Tides / Giant
Split
Teenage Disco Bloodbath (2007)
Level Plane Records and Teenage Disco Bloodbath Records have partnered together as they team up two extremely underrated artists, at least in my eyes. Originally released on vinyl format last year, this split release is finally available as a CD (from what I can only assume to be the success of the vinyl version). For this offering Tides, now hailing from Massachusetts, offer up two new instrumental pieces, while Giant, from North Carolina, and unleashes one mega-track. Tides return with their follow-up to 2006's EP release, From Silence. The quartet start things off with "The Invisible," a nine-minute track of ever climbing post-rock. The guitars lead the song from a modest opening to a bombastic finish. The duo of August Snow and Tim Fickeisen provide the song with interweaving melodies while the rhythm section of Donald Green and Robert Dowler serves a solid driving backing. Before you know it, the song has passed and you're moving on to "Unfinished Highways." Only half the length of the preceding track, "Unfinished Highways" takes to a different direction. The group ops for an acoustic track that results in a very somber mood. While it isn't outside the box to hear an instrumental band … Read more
Polar Bear Club
Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Red Leader (2008)
Every once in awhile a new band comes down the pike and reaffirms your love for music. A couple years … Read more
Farmers Market
Surfin U.S.S.R.
Ipecac (2008)
Those familiar with Ipecac Recordings know that regardless of the release, whether the listener likes it or not, it will, … Read more
Primordial
To the Nameless Dead
Metal Blade (2007)
When I think of "folk metal," I think of the scene in This is Spinal Tap with the dwarf dancing … Read more
The Delicious
The Delicious
Independent (2008)
Recently signed to Joyful Noise Recordings, The Delicious is a Bloomington, Indiana quartet that just bug the shit out of … Read more
