The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
Of course it isn’t fair that if you were to split the world’s population in two halves, you would find 4 billion people, on the one hand, who give more than they’re given in return, and 4 billion, on the other, who are given more than they give. Of course it isn’t fair that there’s no real reason for this except the inherent unfairness of the world, what it means to be.
Disco Inferno – The 5 EPs
Music like the 5 EPs triggers an oddly specific sense of nostalgia for no obvious reason. I didn’t grow up listening to experimental alt-rock by a band that attached MIDI triggers to their instruments, triggering evolving samples with each strum, with each snare hit. In fact, the vocabulary of this sort of music would’ve seemed completely alien to me in the mid-90s.
Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
When it comes to pinpointing its origin, post-rock historians tend to identify most with one of three sources: Bark Psychosis’s 1994 album, Hex, Slint’s 1991 album, Spiderland, and Talk Talk’s 1988 album, Spirit of Eden. Ignore the chronology here, if you can; after all, we’re not simply trying to identify the first of three records generally considered post-rock.
Treble Puns — Sounds Like Treble
The other day, this guy asked me, ‘so you support local artists and all, huh?’ I said yes I do, then for some reason felt the need to justify that I support good art no matter where it’s from; it just so happens that a fair bit of it is from India. The justification’s purpose: to give due respect to the likes of this Bengaluru-based instrumental rock band, Treble Puns, whose debut EP, Sound Like Treble, I’ve really enjoyed. It’s loud/soft/loud instru-rock that stands out from other post-rock acts because of Abhimanyu Roy’s Indian-folk-inspired scales and Sohini Bhattacharya’s hard-hitting robotic drums.
The Flying Fish — First Flight
First Flight borrows a lot of its vocabulary from the sentence-as-name post-rock bands of the early-to-mid-2000’s, such as We Lost The Sea and Explosions In The Sky. I remember a lot of the music from that scene being no-nonsense, tightly-played instrumental rock. I’d describe this album as just that, taut Indian post-rock.