The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (FLAC)

It was Saturday, October 30th to be exact, and it must of been around 3:40 am as I stood out on the corner of some barely alive street with a few other people waiting for the same bus as me to take us to Washington D.C. for what would end up being a hugely disappointing John Stewart/Steven Colbert rally. I got on the bus that was already full and found the only open window seat and sat down, my friend sat next to me and I promptly told him:

"As soon as the bus gets out of the streets and onto the highway, I'm turning on music and completely losing my connection to reality."

The bus reached the highway around 4:40 am at which point I was still completely awake. I turned on The Glow Pt. 2 and was ready to give an album that I had been interested in for over 2 years its first listen. By the end of it I was confused and had no fucking clue whether I liked it or not, so I turned it on again. After that second listen, I was certain.

This was my new favorite album ever. For 5 years In Utero stood as the greatest album I had ever heard, but finally, I found something better. Folk incorporating noise rock, experimenting with song structure, using enough crunchy distortion (some of it sounding unintentional, which made it seem even better) to make me think I was chewing a never-ending amount of Dorito's (possibly Cool Ranch, but ever since they changed the packaging cool ranch tastes like shit).

It's been 7 days now since I first heard this album, and it's only 30 plays away from being my most listened album on my last.fm.

If you haven't heard it, prepare to be amazed.
v0 here

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (FLAC)

The Jesus and Mary Chain's debut album, Psychocandy, remastered in FLAC. Adding pop melodies and monotone vocals, the Reids single-handedly (or double-handedly; think about it) reinvented rock music. With searing guitar textures and feedbacking, intuitive melodies and economic drumming, The Jesus and Mary Chain created a behemoth combination of two already enormous '80s music scenes: first wave noise rock, with its experimentalisms and extensive collages of fuzzed-up guitars, and Smiths-esque jangly pop, with its easily digestible sensibilities and bread-and-butter formatting. What came out of this was something completely unique, something like an unstable element, shedding noise and radiation in its wake, searching for that pop sound but falling just short, warped and disfigured.

Get it in FLAC here.

A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (V0)

Exploding Head is the sophomore release by New York noise rock band A Place to Bury Strangers. Their music is an almost lyrical combination of space rock, shoegaze, post-punk and My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything-era noise rock. Exploding Head presents a refinement of A Place to Bury Strangers' debut release, with the occasional delve into post-punk guitar tones and even surf rock. The phrasing and chord changes seem timed almost perfectly to match that exact "diving in" moment in each song, which can only be compared to jumping off of a skyscraper or suddenly finding oneself in a boiler room. If you can get past the Jesus and Mary Chain-esque screeching guitars, this album is a perfect amalgamation of all of the shoegaze and noise rock efforts of the last three decades.

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