Intercourse/Canyons-Split 7" (2021)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Sludge, Noise Rock
Label: The Ghost Is Clear 
Tracks: 2
Length: 6.40'

Here's a killer split featuring two of my favorite bands offering up covers of awesome 90's bands.  These two killer covers come courtesy of CT's Intercourse and Kansas City, Missouri's Canyons.  Regular readers of the blog should be very familiar with both bands appearing on the split, so I'll spare you from enduring my usual spiel here.  The 1st cover comes courtesy of Intercourse who offer up a cover of Harvey Danger's Flagpole Sitta.  The second cover comes courtesy of Canyons who offer up a killer cover Folk Implosion's Natural One.  Overall, this is a fun compilation of songs and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended.  Lover for this killer split 7" to be released via The Ghost Is Clear records in December.  

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Canyons-Stay Buried Cassette (2021)

 

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Sludge, Post Hardcore, Noise Rock
Label: The Ghost Is Clear
Tracks: 9
Length: 16.30'

Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a loud, dirty, and completely blown-out style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, post hardcore, and noise rock.  Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Fight Amp, Coalesce, Botch, Breather Resist, Engineer, and other like-minded bands.  Since their inception in 2008, a three song tour demo in July of 2008, a split with Regret, The Informer in December of 2008, a split with Mons Wolf in July of 2009, a compilation of their earlier material called Rufus Collection in February of 2010, a 3-way split LP titled Can't Have Nothing Nice with Tigon and Foreign Theaters in November of 2010, a split with Creeper in June of 2013, a 6-way split LP with Wounded Knee, Sohns, Anodes, American Thunder Band, and Duck. Little Brother, Duck! in October of 2015, a four way split 7" with Life In A Vacuum, Crowning, and Hundreds Of AU in May of 2019, and a nine song 12" titled One Man's Trash in late 2019.  Stay Buried is Canyons' latest album, which was released digitally via The Ghost Is Clear records on August 7th, 2020.  On Stay Buried, Canyons offer up nine tracks of sludgy and noise damaged hardcore.  Overall, Stay Buried makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy! 

*Update: Stay Buried is finally being released on cassette via Knife Hits records on March 18th, 2021!!!

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Canyons-Stay Buried LP (2020)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Sludge, Post Hardcore, Noise Rock
Label: The Ghost Is Clear
Tracks: 9
Length: 16.30'

Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a loud, dirty, and completely blown-out style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, post hardcore, and noise rock.  Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Fight Amp, Coalesce, Botch, Breather Resist, Engineer, and other like-minded bands.  Since their inception in 2008, a three song tour demo in July of 2008, a split with Regret, The Informer in December of 2008, a split with Mons Wolf in July of 2009, a compilation of their earlier material called Rufus Collection in February of 2010, a 3-way split LP titled Can't Have Nothing Nice with Tigon and Foreign Theaters in November of 2010, a split with Creeper in June of 2013, a 6-way split LP with Wounded Knee, Sohns, Anodes, American Thunder Band, and Duck. Little Brother, Duck! in October of 2015, a four way split 7" with Life In A Vacuum, Crowning, and Hundreds Of AU in May of 2019, and a nine song 12" titled One Man's Trash in late 2019.  Stay Buried is Canyons' latest album, which was released digitally via The Ghost Is Clear records on August 7th, 2020.  On Stay Buried, Canyons offer up nine tracks of sludgy and noise damaged hardcore.  Overall, Stay Buried makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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Canyons-One Man's Trash LP (2019)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Sludge, Post Hardcore, Noise Rock
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 9
Length: 18.20'

Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a loud, dirty, and completely blown-out style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, post hardcore, and noise rock.  Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Fight Amp, Coalesce, Botch, Breather Resist, Engineer, and other like-minded bands.  Since their inception in 2008, a three song tour demo in July of 2008, a split with Regret, The Informer in December of 2008, a split with Mons Wolf in July of 2009, a compilation of their earlier material called Rufus Collection in February of 2010, a 3-way split LP titled Can't Have Nothing Nice with Tigon and Foreign Theaters in November of 2010, a split with Creeper in June of 2013, a 6-way split LP with Wounded Knee, Sohns, Anodes, American Thunder Band, and Duck. Little Brother, Duck! in October of 2015, and a four way split 7" with Life In A Vacuum, Crowning, and Hundreds Of AU in May of 2019.  One Man's Trash is Canyons' latest release, which is actually a "Lost" record that was originally recorded in the band's storage unit practice space back in July of 2013.  On One Man's Trash, Canyons offer up nine tracks of sludgy and noise damaged hardcore.  Overall, One Man's Trash makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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Meditations In Affinity-Bond Volume I-Life In A Vacuum / Canyons / Crowning / Hundreds Of Au-Four Way Split 7" (2019)

