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free download: Landscape EP, by Black Polygons

We last heard from Cyril Rampal in July. His self-titled micro-release was fresh from the oven. We remarked about the brevity of the three sketches, and of the album itself, praising its "Solar...

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“I wish I could make a wish and it not be true”

Artist links: facebook|soundcloud|twitter|bandcamp Tom Sharples -- who has recently been cracked on the side of the head with a skillet, but more on that shortly -- explains the image just above: It's by a West Cumbrian artist...

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free download, for now: “Hey! For Horses,” by The Rest

Everyone here remember The Rest? You do? So you remember how their hard drive melted down into a siliconized phenolic ooze? And so went their forthcoming album? The errant hard drive has finally...

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free download: Symptomatic EP, by La Machine

In March we met La Machine, concluding, "Sung through a pulse jet and stripped down to the sub-bass." Their dark-as-a-cave, quick-as-a-Zoloft releases continue with the Symptomatic EP. The title track sets paint-can percussion...

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video: “Same Old,” by Audioley

TMIM regulars are already familiar with Francois Peglau, who has been releasing a track-by-track follow up to The Imminent Failure of since December 2010. His singalong verse, campy wit and upbeat revolutionary politics are...

It's never where you look. It's when you look.

Some hit and runs: Good Morning Destroyer, which I’ll classify as a tMiM Upstart, not a tMiM Exile. Ditto that Graveyard Company. More on our classifications system later.

For those of you who are counting, we’re up to page 48 on Pure Volume’s experimental music catalog.

I found this while working on the Star Trek post: it’s Two Steps From Hell, and apparently their music…

…is available for licensing only. As the style of the music is geared for movie trailers, some television and media markets, it is only available to music supervisors, editors and producers at our clients’ workplaces. Given the state of the music industry at the current moment, we find that this is the most sensible model for us. We appreciate the fans out there that love trailer music…

“But, oh, snap!”

Ahem. Anyway, yes: movie trailer music. I have to admit I get swept away by it. This is “Freedom Fighter” from the Star Trek film trailer:

So if you’re still not done with HaR, try out a compilation of French pop artists performing in English.

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