greatly. I’ll be in attendance for both shows. Might as well see ‘em twice while I can, right? If you’re there and see a skinny dude with a yellow/blue Traindodge shirt. That will be me. Feel free to say hello! Otherwise enjoy the awesome show(s)!
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BOAWS Podcast: Episode #10
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Black Kites & Convulsions Split LP
Here we have two east coast bands in Black Kites and Convulsions pairing up for this split release out on Glory Kid/Adagio830. This would be the first time for me hearing Black Kites, which plow through six tracks of max effort heavy hardcore on the a-side of this one, or five if you want to get technical about it. If fierce/passionate hardcore in the area of Disembodied, His Hero Gone, etc....
October 2011
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Watery Love - Die With Dignity 7''
Having connections to Clockcleaner, Home Blitz, and Espers immediately had me excited for any forthcoming output from current Philly based bad vibe kings Watery Love. That was the feeling I had when their debut single was to be released. What then occurred was them proceeding to beat the shit out of me with the fantastic “(I’m A) Skull” from that very single. It’s been awhile since...
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Hurry Up Shotgun - Hurry Up Shotgun
Since last hearing from Hurry Up Shotgun, they’ve scaled down to a three piece. Although, I’m not entirely sure if that was the case when they recorded this Self-Titled follow up to their debut record Hold the Angle. Either way, they’ve decided to stick it out as a trio. This record has been in my ears in some way or another for the past couple or so months, as one Conan...
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Mouthbreathers - Anxiety 7''
This here is the debut single from Mouthbreathers, who have been steadily gaining attention here in the Lawrence/KC area, so it’s fantastic to see these guys with a single on a label like In the Red. My initial interest in the band came from the fact that they are partly made up of members from other great Lawrence bands like Blood on the Wall and one of my personal favorites Rooftop...
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Condominium - Warm Home LP
Finally got my hands on this highly anticipated LP from St. Paul hardcore scuzz slingers Condominium. It follows a string of rather impressive 7-inches that saw the band emerge from more straight forward hardcore/punk to the realm of weird and abrasive that has since ushered in numerous comparisons to one of their home states staples, Amphetamine Reptile. While the singles certainly had a...
Back Next Week...
Sorry folks. Work is getting in the way of getting much done this week so it looks like updates will be a no go. I’ll most certainly be back in action here come Monday. Hang tight…
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Calva & Io Monade Stanca - Split LP
One of a few things I have in a growing pile of records from my friends overseas is this split LP from Calva and Io Monade Stanca. This one happened to come out last year through two excellent labels in A Tant Rêver Du Roi and Africantape on a very pretty slab of green translucent vinyl. Calva, who have the a-side here, are a new one to me and really I know very very little about them other...
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Beautiful Mother - Vanilla
Sometimes an album cover really seems to sum up things nicely, and as is this case here…a fat ugly fucking bruise seems to do an adequate job. Beautiful Mother is a duo based out of Chicago that hurls a big nasty load of noise at the listener on what I believe to be their debut EP Vanilla. It’s reminiscent to the type of guitar sludge/depravity that has been given to us in the past...
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Balaclavas - Snake People LP
I do a lot of the writing for this blog on a laptop that has probably seen better days. The exterior is scratched, dented and what have you from numerous drops and/or beatings received from myself out of frustration. The front of the CD tray has been ripped off (again in an act of frustration) after it stopped working completely. It’s a wonder how this thing still works…but so...
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Ideal Cleaners - Far as You Know
Ideal Cleaners have been kicking around Lincoln, NE for around seven or so years now with a handful of releases to their credit achieving what is probably veteran status out there now. Their last disc Muchacho was in fact the one that introduced me to these guys and was impressed enough with it to say a few words way back when. I can’t say I was aware that they had a new one out, but was...
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Peter Kernel - White Death Black Heart
Before this disc landed in my mailbox I’d been under the impression for pretty much the entire time prior that Peter Kernel was some sort of solo project from a male singer/songwriter type. I thought it was a little strange that this would be sent to me if so and furthermore that it would be released on a label like Africantape. I was surprised and honestly a bit relieved to know that it...
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BOAWS Podcast: Episode #9
01 – Total...