Freak Scene with Mentalease - An Interview

Um belíssimo álbum lançado no finalzinho do ano passado foi o segundo do Mentalease, Indian Summer. 

Os caras são de Ohio e fazem tudo DIY, produzem, gravam e lançam seus discos, por que? Vai lá saber o que acontece com os selos.

Os caras pegam pesado nos 90´s, Dinosaur Jr e MBV são influências óbvias e poderosas pro Mentalease, e não tem nada demais nisso, é puro deleite.

Guitarradas estridentes, vocais preguiçosos e aquele tesão saca, não tem como não gostar, a não ser que você realmente esteja velho, chato, cabeçudo e ranzinza, daí é melhor passar longe mesmo.

Queridinhos do TBTCI fácil.

***** Interview with Mentalease *****

Q. When did Mentalease started, tell us about the history…
It started as a bedroom recording project back in 2011 when I was finishing up school and needed a creative outlet. I would sit in my bedroom experimenting with sounds and recording plugins and writing songs. I released an Ep in 2012, and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where I hooked up with my current band while recording Living Dream. Over the last year and a half we recorded Indian Summer together and released it just recently.

Q: Who are your influences?
There are a lot of influences. Of course the big ones are the pioneering noisemakers from the 90’s like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Dinosaur Jr, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. But also some 80’s post-punk, plenty of punk bands through the age, and some modern ambient groups like Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?
No Age - Everything In Between
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Clifford Brown - With Strings
The Strokes - Is This It?

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Comfortable, and rather focused. There’s a lot to take in on stage. A good performer reads signals from the audience and adjusts the performance accordingly. No to mention, sounding good in a different room every time is a daunting task that requires a lot of attention.

Q. How do you describe Mentalease sounds?
Music that sounds loud even when it’s quiet.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We self recorded the entire album. There's a lot of painstaking work involved in getting the correct sounds. We would travel to the house of my girlfriend at the time to record drums because her living room sounded so good. The songs were kind of written as we recorded, with lot’s of changes made along the way. All in all, it was a year long process of tinkering and adjusting, and our friend Sean Kelly at Victorian Recording in Chicago put the finishing touches on it.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
If you’re into the kind of music that we make, No Joy is a great band to check out. Every release they’ve made so far has been awesome. Also bands like Deafhaven, Whirr, The War on Drugs, and No Age are awesome.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
I would want it to be something way over the top. Maybe Alice Cooper or Kiss. That would be something.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Keep writing, record another record, and play some shows!
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http://www.mentalease.com/
https://mentalease.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Mentalease

Funhouse with Factotum - An Interview

MC5, Stooges, Mudhoney e Thee Oh Sees é a fonte primal do Factotum, ingleses de Bristol.

Uma insanidade brutal em colossais esporros sonoros pra desgraçar tudo e todos.

O álbum dos caras é simplesmente avassalador e deve ser imediatamente ouvido sem nem pensar.

Não tem espaço pra respiro por aqui, o lance é destruidor mesmo, sem mais.

***** Interview with Factotum *****

Q. When did Factotum started, tell us about the history...
Alex: We started when I met Karl at a gig I played at with my other band The Bad Joke That Ended Well.

Karl: Al played pub I worked at we talked about fuzz pedals for a little bit

Q: Who are your influences?

Alex: Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Thee Oh Sees and Chet Baker.

Karl: Lots of garage, ever so often we manage to make a song sound oh sees’y and that’s always a good moment. Always love watching Metz if we could get anywhere near that live it would be a good day.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Alex:
Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
Captain Beefheart – Safe As Milk
Nirvana – Bleach
Nuggets – Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
KAK – S/T

Karl:
Chet baker - Chet baker sings
Modest mouse – Lonesome Crowded West
Pure x – pleasure
Parquet courts – Light up gold
Titus Andronicus – The airing of grievances
The Almighty defenders – The almighty defenders

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Alex:Aware
Karl: Sweaty

Q. How do you describe Factotum sounds?
Alex:Heavy garage rock with tintes of psych and blues.

Karl: All killer no filler

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Alex:I like to do most things live so that you can capture the energy. So far I think we’ve failed to get exactly what were looking for. That’s probably down to the simplicity of the songs though.

Karl: Sometimes I do it , sometimes Al does it , Sometimes our friend Dom does it. Usually 95% live can lead to some odd timings

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

Alex:Taos Humm

Karl:
Bristol Bands- Idles Spectres Taos Humm Tara Clerkin Velcro Hooks

Of the wider world- Brown Brogues, Chad Van Galen Cate Le Bon, Heaters, Hookworms, Pain Dimension, The Red Cords

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Alex:Tom Waits covering Rain Dogs.

Karl: Been trying to put a Bruce Springsteen one together for a few years its never quiet worked out though

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Alex: We have a record coming out on Stolen Body Records on March 6th which is a split with US band Black Fruit (you should check them out). Were also working on our next full length LP which should be out later in the year. Im also going to be a dad.

Karl: Writing a new record, learn at least one new type of drum beat.

Q: Any parting words?
Alex: How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? – Bukowski

Karl: Big love to our galaxy Hedwig she’s a strong old girl
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http://stolenbodyrecords.co.uk/record-label/factotum-artist/#label-top
https://soundcloud.com/stolenbodyrecords/sets/factotum-knife-gun
https://www.facebook.com/bandfactotum

Blown a Wish with Kigo - An Interview

De Brisbane, Austrália vem Kigo, ou se você preferir o mais próximo que alguma banda chegou do MBV, incluindo o próprio MBV.

Vários Eps, singles, álbuns no bandcamp estão disponíveis gratuitamente para o deleite dos shoegazers radicais e xiitas. O Kigo não veio para poupar decibéis, os loops, muralhas sonoras, sobreposições, pedais, efeitos, distorções, vocais soterrados, experiências diversas estão em todas as canções dos caras.

Para os detratores um prato cheio para atacar e taxar o Kigo como cópia, para os amantes das distorções e sonhadores, uma banda para se amar.

O TBTCI fica com a segunda opção, Kigo é predileta da casa desde sempre.

***** Interview with Kigo *****

Q. When did Kigo started? tell us about the history...
kigo started in 2013. I'd been writing songs for years, and it wasn't really until then that I felt comfortable putting some songs online (well, keeping them online anyway; I had released a couple of noise albums/electronic pop stuff before kigo, but I hated it so I took it down).

