i make music

Well, since this is my blog, I guess this is the most appropriate place for me to debut my music. I've been working hard clicking buttons on my Laptop creating music that is sort of a mixmash of all the sorts of things I connect with. So it sort of ended up being an instrumental, post-rock, shoe-gaze, post-apocalyptic, 80's synth, epic. I'm doing it under the name 'Subsist the Apocalypse', which is ridiculous in all the right ways.

I embedded a flash player for the song at the top of the right hand menu, so throw on some headphones, (really, it plays much better that way) give a listen, and if you want you can come back over to this post and let me know what you think. If you really like it, and want a copy for yourself, I put a download link underneath the flash player. Just copy and paste the link in the address bar and your good to go. I'll keep posting music as I create it, so stay tuned.

Wilderness

This Baltimore band has taken me probably longer then any other to process. When I first heard their debut a few years back I immediately connected with their post-rock influenced sort of experimental/art rock sound, but then the vocals came in. James Johnson's sort of howling talk/singing is not pretty, and I hated it at first, but it can be if you let it, quite moving. There is a raw emotional intensity that exudes out of this group that not many can imitate. Their new album entitled "(k)no(w)here" was created as a companion piece to visual artist Charles Long's installation at this year's Whitney Biennial. I don't know who that is or what that means really, but I plan to find out. The album aside from being one long progression, where each song flows into the next, is basically more of the same. But when you already have a sonic styling that is so uniquely yours, consistently stretching the boundaries of music, why change it? They are truly a band you can't really describe, you just have to listen:


***another blogger pointed me to this video of the Charles Long installation, would have been a great show***

Saxon Shore

"The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore" was the title of the band's last post-rock opus, which definitely caught the attention of many sigur ros, mogwai lovers like myself. A little while back I was told by a friend to check out a new song that they had posted on their myspace page called "This Place". Apparently they are very close to releasing their new album which will be called "It Doesn't Matter" and if "This Place" is any indication its gonna be one to look out for. If for no other reason you should listen to "This Place" because it is first time Saxon Shore has added vocals to the mix, which are beautifully voiced by someone named Caroline (don't know her last name as of now). As far as I know this may be the only song on the album to include a singer, but I for one hope its not the last. Listen here