Have a Nice Life – Time of Land (2010)

Time of Land is the name of an E.P. we kind of fell into while working on our next full-length album. It was sold in physical form only once: at our first show ever, at The Stone in NYC. About 50 tapes were sold that night.

Now, the E.P. is available for free to everyone who couldn’t make it to the show, in digital form. Thank you very much, to everyone, for your continued and completely overwhelming support for us, our label, and our music. It is deeply, deeply appreciated.

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HAVE A NICE LIFE

Artist: Have a Nice Life
Album: Time of Land
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Ambient, Drone, Industrial
Size: 50mb
Bitrate: 320kbps
Year: 2010

Tracklist:

01 Wizard of the Black Hundreds
02 Woe Untos Us
03 The Parhelic Circle
04 The Icon and the Axe

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by adi51 ~ Saturday, 6 March 2010 0 comments

Have A Nice Life - Voids [2009]

Compiled here are two separate EPs, the first being Have A Nice Life's extremely rare second demo, Powers Of Ten, and the second being What Happened Next Was Worse, a collection of tracks written around the same time as Deathconsciousness that didn't make it onto the main album. Together these two EPs make up Voids, a sort of footnote detailing a little more of what was going on during the five year period leading up to 2008's Deathconsciousness.


Tracklist:

Disc 1/ Powers Of Ten

1. The Big Gloom
2. Waiting For Black Metal Records To Come In The Mail
3. The Future
4. Earthmover
5. Who Would Leave Their Sun Out In The Son?
(Different versions)

Disc 2/ What Happened Next Was Worse

1. Human Error
2. Trespassers W
3. Defenstration Song
4. Sisyphus
5. Destinos

All songs written by Dan and Tim, in a bedroom in the middle of nowhere (12 Oxford Dr., Middlefield, Connecticut).


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by adi51 ~ Monday, 7 September 2009 0 comments

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008) *****

''Muzyka taka nie spodoba się raczej słuchaczom tandety, do których przyzwyczajają nas nasze kochane polskie media. Za skomplikowana na Feel, za brzydka na Dodę, za mało "pokoleniowa" na Kombii. Więc cóż to właściwie jest? Jest to coś w rodzaju post-rockowego Shoegaze'u, łączącego w sobie eksperymentalne dźwięki. Na dodatek tworzone przez 2 panów w domowym zaciszu(!) Jakby tego było mało, jest to ich debiut. Coś niewiarygodnego, coś mistycznego, brudnego, złego, tajemniczego a jednocześnie bardzo znajomego. Dla ludzi nie bojących się eksperymentów i znudzonych codziennością tandety, będzie to spełnienie marzeń. Całą resztę zapraszam do kupna Video i Ani Wyszkoni. A właśnie! Kto to jest Ania Wyszkoni?''

>Personal favourite<

Tracklist:

Disc One: The Plow That Broke the Plains

1. A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticutt
2. Bloodhail
3. The Big Gloom
4. Hunter
5.Telephony
6. Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun
7. There Is No Food

Disc Two: The Future

1. Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail
2. Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
3. The Future
4. Deep, Deep
5. I Don't Love
6. Earthmover

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75-page booklet - DOWNLOAD

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by adi51 ~ Sunday, 6 September 2009 0 comments

The Workhouse - Flyover (2006)

Originally formed in 1996 the present line up has been stable since 2001. The band hail from Cumbria, South Wales, Bolton and Teesside, thrown together between Oxford and London at some point in the late 90’s. Since 1999 the band have released a string of singles and compilation appearances on labels such as Bearos, Livid Meerkat, Awkward Silence, Dancing Turtle, Rocket Girl, Slow Noir and Emmas House.


Tracklist:

1 Chancers 3:08
2 Shake Hands 4:02
3 Coathanger 3:48
4 Boxing Day 5:52
5 Big Sam 8:29
6 Sellafield 4:18
7 Coma 3:32
8 Twinkling Lights 3:13
9 Last of the Big Songs 3:22
10 Flyover 8:45
11 Look Up at the Stars 4:08

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by adi51 ~ Saturday, 27 June 2009 1 comments

