It's my birthday this weekend, and since we're having a few similarly-aged people over this evening I figure I'll hit you with a couple of alt-rock classics from my youth for today and yesterday, both of which happen to be by Canadian bands. Why just today and yesterday, and not all weekend? I've got plans for tomorrow, friend. Oh yes. Plans.
But first thing's first: yesterday. To kick off this birthday weekend we're going with what is arguably I Mother Earth's biggest song, "One More Astronaut from the band's 1996 sophomore disc Scenery and Fish. I Mother Earth is still kicking, even after some hiatus time over the past decade and a half, but for my money the "Edwin Years" are the best ones, from which songs like this one still play regularly on alt-rock radio.
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Saturday, 21 June 2014
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Ethersens - To Live is To Forget
We call things "post-hardcore" to broadly connote that in some way they've been influenced by the impact of of hardcore, perhaps even moved beyond it. Ditto for "post-metal". But has anybody ever heard of "post-alt-rock"? Yeah, didn't think so.
Maybe because it's not really a thing? Maybe, but the opening minutes of the epic "To Live is To Forget" from last month's Your Wandering Ghost by France's Ethersens remind me so much of 90's alt-rock and alt-metal that I'd be willing to coin the term.
If, however, that sounds like the kind of thing that makes you want to click away to some other page as fast as possible, know that Ethersens are not just rehashing anything from the most formative decade of my musical youth. Their big melodic sensibilities are filtered through a proggier, more modern lens. I hear flashes of Alice in Chains and I Mother Earth in "To Live is To Forget", but I'm also getting hints of The Ocean or even Mastodon.
Ethersens might not be earth-shattering if this kind of sound isn't your cup of tea, but if nothing else, it's certainly tasty enough that Your Wandering Ghost warrants further investigation. Meet me back here when you're done.
Maybe because it's not really a thing? Maybe, but the opening minutes of the epic "To Live is To Forget" from last month's Your Wandering Ghost by France's Ethersens remind me so much of 90's alt-rock and alt-metal that I'd be willing to coin the term.
If, however, that sounds like the kind of thing that makes you want to click away to some other page as fast as possible, know that Ethersens are not just rehashing anything from the most formative decade of my musical youth. Their big melodic sensibilities are filtered through a proggier, more modern lens. I hear flashes of Alice in Chains and I Mother Earth in "To Live is To Forget", but I'm also getting hints of The Ocean or even Mastodon.
Ethersens might not be earth-shattering if this kind of sound isn't your cup of tea, but if nothing else, it's certainly tasty enough that Your Wandering Ghost warrants further investigation. Meet me back here when you're done.
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