Song of the Day

Song Of The Day: Slim Twig – Fadeout Killer

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Paul in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

Slim Twig has been a fixture on the Toronto scene for a few years now, and to his credit, he’s always followed his muse wherever it takes him. In the case of his latest release, Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig it`s taken him to some interesting places, sonically speaking.

The entire album exudes a sort of woozy psychedelia with a strong melodic foundation running through it, like a narcotized, slightly bent version of classic rock songwriting. Also, I have to give it up to Slim for what I can only assume is the use of wood-based punnery in his album title (stick/twig). Check out “Fadeout Killer” off the album. It’s a good one.

Slim Twig plays The Horseshoe Tavern on Wednesday, October 21 with Crosss and Drainolith.

Song Of The Day: Geographer – I’m Ready

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Celeste in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

It’s tough out there for indie bands — there are approximately 578,240,527,891 of them in Brooklyn, NY alone. How to make yourself stand out?

Geographer went the route of distinguishing yourself by your genre — the group self describes as “soulful music from outer space.” Even if they weren’t the only extraterrestrial soul group out there, they’d still have the genre on lockdown. With spacey synth beating in the background and Mike Deni’s soulful voice crooning out the lyrics in the front it’s a perfect pairing of genre-bending cosmic music (and frankly, Deni’s out-of-this-world looks don’t hurt.)

The band is coming to Lincoln Hall on May 12th, so give “I’m Ready” off their new album Ghost Modern a listen and grab a ticket while they’re still available:

SXSW / NXNE Preview: San Fermin

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Ricky in North By Northeast, Song of the Day, South By Southwest | Leave a comment

San Fermin

We here at Panic Manual have been big fans of San Fermin for a long time. Their self titled debut album was one of my favorite albums back in 2013, back when I was a young lad. Since then, I have matured significantly and perhaps this too is reflected with the sound of the new album. Maybe it has not, I don’t know. I have not listened to their new record, which is entitled Jackrabbit. The album is out on April 21st but for those of us lucky enough to go to Austin, they will be playing a plethora of shows at SXSW this year.

The picture above was a party they played in Austin for SXSW. What’s not pictured? Free muther fuckin bbq’s! Sausages! Brisket! Ribs galore! This type of gastronomical satistfaction was reflected perfectly in the San Fermin live show – a little bit of everything, high peaks and deeply satisfying. I don’t know if this post makes any sense. Regardless, they are a band to check out and I mean that in the most honest, sincere way.

They are also playing NXNE for those who can’t make the journey to Texas.

SXSW Preview: The Lees Of Memory – We Are Siamese

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Paul in Song of the Day, South By Southwest | 1 Comment

SXSW is fast approaching and come March, Austin will have no lack of bands evoking the sounds of the ’90s, from those who’ve kept it going since those days to the reunited acts hoping to relaunch their career and on to the newer performers inspired by the sounds of yesteryear.

Nashville’s The Lees Of Memory will be one of those bands and they come by their ’90s sound honestly – members John Davis and Brandon Fisher were formerly in alt-rock one hit wonders Superdrag (remember “Sucked Out?”). However, rather than revisiting the power pop sounds of that group, The Lees Of Memory dive headfirst into Kevin Shields territory with some blissed out shoegaze and they do it well. “We Are Siamese” is the lead single off of their album Sisyphus Says. Give it a listen.

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