Songs by Piglet

Songs | Piglet

1. Moon Bounce

2. Bicycle Tour America

3. Mad Science

4. Elephant Stomp

5. Tsi Tsi Ki

6. Solo Electric

Instrumental math rock/twinkle chicago band Piglet show off a very well recorded live 6 song release in Songs. This is a really really really good release and I don't really know how to stress that. I'm a fan of instrumental music, but some people may not be into it at all. But Piglet  is that tr0 twinkle/math rock shit so you need to listen to it because it'll make you feel a lot of different feelings. 

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(this isn't really a review more along the lines of a hey go listen to piglet. Sorry i've had reviewer's block lately)

MISSOURI ACOUSTIC ACTS BEAU DIAMOND AND D.C.F.U. ANNOUNCE TOUR

Beau Diamond and Death Cab For Ukulele announce tour

June 23rd - Kansas City @ Art Closet Studios

June 24th -Des Moines @ Witmer Park

June 26th- Springfield @ Nathan P. Murphy's

June 27th - Witchita @ The Donut Whole

Missouri acoustic acts Beau Diamond and Death Cab For Ukulele are heading out on the road for their second tour this summer, and one of the stops is going to be in good ole' Springfield Missouri. Actually my own band, Kaptain Krunch Cidz is going to play the springfield date so that'll be awesome. I met these two when Beau came and played at the OBEC a while ago, and I really digged his acoustic folk jams. He's coming out with a new release soon and I put on an interview with Joshua Milligan, (Death Cab For Ukelele), owner of Waybridge Records, to which both artists are signed. 

Here comes my super professional interview that I did:

This is your second tour? what do you have to offer differently from your first?
Beau has a new album coming up, and I've also been planning my ep (possibly) and a lot of new Waybridge releases

Are you going to be selling other releases from waybridge on the tour?

Yeah dude for sure. Going to just try and spread the Waybridge name / see kick ass people we miss that are in Springfield. (Also we got kick ass stickers)

What stop are you most excited for?

We are definitely pumped about our Springfield date. We have a lot of solid locals on that bill. Kaptain Krunch Cidz was a fun as hell band I did a review for and Charlie was life changing good. But all the dates are going to be rad as hell. The Des Moines show we have Lesbian Poetry playing with us, who is a stud. Along with seeing a shit ton of new land

Is Death Cab Going as just you or are you bringing Kaitlin Rose Evans with you?

Unfortunately it will only be me for right now, and I'll be doing shorter sets still. Kaitlin is the true beauty and talent of DCFU, so hopefully I'll be able to steal her away for our July tour in Illinois.

Oh and Beau is bringing along part of Space Wolf Infinity, CJ Wagner who is an insane percussionist, and just an all around great person. We're really excited to spend five days altogether because he's been working his tail off in the studio and at a new side job he got to help support him/ the band. 
We're really excited for the dynamics a three piece drumset adds as opposed to just beau on the guitar. They actually have a new project called The Collective Dream Band, which once they get a bassist will sound really awesome

Who would win in a fight between you and Beau?

I've got squirrel-like instincts, but Beau has an obscene amount of finger strength. Any other opponent I would demolish, but I'll give it to beau, he'd win

Final Question: If you could have any superpower in the world, what would it be?

I would just want anything that could help change the music industry That's what Waybridge is about honestly.  Like every release I've ever done, I'm a lucky enough guy to get to say "this person is a FRIEND of mine. Not just another product" most of these labels now are like a McDonalds worker with just a "hey, it's just another order up" kind of mentality. I want every release to be a great tune from a great dude (or dudette) that brings something new or cool.  So I guess, wealth? Is that a superpower? Hahah

Well I mean that's batman's superpower, but hey, that's an awesome response. Can't wait to play with you guys again, and to just see you two, You're both great guys!

Beau Diamond's Bandcamp

Beau Diamond's Facebook

Death Cab For Ukelele's Bandcamp

Death Cab For Ukelele's Facebook

Well that wraps that up. 

Burn Down Your Neighborhood by Alpha New Release

Cool band that I and another writer on here are in, we have our release out. We've been told we sound thousandfold better live, so I'd take these demo recordings with a grain of salt, but they are good to base what we sound like off of.
Check em out
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enJoyd by enJoyed

enJoyed|enJoyed

1. Sunrise on io

2. a ghost in a carcass

3. at peace with war

4. loss and why I belong here

5. as small as the universe is large

6. at war with peace

7. the thoughts of the evolved are conditional

8. Persistent bodies

9. the entheogenic element

10. the cheylabinsk meteor

11. (drifting, forever)

12. just outside the limitless expanse

13. the birth of the universe. 

