André Foisy & Neil Jendon will be playing together tomorrow, May 28th 2011, at the Albion House (Chicago, IL) tomorrow.
Also performing:
HARPOON
SICK LLAMA
BILE & HORSEMAN
ANDREW KIRSCHNER
HOWLAND/SOLIDAY
HATE BASEMENT
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Locrian/Harpoon 7" Review from Maeror3
Link here.
7" still available from HeWhoCorrupts Inc. here.
If you're in Chicago, then you will be able to pick up copies at the "Territories" release show on Thursday March 18th, w/ Harpoon, Anatomy of Habit and Sun Splitter.
If you can read Russian, then the review looks like this:
Hewhocorrupts Inc., HWC-023, 13 Nov 2009
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Just for giggles, here's a free online translation from Russian-English:
Smartly published (an envelope with a stamping and a different sort инсерты) seven-inch Split two metal commands, one of which, namely «Locrian», has not bad declared herself and on an industrial stage the нойз-fatal albums and works in style guitar dark drone ambient, and the second, «Harpoon», on this plate, apparently, debuts. «Locrian», certainly, have surprised – instead of мрачноватого a gnash and a rumble the duet valiantly tears columns high-speed блэком, executed duly “ dark art ”. Rectilinear guitar риффы, up to "bones" изъеденные дисторшеном, constantly accelerated бластбиты, with enviable energy getting out on the foreground, and suffocating скримминг. However, the more close the needle approaches to "apple", the неувереннее becomes accelerated, the joins ears of noise фидбеков more, the canons блэка are stronger are erased, leaving a place any acid шумовой than improvisation. Rather vigorous thing, which dirty sound blamed kindly emphasizes a crash and clicks. Colleagues across Split, «Harpoon», not less vigorously hill a field death/trash metal – they too piously firstly follow canons, and also, as well as «Locrian», from the middle dare to dump mad rate and to make a noise a little to designate somehow the difference from numerous executors of similar music. Almost all time the vocalist hysterically shouts in a microphone, muffling rhythmical twitchings and "hum" of guitars (which on record are a little ruined and removed somewhere back) and high-speed «мочилово» drums. If not last minutes one and a half, would be most, that on is, the standard of a genre. But also with them together « To The Tall Trees » is, first of all, music for mad слэма while « Ancestral Brutalism » assumes brain activity.
The Tall Trees» - это, прежде всего, музыка для безумного слэма, в то время как «Ancestral Brutalism» предполагает мозговую деятельность.
7" still available from HeWhoCorrupts Inc. here.
If you're in Chicago, then you will be able to pick up copies at the "Territories" release show on Thursday March 18th, w/ Harpoon, Anatomy of Habit and Sun Splitter.
If you can read Russian, then the review looks like this:
Hewhocorrupts Inc., HWC-023, 13 Nov 2009
- Locrian - Ancestral Brutalism
- Harpoon - To The Tall Trees
Шикарно изданный (конверт с тиснением и разного рода инсерты) семидюймовый сплит двух металлических команд, одна из которых, а именно «Locrian», неплохо заявила о себе и на индустриальной сцене своими нойз-роковыми альбомами и работами в стиле гитарного dark drone ambient, а вторая, «Harpoon», на этой пластинке, судя по всему, дебютирует. «Locrian», конечно же, удивили – вместо мрачноватого скрежета и гула дуэт лихо рвет колонки скоростным блэком, выполненным по всем правилам “темного искусства”. Прямолинейные гитарные риффы, до самых «костей» изъеденные дисторшеном, постоянно ускоряющиеся бластбиты, с завидной энергией вылезающие на первый план, и удушливый скримминг. Правда, чем ближе игла подходит к «яблоку», тем неувереннее становится набранный темп, тем больше вливается в уши шума фидбеков, тем сильнее каноны блэка стираются, оставляя место какой-то кислотной шумовой импровизации. Весьма бодрая вещь, грязный звук которой винил любезно подчеркивает треском и щелчками. Коллеги по сплиту, «Harpoon», не менее бодро окучивают поле death/trash metal – они тоже свято поначалу следуют канонам, и также, как и «Locrian», с середины позволяют себе сбросить сумасшедший темп и немного пошуметь, чтобы обозначить как-то свое отличие от многочисленных исполнителей подобной музыки. Почти все время вокалист надрывно орет в микрофон, заглушая ритмичные подергивания и «жужжание» гитар (которые на записи немного провалены и отодвинуты куда-то назад) и скоростное «мочилово» барабанов. Если бы не последние минуты полторы, был бы самый, что ни на есть, стандарт жанра. Но и с ними вместе «To The Tall Trees» - это, прежде всего, музыка для безумного слэма, в то время как «Ancestral Brutalism» предполагает мозговую деятельность.
