Monday 14 March 2022

The Number Twelve Looks Like You

The Number Twelve Looks Like You are a four-piece (formerly six-piece) mathcore band from Bergen County, New Jersey that began in 2002, broke up in 2010, and reunited in 2016. I know I've mentioned this band on here multiple times, so it's only fitting they finally get a full post on here. Trying to describe what this band sounds like is an incredibly daunting task, as they pull influence from a wide variety of sources, including screamo, grindcore, noise rock, progressive metal, and jazz fusion. To keep things simple though, they're often regarded as one of the best mathcore bands of the 2000's, along with contemporaries like Fear Before The March of Flames and Heavy Heavy Low Low. #12 played a ferociously technical style of music, with some pummelling drums, fiery dual guitar work and breakneck syncopation giving every song a sense of unpredictability. Their utilization of two vocalists pre-2010 added a whole other layer to their dynamic sound, which could go from clean jazz breaks to intense, guttural screams within the same second. This band has quickly become a classic and essential, and am glad to finally get them on here. If you're new to them, Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. is usually the go-to starting point, though Mongrel is most definitely worth your time as well. Enjoy.

1. Don't Get Your Blood On My Prada Shoes
2. Jesus And Tori
3. Document: Grace Budd
4. Blue Dress
5. If These Bullets Could Talk
6. Bambi The Hooker And A Case Of Beer
7. Empty Calm
8. Civeta Dei

1. Clarissa Explains Cuntainment
2. Don't Get Blood On My Prada Shoes
3. Like A Cat
4. Jesus And Tori
5. My Sharona (The Knack cover)

1. The Devil's Dick Disaster
2. Texas Dolly
3. Clarissa Explains Cuntainment
4. Track Four
5. The Proud Parent's Convention Held In ER
6. An Aptly Fictional Description
7. Like A Cat
8. Remembrance Dialogue
9. An Exericse In Self Portraiture: Go Shoot Yourself
10. Operating On A Re-Run Episode
11. Track Eleven
12. Category

1. Car Commercial
2. Sleeping With The Fishes, See?
3. Clarissa Explains Cuntainment (Demo)
4. Like A Cat (Demo)

1. Imagine Nation Express
2. El Piñata De La Muerte
3. Jay Walking Backwards
4. Grandfather
5. Alright, I Admit It... It Was A Whore House
6. Paper Weight Pigs
7. Sleeping With the Fishes, See?
8. Cradle in the Crater
9. The Weekly Wars
10. The Try (Thank You)

1. Imagination Express -(Jesse Cannon Remix)
2. The Weekly Wars - (Endor Remix)

1. Jay Walking Backwards
2. Don’t Get Blood On My Prada Shoes
3. The Weekly Wars
4. Texas Dolly
5. The Proud Parent’s Convention Held In The ER
6. Grandfather
7. Texas Dolly (J. Kale Gilgore Tribute)
8. The Weekly Wars (Endor Remix)
9. Imagine Nation Express (Jesse Cannon Remix)
10. Jesus & Tori / Civeta Dei / Sleeping With the Fishes, See?

1. Glory Kingdom
2. Given Life
3. To Catch A Tiger...
4. Marvin's Jungle
5. The Garden's All Nighters
6. ...If They Holler, Don't Let Go
7. Retort, Rebuild, Remind
8. The League Of Endangered Oddities
9. Serpentine
10. I'll Make My Own Hours

1. Gallery Of Thrills
2. Last Laugher
3. Ruin The Smile
4. Ease My Siamese
5. Sword Swallower
6. Raised And Erased
7. Tombo's Wound
8. Of Fear
9. Interspecies
10. Rise Up Mountain

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