Sophie's Floorboard: November 2015

Monday, 30 November 2015

Neil Perry

I've noticed a surprising amount of requests for this band, which is really nice to see. Taking their name from the Dead Poets Society character, Neil Perry were a four-piece screamo/post-hardcore band from New Jersey They formed in 1998 and broke up in 2002. They were signed to Level Plane, which put them in the same category as bands like Saetia and pg.99, who we all know and love. Neil Perry played in the same vein as them, keeping things very dark and very chaotic, and calling it quits before that got too old.

Despite that, they did have a fairly prolific tenure (for bands in their genre), since they released quite a few splits, a handful of EP's, and made numerous compilation appearances in their four years. All of their released material, plus some new stuff, was released on the compilation Lineage Situation in 2003. It contained two discs, the first being all audio and the second being all video. Only the audio is posted here. Lineage Situation is really all you need from the band, since it contains all their recorded material and more, but I included their splits and such because they worked with some amazing bands (Joshua Fit For Battle, Usurp Synapse, etc.) that are worth having both sides of the split for.

Neil Perry are also noted for having members that were involved in a ton of other great bands. When they formed, they contained members from You And I and Red All Over, and when they broke up, members split off into other bands including Hot Cross, Joshua Fit For Battle, Welcome The Plague Year, A Life Once Lost, The Now, Get Fucked, and Superstitions Of The Sky. Now that is a fucking impressive résumé. Enjoy.

Neil Perry (1999)

1. The Last Sip Is 90% Spit

2. Short-Haired Metal

3. Oh Shit

4. Catalyst

5. Moira

6. Elvis (Wears Nike)

7. Fuck You

8. There Was Definitely A Point When The Victim Passed Out... Then The Killer Kicked Him

9. I'm Sad For You

Neil Perry/A Satellite Crash (2000)

1. Neil Perry - There Will Come Soft Rains

2. Neil Perry - You Can't Fight Jose Cuervo And Win

3. Neil Perry - Don't Even Try To Start A Honda Accord While It's In Drive

4. Neil Perry - Bluebook Bedtime Story

5. Neil Perry - Trips To Baltimore

6. Neil Perry - Friends That Fuck

7. Neil Perry - Luc Fucked The Prom Queen

8. Neil Perry - When My Favorite Sports Team Loses It Makes Me Want To Hit My Girlfriend

9. Neil Perry - If This Is A Show About God, I'm Going To Kill U Mauro

10. A Satellite Crash - El Chupacabras

11. A Satellite Crash - I Renounce My Citizenship

12. A Satellite Crash - Spectre Of Monroe

13. A Satellite Crash - Love Song For J. Alfred Prufrock

14. A Satellite Crash - Native Son

15. A Satellite Crash - New Domino Theory

The Chilling Tales Of Usurp Synapse As Told By Neil Perry (2000)

1. Usurp Synapse - Come And Get It Mole

2. Usurp Synapse - Doin' The Backwards

3. Usurp Synapse - We Shoot From The Hip

4. Usurp Synapse - Live It! Live It!

5. Usurp Synapse - Here's $100 Seniorita

6. Usurp Synapse - Keith Sweat

7. Neil Perry - Sept 15, City Lights And The Clouds That Suck Them Dry

8. Neil Perry - I Bought This Southern Rap Compilation And All I Got Was This Lousy Hight Hat

9. Neil Perry - Josh's Dream Party: Beer, Girls, And A Computer

Brothers From Different Mothers (2001)

1. Neil Perry - Millions Lost At The Penny Arcade

2. Neil Perry - I Wanna Talk To Samson

3. Neil Perry - Yes Officer My Name Is Mister Hermitowich And I Did Sell These Boys A Gazebo (AKA Beijon Dip Song)

4. Neil Perry - Improve Jam 1: Take 1

5. Neil Perry - Shit Blows Up... Its So Good

6. Joshua Fit For Battle - To Bring Our Own End

7. Joshua Fit For Battle - Soldiers Of Psychological Warfare

8. Joshua Fit For Battle - Dedication (12 Clicks)

9. Joshua Fit For Battle - All Hail King Majority

10. Joshua Fit For Battle - Destroying From The Inside Out Kinda Like Cancer

11. Joshua Fit For Battle - Ode To Jack Kevorkian

Neil Perry/Kaospilot (2002)

1. Neil Perry - Breathing With One Bad Lung

2. Neil Perry - There's A Fine Line Between Thrift Store And White Trash

3. Neil Perry - A Friend Is A Lesson To Be Learned

4. Kaospilot - 16.6.2000

5. Kaospilot - The Noise From The Bell Killed Me

Picture Disc (2002)

