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Release Date: February, 2007
Track List:
1. Untitled Track

Sorry for the lack of posts in the past few days, I've been out of town picking up my re-motored car. Engines need oil and my '95 Honda Civic is no exception. Anyway, now that that's outtadaway, this here is one of two confusingly self-titled releases from the curiously named band from Montreal, Canada, ttttttttttttttttttttt. That's 21 t's before you try and count them all. This is the first self-titled album, and its one track at around 23 minutes. The album could basically be 4 separate tracks in one, but it all flows together pretty nicely. The album starts out with a Pink & Brown sounding fast paced beat with whirlyish guitar strumming before a brief pause and then a whole bunch of snare triplets with some string plucking. Then the music winds up and punches you in the face with a distorted guitar pounding down with each cymbal crash before it finally calms down into a steadily rising distorted bass line. If it wasn't for the third part in this song (that part with the guitar and cymbal abuse) this album might not be worth listening to, but the climax hits you like a train and makes this whole thing worth it.
The album was limited to 51 copies it seems, so this thing is long out of print. They've got a newer album for sale on their myspace, so if you dig this make sure you support them by buying something else.

get it
myspace

Wizardzz - Hidden City of Taurmond

Release Date: March, 2006
Track List:

1. "Disembark" – 0:46
2. "Sailship" – 2:52
3. "Whispers from Wallface" – 3:00
4. "Glimpse of the Hidden City" – 1:59
5. "Jelipper-Lilly Field" – 3:17
6. " 'Do Come In!' (Tea and Chulliwugs)" – 1:27
7. "Sea Battle at Orkusk" – 4:16
8. "Diamond Mirror" – 1:20
9. "Chasing Our Shadows" – 2:57
10. "Ambushed by a Time Quagga" – 1:12
11. "Bubiliad Woods of Taurmond" – 6:13
12. "Ladydragons" – 7:29
13. "Rest at the Gate" – 1:58
14. "Mimi Vivian Sunrise" (Live) – 5:24

I'm feeling generous today, here's another Lightning Bolt related post. This is the first and, so far, only release from the psychedelic noise pop duo, Wizardzz. Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt plays drums and Rich Porter of Bug Sized Mind handles the electronics. This album is a journey through a magical wonderland of cotton candy mountains giving way to dragons and wizards thrown in a blender and placed in a colosseum to battle warlocks with battle-axes and spirit warriors with candy canes. If that sounds nerdy, it is. Gibson and Porter here play their instruments as if they were directing Frodo and the gang through the shire and up to Mt. Doom, except instead of throwing in the ring, they take a hit of acid. Just close your eyes and imagine a red wizard and a blue wizard navigating through hills and valleys and fighting big fucking beasts and using healing potions and all that shit. Maybe that's just me, but I can't help but think that Wizardzz had something like this in mind when they made these jams. I think this video sums it all up pretty well:

Who knew Gibson could destroy on the drums? If my horrible description didn't throw you off, check out the album
here
And then buy it here

Mindflayer - Die & Mold Services

Track List:
1. Die & Mold
2. Mold & Die


What better first post for a Lightning Bolt reference-titled blog than a Lightning Bolt related band? If you didn't know, Mindflayer is the duo of Brian Chippendale (drummer of Lightning Bolt) and Matt Brinkman (electric noise wizard of Forcefield). If that isn't enough information to warrant an immediate download of all things Mindflayer, you're fucking lame. But I don't want to start insulting people in my first blog post, just download this. I guess only 1,000 copies of this were made on 220 gram vinyl. I feel pretty awesome for finding this in a suburban record store in that case. I don't know if I own any other 220 gram vinyl, cause this beast is HEAVY. The sound quality is totally excellent too, but you can't download vinyl so you're getting some data files on the computer. Oh yeah I guess 200 of the 1,000 were on color vinyl, either puke green or neon green and unfortunately I'm one of the 800 who got boring old regular-colored records. Anyway, there are points in this record where I'm like, "Holy crap." As in, holy crap this comes damn near close to rivaling Lightning Bolt in all its glory. I think its unfair to relate everything Chippendale does back to Lightning Bolt though. Sure, his drumming sounds pretty damn similar in everything he does, but I don't consider this, or any other Chippendale (or Gibson, for that matter) projects as "side-projects." I've always hated that term cause to me it implies that it is somehow not as good or important as its "center-project." I've done a bit of rambling so let me wrap this up. This isn't the best Mindflayer album, but there are some damn awesome moments in it that make this worthwhile. Plus its kinda rare so you can impress your friends with it.

Looks like Lightning Bolt, smells like Lightning Bolt, sounds like Mindflayer.
Listen and Decide for Yourself