Veils – Our Enlightment Is Dead

Morality by Veils

Veils (bandcamp) is punk full of angst. Combining elements of modern screamo and modern (dark/melodic/emotional) hardcore music, feauturing female high-pitched and tormented vocals, still with a distinct british accent. The drums and guitars are extremely versatile, elevating all kinds of influences into a stable blend of a very specific signature style. Hard, heartful and melodic, mostly in punk-rock and powerchord strumming with passionate yet harsh singing, and some fitting guest-vocals in Goodtime Boys’ signature style.
Last fm tags as  hardcore, screamo, melodic hardcore, emotional, emo

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Brain Fever – Brain Fever

the hunt by Brain Fever

LOUD NOISES! Brain Fever (blog) is a screamy and noisy post-hardcore band who’s sound revolves almost entirely around star/stop awkward time-structures and the female vocalist’s frantic and hysterical shouting. The guitars do little other than weep and moan to add an atmosphere of noise and general obnoxious loudness to the epileptic music, while the drums keep the unpredictable instrumentations confined in a neat little package. It’s invigorating to see how this band accomplishes such a broad sound that builds up and breaks down so comprehensively and always in such a short amount of time -the longest ‘song’, by far, is 1 minute 38 seconds(apart from the outro). It’s modern hardcore music elevating their particular influences, of an obsolete style of hardcore, to another level.
Last fm tags as screamo, noise punk, noise, post-hardcore,math

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Stresscase - Cut Me Off

Lean x Cuisine by Stresscase

Female–fronted powerviolence band Stresscase (bandcamp) is extremely straight forward grinding hardcore punk, expertly crafted to a level that many ‘bigger’ bands in the style could very well be envious of. Clocking in at less than 7 minutes, these five songs chug, thrash straight up pummeling their way through the swamp of powerviolence, supporting words that are clever both lyrically as topically.
Last fm tags as hardcore, hardcore punk, powerviolence, thrash core, female fronted hardcore punk

this was released on Effusion Records

Out Of The Box On Sunday XXX

All the Wolves That I ve Known by Matt Bauer

Sadcore folk music. Matt Bauer (website) makes pitch black music founded on just his voice and banjo-playing. From that point on, this music is built layer after layer of melodramatic gloom in the form of brilliantly orchestrated folk and country music. Matt's voice is incredible in it's trembling and conveying sentiments of sheer melancholy, sometimes accompanied by the equally fragile voice of Jolie Holland, which results in an incredible contrast of duetting male/female voices. I've been sitting on writing a review about this since its release, and would like to mention that this is probably my favorite record released this year.

Last fm tags as folk, singer-songwriter, banjo, alt-country,country 

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