Houston Vanguard

The Calm Blue Sea (self-titled)

Hailing from the most not even remotely weird and certainly not eccentric city of Austin,TX,  The Calm Blue Sea’s self titled debut album has a delightfully distinct post-rock feel. By that I mean the album sounds somewhere between a fairytale and a peaceful dream. The Brothers Grimm kind not the prancing looney tunes version and by peaceful dream I mean your taking a nap in a boat in a sea in a dark storm.

They are playing at notsouh this Friday(Nov 14th), its a good venue so if you like what you hear go out and support this group of mono-syllably named guys(Noah=one, yes?).

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God Is An Astronaut (self titled)

“Instrumental post rock” seems too cold a classification for music full of such intense beauty. I’ve met an Astronaut but have yet to meet God so I cant tell if God is in fact an Astronaut. However I’d imagine looking down on our blue and green planet from the cold black of space would humble the greatest egos. And it is this ethereal experience is what is drawn into my imagination when listening to this album.

God Is An Astronaut the album is set to be released tomorrow Nov 7th.

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The Walkmen @ Walters on Washington

The WalkMen

The Little Ones

Young Mammals

Awesome Show today,

Thursday Oct 9 @ Walters on Washington.

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Westheimer Block Party by FPH

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Brazilian Girls - New York City

I picked this album solely because it is titled after a city I was planning on going to today, New York City.  However, instead of making it to New York I somehow ended up in Tampico. And that same twist is exactly what happened with the Brazilian Girls soon to be released album (Aug 5) New York City.

I was expecting a good electronic/indie record from the title and cover art and at first they went along with my expectations with the pleasant “St. Petersburg” and then out of nowhere, in “Losing Myself”, Sabina Sciubba(who’s the only girl and not Brazilian) the singer breaks into french but this is more like a franglish song, they switch from english to french multiple times and the cool part is this is done on purpose, not for lack of fluency. If you want completely french songs, they have a beautiful story about a “L’Interprete”. If you want Spanish, They have the haunting “Ricardo”.  And of course the very English song “Good Times”.

The beauty of this album is not just its language switching but their ability to combine their very unique style with that of another country to create a truelly great “Internacional” record.

You can find more information about Brazilian Girls as well as information on their upcoming album at their website

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