costs you nothing. By purchasing music using the above links you are supporting the artists and helping support Can You See the Sunset. Thanks!
Chris Pureka has an EP out with some studio tracks and a handful of live tracks that is Americana-tinged singer/songwriter fare. Actually quite good (as in way better than I expected it to be even though I’m not sure why I didn’t think it would be good). This song is especially great. RIYL: Indigo Girls, David Gray, Iron & Wine, etc…
MP3 | Chris Pureka – Wagon Wheel Chimera
I just finished a 3 mile jog on the treadmill this evening during which I listened to Grave Maker’s album Bury Me At Sea. It was perfect. Vancouver, BC’s Grave Maker throw down with some aggressive and in your face metallic modern hardcore. The songs are short and sequenced in a rapid fire barrage that makes it hard to tell where one song ends and another begins. Bury Me At Sea is definitely a solid debut.
MP3 | Grave Maker – I Won’t Belong Bury Me At Sea
Who’d imagine that five guys from South Wales could make such heartfelt melodic hardcore as A New Day does on their 2008 EP Perfect Passion. The six songs on the EP are basically a rehashing of ideas that have all already been done, but done with such enthusiasm, emotion, and energy that it sounds anything but tired. It reminds me of 88 Fingers Louie and old Rise Against, and maybe a Euro and slightly metallic version of Strike Anywhere if there was such a thing.
MP3 | A New Day – Koko Ni Dare Mo Imasen Perfect Passion
Elkhart’s album The Moon is a slowly paced journey Westward toward the setting sun. Lead guitar hangs in the air like golden-hued nostalgia and the melodies from this Dallas band gently unwind. RIYL: John Strohm, American Analog Set, Beat Radio, etc…
MP3 | Elkhart – The Moon The Moon
I really don’t know all that much about Langhorne Slim except that his self-titled album from last year is pretty doggone awesome. It is isn’t very complicated, just well-written folky Americana-pop with gooey melodies that will be stuck in your head for days. Seriously, I’m not doing this album any justice. If I had listened to this earlier (as in last year), it would have almost certainly made my best of 2008 list.
MP3 | Langhorne Slim – Spinning Compass Langhorne Slim
When your band’s name is Driving On City Sidewalks and your first EP is titled Where Angels Crowd To Listen, you’ve already used 1/3 of your total Twitter characters and (thus) had better make the music awesome. Unfortunately, on this five song effort, the band sounds as if they don’t really know who they are or what they want to do exactly. While it’s obvious these guys want to sound (more or less) like Explosions In The Sky, there is no improvement gained by adding bad emo vocals on the first two songs. Next there’s an acoustic singer/songwriter type song, WTF? And then two more songs that sound like DOCS is completely aping Explosions… It is basically boring stuff from a band that might have some potential but a 5 song EP that clocks in at 28 minutes and 13 seconds? I don’t have the patience for this shit.
MP3 | Driving On City Sidewalks – Where Angels Crowd To Listen Where Angels Crowd To Listen
I really wanted to like Fujiya & Miyagi’s latest album Lightbulbs because (much like their last one) it’s full of rhythmic indie dance-pop. The main difference is that it’s more boring and more predictable.
MP3 | Fujiya & Miyagi – Sore Thumb Lightbulbs
Related posts:
