
Spider Goat Canyon - Shades Of Joy
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It doesn't happen often that a cd arrives on your doorstep, you listen to it a few times and you still have no clue what to write about it. Australia’s Spider Goat Canyon is one of those bands who managed that. "Shades Of Joy" is their first full lenght release, and lenghty it is. Clocking in at almost 73 minutes, it offers you a trip through this band’s state of mind.
The band’s biography talks about the following: "A mix of Fu Manchu, Sonic Youth and Mogwai gone metal, and eerie, hypnotic, anvil heavy grooves". After numerous listenings, I can only agree. The band is very expiremental in nature, often utilizing slow, heavy rhytms and droning guitars. The occasional samples pop up their heads now and most of the (sparingly used) vocals are an understandable growl or just spoken word. The overal composition of the cd would do well as a soundtrack to an arty movie about vague arty stuff. It's hard to select a few single tracks that stand out because of the experimental nature of this band.
The band seems to be a jam band mainly, which shows in the overal songstructures. Oftenly starting with a beat, bass or guitarriff, the whole band builds onto the individiual segments, and only in rare occasions you’ll hear a song that has a standard structure. Heck, the song "Metallic Fly" is basically a 4 minute track where the main element is a high pitched buzz/fly sound, and "Nanobes" could just as well be an uptempo ISIS song. Some tracks are weird, some rock, and some try to get a sort of ambient atmosphere across. Fans of creative, droning and experimental music in general should definitely give it a try. For other people, download some samples from www.spidergoatcanyon.com and learn to appreciate it. This record is a piece of creative music instead of a commercially marketable cd with songs, and to quote Undertow Recording’s promotalk: "This is music for fans of Neurosis, The Melvis, Mogwai, etc". Which it is.
Track Listing: 01 Day Break 02 Spider Goat Canyon 03 Recveational Chemo 04 R.S.I. 05 Moment In Time 06 Steve's Curious And Surreal Adventures In The Real 07 Nunlicker 08 Toaster 09 Metallic Fly 10 Feathered Rat 11 Prescriptions 12 Passive Stoner 13 Jizz Bottla 14 Nanobes 15 Circular Saw 16 Return Of The Jizz 17 Groove Canvas 18 Place Of Grocereal Coolness |
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Metallica contest until 18-10-2008
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