Fuck Buttons – “The Red Wing”

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Very Warm

Not only is it named after my favorite NHL team, it’s a damn good piece of experimental electronic/noise. Hell yeah. Fuck Buttons’ new album “Slow Focus” is great and y’all should listen to it immediately. If you haven’t heard of Fuck Buttons, look up their album “Tarot Sport.” That’ll do the trick.

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New: Hot Chip – “Dark & Stormy”

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Very Warm

Hot Chip have a new song out, you can preorder a 10″ they’re releasing later this year over at Domino. It’s a pretty killer track, like most of Hot Chip’s discography. The chorus has a great, epic dance groove. I wonder if Hot Chip has anything else up their sleeves for this year, even though they released a stellar album last year, “In Our Heads.”

Woo

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Hudson Mohawke – Thunder Bay

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Very Warm

Wooooof. One half of TNGHT. Makes interplanetary bangers.

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Boards of Canada – Roygbiv

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Very Warm

Boards of Canada are one of the best music groups of all time.

New album on Warp coming June 11th, called Tomorrow’s Harvest.

Pick that shit up.

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New Merchandise – “Anxiety’s Door”

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Very Warm

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Merchandise if you are unfamiliar, are a new wave/post punk band based in Tampa, FL with members from many of the most prolific punk bands in Tampa’s scene. Their LP they released last year, “Children of Desire” placed in my Top 20 Albums of the year and their song “In Nightmare Room” placed in the Top 20 Songs of 2012 as well. They’re also my sixth most played artist on my Last.Fm. (Which is http://www.last.fm/user/BadGeist if any of y’all want to check it out) Needless to say, but they’re effortlessly becoming one of my favorite bands of the moment.  When I heard that they’re releasing an EP this year, I got pretty excited. That excitement was only encouraged when the first single, “Anxiety’s Door” came out.

The song is classic Merchandise, solid drum machine beat backing up the thorny, winding guitars that snake throughout the background of the song, giving a backdrop of feedback along with pushing the song forward. The vocals are as great as ever, crooning out and dripping with romanticism and abandon.

Well, check it out when you can. Also, first post of 2013! Woo!

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Warm Visions’ Favorite 102 Songs of 2012

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Very Warm

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So. If you noticed in the title, there aren’t 100 songs on here like most other lists you’ll find. There’s 102. Why, you might ask? Well because I just couldn’t bring myself to round off the list at just 100. It bore too much on my musical soul. There were just so many good songs this year I didn’t have the heart to leave some of them out. I had a list of about 130 songs that I simply adored, but I whittled it down to 102 while ranking 50 of them as my Top 50. I know there’s something about quality over quantity, but THIS IS QUALITY. All of these songs are some of the best I’ve ever heard. Believe it.

So, in the first 52, it’s just songs that I immensely enjoyed, all of them place in the same position in terms of rank. None of them should rank last or first in the first 52. Just alphabetically. There aren’t any songs anywhere on this list that in your mind should rank as “bad” or “worst” or whatever. They’re great!

In the TOP 50, the songs will be “ranked” in some fashion. They’ve all moved around several times, so the number it’s listed as doesn’t mean much. It mostly depends on what I was feeling at the time. Besides the Top 5, which has been pretty much stable throughout the entire year. So check it out, y’all. You can click the song names to direct you to a Youtube video of the song. Have a good time!

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Warm Visions’ Top 50 Albums of 2012

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Very Warm

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Hey y’all it’s that time of year again. The time that I’ve been waiting for. To release my FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2012! This year was a doozy, in terms of discovering new music and my tastes branching out to styles I had never even considered before. I’ve definitely surrounded myself with people with more diverse tastes in music than my own, which has led me to grow a new found appreciation for styles of music like doom metal, electronic ambient, emo and MORE. Sure, most of the albums on here are mainstream indie material, but I feel like it’s a more varied list than ever before!

I’ve definitely enjoyed this year a lot more than I thought I would. In the beginning of the year I began relationship with an amazing girl (I still am with her, and she’s taught me a lot about music that I’d never think about learning before), I started working at my college’s radio station this summer, I’m becoming more acquainted with those who are in the local music scene, went to CMJ this fall… so many fantastic experiences. I hope 2012 was a great year for you as well, valued readers.

