Early DEP is the coriest-of-math. I prefer their later stuff. Although Mike Patton turned up on this EP, and you can tell.

I'm surprised they're even able to count the beats.

yeah

Has someone been messing about with Dropbox as this isn't there anymore (as well as almost everything else).

Tempy wrote:

It's just Battles, you've done a Partridge.

FFS, and I edited the 'the' in.

That's a massive pain in the arse then. Last thing I want to do is start limiting access.

I haven't been in it for ages, has someone deleted everything? Have all the other music thread things gone?

Nice one Moot.

Will get to it Sunday.

Got to it today. Enjoyed the first half.

What genre are we talking these days, does it have a name?

I'm always on the look out for something rough edged that straddles the line between heavy rock and metal.  I find it quite regularly, but I need decipherable lyrics too, which means I often end up sulking even if instruments are being bashed in an agreeable way.  I like the crunch and cacophony of metal, but can't abide gruff nonsensical devil bellowing - it makes me cringe, and often leaves me wondering whether certain records are sending up the genre.  There's stuff I've latched onto over the years that I can handle for various reason: Baroness, the first Mastodon album, Red Fang and a few more, but on the whole I'm on the outside looking in.  It's a genre I have a conscious desire to appreciate (hello, jazz), but don't get on with.  I'm a lyrics man, hence my country/folk leanings, so I only dabble in metal and its many sub-genres.  IS*S, Earth, Fall of Efrafa and the instrumental stuff appeals, but I never stay away from words for too long.  Papa needs his stories.

The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets, then.  I can't think of an album I've enjoyed so immediately this year (perhaps The Ruffian's Misfortune by Ray Wylie Hubbard, but I was so worried it wouldn't be as good as I'd hoped I was relieved more than anything during the first spin).  It's unlikely to be a record that sits at the top of my inevitable year-end list (never say never though), simply because it's not a genre that goosebumps me very often, and I need goosebumps to completely fill the Mootometer, but this is a breath of fresh air and I'm extremely keen on it.  Looking at the list in my drawer at work it currently has the second highest score of the new and newish albums I've listened to this year (8.5).

It's such a lively record, and there's plenty going on in terms of sub-genre shifts.  It doesn't maintain the aforementioned roughness throughout, Captivate You is a bit Black Stone Cherry in the way the rough edges are sanded down.  Ordinarily it might be a track I'd describe as weak, because I wouldn't like it out of context, but it's got an odd arms-aloft, turn-the-small-venue-into-a-stadium thing.  Vibtech is immense, I love it.  Again, this is odd though, as maybe I couldn't stomach a whole album of it, but its inclusion is more than welcome as the band has won me over, to the point where I'm first in line to go with the flow. 

I'm listening again as I type this, and it's a cracking album.  It's like Sleater Kinney cranked up 35%.  I wonder how they'll sound in a few years.  I was ridiculously keen on The Hold Steady for their first two albums, it was real bar band/garage rock extra special stuff (particularly the almost perfect Separation Sunday), but from that point their sound became diluted and cleaned up to the point where none of their albums since would make me a fan, and I'm probably done.  You could replace The Hold Steady with The Black Keys at the start of this paragraph, or shitloads of other bands over the years, and it's probably too early to worry about this with The Marmozets, but it's popped into my head every time I've listened to it, so I thought I'd write it down.  Will they change horses in mid stream when the success comes?  'Cos it's coming, imo.  Great stuff.

So yeah, I like this too. As people have said, it straddles the line between Pop and metal. I usually go the other way, as personal favourites of mine are people like Deafheaven, but yeah, this has a real catchy spark to it, and I can see myself putting it on heavy rotation. That's two for two so far on here, for me, keep it up.

Outlaw wrote:

(moot would have definitely hated the other options

Thank goodness.  It might be 'radio friendly' in places but at times it's pretty damn heavy.  Big, big Faith no More fan at work (he buys support act side projects and he's 6ft7), I'm gonna run it by him as soon as he's finished rubbing one out over his Japanese bonus track copy of Sol Invictus.

In my day Rr records wasfor the lolz of music. Fair play if theyve evolved

Outlaw wrote:

Like who? They've always had a fairly decent line up of bands that I know of.

We are harlot, wild throne etc