Country: Canada/USA
Genre: Post Punk, Noise Rock, Hardcore, Punk, Sludge, Screamo, Emoviolence
Label: The Ghost Is Clear/Zegema Beach
Tracks: 4
Length: 12.25'

Here's a killer split featuring new material from Toronto, Canada's Life In A Vacuum, Kansas City, Missouri's Canyons, Chicago Illinois' Crowning, and New York's Hundreds Of Au.  Track one comes courtesy of  Life In A Vacuum.  Life In A Vacuum is a three piece band from Toronto, Ontario who formed in 2006.  Life In A Vacuum play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post hardcore, post punk, and noise rock within their sound.  Musically, Life In A Vacuum can be loosely compared to bands such as Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Shotmaker, North Of America, Metz, Blue Youth, USA Nails and other like-minded bands.  Song two comes courtesy of Canyons.  Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a loud, dirty, and completely blown-out style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, post hardcore, and noise rock.  Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Fight Amp, Coalesce, Botch, Breather Resist, Engineer, and other like-minded bands.  Track three comes courtesy of Crowning.  Crowning is a four piece band from Chicago, Illinois who formed in 2017, from the looks of things.  Crowning features members of Itto, so going on that alone, you know you're in for something truly special.  Crowning play a chaotic and volatile style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, screamo, and emoviolence within their sound.  Musically, Crowning can be loosely compared to bands such as Off Minor, Ampere, Orchid, Jerome's Dream, and other like-minded bands.  Finally, song number four comes courtesy of Hundreds Of Au.  Hundreds Of AU is a three piece band from Albany, NY who formed in 2017, from the looks of things.  Hundreds Of AU features Tom Schlatter on guitars and vocals, who is best known for his work in bands that include You And I, The Assistant, Black Kites, Less Life, Capacities, and What Of Us.  Hundreds Of AU play a vicious, scathing, and chaotic style of music that incorporates hardcore, punk, and screamo within their sound.  Overall, this is a killer 7" and definitely should not be missed!  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!  Meditations In Affinity-Bond Volume I was released via The Ghost Is Clear and Zegema Beach Records on May 10th, 2019.

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Canyons-Rufus 10" (2018)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Sludge, Post Hardcore, Noise Rock
Label: The Ghost Is Clear
Tracks: 7
Length: 20.0'

Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a loud, dirty, and completely blown-out style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, post hardcore, and noise rock.  Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Fight Amp, Coalesce, Botch, Breather Resist, Engineer, and other like-minded bands.  Since their inception in 2008, a three song tour demo in July of 2008, a split with Regret, The Informer in December of 2008, a split with Mons Wolf in July of 2009, a compilation of their earlier material called Rufus Collection in February of 2010, a 3-way split LP titled Can't Have Nothing Nice with Tigon and Foreign Theaters in November of 2010, a 6-way split LP with Wounded Knee, Sohns, Anodes, American Thunder Band, and Duck. Little Brother, Duck! in October of 2015, and a cassette compiling all of their songs from various splits titled Collected Volume 1 in April of 2016.  Rufus is the band's only stand alone EP to date and is finally being given the vinyl treatment in the relative near future.  On Rufus, Canyons offer up seven tracks of loud, dirty, and completely blown-out hardcore, punk, sludge and noise rock.  Overall, Rufus makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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Canyons-Collected Volume 1 Cassette (2016)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Sludge, Post Hardcore, Noise Rock
Label: Puddle Jumper
Tracks: 2
Length: 62.0'

Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a loud, dirty, and completely blown-out style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, post hardcore, and noise rock.  Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Fight Amp, Coalesce, Botch, Breather Resist, Engineer, and other like-minded bands.  Since their inception in 2008, a three song tour demo in July of 2008, a split with Regret, The Informer in December of 2008, a split with Mons Wolf in July of 2009, a compilation of their earlier material called Rufus Collection in February of 2010, a 3-way split LP titled Can't Have Nothing Nice with Tigon and Foreign Theaters in November of 2010, an most recently, a 6-way split LP with Wounded Knee, Sohns, Anodes, American Thunder Band, and Duck. Little Brother, Duck! in October of 2015.  Collected Volume 1 is the band's latest cassette which essentially compiles songs from their various split releases on to one convenient format.  Overall, Collected Volume is a killer cassette and fans of Canyons will definitely be wanting to pick up a copy to round out your collection.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!  Look for Collected Volume 1 to be released via Puddle Jumper Distro. on April 17th, 2016.

