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SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 25 • Issue #310 • October 2014 • slugmag.com ABOUT THE COVER: There’s something out there, right in our back yard—in Ft. Duchesne, , where Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Coordinator: people often report sightings of lights, noises and Editor: Angela H. Brown Robin Sessions voices possibly associated with UFOs. Revel in illus- Managing Editor: Alexander Ortega Marketing Team: Alex Topolewski, Carl Acheson, trator Robin Banks’ sensationalized presentation of Junior Editor: Christian Schultz Cassie Anderson, Cassie Loveless, Ischa B., Janie this Northeastern Utah point of interest. SLUG Senior Office Coordinator:Gavin Sheehan Greenberg, Jono Martinez, Kendal Gillett, Rachel Staff Writer Cody Kirkland went down to investi- Fact Checker: Henry Glasheen Roller, Raffi Shahinian, Robin Sessions, Zac Freeman gate—read his story on pg. 36. Copy Editing Team: Alex Cragun, Alexander Social Media Coordinator: Catie Weimer Ortega, Allison Shephard, Christian Schultz, Cody Distribution Manager: Eric Granato DISCLAIMER: SLUG Magazine does not necessarily Kirkland, Genevieve Smith, Henry Glasheen, Distro: Adam Okeefe, Eric Granato, John Ford, maintain the same opinions as those found in our John Ford, Jordan Deveraux, Julia Sachs, Maria Jordan Deveraux, Julia Sachs, Michael Sanchez, content. We seek to circulate ideas and dialogue Valenzuela, Mary E. Duncan, Shawn Soward, Traci Nancy Burkhart, Nancy Perkins, Nate Abbott, Ricky through quality coverage of contemporary music, art, Grant Vigil, Ryan Worwood, Tommy Dolph, Tony Bassett, action sports and the subcultures therein … except Content Consultants: Jon Christiansen, Xkot Toxsik rollerblading. 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Whether it’s scoping out spots for Candida Duran, Lexie Floor, Mitchell Richmond, Dude, Steve Goemaat, Steve Richardson, Timo H., our annual Roughside of the Trax skate comp or copy Mitchell Schultz, Perrylayne Deker-Tate, Slugger Trevor Hale editing the issue, Deveraux’s an eager, community- Community Development Executives/ SLUG Magazine’s Official Podcast: minded guy who’s got a sharp noggin on him to boot. Advertising Sales: SLUG Soundwaves Deveraux graduated from Weber State University in John Ford: [email protected] Producer: Gavin Sheehan the summer of 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Eng- Angela H. Brown: [email protected] Executive Producer: Angela H. Brown lish. He is happy to do whatever SLUG humbly asks of SLUG HQ: 801.487.9221 Associate Producers: Alexander Ortega, him—skate-related reviews and recaps, helping prop- Marketing Manager: Christian Schultz, John Ford erly clear skate spots of drug-related detritus, or copy Karamea Puriri editing the meticulous Music Reviews. 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4 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 5 6 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 7 (L–R) , Tate McCallum-Law (guitar), Matt Morrison (bass), Ken Vallejos (drums) and Andrew Goldring () play SLUG Localized on Oct. 10 as Great Interstate Great Interstate

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By Kia McGinnis my band?’” says Goldring. Coming from back- [email protected] grounds such as gyspy jazz, screamo, ska and cowboy space rock, the members effortlessly Photo: Russel Daniels Urban Lounge will be hosting some of our embraced their diversity and started making salty city’s finest musicians on Oct. 10 for music together. “It’s so great working with like- Localized, sponsored by Uinta Brew- minded people. We all want the same things. Everybody’s really into it—and for the right rea- ing Co., KRCL 90.9FM and Spilt Ink sons,” says Vallejos. While Andrew was initially SLC. The evening will be kicking off responsible for most of the music, the band is LOCALIZ with indie jams from Grass, followed by transitioning into a more synergetic process for the dreamy, thoughtful rock of Strong writing. As Morrison says, “We all have the flexibility and open-mindedness to suggest new Words and the introspective, spacey every word to Abbey Road.” Great Interstate things to each other.” Goldring adds to this senti- songs of Great Interstate. It’s only $5, so believe that playing outside of Utah is a way to ment, saying,, “Writing collaboratively is more flip off your Netflix and head on over. gain momentum and energy, as well as to build freeing for everyone.” a base of friends all over the country. McCallum- Law says, “Even if you’re playing for six people GREAT INTERSTATE Self-described as a classic rock band with mod- in some random place in the Midwest, if at the ern tones, Great Interstate are interested in cre- end of the night, one guy is stoked on your set— Andrew Goldring (guitar) wrote his first song ating textures and contrasting soundscapes. “I it’s totally worth it.” at age 9 and has been working his ass off in want the music to appeal to people who are into the Salt Lake music scene ever since. Whether singer- stuff, but also to people who Great Interstate’s main goal is to make a lot of it’s playing shows or recording