So it’s been quite awhile since I’ve gotten any new music. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that i make very little money right now working only 10 hrs a week and going to school full time. The second reason is that their are not really any good places to get music in this town. I went home this weekend so i took the chance and stopped in at Record Time, one of my favorite record stores back home. I found so many good things and am amazed at the haul from this weekend.
“Gold (Re-release)” – Starflyer 59
After picking up “Silver” earlier this summer i decided i wanted more of the early stuff by SF59. Gold is their second album and it has a similar sound to Silver, really good, heavy-yet-ethereal shoegazer. 🙂 Haven’t absorbed it quite yet but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve heard thus far.
Track-listing:
1. A House Wife Love Song
2. Duel Overhead Cam
3. When You Feel Miserable
4. You’re Mean
5. Stop Wasting Your Whole Life
6. Messed Up Over You
7. When You Feel The Mess
8. Somewhere When Your Heart Glowed
9. Indiana
10. Do You Ever Feel This Way
11. One Shot Juanita
12. Next Time Around
13. Goodbyes Are Sad
14. When No One Calls
15. The Starflyer 2000 Reprise
16. Le Vainqueur
Price Paid: $8
“Psychology” – Discover America
I got into DA my senior year of high school i believe. It’s a really cool album. Everything on the album is done by one guy and he does it well. It’s kind of an indie-folk sound; mellow but not boring. He is very ingenuitive and he uses alot of different effects to keep it interesting (including a kazoo 😉 ) I recommend it. This one was on the hunt0list and i was surprised to find it in the clearance section of record time. This is one of those albums i never expected to find in a store. I always thought i’d have to end up ordering of the interenet, but i was pleasantly surprised to find it friday and at such a great price!
Track-listing:
- Call it in the air
- 1986
- From the 100th Floor
- Stark Honesty
- Green Eyes
- Tight Rope Walker
- Phantom Treasure
- Shiny Teeth
- The Halves That Make Us Whole
- Everything Changes
Price Paid: $3
“Floating World” – Anathallo
This is another album i thought i would never find in the store. I got into this album my freshman year of college. I had a couple Anathallo albums on my computer for a very long time before that and i never really got into them but never deleted them for some reason. Then somehow i heard about this album and i decided to download it. I can’t remember if i got into it right away or if it took me a little while but now i enjoy the album very much. I have to be in the right mood for it though, anathallo is a little…. different. This is a very eclectic indie-rock/pop album… They sing half the CD in japanese for no readily apparent reason and use everything from trumpets to hand-claps on this album. Very good, very different listen. Somewhat mellow but picks up in some spots. I think there is even a story to the album, but i haven’t read the insert yet. Found this one at Record Time new so it was a little more pricey but since i hadn’t bought any new music the whole month of september i thought i might as well…
Track-listing:
- “Ame” – 0:49
- “Genessaret (Going Out Over 30,000 Fathoms of Water)” – 5:32
- “Hoodwink” – 5:48
- “By Number” – 5:08
- “Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)” – 6:00
- “Hanasakajijii (Four: A Great Wind, More Ash)” – 4:44
- “Hanasakajijii (One: The Angry Neighbor)” – 3:10
- “Inu (Howling)” – 1:20
- “Hanasakajijii (Two: Floating World)” – 4:57
- “The Bruised Reed” – 6:04
- “Yuki! Yuki! Yuki!” – 1:14
- “Hanasakajijii (Three: The Man Who Made Dead Trees Bloom)” – 4:26
- “Cuckoo Spitting Blood” – 3:05
- “Kasa No Hone (The Umbrella’s Bones)” – 2:08
Price Paid: $12.99
“I’m Only a Man” – Emery
Funny Story. So for the longest time Emery has been a part of my music library. I had all their previous albums plus some rare tracks and for the longest time i really, really tried to like them. For some reason, i just didn’t. Over the summer i heard some tracks from Emery’s newest album, I’m Only a Man, and once again, i tried to like them. I ruckus’d this album and liked a couple of tracks but not enough to buy the album. About my second trip to Record Time this summer i saw a copy of this album, used, on sale for $6. Ever trip to Record Time since i would look at it and pass it up. Just recently i started watching TVUlive again and Emery’s music video for “The Party Song” came up a few times… Well it got stuck in my head and the next thing i new i was singing it in the shower. So i came to like the song. Well, on friday i saw this album at Record Time, but they had moved it to the clearance rack. I saw it there and now that the price was lowered i thought “what the heck” and bought it. I’ve listened to it and couple times since then and i don’t know what happened but i really like this album now… i’ll probably never get into Emery’s old stuff, but i have to admit this album is pretty killer!
