ltda 6 - Symbiosis - The Alien cd

Symbiosis is probably the closest thing to a super group that Frostburg, MD has going right now.  Off hand, members have been in 10 bands that come to mind that have played local shows regularly.  However, this is a unique project for all of them.

This band takes influence from post-rock, crust, hardcore, punk, emo, and metal a la Fall of Efrafa, Alpinist, Neurosis, and Refused.  The songs transition from crushingly heavy to somber swells with ease.  Lyrically, all of their songs center around the story of Peter Parker (yes... Spider-Man) in order to touch on universal themes within the human condition such as alienation, identity, and self-definition.

I couldn't be more pleased with how this cd turned out.  The cd release show isn't for a couple of weeks, but I'm putting it up for mailorder in the store because I am too excited to sit on it.


https://ltda.bigcartel.com/

http://symbiosiscamp.bandcamp.com

http://symbiosisspot.blogspot.com

http://symbiosis.bigcartel.com
http://facebook.com/symbiosisbook

ltda 2 - List/Perfect Future split lp

With this record, two cliches come to mind: "better late than never" and more appropriately "worth the wait."

Perfect Future offer up 5 new songs that they recorded in December 2009.  A number of these songs have been played on their tours and on their most recent tour they made a cd-r version in order to have something new for merch.  This is also the last recordings with former bassist Clinton Kitzmiller and drummer Stephen Schrock.  The songs are what you have come to love from Perfect Future: loud emo with loads of riffs.  These songs are much more personal than political, so the sung/shout vocals fit the heartache.

The List side showcases the bands entire recorded output.  This short lived, Portland based band played emo that sounds like it came straight out of a time capsule from the 90's.  You're guaranteed to wear out the grooves on their side of the record.  Unfortunately, List broke up early when this record was being planned due to the deportation of their guitarist back to the UK.

You can pick this up at the new ltda store:
http://ltda.bigcartel.com/

ltda 5 - Unfair Roots - Insomnia

It's the busy season in camp Live Together...Die Alone!  Expect more updates soon.

This is the first CD, I have put out.  It's by Unfair Roots.  The first time I saw this band, they were a drum and guitar duo that played broken drums and through 10 watt practice amps called Fair Root.  I was really excited because Mikey had been in two of my favorite bands, Tunes For Bears to Dance To and Osceola.  However, this was such a radical departure than anything I had heard from him before.  Both he and Phoebe sang timidly into their mics and played their instruments much more quietly than I imagined they would be.  Having been a band for only a couple of months, I thought of them as a promising band that I'd hoped to see again before too long.

A year and a half later, I saw them in a basement in North Carolina on their tour with Suis La Lune and Pala.  At this point, they had evolved into a 4 piece band.  They were playing through half-stacks, and were loud as hell.  I was blown away by how much tighter they had gotten.  In truth, I didn't even recognize a single song they played, even though they had claimed that they played some of those songs at that first show I saw them at.

When they got back from the tour, Mikey and Phoebe decided to lose the other two members they were playing with and to enlist Brendan from Perfect Future on the bass as well as to change their name from Fair Root to Unfair Roots to mark the change in personnel and style.  This full-length debut showcases the dramatic shift.  First off, this record is much more polished, while still retaining all the lo-fi, reverb drenched quality.  Another change is that this album is markedly more fuzzed out and distorted.  The drums pummel their way through the 13 tracks on a remarkably minimalist kit.  The bass wander about the parts, both grounding and adding a dream like quality.  Vocal melodys echo about as if they were coming from a cave off in the distance.  And of course, the guitar work crunches and drives the songs from short pop-dance-alongs to long miserable mope-fests.

I'm excited to release this along with my friends in After Sweet Kiss Records.  In fact, our versions of the album have a slight difference, to make them more collectible and to make nerds who collect (such as myself) sweat.

You can order this (and preorder the upcoming pf/list 12") here!
http://ltda.bigcartel.com/