Q: Who are your influences?
MBV (obviously), The Beach Boys (less obvious), The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, Cocteau Twins, Elliott Smith, Fleetwood Mac. Mostly guitar stuff I guess. I love most things with a good chorus (which is weird, because none of my songs really have choruses). I like fairly typical bands for people my age I guess. I'm not super into going and finding new bands; I've been listening to the same stuff for years really. Lots of Black Metal stuff.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Tough question. I couldn't say a top five, but my three most listened to albums would be Loveless, Pet Sounds, and Disintegration.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Playing live is something that I could live without. I always feel anxious, and I spend the whole time thinking about how much people watching the show hate me. I feel like all of my anxiety is magnified by the whole live dynamic.

I hate talking to people before and after I play. I worry about how the band sounds, and I micromanage everything. I get no joy from it at all.

Ughhhh.

Q. How do you describe Kigo's sounds?
kigo sounds like a sad/lonely person listening to sad songs about being lonely, then recording their own versions of those songs.

I guess on a less personal level, I'd say kigo sounds like a 'classic' shoegaze band influenced by the pop music of the 80's, and the guitar stuff of the 90's.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I go to bed. I dream. I wake up, and record the song I dreamt the night before. I've been dreaming less frequently for the last year or so. I feel as though something within me has burnt out; something dried up. I'm not worried; I take it as a sign that I need to start really living again. Maybe it's a warning that I've been shut off emotionally for too long? I don't know, I just believe that it'll all work itself out in time.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
I would say j. francis. Amazing. Can't really explain it. On a personal level, I guess I just feel a sense of pride knowing that my brother wrote it. The newest song 'To Adore' blows me away. Terrific. Sort of like a Bruce Springsteen song recorded with a really lethargic/tired backing band. I love it.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
I've done a couple of covers before, and they were enough for me. I don't think it is something I need to explore again. If I had to do another cover, it'd probably be a song I find challenging/tough to rework. When I play 'saw you' live, I change the lyrics to the lyrics in 'Late For The Sky' by Jackson Browne. I like to try to add something of myself to the song to make it more interesting/re-purpose something from another song to describe how I feel. Makes sense to me to do stuff like that.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Well, either an album, or two EP's out by later this year. Still trying to figure out where kigo is going musically. Might be time to change everything, or rediscover the things I love. I'm not sure. Live? Maybe a show or two. Depends on lots of things really.

Q: Any parting words?
No parting wisdom, just a thank you to everyone that has supported the band over the last two years (has it really been that long?). Best of luck for everything in 2015, and I look forward to sharing some new music with you all!
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https://kigo.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/kigo

Sneaky Flutes with Fluorescent Tiger - An Interview

Contatos imediatos via TBTCI acontecem cotidianamente e um dos que mais me alegrou foi ao adentrar ao mundo lo-fi noise experimental do Fluorescent Tiger. Diretamente do Alabama, Jack Raines comanda sozinho a esbórnia em ondas sonoras elétricas do Fluorescent Tiger.

Eps, singles fazem parte do DIY feito pelo cara em altas dosagens de ruídos.

Pra resumir tudo vá direto em A Fox! A  Spirit! segunda faixa do Ep In The Evening e sinta o clima que o Swirlies criou lá trás e o Fluorescent Tiger pega e atualiza ferozmente.

Sensacional.

***** Interview with Fluorescent Tiger *****

Q. When did Fluorescent Tiger started, tell us about the history...
Fluorescent Tiger started sometime around my senior year of high school. My obsession with guitar effects and synths had really started to peak at the time and I was beginning to get embarrassed by how much time and money I was putting into the hobby without actually producing any music. So, in an effort to ease my mind more than anything, I traded a Casio VL-Tone for a digital 4track and recorded "Yeah, That Chick Creeps Me Out," one weekend. Some MS Paint cover art and two random words from my biology textbook later, Fluorescent Tiger was born. Sadly, the 4track has since left the band.

Q: Who are your influences?
There's a few too many bands to list all of them, but some of the highlights are Neu!, LCD Soundsystem, Model 500, Jim O'Rourke, Deerhoof, Steve Reich, Naked City, and The Knife.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Swirlies – They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons cLOUDDEAD – cLOUDDEAD
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
of Montreal – Skeletal lamping
Neat Beats – Cosmic Surgery

Q. How do you feel playing live?
I actually haven't played live as Fluorescent Tiger yet; I'm currently a full time university student so spare time is difficult to find. It's on my list of future plans however.

Q. How do you describe Fluorescent Tiger sounds?
Loud, layered, and up tempo.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
It depends on the song really. I tend to think of my songs as either ambient or not ambient. The nonambient tracks usually start life as a chord progression or a beat that I just jam and build on until I feel like it turns into a song. I'm a one man band at the moment, so it's pretty much just a long process of overdubbing. The ambient tracks are pretty all over the place in terms of process, but they usually start with either a guitar loop or something I patch together on my modular synth. From there, the sounds wind up in an sp 404 and I just bash at them until they turn into something pretty

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Dude York, The Cherry Wave, Le Thug, Two Knights

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
I'd love to try a Cibo Matto or a Broken Social Scene cover

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Just trying to finish up the next release mostly, but I've also be looking into doing some soundtrack work and I'm trying to figure out what a Fluorescent Tiger live show would look like.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks for having me
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https://fluorescenttiger.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fluorescent-Tiger

Heaven Up Here with Lur Lur - An Interview

Chega a ser inacreditável que os portugueses do Lur Lur ainda não foram "descobertos" por alguma gravadora. O trabalho dos caras é simplesmente de um apelo pop absurdo mas sempre mantendo suas referências e essências.

Pós punk hipnótico calcado em baluartes como os Bunnymen, Eno, Roxy Music, Bowie, Peter Murphy, faz de suas demos canções de pura elegância com uma profundidamente melódica soberba.

Cold  e Shame (You have no) são candidatas a hits instantâneos, só falta apenas alguém abrir os olhos pro Lur Lur.

O TBTCI deseja sucesso imediato ao Lur Lur.

