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Victoria Day Playlist
Kevin messaged me a little earlier today about him not being to do a post, obviously I had nothing ready so let’s just do a playlist for a holiday that I forget the purpose of. I know it’s to celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday but what did she do? At this point while reading through a bit of her wikipedia entry…I gave up due to boredom. I figure I can get away with doing a playlist despite having limited knowledge.
1. Queens Will Play by Black Mountain
2. Queen of The Nile by Dragged by Horses
3. Squalor Victoria by The National
4. A King and A Queen By Okkervil River
5. Some Things Last A Long Time by Beach House (long reign as Queen)
6. Fast Blood by Frightened Rabbit (first known carrier of hemophilia in the royal family)
7. Monarch by Feist
8. Song of The Sad Assassin by Why? (numerous assassination attempts)
Dragged by Horses – Deep in The Woods
Dragged by Horses was just described to me as “thunderous rock” when I was sent a snippet about them. “Thunderous Rock” leaves a lot left to the imagination and after heading over to their myspace, I must say I was disappointed in the actual effort in saying something about this band’s sound.
Anyway, I digress but this band is pretty awesome. “Thunderous Rock” is a correct term but Dragged by Horses I would personally describe as hard progressive rock, could be metal but they have a real emphasis on the guitar riffs whether it be solos, for their intros. Overall the sound is hard yet clean.
This is one of the type of bands that really steps outside of what I’ve liked musically so I do have a hard time coming up with both names and a real characterization. Their self-characterization of sounding like a “violent orchestra” is perfect and couldn’t be said any better because this music will rock your socks off.
Vocally, I must say his voice doesn’t capture your attention like the clashing drums and awesome guitar riffs but he has a decent voice so there’s really nothing to say bad about this band.
This is definitely the type of band I would like to see live, skilled yet probably can get a crowd going. Watch them play live here:
This band is out of Humboldt County a really small city and it’s clear they need to get out more because they are pretty awesome. This is the type of band I would recommend to Kevin.
As for their album “Deep In The Woods”, I’ve had a chance to listen to it early as the official release in on March 11th and I’ll just tell you it’s amazing. They remain consistent in their hard sound but you always get something different, sometimes purely instrumental moments, different types of intros and overall giving some real satisfaction in straying away from the typical indie pop that I listen to. If I were to give this album a rating it would be somewhere between 4 and 4.5 but alas the score isn’t important and you just have to check them out if you’re into harder stuff.
Mas Por Dineiro by Dragged by Horses
The Need To Fight by Dragged By Horses
