Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
These songs sound like the city would if it were a rock and roll band. They are cacophonous, they sound enormous and noisy, and they sound as if they're bouncing off of concrete walls and are being heard from across the street and through the open window of your third story bedroom late at night. These songs are written by two bands who clearly place great value on the texture of their recordings. On the surface, both seem to play pretty straightforward rock music. But, at the same time, they also place static, distortion, cymbals, and echoes at the front of the mix, creating a soundscape where there might only have been verses, choruses and solos.
Pascal - Hungrigt Hjärta [Hungry Heart] (Demo Version)
I don't understand Swedish, but this song makes me wish that I did. It starts off sounding like something's wrong with the recording, like the tape the song was recorded on has started to decompose and can no longer be played at the right speed. But it breaks into this anthemic, screamed chorus that must be about something either heartbreakingly sad or mindnumbingly uplifting. Either way, it is very, very good and I hope they decide to keep the song as it is instead of rerecording it.
[See the Novoton Records website or the Pascal website for more info]
The Very Hush Hush - Every Little
This song is decidedly less raw than Hungrigt Hjärta. It is clear that every bit of fuzz, white noise and distortion was painstakingly placed into the song to achieve the band's desired texture. It is almost symphonic, in a way, and the result is at once synth-pop, psychedelic rock, and noise.
[Buy the album Mourir C'est Facile from Sao Bento Music]
Update: Novoton has released another excellent Pascal MP3 for your listening pleasure. I think it was to make me feel better for totally missing the Springsteen reference. Where is Jay when you need him?
Pascal - Förbi Fabriken
Pascal - Hungrigt Hjärta [Hungry Heart] (Demo Version)
I don't understand Swedish, but this song makes me wish that I did. It starts off sounding like something's wrong with the recording, like the tape the song was recorded on has started to decompose and can no longer be played at the right speed. But it breaks into this anthemic, screamed chorus that must be about something either heartbreakingly sad or mindnumbingly uplifting. Either way, it is very, very good and I hope they decide to keep the song as it is instead of rerecording it.
[See the Novoton Records website or the Pascal website for more info]
The Very Hush Hush - Every Little
This song is decidedly less raw than Hungrigt Hjärta. It is clear that every bit of fuzz, white noise and distortion was painstakingly placed into the song to achieve the band's desired texture. It is almost symphonic, in a way, and the result is at once synth-pop, psychedelic rock, and noise.
[Buy the album Mourir C'est Facile from Sao Bento Music]
Update: Novoton has released another excellent Pascal MP3 for your listening pleasure. I think it was to make me feel better for totally missing the Springsteen reference. Where is Jay when you need him?
Pascal - Förbi Fabriken
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I dont speak swedish either, but i think it somthing lke this.
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore(Uppsala?), Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
(Chorus)
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart
I met her in a Kingstown bar
We fell in love I knew it had to end
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Now here I am down in Kingstone again
(Chorus)
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Ain't nobody like to be alone
(Chorus)
Inability to call a Boss cover? That's the original sin.
It's from Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album, The River. While you're at it, check out (the album) Darkness on the Edge of Town.
I'm shocked that Jay didn't call me on this earlier, he being popsheep's resident Springsteen fan. My Boss knowledge pretty much starts and ends at Nebraska (which is also true of pretty much all my knowledge).
Somehow this song keeps sounding better and better all the time.
Is Jay on vacation or did he fall off the edge of the earth?
He just made a momentous move to Kelowna, BC (which is pretty close to the underside of the edge of the earth). That's really no excuse, though. Yeah, I'm talkin' to you Jay!
Don't forget to change his contributor info... kelowna, ha!
Yikes, I feel like I have fallen of the end of the earth. This communication was made possible by driving slow through rich kelowna neighbourhoods looking for open wireless networks! My own connection is in the works. And Then I'll be around until I really fall of the edge of earth for real.
Great to see that you guys like Pascal! As their label we're obviously big "fans" ;-). I think they've made this Springsteen cover really cool (i myself am not a big fan of Bruces). I think it's more what might have been if The Ramones (who Springsteen originally wrote that song for) had recorded it at the time. Anyhow it's great to see that good music will be spread no matter what language it is sung in.
For all of you who liked Pascal we have put up another song from their demo (this time written by themselves) called "Förbi Fabriken" (which means "Past The Factory") for downloading. You will find it here: http://www.kyssmig.com/sounds/pascal_forbi_fabriken.mp3
Pascal was totally awesome!!! Even if i didn't understand a word. Thanks for helping me find this gem.
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