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unearthing Highlighter 
Highlighter was fronted by Alex Pellish, who had anchored the majestic 1980s/90s bands 17 Relics, Portersville, and Vera from Alice, and who is now running Sodium Lights. The 12 songs on Highlighter were recorded in 2003 with Alex on vocals and guitar, with the Fake brothers ( Todd on guitar and Shawn on kit), and with Tim Grimes on bass. It was an amazing nexus of some of the finest local musicians. They played SE CT for several years, live on WCNI, and the last night of Station 58. Their track "Emerson" was featured on Towers of New London Volume 3. Then, in 2005, the band disbanded amicably, but had never released their songs in album form. Pellish says that the unreleased album kept returning to his thoughts, years after it was roughly recorded in Todd's basement, and so he dug out the original tapes and mixed these never-mixed tracks. It is compelling, an emotional music that rages through pop, yet delights with melody, and propels us through some of the best, most terse and polished song-crafting heard in a long time. Check it out! |
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February 15, 2010 |
spacescape
Seven different musicians, in three bands, wrote and assembled this 13-song Spacescape LP. It is one massive project, and amazingly cohesive considering the different places and times over the past two years that the tracks were recorded.
Highly atmospheric and cinematic (someone needs to produce video for these), these songs are a clear progression forward, while reminiscent of their prior work in NED and IPG: a deftness and levity pervades these mystic soundscapes. Poppy, carnivalish tunes break up the meditative, walk-to-the-end-of-napatree scapes.
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December 21, 2009 |
low-beam
charge of the light brigade
 Low-Beam began recording Charge of the Light Brigade in the summer of 2004. The LP was produced by Michael Deming, who had just relocated to a new, completely remodeled studio in Enfield, CT. Deming had produced many promising Connecticut acts, as well as several nationally known bands.
Low-Beam was chosen to be the first act to record in the new studio. Four months of CJ adding scratch vocals and guitar to a click track began the project, and then drums were added over six weeks to those rough guide tracks. Many more months of hard work went into the record, but the band eventually broke up as the phenomenal LP was completed...
With the burgeoning MMA taking shape, and the revamped Hozomeen online presence, the four members of Low-Beam - CJ Stankewich, Jaimee Weatherbee, Rich Martin, and Rich Freitas - decided to release the record through Cosmodemonic Telegraph, with an online assist from the MMA.
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October 16, 2009 |
magpie
Magpie
In 1994, at Mike Cyr's Sorceror's Sound, Magpie evolves as a four-piece, and releases their best tracks yet on an untitled EP with four groundbreaking songs: the rousingly fatal Dread, the skimbleshanksian sound of the seattle-rific Bellyup, the paced deliberation of Steeplechase, and the yearning prayer of Sweet Reprisal (which happens to feature some of the best vocals ever recorded round these parts, thanks to Mark Quinn...) : Drums: Michael Davies
Bass: Ed Briones
Guitar/Vocals: Mark Quinn
Guitars/Vocals: CJ Stankewich
This eponymous EP also features the most beautiful cover art, assembled by Jen Wolcin, Michelle Gemma, and Rich Martin. to Magpie Home... |
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October 15, 2009 |
nedderkoppen
 Nobody Ever Does presents Luke Hunter, Hannah Utt, Nevin Nguyen-Tan, Bennett Quarles, Emily Quarles, and Zach Drake.
Converged upon Hatteras Island for six days, they worked out these four epic soundscapes, threaded geodetic through Vesuvial Pompeii, 1972 Pompeii, and a present day location, perhaps the fields of Chernobyl?
enjoy the ecstatic.
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