Unwound - Fake Train - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Scowl is a band that sounds exactly like their name implies.Venomous, fierce, antagonistic. A sneer not to be crossed. Over the last fiveyears, the Santa Cruz, California, band has firmly planted their flag in thehardcore scene with their vicious sound and ripping live show, sharing stagesaround the world with Circle Jerks, Touché Amoré, and Limp Bizkit, and fillingslots at prominent festivals like Coachella, Sick New World, and Reading andLeeds. But with their new album, Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans), Scowl isaiming to funnel all that aggression through a more expansive version ofthemselves.Much of Are We All Angels grapples with Scowl's newfound place inthe hardcore scene, a community which has both embraced the band andmade them something of a lightning rod over the past few years. Standoutsingle InchNot Hell, Not HeavenInch outright rejects the narratives cast onto them byoutsiders. InchIt's about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting toidentify with being a victim,Inch explains vocalist Kat Moss. InchIt's trying to find gracein the fact that I have my power. I live in my reality. You have to deal withwhatever you're dealing with, and it ain't working for me.Inch The band breaks froma sense of disassociation to seek deeper connections on InchFantasy.Inch InchIt'sincredibly challenging to try to balance my love for the scene while also feeling,in some spaces, extremely alienated and hated,Inch Moss says. Inch'Fantasy' is aboutfeeling like I don't know how to connect with these people anymore, because Ihave shelled myself away so hard.InchThe album ends in a philosophical place on the closing, titular track,InchAre We All Angels,Inch asking questions like, InchIs this all there is?Inch and ultimatelyputting it on the listener to decide. InchIt's about the personal struggle betweengood and evil. It doesn't matter how 'good' or 'bad' you are, there

Paul Conway writes InchIn 2017 Martin Jones visited the National Library of Wales, and uncovered manuscript scores of these and many other piano works written by the young Dan Jones. InchThe depth and range of the works presented on this suggest that Jones was a natural composer for the piano and until his symphonic odyssey had begun, he used this medium, along with that of the string quartet, for some of his most profound utterances.Inch The Fantasia in E flat minor (1944) is delightfully eclectic, alighting fleetingly upon assorted styles and modes of expression in it's magpie invention. The Lento malinconico (1949) expresses nobility and tenderness, as well as defiance and, finally, dignity and acceptance.Inch

Meeting at the halfway point between Bleach and Damaged, Unwound's 1995 self-titled album arrived years after the original trio of Vern Rumsey, Justin Trosper, and Brandt Sandeno made their Avast Studios debut. Compiling their EPs for Kill Rock Stars and Gravity Records with five more session outtakes, Unwound was released on Rumsey's Punk In My Vitamins as the band began flirting with the mainstream. Witness a band's prehistory as it plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.