professional stu- are into spacey rock or technical music,” says music and to play it, but they are a community- dio , his presence in the city has been Goldring. “We take pride in having quiet qui- oriented group with their hearts invested in con- a source of consistent care and positivity for ets and loud louds.” Their first , Inversion tributing to Salt Lake in a sincere way. Goldring years. Most recently, Great Interstate have been Songs, was defined by said contrasts, as well as says, “Our city is almost oversaturated with a depository for his thoughts, words and musi- drawn-out, ambient arrangements. As the band great bands, which is awesome. I want to see cal prowess. He is joined by Ken Vallejos is working to be more collaborative, they’re also bands who can take themselves a little more se- (drums), Tate McCallum-Law (guitar) and working on tightening up their sound for the up- riously, with support from a stronger culture of Matt Morrison (bass), and these guys strive to coming release of their EP. The next songs are people caring about music. I want to help do be diplomatic, dynamic and—well—nice. Mc- intended to be more concise, powerful and to- that not just for our band, but for all bands.” Callum-Law says with a laugh, “We’re almost a the-point than the previous songs. “Songwriting Goldring recently opened his own recording ‘dad band’ because we’re so nice to each other. is the most important thing to me. I value crafting studio, The SoundCave, as a step in furthering When we get in the van together, we always a song and having everybody add their own local music. Although it was a vulnerable leap, take turns riding shotgun. There’s no ego.” Gold- piece to it,” says Goldring. and he may struggle to pay rent for a while, he ring adds, “We’re experienced—comfortable has been able to provide invaluable, top-quality working with lots of different musical environ- In addition to the EP, Great Interstate are gear- recording for numerous local bands, including ments and not caught up in any idea of a scene ing up for their first tour in October. While travel- Koala Temple and Strong Words—a process we have to fit into. Hopefully, our music is a rep- ing the Northwest, they’re hoping to make living that he finds important and rewarding. resentation of that.” out of a mini-van for a week as enjoyable as possible. When asked what makes a good tour, The maturity and generosity of this group is no- Great Interstate began as a solo project for Goldring responded, “If one guy in your band is table and will likely push them to succeed. You Goldring, and he had written and/or started a disrespectful dick, then it’s going to be a bad can follow their music releases and tour dates recording most of the tracks before he decided time. You’ve got to be able to relate. We’re lucky at greatinterstate.bandcamp.com, and be sure to to start jamming with others. “I ran into Tate to be on the same page. I mean, you know your catch one of their many upcoming shows in Oc- at NoBrow one day, and he had two broken band is solid when all the members can sing tober—especially at SLUG’s Localized on Oct. 10. wrists, and I was like, ‘Want to play guitar in 8 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 9 STRONG WORDS kept her in the background. This time around, album.” The band agrees vigorously that the she has taken the lead on guitar and vocals. “Be- words to their songs deserve to be under Foy’s ing the lead person has totally taken me out of reign. Lord adds, “Cathy’s lyrics make us sad, Strong Words are a band for the working class. my comfort zone,” she says. “Is everyone having but in the best way.” They’re honest, consistent, hardworking, and fun? Is this a positive experience for everyone? goddamnit, people like them. Before, I never thought about that shit.” Foy’s “We’ve never really talked [about] our band be-

challenging of herself has led to music that is fore this interview,” says Foy, chuckling again. When Cathy Foy was itching to get a band both thoughtful and fresh. Lord adds, “Cody Kirkland says we sound together, she knew what she was looking for in like + Silversun Pickups – Sil- potential bandmates: kindness. She succeeded “I like to keep things easy and low key,” Foy versun Pickups’ lyrics, so there’s that I guess.” in finding the type of people whom she wouldn’t says, when asked about Strong Words’ writing For the most part, however, Strong Words aren’t mind spending hours making music with— process. For her, low-key doesn’t equate to lazi- drawing directly from any major influences or they’re cheery, positive and cute as fuck. (Seri- ness—she writes at least one song a week and trying to fit into any niches. Their rock is precise ously, though, Brian Lord’s got a fluffy beard, insists that the band keeps a regular practice and pensive—grungy and gripping. The hours Jamie Richards has dimples, and Ryan schedule. “Tuesdays at 7:30!” Lord chimes in. of practice result in a tight, cohesive sound that Ross wears endearing Hawaiian shirts.) They’re They relax, drink a few beers and get right to it. allows for the emotional intensity to resonate. an adorable, eclectic bunch, and their genuine Keeping