True Champions Ride on Speed

True Champions Ride on Speed (2010)
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Pretty ridiculous album art correlates to pretty ridiculous music.  Second track grinds.

Tommy Boys

Demo (2013)
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Ahhh my ears feel so good.  This band is based in Southern California and play twinkly math rock, which is I believe characterized by the positive uplifting high tempo music that is similar to Chon (and is typically based out of California/Sunshine States.) This band makes great use of subtleties and almost never repeats a riff in the same way. I'm about to explore this twinkly stuff, might find some treasure.

Edit: Northern California (San Franciso to be exact)

Tame Impala

Lonerism (2012)
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This band is from Perth, Australia. 


They like to see themselves as "a steady flowing psychedelic groove rock band that emphasizes dream-like melody."

Natural Thrills

Natural Thrills (2012)
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Man, those blocks are nostalgic.

Feuding Fathers

Trust Me, I'm a Father (2012)
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Hello October, you're colors are beautiful.

Toast

EP (2012)
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Absolutely love the album art, and the music too of course.

Cloudkicker

Fade (2012)
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Ben Sharp is back again with his fifth full length album entitled Fade. This man is constantly redefining his sound, from the heavy and emotion packed album Beacons to the feel good shoegaze of Let Yourself Be Huge, he now releases a uniquely progressive album that seems to have a little of both. This is one of my top favorite bands, one of the bands on this blog that I would highly recommend listening to. Check out my older posts here to find the full Cloudkicker discography, you HAVE to hear Beacons.

Ben does a AMA on the post-rock subreddit here: Reddit

The Early November

In Currents (2012)
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I'm excited to give this a listen, I hope it can stand up next to their previous releases. It's been a long time since this band has written any material together so they may have changed quite a bit. 

The Early November

Room's Too Cold (2003)
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I'm happy to hear that this band is back together and writing a new album. One of my favorite bands from my early teen years. Never thought I'd ever get to see them play live but I actually got the chance just a few days ago and they sounded great, as if they had never really left. I'm trying hard to find a link for The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path but it's not going to well, if I find it I'll throw it up here. Until the new album comes out you should follow this link to watch a trailer for the new album to be released in July 3rd, 2012, here.

It's never been harder to fall
There's nothing to grab and that's all I want to hold onto
Just another sweep and it'll be fine
But this carpet's got hills and I can't see this helping at all

Say Anything

 Anarchy, My Dear (2012)

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Say Anything (2009)

 Megaupload

 In Defense of the Genre (2007)
Disc 1 
Disc2 

...Is a Real Boy (2004)
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In anticipation for Say Anything's new full length release titled, "Anarchy, My Dear," I am throwing up the previous releases of the band. Once its released I'll update this post with the new album download. Say Anything is in my top bands of all time. Max Bemis is poetically vulgar, perfectly honest, and will never settle for ordinary.