For more than 20 years, Baltimore’s Lungfish released albums featuring their own flavor of posthardcore via the Dischord Records label. Well, Dischord recently reissued the band’s long-out-of-print eighth record, The Unanimous Hour, recorded at Inner Ear Studios, and mixed by Lungfish and Ian MacKaye. Here is side one, track one. Listen.
Lungfish remains “quasi if not entirely defunct.” Band members Daniel Higgs and Asa Osborne have embarked on solo careers. Higgs has recently been working with The Skull Defekts, and Osborne solo work is being released under the name, Zomes. Listen.
Baltimore artpunkers Thank You have a new album entitled Golden Worry coming out on January 25th via the Thrill Jockey label. In order to create their unique sound, Thank You blend up the sounds of krautrock, postpunk, no wave, noise, dub, ambient and a bunch of other genres I simply don’t have time to list. Listen.
It’s time to listen to the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are some of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS, if I only had the time. This mix starts out with a party jam and ends all indie rock. Listen.
And if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers (or your local independent record store):
Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.
q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?
a: Shea Stadium, on Meadow street in Brooklyn. My cousin Adam Reich is one of the people running the place, and he’s also the main sound guy. Strong family vibes in there.
Honorable mentions (if only because I am not related to these people, not for any lesser amount of love): death by audio, silent barn, market hotel, and the meat wallet… Basically my friends’ places. What makes the brooklyn underground music scene so good is its infrastructure, which is largely due to the people who run the venues.
q: OK, President Obama appoints you as the first Secretary of Culture, to whom do you give your first grant?
q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?
a: There is currently a new GDFX album in the works, which will be my first official release through a record label (the name of which I will not yet divulge) other than my own (Infinite Limbs/INFL). Thematic content inclusive of: collective consciousness, telepathy, the Morgenheutegesternwelt, the use of occult/otherwise esoteric meditation techniques, certain sub- and/or super-liminal resonant frequencies, the use of polyrhythms, drone, etc, states of trance, ecstasy, and what are sometimes referred to as “alternate realities”… Stepping outside of time as we experience it normally, to gain perspective and realize that we are one with all that is, beyond the current limits of our perception. Along the lines of reading a Dr. Bronner’s bottle while you’re in the shower- A soundtrack for the remote viewing of the void, visiting other parts of the galaxy and beyond, communicating with extraterrestrials, etc, if you will. A finger pointing to the moon, so to speak
It’s gonna be a banger.
[The following mp3] is totally in the demo stage- but it should give an idea of what some of this will sound like-
You can download the rest of the recording, riding the tiger: good fortune and great success in 2010 and beyond (live on wfmu) for free @ Free Music Archive.
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