SOUND SAVER. Fans of a particular Chicago sound -- the minimal, angular hardcore sound usually associated with Steve Albini, who produced half of the tracks on Flemish Altruism -- have a wonderful band in A Minor Forest. The songs collected on the album are sprawling and usually more laid-back than the sound implies, sometimes sounding like Shellac's more sparse work and sometimes slowing down to resemble the darker, bass-heavy offerings of Low ("Ed is 50"), but the band has the ability to explode into a f...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Pressing of 500! This is the seven song debut EP from the green forests of Denver, an instrumental quartet with roots in nature, post-rock of the mid-'90s Tortoise/Cerberus Shoal/A Minor Forest variety, and a sense of epic grandeur that ties the whole thing together. Killer from nose to nuts, with 19-minute monster "Mothershift" taking top honors; it reminds us that one ton of feathers is just as crushing as one ton of lead, if properly positioned.

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From its first slow-building tones to the last, mind-altering buzz of feedback, this Boston-based trio finds the meditative eye in a hurricane of sound. Like their post-rock predecessors -- Slint, Gastr del Sol, A Minor Forest -- they bring a difficult, carefully-plotted orderliness to swirlingly improvised sounds. They navigate tricky rhythms and odd time signatures as if they were inevitable, taking the listener along for the ride to a parallel universe. There is a narrow line between hypnotic and repeti...   [ read more ]

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