The Safety Fire, "Mouth of Swords"
Mouth of swords. Arms of pikes. Feet of daggers. Butt of warhammers.
Couch Slut, "All The Way Down"
We're big Couch Slut fans here at Five Songs. The torch of grimy NYC noise rock is ably carried forward by...
400 Blows, "The Ugly Are So Beautiful"
There's a ruthless, efficient logic at the heart of 400 Blows. The find their groove, riff, or idea and just hammer away at it. It's not that they're robotic or simplistic or anything, but they recognize that repetition...
Pinkwash, "Gumdrop"
Legitimately don't remember picking this up. Apparently this is a band out of Philly, and this is their only record.
[listening]
Not bad! I can see why I picked this up! It's shame I'm getting dumber and more forgetful.
Farside, "I Hope You're...
Folks, I don't know if I can keep up this pace. Seven songs AGAIN?
Dälek, "The Son of Immigrants"
As you'd probably imagine based on the stuff that shows up here, I'm 100% here for the merging of noise into hip-hop. There are a bunch...
Pretty good one today!
Cop Shoot Cop, "All the Clocks are Broken"
One of the things that set Cop Shoot Cop apart from the other acts they were usually lumped with, often other industrial bands, was that Tod Ashley was never afraid to deploy some...