Songs:
Love crimes (single from upcoming EP)

This is some sort of monster or ghost song. I’m a sucker for these kind of things. I have over 40 Alice Cooper records, everything Rob and White Zombie ever released, and psychobilly with a touch of living dead is always nice. Now, this isn’t musically really like any of these but it sort of gave me the same vibes.

‘Love crimes’ is beat oriented with some lo-fi grit and distorted chorus synths and/or guitars. It doesn’t hit right on the mark but I’ll probably check out their (or his) upcoming EP. The heavy riffing in the break gets two monster thumbs up.

‘Love crimes’ MP3

Dark Disco Club website

Record Rocker is blessed with the presence of a new reviewer, namely composer/designer/VO artist/etc. etc. Jonathan Grand (who by the way did our new header!).

Songs:
Endless dream
Waking nightmare

Golden Death Music is definitely music I don’t normally listen to, which is cool, I’m always open to new stuff… Well, at least some days I am. My initial reaction is “dreamy”. That’s the one word I’d use to describe this music. The vocals isn’t really something for me (but they’re odd, and that in itself is nice). Despite not being my kind of music at all, I actually find ‘Endless dream’ pleasant to listen to. The guitar - slide or just heavy processed - is nice. ‘Waking nightmare’ don’t leave any real impressions on me.

- stiff

I found the use of Hare Krishna-ish loops and sound effects a tad annoying, as was the echo on the singer. I sensed that Golden Death Music had played a to much with the music program. But once I got past that they managed to create an air of mystique in the room. These songs would definitely increase the feeling of spirituality if listened to in a shrine or a temple or even a common church.

I would go and see this act if they played a venue near me, but I’d make sure the place had a large beer supply.

- Free foe

Golden Death Music on Myspace

Continuing with my Junior Kimbrough reviews, I’d like to follow up with blues legend Buddy Guy’s cover album. It’s not entirely Junior Kimbrough, but mostly. It’s actually not entirely a cover album, but mostly. The name ‘Sweet tea’ is from the Oxford, Mississippi based studio ‘Sweet tea’ and the album is thus engineered and mixed by Dennis Herring (The Hives among others).
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I didn’t know Scarlett Johansson was an actor (some say an actress -ed.) before I heard this and I’m glad I didn’t, actors are phonies and can’t make music. They should stick with what they know, earn more money than they deserve by doing crappy american movies before retiring to doing even crappier sitcoms.
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I don’t reccon that wanting Elton John playing at your wedding is a unique thought. So I guess he is a man who’s managed to put a melody to many womens feelings.
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Alice In Chains: pretty good grungy band, that I haven’t dug deep into. Collections: only worth buying if you don’t intend to dig too deep into a band by not buying the albums, or if you’re an insane collector that should be locked up for spending your wife’s money on stupid things like ‘essential collections’.
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When I first lerned that superknown actress Scarlett Johansson had gone into the album making business I was immediately interested. I do like the pretentious girls, I won’t lie about that. But I was also a bit suspicious. Crossing between acting and music making is not known to be a great mixture, there are known examples of lame attempts.
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Former Mayhem vocalist/psycho Maniac has teamed up with Kvarforth from the outstanding swedish band Shining to perform some sort of black metal rooted doom with noise entitled Skitliv (swedish and norwegian I suppose for “shit life”). Sounds like something for me. While they could hope for winning an award for strangest album title, they certainly won’t win any awards for best album.
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Black Keys is a band cursed to be compared to the White Stripes. For me there’s no comparison, Black Keys eats the Stripes for breakfast. Chulahoma is fellow fat possum Junior Kimbrough’s hometown so it just makes sense that this is a Junior-only cover album.
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