Tentacles - Isolation Is A Gift

01. Natul Tortuosa
02. What Matters Will Matter
03. This Is The Part Where You Burn
04. From Hell With Love
05. Wooden Dove

Texas, US based Tentacles is a five-piece raw emo-violence band and this is their last EP from 2010. If you are into bands like Shikari, Welcome The Plague Year or Usurp Synapse, you will definitely like Tentacles. Very intense and chaotic stuff, I recommend to you.

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The Sky Above And Earth Below - Quest's Timescape

01. 02:30 Hours At Romani Ranch
02. Frozen Empire
03. All My Fellow Carpenters Are Imprisoned
04. These Masks Will Make You Happy

The Sky Above And Earth Below is a two-piece screamo band from Portland, Oregon, US, lyrically based and influenced by The Legend of Zelda. This is their first stuff from 2010, listen to it!

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The Reptilian - Full Health

01. Pretty Big Doses
02. Dungeons And Dragqueens
03. Bulls On Patron
04. Peyote Ugly
05. Roman Sideburns
06. 200% Sweater
07. Aerosmith Kids

The Reptilian are a three-piece band from Kalamazoo, Michigan who formed in 2008. The band combines elements of post-hardcore, math rock, screamo and emo into a a massive dose of roaring bass, jangly guitars and pounding drums. 'Full Health' marks the band's fourth release and these seven songs are some of the best to date. I was a sucker for the band's earlier work and this 10" blows all of that out of the water. Since 'Full Health', The Reptilian has released two more split 7" with Jowls and Innards as well as a 4 way split 7" with Annabel, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), and Joie De Vivre. Great stuff! Highly recommended!

Reviewed by Chris.

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We Were Skeletons - We Were Skeletons

01. Drawn From The Houses I've Burnt
02. Exposure To Heavy Metal Causes Whatever
03. Pudge Paws
04. It's Like Science
05. Kids
06. Her Stomach Is A Lioness
07. Bruce Willis Is Dead The Whole Time
08. This Destroys Us
09. Well, I Did Spend A Year In College

Pennsylvania's We Were Skeletons play a brand of screamy, chaotic hardcore should appeal to long-time fans of the genre. The album was recorded with Will Killingsworth (Orchid, Ampere) at Dead Air Studios and is the band’s strongest material to date. Imagine City of Caterpillar, Kidcrash, Off Minor and Hot Cross, and Comadre rolled into one. Definitely one of the best releases of 2010. I figured a repost was in order since the album has been officially released. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. You won't be diasppointed!

Reviewed by Chris.

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Sirs - Vas Deferens

01. Starting At The Chin
02. Ready? Boomerang!
03. Is This Your Shirt?
04. Hibernations Sometimes
05. You're Gonna Be Great!
06. Hand Check, No Hands

Sirs is a four-piece band from upstate New York, US. They released a split with Chalk Talk in 2010 and another split with Run, Walk! in 2011, but my favourite is their first EP called 'Vas Deferens'. Really upbeat stuff with twinkly guitars and catchy gang vocals. I recommend it for fans of Algernon Cadwallader, Chalk Talk and Snowing. Sirs's full-length will be released this summer.

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Leaf Routines - Where'd Your Friends Go?

01. Fuck The Haters On The Real
02. Big Fish
03. Ducktapes
04. Wear Your Raybans
05. Jamie Is A Vil

Leaf Routines is three guys from Prawn and an ex-member of 7654 Stories, (you can find both bands here on the blog). To my knowledge they only released this five-song EP called 'Where’d Your Friends Go?'. I recommend for fans of Castevet and Snowing.

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King Guava - King Guava Demo

01. Rhoda Valley Blues
02. Colonel Kernel
03. Jimsonweed Part II
04. Plague
05. Few And Far Between

King Guava play an interesting mix of mathy screamo/emo and folk music. They replace the distorted guitars with a banjo and acoustic guitars. Totally crazy band! If you don't know them, you have to check them out.

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Boa Narrow - And Still, The Boa Narrows

01. Boa Narrow's New Jam Together (Parts 1, 2, And 3)

Adrian asked me to upload Boa Narrow's other stuff. This is more noisy and less jazzy than 'As The Boa Narrows...'. Only one 27 minute live song without vocals.

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For Want Of - For Want Of

01. The Orchestrated Decay Of Self Sufficiency
02. Moment In Time
03. Summer Of Distance
04. Shattered City

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Ostende - Ostende Demo

01. Directamente Indirecto
02. Tres Decadas
03. Mucha Noche Para Heroes

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Districts - Revolt Freedom Passion

01. Absurd Walls
02. Definitions
03. Static
04. False Crystal Palace
05. Revolt Freedom Passion

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Droughts - Unmoved

01. Stillborn
02. No Blood Loss
03. Paper Cut Outs

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State Faults - Head In The Clouds

01. Dreamcatcher
02. Last Breath
03. Tigerlilly
04. Nothing Stays
05. Quiet Steps

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Animal Faces - Analytical Dreaming

01. Forward Through
02. Aesthetics
03. Living Spaces
04. A Deep Thought
05. Follow Faster

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Tigerscout - Summer Demo

01. Rebel Horse
02. The Golden Monument

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Dollores - Dollores

01. Intro
02. Doors And dreams
03. Barbarian
04. Something Nothing
05. Smth.Wrong
06. How Does It Feel

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Iselia - Adaptations

01. Restless
02. At Day's Close
03. These Roots, These Branches

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Jazz Hands - The Party

01. Balloon Boyz
02. I Don't Think I'm Into Toga Parties
03. Champions Of Breakfast
04. Remember The Boat Times?
05. Tiny Hands

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Rosa Parks - Black Is The Color Of Bondage, Blue Is The Past

01. Stay Punk! Stay Prog!
02. 0110
03. Only The Lights
04. Dance While You Still Can
05. The Saville Inquiry

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Manbearpig - Ruined Emo

01. Balance
02. Allardyce
03. White On Gold
04. Things I'm Never Getting Back
05. Ebb And Flow

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