Gamingforce Music Exposure Club™

Hold Your Colour - Pendulum
Genre, Label, Year: Drum and Bass, Breakbeat Kaos, 2005


Track Listing
01. Prelude
02. Slam
03. Plastic World
04. Fasten Your Seatbelt
05. Through The Loop
06. Sounds of Life
07. Girl in the Fire
08. Tarantula
09. Out Here
10. Hold Your Colour
11. The Terminal
12. Streamline
13. Another Planet
14. Still Grey

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A fantastic album that covers more styles than just Drum and Bass. Ambient, fun, music you could probably blow your car up with, it's got it all. Definitely worth a listen to.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Here, have some music.

The Hush Sound - Live Vines
Genre: Indie Pop/Rock
Year: 2006
Label: Fueled By Ramen


Track List
01. We Intertwined
02. A Dark Congregation
03. Sweet Tangerine
04. Lion's Roar
05. Lighthouse
06. Don't Wake Me Up
07. Where We Went Wrong
08. Magnolia
09. Wine Red
10. Out Through the Curtain
11. You Are the Moon

Originally Posted by AMG Review

Not yet in their current lineup for two full years, the Hush Sound is remarkably already on album number two (as in full-lengths, not EPs). Though their debut, So Sudden, aptly laid the foundation for the band's melodic piano tinkering, it was still only recorded a month after their lineup solidified. Consequently, it comes as no real surprise that their sophomore effort, Like Vines, is a much more fully realized and mature sounding album. Issued through Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen, the album is a wonderful change of pace for emo-punk-saturated ears; the Hush Sound produces bouncy, fun, and sweetly melodic songs based around warm instrumentation and a playful delivery. Though initial spins may find tracks sounding slightly interchangeable amid all the exuberance, listeners are rewarded with the distinct personality each eventually claims. All members technically share vocal duties, but the focus mainly lies in the tradeoff between guitarist Bob Morris and pianist Greta Salpeter. Morris has a strong and controlled voice that steers each song effortlessly, while perfectly complementing the sassy sweetness of Salpeter, whose vocals are often suggestive of Straylight Run's Michelle Nolan. From the effervescent "We Intertwined" to the breezy, bango-tinged "Where We Went Wrong" to the sparse "Lighthouse," the Chicago quartet explores the pop spectrum without losing their footing or making the music sound forced. After all, "Lions Roar" begins with the popcorn-fueled urgency of a circus before fading out near the end to reveal a lonely and austere trumpet -- and it works quite well. The triumphant "Don't Wake Me Up" and "Wine Red" are other notable highlights on a summery, unpretentious offering that shines thanks to a confident band very much full of life.

Discovered the song "We Intertwined" through a songpack someone made for Audiosurf, and I liked it enough to find the whole album to listen to. Turns out it was pretty good and something I felt was worth sharing.

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There's nowhere I can't reach.

The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
Genre: Indie Pop/Rock
Year: 2008
Label: Fueled By Ramen


Track List
01 - Intro
02 - Honey
03 - Medicine Man
04 - Boys Are Too Refined
05 - Hurricane
06 - As You Cry
07 - Six (Interlude)
08 - Molasses
09 - That's Okay
10 - Not Your Concern
11 - Love You Much Better
12 - Hospital Bed Crawl
13 - Break the Sky

Originally Posted by allmusic.com

The Hush Sound's emphasis on mature, piano-driven pop makes them a rarity on the Fueled by Ramen roster, where the punk-pop sounds of Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco reign supreme. With songs like "Medicine Man" and "Honey," Goodbye Blues distances the band even further from their Ramen brethren, adding shades of old-timey swing music and torch song balladry to their catalog. Returning fans will still take comfort in the Hush Sound's usual mix of co-ed vocals and jaunty songcraft, but the group also shows a willingness to experiment that few of their labelmates possess. With pianist/vocalist Greta Salpeter at the wheel, Goodbye Blues opens with the aptly-named "Intro," an early morning ballad that sounds destined for playback on a Victrola, before launching into the snappy "Honey." The bouncing piano chords and semi-jazzy harmonies evoke a sense of 1930s Americana, and while that feeling has mostly waned by the album's second half, it gives the album enough momentum to sustain the weaker moments on Side B. Most of those limitations show up in the songs helmed by guitarist Robert Morris, whose vocals are certainly competent -- particularly when flanked by the harmonies of his three bandmates, all of whom sing -- but can't claim to be as unique or as endearing as Salpeter's throaty alto. The songwriting duties on Goodbye Blues were split, a result of the group's short-lived decision to disband, and Morris' contributions can't quite rival those of his bandmate. With a breakup looming on the horizon in 2006, Morris and Salpeter scrambled to write their own songs, intending to use that material to launch their respective solo careers. The Hush Sound ultimately stayed together, however, and those solo tunes became the building blocks of their third album. So while Goodbye Blues is one of the most mature releases in recent Ramen history, it's not altogether cohesive, with Morris' songs all but banishing Salpeter's piano in favor of guitar-based progressions (and, by extension, banishing the one thing that helps the band truly stand out). But when the bandmates are on -- when Greta Salpeter leads her boys through the sexy stomp of "The Boys Are Too Refined" and the poppy big band strains of "Medicine Man" -- they come across as the co-ed equivalent of Jack's Mannequin, which is worlds away from being the sibling band to Straylight Run.

A bunch of people liked Like Vines, so I thought it only appropriate to post their new album, which just came out this week.

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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.