Band(s) of the Day(s) 08/09 - Gentle Friendly and Fugazi

Shut up.

Gentle Friendly

Having heard the Night Tape EP last year, I made sure it wasn't one of the CD's that I regularly recycle. Throwing together reverberating keyboards being used as drone funnels, time changes, yelling and a general sense of anarchy sealed inside the restrictions of melody, Gentle Friendly excite me.




Fugazi

Every word I've written about Fugazi fails to convey how important they are. Everytime I hear or see something new that I haven't heard or seen before from them, I'm left gawping like some half-wit. I FINALLY started watching Instrument last night, and there's no doubt it's one of the most important musical documents of our time. That combined with their 6 albums and various EPs of work, the fact that their live shows were entirely unscripted and that Ian McKaye has always forged his own path, this petty little paragraph cannot do any justice to them. Perhaps it's best to just watch, listen and learn.

Turnover



Waiting Room



Blueprint



Mixtape:

1) Waiting Room (from Fugazi EP)
2) Caustic Acrostic (from End Hits)
3) Life and Limb (from The Argument)
4) Bed For The Scraping (from Red Medicine)
5) Styrofoam (from Repeater)
6) Burning Too (from Margin Walker EP)
7) Latin Roots (from Steady Diet Of Nothing)
8) Epic Problem (from The Argument)
9) I'm So Tired (from Instrument)
10) Last Chance For A Slow Dance (from In On The Kill Taker)