Blue Gillespie is in my House!

[eumelia]

Just last week I ordered Blue Gillespie's EP's.

And lo! The first one arrived today! It was very very quick I must say.

The EP arrived is a medium sized bubble-wrap interior envelope and when I opened it there was little cardboard CD envelope with a small black CD inside... with tiny ridges and black all over like a real EP!



So cute.

My brain was a bit slow and for a moment I thought "they didn't send me... a real EP did they!?".

Of course not.

I'm now listening to Cave County Part One, Part Two should probably be here sometime later this week or next as it was only released on the 21st of August.

Oh, Gareth your growl is very sexy *bats eyelashes* the guitar is doing mean riffs! And per usual of my rock music listening the drums are totally doing it for me.

When the first riffs came over the speakers I had a moment of "man, I feel like a teenager again", back when I used to listen to Korn, Metallica, Rob Zombie and other crap metal bands (I still listen to these on occasion, because dude it's awesomely loud!), but BG are really good!

I'd listened to them on their Myspace page, but they sounds so much better on my stereo system!
Very epic in a closed space kind of sound.
I'm sure they rock in live performances (why am I not in Wales!?).

Edited to Add: Twenty three minutes of very good, classically harsh notes and lyrics and just damn good music from a band I really hope releases more than just EP's some day (though I hope they remain independent).

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, I haven't listened to any of Gareth's stuff in ages, but someone just linked to the new EP, so I'm listening to it at work, and wow, it really doesn't suck. I'm sorta surprised. Here and there it's actually hitting me a little eerily. Who knew.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

The Devil's Skirt and The Oblivious made me...ahem...tingly.

I still have a teen mentality at times and so the growly singing and heavy guitar riffs really tickled me. But it's a much more, I dunno, mature I suppose, than stuff I remember listening to as a teenager (is Linkin Park mature? I listen to them semi regularly now).

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'll be curious to see what you think of part 2... (or have you listened to it online already?) it's loud and growly, but kinda darker and hotter. I don't want to say anything else, 'cause I want to see if you react to the same random thing I just did in one of the tracks.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to it online yet. I'm very tempted! But I ordered it already and I'm a very "No Spoilers!" kind of person.

But I'm planning to review both parts once I have 'em and it will be interesting to hear the difference.

I'm now very curious as to what your reaction was... :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

It kinda gut-punched me emotionally. Now, granted, I'm waaaaaay hormonal today, but I think you'll have a similar reaction.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume you're talking about Gareth's monologuing in The Swamp that made me have to pause for a few minutes while I went to wash my face.

Wow, Part 2 is fucking powerful and yeah, it arrived today! These Indies are really quick!

[rm.livejournal.com]

The first track creeped me out. It was the second track that made me get all emotional. I felt absurd.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

The whole EP made me emotional, so in fact it's hard for me to say anything about the individual tracks, but GDL's voice, talking about monstrosity was just... GAH!

Twenty Four minutes of very powerful music I think. It's very intimate, whereas the Part 1 was trying for an epic sound (heard in a pub), Part 2 sounded like something that would be played in a bedroom from one person to another.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It really weirded me out. I think the only reason that monologuing thing didn't totally get me is, a) it made me feel kinda old and b) it reminded me of his Lovecraft obsession, so it didn't hit the Torchwood nerve, at least most of the time.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

a) Why did it make you feel old?
b) It's true he does have a Lovecraft thing, which didn't compute... The Torchwood nerve hit me more on Sex and Pride. I definitely need to listen to both EP's again and listen to where my brain goes.

I'm trying to figure out what it is in Making Sound that made you react. Hmmm, I'm going to play it again with headphones again right now. I'm curious!

[rm.livejournal.com]

a) Because it was almost really good, but it also had a bit of that "youth being shocking" thing, both in content and delivery that undermined all the places where I thought it was rather sophisticated. It reminded me of the ways in which a lot of my poetry work in my early 20s misfired.

And I'm not sure what made me react, really, I just know that I did and it was early on in the track, like the first minute and a half or so.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Okay... so I listened more closely to the lyrics in accord with the music to Making Sound.

... Fuck me.

The first track made me feel slightly "unclean", the second one is stinging my eyes. Listening to it with headphones definitely makes it, ummm, better, I suppose.

It's tragic, omg! How did I not hear this the first time around just two hours ago!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was listening on headphones, and at a certain point I just lost it.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

...Pain ain't relative
Got no more me to give
Wailing at nothing
The time I had left is lost...

Geez.

Yeah, it was the headphones.
Having a moment.
Fuck.