The Eighty-Seventh Day.

Hold Time and Middle Cyclone.
I have been listening to the pair a lot in this past week and have noticed a very interesting thing, the match up quite well. It seems as if their formula's are almost the same. It's one part acoustic love songs + acoustic songs with a beat + a few mellow acoustic songs = one dang good mostly acoustic album.

My friend has gotten me in to the Math Rock genre, something catchy about it I guess.
Therefore, the next play list will be a Math rock one. This is to show off a genre becoming slightly more popular and to fill my need to listen to some Battles, who don't have an album out this year.

It seems back in the day I was into a lot of math core.. I discovered this looking for any math rock album due out this year. 2008 and 2006 seems to be the much more popular years to release, so I'm having a hard time finding a good 2009 release from a Math Rock band. In face many even numbers are release dates (1996, 1998).. I guess Math Rock bands are much more even than odd.

I've found one slightly math rock influenced band (Joan of Arc) but I'm slightly uninterested, they don't really follow the formula for math rock tightly.

Finally, in the "T" 's I found three releases from Math Rock bands
- Idioms Vol. 1 by Tera Melos this ep is a cover ep, so I don't know how it will sound
- All the Saints/These Arms Shake by These Arms Shake is a 7" (the glorified single)
- Animals by This Town Needs Guns is a full album which came out in the US this January, I'm excited to take a listen.

Oh lame slide show... but this is the most math rock sounding of This Town Needs Guns I could find. Apparently their track "Banboo" is much more Math Rock-y, but I cannot find it. It's all missing the atypical melodies (the vocal medodies is what I'm more concerned with) and replacing it with quite typical melodies.

The Ninth Playlist.

Easily misused songs play list

1. Wedding Cake - Fol Chen (imagine this being played during a wedding, and laugh)

2. Actor out of Work - St. Vincent (imagine this on a sitcom, starring an actor out of work, and laugh)

3. My Night with the Prostitute from Marseille (imagine this on any sitcom. and laugh)

4. In the Flowers - Animal Collective (imagine someone running through flowers, and laugh)

5. The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade - The Joy Formidable (imagine happy family times, and laugh)


This just shows how easily a song title can be misinterpreted and sadly, many are. That's why it is easy to tell if a music supervisors is good or bad, they actually listen to the song for the felling rather than just the words. A mixture of feeling and words is definitely the best, but hard to come by.