Name: Emperor X - Schopenhauer in Berlin by Tiny Engines in Indie & alternative 2017 # 03
Duration: 3 min 29 s
Description: Emperor X "Oversleepers International" out Spring 2017 on Tiny Engines

Indie & alternative 2017 # 03

In December of 2020, Nashville trio LOCKSTEP rented a cabin in the hills of Tennessee where they self-produced the first installment of a series of self-titled EPs. Lockstep 1 out now.

Engineered/mixed by Matt Schumacher
Stem mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege
Cover art by Jane Pain

Perpetual Fix

You Should Be Fine Down There

Connection

Balance and Composure - Last To Know

Same But Different Now

Footballhead "Sliver" out December 2024 on Tiny Engines

Footballhead - Sliver

quiet considerations

While You Dream Vividly

Close To The Knife

The Fall

cannibal world

Emperor X "Oversleepers International" out Spring 2017 on Tiny Engines

Oversleepers International

Emperor X - Schopenhauer in Berlin

From their "s/t" debut album, out March 31st, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

RAYS  "Theatre Of Lunacy" (Trouble In Mind Records)

It's a Myth

Act Out

From 'Occult Architecture Vol. 2' out now on Sacred Bones Records.

Order and download instantly:
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BAND INFO:
moonduo.org
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LABEL INFO:
www.sacredbonesrecords.com/
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Moon Duo - Sevens

Following the February release of their critically acclaimed debut long-player, ‘Nothing Feels Natural’, Priests will be releasing ‘Early Recordings’ through Tough Love as part of this year's Record Store Day. It will be pressed on to opaque white vinyl and limited to 1000 copies.

Priests’ ‘Early Recordings’ combines the band’s first two cassette-only tape releases, originally recorded in 2011 and 2013. The small run cassette releases were originally intended to be for purchase only at the band’s live shows. “We didn’t want everybody to hear it,” said drummer Daniele Daniele. “We were still learning our instruments, so these tapes were not intended to impress the world, just document where we were for our own sake.” Daniele met vocalist Katie Alice Greer the same week she arrived in Washington, DC to complete a fellowship at Georgetown University, and the two decided to start a band. Guitarist GL Jaguar joined soon after, and bassist Taylor Mulitz completed the lineup the following year.

Tape 1 was recorded by Jaguar in his parent’s basement in Maryland. The band had existed for one week, and the trio had written four songs. “I was very eager to have evidence of the band exist for myself, because I didn’t know how long it would last, and I wanted to make music more than anything,” said Greer. “Diet Coke”, the band’s first song, is a hundred second blast of pummeling energy and what would become Jaguar’s signature riffage. A winking nod to advertising that sneaks into culture, the tune is followed by the more contemplative “Talking”, a song on which both Greer and Jaguar play guitar. Greer’s lyrics speak to US public school systems “rewarding complicity” and children being “being socialized by reality TV”. “The World”, perhaps foreshadowing the band’s krautrock-inspired penchant for repetition, is a jubilant intermission before “Cobra”, a playfully minimal stop-start closer inspired by cult favorite rock group She (also known as “The Hairem”).

On Tape Two the band was eager to showcase their fuller sound as a newly expanded quartet. The tape’s seven songs were recorded by Kevin Erickson and Hugh McElroy, who had already recorded the band’s first single “Radiation/Personal Planes” a year earlier and would go on to produced half of Priests’ Bodies and Control and Money and Power EP and all of Nothing Feels Natural. “Leave Me Alone” nods to the Priests’s affinity for inverting the cool funk of a song like Bush Tetras’ “Too Many Creeps” (“I see you when I’m out on the street/ I think you look like a creep”) while exploring more melodic territory on tracks like “Twelve”, hinting to material that would later surface on Nothing Feels Natural. Lyrically, Priests continued to explore themes that center women’s lives (“Lillian Hellman”), critique social perception of female celebrity (“Lana”), interrogate assumptions of US history (“Incantations”), and invert the male gaze on the Daniele Daniele-penned closer “Watch You”. Priests was already interested in expanding their musical palette, as evidenced by metallic clangs and a purring drum machine on “Watch You” and creeping mellotron weaving in and out of a few different tracks throughout.

‘Early Recordings’ lays the groundwork for Priests longer releases in the following three years and provides context for the band’s evolving sound.

Early Recordings (master MP3s)

Priests - Leave Me Alone

FREAK GENES Playtime LP
(SNATCH!084)
Release Date 31.05.2017

Playtime

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