The convergence of old and new to create something timeless.

Hello everyone, I mean if there is anyone reading this. I mean, hopefully there is so, hello! how are you doing today? If you were to ask me what I did today i'd have to tell you honestly. I went and saw Miranda July's new movie The Future which she even did a Q and A afterwards which was quite amazing to witness. After all of these events, I came home and now am sitting next to my wonderful girlfriend in Greenpoint.
It's strange to begin this post like that but it's what's honest and I feel that's what we need for what I want to discuss. Which is a wonderful band named Beau Navire. Beau Navire recently put out an LP called "Hours." In case you didn't know Beau Navire contains members of bands who all have impressive backgrounds, but the most impress bands of the four are definately two from California. These bands are Loma Prieta and I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook which contained Sean ( the great elder oak tree) and Trei.
The two of these amazing guitarists have combined both of their creative efforts to write a very beautiful and amazing screamo LP. Everytime I listen to it, I find myself having a completely different more mature listening experience. As most people that keep up to date on screamo ( or dare I say Skramz, just kidding) would know. Screamo has become a completely dead genre, void of all sorts of originality that it once gave birth too. Bands like Maths, and what not plague the genre with repetitive-ness. Thankfully, Hours breaks that mold and brings something to the table.
Hours, is the sound of youth and the sound age combined into one amazing effort. The album is pure art, in the most honest sense of the word. It is still a chaotic screamo work but the instrumentation truly defines it. The band takes the term screamo and pushes it to it's full potential, with every band member truly giving one hundred and ten percent. To be honest I can even compare it to "Jokes" by "Kidcrash" It's just that amazing honestly.
I can only hope that sometime there will be enough time for the four of them to do a full national tour. I'll be asking Sean when I see them in two weeks about the verdict. Who knows, all I have to say is please my lovely readers if you do happen to come across this record. BUY IT, like it's hotstock or something. Well, whatever good night :]

HIS HERO IS GONE FIFTEEN COUNTS OF ARSON

Right now i'm listening to His Hero Is Gone. I haven't really listened to them in YEARS but as i'm listening to 15counts of arson and i'm remembering why this shit was awesome back then. See, it was a different scene when I first heard this record. I was going to grindcore ( think: whitebelt) shows and bands like ME AND HIM CALL IT US were rocking Tragedy tattoos and shit. This was like 2005- 2006? Also another band that would name drop them was NIGHTS LIKE THESE but let's forget about them for now. I just heard from these bands about HHIG and went home and found this and listened to it. My mind was blown hearing Rain dance and ...and we burn on a shitty myspace player. I might seem nerdy for saying these things but whatever it really changed my life for the better.

Back to the real subject of this. His Hero Is Gone are awesome. The short songs are awesome and the long songs don't feel long. Why don't more bands follow this formula of playing songs that are full of pretty cool material instead of trying to make their songs hit the three to four minute mark? I don't know but I blame deathwish! The drumming is what I really love about this band. Though the guitars are almost always not too complicated, the simple drumming really ties it all into dirty good ness. God this album feels DIRTY and not in a sexual way lol. The beginning of raindance is so simple and tough sounding. No band right now really pulls off that dirty simple- ness anymore without sounding contrived or at least like they're trying to. HHIG especially on 15 counts of arson come across as honest, honestly dirty, and honestly a crusty bunch of dudes playing fast hard punk.

What blows my mind though is all the losers that I know who love music and want to be in a band that have never heard His Hero Is Gone. What the fuck! What craziness, some bands you just have to like cause they rule HHIG is one of those.

I'm glad I liked this band when I was fifteen cause otherwise i'd be a total loser like everyone else that finds beach punk respectable.