***** Interview with Lur Lur *****

Q. When did Lur Lur started, tell us about the history...
Peter Peter- Lur Lur started because I had created this persona for myself which I nicknamed as Peter Peter ( It was an old high school nickname) who consisted on a bloke who could play and sing some songs on guitar, from old Echo & The Bunnymen tunes to revamped songs from Madonna. I was exploring my musical roots so to speak ( The Madonna part was accidental). I always felt my voice and atitude worked well complemented with a female voice and my wife Lucy ( Lucinda Sebastião) can sing so…It was a question of doing some demos, a long but spontaneous process in which we were helped by a couple of musician friends and we released a demo song called “Soul Queen” very rough version really. That started a process of recruiting musicians, and we were gigging locally so early gigs were very chaotic, with sudden line up changes, I could be well be playing guitar on one song and suddenly bass on the other. I guess things turned to a upper point with the entry of João Simões playing guitar, a fantastic guitar player which complements our sound perfectly. From that we got confident enough to really polish things on studio with a more melodic sound. Went and recorded a first EP and just released a first videoclip a couple weeks ago.

Q: Who are your influences?
Peter Peter: Madonna and Echo & The Bunnymen could sum it up really..seriously everything from early Bowie to latest post punk new bands, we listen to a lot, from old Neil Young to Mazzy Star, the Sound, Suicide, Nina Hagen…It depends on the day.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Peter Peter:That is really hard I just can’t ...but I could tell you that if I had to chose I could name just one: Roxy Music´s first album, a track like “If There Is Something” perfectly defines what is best in musical production, the mixing and the sound writing and the diversity of styles and sound manipulation always makes me to chose that album as a landmark. We could talk about Eno´s first album also but then there is Zeppelin, Bowie and afterwards the brilliant period of the late seventies mid eighties music production in the UK. I would not know where to start really.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Peter Peter: It´s a brilliant feeling, we are a couple singing and so it is pretty intense… we just feel like a couple playing with our best friends which are the rest of the band, If it is a good audience and it tends to be, we tend and connect musically and personally to people in the audience. It is very lively always.

Q. How do you describe Lur Lur´s sound?
Peter Peter: Today I might describe it as an avant-garde sound with a bright feeling but with a dark edge sometimes, just like life really. But that is today, It´s hard to be elaborate about something you are a part of. For instance we sing in English because it is easy for us, we are a portuguese band trying desperately to be heard.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Peter Peter: Like every new band we are learning to summarize things better, I mean there is no point going to the studio and doing 10 takes of one guitar. We did experiment a bit on this first EP, our studio tech Claudio did some magic on very rough pre-production takes so we could salvage a bit of that, re-recorded vocals and guitars and that was basically it. You know the simple the better,we had the luck of working with someone who can record and mix proprely.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Peter Peter: As I am speaking to a Brazilian Blog I have say I discovered Travelling Wave from Brazil through their cover of JMC “Just Like Honey” that was brilliant because I just had lost connection to what was being made in Brasil… a bit like discovering Cabine C, really good atmospheric rock from Brasil at their time. Brilliant really. I could cite some bands we had the pleasure of sharing the stage here in Portugal ,Princess Chelsea (NZ) or Girls Names from Ireland who both are acts who experiment sonically and bring something new to the listener. Been listening a lot to a band called Electric Litany as they are fantastic and unusual. There are some local bands which we like also and we can’t´ name them all here, and Portugal is a very puritan place regarding music at times, but I could name projects like Rainy Days Factory or Persona Project since we shared the stage with them and it was a great experience. It is great when people make great music and are focused and nice at what they do. I respect a lot when people are nice and easy going both on stage and of-stage, it really is what defines good musicians and what they will achieve artistically.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
Peter Peter: We recorded a studio version of “A Strange Kind Of Love” by Peter Murphy, posted it on the Internet and that got us lot of very good praise, It was meant to be Fisherman´s Song by the The Waterboys instead, we decided on the Peter Murphy song, did that alright so let´s not risk another one soon I guess.

Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Peter Peter: We just got ourselves a brilliant new drummer so we really are anxious to take him for some live gigs. We did some more recordings we need to mix, and as I said we just finished a video for our track “Shame (You Have No)”. We have resisted putting our songs on a CD for a while cause you know… you can listen to it on the Internet so what´s the point? But people have been asking for it at our concerts. So if there is the will to buy we might as well throw a nice sleeve artwork with it. Question is getting proper distribution on foreign territories. So we just might do that February/March this new year, and do another video for another track and throw some more songs along the way. We really want to play European dates this year, so Spain, France and other European countries would be great to play. I guess Cd´still are an honorable excuse to go and reach far out.

Q: Any parting words?
Peter Peter: Thank you for listening to our music and helping out new music projects being heard. And the future is bright, Brazil will return to form in the next world cup we predict. We would love to play Brazil sometime, maybe we will cross the Atlantic someday soon. It should be easier, lets not have geography tearing us apart.

Lur Lur
Peter Peter- Vocals. Guitar
Lucinda Sebastião- Vocals
João Simões- Guitar
João Fininho- Bass
Nuno Camilo- Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/LurLur.Alternative.Indie.Rock
https://lurlur.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHymXCpCwC4

Fire in Cairo with PanSTARRS - An Interview

Da Cidade do Cairo vem o comboio sônico/sonhador PanSTARRS.

Misturando suas influências e as condensando dentro de um caldeirão, ecos de The Cure, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, 808 State fundem-se a estridentes guitarras e beats e demais experimentalismos expurgando fantasmas que permeiam as músicas dos dois eps dos caras. 

Como se Thom Yorke e Thurston Moore resolvem compor em estados de nervos alterados.

Yestoday o último Ep é esquizofrênico como deve ser e te convida para uma imersão completa sob o comando do PanSTARRS.

Recomendadíssimo.

***** Interview with PanSTARRS *****

Q. When did PanSTARRS start, tell us about the history...
PanSTARRS began midway through 2012 when I started recording music in my bedroom. Debut EP “Nothingness” was released in Feb 2013, followed by LP “Yestoday” 8 months later. After this release I started performing live and was joined by a full band Hazem El-Shamy (drums) and Ismail Arafa (bass) who quit the band and was replaced by long time collaborator Nader Ahmed (who also quit the band recently). Now it is only me and Hazem working on recording the new material that we were performing with Ismail and Nader to release it soon.

