A Grave With No Name Virtual 7-inch (Is This a Thing Now?)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Okay so if mp3s are the new CDs, CDs are the new tapes and records are, um, the new records, then where does the virtual 7-inch sit in all of this? Like, did we just sleep too much? Is this a common thing? If nothing else, it’s an interesting way to package already free music, to compact the endless digital music sprawl into somewhat digestible chunks. It’s also the perfect way for A Grave with No Name to release music, because when you’re interested in creating ambient jams a single song lost on our desktop is not the best way to stick in our minds. Packaged as a set though, A Grave with No Name has put together a four and a half minute free mind vacation. It’s not Sandals, but what is?
Download: A Grave with No Name Virtual 7-Inch (via Meal Deal Records)
Premiere: A Grave With No Name, “Fire Island” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Not a single song on A Grave With No Name’s debut record runs over three minutes, and “Fire Island” begins with the type of pounding bassline you expect to launch into a snotty lo-fi freakout for people into skateboarding/not giving a shit. But instead, the almost New Age song wisps away into the distance. It’s the kind of music that comes from creating an entire album of transitions and song sketches and somehow ending up with a satisfying whole. Mountain Debris comes out on Lefse Records in November, which should give everyone plenty of time to practice their lotus positions and arrange their crystals in a satisfying manner.
Download: A Grave With No Name, “Fire Island”
Dollars to Pounds: A Grave with No Name
- story THE FADER
Alex Shields has a band called A Grave With No Name and awesome long metal dude hair. You might expect him to wear a pained expression while singing about how “a stream of hope will destroy this corrupted cell,” but no, he is a Weezer-loving festival hater and the name is a joke, an emo caricature inspired by As I Lay Dying. AGWNN balance grungy feedback with woozy, featherlight vocals on this track from their debut EP, out today. Wallow in their mesmeric contradictions as Alex explains why his music is “not some Neutral Milk Hotel meets Lord of the Rings bullshit.”
Download: A Grave with No Name, “And we Parted Ways at Mt. Jade”
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posted on Jun 15, 2009 in DOLLARS TO POUNDS tags A Grave With no Name, electronic/dance, experimental, freeload, rock
