Notes from Left of the Dial: July 4

Released August 5, 2014.

Digital: bit.ly/1mYsqJ2 
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/television-man

Naomi Punk // Firehose Face

"Dust" by Destruction Unit

Download the track for FREE at adultswim.com/singles beginning June 23.


Destruction Unit - Dust

Release Date: August 12
Bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Label: S/R
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"Ferrill Gibbs’ new album, "Significant Trees", is “The most interesting album to emerge from Mobile in a very long time.”

Amassed and performed by engineers, producers, and players who’ve graced the music of artists such as of Montreal, REM, Brantley Gilbert, Jennifer Nettles, Sonic Youth, The Allman Brothers Band and Government Mule just to name a few, in the end, the sum became equal to the parts. The players would agree when it was over: they’d made “magic.”

Ferrill Gibbs had a renaissance of songwriting following the completion of his first solo album in 2010, in which songs popped from him one by one in near-complete fashion. Three years later, he would handpick the band to record the 12 songs at Studio 1093 in Athens, GA.

Significant Trees soars to heights and plunges to lows as it interweaves between the topics of sickness, joy, spirituality, loss, and hope, and is carried to grave extremes – although delicately - by the preeminent jazz and fusion of Athens, GA’s heralded Kenosha Kid.  

The album begins lamblike with The Happy Ones: the hypnotic roll of a kick and a brush sweeping against a snare and from there begins a song that sets the stage, bringing images so cinematic and visual that it seems like it was made for a movie. 

Before the song fades, in comes the expert fiddling of Andy Carlson, arranger of strings for REM’s "New Adventures in Hi Fi", and this is representative of the entire album really: each song is surprising and building and climaxing, each trying to outdo the next. So when you hear the cacophonous but controlled second track, “Roses,” and the blistering third, “Blitzkrieg,” you know that this album is not at all what it first appeared; that each song rises psychedelically and cinematically to the last effect-laden reverberation of the final track, “Overlooking A Horse.” At which point, you’ve come to understand its ambition.

Significant Trees is available at www.ferrillgibbs.com on hardcopy and will be available on iTunes and Amazon on August 12th. 


Ferrill Gibbs - "The Happy Ones"

EULA - "Orderly" / "Meadows"
Bloodmoss Records 
Street Date: July 15th, 2014

Pre-order: bloodmossrecords.limitedrun.com/products/528587-eula-orderly-meadows-7-pre-order

On July 15th, Brooklyn’s EULA will release their latest single “Orderly” b/w “Meadows” on Bloodmoss Records. Recorded by legendary producer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans), EULA’s angular, aggressive sound has reached their grandest scale yet. The merging of Alyse Lamb’s guttural wails with the band’s clashing guitars, deep rumbling bass, and booming backbeat-heavy drums is as chaotic as it is meditative. Bisi’s focus on layers and textures is apparent here as he pulls back Alyse’s haunting vocals just enough for the grimy feedback to have as much of an impact in all the heaviness.

Website: www.eulamusic.com
Bandcamp: www.eula.bandcamp.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/eulamusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/EULAMUSIC

EULA - Meadows

Blood Sister - EP
Bloodmoss Records
Street Date: September 30th, 2014

Pre-order: http://bit.ly/BloodSister

Blood Sister is back with their heady brand of blown-out rippers. Ezana Edwards, formerly of Brooklyn act Night Manager, relocated to San Francisco after the band parted ways and initially started jamming with members of Bay Area mainstays such as Ganglians, The Mallard, and Warm Soda for early Blood Sister shows.

Edwards, who handles guitar/vocals, enlisted Vanessa Robinson on bass, Syam Zapalowski on guitar/synthesizer, and K. Dylan Edrich (ex-The Mallard) on drums to complete Blood Sister’s current live band. On his new self-titled EP for Bloodmoss Records, Edwards wrote and recorded all of the songs himself using a variety of studios and techniques that were vital for its completion.

Blood Sister has and will always be as loud as possible, and the dynamic song structures, screeching guitars, and surging blasts this time around don’t just make up songs, they make up a machine. And it’s a vicious one.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/BL00DSISTER
Twitter: www.twitter.com/bl00dsister
Bandcamp: www.bloodsister.bandcamp.com
Tumblr: www.blood--sister.tumblr.com

Blood Sister - Paralysis

Blood Sister - EP
Bloodmoss Records
Street Date: September 30th, 2014

Pre-order: bit.ly/BloodSister

Blood Sister is back with their heady brand of blown-out rippers. Ezana Edwards, formerly of Brooklyn act Night Manager, relocated to San Francisco after the band parted ways and initially started jamming with members of Bay Area mainstays such as Ganglians, The Mallard, and Warm Soda for early Blood Sister shows.