Q: Who are your influences?
I listen to little music nowadays, but it is mostly Sonic Youth who influenced the way I write/perceive music in every sense. I also appreciate other bands like Joy Division, Radiohead, and Queens Of The Stone Age.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
It's not always fun to play live especially in a country like Egypt where culture is dead. The ratio of actual art to commercial entertainment is scary.

But there are very few venues (eg. Vent) in Egypt that i have performed in and actually felt connected with the audience.

Q. How do you describe PanSTARRS´ sounds?
PanSTARRS sound reacts to whatever dynamics there is, to be as spontaneous/honest as possible. It is always changing. It was all melancholic at the beginning and then started to be all punk/agressive so nothing is really constant when it comes to us discovering our sound.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
I have always recorded in my bedroom using MIDI drums, but since we started to write music as a band, we prefer to record everything live in a studio this time. The recording process is put on hold cause we have no money to invest in recording nowadays.. but we'll start soon.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
Joy Division, just because it's so much fun to perform live.

Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Future is only me and hazem, we should be done with recording the album in the next few months. and then start writing new material with whatever sound we will come up with next.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks man
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https://panstarrs.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Panstarrs

Hyperventilation with Monochromatic Visions - An Interview

O grego Art Pegis é Monochromatic Visions e vice e versa. O cara também faz parte do comboio psych Rosebleeds, mas aqui em sua faceta one man band ele exibe seu apreço pelo BJM elevado a máxima potência.

As três delirantes viagens do ep From Here to There é uma viagem passando basicamente por toda a discografia do BJM, de forma minimalista e intimista.

Um slow psych pra derreter a mente.

***** Interview with Monochromatic Visions *****

Q. When did Monochromatic Visions started, tell us about the history...
Monochromatic Visions is at the moment a one man's vision in the process of becoming a band. There is not much of a history about it really.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
1. Beatles - Revolver
2. The Velvet underground - White Light/White Heat
3. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
4. Spacemen 3 - Sound Of Confusion
5. Joy Division - Closer

Q. How do you describe Monochromatic Visions sounds?
From what the first EP sounds like I would say more psych based influences but it's really early to describe the sound of the Visions, things might come around a lot differently on the next one.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
The process of the recording was quite simple and quick. Basically all I had to do first was to go to the studio and record some ideas on the guitar.After that I started jamming basically with the rest instruments to find some cool parts and start adding up to the track.First the bassline, then the drums, tambourines and lastly the vocals.The whole thing didn't last more than 3 days.The second track of the EP ''I'm Waitin'' was a late night jam recorded at home in Greece.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Acid Baby Jesus (GR)
Wall/Eyed (FR)
A Victim of Society (GR)
Deep Space Cowboys (CA)
De Palma (US)

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
To be honest I haven't quite thought of doing covers yet. I prefer focusing on my own things instead of doing covers.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Creativity and start on planning a few gigs.

Q: Any parting words
Lets just wish a Happy New Year.
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https://monochromaticvisions.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/monochromaticvisions

Spaceboys with Lull - An Interview

Q melhor descrição para a sonoridade dos londrinos do Lull já foi  dada em alguma resenha, algo como o Slowdive coverizando os Smashing Pumpkinks ou vice e versa.

Dead or Alone é o Ep de estreia dos caras e, bem é exatamente isso mesmo, Slowdive e Smashing Pumpkins fundindo-se entre paisagens sonoras calmas e densas e explosões sonoras.

Só que detalhe, o Lull pega isso tudo e condensa com sua atitude musical, Dead or Alone, Break Hearts e principalmente Bubble Tea explicita tudo isso.

Ah detalhe, o lançamento é pro dia 16 de fevereiro, mas já esta disponível pra ouvir, mergulhe de cabeça.

***** Interview with Lull *****

Q. When did Lull started? tell us about the history...
I had a hard time finding people to start something up originally. People were busy jumping on the nu-folk bandwagon and few of my friends played instruments. I’d tried flyering a few years back to get a post-punk/emo project off the ground, which of course was an even harder sell! I eventually spent some time writing these swirly lo-fi songs and had every intention of doing the whole wall-of-noise, introverted listening, Lovesliescrushing type of thing but then I met Toby (guitar) and that wall kind of fell away as his playing style was so different to mine. Later we picked up Filipe (drums) and Simon (bass) and the sound opened up further. We all found each other online through music classifieds and like similar music, long walks on the beach and holding hands, so we’ve been pretty lucky.

Q: Who are your influences?
I remember the first album I bought that meant anything was the Smashing Pumpkins’ Melloncollie’. I had a weird phase of going to buy CDs and being more attracted to whatever band names I found the most interesting. That quirk got me massively into My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins. I’m a sucker for all the old 4AD stuff. In contrast to Toby, who has quite a strong playing style, I play softly with light picks which I think I got from how I imagined Robin Guthrie to hit notes, getting these really nuanced tones out of the guitar. A lot of DIY punk and early screamo influences the chords I use, stuff like Jeromes Dream, Portraits of Past and Anomie, to name a few. Oddly, I missed the boat on a lot of 90s indie which the rest of the guys love so I’m only just scratching the surface of that stuff now.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Too many to count, I’ll try, but this is in no particular order!
1. Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
2. Treasure – Cocteau Twins
3. Isn’t Anything – My Bloody Valentine
4. Blood – This Mortal Coil
5. Relationship of Command/Acrobatic Tenement – At the Drive-in

Q. How do you feel playing live?
We’ve played some great shows with some great bands already. We love playing live because (soundman permitting) we can turn up extra loud and get that feedback that can totally change a song for the better. We’ve got more shows coming up this year and a load of new songs so watch this space.

Q. How do you describe Lull´s sounds?
We’ve been described as a lot of things, “like Slowdive covering the Pumpkins”, “brooding” and “nice”, which is nice. Toby coined it as ‘noise-pop’ and I think that probably hits where it matter is we’re talking labels. There’s a lot of groove and melody within the noise that we try to surface, so short of calling it groove-rock we’ll take noise-pop for now.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Before I met Toby I had already written a bunch of songs, including Bubble Tea and Diving, which each have their own pre-band demos floating around somewhere. Typically I’ll have a song pretty fleshed out, at least for one guitar, along with an idea of how I see it working. We’ll take that to the studio where the rest of the band show me how I’m wrong and pull me out of this perfectly beautiful, but linear-sounding song. It almost always starts with a song or riff I have pretty set then we add our own ideas in the studio to see what works and what doesn’t. We live relatively close but can’t just knock on each other’s doors to float a riff so there’s a lot of recording and how-to videos for the weird chords and structures in between rehearsals.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Everyone should go check out the Leeds-based band Fade, their EP is heavy as, but funky, proper hunky shit. We had the pleasure of playing with Aeroplane Flies High (who changed their name super recently to Mothers) who are just mind-blowing live. Catch them if you can.

