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Their fourth record 'Shelter' is a huge change of style for the french duo Alcest, leaving all Black Metal trademarks from the past behind to focus on a more Postrock and even poppy Shoegaze-Sound. Drummer an Les Discrets-musician Winterhalter talked right before the concert in Vienna at January 17th of 2013 about this paradigm shifts among other things.
'This Is Our Punk-Rock...' war als Titel bereits vergeben, hätte aber ohnedies zu kurz gegriffen. Auf ihrem siebenten Studioalbum versammelt das Kollektiv um Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Vorstand Efrim Menuck einen Malstrom aus wüsten Punksongs in Postrockweiten samt heavy Metalexplosionen, scharfkantigen Gitarrenkonstrukten und brodelnden Violinenstacheln, fiebrigen Droneaufbauten und wilden Noiseabfahrten: strahlende Folkrockdiamanten und übermächtige Hymnen sind das. 'Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything', wahrhaftig!
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One thing Duane Denison definitely did not experience in 2013 was boredom. There was the (once again) reunion of noiserock-overlords The Jesus Lizard or the foundation of supergroup The Unsamble (featuring Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten and Silver Jews' Brian Kotzur) – but first and foremost there was 'Oddfellows', the might-as-well-be comeback and possibly best work by the even superer group Tomahawk. And thanks to Denison's varied choices for his records of the year and the HeavyPop Advent calendar, there's no place for boredom here, either.
Day 18 of the HeavyPop Advent calendar brings us France's most intense band. Usually friends of rapid-fire releases (three and a half records over the course of five years) Lyon's Celeste took nearly three years to meticulously craft their Opus Magnum 'Animale(s)', and every second of work shows on their pitch-black conceptual work of art. Never before did Celeste sound more detailed, more coherent – in short: better. It was hard to imagine after the already outstanding 'Morte(s) Nee(s)', but Celeste outdid themselves again.
The first Melt-Banana album after six years – furthermore the first album as duo with synthetic Bass- and Drumtracks – could have been anticipated with mixed feelings. And singer Yasuko and genius Guitarist Agata? Release 'Fetch' one of their best albums so far, a Melt-Banana fireworks extravaganza, with the only downside being that the next album may again be away half a decade. On day 17 of the HeavyPop Advent calender the Japanese cult outfit tells us about their favourite records of 2013 – and beyond.
On 01st of december 2013 Klaus Zwinger met with the american singer-songwriter Koji right before and musician and activist opened the Into It. Over It. gig at the Arena in Vienna to talk among other things about the recent tour and future plans.
On their self titled debut album California X served a sweaty party with immense groove, brilliant guitar work and many catchy hits somewhere between Torche and Dinosaur Jr.: so beside any name-dropping and fueled with a rocking punkrock spirit similar to Japandroids a headbanging highlight of the year and a huge promise to the future. And also a good reason to ask bassplayer Dan for the Heavypop advent calender what five records the band from Amherst enjoyed the most in 2013. In no particular order that would be...
"I may be an optimist" declares Josh Mann on 'Bright Lights', and not without reason: on their sophomore album (and their first on Uncle M) 'The Smoke Will Clear' , the Australian quartet Paper Arms honoured every promise their debut 'Days Above Ground' made to predict them as one of the up and coming young punk rock bands. So while Paper Arms can view into the future quite optimistically, singer/guitarist Josh Mann took his time for the Heavypop Advent calender to compile his favourite 5 records of the past year 2013.
Das vierte Future of the Left Album beginnt mit 'Bread, Cheese, Bow and Arrow', einer stoischen, stakkatohaften Riffkaskade die insgeheim der potentiell beste Helmet-Song seit eineinhalb Dekadenist, und endet mit 'Why aren't I Going to Hell', einer rostigen Halbballade in Horror-Schieflage, die Therapy? so auch auf 'Suicide Pact - You First' bringen hätten können. Dazwischen ist 'How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident' beinahe makellos angepisster Noiserock mit einem Bein in der Irrenanstalt - in Summe aber doch das bisher zerfahrenste Werk der Band.
