Plateau - Nirvana/ Meat Puppets(Slowed+Reverb)

A rough cover of "Tough Guy" off of the Beastie Boys' 1994 album Ill Communication.

Tough Guy (Beastie Boys Cover)

AUSMUTEANTS - Freedom Of Information
Order Of Operation LP
AARGHT032
Release Date: 10 October 2014

AUSMUTEANTS started life in late 2011 in Geelong by Jake Robertson and Billy Gardner. Both had been playing since teenagers in trad garage bands The Frowning Clouds (Jake) and The Living Eyes (Billy). Being good looking rebels who play by their own rules, they cracked the shits, broke loose with just a synth and drums and in early 2012, knocked out the 'Split Personalities' tape. By the time that was out they'd added Melbourne loose-unit Marc Dean on bass, and soon after, ex-Canberran hardcore non-guitarist Shaun Connor on guitar.

Their second album 'Amusements' (note: not self-titled) came from this fledgling time as a full band, with a heavy dose of the duo’s songs. Since the runaway international success of that record and playing every second weekend in Melbourne, they’re rocked-out full-tilt with all four members writing and singing new songs. 23 of these were recorded live with vocal overdubs in the basement of an old Geelong ice cream factory by Mikey Young, then mixed and mastered in his idyllic coastal abode. Again the band and their Australian label Aarght Records strained the friendship with song picks, agreeing on 13 to make up 'Order of Operation'.

This record is better than Amusements any way you cut it: songs, lyrics, delivery and sound. The album opens up with Shaun’s forehead- and thigh-slapping musical and lyrical debut, "Freedom of Information". His girlfriend is suffering the indignity with panache. From there, songs range from balls-to-the-wall punkers ("Felix Tried to Kill Himself"; "Boiling Point"), well-considered workouts ("Family Time"; "Tunnel Vision") and unguarded tenderness ("Wrong"; "Looney Bin").

It's not just the band and label singing the album’s praises; it's the people who couldn't stand their juvenile bullshit before. They’ve ditched the toilet humour, got nasty and written songs about other people’s problems, terrible bands, fighting crime and trading sex for porn. Mikey after a vocal take: “You deserve to be bashed for that” (the song’s on the record; you guess which one).

'Order of Operation' is now their defining moment. If you don't like this record, you pretty much won't ever like Ausmuteants.

Order Of Operation Tracklist
1. Freedom Of Information
2. We're Cops
3. Family Time
4. Stadiums
5. Publicity Stunts
6. Wrong
7. Felix Tried To Kill Himself
8. Tunnel Vision
9. Looney Bin
10. 1982
11. Not Whole
12. Boiling Point
13. Depersonalisation

US TOUR DATES
Sat 9/20 - Tempe, AZ @ 51west w/ Detached Objects, Womb Tomb, Blanche Beach
Tues 9/23 - Austin, TX @ Beerland
Wed 9/24 - New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar w/ Buck Biloxi and the Fucks
Thurs 9/25 - Memphis, TN @ GONERFEST 11 w/ Grifters, Radioactivity, So Cow, Golden Pelicans, Ross Johnson's 'Like Flies On Sherbert' Revue
Fri 9/26 - Louisville, KY @ Cropped Out Fest
Mon 9/29 - Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse
Tues 9/30 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's w/ Dan'l Boone, Lantern
Wed 10/1 - Boston, MA @ Midway Cafe
Thurs 10/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio
Sat 10/4 - Detroit, MI @ PJ's Lager House w/ Odonis Odonis
Sun 10/5 - Chicago, IL @ The Owl
Mon 10/6 - St. Louis, MO @ Melt w/ Lumpy & the Dumpers
Tues 10/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ Hexagon w/ Real Numbers
Fri 10/10 - Portland, OR @ Dante's w/ King Khan & BBQ Show
Sat 10/11 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile w/ King Khan & BBQ Show
Wed 10/15 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
Fri 10/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell

AUSMUTEANTS - Freedom Of Information

Trackside Daze was written by The Gooch Palms and recorded while the duo had a couple of days off on their recent US tour in San Francisco with engineer/producer Bob Marshall at Bauer Mansion (home of other great artists such as Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin). Trackside Daze is the first single from the double A-side 7” to be released on Detroit label "Urinal Cake Records" before the year is out.

Trackside Daze

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It's only a cliché because it's true, but the greatest records are timeless. Black Mountain's self-titled debut album is just such a record, its roots leading twisting paths back into the past, while always sounding like 'now', like a future still to come. The work of a small collective of musicians operating from Vancouver, Canada, far from any industry buzz but firmly in the eye of their own storm of creativity, Black Mountain's debut album was, of course, a beginning, but it also marked an ending for Jerk With A Bomb, the group that preceded Black Mountain.

Begun as the fourth Jerk With A Bomb album, Black Mountain's debut grew from skeletal sessions cut by McBean and Wells. "We laid down the bed tracks, the guitars and drums," remembers McBean. "Matt [Camirand, bass] joined, and we changed the band name after a dream of how life could be different in the B section between Black Flag and Black Sabbath. Josh's roommate Jeremy [Schmidt, keys] was lurking about. We asked him if he wanted to add some synth bleeps or whatever. He came back with all these orchestrated keyboard parts, and we said, 'Oh, you should probably join the band now.'"

They cut the album at the Hive in Vancouver, recording in "a big cement room with a tall ceiling, nice boomy acoustics, lots of natural reverb," remembers McBean, "on an 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder." During the sessions, these elemental first Black Mountain tracks found their true shape: the wry, giddy shuffle of "Modern Music," with its Roxy Music sax and Velvets-y chug; the epic, sky-staring riffage of "Don't Run Our Hearts Around;" the hypnotic, gracefully heavy groove of "Druganaut;" the joyful rush of "No Satisfaction;" the dark, powerful blues of "Set Us Free;" the mysterious murk of "No Hits." Here was a new classic rock, its reference points arcane and clear, its sound fresh, unfamiliar and irresistible.

The album's initial success saw the band take to the road, leaving their Vancouver enclave for stages across Canada, America and Europe. "It felt like there was a real explosion of excitement at shows," remembers McBean. "The first couple of tours, we kinda were pretty shambolic. We wouldn't write setlists, we'd just feel the energy in the room and call things out, jamming on songs like 'No Hits' and 'Druganaut.' It was a good time for live rock'n'roll: DJ booths were being transformed back to drum risers, people were digging 20 minute jams and there were bands like Comets On Fire and Oneida out there who we felt kinship with. I was into Faust and Amon Duul but had no idea of the scene of modern bands doing that stuff. And then we met those bands, and it was cool. And then we went on tour with Coldplay...and the adventures continued."
Their jaunt across the world as guests of perhaps the biggest band in the world right then is a tale for another time, perhaps: the start of Black Mountain's next chapter, and all that followed. For now, savour the compact, spacey brilliance of that cosmic, heavy and subtle debut album, expanded now with a raft of delicious bonus tracks scavenged from the Black Mountain Army archives.

Black Mountain - "Druganaut" from 'Black Mountain', out 6/23/15 via Jagjaguwar
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