Q: Which bands would you like to make a cover version of ?
‘Bubble Tea’ is begging for a black metal makeover so I’d get Immortal on the phone for that. I’m not sure really, I’d be cool to hear something far away from our sound, like the glitter of Scritti Politti or the synths and samples of Oneohtrix Point Never.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A ton of new songs to hopefully go on a split or a new EP, we haven’t decided yet. Really we just want to get more live shows under our belt because that’s where we can really go up a notch with the ferocity. People all over the world have been in touch which is ace and we’ve been getting some great press despite not having a manager.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks for the interview. Keep listening to weird shit.
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https://lull3.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/lullsounds

Black Mettalic with Bloom - An Interview

Tome-lhe guitar bands revival na cabeça. 

Bloom de Santo Antonio, Estados Unidos vem estilhaçando a cabeça de seus ouvintes e criando já um séquito de admiradores graças a seu single de estreia, o pontapé Rise/Overflow.

São só duas canções, considerando que há um remix de Rise, mas já serve como um cartão de visitas daqueles que chegam com os dois pés no peito. Guitarrada de primeira, psicodelismo sixties aqui e ali, mas o lance é a pegada mezzo cacetada mezzo viajante dos caras, tipo uma colisão desenfreada entre Beach Boys, Catherine Wheel e Meat Puppets.

Mais ou menos assim, Bloom é foda.

***** Interview with Bloom *****

Q. When did Bloom start, tell us about the history...
BLOOM started about a year ago. Reed DeAngelis (bass) and I (Blake Ibanez - guitar) had been going back and forth sending guitar parts to each other, when it dawned on us to just start a band. Through him I met Jay Elizalde (vocals) and Raul Vela IV (drums), and after a couple practices we had laid out basic song arrangements. Since then we've been mainly working in the studio, trying to finish enough songs in order to start preparing for shows.

Q: Who are your influences?
Our influences range from 60's/70's rock--stuff like The Beatles, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, and The Zombies--to 90's shoegazing/alternative groups such as Ride, Catherine Wheel, The Telescopes, The Verve, etc. We try to blend classic songwriting techniques with the rock sensibilities and aesthetic of the early 90's UK bands.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This is a pretty difficult question because each day of the week our favorites will probably change, but today here are our picks:

Raul: - Beatles "White Album" - Meat Puppets "Up On The Sun" - Beatles "Revolver" - Husker Du "Zen Arcade" - Wipers "Youth of America"

Jay: - Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" - Superchunk "Indoor Living" - Beatles "Revolver" - Guided By Voices "Under The Bushes Under The Stars" - Tears For Fears "Songs From The Big Chair"

Reed: - Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" - Beatles "White Album" - Nick Drake "Pink Moon" - Bad Brains "Bad Brains" - Skip James "Hard Time Killing Floor"

Blake: - Beatles "Revolver" - The La's "The La's" - Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream" - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young "Déjà Vu" - My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"

Q. How do you feel playing live?
We haven't begun playing live yet. Right now we're focused on writing quality songs--once we get 1-2 more, we fully expect to perform live. We all play multiple instruments, so we're still deciding which one each of us would be best playing in a live setting. Once we organize those things, we'll be eager to hit the stage and play these songs to people.

Q. How do you describe Bloom sounds?
An effort to recreate the vision of the 60's through an early 90's outline.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Reed DeAngelis recorded and mixed the entire project, so here's the process in his words: "Well, we recorded everything ourselves. I was mostly responsible for the engineering and mixing, but Blake and the other guys also made a handful of mixing decisions along the way. We started with drums. I have an obsession with the drum sounds of the late-sixties/early-seventies rock recordings – think Zeppelin IV, Todd Rundgren’s ‘A Wizard, A True Star’, or McCartney’s ‘Ram’ – where they basically just throw a few mics around a drumset and then compress the hell out of the incoming signal. This approach might only work for certain kinds of drums (you probably want them to be pretty big) or certain kinds of drummers (you probably want them to be pretty badass). With this approach, we taught Raul the songs and subsequently recorded his takes in a brief, two-hour session, straight to 1/4-inch tape. After we got a decent drum sound, we moved the recording from Raul’s living room to my guest bedroom where we began tracking guitars and bass. As with drums, recording guitars is a pretty straightforward process: throw a microphone in front of an amp and start playing stuff, adjusting levels and eq’s when necessary. Assuming you don’t want a detailed, play-by-play analysis, I’ll finish by saying that the rest of the recording process mostly went this way: we found things that made sounds we liked (amplifiers, synthesizers, Jay’s vocal cords, and other miscellaneous noisemakers) and threw a microphone in front of it. I would recommend this strategy to anyone who’s interested in doing their own home recording. Remember, first you find things that sound good and then you throw a microphone in front of it. After that, you figure out a neat way to mix all your sounds together so that the end result is something like a song."

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
The Mites, Gleeson, The Bremen Riot, Supercrush, True Widow

Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
We've been discussing this, and haven't quite decided yet. Probably a band that doesn't really sound like us, but has a song we could interpret in our own stylistic way.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We plan to finish another single and complete our setlist in the coming months. We also plan to release "Rise" as either a 7" or 12" record, film a music video, and practice for live performances in the future.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks for the interview! Also thanks to anyone who has listened to the new single, bought it, or told their friends to listen to BLOOM. We hope to have more music on the way soon!
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https://bloomofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/bloomtexas

Dragville with Bored Nothing - An Interview

De Melbourne, Austrália vem o altamente lo-fi, Bored Nothing, entenda lo-fi aqui como o mais próximo do punk possível. É DIY lo-fi mesmo, tem muito de comparações feitas co o Elliot Smith em relação ao Bored Nothing na figura do Fergus Miller que é o cara do Bored Nothing, mas vai além, tem folk cru, tem experimentalismos diversos, tem bits, loops, e o que mais se imaginar pra criar peças esquizofrênicas e freaks.

