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Are you suffering from a textbook case of Post-Concert Depression after Thursday night’s Girlpool show? Were you wondering what could be better than an Aural Wes review to let you relive said show? Did you also come up with the answer of TWO Aural Wes reviews for the previous question? Put away the ice cream and read on for a better cure to that PCD than Netflix has been providing you.
"No Swipes" surfaced today on WesACB, the dank internet underbelly of the Wesleyan consciousness, and proved immediately divisive. Initial reactions on the ACB ranged from "scik video guys" and "Who's on the first verse? I'm tryna fuc" to "this video was so bad that even isis thinks it is torture." Whatever you think, there's no doubt that this one's a banger.
Drawn inside to escape the bitter chill, nobody was left cold in the company of Phatrabbit, Murdertones, and Rachel Connor's Photo Show at Art House on Saturday night.
At Alpha Delta Phi this past Friday, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Don Froot, and Rui Barbosa graced Wesleyan with three incredibly talented performances.
Boston post-hardcore grunge rockers Pile played an explosive set at Eclectic House on Friday night, careening through songs from all corners of their extensive catalog. Accompanied by their Boston noise-rock buddies Kal Marks, Pile's innovative grunge rock never sat still for long, turning on a dime from sparse moments of guitar-plucking intimacy to stadium-scale explosions of ragged, angular power chords. Songs from their upcoming LP You're Better Than This popped up throughout the night, distinct from the rest of the set in their unprecedented dissonance and experimental composition.
Looking back on 2014, we (the Aural Wes editors) share our top 5 albums, favorite track, and most overrated album of the year as well as our most anticipated album of 2015. No year-end collective recap behemoth here, just some personal reflections on groaning Danish punk dirges, twinkly twankly jizz jazz, bangin' lifestyle rap, heady R&B from the future, syrupy personal computer music, and more. Hold each one of us accountable for this sonic smorgasbord.
Wesalums Andrew Zingg ('13) and Tobias Butler ('13) play in O Presidente, a surfy doo-wop influenced rock band from the Bay Area. O Presidente just dropped "Party with Me," a sunny, thoroughly convincing call to drop whatever you're doing and |ˈpärtē|. It's also a single off their second LP, which drops January 10th, so drop everything you might be doing then and hit up their album release show!
