Let Me Come Into the Storm

Song: ” One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong”

Artist: Harvey Milk

Album: Courtesy And Good Will Toward Men (1997)

…Athens, United States…

This album is heavy, down tuned drone/sludge metal. With epic riffs throughout it comes together sounding sad and pain full but stand back and look at it from afar and you will see all those raw emotions combine and make a beautiful and poignant album.

“One Of Us Cannot be Wrong” is a Leonard Cohen cover, and how well this song fits into the overall structure of the album. Anger, jealousy and frustration this song is raw emotions at its best. The lyrics describe how this women makes a complete mess of a doctor, destroys a holy man’s spirit and freezes an Eskimo, yet Cohen still wanted to “come into the storm”….Wow.

 

We Are The Dollars and Cents, The Pounds and Pence

Song: “Dollars and Cents”

Artist: Radiohead

Album: Amnesiac (2001)

… Oxford, United Kingdom …

Aaahhhh Amnesiac… Kid A’s younger sibling who lurks in the shadows. Peculiar, mystifying and at times perplexing; in the end Amnesiac has been nothing but another remarkable album from Radiohead.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em I personally think Radiohead should always be admired for their constant innovation, something which too many bands these days fail to find.

A track that gets into the issues of materialism, the soulless nature of capitalism and the swines that run it all.

God Hates A Coward

Song: “God Hate A Coward”

Album: Tomahawk

Artist: Tomahawk (2001)

…California, United States…

Tomahawk was the band that Mike Patton said would carry on the legacy of where Faith No More left off. It’s beautifully dark, melodic but my only complaint is that it isn’t entirely fresh sounding. 

What this album did manage to do was cement the genius that is not only Patton but every artist that he chooses to associate himself with. 

I have a number of favorite songs on this album, “God Hates A Coward” is just one of them plus the clip is fantastic.

Its A Big Dark World Now, Its A Big Dark Hell.

Song: Nightgoat

Artist: Fantomas Melvins Big Band

Album: Live from London 2006 (2008)

…Hollywood, United States…

The Fantomas Melvins Big Band – Live in London 2006 DVD flew into my hot little hands yesterday after many painstaking weeks of waiting. So after the days dust had settled and a cold beer was wedged firmly in my hands I sat down to watch this monster growl.

With Buzz Osborne, Dave Lombardo, Trevor Dunn, Dale Crover, David Scott Stone and Mike Patton at the helm you can imagine the beast that unleashed. I mange to catch Fantomas, Fantomas Melvins, Melvins and Tomahawk a few years back and still to this day it is one of the best shows I have ever witnessed.

Predestination Blues

Song: “Predestination Blues”

Artist: Grails

Album: Doomsdayer’s Holiday (2008)

…Portland, United States…

Many have touted this latest offering from Grails as their darkest and heaviest album to date. Stretching out with smokey psychedelic rock, smoldering middle eastern melodies and experimenting with some lounge-bound cosmic jazz, it is definitely their most diverse and edgy album.

While I dont feel like this their best work to date and it is probably their least consistent album there still are a lot of great moments to be had for the listener.

Predestination Blues is just the first track off the album that appealed to me.

Lastfm – http://www.last.fm/music/Grails

Can’t You Feel The Knife?

Song: “Knife”

Artist: Grizzly Bear

Album: Yellow House (2006)

…Hailing from Brooklyn, New York…

Waking this morning with a slightly shriveled, dehydrated brain rattling around in my vast expanse of a skull, I decided I needed a little melody, a little ambiance, a little atmospheric conditioning before I actually got going. So while I showered and tried to wash away last nights beers from my behind my eyes I was embraced with the seductive melodies from this little known band.

Poetic, expansive, opaque sounds filled my bathroom combined with some absolutely mesmerizing vocals. “Knife” is one of my favorite tracks off the album, it deals with backstabbing, cheating and pretty much stringing somebody along.

Check out the youtube clip….its bizarre.

Lastfm – http://www.last.fm/music/Grizzly+Bear