Darkly Loops

School of Seven Bells- Alpinisms (Released 10/28/08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-SNwyxsBM&feature=related

Cast into the mile-high, airy tumult of the mountaincore music scene, School of Seven Bells stays afloat with bouyant beats and soaring vocals. Beginning with "Iamundernodisguise," the near-mick sounding vocals weave a delicate ascent around the heavy bass and synth washes which open up the track. While the vocals don't sound as Irish on the slower, more lush tracks, "Iamundernodisguise" definitely realizes a sound by a certain "Zombie"-fied group from across the Irish sea. While comparisons to other bands are often useful, I find that on top of pigeonholing a sound or group into a genre, they also hurt the earstwhile dignity of the group in question, so I shan't (y) do it!

The twin vocalists (literally) are the dominant force of "Alpinisms," traversing the songs in what amounts to rock-structured (The genre) peaks and valleys. Undeniably catchy, the group provides many handholds within the songs to enable the listener to scale their igneus tower of stratospheric electronica.

Feel free to listen to the song and let your spirit soar through their foggy mountains if you like it!

My first key

This is what the Star Spangled Banner has always sounded like to Rush Limbaugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqz9EJ3Yb_o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etreygunn%2Ecom%2Fdiaries%2FEntries%2F2007%2F11%2F14%5FPatriotism%25E2%2580%2599s%5FRevenge%5Ffiles%2Fwidget1%5Fmarkup%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

An rhythmic performance by the Finnish Screaming Men's Choir Mieskuoro Huutajat.

Check out the documentary for more primordial re-invention:
http://www.klaffi.com/screamingmen

Let's Get Fucked Up

Instead of any actual content, I've been forced to pass these videos onto all of you or else I'll die in seven days.

Forgiveness, please.

sporkism: Last week I was in a Hot Topic
sporkism: and I overheard this one guy go up to one of the employees and ask, "Do you guys, like, have any emo techno?"
sporkism: and the employee goes, "You mean like Brokencyde? Or 3Oh!3?"
sporkism: And then the guy was like "No, I already have those"
sporkism: I don't think they ever came to any resolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTE5j7aEf0

For the next video, the money shot comes when one of the talented young singers drinks from a bottle of hard alcohol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TH5ibABP4U&feature=fvw

"BrokeNCYDE was the brainchild of vocalists Se7en(David) and Mikl(Mike). Se7en and Mikl created a band to pass time while having problems with their girlfriends. According to them, the etymology of the band name comes from the idea of their music being fundamentally broken or "broken inside" due to their relationship problems."

and oh hey speaking of bourgeoisie electro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfWnIid5J8

everytime i'm at the bar, you wanna pay
go ahead, buy me a drink...you won't get laid.

I'm so sorry.

Two-Face is Dead (Not Tommy Lee Jones)

Michael Jackson, famed destroyer of Macaulay Culkin's childhood and dance auteur, is in Heaven/Hell at age 50.

Spending most of his life being perfectly weird like everyone else, and doing his share to publically raise his children in strange and outlandish ways, much like any Christian family (He was a Jehovah's Witness), Jackson will now be able to escape to a small island off the Ivory Coast where he'll wait to re-appear until songs about Charles Manson and the encroaching wave of light over a sphere earn him enough money to finally perform in front of millions of suddenly disappointed gingivitis sufferers.

Survived by 911 Is a Joke and Good Life, he will live on in the annals of recorded samples for the remaining 9 million heartbeats you have until you die and will be unable to recall anything as you float through oblivion. Lisa Marie Presley, his first wife, is the only living person to know the secret of Jackson's epidermal alchemy and now spends the rest of her days hiding in fear.

Controversial in his day for his use of rhythmic squeezing in promotion of the undead, Michael Jackson's legacy can be remembered for his desire to black out the issues in society which bothered him the most, primarily, the skin color with which he was born.

Any music journalist worth his salt-n-pepa would note that Jackson lived his life, "Precariously. Imagine a candle in the wind being dangled over the edge of a balcony while Huey Lewis and the News looked on. Also, Princess Diana."

Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah's Witness.

Dream Phone

Teengirl Fantasy- CD R (Unrealeased?)
http://www.myspace.com/teengirlfantasy

I can't really begin to describe these guys without pointing out their description on last.fm. Unbelievably soothing and dancing synth-laid house with dynacism that doesn't transcend the genre, and that just means that it keeps you inclusive in the dream!

From Last.FM:

“Sometimes when I close my eyes I picture a club far away where there is free piña coladas. People are happy and no one can hurt me, not even myself. Suddenly a glitter ball light starts pulsating out of a cube that appeared out of the ocean. It slowly walked towards me and asked me to dance. I figured, why not? The night grew into a sunrise, I sat on a rooftop and cried while falling asleep, but with a glimmer of a smile on my face. It was possibly the most beautiful club I’d ever been to. The pulsating ball of light was called Teengirl Fantasy.”

Check out their website at http://teengirlfantasy.angelfire.com/ . This is a must download!

The reason I have this blog...

...is to actually my friends to new music I've listened to. Time to stop being so preachy!

Paavoharju- Laulu Laakson Kukista (Released 07/22/08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVyZxvUlPc

Oh, when it came time to find new Finnish girlfriends, I didn't realize Paavoharju had been already scooped up by the indie community! The svelte mix of ambient keyboards, sparse vocal interludes and electronic drumbeats is the deleted movie score from a nature documentary because its warmth and enthralling power stole the show out of the hand's of Earth's natural bounties. Songs range from being entirely instrumental, to Finnish dirges accompanied with minimal bells, chimes and sullen piano. An excellent atmospheric album to put on and listen to for the first time when you're all by your lonesome. I'm probably very late in the CRITICAL CIRCLES for discovering these guys, but I want everyone I know to hear this album!

Download, download, download!

The RIAA makes a stand against the downloading industry

Just in case you haven't read it already, the RIAA has won a lawsuit against a woman for illegal downloading, making sure to send the message to all downloaders that should you be caught, the jury may find you guilty and force you to pay $80,000 in damages per song.

While the defendant definitely didn't make her case any stronger by lying and trying to trick the prosecution, there is nothing better than seeing an RIAA lawyer express glee over the copyright victory of a group of record companies that have been gouging consumers for years.

You might find this funny.