polymath wrote:i remember saying to my friend while aleuchatistas played (opening for kayo dot), "if i have to hear one more post-punk frenetic jazz group i'm going to shoot myself/everyone else." it's true. i'm sick of pseudo-dysrhythmia rip-offs where people play jazz rock sped up and with punk style. it doesn't appeal to me for the same reason hella doesn't -- it's just a bunch of riffs strung together. there's no song structure, no talent (other than playing fast and tight), no mood. whatever, maybe that's just me. i'm sick of all that crap, though.
otherwise, Botch is good (i'm sure you all know them), BREADWINNER you all should know (if you don't, wtf), and baltimore has a great local band Yukon that's pretty good.
http://www.myspace.com/yukon if you want to check them out.
yeah....
That's the good thing about music, there's all different types to suit all different tastes, and if there's nothing you like you can make your own, and you don't have to listen to what you hate!!!
Hella take a lot of patience, some people like the slow releasing rewards that certain music gives to people who are prepared to give the music time to wash over and grow, I personally find that my favourite albums took ages to grow on me but some people don't and that's fine, if instant gratification is what you yearn for then that's cool too, not that I'm labelling you with that tag.
Hella has become pretty addictive for me, each one of those riffs that are just strung together now seem so right, so perfect and I'm over-the moon that music like this exists and personally I can't get enough of it because there's not enough of it.
I kind of get confused when people say post rock and math rock type genres are over-flowing, and there's 'too many bands doing this thing' then go on and praise the shins for releasing another pop album that sounds like the beach boys and the beatles.
That was just a side note.
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