February 2018
Cool, got some motion on the charts, good songs moving through, some fresh stuff to listen to after a few months of stagnation and boredom. Mastadon is due an album this year, I think, but I haven't paid much attention to :"Emporer of Sand". I will have to give that a listen because the second song from it just charted, while "Show Yourself" hangs on a while longer! There might be more good stuff on that album! I just wasn't grabbed by it and let it fall by the wayside. Dinosoul rules, though. Kinda makes me sad - will I ever hear from this band again? It's a local band from in or around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Those two songs are just lush and beautiful. The soaring chorus on "Dimension" is, to me, awesome sounding. I have always loved songs with similar guitar effects - its as if a guitar moans, or weeps, or laughs. Those sustained notes with that particular effect is wicked. I love that woman's voice - it is almost m