Member Since: 2/17/2008
Band Website: studentsofdecay.com
Sounds Like: April 2008
Isengrind/Twinsistermoon/Natural Snow Buildings - "The Snowbringer Cult 2CD ($20ppd) AVAILABLE NOW
Enter the Snowbringer Cult. Lo, behold the great arrival. Over the course of several private press releases, all of which will see much needed CD reissues later this year, and the gone-in-the-blink-of-an-eye "Laurie Bird" CDR that we released in early February '08, the music and artwork of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte has become the stuff of legend. Such is the case despite the fact that the amount of people who have actually been fortunate enough to acquire physical copies of these wondrous releases numbers in the mere low hundreds. "The Snowbringer Cult" then, in all of its epic glory, is what you might call an entirely necessary and long overdue coming out release by France's mighty Natural Snow Buildings...
April Pre-Orders (Shipping mid to late May)
SOD-18 Area C - "Charmed Birds Vs. Sorcery" CD ($15ppd special ed./$12ppd standard ed.)
"Charmed Birds Against Sorcery" is the third studio album by New
England-based musician Erik Carlson, and constitutes a startling
development in his sound. The first Area C record, 2006's "Traffics
+ Discoveries," was a small marvel of whirring loops sourced primarily
from processed guitars. Last year's "Haunt," Carlson's second record
for Last Visible Dog, was a different affair entirely, investigating the
provocative drone capabilites of farfisa organs. The compositions which
constitute "Charmed Birds..." develop and, often, transcend the motifs
found on these prior albums, with Carlson revealing an astonishingly
refined and singular approach to guitar-based composition...
Marble Sky - "The Sad Return" CD ($15ppd special ed./$12ppd standard ed.)
...Listening to "The Sad Return" is akin to staring out into a grey horizon on a late autumn day. "Pulling Out Grass Under a Blanket" is a smear of beautifully evolving, evocative tones wrung from guitar and synthesizer. Witscher's attention to detail and pacing is marvelous, as wisps of choral drones weave in and out of warm gushes of washed out synth discharge. Later, on "What You
Might Forget," surges of static threaten to unhinge a romantic dronework that brings to mind the levitating vistas of Mirror at their most poignant. Elsewhere, Witscher channels the glacial synth studies of Elaine Radigue into a myriad of focused, devotional dreamstates akin to the dayglo analog string fantastias put forth by Stars of the Lid circa "Avec-Laudenum." Ultimately, Marble Sky stands as Witscher's opus: a strikingly wrought meditation on sadness, love and the depths of memory.
Record Label: Students of Decay
Type of Label: Indie