Last week, NC post-pop trio, Youth League, premiered their newest single "Stay Lame" on New Noise Magazine with the announcement of their second EP, Second EP. "Stay Lame" builds on the sound Youth League established on First EP with lots of interesting winding guitar loops building on each other as the song progresses. As the guitar loops pile up, the drums and bass keep a clear rhythm and drive and the vocals are a very melodic cherry on top of an instrumentally rich ice cream sundae. The post-pop tag is fitting as their songs don't follow a very formulaic structure, rather the song has two sections that are completely linear and build up until they reach a peak and then abruptly end.
You can preorder Second EP from Caridgan Records' website where you can also find a pressing of both First EP and Second EP available for preorder.
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Kansas City's Via Luna announced their new record, Wilt, just a couple days ago with this very trippy and spacey promo video. Via Luna shows off their unique post-rock twinkly vibe followed by a cut to some heavier riffage. Keep Via Luna on your radar if you're into bands like Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, toe, or Russian Circles. Check out their two previous EP's as well on their Bandcamp or Spotify.
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Japanese math-rockers Tricot have announced their 3rd full length album, 3, along with a new single, "DeDeDe". Filled with noodly clean guitar riffs and unique grooves underneath the powerful and passionate vocals from Ikumi Nakajima make Tricot one of the more interesting and compelling math-rock groups to come out of Japan.
3 comes out on 5/19 via Topshelf Records. Keep it on your radar if you enjoy female fronted noodly tunes. If you preorder now, Topshelf will give half the sale revenue to The Trevor Project, The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Planned Parenthood. Thanks Topshelf for being dope. FFO: Battles, toe, Faraquet Prog-metal giants, Tool, have recently announced May and June tour dates throughout the northeast US and Canada. These shows are in tandem with headlining the Governor's Ball Music Festival located in New York. Tour dates: 05-24 Fairfax, VA - Eaglebank Arena 05-27 Bangor, ME - Darling's Waterfront Pavilion 05-28 Boston, MA - Boston Calling 05-30 Rochester, NY - Blue Cross Arena 05-31 Hamilton, Ontario - First Ontario Centre 06-02 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre 06-04 New York, NY - Governor's Ball 06-05 Pittsburgh, PA - Petersen Events Center 06-07 Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre 06-08 Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena Recently, Sumerian Records posted this video teasing a new CHON album for this year. If you haven't listened to these math-rock jazzy virtuosos, do yourself a favor and give a listen to their debut album, Grow.
ArcTanGent. Ahh, my dream festival every year. Out of all the lineups of every music festival around the world this festival in particular suits my music pleasures and loves. For those of you unfamiliar with ArcTanGent, it's a music festival dedicated to the technical side of music held every year in Bristol, UK featuring genres of post-rock, math-rock, progressive rock and metal, and experimental rock. The beginning of every year, they slowly start announcing the bands that will be playing and unveils a massive mix of different bands across many different genres that somehow overlap in the end. This year, ArcTanGent's line already is looking quite interesting with post-rock giants, Explosions in the Sky, metalcore band Converge UK native prog-metallers Tesseract and also Japanese math-rock/punk quartet Tricot. The great thing about the mix of genres in one festival is the mix of music scenes that come to the festival. There will be the metal-heads who love to mosh and headbang to the heaviest of breakdowns mixed in with your hipster-esque math-rockers who love to bob their head to the complex time signatures and clap just that much more enthusiastically when the guitars are extra noodly. It will be interesting to see what other bands and genres will be playing at this festival. For some reference on how big this festival gets lineup wise, here's last years lineup: I'm hoping someday I'll be able to get out to the UK to attend ArcTanGent, as it seems to be the only music festival that truly captures my favorite music tastes all in one jam-packed weekend. |
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