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Here's another contest, and you should even maybe get it in time for Christmas if you email me at jdean99 at gmail. The winner will be notified by this coming Sunday, December 16th.
This latest 7" giveaway is a Fuck Buttons picture disc. Featuring two tracks: Bright Tomorrow/Little Bloody Shoulder
Fuck buttons is Andrew Hung & Benjamin John Power, who started collaborating in 2004 in bristol, UK. This picture disc is in advance of their coming release Street Horrrsing that should be out in February on ATP recordings.
It was recorded by John Cummings of Mogwai and that should give you a little clue as to where this is headed. Hunched over laptops they have been known live to play at body shaking volume... full of electronically manipulated sounds, build on steady rhythms, Bright Tomorrow starts innocently enough, with a single kick drum and a looped static sample. Slowly a little melody develops. But it's not until the two minute mark that they reveal their true intentions with this track. Waves of guitars obliterate the underlying dance track and Benjamin screams unintelligible distorted lyrics and the real fun begins.
'Little Bloody Shoulder' is built on a similar simple percussion rhythm, with more massively distorted guitar. It's the kind of repetition that keeps revealing new elements and textures as it goes on. It's hypnotizing...are the samples changing or I'm hearing them differently as it becomes familiar? More ring phased distorted guitars, chords and string scratching, building on top of the primitive beat. Half tribal, half electronic meltdown.
They seem to be straddling the line of the recent dirty electro movement along the lines of health or dan deacon, but combined with something more industrial or thematic, like...well it fits....Mogwai. From the live reviews I've read they specialize in delivering this audio assault at full volume, you are going to feel it. I'll be looking forward to the full length to hear what other trance rock they have in store.
To top it all off, you have Bob Weston from Shellac master both of these tracks and every painful note is meant to played LOUD. A real needle skipper.
If you don't win it's available from parasol mail order.
A few days ago I talked about the amazing split 7 inch, between The Annuals and Manchester Orchestra.
Manchester Orchestra covers the Annuals 'Brother' and The Annuals cover the Manchester Orchestra's 'Where have you been?'.
It sounds complicated.
They even reinterpret each others album covers from the looks of the sleeve above.
This is such a labor of love, you can only get a copy if you go see them live. There is no other way to get it.... except here.
That's right, Manchester Orchestra is giving away a copy of this to one lucky winner appropriately enough on yours truly, 7inches.blogspot.
Manchester's cover of 'Brother' is as great as the original, the energy and explosion is still there, they change the rhythms of the original and do some interesting stuff percussion-wise and just when the vocals seem to be fading away, when it's quieted down to just a muted acoustic, it blows up into all out chorus again. I've been listening to their latest 'I'm like a virgin losing a child' on Myspace and they seem to have a real epic, slightly prog feel, like a classic rock Annuals if you will. The same intensity, but more organic.
The pairing of these two on the road makes musical sense and this 7" is the perfect extension of their live show, both bands swapping members to sing backup and support each others covers on tour. There's a few dates left this month and that will be the last place to get this 7":
November 10 Seattle, WA Crocodile Cafe
November 11 Vancouver, BC Plaza Club
November 12 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
November 14 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
November 15 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
November 16 San Diego, CA Epicentre
November 17 Phoenix, AZ Clubhouse
November 19 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
November 20 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck
But now to what you came here for: the chance to win this super limited tour only 7".
Just a few days ago I was crying into my keyboard about how I may never have the chance to hear this after missing them come through NYC recently... now the Manchester Orchestra is going to make your exact same dream come true.
Just email the address in the above right, under 'about me' and include in the subject 'CONTEST' or 'I want that 7", and you will be entered to win a copy of this really cool 7" your great-grandchildren will be fighting over.
The deadline for entries is midnight November 18th. You have 9 days.