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Canyons/Creeper-Split 12" (2013)

Country: USA/Canada
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Crust, Sludge, Noise Rock
Label: The Ghost Is Clear
Tracks: 11
Length: 23.0'

Here's a killer split LP I had to give some love to today, after reviewing the Blacklights Split LP on TGIC records a while back.  This split LP made it on my Best of list for 2013 when I was writing for Manic Compression and Elementary Revolt, so I decided to post this to Dead Air for those of you who missed this album the first time around.  Canyons is a four piece band from Kansas City, MO who formed in 2008.  Canyons play a killer style of hardcore, punk, sludge, sludge, and noise rock.  Musically, Canyons can be said to be influenced by bands such as Breather Resist, Coalesce, Engineer, Fight Amp, and Achilles.  Since their inception in 2008, a three song tour demo in July of 2008, a split with Regret, The Informer in December of 2008, a split with Mons Wolf in July of 2009, a compilation of their earlier material called Rufus Collection in February of 2010, a 3-way split LP titled Can't Have Nothing Nice with Tigon and Foreign Theaters in November of 2010, an most recently, a 6-way split LP with Wounded Knee, Sohns, Anodes, American Thunder Band, and Duck. Little Brother, Duck! in October of 2015.  On their side of the split, Canons offer up six tracks of sludgy and noise damaged hardcore.  Side two of this split features Creeper.  Creeper is a four piece band from Toronto, Ontario who formed in 2009.  Creeper play a killer style of blackened, metallic, and crust-tinged hardcore.  Musically, Creeper can be said to be influenced by bands such as Cursed, Rise And Fall, Trap Them, and early Coliseum.  Since their inception in 2009, Creeper have released a self-titled four song demo in March of 2009, a split cassette with Amountainfar in March of 2011, a three song 7" titled Exhaustion in January of 2011, and most recently a four song EP titled Noise II Men in March 5th, 2014.  Sadly, Creeper have called it a day and these five songs are some of the band's last recorded material.  Overall, this is a killer LP and should not be missed.  Highly recommended.  Enjoy!  The Canyons/Creeper split was released via The Ghost Is Clear records on June 30, 2013.

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Blacklights-6 Way Split LP (2015)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Noise Rock, Sludge, Screamo, Emo, 
Label: The Ghost Is Clear Records
Tracks: 10
Length: 30.0'

Damn, here's a behemoth of a six way split LP that I absolutely had to review after listening and getting the go ahead from Bobby, who plays in Canyons and runs the always on point The Ghost Is Clear Records.  Blacklights features new tracks from Kansas City, Missouri's Canyons, Indianapolis, In's Wounded Knee, San Antonio, Tx's Sohns, St. Louis, Missouri's Anodes, Kansas City, Missouri's American Thunder Band, and Portland, Oregon's Duck.  Little Brother, Duck!  The first band on the split is Canyons.  Canyons formed in early 2008 and play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, sludge, and noise rock within their sound.  On Blacklights, Canyons offer up two tracks of sludgy and noise damaged hardcore.  The second two songs on the album come courtesy of Wounder Knee.  Wounded Knee is a Indiana based band who formed in late 2013.  Wounded Knee play a chaotic and volatile style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, and screamo within their sound.  The next two songs on the split come courtesy of San Antonio, Tx based Sohns.  Sohns play and abrasive and completely unhinged style of screamo tinged hardcore.  Next up on Blacklights is St. Louis, Missouri's Anodes, who contribute one song to the LP.  Anodes play a killer style of Ebullition records style post hardcore and screamo.  The next two songs on Blacklights come from Kansas City, Missouri based American Thunder Band.  American Thunderband (formerly known as Texas Instruments) play a tense, urgent, and chaotic style of emotive hardcore and post hardcore.  The last band featured on Blacklights is Duck. Little Brother, Duck!  Duck. Little Brother, Duck!  play a great style of music that incorporates elements of punk, emo, and math rock within their sound.  On Blacklights, Duck. Little Brother, Duck!  offer up one track of really well-executed punk, emo, and math rock.  Overall, Blacklights is an amazing LP and each band offer up top notch material for this release.  Look for Blacklights to be released via The Ghost Is Clear records on October 31st, 2015.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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