Boris 7"

I am really debating seeing these guys at the knitting factory next week. I've been avoiding getting into these guys because there never seems to be a way to get a hold of the vinyl or it's super expensive. I'm worried about adding a band this exclusive to my must have list. It could be very dangerous to my wallet. This 7" however is $4 and there's some other stuff at southern lord I've been meaning to get anyway.
Like The Earth LP I got a while back I've been listening to nonstop, it's more metal than I thought but very cool.
I love that these guys are still taking Jesus and Mary Chain, barbed wire kisses to some kind of endpoint. I don't know going further back who was messing with this much distortion, really still today to a ridiculous unlistenable level. It's like some new technology came along and Bris said finally we can live out our sonic dream. ...and then Times New Viking takes it in a completely different direction.
Boris fits in with Pelican and all this super dramatic shit I am a sucker for...like Jesu has these moments of Shellac and Explosions in the sky that are really great, I'm just not so crazy about it vocally at times. Boris keeps the vocals back in the mix and they must have loved My Bloody Valentine.
Now needless to say I've only given Pink a real listen but I love how in parts it gets so over modulated it sounds like my speakers are breaking. Some times it reminds me of Gish...oh when the smashing pumpkins were good.
I think live my ears are going to thank me.
(It's no different regardless)...God dammit I'm hooked.
That sound is insane.

I think this is from aquarius:
BORIS "Statement" (Southern Lord) 7" 3.98 New Boris record. We toyed with the idea of just leaving it at that. Three simple words. Certainly enough to produce a frenzy of adding to cart and buy-button mashing. For Boris obsessives, the above should indeed be enough. Hop to it. NEW BORIS RECORD!!! It’s limited. Of course. Colored vinyl. And if you don’t buy one now you’ll be shelling out $50 for it a few months down the line on eBay. But you knew that already. For the rest of you, and in the interest of the folks who still want to know what it might sound like before they pull the trigger, allow us to continue the review forthwith: Two tracks, both short and sweet. One from the forthcoming new album Smile, one exclusive to this here 7” (and perhaps a forthcoming import 12”), but for the collector or completist inclined among you, again,the B side will not be on the album.
The A side is pretty killer, fans of Boris’ Pink will feel right at home. A serious Kiss like riff, some cowbell, and then some ridiculously blown out in the red acid psych lead guitar. It’s weirdly lo-fi sounding, but still fierce, and if the band sounds a bit fuzzy and muddy, the leads sound like Wata is IN your headphones, ramming her guitar straight into your ears. It’s pretty amazing actually. The music is a wild wooly garage metal stomp, tons of FX, wah wah, the vocals though are a bit of surprise. Weirdly poppy. Double tracked. Super melodic, almost sing-along-able. But it’s all about the riffy groove and those impossibly acidic guitar freakouts. WOW. The flipside, “Floor Shaker”, starts out all ambient and shimmery, slow groovy guitars, eventually the track kicks in and we’re in some seriously poppy territory, the vocals soaring and melodic, it almost sounds like some lost grunge band, that sort of punky riffage wrapped around pop hooks, near the end of the track it gets all weirdly distorted, but it’s kind of an exciting new direction, some sort of metallic grunge pop.
Looking forward to hearing Smile now for sure. The packaging as always is over the top. Yellow vinyl, yellow inner sleeve, the band in full glam mode on the cover, all glamour poses and teased hair, inside, Wata reclining on a little Orange amp, facing a MASSIVE stack with THREE cabinets, and THREE heads. A total Japanese psych freek guitar geek pin up if there ever was one. Again, super limited, only 3000 copies worldwide, we got tons, but as with most Boris stuff, these are gonna fly out of here. Which also means ONLY ONE PER CUSTOMER!!!

Paradigm9 - Flaming guns of the purple sage soundtrack

Curt from Magnanimous records sent me this seven inch the other day from Paradigm9.
Paradigm9, from what I've gathered online, are constantly changing their sound, they are genre-less, not in the Ween way, but more in a soundtrack way. They are something like a site specific band. I get the feeling if the play or film called for it, they would come up with it. Music isn't applied to the work, but it's a process of trying to add another element, like anything else, you are trying to support and enhance the work. That can be a fine line. It's an interesting place for a band to exist, relying on this outside context to position the music. Is that even a consideration? Can't you just listen to it, independent of that idea? Sure, but I think here it's so unconventional as pop music you want to figure out where this is coming from... so it can effect how the music is heard.
Flaming guns of the purple sage, written by Jane Martin is some kind of B-movie punk western horror with exaggerated dialogue and dumb cowboys and bad ass cowgirls. I'm assuming on this seven inch Paradigm9 provided the soundtrack to this play...live(?)...at Shepard University. This sounds like it could be a studio recording, but why a seven inch? The song lengths lends themselves to this EP format and they packed 6 tracks into near 12 minutes of soundtrack.

Thanks to some Norman Rockwell looking paintings on the front and back, I'm expecting some western themed pieces but it's not the standard Ennio reinterpretation of what you'd expect.
'Lucifer Lee', the first track on the A-side has a really driving beat, the more I listen to it the less I hear any kind of western influence at all, not one slide guitar or whistling solo. On the B-side 'Flaming theme' if it weren't for it's length of 2:40, it could fit into an Explosions in the Sky playlist. It's all droning reverb and instrumental, heavy on the atmosphere.

How did these pieces function on stage? Were they little intermissions between scenes? I like where they are going but I wish they could have been a little more epic, but I'm sure they were considering time restraints.
I like the idea of a band working within the constraints of a stage production or film to create a feeling rather than a scored performance interpreted by any musician. They don't go in the easy obvious directions in their interpretation and the work I'm sure is better for it.

I mean isn't that what Explosions in the sky and Pelican are? Just soundtrack bands without a film?

This interesting soundtrack is just barely still available from Manganimous Records who seem to be dabbling in all kinds of other ambient / shoegaze specific bands.