Zvoov - Everbrown EP

Zvoov is a three-piece instrumental rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their music is a blend of many themes and influences, such as math rock, post metal, post rock, jazz, and stoner music. They strive to keep their sound fresh by drawing on this diversity and writing songs that differ greatly from one another while still creating a distinct Zvoov mood. Formed in early 2009, their Everbrown EP was self-released in February 2011.

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Tera Melos - Demo

Now for some proper math rock. Those that know me know that I'm a sucker for anything math - and the more cut up, stop/starty and complex the better. Tera Melos' album "Drugs To The Dear Youth" is pretty much the blueprint for this. These four demos I nabbed from another blog are just as good as anything they've released. Currently on tour in the US with Boris and I'm extraordinarily annoyed to find out I missed their first UK tour earlier this year - they even came to Bristol. How did that happen? They'd better come back is all I can say.

x equals minus b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a

Foals - Try This On Your Piano

After the sad demise of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Yannis and Jack formed a little known band called Foals. Their first release was a 7" single on the excellent Try Harder label. More similar in sound to EdFitz than the more polished and dance-oriented Cure songs that Foals perform nowadays, and when Andrew from Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies was singing in the band (I think). At a gig I'd put on at the Rhythm Factory in East London, I overheard Yannis and Andrew arguing with some kid in a band that they were better guitarists than he could ever hope to be. Why?

Anyway, get your math