Mais uma vez para o TBTCI o Half Japonese na figura do mestre Jad Fair fez escola, e o Bored Nothing é o melhor aluno disso tudo.

***** Interview with Boring Nothing *****

Q. When did Bored Nothing start, tell us about the history...
it started as me just making little recordings on tape in my bedroom and handing them out to people, and leaving them in libraries and things like that.

Q: Who are your influences?
i love the beatles, and i always have, but some of my favourites are elvis costello, big star, harry nilsson and a lot of local bands in melbourne where i live.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time
ooooooooh tough question.
ok.... in no particular order: (and all starting with B)…
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Bob Dylan - Highway 51 Revisited
Beck - Sea Change
Bjork - Verspertine
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped

Q. How do you feel playing live?
sometimes it's the best feeling in the world: getting drunk, with my friends, seeing people sing along.
but sometimes it's terrible: seeing people bored out of their mind, talking while i'm trying to sing.

Q. How do you describe Bored Nothing sounds?
flat, boring, lo-fi.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
i usually write some lyrics down in my little book, and then i will write some guitar that sounds like it fits the mood, and then do all the other instruments (all by myself) and then i'll try and make the words fit at the end.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended
i'm not to up to date with new bands, but my favourite 2 albums of the last year have been HTRK's: Psychic 9-5 Club & Sun Kil Moon's: Benji, for sure.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
i don't really like doing cover versions of songs that i like because if i like them already i'm afraid i'll ruin them, but there a heap of beatles songs i'd love to cover (Yer Blues, Her Majesty, Here comes the Sun, etc).

Q: What´s the plan for the future....
get some REST for starters... and then get back to work on some new projects i've started.

Q: Any parting words?
Boomshankar.
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https://fergus.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BoredNothing

Swamp Thing with Hexagrams - An Interview

O revival de pós punk  nos brinda com uma belíssima banda mexicana chamada Hexagrams.

Fortemente influenciado pelo pós punk de mais de três décadas atrás e incluindo elementos de shoegazing tudo em roupagem moderna e atual, o Hexagrams prepara-se pra soltar Soft Drugs seu debute, e as prévias já mostram que vem um álbum denso, tenso e intenso.

Cozinha marcada e pesada, guitarras oras pulsantes e serrilhando os pulsos em outras lentas e hipnóticas, vide algumas amostrar liberadas pra audição como a faixa título Soft Drugs, Ghost e China Doll.

Um disco perigoso se aproxima, e por aqui aguardo ansiosamente.

***** Interview with Hexagrams *****

Q. When did Hexagrams started, tell us about the history…
Well, Hexagrams started as a one-man thing by Kevin, vocals and guitar...pretty much out of a burst of creativity he had going on at the time but with no other people available to join him, so he recorded a small EP on his own, Analog, which became popular in our local music scene, so people started asking him to perform it live so he came to us, José, the drummer and myself, Diego, on the second guitar. Further along the way came Tulio, on bass, closing the actual line up of the band.

Q: Who are your influences?
We all have different influences, I believe...it's noticeable when you take a listen to our alternate projects, no of then sound a like, so it's hard to pin down our influences exactly. But speaking generally, I could say that the band is mainly influenced by modern guitar rock and the early late 80's early 90's shoegaze scene.


Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sex Pistols - Never mind the bollocks.
Ryan Adams - Love is hell
MBV - Loveless

Q. How do you feel playing live?
It feels so energetic! i really enjoy playing live cause we can’t get gigs frequently, every member of the band has alternate music projects, school or jobs and it gets very difficult to find dates for gigs. Playing live means more fuzzy guitars, when i started this project i wanted to be a different sound live than in recordings but now i want to sound the same as in recordings or even louder and violent.

Q. How do you describe Hexagramsr sounds?
It sounds like an angry kid ranting, he has no friends because of that, so that makes him sad

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
It’s weird and always different but we start recording lead guitar-drum and bass, the three at the same time, after that Diego record the second guitar, we record like 4 or 5 guitars for each song, like the same parts but clean and distorted and some figures, then i record the voice (Kevin), cleans and modulated parts like we do in guitar. I’m always into mix and mastering process but the magic is brought by Fuzzland Records guy, Maik.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
I don’t really listen to new music, basically i’m always into the same old bands, but maybe Sunflower Bean, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Alvvays, i guess they’re 'new' but i’m not quite sure.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
I’d really love to make a cover of any Elliott Smith song but we don’t rehearsal frequently so we don’t really have time to make covers, we’re always focused on new songs, also i’d really like to make a 2Pac cover.

Q: What´s the plans for future….
Release ‘Soft Drugs’ ASAP maybe at the end of february i think and then touring, not like a real tour but i want to play more shows around the country this year.

Q: Any parting words?
A: Can i borrow a feeling?
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https://hexagrams.bandcamp.com/album/soft-drugs-incomplete
https://www.facebook.com/hexagramsband

Dopesmoker with Tolchock - An Interview

Psych japonês barra pesadíssima agora no TBTCI.

Tolchock é o nome da fritação que praticamente domina as ações físicas e mentais quando se é submetido a audição de seu poderoso Ep After Fog Open.

Delírios, alucinações e demais sintomas são absorvidos pela mente após sessões ininterruptas deste artefato poderoso que pode causar vício eminente aos ouvintes. 

Recomendado para tratamentos diversos de corpo, mente e alma, com sérias restrições de vertigens e demais efeitos colaterais.

Definitivamente não recomendado a indie kids.

***** Interview with Tolchock *****

Q. When did Tolchock started, tell us about the history...
I met Shoko (drummer) at the art university in 2012. I was studying film and she was studying sculpture there. One day, when I was walking around the campus, I heard crazy metal crush sound from somewhere and there was Shoko banging iron with a hammer. I asked her to play music together. That was winter in 2012.

