Drunksouls - On Verra Plus Tard

Une Verre de la Musique!

Drunksouls is a english/french "Rock 'n Reggae" group, combining a rock guitar lines with a strong reggae feel in the vocals. Some tracks are almost completely reggae, some mostly rock, and some a different, folkish genre taking influence from both.

Electric guitar, base, synth, drum set, cabasas.

My favourite two tracks on this album are actually in french. Both 'Comme Louise et Themla' and 'Promenons nous dans les bois' have very, very strong instrumental backings, introducing auxilary percussion and keyboard lines. The second has a kick-ass guitar solo. I kinda wish I had had a decent french teacher so I could understand these lyrics.

If you like reggae, start with 'No more fighting'.

If you speak french, or wanna hear an awesome solo, start with 'Promenons nous dans les bois' (something about us in the woods).

Otherwise just start with the first track, have fun, and take your poison.

Antarhes - Breathin' Again

Music?

Gothy power rock. Like Evanescence, only good.

Honestly, I have nothing to say. It's pretty good.

Review over.

American Bred!

Music! Music Music!

Welcome Tilt readers! Am I actually going to get any readers from Tilt? Does 'Tilt' need to be in italics? Read the babyPaul review or click here for my intro shtick. I need readers. Anyone?

This band is a heavily guitar and bell based, well band. They play a lot of instrumental music that, despite being instrumental, is actually almost consistantly good. They manage to write songs, each one orignal from each other.

Their title track, American Bred! is classic rock. Jingoistic classic rock. Jingoistic classic rock that actually paid for an add on the side of GarageBand. It is absolutely nothing like the rest of the music.

It's mostly instrumental music over a ton of genres. Classic rock is certainly covered and so is jazz. Lots of it has a tropical feel.

Stupid band doesn't have any cover art.. humph.

If you like the electric guitar in classic rock you'll probably like some of this band. There are a lot of tropical bell sounds. Fake instruments do come into play, as a warning, but it's tasteful.

Songs to Note:

• EarthDay - Creepy alien vocals, scary but one of a kind.
• American Bred! - Great example of the classic rock, one of the few songs with vocals.
• DemBones - Good fake trumpet, bass lines.
• The Voices of Reason - Very fairytailish.
• Pack a Bell - Nice bell lines. My favourite track by far.
  

Oh, and they have a shitload of tracks. Like.. thirty or something available to download.

I give them two out of two, mostly because I want to give them full marks and thats the only way I can justify it. Start with American Bred, then EarthDay, then Pack a Bell.

Have a nice day and take your poison.

Go Panic!

Here it is.

I almost didn't pick this song. I heard it and thought I recognized it; maybe from MTV, maybe from the radio. Turns out I just heard it online, although apparently its big in Germany.

To start, I'd like to take issue with the band's name: Go Panic!. The name is a pain in the ass. Firstly, the word "Panic" does not include an exclamation mark. Sure, Panic! at the Disco did it, but that doesn't make it cool. Secondly, including puncuation at the end of a name is a pain in the ass for anybody trying to include it into a sentence. If it ends a sentence do you add a period as well? And what if it ends a question?

"How stupid of a name is Go Panic!?"

See? It makes me look angry! And I really don't want to have to use quotation marks.

Anyway, so back to the music. It's indie rock (At this point I would like to point out how almost nobody on GarageBand has a label, making them all indie, weakening using indie as a genre) and its pretty good. Think light-punk/pop/rock.

Very strong guitar lines; definately not the same ones you hear everyday. The vocals are a bit straining, but thats to be expected in the genre. It's not like punk bands care if their singers can sing.

If you like Nirvana, you'll like A Part of Me. It's a lot like Smells Like Teen Spirit, only with brighter vocals. Similar guitar and drums, and even the vocals share a identifyable style just before the final refrain.

I'll give this band two exclamation marks, a comma, and an elipsis out of a total of seven.

As a side note, I'd like to mention Greg Camilleri. His music's not CC, but its good; especially All the Days Blur.