Is Kaddisfly Back!?

Kaddisfly broke my heart when they announced their haitus and went onto create a rather uninspired musical endeavor called Water & Bodies. It turns out that Kaddisfly have just posted two new demos right here, and they both sound awesome. Surprisingly, it sounds a lot like their older material from Did You Know People Can Fly?. Is this a hint at their return?! I sure hope so.

500 Days of Summer

It wouldn't be surprising to say that I could relate to this movie, because this movie can easily relate to just about everybody. The movie's affective in the sense that the couple in the movie are realistic, and the things that happen are realistic, and it makes you dawn on the unfortunate realistic things that have happened in your past relationships. I'm not entirely sure if the film just made me more pessimistic and faithless than I already am, or if I should take optimism out of it. Will I ever find anyone again? Will it be worth it, considering the pain that will inevitably come out of it? These are questions that are constantly revolving in any lonely person's head, and this movie almost seems to answer them vaguely.

Despite 500 Days of Summer being rather humorous, it overall just really destroyed my emotions, and continues to push on the thoughts I've been having that nothing happens for a reason. The film also does an amazing job of metaphorically displaying how one feels in a relationship, if it's the highs or the lows. The soundtrack is very good due to the fact that there are multiple Regina Spektor songs in the mix. I also noticed an ISIS poster in the movie. Random but cool.

Last but not least: Zooey Deschanel is so outrageously cute here, I can't even.

Wherein There is PC problems...

The 4th edition of Rabbit Hole Music's Wherein There is Much Discussion of Media Enjoyed This Past Fortnight is FINALLY up. We had some computer difficulties, but Benjamin Rice managed to finally get his shit in gear and overcome small obstacles and post the goddamn article. ;)

This week (or passed two) I've been listening to Rosetta's Wake/Lift a lot (as well as dredg, as you can see two posts ago). If you're too lazy to click the link to check out what everyone else has been jamming, here's my lone submission for the incredible opus that is Wake/Lift:

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Metal for astronauts. That may be the perfect three word, six syllable description for Rosetta's sound. The themes are even astronaut and space travel based, but musically, Rosetta are one of the best bands for painting celestial and astrological images in your head with their music.

Most people seem to prefer The Galilean Satellites, Rosetta's debut LP, over their sophomore effort Wake/Lift. Sure, The Galilean Satellites is a superb record and a very strong debut for the band. Maybe it's Wake/Lift's ethereal and overly atmospheric qualities that make it so special to me. The brute force is hidden in the back, along with the vocals, and the mix is analog, giving it a unique yet classic feel. The songs are astonishingly powerful and moving. "Red in Tooth and Claw," over a short period of time, has already become one of my favorite songs of all time. The song in itself is a musical voyage within a larger journey throughout the 65 minutes.

The “Lift” trilogy following the masterpiece of an opener shows diversity within the three parts. The bass grooves fading into part 2's ambiance sends shivers down the spine, until the bass comes back in for the beginning of the emotional conclusion of "Lift," which finally showcases a bit of the band’s sludgy characteristics at the very end.

"Wake" is the song that easily showcases the album’s overall sound, with building grooves, pummeling crescendos, spacious intertwining guitars, and weighty riffs. "Temet Nosce" brings the album way down, in a good way, with 14 minutes of trance-inducing ambience. The song is so effective, at times you forget who and what you're listening to. It's almost like it completely engulfs anything that's happened before it and you forget you're listening to Rosetta. Absolutely mesmerizing track.

After the airy and ambient "Temet Nosce" has put you in a dream world of weightlessness, suddenly the finale "Monument" slams into the ears with a crushing doom introduction. The climax of the song, after what seems to be an endlessly beautiful build-up, feels extra rewarding with the final seconds of twinkly playful guitars wrapping up a massive closer to a massive album.

In the past two weeks I have listened to Wake/Lift quite a few times and I still think if someone were to ask me "Galilean Satellites or Wake/Lift?" I'd have to respond with “WAKE AND BE WHOLE, LIFT AND BE GONE, motherfucker!”

Anticipated Release: Eluvium | Similes

Looking ahead to the year 2010, it's gearing up to be quite an amazing 365 days in music. I'll save the details why for a future post at the end of this year. However, since Eluvium's Similes has the first confirmed release date for February 23rd, here we have my first anticipated release of 2010 for the blog. The record is stated to have percussion and vocals, which is a first for Eluvium. Can Similes surpass the fantastic Copia? I have faith.

1. Leaves Eclipse the Light
2. The Motion Makes Me Last
3. In Culmination
4. Weird Creatures
5. Nightmare 5
6. Making Up Minds
7. Bending Dream
8. Cease to Know

dredg

This passed two weeks I re-purchased a copy of Tool's Lateralus (for the third time), as well as El Cielo by dredg. These two albums are my 'masterpieces'. I live and breathe these two CDs. It might be a lot to say that these albums changed my life in any form, but they definitely did and still do have a part in forming my character, and are the reason I am so passionate about music in general.

I will keep this rather short and possibly have separate blog posts about each said album at another time, but this particular blog post is about dredg, arguably my favorite band of all time.

The passed three days I have been binging on the records this band has put out. I have now done this an uncountable amount of times, besides just attempting to overplay each of their cds as they're released. I've recently been falling asleep to playlists of the records on shuffle, as well as driving in the car blaring the albums back to back. I've done this now roughly a hundred times.

My point is, I've heard each of these songs so many countless times, again and again over the years, yet still after each few months pass, I get the urge to do it all over again. Each time, the songs affect me just as much as they always have, rediscovering them each time, even though I've known them all so well.

Even after the unheard of amount of spins, I can still find things that were subconsciously noticeable yet have to think about what I just heard to realize and continuously appreciate the depth of the band. I still find new meanings in the subtle phrases and lyrics. I still notice tie-ins with the concepts of each record and how they can relate to not only the person who wrote them, but you and everyone else.

I still find amazement in the diversity, constantly rearranging my feelings and emotions with each different song, yet fully enjoying it despite its' mood.

Bottom line, my adoration for dredg forces me to ask you to listen to this band, if you somehow haven't already. This is a short summary of my feelings on dredg. If you were to ask me to write a 8 page thesis paper, I could probably bang that out as well.

So listen to this band. If you somehow haven't already.

/fanboyism.

Modern Warfare 2

Today the most anticipated game of the decade has come out. Have you bought it yet?

New 'This Fortnight'! 11/5/09

Head on over to the Rabbit Hole to check this weeks' submissions for the third edition of 'Wherein There Is Much Discussion of Media Enjoyed This Passed Fortnight.' Inside you'll also see the long awaited submission for the one and only Matthew Dyess, formerly known as that fucking asshole who gave everyone problems at DecoyMusic years ago. You'll also see my fanboyish write up for Jakob's Solace...but can you blame me?