Glorior Belli are a black metal band out of France, but they fuse in a lot of other things to their sound. Like, for instance, the opening of this is really kind of a Soundgarden song. But, I’m not sure it all works. Like, when they pivot to the metal vocals here, it seems really forced. This album doesn’t really do it for me.
[Read More]This 100% sounds like something I would have picked up at some point, and I have zero recollection of it. It looks like it’s from 1999, and at that time, I don’t really remember picking this up. Well, whatever, it’s pretty fun. Sometimes we both listen to something new around here!
It’s hard to describe exactly how horny the rock underground and the music press was for My Bloody Valentine when this album came out. Expectations were already high given the previous album, the band spent a couple years (which was an eternity at the time) prepping this album, and then everybody went nuts when it came out. It seemed like overnight that there were a billion soundalike shoegaze bands, each one more mumbly than the last.
[Read More]There’s something called “Detroit techno” that I only kind of vaguely understand, beyond knowing that Detroit is a city, and techno is a type of electronic music. I mean, there’s a Wikipedia page for it and all, but what does that tell you? Not much. Anyway, Recloose supposedly fits into this genre, for whatever that’s worth. To my ears, this combination of relatively minimalist beat, video game bloops, and slowly building melody is great fun.
[Read More]