Q: Who are your influences?
The Velvet Underground Black Sabbath

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…

Closer: Joy devision
Dopesmoker: Sleep
Tago Mago: Can
Red Road: Haunted Leather
Dauphin love: Conan Mockasin

Q. How do you feel playing live?
We feel like we are meditating while playing live.

Q. How do you describe Tolchock sounds?
Middle drone music to make ourselves feel comfortable and chilled.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We did everything by ourselves in a recording studio.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
We recommend Scattered Purgatory from Taiwan. Scattered Purgatory is a great drone band. We did Taiwan tour together last year. It was an amazing experience.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Black Sabbath

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We just finished recording for our new album! Excited to let it out soon. And, we are planning for Europe Tour this year!

Q: Any parting words?
Hope you'll enjoy our new album!
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https://tolchock-psy.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/tolchock-psyjp
https://www.facebook.com/psytolchock

In The Shower with Homeshake - An Interview

Jogo rápido, uma Q/A com Peter Sagar sobre seu projeto solo Homeshake. O cara gravava com Mac de Marco, mas seu projeto solo se mostra muito mais bacana do que podemos pensar.

Um exercício de lo-fi jazz experimental é o In The Shower sem último trabalho mostra. Umas pitadas de Jad Fair e Half Japonese percorrem o trabalho do Homeshake dando um charme singular no disco.

Interessantíssimo pra momentos desapego xiita. Vale muito a audição.

***** Interview with Homeshake *****

Q. When did Homeshake started, tell us about the history...
1- After I moved to Montreal from my hometown I changed my pseudonym and then it became real

Q: Who are your influences?
2- Anything with deep deep bass

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
3- I couldn't possibly choose only five

Q. How do you feel playing live?
4- I usually feel a little shy and weird, especially if I'm playing by myself

Q. How do you describe Homeshake sounds?
5- My depression into headphones

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
6- For the last album I went into the studio with my friend Mike and we would record a few songs here or there, scattered between my touring schedule which was extremely busy at the time.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
7- Jerry Paper, EOLA, Andy Boay, Walter TV, The Mild High Club, Brazilian Money, Unblonde, Silk Rhodes

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
8- I really want to find a Madonna song I can cover but covers are hard

Q: What´s the plans for future....
9- Finished a new record coming out spring time, going to play some shows

Q: Any parting words?
10- Thanks for listening!
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http://sinderlyn.com/homeshake-2/
https://homeshake.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-shower

Cigarette in Your Bed with Wildhoney - An Interview

Uma das mais promissoras bandas surgidas no ano passado com o ep Seventeen Forever, debuta agora com seu álbum cheio Sllep Through It que desponta apesar da precocidade do início ainda deste 2015 que promete, como um dos já belíssimos discos lançados no ano.

Uma deliciosa viagem adentrando os caminhos escancarados nos 90´s pelas guitar bands, shoegazers, dreampoppers e todas as possibilidades que aqueles meninos que hoje são referência pra muita gente.

O Wildhoney seduz em sua estreia, vocais cândidos, melodias pegajosas e envolventes, guitarras estridentes em alguns momentos, já em outros hipnóticas e delirantes, um disco daqueles de se ouvir repetidamente por dias.

Numa era que tudo é consumido extremamente rapidamente, o Wildhoney nos brinda com Sleep Through It que tem aquele apelo, aquele charme de se ficar idolatrando durante horas, dias e vai lá saber durante quanto tempo, um álbum sublime.

***** Interview with Wildhoney *****

Q. When did Wildhoney started, tell us about the history...
Wildhoney formed in late 2011, aiming to write pop songs with the energy and malcontent of hardcore punk, but without its entrenched masculinity.

Q: Who are your influences?
Sonically we are influenced by Cocteau Twins,The Wake, Broadcast, Field Mice, Joy Division, Blur, Neu, Medicine, Brian Eno, The Crystals, The Tammys and The Cardigans.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This will just reflect my personal taste
1. Blur - 13
2. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn
3. My Blood Valentine - You Made Me Realise
4. Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
5. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Just always trying to let go, and get lost in the music for that 25 minutes. Shutting everything else out.

Q. How do you describe Wildhoney sounds?
Loud pop music, that is a refection of our collective anxiety.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Recording is a stressful thing when you are doing the basic tracking, but mostly we record live, then add layers later, then finish with vocals. My favorite part is mixing, where everything starts to come together, you can mess with effects, panning, phasing....that to me is where its really interesting and gets very artistic.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended
Romantic States, Boy Spit, Expert Alterations, Smoke Bellow, Crimson Wave, Big Hush, Wume, Bummed, Funeral Advantage, Katherine.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
1. The Cardigans - Rise and Shine
2. Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood
3. The Field Mice - If You Need Someone
4. The Tammy's - Egyptian Shumba
5. Discharge - Drunk With Power

Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Recording a new EP with Gary Olson in NYC, he has recorded Literature, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose and Ladybug Transistor. Full US tour in May/June and hopefully Europe in the Fall, then LP2.

Q. Any parting words?
LP "Sleep Through It" out on Deranged Records/Forward Records Jan 20th! Listen to Ann Peebles LP I Can't Stan The Rain, it rules!
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https://wildhoneysound.bandcamp.com/album/seventeen-forever
https://soundcloud.com/gordon-dufresne/sets/wildhoney
https://www.facebook.com/wildhoneysound

Homesick with Miserable - An Interview

Kristina Esfandiari é a garota por trás do Miserable, e sua estreia o Ep Dog Days é magistal, deslumbrante e coloque o adjetivo que mais lhe for conveniente porque o disco é genial.

Um shoegazer em baixa rotação, nuances de Mazzy Star, MBV e outros tantos poderão servir de guia, mas Kristina criou um ep único, com extrema melancolia as quatro músicas vão adentrando aos poros de forma avassaladora.

Um trabalho grandioso que a credencia como uma das grandes promessas para este 2015. Aguardamos ansiosamente o debute.

***** Interview with Miserable *****

Q. When did Miserable start, tell us about the history.
Miserable started in 2013. I've released a split with Grey Zine and two EPs for Miserable: Halloween Dream and Dog Days. I am currently working on a full length.

http://runforcoverrecords.bandcamp.com/album/miserable-grey-zine-split-7

http://miserablegrl.bandcamp.com/album/dog-days

http://thenativesound.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-dream-ep

Q: Who are your influences?
Bruce Springsteen, Robert Smith, Jason Pierce, Justin Broadrick, James Allen.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
The Cure - Disintegration
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen...
Jesu - Silver
Glasvegas - Euphoric Heartbreak
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Like I finally understand why I am alive.

