Sunday, May 23, 2010

Roads To Shiloh


RTS were an early late 90's early 00's hardcore/screamo band from Ottawa Ontario with an incredibly raw sound. I know very little about them, and I can't even remember where I got this. All I do know is that each of their songs have ties to agriculture in some way or another and apparently that the band's members went on to play in Van Johnstone.
This is one of the most played albums in my music library and "Like Trees in November" is one of my all time favorite songs.

Discography

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Score One For Safety


I for one, find it extremely tedious when others try to (over) classify bands and musical styles, music (I believe) is carnal, and plain and simple, should not need to sound esoteric when being described. Alas, at the risk of sounding pretentious I must attribute to the many interesting qualities of Score One For Safety's style that blend different musical elements together creating something much more than a standard skram album. This being said, as I attempt further classification I must add that each album in and of itself is inherently different from each other although each contains mostly rather long (>5 min) song structures.
Yoni is my favorite, it contains elements of post-rock which fuse nicely together creating a very atmospheric screamo sound, especially in the final track with the use of a viola.
Animals and Objects is a more punky and youthful substandard skram release, not much interesting going on here.
Lastly, the Castles EP signals the end of the band and is a further refined continuation of Yoni. The real gem on this EP is definitely the first song, probably my favorite of any of theirs, but with only two tracks (plus one unreleased bonus which is just instrumental) it is somewhat hard to judge where SOFS was heading.

After splitting, members of SOFS went on to join the bands Lahars and All Empires of the World.

For fans of I Would Set Myself On Fire For You.

Animals and Objects EP
Yoni LP
Castles EP (+bonus track)