moxa

 moxa - what's white 

i genuinely don't know anything about this. i was in the mood to put something up on here and flicked through the singles until i found something that fitted and then i ripped it. here we have moxa. it's obscure. it's emo. it's obscuremo.

ferocious attack

i recently picked up a double 12" comp from 1998 on Japanese label "Answer Records", mostly as it had a Cigaretteman song on it that i wanted. there's a lot of good stuff on it and i figured i'd share this one as it's a prime slice of late 90s obscuremo. full on screamy vocals backed with melodic guitar, it hits the spot in all the right ways. i think a lot of you will be into this. the band has a couple of other releases too which on this evidence would be worth tracking down. see what ya think.

sweather weather

you all know about the sweather weather / days in december split, but probably not as many will have come across the sweater weather 7", on divot from 1996. the band featured kevin frank and ryan rapsys and unless there is an undiscovered demo floating around, this is their only other release. it's two songs, both have some delicious twinkly parts and are definitely time stamped by the mid 90s boyish vocals, fitting in with bands such as braid.

give it a go.

the gangplansisteele quartet

seems we got a bit of an Eric Wareheim emo relic on our hands here! i expect i got this tape when i bought an ebay lot of random mid 90s tape junk off ebay for about $40. i'm not sure it even had a full list of what was in it (i can tell you it was full of absolute gold though) and this is the first time i even listened to this one in particular 15 years down the line. it's just been gathering dust in my tape archive, glad i finally dug it out as it's well worth hearing. this is propermo, should appeal to fans of stuff that Eric Wareheim went on to do later (musically at least!). also in this band are Jessica Wareheim (Elements of Need), Scott Haskell and David Moylan. the music has been dubbed over a tape on New Age Records by the band "Resurrection" there's also a weird sample that i don't understand. then it goes into classical music? i've cut that bit. anyway, here you go, there's two tracks...