Terminals sans crooks apparently new lp all ready to go - no 3ds news to speak of
― peanutbuttereverysingleday, Monday, 24 October 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
And here's that new Terminals news:
http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products?keywords=antiseptic
The Terminals are the best rock band New Zealand has ever produced.Period. I know there’s heavy competition, but believe it. No group haslasted over three decades and maintained intensity, structure and moodbetter than the core team of Steven Cogle and Peter Stapleton. Cogle’svoice is a quavering incantation of deep spell-casting, throwing moredirt onto the already gritty guitar squalls. Stapleton’s rhythmsection propels songs through lightning charges of tempo and energy.Age has only embedded The Terminals’ mastery to deeper sonic realms.The ten years between their last album, Last Days of the Sun, and therelease of Antiseptic, whip by in a flash when you play these recordsnext to each other. The Terminals never disappoint, they never relent.Antiseptic does mark some changes, however. Longtime guitarist BrianCrook now lives in the California desert, so Nicole Moffat hasreplaced him, providing violin and vocals. Mick El Borado thickens theatmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing. A group that hasstayed together so long knows instinctively where a song can go,although it is often the maverick pieces – ones that at first don’tseem to belong -- that end up on the records. Their work together hasbecome only more sagacious, and The Terminals don’t waste an intendedor improvised note. Antiseptic is a peerless rock album, unless youcan think of another group who’ve stayed as heavy, as broke, andconsistent for this long.
Antiseptic does mark some changes, however. Longtime guitarist BrianCrook now lives in the California desert, so Nicole Moffat hasreplaced him, providing violin and vocals. Mick El Borado thickens theatmosphere with his improvisational keyboard playing. A group that hasstayed together so long knows instinctively where a song can go,although it is often the maverick pieces – ones that at first don’tseem to belong -- that end up on the records. Their work together hasbecome only more sagacious, and The Terminals don’t waste an intendedor improvised note. Antiseptic is a peerless rock album, unless youcan think of another group who’ve stayed as heavy, as broke, andconsistent for this long.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 April 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Bandcamp page up for that new Terminals album
https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antiseptic
Listening to an advance now -- it's very great! Long may they thrive in whatever configuration.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 May 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link
I like Venus Trail fine, but am much more enthusiastic about the 2 on 1 disc of Fish Tales and Swarthy Songs for Swabs. It seems, to my ears at least, to have much stronger songwriting all around. And the band has more "piss and vinegar" if you will. And i generally will always go with the earlier works of nearly all the FN/NZ bands, because to paraphrase Byron Coley, "lo-fi is my fi" esp. when rendered thru Chris Knox's magic 4track. Only Terminals I know is the expressway tape "disease", which is noisy as hell and quite grebt also.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 15 May 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
New Terminals album is very good. They're one of those bands with a sound that aging just seems to suit, really.
Most recent Renderers album's really good, too, incidentally.
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 May 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
somewhere out in this heatthere is a sad little lonely manhe's laughing high up off the streetrising up into the universe
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