jeff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:36:31 +0000

Next in my, hopefully, continuing series profiling bands that are less than popular but I feel are worth listening to is Quicksand. In their short life they released one EP and 2 full albums. Both LPs are excellent. Their recorded debut was a self titled EP. In 1993 they released Slip on PolyGram. The single was Dine Alone and it got some airplay upon release but not enough to catapult Quicksand into the mainstream, even though they had the power of a major label behind them at this point. They were a bit too metal/hardcore for the grunge happy climate of the day.

Here is an interesting little promo video for the release of Slip:

Their second and final album, Manic Compression, came out in 1995. The production was cleaner, the songs tighter, and the band even more focused but the album never made it big. Quicksand’s legacy is in their influence on the Post-Hardcore scene of the mid to late 90s.

Previously in this series:

Perplexa

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Bands You Haven’t Heard But Should – Perplexa

jeff — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:51:55 +0000

I want to try to make this a regular feature here at the old nothoo but time will tell if I am up to such a commitment. I suppose I ought to frame just what the hell I am trying to do here before I go and make future excuses for not doing it on a regular basis. I hope to provide you with a new band that you may not have ever heard of. I realize that on these great interwebs that are so elegantly tubed together that not everyone is going to NOT have heard what I evangelize but what can I do about that?

First up is Perplexa. They have a very Web 0.1 MySpace page as you will have seen if you clicked through on that previous link. Don’t let that deter you. Perplexa are from Detroit, Michigan. They are on the indie label Small Stone which is also from Detroit.

They have released three Long Players, all on Small Stone:

This Glorious Forward – 1997
Perplexa – 1998
The Sun and the Moon Getting It On – 1999

AllMusic provides a very succinct but very spot-on review of The Sun and the Moon Getting it on. I will quote it in its entirety here:

This sexy, after-hours album is all about an intimate post-concert chill-out with your significant other. The Perplexa duo achieves their aphrodisiac sounds with live, rock instruments and dressed up with synthesizer effects.

All three of their albums can be found on Amazon. For the penny-pinchers out there, they can usually be found for under $5 via Amazon Marketplace.

Happily it appears that a new release is slated for sometime in 2007. This is most excellent news.

Check them out.

Here are the Amazon details with fancy graphics and such:

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