The end of the year.

Here are my thoughts on the music I absorbed this year in no particular order, after Irepess. Irepress is absolutely my favorite band of the year, their latest record Sol Eye See I blew me away, it's a perfect album from start to finish. Lush guitars, incredible rhythm section, long songs, short songs, soft, heavy, occasional gang vocals, synths and samples from the The Goonies, it takes you everywhere you can imagine and beyond.

I listened the shit out of Gojira this year. I like all of their records and I think each is better than the last. I recommend you pick up the Link Alive DVD, the live versions of songs from The Link and Terra Incognitia are much better than the album versions. I watched it several times over the summer. A great band to listen to on my bike.

Another great band to listen to on my bike is Supercontinent. Saw Her Ghost hooked us up with their catalog when they added us to the roster and this disc was first to go on my iPod after hearing the track "Cataclysms" on myspace. Thick sludgy metal! definitely my favorite SHG release. Too bad they broke up.

2 local bands that have become my favorites to play shows with are Exhausted Prayer and Solar Wimp. I've never seen a drummer play as fast as EP's Mike Caffell in person, and on top of that he does a good share of the vocals. Unfortunately their recordings thus far don't do them much justice but trust me they're a progressive death metal bullet train with pot smoking hippies at the controls. I hear they'll have a new album soon and it sounds amazing.

Solar Wimp get better and better and every time I see them which isn't as often as it should be. I once described them to a friend as discordant spazz punk. At times they remind me of The Dismemberment Plan or Jawbox, very angular and smooth at the same time. The last few times I've seen them they played some newer tunes where Jeremy was starting to scream more... "Yes, they're getting pissed" about what I don't know but I love it. Their EP is a 5 song 11 minute joyride that I always listen to at least twice, it's just that good.

After making a list I realized that I didn't listen to very many 2009 releases this year... I could go on and on, maybe I'll do a part 2... just check out these bands too, I spent a significant amount of time listening to each of them.


Do Make Say Think
Intronaut
Mouth Of The Architect
Facepilot
Grayceon
Ocoai
Kodiak
Riddle Of Steel

by: Derek

Update Nov. 2009

Is anybody even reading this?
I can't believe it's already November.

- We're on round 5 of the EP mixes, one more mix at NRG and I think we're really almost done. Josh Newell has been doing an incredible job engineering and mixing. We're still not sure who will master it but we have a few options. We also have yet to find an artist so if you're interested email us.

- We recently played shows with Dysrhythmia and Exhausted Prayer. Both were pretty fucking rad if you ask us, thanks to all of you who came out. If you are not familiar with those bands you're seriously missing out.

- We've started booking our March 2010 Tour, more on that soon.

- An Awesome dude named Ryan is helping us release "La Storia di Cannibali" on vinyl! Yes vinyl. more on that soon too.

- In other news we're getting back to writing with our side project this week. We'll have an official announcement as soon as we have a name and maybe some demos to share with you.

- I (Derek) have been training for a 100 mile bike ride inspired by Aaron Harris of Isis. Eventually I'll start to post my routes, what I listened to and what I ate. this past Sunday I did 42.65 miles from my house by LAX to Palos Verdes then into Culver City via La Ballona Creek and back home to LAX. I Listened to Isis, Jeniferever, Between the Buried and Me, The Red Chord, and Pelican. I'm riding a Surly Steamroller fixed gear.

check our myspace for shows. there are a few coming up.