Angel's Egg Music Collection [Living in Water] [LP] [VINYL]

Since first bonding over Slowdive at a Texas karaoke bar six years ago, musicians Uriel Avila and Jonathan Perez have grown Trauma Ray into Fort Worth's foremost flag bearer of crushing shoegaze. A five-piece rounded out by bassist Darren Baun, drummer Nicholas Bobotas, and guitarist Coleman Pruitt, the band's debut album, 'Chameleon', captures their evolving sound at an apex of majestic devastation. A fusion of downer hooks, gauzy melancholia, and bulldozer riffs, the album heaves and crashes across 50 minutes of stacked amplifier alchemy. Lyrically the songs trace similarly lofty and brooding terrain; Avila says InchThe theme is death. And a chameleon, like death, can shape-shift in and out our lives in different forms.Inch'Chameleon' opens with InchEmber,Inch dreamy and distant, alternately anthemic and apocalyptic, defeated and deafening. Lead single InchBishopInch perfectly encapsulates Trauma Ray's depth and dimension, ripping out of the gate with Inchthe biggest, baddest, saddest wall of sound.Inch Lyrics about being burnt at the stake and Inchtossed in the flameInch float above a stop-start assault of precision distortion, eventually expanding into a rich, heavy, sorrowful end coda. InchSpectreInch isa mysterious, introspective dirge, envisioned as a Inchmellow, slowcore, Duster-thing,Inch all feeling and heavy fuzz chords (with no lead guitar). Avila wrote it, Inchto be a hymnalInch from the perspective of someone who won't let go - a ghost, an ex, a shadow self.Although the album is rich with subtleties, graceful lulls, and Inchbreaths of air,Inch the band's three guitar attack is it's defining force, a power flexed to it's peak on InchBardo.Inch Perez's intentions were blunt InchI wanted to write a riff that was hard as F**k.Inch The result is alternately mean and eerie, veering between noisy one string bends and surging headbang, mapping a middle ground b

Around the Fur the follow-up to Deftones' passionate, aggressive Adrenaline, sees the California quartet expanding on the sheer rage of their earlier work, adding new, more sinister shades to their already extreme sound. The opening InchMy Own Summer (Shove It),Inch serves as an introduction to the album's sonic theme sinewy guitars and eerie whispers alternate with fast, violent crunch. Sepultura's Max Cavallero contributes guitar and vocals to InchHeadup,Inch while InchMXInch finds singer Chino trading off vocal lines with Annalynn Cunningham, (wife of Deftones' drummer Abe) in an acerbic take on the rock star mentality. Vocal acrobat Moreno attacks a variety of styles his breathy, psychotic recitations sound downright industrial, while the album's calmer, more brooding moments show his gift for haunting melody. Behind him, guitarist Stephen Carpenter's heavy wall of sound is astoundingly muscular, yet inspiringly agile. When Deftones' hellish fury hits full tilt, as it always does on this album, Moreno's voice erupts into screams which are best described as otherworldly, transforming this intense musical firestorm into a hurtling juggernaut of aggression. This LP version comes pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Album Tracks 1. My Own Summer (Shove It) 2. Lhabia 3. Mascara 4. Around the Fur 5. Rickets 6. Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) 7. Lotion 8. Dai the Flu 9. Headup 10. MX

Limited splatter colored vinyl LP pressing. Meteora, Linkin Park's ground-breaking second album, was released in March 2003 and includes the global hit singles InchSomewhere I BelongInch, InchFaintInch, InchNumbInch, InchBreaking The HabitInch and InchFrom The Inside.Inch It has sold over 8 million copies in the US and has been certified multi-platinum, platinum, or gold in 15 countries.