Edwards, who handles guitar/vocals, enlisted Vanessa Robinson on bass, Syam Zapalowski on guitar/synthesizer, and K. Dylan Edrich (ex-The Mallard) on drums to complete Blood Sister’s current live band. On his new self-titled EP for Bloodmoss Records, Edwards wrote and recorded all of the songs himself using a variety of studios and techniques that were vital for its completion.

Blood Sister has and will always be as loud as possible, and the dynamic song structures, screeching guitars, and surging blasts this time around don’t just make up songs, they make up a machine. And it’s a vicious one.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/BL00DSISTER
Twitter: www.twitter.com/bl00dsister
Bandcamp: www.bloodsister.bandcamp.com
Tumblr: www.blood--sister.tumblr.com

Blood Sister - Ghost Twin

Jackson Scott - Sunshine Redux
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: April 28th, 2015

Pre-order (CD/LP): bit.ly/SunshineRedux
Pre-order (iTunes): hyperurl.co/SunshineRedux

Out of the modern musical abyss comes Jackson Scott, a 22-year-old artist living in Asheville, NC. Finding pure metaphysical euphoria within the depths of cassette recorders and guitar pedals, he enjoys the simple things in life such as playing music with friends and falling into existential voids. After touring extensively for his debut album Melbourne in 2013, Jackson returned home to record an album that he could listen to in absolutely any negative or positive state of mind.

His second album Sunshine Redux is a translation of this paradoxical psyche, a kaleidoscope of sounds ranging from 60’s flower power to 90’s hip-hop production techniques. Veering from nihilistic punk rock explosions to gentle sonic nightmares, it is his most cohesive musical undertaking yet.

Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1yZsm04
Tumblr: http://jollyyjackk.tumblr.com

Jackson Scott - "Pacify" (Official Single)

Jackson Scott - Sunshine Redux
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: April 28th, 2015

Pre-order (CD/LP): bit.ly/SunshineRedux
Pre-order (iTunes): hyperurl.co/SunshineRedux

Out of the modern musical abyss comes Jackson Scott, a 22-year-old artist living in Asheville, NC. Finding pure metaphysical euphoria within the depths of cassette recorders and guitar pedals, he enjoys the simple things in life such as playing music with friends and falling into existential voids. After touring extensively for his debut album Melbourne in 2013, Jackson returned home to record an album that he could listen to in absolutely any negative or positive state of mind.

His second album Sunshine Redux is a translation of this paradoxical psyche, a kaleidoscope of sounds ranging from 60’s flower power to 90’s hip-hop production techniques. Veering from nihilistic punk rock explosions to gentle sonic nightmares, it is his most cohesive musical undertaking yet.

Facebook: on.fb.me/1yZsm04
Tumblr: www.jollyyjackk.tumblr.com

Jackson Scott - "PRPLMTV" (Official Single)

Black Baron - Abject Skin
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: May 26th, 2015

Pre-order (LP): http://bit.ly/AbjectSkin
Pre-order (iTunes): hyperurl.co/Abject-Skin

There’s an intoxicating feeling inside Hamilton, Ontario, and Black Baron has managed to distill the essence of that feeling into a potent brew. In the same way that the films of David Lynch are sewn together from the fabric that holds together dreams, Black Baron creates songs from the fabric of Hamilton. While the local hardcore scene has been cutting records reminiscent of the city’s steel mills since the early 1990’s, Black Baron, a band comprised of some of the city’s hardcore elite, creates the soundtrack to a different side of the city. 

Unlike the punishing steelfucker sound of Hamilton hardcore, Black Baron’s music is rooted in a deep sense of melancholy, one that does not seek destruction, but rather seeps its way into the collective consciousness following the potentiality of destruction or abandonment. Coming from a city devastated by economic decline following the shrinking of its industrial sector, Black Baron evokes the haunting memory of the closure and loss of Hamilton landmarks at a time when the city appears to be on a cultural upswing.

