So Many Dynamos - (2009) The Loud Wars

sound: Indie/Funk/Progressive
length: 10 songs, 39.9 minutes
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1 Artifacts of Sound
2 Glaciers
3 The Novelty of Haunting
4 New Bones
5 If You Didn’t Want To Know
6 Oh, The Devastation
7 Keep It Simple
8 Friendarmy
9 It’s Gonna Rain
10 The Formula

After discovering this band a couple months back i was instantly hooked. While the musical techniques are not necessarily something completely original to the mathrock or progressive genre, i still feel their delivery is 100% heartfelt, catchy, and completely fascinating. This record is far more electronic, phazers, pedals, so on and so forth then i was expecting. And while half the time on first listen it seemed as though they were trying to emulate the excellence of their previous album Flashlights (which fucking rules by the way and is also on this site) there's gems like the strangely exciting almost progrock of New Bones. I'd say give it a listen though if you like listening to drummers or you enjoyed We Are Scientists latest press Brain Thrust Mastery.



sounds like: the Plastic Constellations, Blood Red Shoes, Fugazi, For the Mathematics

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At The Drive-In - (2000) Relationship of Command

sound: Indie/Funk/Progressive
length: 11 songs, 45.3 minutes
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1. Arc Arsenal
2. Pattern Against User
3. One Armed Scissor
4. Sleepwalk Capsules
5. Invalid Litter Dept.
6. Mannequin Republic
7. Enfilade
8. Rolodex Propaganda
9. Quarantined
10. Cosmonaut
11. Non-Zero Possibility
12. Catacombs

So a few weeks ago I said if you didn't know this band/album by name you needed to walk yourself back to Music Knowledge 101 immediately, and i stand by that. If you don't know this album it's because you have unfortunate taste in music, or someone doesn't love you enough to steer you down the holy and righteous path.
Very strong progressive rock band that folded sometime around 2001, and became Sparta and the Mars Volta. Relationship Of Command was a divulge into electronics that caught some short-lived mainstream attention. First three songs on this album, best songs in ATDI history in my honest opinion. I will say, you might not listen to this album every day but you should appreciate the musicianship, if you have such an ear. With this album listened to:
Now, we accept you one of us.

sounds like: Fugazi, The Plastic Constellation, So Many Dynamos

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