Something About Hot Tamales... / The Valley Arena - Sesso.Vita
I always hate not updating this site. In a perfect world I would have the drive to sit down and write something for the blog every day, unfortunately there are just periods where music and writing about it completely becomes stagnant. I don’t know why, I don’t think I really over do it. I remember I over did it on the delicious candy known as Hot Tamales and didn’t eat them for about a year or two after consuming boxes of them since as early as I can remember. That’s a pretty extreme case though and there are some other underlying factors as to why I completely avoided them for so long. But yeah, I guess one could say I’ve been kind of going through what many bloggers eventually go through, and that’s feeling a bit burnt out. So bear with me through the sporadic updating, eventually things will return to a daily to semi-daily routine around here.
I finally got a copy of the new The Valley Arena album Sesso.Vita (Sex/Life) after hearing some tunes online that sounded promising. I wasn’t really familiar with the band beforehand but apparently they have one other album out on Astro Magnetics called Take Comfort in Strangers which came out in ’05, which I’ll admit I haven’t listened to yet. I think I was partly interested in hearing The Valley Arena because Sesso.Vita is coming out on KC based label Anodyne, which is home to the fellow post-punk outfit Roman Numerals and rock vets the Meat Puppets. The Valley Arena aren’t from the Midwest however, they come from the sunny state of California…Long Beach to be exact. Although being from the west coast, it more or less sounds like they grew up on a strong diet of early to mid nineties Dischord. I can see where some might say they that they’ve consumed a bit too much of it, but I can’t say I’ve heard that many records this year that pull it off this nicely. My only complaint is that the album doesn’t sustain itself all the way through as I would have hoped, but all in all it’s a pretty solid record. Their influences reveal themselves fairly easily, but they do well in working into their own sound resulting in some pretty catchy post-punk.
The Valley Arena – Bed [MP3]
For those interested in picking up Sesso.Vita when it comes out on the 23rd of October, be sure to head on over to Anodyne.
I finally got a copy of the new The Valley Arena album Sesso.Vita (Sex/Life) after hearing some tunes online that sounded promising. I wasn’t really familiar with the band beforehand but apparently they have one other album out on Astro Magnetics called Take Comfort in Strangers which came out in ’05, which I’ll admit I haven’t listened to yet. I think I was partly interested in hearing The Valley Arena because Sesso.Vita is coming out on KC based label Anodyne, which is home to the fellow post-punk outfit Roman Numerals and rock vets the Meat Puppets. The Valley Arena aren’t from the Midwest however, they come from the sunny state of California…Long Beach to be exact. Although being from the west coast, it more or less sounds like they grew up on a strong diet of early to mid nineties Dischord. I can see where some might say they that they’ve consumed a bit too much of it, but I can’t say I’ve heard that many records this year that pull it off this nicely. My only complaint is that the album doesn’t sustain itself all the way through as I would have hoped, but all in all it’s a pretty solid record. Their influences reveal themselves fairly easily, but they do well in working into their own sound resulting in some pretty catchy post-punk.
The Valley Arena – Bed [MP3]
For those interested in picking up Sesso.Vita when it comes out on the 23rd of October, be sure to head on over to Anodyne.
Labels: indie-rock, post-punk
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