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Молчат Дома - Этажи

You may be wondering, 'Is the band Молчат Дома, who created the album, Этажи, a foreign band?' and 'Are they going to be singing some non-english language, perhaps Russian?' The answer to both of these questions is yes. I can't remember how I found this album originally, but one day it came up in my YouTube recommended, I instantly recognized the cover, and decided to give it a listen. It was really good. It reminded of me listening to Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures for the first time. Note: In this review, I italicize Russian words written in the Roman alphabet, put "quotation marks" around English translations, and do nothing to Russian words written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Молчат Дома or Molchat Doma (roughly translates to "The Houses are Silent") is a 'cold wave' band. This is a genre of music that I don't know too much about, but from what I understand the genre is close to goth, except more detached and minimalistic. Si...

Death Grips - The Money Store

In my recent review of Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction, I mentioned how I was surprised how much I liked that band, despite previously not being a fan of the genre. Well here I am again, and this time I'm even more surprised. A while ago, looking to expand my musical horizons, I talked to some of my friends about wanting to try to find some hip-hop that I liked, and knowing my music taste, one of them recommended that I checked out Death Grips. When I first listened to their most popular album, The Money Store, I was skeptical, but their unique blend of hip-hop, industrial, and noise spoke to me. Over the next few weeks I started listening to their other releases. Now, call me Anthony Fantano because I'm a fan of Death Grips. Now, enough about me, lets talk about the band. Death Grips is an experimental industrial hip hop band from California, consisting of Zach Hill, Andy ...

Bad Religion - No Control

Ahhh... there's nothing more refreshing than listening to some good punk after a hard week! Here is No Control by Bad Religion. Bad Religion is an extremely influential punk band, and one of the best-selling punk bands of all time. As their name suggests, Bad Religion is very anti-religion, which is reflected in a lot of their songs. Bad Religion also covers many other topics common to punk music including racism, politics, drugs, equal-rights, and society in general. Something I always found really cool about Bad Religion is that the front runner of the band, Greg Graffin, is a professor of life science and paleontology at the University of California, and a professor of evolution at Cornell University. There are some that might say that "Bad Religion is too mainstream," or "not anarchist enough," or even "aren't real punk because they know how to sing and play their instruments." Obviously all of these people are wrong, but Bad Religion i...

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