favorite albums at the moment

first is this video, i can't get enough of it:




blonde redhead - fake can be just as good:
This album is amazing, it has vern from unwound on bass and the textures etc are way good. i've had this cd for so long, and just dug it up, wiped the dust off and haven't been able to put it back on the shelf for a while now.

Buried Inside - Chronoclast - selected essays on time-reckoning and auto-cannibalism

This album has the perfect blend of melody and abbrasiveness. I'm not sure if the singer just completely messed up his throat and can't scream like this anymore (seriously, the new album has some hooks but the vocals were so intense on this album), you can hear the anguish and pain in his voice. Song 5 - Time as Imperalism is my favorite with clean guitar, minimal bass and strings with just this tortured screaming.

Wormsblood - In The Stars

My friend Jay had a double of this, i couldn't be more blown away this year by a black metal band. Also i couldn't post a list of albums i'm listening to without at least one black metal band up there. This album is pretty badly recorded, but it's like all the Les Legions Noire bands i like but done right and way better quality. I didn't even know that this was limited to 333 copies till i tried to find the picture of it. A blend of noise and orchestral black metal like early emporer but really noisy and dirty/experimental way good.

Genghis Tron - Board up the house:

My good friend Ryan bought the first album for me and i was completely blown away, i still think i like that one better as a whole, but this album has a few songs on it that are completely amazing. Weird tempo changes and harsh to pretty atmosphere, my favorite song on this and probably at the moment is Colony Collapse. Harsh at the beginning, then atmospheric in 18 seconds, back into harsh, then atmosphere till the kick in with "right now, each mess were in, puts us in fate's harsh old hands", back to harsh crazy, then the end of this song just gives me goosebumps "You'll come to fear, each day, each night" when that vocal line kicks in i have to stop what i'm doing and pay attention. Then the feast - that song has the best drum part, it's so unnerving and sounds like it's slowing down through the riff, man, that's some awesome right there.

Eric's trip - love tara
I got into the microphones at an old time relijiun show at the smell when it was in north hollywood, i think i was one of the 8 people in the crowd and i even got to record the show after asking that crazy dood in gold short shorts and nothing else, but anyways i bought the microphones album there cause the drummer was playing drums in old time relijiun. I had heard that the microphones just ripped off Eric's trip so after forgetting multiple many times for many years about this info when going to record stores i finally came across this recently and it's pretty good, very interesting recording experiments. Brian said reminds him of thurston moore without the solos and badly recorded, i agree and that's what gives this album a certain charm. There are way cheesy parts but the way it's recorded makes the cheese good sounding in my opinion.

Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
Unwound is still one of my favorite bands since i saw them for challenge for a civilized society tour till the end and beyond. I had this on record and just recently got it on CD and have been mostly listening to this one lately. They are all good though and definitely bring up a lot of memories for me as they are probably one of the bands that has stayed in regular rotation throughout the years.

Converge - You Fail Me
You fail me, that song just helps make me unwind. I get so angry or fed up with things sometimes, and i put on you fail me and it's like the theme song for that anger, it also helps to relinquish said anger making me cope with the pain/frustration I'm feeling at that time remembering that we are all human and all have our faults but it's how we take care of them and get back up to face those faults. The way they all scream you fail yourself at the end, it's like i'm going to complain about how you failed me with the reasons, then explain that it's not just a whiney bitch statement it's because in the end not only am i bummed about it, but you really should be too, you failed yourself and are to damn rapped up in yourself to realize it. Fuck you.

It's Casual - Stop Listening to Bad Music

This is still one of my favorites, the songs on this album are really good and super catchy. The tempo changes are awesome. We in our band are really happy to be asked to play with these guys every time they call. They are a really fun to watch band, full of energy and make you feel like part of the band. I've now seen them play to no one and many people, everytime they put on an amazing show.

Other then that, i put on Kylesa - static tensions, Zoroaster - voice of saturn, torche - in return, BeachBoys - pet sounds, Beatles - yellow submarine.

This is mostly just my favorites right now and has no reflection on the rest of the band.

Josh