Let’s check this thang out!

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Favorite Albums of 2012: Honorable Mentions

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Very Warm

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Hey there were a lot of fantastic albums this year. Like, a lot. Wow. Crazy. Here’s a list of albums that were all once part of the Top 50 but eventually got pushed out due to albums that had a more lasting effect on me. There are 25 of them. There are about 20 more that I could have included in here, but that would have just resulted in a Top 100. I couldn’t do that. Too much work. These are all super good though, so check them out when you can!

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Glocca Morra – “Y’all Boots Hats? (Die Angry),” Dads – “Get To the Beach” and Twinklecore General

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Very Warm

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AW YEAH SUPER PASSIONATE ROCK MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU WANNA DO FUN AND STUPID STUFF EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE STUCK IN COLLEGE AW YEAH

So that’s about the gist of “Twinklecore” music that I’ve been listening to a lot of recently. It’s full of anthemic verses and lyrics, shouting vocals full of energy and heart, and complex instrumentals, mostly quickly picked guitar melodies with intricate percussion rhythms. It’s really a combination of early emo rock and the super dense elements of math rock. That is, before it goes into a sonic assault against your brain with a wall of sound smashing your ear drum, like many good rock songs do. Yeah, some people might diss on the vocals for being cracky or not very good, but that’s just the live and hearty aspect of them: they didn’t go into a studio and make it manufactured to sound professional, this is raw material.

It’s righteous stuff and I feel like I wouldn’t have been introduced to it if I hadn’t moved to the East Coast, it definitely sounds like being cramped up with a bunch of other twenty-somethings in a small apartment in the big city or in the middle of nowhere being surrounded by people believing that the East Coast is the safe haven for economic stability, when in fact tons of people are suffering out here, too. But they also hold that youthful, angsty energy that comes along with High School or being a social outcast. It’s sad at times, but very powerful. Bands that definitely pioneered the sound for these bands to follow would be American Football, Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc and more. So if you like this stuff, you might as well go to the kings of the style.

Phew. Alright. Well, the music is great, anyways. I’m just now getting into this kind of music, so if you have any gripes with my writings, make sure to educate me. Check these two bands, Glocca Morra and Dads, out since they’re going to be on my Top 50 Albums of 2012 list that should be coming out sometime soon.

Have a nice week!

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El Polen – “Mi Cueva”

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Very Warm

I’ve been getting really into world music lately. World music, meaning music that wasn’t made by “Western” culture of the US and UK, is a bit of an ignorant term but it seems like the only blanket term I can label music from Peru, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Mali, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, etc. Ah well, I’ve found that music from other countries past is a refreshing breath of air getting away from the pop music of today and even most of the stuff I listen to.

Now, getting into this fantastic group: El Polen is a band from the Andes mountains in Peru and they made a wonderful hybrid of psyche/hippie rock that was popular in that time and traditional Andean music. Their songs include instruments like flutes and jangling percussion, they sing in Spanish and the vocals are set in these infectious, layered harmonies. The album, Fuera De La Ciudad, is ripe with sincere energy and raw emotion and is lo-fi in the sense that it was recorded in one take, it’s all very live. There are little fuzzy spots and blips in the recording, but it sounds like the band crowded in one small room with friends and created a work of art. There isn’t a single part of this album I don’t like. It’s warm like a handwoven sweater and feels like a gathering of all your closest family and friends celebrating life with you.

The song that I’ve chosen to showcase is probably the most “Western” song out of the album, featuring a guitar line I’d expect to hear in an old folky song from the 60’s/70’s and a bassline that I’d probably hear in like a soul song by the Temptations or something. There are a few violin solos and they’re really jazzy and sound improvised yet confident. Then the dreamy, harmonized vocals come in and remind me a bit of Beach Boys a bit, a bit of Panda Bear too. Then another violin solo comes in that bounces around in the soundscape like a jovial bride romping around in an open field. It’s a really fun song, much like the rest of the album. So if you like this, you have so much to listen to after that you’ll love. Check out “Mi Cueva” below:

If you loved that, you can download the whole album here

I’ll probably have a world themed music show on WHUS next semester, so watch out for that as well!

Have a great day!

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