Category: Bands/Comps/Splits
Foul Weather Friend Self Titled Album review in Motif
Foul Weather Friend – Self-Titled
Don’t know why, but I didn’t think that I’d like this debut album from Foul Weather Friend as much I do. It was an irrational fear because I run into my pal Bruce Humphrey at every show I’m excited about from here to Boston. We obviously have similar interests. What was I thinking — that Bruce was playing in a one of those country pop bands? In the words of Husker Du, “It makes no sense at all.” I popped in the biscuit and it kicks with a tune, “Halo Moon,” that is so good that I spent three months listening to that on repeat and didn’t bother with the rest of the record (sorry Bruce!). As the title suggests, it is ethereal and not far from a stone’s throw to stuff like The Yawpers with a Stones opening punch like punk rockers mining the roots. Lines like, “We’re so sway by the lunacy around us” sum up these times. I did eventually get to track two, being the responsible journalist that I occasionally am, to “Fences and Walls,” which is impossible to think of without mentioning the orangutan President we are all so lucky to have according to one Twitter account. “Fences and Walls” reminds me of Mathew Sweet fronting a band inspired by mod-era The Who mixed with Psychedelic Furs. “Let It Go” reminds me of the Goo Goo Dolls, before they sucked, as a ballad. It’s not quite Replacements level, but what is? “Girls of Wild Strawberries” sounds like you crushed Nick Lowe and Tommy Keene in a blender and poured the result over ice. “Happy Bubble” is the rocker with runner-up status to “You’re Love Won’t Leave Me Alone.” The closing, “No Use to You Now,” captures the defeated heartbreak of The Replacements with an indie rock swing.
Karma Rocket – Peace and Quiet
75OL-277 Karma Rocket – Peace and Quiet
$7.00 S&H Included
Streaming and digital download available here
Track Listing
1. Persephone
2. Lost It All
3. Creepily
4. Kay
5. Hey Dad
6. That Song
7. Blurry
8. Vulture
9. Stab
10. Legs
11. Hallelujah
75orLess 2018 Summer Sampler
75OL-280 75orLess 2018 Summer Sampler
This is a free download from the label bandcamp page
We hand-stamped and numbered ten cd copies of this comp. If you really want the cd version of this, use the paypal link below
$6.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. Invisible Man – Hey Jim 2:52
2. Plug – Don’t Be Strong (Live in-studio) 2:20
3. Stan – The Stanifesto (June mix) 3:38
4. Jeff the Postman – Tethered 3:11
5. Wrong Way Roger – Amaretto 3:18
6. Mark Cutler – Feeling Good Today 3:17
7. Bendays – Midnight Marge 3:19
8. Gladhouse – Drifting 3:14
9. Jets Can’t Land – Wreckage (Radio edit) 4:46
10. Automono – We, the People are the Plankton 2:15
11. Test Tube – You Gotta Be Nice 1:57
12. Foul Weather Friend – Sully The Mix 3:48
13. Deadlands – Wonderland 3:55
14. Josh Brown & the Blazers – Honorable Mention 1:50
15. Bill Keough – Soul and Fire (Sebadoh) 3:14
16. Jacob Haller – The Weiner Song 1:47
17. Maria Monk – Martin’s Letter 6:36
18. Minky Starshine – Whiskey In A Tea Cup (expl ver) 2:00
19. Hope Anchor – Dead and Gone 3:08
20. Harvey Garbage – Filthy 2:18
21. Gaskill – I Am A Spider 3:11
22. We Own Land – Deserae 4:13
23. The Really Heavy – Punch 3:43
24. Karma Rocket – Stab 3:54
Josh Brown & The Blazers – The Pyrostasis EP
75OL-274 Josh Brown & The Blazers – The Pyrostasis EP
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download and free streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Honorable Mention
2. Shut Up & Go
3. Have A Nice Day
4. Back In The Day
5. Force of Habbit
Recorded by Jacob Berberich in 2017 at NL Studios in Milford, CT. All guitar, drum programming, bass, keyboards, and vocals by Josh Brown.
Gladhouse No One Is My Name
75OL-278 Gladhouse – No One Is My Name
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download and free streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Greetings From Savannah
2. Going Home
3. Invitation to the Dance
4. Slow Down
5. No One Is My Name
6. Still I Wait
7. Cozy Arrangement
8. Trying To
9. A Little Bit Closer
10. Never Came True
11. Never Letting Go
12. (Return) To Eternity
Sick Pills Be My Girl EP
75OL-275 Sick Pills – ‘Be My Girl’ EP
$6.00 S&H Included
Digital download and free streaming is available here
Track Listing
1. Be My Girl 3:09
2. Die For You 3:33
3. Spin Me Round 3:20
4. Killing Moon 3:35
Motif reviews Hope Anchor’s ‘Beautiful Corpses’
Hope Anchor – Beautiful Corpses
I did a half review of this album last fall when I only had access to three songs. I don’t think I did it justice. Jams that have been rocking my world on this biscuit include the primal “Primal Mover,” which just makes me think of the band Magazine Meets Wire on amphetamines. Before it came out, guitarist Terry Linehan warned me this was their goth record, but I grew up on that shit in the ’80s. The creeping “Skeleton Waltz” takes me down some dark hallways of my past; Paul Everett acts like a tour guide, leading you through an extended doom. The guitars on “Xoxosos” jump out like the sunlight hitting you exiting a bar at 6am. The piano outré duet between Everett and Lolita Black’s Scarlett Delgado leaves a haunting touch. One of my favorite local bands, The Lincoln Tunnel, is opening this show. They are great despite the presence of my mortal enemy, Christian Caldarone.
Baylies Band at Alchemy
with Fire for Cavemen, Detroit Rebellion, Jinn Vixx
Alchemy
71 Richmond St
Providence
Early show 7-10pm
Jodie Treloar at The Grange
with Eliot Bronson and John Faraone
The Grange
Broadway
Providence
9pm
Motif Magazine reviews The Lincoln Tunnel Phone This One In
The Lincoln Tunnel – Phone This One In
On their sophomore record, Phone This One In, The Lincoln Tunnel return with a digital box of left-of-the-dial toe tappers. Singer/Guitarist Christian Caldarone and the boys serve up a triple shot of the shake appeal stomp of “Bangkok,” the ’90s indie supersonic grind “Bedroom Eyes,” and the brooding “Kennedy Plaza” alone shows how the band can now expand its palette without sucking. Although I can’t help thinking when listening to the opening “Time’s Wasting,” yeah Caldarone, mine, the rest of the album grooves like the suburbs getting lit on a Friday night. They successfully nail meshing a hillbilly twang with a grunge chorus on “Interstate Interior,” and even their downer Christmas tune isn’t bad. I could have done without the closing “Start a Fire” where I don’t know if Caldarone is lyrically inspired by ’90s techno kings The Prodigy or trying to write another verse to the Billy Joel classic, but the rest of Phone This One In is pretty sweet.