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Skrow042: Bukkake Earlobe - Brownstep
Bukkake Earlobe - Brownstep
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With this our 42nd release (insert obligatory Douglas Adams reference here), The Lobe sells the fuck out, and in doing so, creates a new genre. The entire world soils its collective pants in joy/terror/neutral acknowledgement. Bring your own toilet paper.
Tracklisting:
- Brownstep (2:54)
Dawn Lights - My Will Alone
Dawn Lights - My Will Alone
The journey begins with bitcrushed electronic drums and synthetic strings accented by ephemeral guitar, an appropriate overture to the epic aural narrative that follows. This rapidly fades to another synthetic introduction, which itself suddenly gives way to the onslaught of richly distorted guitar chords and fierce vocal melodies that form “Imprint,” essentially the album’s mission statement. The phrases “sending a signal” and “nothing left to fear” truly stand out in the chorus lyrics, as while the Cleveland-based Dawn Lights are certainly not doing anything terribly original or groundbreaking, they are doing it with enough conviction and execution to make converts of any who might doubt their intent.
Multi-instrumentalist Dean Johnson’s darkly heavy emotive music consistently treads the line between rock and metal with great aplomb, effectively presented through a dichotomy of thoughtful, claustrophobic verses offset by enormously spacious catchy choruses. This all serves as the perfect backdrop for the refined yet edgy melodies of vocalist Eric Hess. Together, these two men create a cohesive, engaging album that manages to be highly accessible without fully succumbing to tired radio metal clichés.
Highlights include the aforementioned “Imprint,” and the utterly anthemic “The Rising,” in which Hess cries, “this is the moment to rise and fall.” To my ears, that is the core of this album as an experience: be in the moment, create for the sake of creation, and grab life with all of your might. Whether it resonates with you in this fashion or not, this album contains roughly 50 minutes of well-written rock tunes that are easy listening in the true sense of the phrase. So give it a well deserved spin, but be forewarned that once played at healthy volume in one’s car stereo on a gorgeous autumn day with windows down, it may be nigh impossible to eject.
OhioProg 2012 announced!
OhioProg 2012 announced!
We are proud to present OhioProg 2012. Ohio’s premiere progressive rock festival is set to take place over 3-days, September 7, 8 & 9 of 2012. We are taking a unique approach to our festival in hopes to create an experience for the fans, funded by the fans and enjoyed by the fans of progressive rock. An exceptional line-up has been assembled which includes a Friday pre-show “A Tribute to the Classics” and a Saturday & Sunday, full-day main event. Bands announced include headliners Script for a Jester’s Tour (UK), FM (CA) and Nightingale (SE). Arena (UK), After the Fall (US), Orphan Project (US), Persephone’s Dream (US), RC2 (ES), Cryptic Vision (US) and Going for the One (US) round out the bill with one more act to be announced. We are now live online and ready to prepare you for a very special weekend. Get festival news, information on the bands, learn about our “Pledge Your Ticket” program and get involved in the OhioProg community.
Click here to visit the official OhioProg site and learn about the bands, hear samples, and more!
Skrow038: earthbreather - Forget the Sky
earthbreather - Forget the Sky
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With great pride do we present the debut of experimental, free-genre duo earthbreather. A collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse, this non-geographically proximal pairing came to be, as these things are, via the internet. In late 2008, Saffron Slumber began “remixing” by way of manipulation and de/reconstruction some brief guitar clips sent to him by Ellipse. The latter, as well, began to perform similar mutations upon pieces created by the former. As this process continued, the songs would evolve into something entirely new, and the process itself became progressively more collaborative. An unwritten manifesto took form between the two artists to ignore the perceived boundaries of genre conventions and to simply create.
On Forget the Sky, earthbreather experiment with various aural textures and explore atmospheres dark and light, concrete and ethereal, consonant and dissonant, all in flowing and relatively structurally free compositional forms. The result is an album that is both cohesive and varied throughout its approximate 50 minute duration.
Headphones are suggested and encouraged. Please join us.
Tracklisting:
- Talk in Blue (10:34)
- Fields of Desiccant (9:12)
- Ice Throne of Ullr (8:34)
- Pulling On Melting Glass (5:02)
- Black Fires Burn Gently (8:28)
- Craters (7:52)
Skrow033: Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees
Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees
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A relatively succinct ode to our flying swarming f(r)iends, for which the adjective “spooky” insistently presents itself despite the unwanted and incorrigible Scooby Doo connotation on the word.
