idiedtrying - For When I'm Gone, From While I'm Here

#194) idiedtrying - For When I'm Gone, From While I'm Here (2011)

1. Opening Credits
2. The Cactus Planter
3. The Distance Between Falling and Flying
4. Somewhere Beneath the Sunshine
5. The Distance Between Falling and Flying
6. SoHelpMeGod
7. Ending Credits

Harpoon - Deception Among Birds

#193) Harpoon - Deception Among Birds (2011)

 1. To the Tall Trees
2. Prequel to a Lifetime of Dissapointment
3. Dreadnaught
4. Phlegm
5. Troglodyte's Delight
6. The Cut of His Jib
7. Shit Wizard
8. Deception Among Birds

Harpoon's 2nd and most recent album. in the 2 years since they released Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide  they've improved by leaps and bounds. they've added a 3rd member to the band in D.J. Barraca (bassist for Lair of the Minotaur, another great Chicago band that i'll be getting to soon). i don't know if that has anything to do with the sound change but i'm happy either way.

(if anyone cares, "To the Tall Trees" is the track off the Locrian split that i mentioned in my last post. i should've probably mentioned that then...)

Harpoon - Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide

Like Flies The Lies Swarm Around Your Head

#192) Harpoon - Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (2009)

 1. Company Man
2. Lefty
3. The Midget and the Duchess
4. The Cacographer
5. Walter Reuther
6. Buddy System
7. Sloth-Ass
8. Frogs, Boils, Locusts...
9. Throngs
10. Bad Beekeeping
11. You Should Be Longer
12. The Difficulty in Listening to the Elderly

i first heard these guys on a split they did with Locrian. they're a 2 man drum machine grind band from Chicago featuring Toney Vast-Binder (of 7000 Dying Rats) on vocals and Dean Costello handling guitar, bass and drum programming. at times it reminded me a bit of Plague Bringer but the riffs aren't as good and the vocals are occasionally a little...i dunno, sometimes i just don't dig 'em. overall it's a pretty rad album though.

Uw Hypotheekadvies - Nature or Nurture

#191) Uw Hypotheekadvies - Nature or Nurture (2008)

 1. De Magneet
 2. -8 Doublures (Part Two)
 3. Bela
 4. (D. Turpin/B. Rogers)
 5. De Kandidaten
 6. Helmut Wagner
 7. Rennen Ruud!!!
 8. -8 Doublures (Part One)
 9. Zonder Laura
 10. De Hit
 11. Iedereen Moet Wel

noisy as hell experimental rock from the Netherlands. in the cd case it says that "all songs and improvisations" were recorded in September/October. i don't know if that means the tracks are all improv or if some stuff was written and some improv-ed or what the deal is but the results are pretty sweet. limited to 400 copies, it's definitely worth checking out if you can get your hands on it.

Nadja/Black Boned Angel

#190) Nadja/Black Boned Angel (2009)

 1. I
 2. II

another Nadja collaboration, this time with Black Boned Angel, whose album Verdun was the 3rd album i posted about here.
the violent noise/drone doom of Black Boned Angel combines perfectly with Nadja's dreamsludge to give us two 20+ minute tracks of brutally heavy noisy doom. these guys really play off each other well. i know they've worked together on at least one other album, i'll have to try and track it down. this was great stuff, i hope these guys continue to work together.

Psychic TV - Live in Basildon

#189) Psychic TV - Live in Basildon (2011)

 1. Thee Degenerate
 2. She Touched Me
 3. Unclean
 4. Riot in Thee Eye Ov Sky
 5. Southern Comfort
 6. Roman P.
 7. Retinal
 8. Ov Power
 9. Godstar

in my previous post about the Psychic TV Themes box i mentioned that you got a 7th disc if you ordered directly from Cold Springs, this is it. it was recorded on July 13 1986 at the Basildon Peace Festival in Gloucester Park, Basildon UK. musically it's not really like the Themes box at all and is more on the industrial/goth rock side, which i like but unfortunately the sound is pretty bad. it sounds like a bootleg and is even kinda glitchy at times. i guess i shouldn't complain too much since it was "free" but it's probably not a disc i'll revisit any time soon.