Q. How do you describe Miserable sounds?
Tragic.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I hear songs in my head and I try to the best of my ability to get these sounds into the recordings. It's challenging but I guess it wouldn't be human otherwise.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Funeral Advantage, Foie Gras & Mother Room.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Glasvegas or Bruce Springsteen.

Q: What´s the plan for the future?
Put out as much music as possible. Hope it sees folks through good and bad days. Travel the world. Share my music with the world.

Q: Any parting words?
Don't let other people tell you who or what you are. Only you can answer that question. You can be whoever the fuck you want to be. Believe in yourself first and others will follow.
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https://miserablegrl.bandcamp.com/album/dog-days
https://www.facebook.com/miserablegrl

Ghost Riders with Frankie Teardrop Dead - An Interview

Algumas coisas acontecem sem maiores explicações, simplesmente acontecem e não há como fugir ou negar. Foi exatamente o que aconteceu durante uma das muitas pesquisas feitas pelo TBTCI dentro do submundo dos bons sons, quando eis que do nada dei de cara com um nome - Frankie Teardrop Dead - simplesmente genial, remetendo a clássica e assustadora canção do Suicide de seu primeiro e essencial álbum. Não teve como eu não me submeter a audição. E o resultado? Chapação!!!

V.U., Suicide, BJM, Spacemen 3, experimentações e acidez permeiam a sonoridade dos caras. Nada oficial ainda lançado, digo ainda porque o debute esta para vir ao mundo, "Better than some, Worse than others" é o nome do que esta por vir. As demos e algumas músicas em vídeos espalhados pela web dão o gostosinho do que vira.

Fritação, piração, ao melhor estilo Anton Newcombe, é muito provável que o debute do Frankie Teardrop Dead torne-se álbum de cabeceira, simplesmente assim, sem maiores explicações, como deve ser.

***** Interview with Frankie Teardrop Dead *****

Q. When did Frankie Teardrop Dead started, tell us about the history...
A. We started back in 2011, with 8 band members, 5 songs and 1 cover... There was no real plans at first, just wanted to play music with some friends, more of a punk approach.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. We try and take influences from everywhere, we listen to a wide range of music from Steve Reich to Spaceman 3. From sounds and lyrics from Roxy Music to drones and beats from Suicide.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
A. Hard to limit ourselves to 5...
Brian Wilson-Smile
The Velvet Underground-Self-titled
Roxy Music-72
John Lennon-Mind Games
Brian Jonestown Massacre-Give it back

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A. Depends what we are on if you know what i mean.

Q. How do you describe Frankie Teardrop Dead sounds?
A. We always say "band music" whenever we get asked that question but that is pretty vague... so sometimes psychedelic, sometimes blues, sometimes shoe-gaze, we always try and experiment with different sounds, not limiting ourselves.

Q. Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
A. Its very free form, always different, most of our songs have come from jams, a real collective effort. We started off in our bedroom in a grim warehouse in North London and have progressed to a nicer warehouse in East London, we record, mix everything ourselves. It could take us a day to record a whole song or could take up to a couple of weeks, every song has been different so far.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended? 

A.We haven't seen many new bands that we really like since we have been gigging but the 2 that always spring to mind are: Orphans and Vandals Colourmasks Both of them very underrated, they deserve more credit.

Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
A.We don't really believe in covers if you have your own songs but when we did first start out we didn't have enough songs for our first gig so we did a cover of a cover... It was "Im Free" by the Soup Dragons, by The Rolling Stones.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. We have our 1st album on vinyl coming out in a few weeks titled "Better than some, Worse than others" released by an independent London based label called "Unit 8 Studios" and we are trying to finish the 2nd album ready to come out in Spring/Summer. Lots of gigs around the UK hopefully and there is talk of touring in France.

Q: Any parting words?
A.Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. Peace
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https://www.facebook.com/frankieteardropdead

Star Power with Later - An Interview

Da Itália vem a one man band sob a alcunha de Later, uma paulada curta, grossa e rápida encharcada de fuzz, distorções, barulheira preguiçosa lo-fi e com um apetite furioso em compor e gravar seus registros, sejam singles, eps, álbuns, o que for, o Later tem uma enorme discografia, toda amparada pelos adjetivos barulhentos que se preza em um lo-fi top.

Mais uma vez a Itália nos brinda com uma beleza. Ótima trilha sonora pra um role de skate.

***** Interview with Later *****

Q. When did Later started, tell us about the history...
1- later is a home solo project.i started recording stuff with this moniker in 1995/96 circa.the idea was and still is to record tunes in the easiest way trying to keep the primal "feeling" of the tunes,regardless of the quality of sounds...or even defacing it.

Q: Who are your influences?
2 - i'm into a lot of music but the ones i believe have changed my mind are surely punk and noise in their various forms from pop to hardcore.. but i also love jazz and thrash metal!

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
3 - (this is the hardest question) so i'd say:

einsturzende neubauten - kollaps
sonic youth - evol my
bloody valentine - loveless
dead kennedys - fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
the cure - pornography

but the list should be of 100 albums at least!

Q. How do you feel playing live?
4 - i've never played live the Later songs.it's a domestic project.i play live with my bands which are St1ven S1gal and Thee Loyal Wankers.

Q. How do you describe Later sounds?
5 - i usually i describe it as "lo-fi pop noise" but i always thought that labels sucks and everyone describe the music the way he feels it and compare with the other sounds he knows.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
}6 - it's very simple! i find a melody or a riff or a noise and then record the rest.it's a very fast process.usually it takes about 15-20 mins to write and record a song,just because i don't take 'em as "songs" but tunes.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
7 - i must be honest: i'm a music archeologist! i'd prefer to search and listen bands backwards in the past than forward.but some new bands i really appreciate are the shoegazers ringo deathstarr and a place to bury strangers...

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
8 - i've recorded a lot of covers,but just for fun! on my bandcamp you can listen something of spacemen 3,sonic youth,guided by voices,ultravox,beatles etc...

Q: What´s the plans for future....
9 - my plans is to keep playing and recording everything i have in mind and put it online for free,as i always did.

Q: Any parting words?
10 - thank you Renato...as my beloved band yatsura sing : "take a stand, make a plan,form a gang, a lo-fi band!" come find me at www.laterplan9.bandcamp.com bye!
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