Word: bandness
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...Foreign Minister and Defense Minister. Few doubt that Yushchenko will have the votes to prevail, but he still needs to get people to the polls. So he urged the activists in Independence Square to begin working on the campaign, and the crowd thinned out last week. But a hardy band remains, and they say they're staying put until Yushchenko becomes President. Some of the makeshift shelters that popped up in late November have been replaced by large, army-issue tents, and Independence Square even has its own daily newspaper, the Revolution, a leaflet of resistance news. Yanukovych, the beneficiary...
...them well—this is a much more interesting album the second time through, especially when listened to with good headphones able to catch the arpeggios that add nuance and subtlety. Nonetheless, I still can’t help feeling that this album is somewhat derivative. Maybe this band will surprise us with its sophomore effort and head into uncharted territory, but so far they fail to play anything truly innovative or head-turning. One look at the strikingly well-done CD cover depicting various scenes of the sky grants the sense that SLD may have a little more...
...V8rdoms,” consistently putting on immensely long and sprawling psychedelic trance-noise-rock performances. This V8rdoms-esque record, though officially released with the moniker Boredoms, features their godfather, Eye Yamatsuka (a.k.a. Eye Yamantaka, or just eYe, best known for his legendarily abrasive/invasive noise band Hanatarash, translated, “the snot-nosed”), drummer and singer Yoshimi Yokota (a.k.a. Yoshimi P-We, the screeching, screaming Yoshimi featured on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2”), and two additional drummers...
...especially eYe’s Visian Recreation Newsound remixes. The drums continue to build in the track, until 4:33, when a piano(!) enters into the fray, weaving improvisational lines in with Yoshimi’s continued vocal flourishes, still wordless, merely a beautiful crooning melody—this band has clearly come a long way since the guttural growling of their 1986 Anal by Anal 7”. The song begins to build towards its first peak precisely at the song’s halfway point, where all the instruments and background sounds begin to drop away, culminating...
...recently consumed copious amounts of psychotropic substances that would allow them to get to the bottom of what exactly the Boredoms are trying to say with this song. I guess the traditional adage is appropriate here, that “you can’t expect transparency from a band whose last album consisted entirely of songs whose track names were pictographs...