1. Becoming What You Hate

2. Another Trip To Baltimore

3. Igor, My Girlfriend Dumped Me, Let's Write Sad Songs

4. Tom Cruise Turns To Me And Says...

5. Improv Jam 2: Take 1

A Days Refrain/Neil Perry (2002)

1. A Days Refrain - Forces of Habit

2. A Days Refrain - District Eleven

3. A Days Refrain - Don't Fake The Funk

4. Neil Perry - Looking Back At How You Want To Be In The Future

5. Neil Perry - Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them

6. Neil Perry - Sorry For The Misunderstanding, Mr. Watts. It Won't Happen Again

Lineage Situation (2003)

1. Nine Minutes Of Non-Fiction

2. Kicked

3. Seeping Through The Cracks

4. What Is In The Making

5. Looking Back On The Way You Want To Be In The Future

6. Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them

7. Sorry For The Misunderstanding Mr. Watts...

8. Millions Lost At The Penny Arcade

9. I Wanna Talk To Samson

10. Yes Officer My Name Is Mr. Hermitiowitch...

11. Shit Blows Up...It's So Good

12. Becoming What You Hate

13. Another Trip To Baltimore

14. Igor, My Girlfriend Dumped Me... Let's Write Sad Songs

15. So Tom Cruise Turns To Me And Says

16. Breathing With One Bad Lung

17. There's A Fine Line Between Thrift Store And White Trash

18. A Friend Is A Lesson To Be Learned

19. September 15th, City Lights, And The Clouds That Suck Them Dry

20. I Bought This Southern Rap Compilation And All I Got Was This Lousy Hi-Hat

21. Josh's Dream Party: Beer, Girls, And A Computer

22. Memoirs Of An Illiterate Penpal

23. There Will Come Soft Rains

24. You Can't Fight Jose Cuervo And Win

25. Don't Even Try To Start A Honda Accord If It's In Drive

26. Bluebook Bedtime Story

27. Trips To Baltimore

28. Friends That Fuck

29. Luc Fucked The Prom Queen

30. When My Favorite Sports Team Loses, It Makes Me Want To Hit My Girlfriend

31. If This Is A Show About God, I'm Going To Kill U Mauro

32. The Last Sip Is 90% Spit

33. Short-Haired Metal

34. Oh Shit

35. Catalyst

36. Moira

37. Elvis Wears Nikes

38. Fuck You

39. There Was Definitely A Point When The Victim...

40. I'm Sad For You

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Svffer

Svffer are a four-piece hardcore/grindcore/powerviolence band from Münster/Berlin, Germany that formed in 2013. Since then, they've picked up quite a bit of traction for being one of the most brutally aggressive bands around. Seriously, everything they've done so far is nothing but dark, violent, and slaughtering to the soul. They make fantastic use of dynamics in their songs, so they're not a one-trick bludgeoning fest. Svffer know how to build intensity, which makes for a blood-boiling listening experience. We could go on and on with the hyperbolic metaphors, but to keep it simple I'll just say this. This band is highly recommended if you're into the darker and more aggressive side of music, Svffer should be on your radar. Enjoy.

Svffer (2013)

1. This Life / A Curse

2. Misfit

3. Isolation

4. Walls

Lies We Live (2014)

1. Venom

2. Cherish A Viper

3. Faint

4. Insomnia

5. Staub

6. Arrows

7. Orphan

8. Canvas

9. War Paint

10. Imbalance

11. Without Devotion

12. Draperies

13. Zivilisation

Empathist (2015)

1. Systematisierung

2. Irgendwie doch anders

3. Error

4. Fever

5. Illusion

6. Unjust Prevail

7. Valueless

8. Destruktiv

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Friday, 27 November 2015

Saintly Rows

Saintly Rows were a three-piece screamo/emo/post-rock band from Albuquerque, New Mexico that formed in 2012 and unfortunately broke up about a month ago. They're one of the many bands I've been meaning to do for a long time, but for some reason or another just never got around to it. They've continued to blow me away with each release they've put out in the past few years, so I cannot recommend you check them out enough. They combine the classic chaotic screamo of bands like Off Minor and Daïtro with more modern post-rock/emo hybrids such as Old Gray and Pianos Become The Teeth, and then throw in some Brand New for good melodic measure. Their lyrics are astounding, the vocals are passionate, and the instrumental side of things is incredibly tight as they weave through quiet/loud dynamics seamlessly. They share members with another great band called Drifter. Enjoy.

