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With Black Map, Mark Engels rediscoverd his joy in pure rock – as much is clear on every second of '…And We Explode': snappy riffs, a tightly fitting groove, and theoretically always in spitting direction of bombast.
Mark Engles hat mit Black Map die Lust am puren Rock wiedergefunden - das hört man '...And We Explode' zu jeder Sekunde an: die Riffs knallen, der Groove sitzt passgenau, der Bombast ist theoretisch stets in Reichweite.
Seit dem 2011 veröffentlichten 'The King Is Dead', das es bis zur Spitze der US-Billboard-Charts schaffte, sind ein paar Jährchen vergangen. Untätig war die Truppe rund um den schrulligen Colin Meloy aus Portland, Oregon in der Zwischenzeit keineswegs. Neben zahlreichen anderweitigen Projekten und Auftritten haben sie mit 'What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World' ein introvertiertes wie stellenweise auch politisches Album im, für die Band typischen, folkigen Indierock-Stil veröffentlicht.
Noah Lennox, auch bekannt unter dem Namen Panda Bear, ein Teil des fabelhaften Animal Collective, veröffentlicht mit seiner neuen Platte 'Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper' schöne Sound-Schnipseleien, die einen guten Ton und eine hohe Latte für das kommende Musikjahr 2015 vorlegen.
Soundgarden haben es seit jeher verstanden auszusieben und ihr bestes Material entsprechend auf den regulären Studioalben in Szene zu setzen. Dennoch ist die Raritätensammlung 'Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path' ein endlich wahr gewordener Fantraum.
Thou from Baton Rouge are the mightiest doom force on the planet for some time now, as their spotless, overwhelming discography impressivly proves. And still, 2014 will be remembered as a unprecedented peak in the bands history, with one stroke of genious after the other: 'Heathen' and 'The Sacrifice' and 'Released from Love', the first of two epic collaboration with The Body, which will find it's imposing continuation in 2015. And while a visit to Europe seems to remain a pipe dream for now, Thou do the honors and take care of day 24 in the Heavy Pop advent calendar: guitarist Andy Gibbs presents some of his albums of the year.
It is known that there might be up to six years between records by The Notwist; also that each and every second of waiting time between them is probably worth it. 'Close to the Glass' is another demonstration for this, by not only being a prime example for all their strenghts, but also being their most diverse and layered work to date. This isn’t the only thing that is nourishing for the next few years, The Notwist stay present even outside of their album: the so far limited edition only collection '[amazon_link id="B00QG15R6Y" target="_blank" ]The Messier Objects[/amazon_link]' gets a regular release soon, and on top of that there’s another tour pending (including a visit to Graz on March 25th 2015). Meanwhile, Markus Acher tells us his recommendations of the past months for the Heavy Pop advent calendar.
Melt-Banana did not promise too much: with 'Longhena' Gridlink released the best grind record of the year, and maybe also the last act of their peaking carreer. Jon Chang not only found the time to tell us about his favourite records of this past year 2014 for the Heavy Pop advent calender, he’s also giving out presents left and right: countless demos from all phases of Gridlink are on his Dropbox – and his Facebook page is always worth a look.
Toby Driver already has an idea where the next album will bring his band. Listening to their last album 'Coffins on Io', the most headstrong pop album of 2014, which Kayo Dot used to invent themselves anew, to expand their horizon over to spacestations floating trapped in an 80s timeloop, one hast o think: anything is possible. Until then Mr. Driver tells us which records accompanied him through the year 2014 – and we hope to see him and his band in Europe in 2015.
'This World' works as interface between the acoustic landscapes of Grails and Slint, the two closely related bands that qualify Watter as – excuse the marketing-speak – supergroup. First and foremost though, Zak Riles, Tyler Trotter and Britt Walford made their debut a beautiful and mystically surreal voyage through the bluring borderlands of post- and krautrock. To ease the waiting time for their Euro tour at the start of 2015 (with dates in Linz on Feb 12th and Vienna on Feb 14th), Mr. Riles tell us about his favourite records of the year for the Heavy Pop advent calendar.
