Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Oak

During our Baltimore stop on the recent Ludicra tour I was fortunate enough to meet Joe of the band Oak. He was kind enough to kick me a vinyl copy of their debut LP. Of course the cover was enticing enough with it's strange psychedelic kraut rocky cover, but I had no fucking idea how utterly devastating the tuneage inside was. Crusty, stripped-down, sludgy doom, earthen, spacious and absolutely great. They have promised to tour soon, go see them.

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26 comments:

  1. illformationOctober 6, 2009 at 12:47 AM

    That cover is great, looking forward to finding out what's inside...

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  2. Petya VOctober 6, 2009 at 2:46 AM

    awesome

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  3. MillaOctober 6, 2009 at 5:53 AM

    Beauitful cover, I agree. Hopefully they will tour somewhere in Europe so Nik and I can travel around to see them (like we do with Agalloch).

    What is with you guys and Oaks ;)

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  4. TMMOctober 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM

    Moonshine is an equally great band from Baltimore. I think from the same family....

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  5. DWBOctober 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM

    Hell yeah, been a fan of Oak for a while now. If you dig these guys, Aesop, check out the vocalist's previous band "Wake Up On Fire"- Crusty sludge with cello and two drummers

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  6. AnonymousOctober 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM

    This is great. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. ApoctosisOctober 6, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    Great band, great people, great post!

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  8. handshake incOctober 6, 2009 at 10:55 AM

    Thank you!!! Jerry from Bloody Panda raved/told me about these dudes I've been dying to check out and couldn't find anywhere.

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  9. chrisOctober 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    thanks, lookin forward to this. i second the "wake up on fire" suggestion.

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  10. UnknownOctober 6, 2009 at 11:15 AM

    Very cool. I was one of the 2 drummers for Wake up on fire.
    Oak rules. Moonshine rules. Aesop rules.
    -KEVIN

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  11. Voluspa9October 6, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    I figured this might be associated with Wake Up On Fire/Moonshine. Moonshine played at my old house with Plaguewielder. Good Baltimore folks.

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  12. MozOctober 6, 2009 at 10:07 PM

    Thanks a lot for this Aesop I've wanted to order a copy of this for myself but cash has been crazy tight lately.

    I'm hopefully gonna have enough scratch to catch Ludicra at Gilman st on the tenth since I've wanted to see you guys live forever and the only time you played the east coast was like a week after I moved to CA.

    Anyhow, cheers

    -Moz

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  13. AesopOctober 6, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    Moz, you should buy it for the beautiful gatefold, and to support this brilliant band. We don't want people thinking blogs like this cause people to not buy albums.

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  14. MozOctober 7, 2009 at 12:14 AM

    Believe me, it is on the very TOP of my list and has been for a minute. I plan to grab a copy as soon as finding a quarter on the floor of my room doesn't seem like I just hit the fucking jackpot.

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  15. TaralezhOctober 7, 2009 at 1:55 AM

    Thank you bro !

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  16. AlexOctober 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM

    Check out the new shirts they have up.
    http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=123369355&albumID=2260071&imageID=42086971

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  17. eric jOctober 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    Holy shit. Never expected to see this up here. I did that cover artwork. Mind = blown.

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  18. AesopOctober 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM

    Eric, that is awesome.

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  19. Shannon!October 7, 2009 at 11:01 PM

    Baltimore in the house!This band crushes the rehearsal space compound!!!!!!!

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  20. icoulddietomorrowOctober 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    Thanks for this, Aesop. I only had the vinyl.

    -Adam

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  21. AnonymousOctober 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM

    Killer.
    I will have to track down the vinyl...

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  22. Anthony KlineOctober 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM

    Beautiful artwork! Good job Eric!

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  23. StevenOctober 11, 2009 at 6:46 AM

    Sweetness. More doom, please.

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  24. AsherOctober 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM

    Fucktastic melody i have been waitin for once i get back to the states. Thanks to Mista Aesop i get to shove into me ears alot sooner

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  25. Krumbled KookieNovember 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM

    I don't know how I missed this when it was originally posted.

    Really weird feeling to see that Kevin posted here...

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  26. anekDecember 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    thanks, great stuff

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