http://www.hewhocorruptsinc.com
http://www.myspace.com/thelocrian
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Just for giggles, here's a free online translation from Russian-English:
Smartly published (an envelope with a stamping and a different sort инсерты) seven-inch Split two metal commands, one of which, namely «Locrian», has not bad declared herself and on an industrial stage the нойз-fatal albums and works in style guitar dark drone ambient, and the second, «Harpoon», on this plate, apparently, debuts. «Locrian», certainly, have surprised – instead of мрачноватого a gnash and a rumble the duet valiantly tears columns high-speed блэком, executed duly “ dark art ”. Rectilinear guitar риффы, up to "bones" изъеденные дисторшеном, constantly accelerated бластбиты, with enviable energy getting out on the foreground, and suffocating скримминг. However, the more close the needle approaches to "apple", the неувереннее becomes accelerated, the joins ears of noise фидбеков more, the canons блэка are stronger are erased, leaving a place any acid шумовой than improvisation. Rather vigorous thing, which dirty sound blamed kindly emphasizes a crash and clicks. Colleagues across Split, «Harpoon», not less vigorously hill a field death/trash metal – they too piously firstly follow canons, and also, as well as «Locrian», from the middle dare to dump mad rate and to make a noise a little to designate somehow the difference from numerous executors of similar music. Almost all time the vocalist hysterically shouts in a microphone, muffling rhythmical twitchings and "hum" of guitars (which on record are a little ruined and removed somewhere back) and high-speed «мочилово» drums. If not last minutes one and a half, would be most, that on is, the standard of a genre. But also with them together « To The Tall Trees » is, first of all, music for mad слэма while « Ancestral Brutalism » assumes brain activity.
The Tall Trees» - это, прежде всего, музыка для безумного слэма, в то время как «Ancestral Brutalism» предполагает мозговую деятельность.
http://www.hewhocorruptsinc.com
http://www.myspace.com/thelocrian
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Locrian/Harpoon 7" (HWC Inc.) from Cosmo Lee Invisible Oranges
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I've never been one for 7"s; I'll always be an album guy. So it's rare that a 7" comes along and becomes something I listen to repeatedly, given my new music queue that's perpetually in triple digits.
This one had two strikes against it. First, it wasn't much to look at. That's important to me for vinyl. If you're using paper, plastic, and petroleum to manufacture a product, especially one that's larger than CD size, it had better have great visuals. And this one has a blah, almost monotone cover — I'm posting a flyer for an upcoming show instead — though the marble green vinyl might appeal to some.
Second, it had Harpoon on it. I know I said that bands aren't things to hate, but I hated Harpoon's Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide album. Drum machine grind is not my thing at all. The drum machine aspect usually drives me nuts, but the annoyance is minimal here. The production doesn't sound plastic, and the fantastic guitar work takes precedence. There are Megadeth-style spiky runs, haunting droning, and a mix of vulnerability and relentlessness that recalls Pig Destroyer. This is music with feeling, which I rarely get from drum machine grind. Color me pleasantly surprised.
Locrian are automatic base hits for me. While I don't mind dark ambient/noise stuff, it often feels disposable or interchangeable for me. Locrian, however, have always stood out for me, thanks to their attention to detail. Amid the requisite washes and eerie noises, they stick in bits — subtle production touches or guitar melodies — that give tracks shape and meaning. Locrian tracks always make me think and feel, and their two tracks here are no exception. The big winner is "Antediluvian Territory," which has crystalline, echoing guitars that recall MGR, the solo project of Isis' Mike Gallagher.
This is the last physical release for Hewhocorrupts Inc. Appropriately for a Chicago label, the catalogue number is 23. It's a pressing of 300, with a download code good for two additional tracks.
— Cosmo LeeLink here.
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