Idolator

.....That's got to be a record for RIAA take-down speed. The link 404s out already...

@AcidReign: It's actually a record for misplaced quotation marks. (Uh, go me?) Try it now.

Considering that I almost never write about the kind of bands that end up in Track Marks, I'm kinda disappointed that my Thrushes entry on the Baltimore City Paper music blog wasn't mentioned (although I guess it's not technically an MP3 blog), nor were the blogs of a couple people I know who posted about them. A lot of this sudden coverage is probably due to the fact that the band itself is going out of its way to contact bloggers, but then, I'm sure most of those blogs wouldn't have posted anything if the music wasn't actually really good, or at least I wouldn't have.

i guess my blog doesn't exist...

http://musicforants.com/blog/?p=435

Anyone who has fond memories of 4AD will be all over this

This is only true on a technicality, because any 4AD comparison being made is a serious overstatement. However, I do like both.

I'M also upset that I'm not getting royalties/credit for my idea to have some girls sing over a bad JAMC ripoff.

.....There are a lot of interesting sonic ideas in this song, which is clearly the brainchild of of an Edge devotee! I've run into the same problems in my own recordings that this one has, however. Namely: drench the various parts in enough reverb and effects, and you sometimes get unwanted, weird, Doppler-like, out of phase/out of tune harmonics into the sound. A lot, lot, lot of the echo-ey guitar sounded as though it were pulling flat in a cyclical way. This song may sound fine on a boombox or PA, but in decent headphones it was muddy, and lacked stereo separation on many of the parts.

.....That said, I love the songwriting! And I think the singer would sound great with a better mike and some attention to punching up the 3k slider on the vocal eq! The vocals are pretty impressive as it is.

.....Oh, and thanks for fixing the link. This was definitely worth a listen!

Thanks for the listen. Overall I'm happy with how it turned out, but I may think about remixing/remastering if it goes to another pressing. Vocals and guitars really got crushed in mastering.

And I'll send in my royalties to the Reids after they send theirs to the Phil & Ronnie :)

Casey/thrushes

Huh. That's just like honey.

I write a blog in Baltimore, and I reviewed the album back in February. Instrumental Analysis sent the band my way for a review, and I was thankful, because it's a great record!

The top of Friday night's Neon Lights bill features not one but two stellar bands traveling in from exotic lands. The shoegaze sweethearts known as Thrushes come to us from the faraway wilds of Baltimore.