14. faint whispers of another dimension

15. makers of the planetary evolution

New 417 band (ayy that's where I live), enJoyed is an experimental rock noise band, the kind that you get put in a trance listening to. First off, this is a lo-fi release. I'm thinking Shane (Vocals/guitar) recorded it with his phone. But even so, you can still dig what's going on here. Pretty sure enJoyed is a two piece, which I love, and I feel that they pull it off really well. Vocals are minimalistic, and when they do come in, they're just screeches and yelling in the background. Very lo-fi, very cool. Pretty much this entire release is noise, I don't know how else to put it. It's really ambient, the kind of stuff you put on and just listen to and take a nap and have a weird dream. I'm a big fan of this type of music, but i feel like if you don't enjoy experimental music, you probably won't love it. Cool thing about enJoyed, they seem to have no idea what they are doing at some points, but then they come together and it all sounds awesome. If you can get through the lo-fi, check it out.

favorite track: as small as the universe is large (cool vox)

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Lucy by On The Waterfront

Lucy|On The Waterfront

1. Too Many Cookies

2. Polar Bear Tears

Hey d00ds r u ready 2 get down to some easycore music? Yeah I bet. Easycore confuses me, it's got the upbeat-happiness of pop punk but then the anger of hardcore-esq breakdowns. I wouldn't even call them hardcore breakdowns to be honest. How many hardcore band's do you see go half time while the drummer rides a china at quarter notes? Not many, trust me. Anyway, On The Waterfront is an easycore band, along the lines of For the Win, and this two song demo release helps show off what they can do. I would have enjoyed it a little bit if the singer wasn't so obviously autotuned. Production is really good, and everything's got a niceish feel for easycore I guess, but then on the second song, during this slow part, the vocals are just so obviously autotuned. If it turns out they aren't autotuned then I deeply apologize but i mean come on no one sings like that. Of the two songs, the one that's slightly enjoyable is "Too Many Cookies". Anyway, if you're a fan of easycore, (which I'm not), I feel like you would probably enjoy this release. I'm not so clouded by my not love of the genre that I can't see that this is a decent release. Check it out. 

better track of the two: Too Many Cookies.

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Light & Sound|||American Merlin

American Merlin| Light&Sound

trackz:

Let The Wind Blow

Don't Forget To Be Patient

Black Sand

Magic (Science)

Aye

You Had It All Planned Out

Light

The Volume and Tone On That One Tom is Driving Me Crazy

Sound

This Does Not Exist

Light (flood-d remix)

Light & Sound is American Merlin's new release (Waybridge Records). I didn't listen to the other one Adrian reviewed (2303 is what I think it's called) but listening to this gives off that hypnotic vibe as the repetitive electronic beats and lazy vocal melodies. This album doesn't ever climax, but it's cool because it's just chill and sounds like something I'd listen to in my car on a rainy summer morning as I fantasize about drowning my car in the river. 

That being said, Let The Wind Blow has this almost modern-tribal vibe to that beat, it's pretty sweet and I thought I'd say something about it. I like the contrast of styles in each song but how it maintains the same vibes throughout. Like Don't Forget To Be Patient is a nice piano ballad and Black Sand switches to this nice ukulele (I think) tune that reminds me of sitting on a beach in the winter while the snow falls. Magic(Science) comes around with a Postal Service-vibe and I dig it. Aye is a little weird because it just goes into this 8-bit/hiphop groove and it kind of takes away from the total experience. I liked the concept behind "The Volume And Tone Of That One Tom Is Driving Me Crazy" and I also relate to the title because I have one tom on my set that sounds like lasagna being thrown at a wall and I haven't got it replaced yet. All n all, this album is just kind of a relaxer, almost in the drug sense, but minus the drugs. 

Fav track: Black Sand or Let The Wind Blow

Get over it, here.

2303 by American Merlin

2303|American Merlin

1. The Introduction

2. Ajewstic

3. I can't Believe you actually died

4. The Woods

5. Night Light

6. Jazz Bears

7. Upstate

8. Read Eat Sleep

9. Thoth

10. My Throat Hurts

11. Holy Sung

12. The Exit

Newest release off of WayBridge Records, American Merlin is a far reaching lo-fi full length that is so full of genre's and different types of music it left me a little confused as to what was trying to be told by this album. The beginning track starts off with a great little piano instrumental song that sets the mood perfectly, creating some sick imagery. The first half of this release is really lo-fi and acoustic/alternative. Production gets gradually better as the songs progress, but seeing as how the last few songs are electronic ambient songs, they're going to be good production and stuff. Everything about this release is a gradual change into kind of like futuristic music, adding more and more electronic items and stuff, and as I listen to it more and more I realize just how good it all is. With a finishing touch to the release, "The Exit" tops everything off with a similar lo-fi piano outro to the beginning, helping solidify that this release is one that should definitely be checked out. 

favorite track: The Woods

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Ps. Fuck, listen to this entire thing more than once, it gets better and better each time.