Nonetheless, bathe in the sweet, dark honeys of our discontent within the hive of drones hypnotic and insecure. Feed yourself to the queen.
Tracklisting:
- Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees (10:45)
Skrow028: Ellipse - After the Sun
Ellipse - After the Sun
Ethereal sonorities in a shadowy berth, a meeting place for things both dark and light. Here are our dualities investigated, awash in colour and grey, claustrophobic in an infinite space: the locus of a soul.
Ellipse presents us with three pieces for electric guitar that are at times quietly introspective, and at others screaming at the heavens with fire and futility. Please adorn your ears and explore.
Tracklisting:
- Becoming Empyreal (18:22)
- The Immeasurable Breadth of Night (9:59)
- An Ocean Upon Us (23:17)
Skrow026: Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Awash in a ceaseless cloud of lost memories, reaching for light. We find ourselves in a sea of our own reckoning, clutching driftwood to our bared breasts, a subtle heat radiating from within that warms the cool mists around us. The atmosphere thickens, becomes as a gelatin which slows our existence and reflects us from within until, finally, we are encased in an unfrozen ice of our deepest fears and desires; static, yet internally vivified. We shatter into numberless shards, waltzing silently in scintillating bliss as we dissipate into the air. The cycle begins anew.
So it is that we present the first (and certainly not the last) split release from Skrow! fellows Ellipse and Saffron Slumber. It showcases arguably some of the greatest work of two fine artists of complimentary mentality and style while exploring a vast musical space of mystique and airy melancholia. Assume an appropriately fetal position and adorn your ears with a suitable binaural apparatus. Surround yourself in translucence, close your eyes and peer through.
Tracklisting:
- Ellipse - Drifting Endless Ethereal (11:33)
- Saffron Slumber - Viscosity (4:01)
- Saffron Slumber - Glass Variation (Silicon Dioxide) (5:46)
Skrow021
Bukkake Earlobe - Earless
An impromptu noise EP appears! Constructed with blinded ears: the entirety of this EP was recorded, programmed, and manipulated completely without listening. Minor tweaks were made to the end result, and a few hours later, we released the damn thing. An experiment in soundless noisemaking, chronicled only on Skrow!. Despite the title of the EP, we encourage the use of auditory receptor appendages for the enjoyment of this record. Should you lack them, we suggest biting your stereo. Yum.
Tracklisting:
- The Lidless Sleep of Spring Dreams Millions (8:08)
- The Summer of Our Discontent is Marauding Leaves Into the Effortless Mother Helix (6:24)
Skrow020
Bukkake Earlobe - Ixixix
Wavering wisps of warbling wash (I’m far too fond of alliteration), presented in honour of a calendrical anomaly the likes of which the vast majority of us shall not see again in our lifetimes. Primarily because we’re all going to die at the end of 2012 anyway, AMIRITE??? For the time being, however, enjoy your nine tracks totaling nine minutes and nine seconds of drone noise constructed of the word nine and named in roman numerals nine three times which equals twenty-seven and the sum of two and seven is in fact nine and today’s date is the ninth day of the ninth month of the supposed ninth year of the second millenium in the common era HOLY FUCK WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!~
Tracklisting:
- Programming a Dishwasher (1:04)
- Friendly Reminder (0:28)
- Egregious Spin Cycle Phenomena (1:23)
- Tezcatlipoca’s Revenge (1:51)
- Salo Goes to Primary School (1:58)
- Fractal Briefcase (0:54)
- Drive-by Shaving (0:24)
- Pardon the Mosquitos (0:23)
- Blame It on Yucatán (Maya Has Doomed Us All) (0:44)
Skrow019
Grimbeard - Garbage And
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Inspired by Gwilym Wogan’s Daily Refrain, here we have an impromptu EP of grimy surrealist folk. Five songs produced in five days, resulting in just over eleven minutes of sloppy guitar, swirling background hiss, hastily programmed drums, and occasionally rhyming nonsense from the aptly-named Grimbeard. Throw your razors away and folk out with your yolk out.
Tracklisting:
- Beware the Ides of March of Dimes (1:44)
- 21st Century Laundry Man (2:47)
- Bigfoot Don’t You Lose My Number (2:08)
- Bitchcraft (2:29)
- Mouth Full of Pearls (2:07)
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