Stevie Moore R. - Afterlife - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

What happens when R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner get together to record, arrange, and mix R. Stevie's songs? We get to hear an audacious realization of these songs' full potential in an epic collaboration no one saw coming. Moore and Falkner burst through your door with InchI H8 PplInch and take you on a journey through rock, pop, and experimental textures. Anchors such as InchPlay My Self Some MusicInch and InchSincero Amore,Inch keep the effort focused, while guitar-only interludes and spoken word pieces push boundaries. Moore and Falkner are legends on their own but, as Make It Be loudly announces, their voices, performances, and arrangements have always been a match made in heaven waiting to be realized on earth.

*ON LIMITED NEON GREEN VINYL!!! The first album from unconventional Polish power trio Species, To Find Deliverance, leveled one with it's rare blend of technical thrash prowess and unorthodox but highly inspired songwriting, enough to make 20 Buck Spin's best of 2022 album list. Out of that list a collaboration was born and now Species make their 20 Buck Spin debut with second album Changelings. A step up in every regard, Changelings is astonishing in it's accomplished precision and how much it manages to achieve within the scope of individual tracks and as a cohesive whole. The album features an overload of angular guitar warfare, traditional Euro-thrash aggression with a modern resonance, rhythmic percussive seizures, and intricate basslines that make their intention deeply felt, not just following the guitar but dialoguing with it in a way that offers a second melodic brain to the album. In combination these elements thread seamlessly to give Changelings it's colorful and uncanny vision, as if John Carpenter had co-produced Rust In Peace behind the iron curtain. It's bristling with sci-fi paranoia, alien terror and a hint of Cold War menace. The early convergence of thrash metal with death metal is also unmistakably present in the shape-shifting sound of Species.While there's more than enough primitive and traditional thrash bands to go around, Species embraces the genre's lesser-travelled road of forward-thinking virtuosity and inventive experimentation, showing there's still plenty of fertile ground to seed new musical territory. Nowhere is it more apparent than on 10-minute album closer InchBiological MasterpieceInch, where Species displays all it's weapons; hyperspeed assaults, dystopian lulls and instrumental mastery, in a climatic saga beyond space and time. Changelings is that rare album nowadays that still has the ability to surprise in the most triumphant

No Wakeman or Anderson on this 1980 LP, which still hit #18! This hard-rocker featuring Tempus Fugit now has 10 bonus cuts including unissued single versions and tracking sessions.