Forgetters / Masshysteri (Failed attempt of 2010 list.)

Over the next while Lil' J and I are going to be throwing up our top 10 of 2010... He'll probably throw up at me callin' him Lil' J...
I figure this is as good as any other way to revive this carcass of a blog.

Today's post I've got my first two for you because one of them is already here and uploaded.


If you haven't downloaded or read my extremely crappy writeup of Masshysteri yet... Get on it.
I just received my copy of the LP which came out in April this week and realized that I had put up the wrong cover for the album on my upload. So the picture above is the correct one if any of your are anal about your album artwork. Released in April 2010 this album will keep you groovin' and movin' so get on it.


What happens when you take Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker & Jets to Brazil fame fresh from his poppy unrelated project called "Thorns of Life" and team him up with Kevin Mahon, the first drummer of Against Me! Toss in the excellent bassist Caroline Paquita, whom I have never heard of prior to this, and mix it all up?
You get exactly what I want to hear. This would be the project you would expect to take place right inbetween Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil. I admittedly am not the biggest fan of Jets to Brazil.. Even with my insane love for Jawbreaker. I just cannot fully get into it. THIS on the other hand had me from square one. Only four songs recorded for now but not a single one that disappoints.
Blake Schwarzenbach sings in his newer fashion the almost poppy but still gruff voice he showed he had when he started Jets to Brazil. Yet throw in random squeals to finish off lines, yells, and other vocal arrangements to mix things up.
Some of the songs even have a polished Against Me! feeling to them. Unlike how Against Me! ended up ACTUALLY polishing their newer stuff up this is what I wish could have happened. (Refer to: "Not Funny." Which in a live recording Blake states is about an Afghani(?) woman who is in love with a soldier against the protests of her traditional father.)

Forgetters was a bit of a surprise hit for this year for me. Not a lot of news circulating it hit me. I found out about it while I was on the hunt for a Jawbreaker poster and I do not understand how there is not a bigger hype about this. Those of you who are American or Canadians with passports close to any border city go see them on their West coast tour later in January. Then brag about it to me and hurt my feelings.

To quickly wrap this one up: The best way I would describe this is take the slower songs from 24 hour revenge therapy and ESPECIALLY Dear you. Wrap them up with pop music sentimentality. And the care of Jets to Brazil. Dash of Against Me! attitude. And well. Whatever the bassist did in the past I'm sure that's in there too--but it just melts right on in with all of this perfectly. Rabble. Rabble. Rabble. Download it.

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Red Forty

Okay there is lazy.. Then there is me when I am not in school / not working too much. I can't even be bothered to log onto my blog once a week to post music. I'd rather just sit at eat bagels and read comicbooks.
But I guess today should be a blog update day since it's been awhile and we dropped the ball on doing best of 2010. I'm going to start forcing myself to update at least once a week again. I've still got a mass of things uploaded to give to you.

Today I rediscovered Red Forty. Ben Nichol's project before going onto Lucero fame.. His much less known former band which is fairly much a Jawbreaker worship band. So automatic like for me clearly. Nasally whiny vocals about girls not noticing or wanting him, songs about wanting to be a cool guy, and more nasally whiny vocals. All backed by a great poppunk band. These songs are shakers with an energetic fun feel to them--until you listen to the vocals. It's like hearing a broken hearted highschool student get punched in the face by a girl in front of the class--Everyone is laughing but him.

Honestly I love listening to this and playing "pick the Jawbreaker album that influenced this one!"

In the end.. I sound like I'm just ripping on this band. Maybe I'm just bitter that I didn't see Lucero a couple of weeks ago because I was broke and had to work?
But really. I love this album. There is not a single track that I find weak and it does not feel like the boring same-old-same-old track to track.

I'm bummed I missed Lucero when he was here last, but what can you do?

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Make it a Dead One

Make it a Dead One was a screamo band from Trondheim Norway. I think this band is amazing and I thank Eirik, their guitarist, for sending me all of their recordings to share on this blog. Musically I would say that if you like city of caterpillar its a safe bet you will enjoy this band. That being said it's not so much that they closely sound like CoC as it is that I am grasping to find a better band to compare them too. In the file there is also their first demo that they recorded under the name Pray! it works! which they later changed to Make it a dead one when no one got the irony in print. Eirik also sent me a few vidoes, one of them is from them opening for Funeral Diner (ugh... jealous). Anyways I can't stress enough how good this band is, everyone should download this. Nice dudes, great band.
JT

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