Aug 032011
 

This post is devoted to the third of the songs I heard this morning that caused me to shout “FUCKING GOOD PANCAKE!!”, which caused my cat to spontaneously evacuate his bowels, undoubtedly because he is not conversant in Google Translate renditions of Finnish idiom into English. The fact that he is almost 20 years old and now seems prone to spontaneous evacuation may also have something to do with it. However, just to be safe, the next time I hear a song as hot as these three, I plan to whisper fucking good pancake.

This last, but not least, part of my morning discoveries is the latest pre-production track to be posted for listening by The Binary Code.  My admiration for this band goes back to a time when both NCS and the band were in their infancy, so to speak — though The Binary Code never seemed to take baby steps. In their music, they were fully mature from the outset, whereas I’m still breast-feeding.

Although we have written about The Binary Code frequently, reviewing all of their musical output to date, it’s been a while since we checked in with them. They haven’t exactly been sitting still since the release of their Priest EP last summer (reviewed here). Yesterday, they added to their Facebook band page the third of three new pre-production tracks. The latest song is called “Dark Meditations”, and it is indeed a dark, heavy, atmospheric instrumental. Part ambient cloudscape, part jolting, pneumatic riff-fest, part progressive guitar exploration, it’s just fucking good pancake from beginning to end. Cool bass line in this song, too.

Check it out after the jump, and we’ll throw in the first two pre-production tracks for your listening pleasure, too. Both of them are tremendously good. By the way, these may be pre-production tracks, but they sound pretty fucking finished to me. In fact, they sound like The Binary Code’s best work to date.

First, here’s the newest release — “Dark Meditations”:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/20314718″]

Next up, a song called “Unexist”:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/13046491″]

And finally, here’s “Trees 100 Feet Underwater” (which includes dreamy, clean vocals, for which we’re making an exception to our usual rule):

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/13046590″]

If you like what you’re hearing, go show The Binary Code some love at their facebook page.

  5 Responses to “FUCKING GOOD PANCAKE – Part 3”

  1. I have an embarrassing confession to make: There are no vocals in “Trees 100 Feet Underwater”. I know this because I have been exchanging messages with The Binary Code’s guitarist Jesse Zuretti. What I heard as a dreamy, clean vocal was some guitar magic. This could be a tribute to Jesse’s talent as a guitarist (and there’s no denying that he is one very talented guitarist), but I must also acknowledge that my hearing is impaired. This is not something that a metal writer should be admitting, but it’s true, and brutal honesty is a hallmark of this site, so there. Too many years spent too close to banks of PA speakers, and some progressive, genetically-sourced imperfections on top of that. But please don’t stop paying attention to my reviews. Instead, please tell me that you heard voices, too!

  2. Oooo, YUM! Can you start a sub-blog entitled NSAA (No Singing At All)?

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