The Appleseed Cast: now with 40% less emo

So no one has posted today yet and my will to live is shriveling into a more pathetic ball of puffinstuff ever second I sit here and do more work so I thought I would mention what still seems to be a relatively unknown band…

Checkout The Appleseed Cast. I actually can do little to describe them better than the wiki seems to so i'll throw in my little perspective and allow you guys to checkout the wiki and their homepage and what for the real facts and not just reality as it is filtered through my sensory system...

Sometime in the late nineties i had this napster methodology that got me a lot of my new music. I'd search for a band i liked and when i found a user with a respectable library, i would then download everything else on their computer. I believe i was searching for "Mineral" (vintage emo) and i ended up getting the song "Moment # 2" and "Marigolds and Patchwork" from their album "The End of the Ring Wars". I absolutely loved these songs but between my maturing of taste away from that classic "Stabby Rip Stab Stab" emo sound and my burgeoning alcoholism i never followed up on them very much. Well after a few band members left and a few came and they hopped between a few labels the release a new album in early 2006 called "Peregrine".

I absolutely love it. The wiki labels it pure "post-rock" which i guess i can agree with but i have heard a lot of post rock that i don't like.. i like this. Very layered sound, a surprising amount of synth and the buildups that made me love mogwai in the first place. Unlike their early emo stuff, the lyrics haven't been my main draw to these songs but maybe when i just get over how beautiful the whole sound of this album is, maybe i'll start noticing them...

Checkout the tracks "Mountain Halo" and "Woodland Hunter (part 1)".. they will make you grin for hours...