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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