What will I do here? Album reviews or topics revolving around music, movie reviews, talk about things I have cooked recently or will be cooking, reviewing Anime I watch seeming how I have noticed we do have other people here that watch it, talk about what got me in to music in the first place, my desires or goals, my writing, views or opinions on political topics...there will be a lot of content here so I do hope I can have my journal get the go ahead!
I might even post up some short stories I've written in here. Who knows? Hope there's interest here and I look forward to see who peeks in here!
Alright! Looks like I've been given the green light for this thing. Going to kick this off with my top ten albums of 2014, so far! That number will obviously grow once other albums I am waiting for are out, and I've had time to listen to them. Bare in mind that I will primarily be reviewing albums within the realm of Rock, Metal, their individual sub genre as well. It won't be all too often that I review anything outside of that, save for some Indie release or Alternative too. Time will tell. I will likely post each album, with each new post here.
10.
Band: Crosses
Album: S/T
Release: February 11, 2014 via Sumerian Records
Length: 56:00
Tracklist:
1. "This Is a Trick"
2. "Telepathy"
3. "Bitches Brew"
4. "Thholyghst"
5. "Trophy"
6. "The Epilogue"
7. "Bermuda Locket"
8. "Frontiers"
9. "Nineteen Ninety Four"
10. "Option"
11. "Nineteen Eighty Seven"
12. "Blk Stallion"
13. "Cross"
14. "Prurient"
15. "Death Bell"
So. This little project here began in 2011 when Deftones singer Chino Moreno and childhood friend Shaun Lopez (guitarist of Far), as well as Chuck Doom, got together and began recording, roughly around 4 hours a day. The group ended up with 16 songs total. The songs were released gradually over a series of EP's the band put out, which consisted of two EP's total. Additionally. Contributing musicians to this project also included Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, LOADED), and Chris Robyn of Far for live drum tracking, as well as Dredg drummer Dino Campanella for touring.
If you're a fan of Deftones, Team Sleep, Far. You can probably get some kind of an idea of what the material on this album sounds like; dance oriented at times, funk vibes, ambient, pulsing riffs, at times tribal like drumming, Chino's all too well known vocals...some of his best yet are showcased here on this album, even some of his best songwriting to date. However. It is also a bit tough to place Crosses in any specific genre, they bounce around a lot...
To sum it up. This album is pretty big. It's got a lot of variety. The material is solid and hard to find anything wrong with it. I favored this over Chino and one of his other projects, Team Sleep.
I highly recommend this, ladies and gents. I will post a few tracks here to preview. Their live show is pretty awesome too. Saw them back a few months ago.
Telepathy has a bass line that really gets me moving, it's got this sort of funk groove to it. Love it.