To ascribe a genre stamp to Black Baron’s music feels like sacrilege. While on paper the band’s sound could loosely be described as post-punk, the dreamy, nearly aquatic tones, dazzling riffage, and unabashed lyrical melodrama add dynamic elements to their sound that are typically missing from that of their peers. The band’s debut full-length album Abject Skin, which is chock full of new material along with refined versions of tracks taken from their 2013 tape Divine Chains, is a representation of a band sticking to their hometown roots all while carving their own vicious path.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Baron/621429027936803
Bandcamp: www.blackbaron.bandcamp.com

Black Baron - "Fluorescent Light" (Official Single)

Black Baron - Abject Skin
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: May 26th, 2015

Pre-order (LP): bit.ly/AbjectSkin
Pre-order (iTunes): hyperurl.co/Abject-Skin

There’s an intoxicating feeling inside Hamilton, Ontario, and Black Baron has managed to distill the essence of that feeling into a potent brew. In the same way that the films of David Lynch are sewn together from the fabric that holds together dreams, Black Baron creates songs from the fabric of Hamilton. While the local hardcore scene has been cutting records reminiscent of the city’s steel mills since the early 1990’s, Black Baron, a band comprised of some of the city’s hardcore elite, creates the soundtrack to a different side of the city.

Unlike the punishing steelfucker sound of Hamilton hardcore, Black Baron’s music is rooted in a deep sense of melancholy, one that does not seek destruction, but rather seeps its way into the collective consciousness following the potentiality of destruction or abandonment. Coming from a city devastated by economic decline following the shrinking of its industrial sector, Black Baron evokes the haunting memory of the closure and loss of Hamilton landmarks at a time when the city appears to be on a cultural upswing.

To ascribe a genre stamp to Black Baron’s music feels like sacrilege. While on paper the band’s sound could loosely be described as post-punk, the dreamy, nearly aquatic tones, dazzling riffage, and unabashed lyrical melodrama add dynamic elements to their sound that are typically missing from that of their peers. The band’s debut full-length album Abject Skin, which is chock full of new material along with refined versions of tracks taken from their 2013 tape Divine Chains, is a representation of a band sticking to their hometown roots all while carving their own vicious path.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Baron/621429027936803
Bandcamp: www.blackbaron.bandcamp.com

Black Baron - "Twisted Fate" (Official Single)

Jackson Scott - Sunshine Redux
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: April 28th, 2015

Pre-order (CD/LP): bit.ly/SunshineRedux
Pre-order (iTunes): hyperurl.co/SunshineRedux

Out of the modern musical abyss comes Jackson Scott, a 22-year-old artist living in Asheville, NC. Finding pure metaphysical euphoria within the depths of cassette recorders and guitar pedals, he enjoys the simple things in life such as playing music with friends and falling into existential voids. After touring extensively for his debut album Melbourne in 2013, Jackson returned home to record an album that he could listen to in absolutely any negative or positive state of mind.

His second album Sunshine Redux is a translation of this paradoxical psyche, a kaleidoscope of sounds ranging from 60’s flower power to 90’s hip-hop production techniques. Veering from nihilistic punk rock explosions to gentle sonic nightmares, it is his most cohesive musical undertaking yet.

Facebook: on.fb.me/1yZsm04
Twitter: twitter.com/JXNSCT
Tumblr: http://jollyyjackk.tumblr.com

Jackson Scott - "Ripe for Love" (Official Single)

Black Baron - "Watch Me Sleep" (Official Single)

Future Death - Cryptids EP
Bloodmoss Records
Release Date: June 23rd, 2015

Pre-order (Bloodmoss): bit.ly/FutureDeath-Cryptids
Pre-order (iTunes): hyperurl.co/Cryptids-EP

With just two years of activity, Austin-based space punk band Future Death have kept busy. They released their first single in July 2013, and their debut self-titled EP was released in October of that year. After many regional tours and countless local shows, they released their debut full-length album Special Victim in May 2014 on Portland's Bloodmoss Records, garnering attention from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Noisey, and more. The album was followed by extensive national tours in 2014 and 2015 with Texas bands This Will Destroy You and Boyfrndz. The band and their music was also featured in the upcoming indie slasher film Night of the Babysitter (2015).

Future Death’s upcoming EP titled Cryptids on Bloodmoss sees the band incorporating more in-studio recording techniques with a broader sound and lush synthesizer work from vocalist Angie Kang, as well as fluid and cohesive track transitions. Listeners will hear an array of progressive instrumental work propelled by gospel-influenced chops and melodies.

The EP is intended to be listened to from beginning to end.

Website: www.futuredeathband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/futuredeathband
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Future_Death
Bandcamp: www.futuredeath.bandcamp.com

EULA - Meadows

Bloodmoss Records

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