Track-listing:
- “Rock-N-Rule” – 3:38
- “The Party Song” – 3:31
- “World Away” – 3:38
- “After the Devil Beats His Wife” – 4:31
- “Can’t Stop the Killer” – 3:32
- “Story About a Man with a Bad Heart” – 3:28
- “Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus” – 3:33
- “What Makes a Man a Man” – 4:24
- “The Movie Song” – 3:09
- “You Think You’re Nickel Slick (But I Got Your Penny Change)” – 3:45
- “From Crib to Coffin” – 10:44
Price Paid: $2
“Peirce the Empire With a Sound” – The Out-Circuit
It’s funny i found this one at record time because i just discovered these guys this past month. I was probably gonna order this album off the internet sometime soon but i found it used for cheaper. 🙂 This is a really cool album, i haven’t absorbed it all yet. It features ex-members of Frodus and Dustin Kensrue of Thrice lends his voice to a song. Solid album from what i’ve gleaned thus far. It is a hard sound to describe. I recommend just going to the Lujo Records website and snaging the free track “Across the Light” from there, it sums the album up pretty well and it’s a really good song!
Track-listing:
1 Come out Shooting
2. Passchendaele
3. Across the Light
4. The Contender
5. The Hexagon
6. The Fall of Las Vegas
7. We
8. Lost Pilot
9. New Wine
10, Scarlet
Price Paid: $6
So found all those and went to check out and got to talking with the owner of Record Time. We started talking about Anberlin’s new album that comes out tomorrow. I asked him if they had it in yet since sometimes stores like that get the album a few days in advance. He said they didn’t but then he did something i didn’t expect. He reached behind the counter and grabbed a limited edition Anberlin 7″ Vinyl that is supposed to come free with the purchase of the album! He looked at the CD’s i was buying, picked one up and said, “Free, with the purchase of any… Anathallo CD!” I laughed and thanked the guy. He pretty much made my day… until i got home.
When i got home there was a package waiting for me. It had a CD inside:
“Anti-Meridian” – Brave Saint Saturn
The third and final (supposedly) BSS album was waiting for me when i got home. I preordered it back in June but then the release date was pushed back. It came out September 15th but i haven’t been home to get it yet. Well, first off, the album is amazing. Reese Roper and the guys are geniouses. I highly recommend the album if you like the other BSS stuff or if you like Five Iron Frenzy. BSS is different than FIF though as it was Reese’s oulet for darker lyrics and subject matter… i think it’s really, really good stuff and definately worth checking out! Ok, so you want to know the best part about this weekend? Well, after checking out the album i pulled the receipt out of the package as well and was flabbergast to see a message written on the recipt in sharpie… it read:
“Jacob, You were the very FIRST person to order Anti-Meridian. NO ONE is cooler than you. -Reese”
Freakin’ Reese Roper of Five Iron Frenzy and Brave Saint Saturn wrote me a note! Sweet!
Track-listing:
- “Here Is the News”
- “Mercenary”
- “Starling”
- “Underground”
- “When You Burn Too Fast”
- “Through Depths of Twilight”
- “Hero’s Homecoming”
- “AMMODRAMUS”
- “Fields of the Fallen”
- “Always Just Beneath the Dawn”
- “Fortress of Solitude”
- “Blessed are the Land Mines”
- “AEGOLIUS”
- “Begin Again”
- “These Frail Hands”
- “INVICTUS”
Price Paid: $14 (back in June)
It was a really good weekend for music!
Adventures of a Music Hunter 