Filth (1983)

FLEX YOUR MUSCLES

Candy Cigarettes, Capguns, Issue Problems! and Such (2011)

A compilation of Andrew Jackson Jihad's first LP, first EP, and some other bits and pieces.  It does a great job of capturing the band in their earlier years, as said in the album's liner notes, "when we had nothing to lose or prove, long before our lavish spending habits had gotten the best of us and we had to spend more than 15 minutes making an album."

"Some of you may have noticed that we do not play a fair amount of these songs anymore, particularly some songs featured on our first record, Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns.  To be perfectly honest, I don't remember how to play most of these songs, and furthermore, my grandmother has now heard tured on our first record, Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns.

Here's how it happened: She has recently discovered how to use the internet, and now checks up on AJJ news daily.  While skimming through our videos on Youtube (which she thinks is our website), she came across the songs "Be Afraid of Jesus,", "Lady Killer", and "Fuck White People".  When she wrote to tell me that she had heard these songs, waves of embarrassment flooded my brain, and I knew that my greatest subconscious fear had been realized.  The prospect of my grandmother hearing these songs had been a long time fear of mine, and I should have known that it was only a matter of time before she heard these songs, which were written under my grandparent's roof while I was living there in high school.

If you happen to be at one of our shows, and Ben and I do not honor a request from this album, please think of my grandma, because while we are very proud to have released and rereleased Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns, the thought of my grandmother watching us play "Fuck White People" is personally horrifying, and I am not willing to take the chance that it'll end up on Youtube

-Sean Bonnette 2010

Tripper (2011)

The most recent full-length from the hella rad math-rock duo from Sacramento, California. Imagine Lightning Bolt and Behold...the Arctopus making a collaboration album and you have these guys. They're a really groovy and powerful blend of noise and math. It's hella sweet.

"We wrote, recorded, and mixed Tripper in only 16 studio days but we did it in short 2 or 3 day sessions spaced a couple of months apart each. 95% of the album is just one guitar track, one bass track and one drum track.  On Headless I doubled the guitar part and on a section near the end of the song I actually played a harmonized lead for a second."


Source.

Beautiful (2008)

Second album by the Japanese math/post-rock band About Tess. Consisting of two guitarists, two bassists, and two drummers, they're a nice blend of great guitar grooves and very diverse post-rock movements.

It's somewhat hard to explain, so just give it a shot.

Ire Works (2007)

The third album by one of the predominant mathcore bands. After two major band departures that effectively changed how the album was recorded, Ire Works was released in November of 2007. All of the guitar work on the album was performed by Ben Weinman, who also reprised his role of programming on the album, and the drums were done by Gil Sharone, who remained in the band until the start of 2009. The album is composed of more avant-garde metal with the more traditional mathcore sound that the band was known for on their first album, Calculating Infinity. This album continued the buildup that eventually led up to the band's most recent release, Option Paralysis.


Got so much salt from your lies poured into me
You didn't see yourself dead already
So full of with every breath that you breathe
But you forgot that in your fairy tale I'm the wolf
All this attention got you thinking that you're a queen
You think that everything you're doing isn't a dream, long as it feel alright.

Nothing Was Missing, Except Me (2010)

The start and end of it all. Much like other emo bands, Hightide Hotel followed the tried and true formula of releasing a demo, some singles, and one LP. Nothing Was Missing surely does not disappoint, with some great new material and a few rerecords from their demo. It's sad to see these guys go, but at least they left us with a nice album to remember them by.


I can’t wrap my mind around where you find time to screen-print valentines between five classes, but I’ve kept mine tucked underneath pamphlets about loneliness and suicide prevention by my bedside.

F♯ A♯ ∞ (1997) (Vinyl Rip)

The first official release from the critically acclaimed post-rock band. Initially released in 1997, the LP version of the album only contained two songs, one on each side, that was divided into six and four "movements" respectively. Possibly the most interesting fact about the record version of the album is that in the final movement of "Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful...", the last groove on the record is an infinite groove which will continue to play until you manually stop the record. This rip obviously stops pretty soon after the groove starts, but doesn't lose any content. Unlike most vinyl rips, this version is not 24/96 (24 bits sampled at 96 kHz), but standard ripping rates. If I ever feel like actually getting around to it, I might also decide to upload that version.


The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows 


The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn 


We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death 


The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles 


It went like this: 


The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies 
Picked through the rubble
And pulled out their hair 


The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze 


I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days" 


You grabbed my hand 
And we fell into it
Like a daydream 
Or a fever 


We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death 


I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood

Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head (2009)

Often compared to the folky recordings of acclaimed artist Jeff Mangum and his band Neutral Milk Hotel, this album is the only release by Jordaan Mason under the name Jordaan Mason and the Horse Museum. From what I've heard, the very disjointed lyrics, similar to those of Mangum, tell the story of a failed marriage between two people of confused genders and identities. The album takes place during a glandolinian war and includes horses, shotguns, carnival horn sections, religion, male birth, sickness, semen, haircuts, and an eventual apocalypse in 1990. Filled with very acoustic lo-fi and folk flare, this album is a roller-coaster of ridiculousness and strangely touching feelings.


my mouth is filled with his ovaries
i hold them: here, between my teeth