i've been listening to Mouthus' Snow Globes for the past couple months, and i really, really like it. i love the rhythms they do. i haven't heard The Long Salt yet, but i will definitely check it out.

Oh yeah...you definitely need to check out The Long Salt. Although I like Slow Globes, I found this one to be far more rewarding.

On another note, any of you all going to see Wolf Eyes this tour? They're playing in Chattanooga on Oct. 18th so I'm thinking of going to that one. I saw them in the ATL last year and it was the single best show I saw in 2005.

i will definitely check it out. thanks for the recommendation.

I just heard a bunch of pieces from Broken Deer's Displaced Field Recordings. This album incredible! It will definitely break the top 5 of my year end list if not the number one spot. This may be preliminary gush but I think this album is insanely good.

I also just got Major Organ and the Adding Machine which is pretty good hyper experimentalism from the Elephant 6. Anyone heard of it have opinions?

also was wondering if anyone had heard the new OOIOO.

(Waiting on an order of The Long Salt)

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I just heard a bunch of pieces from Broken Deer's Displaced Field Recordings. This album incredible! It will definitely break the top 5 of my year end list if not the number one spot. This may be preliminary gush but I think this album is insanely good

Can you take a stab at trying to describe it a little for me? Your gushing has made me highly curious.

has anyone heard of christopher willits?

http://www.myspace.com/christopherwillits

he has a new album coming out in a week, and it looks pretty promising. he's got a great way of processing guitar that always makes me wonder how he did that, and i'm excited to see if he can put together a solid album's worth of music with those great sounds.

Hmm..

From what i've heard it is an incredibly Lo Fi bedroom venture with a lot found sound sampling. It has a real dirty sound to it and breaks in and out of melodies. It has an air of drone to it but could properly be labeled experimental folk. You will probably have to correct this description once you listen to it. The cd is a single 40+ minute track which the main author, Lindsay Dob..something, sings on occasional that sounds a little haunting, almost like coco rosie but not quite so grating. There is some of The Books in there and Kallikak Family (which if you don't have already you should) and thats about all I can describe. I have an order being sent. You can listen to a selection on Myspace and 3 3 minute samples on the albums review on CokeMachineGlow.com.

Have you heard the new Tim Hecker?

I also looked up Geoff Mullens today on boomkat and was extremely impressed by what I heard.

Anyway, tell me what you think.

The new Tim Hecker record, Harmony in Ultraviolet is probably his best record yet. I've had a promo copy of it for about a month and it is definitely in my top five releases of the year so far. Totally incredible.

I have one Geoff Mullen record called thrtsxtrllnmnfstsns which came out this year on Keith Fullerton Whitman's Entschuldigen label. He has another one that came out this year too called The Air in Pieces which is somewhat different but also very good.

Oh and I wrote a review for the Tim Hecker which ran last week on DOA if you want to check it out. Not to pimp my reviews here or anything but since you were asking.....

I know this is going to sound retarded but I am pretty dissappointed at the high score awarded Ultraviolet on PFrk.

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I know this is going to sound retarded but I am pretty dissappointed at the high score awarded Ultraviolet on PFrk

This baffles me. Please explain....
As I stated previously, I'm a big fan of Hecker and his work and I found this to be one of, if not his absolute finest moment.

yeah its retarded, I know. I'm still trying to kick some supressed elitism and building disdain for The Fork.

The score is completely deserved. The album as I have heard it is a revelation. Incredible album.

I could go on all day about the various problems I have with Pitchforkmedia and its writers.....but there's already a thread here about that.

Hey JB,

Have you heard Birchville Cat Motel's release called Curved Surface Destroyer? Do you have any favourites in their/his catalog? I looks to extensive to wade through.

I only have one Birchville Cat Motel record, Siberian Earth Curve. I really like it. There is a Yellow Swans/Birchville Cat Motel split or collaborative thingy coming out 11/28/06/.

By the way, I also started Soulseeking and found an abundance of nice things, but at the same time it is extremely time consuming. I downloaded some of the out-of-print Double Leopards stuff. The nice thing is that in November there are reissues of Halve Maen and Over One Through One And To One coming out.

Ohhhh....sorry to double post but since you mentioned Birchville Cat Motel, I wanted to bring up some other stuff. Are you into Skullflower at all Sicnarf? His new record, Tribulation is one of the harshest records I've heard this year. Some of the Skullflower material is similar to Birchville, being of the extreme noise/drone variety. The one I just mentioned is far more similar to Merzbow though, being of the blackest ear-piercing variety of noise.

Something else I've thought is strange too....Birchville Cat Motel is Campbell Kneale, but in Vibracathedral Orchestra and some other European drone acts there is a guy named Neil Campbell. I've often wondered whether the name was a trick and they are the same person. I could be totally wrong though.

I don't know anything about the Campbell (k)ne(a/i)l(e) conspiracy. I don't really know about Vibracathedral Orchestra in the first place which is probably to my detriment.

I have only heard of Skullflower in passing. I feel like I'm drowning in music on my waying list right now. I can't find any good clips or reviews of it either. My current list of needed releases reads as follows:

Geoff Mullen - Thrtysxtrllnmnfstns
Mouthus – The Long Salt
Adem – Love and Other Planets
OOIOO – Taiga
Wolf Eyes – Human Animal
Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Blood Brothers – Young Machetes
Mastadon – Blood Mountain
Kid Koala –You Mom’s Favourite DJ
Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet
Max Richter – Songs From Before
Joseph Arthur – Nuclear Daydream
Cloudland Canyon –
Residual Echoes – MFI GBSP
Yellow Swans –
Sunn O))) – Black One
Ekkehard Ehlers – A Life Without Fear
Dwayne Sodahberk – Cut Open
Steve Reich – Different Trains Piano Phase

I don't know how I'm going to get to them right now because I'm trying to open a local venue/gallery.

So what's your take on Mastodon? I have tried repeatedly to give them a chance. All of their records have at least one super-awesome track or two and the rest just don't do anything for me. On Leviathan especially, I loved the first track but then after that, the rest of the record reminded me a little too much of Hatebreed with the gang vocals and all. I'm trying to give Blood Mountain a few spins before throwing in the towel.

Yeah, Mastodon really isn't that great but as a token metal band they workout for me. I have never really listened to a lot of metal so I don't have a lot of comparisons. I'm much more inclined towards the Hardcore side of heavy guitar music. Every once in awhile I get a metal itch and go to Leviathan and satisfied. I am really questioning the need for Blood Mountain in my library for that very reason. I think that while they are technically proficient that they do have some work to do in making a significantly different riff and vocals from song to song. It is just metal pop really and I have been guilty of pop relief every now and again.

I'm pretty into metal. I grew up listening to Metallica, Slayer, and Black Sabbath in the 80's when I was very young. When I was in high school in the mid-90's aside from being into indie rock and hardcore/punk, I started listening to black metal, death metal, doom, and just about anything else I could get my hands on. Generally I find that although metal and noise are different genres that they share a common thread. I would highly recommend checking out some of the mid-period Emperor albums such as Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk or In the Nightside Eclipse (which is one of my all time favorite metal records alongside Slayer's Reign in Blood of course).