Forget Cassettes
O Cursa II
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Part Two of the three part “O Cursa” series of Forget Cassette series of EP’s is now available. While, musically, the EP continues down the same path as O Cursa I, deep into dark electronic based territory, it has some of that familiar aggression from previous Forget Cassette releases; particularly on “Lady Lazarus.” One thing is for sure, Forget Cassettes continues to bare emotions in a raw way without feeling pretentious or inauthentic. Sometimes music needs more of that.

I am still digesting my thoughts on these so I thought I’d throw them out your way and see what, potentially, sticks.

The Inscape 7″ – a bit of bluesy, psychedelic, rock and roll. There’s a longer EP as well but the two song 7″ is a great place to start.

Rales – Demo – it’s unfortunate when I don’t have the proper words to describe some solid straight-ahead rock songs. There’s no gimmick here, just drums, bass, guitar, vocals and a song called Garfield.

Echo Group
Challtalk Record Collection III
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Every step of the way, Echo Group has continuously impressed me. The debut of the Challtalk Record Collection EP trilogy was a refreshing bit of indie rock and they’ve not let me down since. I even had the opportunity to see them live and it was great. The compiled collection of the EP’s will be available as an album early next year but why wait? Go ahead and nab them all now.

Au Ras Au Ras
The Great Nothing
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Here’s another entry in the “Yes, this band really is local” series. Au Ras Au Ras is the solo undertaking of Tess Brunet; a musician probably best known for her work with Generationals or deadboy & The Elephantmen. She Kickstarted this album back in 2010, recorded it at Dial Back and has been unleashing it on the world. It’s a quality record that I suggest you spend some time with before hitting up The Basement on Thursday (Nov. 15th) to see her play.

Tess Brunet. Tess was the driving force behind deadboy & the Elephantmen (We Are Night Sky). She also was the drummer for Generationals (Trust EP). She also backed Lady Bo of Bo Diddley on drums.