February 2011
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January 2011
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THE CARRIER - Blind To What Is Right (review)
The first time I put on this album Grand Master Birkir Fjalar MC sent me I was a bit hesitant. “He’s sending me a musclecore album?” was my initial reaction. All core looks the same to the biased eye…
READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW
http://halifaxcollect.blogspot.com/2011/01/carrier-blind-to-what-is-right.html
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Blaqstarr "Rider Girl" (video) →
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R&B weirdo Blaqstarr is the M.I.A. collaborator known for his over-the-top sex lyrics and general sense of weirdness. The crooner recently signed with M.I.A.’s N.E.E.T. Recordings, and his debut release The Divine EP has just dropped. To celebrate, Blaqstarr has leaked out a new video for the single “Rider Girl.”
Today I found myself oddly attracted to this quirky new...
Toro y Moi "Still Sound" (video) →
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Electronic pop/chillwave dude Toro y Moi (née Chazwick Bundick) is set to release his follow-up to Causers of This next month. He already shared the new album track “Still Sound” a little while back, and now he’s given the song the video treatment.
The best new song I heard today.
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Skálmöld: music video for "Kvaðning" →
Skálmöld is the viking metal band to end all the silly and uninformed “Viking Metal” bands out there.
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Good Times With The Dandelion Seeds (stream) →
http://thedandelionseeds.bandcamp.com/album/good-times-with-the-dandelion-seeds
Listen to their four song release via the link above. Get in touch with the band for a physical copy.
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DEERHOOF - Deerhoof Vs Evil →
Ya can’t sell a grower. As soon as that word comes into play, admittedly, I kind of write the thing off. Music moves so goddamn fast these days, especially for the digital generation of music enthusiasts, that it’s hard to go into a record knowing your gonna have to put in extra time before you get to the heart of it. So, right now, I’m pitting myself against a very daunting task. A task to...
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SVART CROWN - Witnessing The Fall →
Review is up now http://halifaxcollect.blogspot.com/2011/01/svart-crown-witnessing-fall.html
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The Most Important Hard, Fast, and Heavy of...
I recently wrote this article for The Reykjavík Grapevine. It appeared issue 1 of 2011 but you can now read it online. I got the daunting task of proclaiming which Icelandic records were most important and why. As if it wasn’t gut wrenching enough, the word limit of 800 made it even harder to clarify why each of the albums was being deemed “most important” by me.
Read the...
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BLOOD OF MARTYRS - Even the Dead Long For Spring... →
BLOOD OF MARTYRS is a curious blend, in the first song, the one I bitched about in the beginning of this review they were rather traditional and bland Black Metal, the kind you’d expect to find downtown in some 10 by 10 storage room singing about sky-high mountains and half naked witches riding goats. The next instance they are off to Experimentalia where rainbows are bleak, not...
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2010: Writers and friends pick... →
Welcome to this fourth installment of the Halifax Collect’s Writers and Friends Records Of The Year! There will be a few installments, such as this one, leading up to the ever so bad ass RECORD OF THE YEAR 2010 READERS’ CHOICE announcement, coming up later in January. The poll is sponsored by the fine folks as A389 Records, Abyss Records and Design By Micha.
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VESTIGES - The Descent Of Man →
This record is brimming with influences and ideas, but it’s not convoluted or uncomfortably dense and instead logical and intelligent.
READ THE WHOLE REVIEW HERE: http://halifaxcollect.blogspot.com/2011/01/vestiges-descent-of-man.html
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WatchThis is my friend’s new band. They are called Gang Related. I like this song and I’d love to hear more. Keep in mind this is a demo.
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THE ORDER OF APPOLYON - The Flesh →
The Flesh is a formidable prospect that threatens that threatens to bring home the bacon but doesn’t quite succeed. But the threat is not without it’s promises though. It’s damn close. There are moments of brilliance, that in turn encourage a careful consideration. That much is given from the get go when a band has members with Aborted, Ackercocke and Cradle Of Filth...
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Jamie XX "I'll Take Care of U" (Gil Scott-Heron... →
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It’s been a prolific day for XX member Jamie Smith. Earlier today (January 6), we pointed to his remixes of English soul singer Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” and a tripped-out, wobbly, snap-beat-laden redo of FaltyDL’s “Hip Love,” as well as a BBC Radio 1 mix. But that’s not all the dude has in store for us.
Halifax Collect says: both remixes rule. Adele never sounded...
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2010: Writers and friends pick... →
Third installment. Lists 7, 8 and 9! Plenty of titles for you to maul on, discover or/and argue about!
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IRONWOOD - Storm Over Sea (plus download) →
IRONWOOD is an interesting band that deals in Black Metal, Folk, and pretty much everything else under the Sun. Instrumental passages are accompanied by wails and then clean vocals then Black Metal parts and then there’s even some progressive rock thrown in. It’s a very busy album, too busy for my taste.
READ MORE http://halifaxcollect.blogspot.com/2011/01/ironwood-storm-over-sea.html
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Blog-Core Pedia & Halifax Collect fling of sorts →
*my boys over at Halifax Collect agreed to let me submit a write-up for my choices for album of the year, 2010. here’s a sample of what can be expected from that…
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