Maybeshewill - Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony

Maybeshewill - Sing the Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony

1. You Can't Shake Hands With A Clenched Fist

2. Co-Conspirators

3. This Time Last Year

4. Accept And Embrace

5. How To Have Sex With A Ghost

6. Our History Will Be What We Make Of It

7. Last Time This Year

8 Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony

For a band with no words, Maybeshewill sends quite a message. How you ask? Well, Their song titles, sound clips from movies in their songs, and their instruments. I have fallen in love with last.fm stations. I just plug in experimental, and it gives me a great mix of Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Maybeshewill. This C.D. takes you on a trip, the destination is your call. Their music is so compelling and sucks you in. Their sound clips and samples from movies help take their music to the next level. In their song This Time Last Year, a sample is used from the movie I Heart Huckabee's. That sound clip just makes the music insane. It makes a statement about america, that is so true. If you are a fan of any experimental music, then give Maybeshewill a listen.

Suggested Songs: Co-Conspirators, This Time Last Year and How To Have Sex With A Ghost.

Maybeshewill Links: Maybeshewill Website Maybeshewill Myspace

Team Sleep - Team Sleep

Team Sleep - Team Sleep
1. Ataraxia
2. Ever (Foreign Flag)
3. Your Skull Is Red
4. Princeton Review
5. Blvd. Nights
6. Delorian
7. Our Ride to the Rectory
8. Tomb of Liegia
9. Elizabeth
10. Staring at the Queen
11. Ever Since WWI
12. King Diamond
13. Live from the Stage
14. Paris Arm
15. 11/11


Hailing from the roots of the Deftones, singer and guitarist Chino Moreno is one of the main people in Team Sleep. Team Sleep mixes experimental, ambient, shoegaze, and trip hop all into one amazing combo. Between the pulsing drums, ghostly vocals and dreamy guitar riffs, Team Sleep could be the soundtrack to your dreams. While they only have one studio c.d. out, they have a few live and acoustic versions and also remixes. Team Sleep was also featured in the movie Matrix: Reloaded, with their song "The Passportal." Moreno stated in 07 that they would not be releasing a new c.d. until 2010. While that year is approaching fast, I can't wait until they release their second c.d.

Suggested Songs: Ever (Foreign Flag), Blvd. Nights, and Tomb of Liegia.

Team Sleep Links: Team Sleep Website Team Sleep Myspace

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

1, Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

2. Nanook Rubs It

3. St. Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast

4. Father O'Bilvion

5. Cosmik Debirs

6. Excentrifugal Forz

7. Apostrophe

8. Uncle Remus

9. Stink-Foot

Frank Zappa. One of the most influential guitarists [in my opinion]. His guitar work [as well as vocal] is just inspirational. If he has a message, he portrays it through his music. Most people have heard/seen Zappa in one form or another, whether is seeing a picture of him, hearing his music, or anything else. Most of his songs are about abstract subjects, while others can be about comical or even taboo [in the time] topics. He also incorporated many genres into his music. If you listen to his music, you can distinctly tell the wide range of the genres. In the song Apostrophe, he lets loose what has to be one of the best solo's i've ever heard in my life. Though he was before my time, I feel like I know a little about him from just his music.

R.I.P. Frank Zappa

December 21st, 1940 - December 4th, 1993

Below is just a link to the audio of the live version of his song Stink-Foot. This is the live version.

Some bad language.

Suggested Songs: Cosmik Debris, Apostrophe, and Stink-Foot

Frank Zappa Links: Frank Zappa Website Frank Zappa Last.fm

Fake Shark Real Zombie - Meeting People Is Terrible

Note: I wrote this before I went off on a Hiatus.

Fake Shark Real Zombie - Meeting People Is Terrible

1. Six Sick Suck

2. Avril Kadaver

3. Siamese Disease

4. Running For The Razors

5. Jewelry

6. Angel Lust

7. Horses In Heaven

8. Sestri Levante

9. Cherry Lava

10. Love Lice

11. Don't Forget

12. Meeting People Is Terrible

At first listen, you think "What in the hell kind of music is this?" After a listen to a few songs you realize, hey this is like a mathcore version of Mindless Self Indulgence. But that is true, and also false. Not all songs on the c.d. sound like that. It is a very unique sound I have heard from only a few bands. FSRZ has a pretty sweet variety of music, just on this one c.d. From listen you feel like you have been listening to different bands all together. I apologize because this review is all over the place. I guess it goes along with their music, but in a good way. I by no means am trying to put down any bands I review on this website. Here, you check them out at their myspace and let me know how you feel about their music. Also, I strongly suggest you check out the song Don't Forget, which is track number 11. It is an amazing seventeen minute long song, it is well worth the time. (Note: Well, it is listed as 17 minutes but has a good five or so minutes of silent time.) I would actually like to see a video produced for this song, the ideas are infinite.

Suggested Songs: Running For The Razors, Horses In Heaven, and Cherry Lava

FSRZ Links: FSRZ Myspace

Fear Before (The March of Flames) - Fear Before

Fear Before (The March of Flames) - Fear Before

1. Tree Man

2. I'm Fine Today

3. Fear Before Doesn't Listen to People Who Don't Like Them

4. Get Your Life Together

5. Jabberwocky

6. Everything's Not Shitty

7. Tycho

8. Bad Days

9. Stay Weird

10. Review Our Lives (Epic)

The first time I heard this band, they simply blew my mind. I had never heard anything just like Fear Before (The March of Flames).

Note: The reason I have The March of Flames in parenthesis is because they changed their name from Fear Before The March of Flames, to Fear Before.

One track that really stood out on this c.d. was the song Everything's Not Shitty. This song is just down to earth and raw. It also has great lyrics.

That is also another thing that stood out about this band, their lyrics. These are not just typical lyrics, but more like stories or something of the sort. For anyone who liked my Pianos Become The Teeth review, this c.d. is a must.

Suggested Songs: I'm Fine Today, Everything's Not Shitty, and Review Our Lives (Epic).

FBTMOF Links: FB(TMOF) Website FB(TMOF) Myspace

Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride

I apologize if these first reviews are sloppy. I'm just getting back in the hang of writing reviews.

Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride

1. Cripples Can't Shiver

2. Filial

3. Jess And Charlie

4. Pensive

5. Prev

6. Quit Benefit

7. Sleepshaker

8. Young Fire

After first hearing this c.d., I was stunned. I had never heard music of this genre lift me off of my feet, and just make me feel great.

Pianos Become The Teeth is a five piece band from Maryland, who fuses together roots of post-hardcore with some instrumental and ambient sounds.

Their lyrics, along with their instruments are so raw, they just cut deep and give you a connection with their music. In the song Cripples Can't Shiver, there is a part in the middle of the song [from 2:45ish to 3:46] where a woman is speaking about her husband being diagnosed with an illness. This was a very unique style of breakdown, not like anything I had heard before.

The last song on the c.d. [Young Fire] has a very down pace type feel to it. It is very similar to the band Mogwai. (See the song Ithica Ø 27)

Suggested Songs: Cripples Can't Shiver, Pensive, and Young Fire.

Pianos Become The Teeth Links: Pianos Become The Teeth Myspace