Showing posts with label Cush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cush. Show all posts

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Cush - "Always Disappear"

If you ever happen to read Billboard.com, or your try to stay "up" on new releases, you most likely have come to the sad realization that much of the "new" music being released these days is rubbish. Sure, there have always been bad albums that have been released upon an unsuspecting populace..."real" housewives singles...lindsay lohan...vampire weekend...all charlatans of suck if you ask me. Because of this phenomenon, I like to take it upon myself to "champion" bands I think deserve a little of your time. Bands that deserve to be heard above all the generic drone that's hyped on music sites. Now I don't have some overwhelming sense of self-importance...I realize that there really aren't droves of people clamoring to read about my thoughts on music (regardless of what I tell myself before I go to sleep). So with all of my rambling out of the way, I give you the new single by Cush. It's atmospheric and dreamy...and musically it picks up where they left off in 2000 with their only full length LP. It's awesome...and it's probably going to make your entire week. Enjoy...

Buy their records...thank me later.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Weekend Picks - 02/25/11

I have a running list of bands that I think are under-appreciated...shamefully ignored...or not as popular as I thought they should have been. The list grows every year, with many of my favorite bands cursed to swim out their existence in a sea of obscurity. What a shame that so many amazing records have been relegated to the "bargain-bin" of the local record store, sadly sharing rack space with 50 copies of "Monster" by R.E.M, or every record by Sum-41. This week was a trip down memory lane...and my play-list was chock full of bands that, in my opinion, never got their "due." Maybe you, the avid reader of ManicCompression, can listen to these records, fall in love with them, and go buy a copy or two for people who's music tastes need improving.

Weekend Picks - 02/25/11

-The Casket Lottery: "Survival Is For Cowards"
-Handsome: "S/T"
-Catherine Wheel: "Chrome"
-Cush: "S/T"
-The Myriad: "With Arrows, With Poise"
-Year Of The Rabbit: "S/T"

Buy these records...thank me later.

Note: The picture above is of The Casket Lottery...an amazing band from Lawrence, KS. They had a huge sound, and should have had a huge following...