De La Mancha - Atlas (2008) *****

After the excellent ‘Release All Light EP’, De La Mancha arrive with a full-length offering, delivering on that early promise with an album that combines a Sigur Ros-like sense of scale with humbler, shoegazing songwriting values. ‘Release All Light’ still shines brightly from the album’s tracklist, sounding great on an epic scale, but there’s a lot more to Atlas than that: perhaps due to the presence of Dag Rosenqvist (aka Jasper TX) on electronics and guitar, for every moment of tuneful Euro-indie like ‘Lotus Seven’, there’s a more subtle, soundscaped piece like the ambient brass tones of ‘And Rainy Days’, or the introspective, echoing piano chords of ‘Sleep’. If all this sounds suspiciously like some sort of by-the-book post-rock exercise and your tolerance for such things has reached saturation point, fear not: this isn’t really that sort of record at all… despite the presence of gratuitously long, irritating titles like ‘So Let’s Blow Up Our Heads And Leave’, ‘Atlas’ is proof that De La Mancha have an impressively diverse repertoire, comfortably blending musical disciplines, and handling their instruments with a real expertise. Furthermore, the album is all filtered through a great production job from Rosenqvist, who keeps the hour-long duration ticking over with a real sense of dynamism and narrative progression. Lovely.

>Fantastic<

Tracklist:

01. Newfoundland
02. Release All Light
03. Lotus Seven
04. And Rainy Days
05. The Kimono
06. Superstoned
07. So Let's Blow Up Our Heads And Leave
08. Being A Hero Is Easy
09. Sleep

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by adi51 ~ Saturday, 20 June 2009 0 comments

Klimt 1918 - Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (2008)

For those new to the band, the name itself is derived from an artist named Gustave Klimt and the year of his death. As for the new album, the official name of the album is Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again (Soundtrack for the Cassette Generation) and it is eleven tracks of alternative-influenced music that can be compared to newer Anathema and Katatonia. As with those bands, the emphasis is on lush melodies and they come in spades here. The production values are good, which allow them to shine through on the album. Vocalist Marco Soellner adds some emotion to the music, something that takes the album from merely average to a surprisingly enjoyable listen. Obviously, this music is not for everyone, especially those who have soured on Anathema and Katatonia post-2000. If nothing else, Klimt 1918 is an interesting experience, especially on Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again.

Klimt 1918, like most bands of their genre, are one of those bands that can be difficult to understand, with some profound lyrics and sound. Just listening to the albums can be a chore unto itself. With Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again, that road to understanding takes even more twists and turns. While it isn't for everyone, those who seek something different will find some reward with the new album from Klimt 1918.

Tracklist:

1. The Breathtaking Days (Via Lactea)
2. Skygazer
3. Ghost of a tape listener
4. The gradudate
5. Just an interlude in your life
6. Just in case we'll never meet again
7. Suspense music
8. Disco awayness
9. Arget
10. All summer long
11. True love is the oldest fear

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by adi51 ~ Monday, 15 June 2009 1 comments

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side (2006) *****

01. (04:50) The Ghost
02. (04:37) According To Plan
03. (04:08) Lights
04. (02:30) The Owl
05. (02:03) Today
06. (06:09) We Choose Faces
07. (04:30) Last Ride Together
08. (05:35) At Last Is All
09. (04:22) Long Walk
10. (04:06) Dash
11. (02:07) Fear Is On Our Side
12. (06:38) If It Was Me

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儉德大廈 (Kimtak Building) - 在森林和原野 (In the Forest and the Field) (2006)

As known as Kimtak Building. Kimtak Building are a Hong Kong shoegaze band whose name comes from a building in Jordon, Hong Kong. They play instrumental rock. Introspective and moody. Do not expect a typical shoegazing sound though.




Tracklist:

1. 湖邊的鹿 [The Deer By the Lake]
2. 戀愛中的蝸牛 [The Snail In Love]
3. 乾渴的池塘 [The Thirsty Pond]
4. 冰湖上的獸 [The Beast On The Frozen Lake]
5. 沼澤裡的斧頭 - [The Axe In The Swamp]
6. 善良的狼 - [The Kind Wolf]
7. 磨破的舞鞋 - [The Worn Dancing Shoes]
8. 發光的羽毛 - [The Sparkling Feather]
9. 被騙的蝙蝠 - [The Misled Bat]
10. 兔子寫的曲 - [The Song Written By A Rabbit]
11. 霧中的船 - [The Boat In The Mist]

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by adi51 ~ Monday, 8 June 2009 0 comments