Since we’ve been away for a little while, this week’s Release Round Up will be covering the last couple of weeks to make sure some great releases don't get lost in the aether.
Cat Food (EP) (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Word
Wizard Ian Matthias Bavitz, better known as Aesop Rock, the rapper with the largest vocabulary in Hip-Hop, is back with this two track EP.
While it's easy to listen to this and call it your "standard" Aesop Rock release, that
still puts it at the pinnacle of
Hip-Hop. Bavitz spits word
play that requires 10 listens or more to be understood over dirty and dark beats
produced by Blockhead on Cat Food and Aesop Rock himself on Bugzapper.
If you’re an Aesop Rock fan, or at
least a fan of smart Hip-Hop that tells stories, then you owe it to yourself to
pick up this EP. Especially since these tracks won’t appear on any album.
The Kill
Kill Them… All (Obscene Productions)
Fast,
furious and absolutely relentless. Grindcore unit The
Kill have released the best album of their
ferocious career. This is a tight album, everything is honed to razor sharp
perfection. The production is cutting and horrifically aggressive allowing the Hell-for-leather
speed of this album to show through without becoming a hopeless mess of noise.
That is not to say that Kill Them… All (and
yes that is a joke on the Metallica album
name, previous releases from the group references Napalm Death’s Make Them
Suffer in a similar way) is sterile or over produced, this is still a grim
basement of a record. This release is violent and frightening in a way few
bands still manage to achieve and is a must for Extreme music fans.
A Skylit Drive
Rise: Ascension (Tragic Hero)
FFO: Issues, Alesana, The World Alive,
Acoustic covers of Post-Hardcore songs
Listen: Shadows (Acoustic)
Modern
Post-Hardcore outfit A Skylit Drive have with Rise:Ascension have re-imagined their 2013 release Rise as
an acoustic album. While it may be questionable to many whether
this music, from the poppier side of the Alternative Music sphere, is worth
re-recording at all, taking a more acoustic slant to the music does the band a
lot of favours. By not putting on the face of a heavier album, the band is able to fully embrace the pop aspects of their sound. Something which
really allows the true talents to shine though. This is arguably the
interesting version of Rise, as with
Genre-buddies Issues, not trying to
be heavy seems to be where A Skylit
Drive really excel.
Other Releases
Listen: Shadows (Acoustic)
Modern
Post-Hardcore outfit A Skylit Drive have with Rise:Ascension have re-imagined their 2013 release Rise as
an acoustic album. While it may be questionable to many whether
this music, from the poppier side of the Alternative Music sphere, is worth
re-recording at all, taking a more acoustic slant to the music does the band a
lot of favours. By not putting on the face of a heavier album, the band is able to fully embrace the pop aspects of their sound. Something which
really allows the true talents to shine though. This is arguably the
interesting version of Rise, as with
Genre-buddies Issues, not trying to
be heavy seems to be where A Skylit
Drive really excel. Other Releases
Altars – A Profound Respect For Life
(Self-Released)
Cendra – 666 Bastards (Xtreem Music)
Chaos – Violent Redemption (Re-Release)
(Transcending Obscurity)
Cry Excess – Amibition Is The Shit
(Luxor)
Defaced – Forging The Sanctuary (Rising
Nemesis Records)
Delusion Parasitosis – Ingurgitating
Intenstinal Rot (New Standard Elite)
Disloyal – Godless (Self Released)
In Legend – Stones At Goliath
(Self-Released)
Joshua Radin – Onwards and Sideways
(Glass Bead)
Jupiter – History of Genesis (Universal
Music Japan)
Ketha - #!%16.7 (Instant Classic)
Nailgun Massacre – Boned, Boxed and
Buried (Xtreem Music)
Niburta – ReSet (Self-Released)
No Turning Back – Never Give Up (Take
Control Records)
Sans Soleli – A Holy Land Beneath A
Godless Sky (Tofu Carnage)
Sata Kaskelottia – Sata Kaskelottia
(Inverse Records)
Scarab – Serpents of The Nile
(ViciSolum Productions)
Traitor – Delaware Destroyers (Horror
Pain Gore Death Productions)
Volahn – Aq'ab'al (Iron Bonehead
Productions)
Wasteland – Slava Pakim Ratnicima
(Winter Realm Records)
Weight of The Tide – Epilogue
(Undergroove)
Witchrist – Vritra (Iron Bonehead
Productions)