In a Year, We Were Nothing (2012)

1. Thaw

2. Empty Crosses

3. In Parting (featuring Nathan Cross)

4. In a Year, We Were Nothing

5. All My Heroes Hang From Ceiling Fans

6. Crows' Feet (featuring Matt Sanchez)

Everything That I Was Afraid of Happening, Happened (2013)

1. Dead Weight

2. Tetelestai

3. The Potomac

4. Everything That I Was Afraid of Happening, Happened

Heaven In The Hollow (2015)

1. Mara

2. Bloom

3. Jupiter Jazz Pt. II

4. Ruin Value

5. The Vine That Ate The South

6. Why Am I Still Plagued By You?

7. Luminarias

8. June

9. Death And Memory

10. I'll Be Seeing You

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Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Penfold

Penfold were a four-piece emo/indie/post-hardcore band from North Jersey that formed somewhere between 1996 and 1997. Their sound is in the same vein as bands like The Promise Ring and Mineral, which are obvious staples for anyone interested in emo/indie in that era. Penfold's main active years came just after bands like that were at their peak, so in a way they sound like a culmination of what had been going on in emo throughout the 90's, and put it all together right around the turn of the century. Though Penfold never got the amount of attention the aforementioned bands did, they were arguably just as good and pumped out some classic songs such as "I'll Take You Everywhere" and "June". Though they're not genre-defining or revolutionary, they put out some amazing material in the time they were around. They broke up in 2003, though have played a handful of reunion shows throughout the years, so perhaps they're not completely done yet. Enjoy.

Your Eyes Have All The Answers (1997)

1. I'm Never Coming Home

2. Perfect

Amateurs And Professionals (1999)

1. June

2. M

3. I'll Take You Everywhere

4. Tuesday

5. Traveling Theory

6. Breathing Lessons

7. Amateur Standing

Chapter 3: The Moment Of Truth (1999)

3. Microchip

Our First Taste Of Escape (2001)

1. The Opportune Moment

2. Fate, Confidence And An Encounter

3. The Secret Nine

4. Human Drama

5. Sea Of Crisis

6. Our First Taste Of Escape

7. May I Have This Dance

8. The Sound of Jazz

9. Brilliance

10. Kissing The Nightmare

11. Reflexivity

12. Early Morning, Mauldin Street

Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ 09.17.11 (2011)

1. Intro/Chapter 2

2. Traveling Theory

3. Sea Of Crisis

4. M

5. The Sound Of Jazz

6. Fate, Confidence And An Encounter

7. The Secret Nine

8. Microchip

9. Brilliance

10. Kissing The Nightmare

11. Our First Taste Of Escape

12. Amateur Standing

13. Encore Break

14. June

15. Reflexivity

16. I'll Take You Everywhere

Note: This isn't an official release, just audio from one of the reunion shows, so thank you to whoever ripped and uploaded it

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

ROAM

ROAM are a five-piece pop punk band from Eastbourne, UK that formed in 2012. They take their name from a The Story So Far song, though that's not all they share with them. ROAM sound a lot like TSSF, not that that's an issue necessarily. Besides TSSF, they're comparable to Neck Deep, Knuckle Puck, etc. Pretty much any typical modern pop punk band (which isn't an insult, if it ain't broke, there's no point in fixin' it). They've put out a few EP's and have a full-length coming in January of the new year, so that's something to look out for. This band is always requested, so here they finally are. Enjoy.

No Common Ground (2012)

1. Variable

2. Set The Standards

3. Compass

4. Less Than Productive

5. BROAM

6. Naivety

Head Down (2013)

1. You Never Said

2. Sticker Slap

3. Nothing In Return

4. Foresight

5. Head Rush

Nothing In Return (Acoustic) (2014)

1. Nothing In Return (Acoustic)

Viewpoint (2015)

1. Over Your Head

2. Warning Sign

3. 519

4. Safeguard

Backbone (2016)

1. The Desmond Show

2. Cabin Fever

3. Deadweight

4. All The Same

5. Hopeless Case

6. Bloodlines

7. RIP In Peace

8. Tracks

9. Head Rush

10. Goodbyes

11. Tell Me

12. Leaving Notice

Great Heights & Nosedives (2017)

1. Alive

2. Left For Dead

3. The Rich Life Of A Poor Man

4. Playing Fiction

5. Guilty Melody

6. Open Water

7. Curtain Call

8. Scatterbrained

9. Flatline

10. While The World Keeps Spinning

11. Home

Smile Wide (2019)

1. Better In Than Out

2. I Don't Think I Live There Anymore

3. LOUD
4. Play Dumb

5. The Fire On The Ceiling

6. Piranha

7. Red & Blue

8. Hand Grenade

9. Toy Box

10. Turn

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Wednesday, 11 November 2015

FIDLAR

Note: All the links are down due to copyright issues, except for "Everything Else"

FIDLAR (an acronym for Fuck It Dog, Life's A Risk) are a four-piece punk band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 2009. They've made a name for themselves through loud guitars, cheap beer, cocaine, and a serious lack of fucks to give. Their mission statement seems to be a lack of one. Even after two full-lengths and a slew of other material, they're staying true to the Descendents' mantra "I don't want to grow up". Sonically, FIDLAR are more in the vein of bands such as Black Lips or Wavves, preferring to keep things loose and loud. It's dirty, grimy, Californian garage punk, there's not much else that needs to be said. FIDLAR are basically a celebration of late nights, bad decisions, shitty substances, nonstop parties and youthful cynicism. For a list of vices, they seem to be having a pretty good time with it. However, their most recent album deals more with getting over that, since their singer is now clean/sober, which makes for an nice change in subject matter and an interesting transition between the early and the new.

