Quicksilver Daydream : "Ferryman" (via Tell All Your Friends PR/ The 405 /Soundcloud) "Ferryman" will be featured in an upcoming 5-song EP from Quicksilver Daydream titled, A Thousand Shadows, A Single Flame , which will release February 9th, 2018.    The EP is up for pre-order from Quicksilver Daydream's Bandcamp . __________________________________________________________ Anenon : "Verso" (via  Friends of Friends /Terrorbird Media/Soundcloud) "Verso" is the first single from Anenon's new album, Tongue , which will be releasing on Feburary 5th.  The album can be pre-ordered at Anenon's Bandcamp . A review of Anenon's 2016 release, Petrol , can be found here . __________________________________________________________ Rosehardt : "Bad Song" (via Styles Upon Styles /Julian T. Schoen/ High Snobiety /Soundcloud) "Bad Song" is currently available digitally from Rosehardt 's Bandcamp .  ...

In April of 2017, Ulver released a chilling synthesizer-driven beauty of an LP titled,  The Assassination of Julius Caesar , which brought to mind some understandable comparisons, the most prominent and obvious, in my mind anyway, being  Depeche Mode .  As if to validate this comparison, a new three-song EP from the band surfaced called  Sic Transit Gloria Mundi , itself also an electronically robust and somewhat morose new offering that features two songs that weren't quite ready for inclusion in  Julius Caesar  and a cover of "Power Of Love" by  Frankie Goes To Hollywood .  Videos were also developed to accompany the two original tracks, "Echo Chamber (Room Of Tears)" and "Bring Out Your Dead."  Links for the videos can be found here and here , or in the album info I've posted.  Interested?  You can listen below via Ulver's  Bandcamp  and, if so inclined, buy the EP now digitally or wait until physical copies emer...

Wand Plum Drag City Released: 9.22.17 No Ripcord (Quick Take) review Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Unsane Sterilize Southern Lord Released: 9.29.17 Unsane has been mainlining stress, panic, fury, anxiety, and frustration since 1988, the grim layout of yesteryear NYC tapped, injected, and purged as the pen has scrawled line after line of lyrical catharsis, words to be later shouted over top an unrelenting mass of distorted, chugging uproar that’s been carried through eight studio albums. And #8 is Sterilize , which checks in on the band’s mid-90s output while opening new wounds, sludge-weighted hostility like “Factory,” the drum-n-bass muck of “No Reprieve,” and the seasick rhythmic lean of “Lung” still composed with intensity in mind. As the proliferation of noise rock bands like KEN mode , Helms Alee , Spectres , Pissed Jeans , and METZ continues to garner attention during what’s been a renewed focus on guitar-generated aggression for the last 10 or so years, (which has interestingly coincided with rock n’ roll’s so-called mainstream demise), Sterilize could certainly re...

Boston area label, I Heart Noise , will be reissuing Tommy Bell , a highly obscure indie rock album from Boston's own,  Turkish Delight .  Originally released in 1996, Tommy Bell is certainly of its era, vocalist Leah Callahan stretching each syllable with the necessary resignation and charming disdain characteristic of the decade, a distortion-laden glaze employed for grit.  The band also evoke the experimental guitar harmonics of Sonic Youth  and the abstract funk of bands like Gang of Four , A Certain Ratio , or Pigbag , Turkish Delight's evident fondness for early 80s post-punk and NYC fringe predating the retro-informed spawn from bands like The Strokes , Yeah Yeah Yeahs and, very recently, Naked Lights and Guerilla Toss .  If you grew up plugged into the output of K Records, 4AD, or Matador, Tommy Bell is a fascinating, overlooked artifact worth checking out.  You can check out the video for "Grammy" below.  Tommy Bell will be rel...

Easy Action Dinosaur Jr. Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA 9.29.17 Photo by Josh Pelta-Heller Phawker  live show coverage Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

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