They've gotten a shit ton of requests lately, so this is for all of you. Everything Else isn't an actual compilation, it's just all the random songs, covers, etc. that I could find, and unfortunately don't have a whole lot of information on most of them. Regardless, there's plenty of stuff in there to enjoy, so please do.

Cheap Beer (2011)

1. Chinese Weed

2. Carnivore Girls

3. Cheap Beer

DIYDUI (2011)

1. Wake Bake Skate

2. Oh

3. Wait For The Man

4. Max Can't Surf

Don't Try... (2012)

1. No Waves

2. No Ass

3. Black Out Stour

4. Got No Money

Shit We Recorded In Our Bedroom EP (2012)

1. West Coast

2. Carnivore Girls

3. Shrooms

4. Crackhead Ted

Awkward (2013)

1. Awkward

FIDLAR (2013)

1. Cheap Beer

2. Stoked And Broke

3. White On White

4. No Waves

5. Whore

6. Max Can't Surf

7. Blackout Stout

8. Wake Bake Skate

9. Gimme Something

10. 5 To 9

11. LDA

12. Paycheck

13. Waiting For The Ma

14. Cocaine

Too (2015)

1. 40oz. On Repeat

2. Punks

3. West Coast

4. Why Generation

5. Sober

6. Leave Me Alone

7. Drone

8. Overdose

9. Hey Johnny

10. Stupid Decisions

11. Bad Medicine

12. Bad Habits

Everything Else

Alcoholic

Aluminum (DIY Session)

American Steel

At The ChaCha

AWWWKWAARRDDD (ft. Kate Na$h)

BLEW XMAS

Bloody Nose (Earlimart)

Bummed (just a weird gimme something)

BUSCHWICK KIDS FUCK YEAH!

Carmelita (not whole)

Carmelita(full shit version)

cocain the awesome version

Cocaine

Common People (Pulp cover)

Crackhead Teed

Cry Cry Cry mix 1

Dammit (blink-182 cover)

DEAD FLOWERS (ROLLLLING STONESD) LIVE

DEVIL IN DISGUYZZZZ (PREZL3Y)

Don't Die

Drunk

Fuck It Dog Life's A Risk (Single)

grlfrnds

Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain (Ween)

I JUST WANNA DIE

I'm Going Nowhere

idgaf

If It Makes You Happy ft. Sheryl Kro

jet punk jet bitch

Lodi

LOKO BLUES

My Guy (Mary Wells cover)
NIGHTMARES (REATARD)

No Money Honey

proud mary

THE PUNKS ARE FINALLY TAKING ACID

Red Right Hand (Nick Cave cover)

Sex (or cheap cocain)

Shitty Jobz

Somebody Kill Me (Ft. Kate Nash)

Suburban Home (Descendents cover)

THIS HOUSE PARTY SUCKS

this songs about daniel wing

TIME WILL TELL (MARLEY)

Untitled (Sad Song)

Vice Rag (AA Bondy)

Wasted (Demo)

West Coast

Whatever

666am

:'(

Note: I had to use Mediafire due to the file exceeding Zippyshare's maximum upload size

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Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Koji

Andrew Koji Shiraki (who just goes by Koji) is a singer-songwriter from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He got started upon signing to Run For Cover in 2010. With nothing but his own voice and acoustic guitar, he managed to write some incredibly catchy and compelling songs that caught the attention of anyone who heard them. His voice is fantastic, and there's this energy when he performs that overflowing with passion and sincerity, which is what makes his music so powerful. He's heavily involved in numerous organisations and charities, which just goes to show that his passions are so strong that they go outside of just music. His more recent material, and debut full-length (which is now two years old) incorporate more instrumentation, which just elevate his core songwriting to new levels.

Koji is one person I definitely encourage you to support, not only is his music amazing, but he just flat-out seems like a great guy. Most of his music is available through his music on a Name-Your-Price basis, which is commendable and deserving of anything that can be given. If that's not a possibility, enjoy it here. I should have done a post on him long ago, so here it is, very overdue (as so many posts are, haha). Enjoy.