a routine allows for both creativity and Richards says enthusiastically, “It’s so much friendliness and forward-thinking attitude is growth in their musicianship as they build on old- more fun to play the songs when we can play refreshing in the often selfish and competitive er songs in order to innovate the new. “We’re all them well.” Adding to the forward-thinking atti- world of music performance. “Music is about work-oriented and keep our goals in mind,” Foy tude, Foy says, “When I’m having the most fun in participating in your community in the hopes says, “but we like to have a good time together.” bands, it’s when things are moving forward. The that people will do the same for you,” says Foy. This is the first committed musical project for all least fun is when you’re not working on anything members other than Foy, who has been killing it new. The whole point of playing with people is Strong Words are passionate about Salt Lake’s in Salt Lake bands for 12 years. Ross laughs and to be creative.” music scene, and they’re hoping to contribute to says, “The only time I’ve ever played onstage making it better by offering a different perspec- was in a Helena, Mont. junior high talent show.” As far as creativity goes, Strong Words are tive. “No offense to white, middle-class males Lord adds, “Yeah, I have some pretty sweet high ahead of the game. You can expect a new al- who play in bands, but we would love to see school pop punk recordings on the Internet.” The bum from them in the next couple months, and a more diversity,” Richards says. “We’re a girl- virgin spirit of Strong Words adds to their eager- for “Come Clean” will be released fronted band, and we think that’s important.” In ness and brings a sense of good-hearted vitality shortly. Directed by Kathryn Nelson, it in- the past, Foy has always played drums, which to their work. cludes a dog suit, roller skates and various other shenanigans. Additionally, the band is thinking The enjoyment and easygoing temperament of about kicking off a tour quite soon. “We’ve the band is complemented by the sobriety of spent the last year getting to know each other, Foy’s words and the tender, emotional place but the next step is to play out of town,” says Foy. they come from. “My lyrics are dark and tend Keep an eye out for these upcoming projects, CALIZED to take on a serious tone. Nothing I write is ever and support their impressive work ethic by stop- campy or fun—it’s always direct to my personal ping by one of the several shows a month they experiences,” Foy says and adds with a chuckle, play, including SLUG’s Localized on Oct. 10 at “I’m not a depressed person or anything, but fair Urban Lounge and/or download their first album warning, the next album is very much a breakup at strongwords.bandcamp.com. Photo: Kathryn Nelson

(L–R) Brian Lord (guitar), Cathy Foy (guitar, vocals), Jamie Richards (drums) and Ryan Ross (bass) play Strong Words strong weirds in Strong Words.

10 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 11 12 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 13 aylorsville here,” he says. “It’s the best place to Park is under fire, and ru- come hang with my friends, skate and It’s Our Park: mors of it being shut down just have a good time. It’s like a fam- have been circulating. It is one of the ily around here.” With the next-closest Taylorsville Skateboarding Park oldest parks not only in Utah but in the parks being Midvale, Kearns or South country as well, and its rugged land- Jordan—all a considerable distance By Steven Goemaat • [email protected] scape shows it. After an incident—a away, especially via —the fight-turned-stabbing in July—concerns Taylorsville skate scene needs a park regarding crime and gang activity of their own. While the general public have increased, and the park’s exis- may see skate parks as a blemish on tence was thought to be in jeopardy. society, skate parks provide a place Located off Redwood Road, a public where kids—young and old—can get park occupies the space around the outside, be active, build friendships skate park. This park is rough yet fun and get hyped. There is no more drug and accessible. SLUG set off on a mis- use at a skate park than there is in a sion to investigate the park and talk to high school locker room, and no more some of the local skaters. July’s violent violence than a playground. Due to incident has sparked the worst pub- negative perceptions, however, skate licity the park had received since the parks tend to make the news more. mid-2000s, when issues of vandalism put the park in a high-profile position. An old, rusty, dilapidated fence with Having faced a threat like this before, several slats that are missing or broken local skaters were more than happy to surrounds the . This tetanus- share their thoughts on the subject and ridden obstruction doesn’t even save tell SLUG more about their home park. a board from flying out of the park! Rough terrain and Bondo patches With banks and transitions around aside, the fence is one of the main the outskirts of the park as well as a concerns of local skaters—one skater, couple of ledge lines in the corners, the Joe Laurente, says, “The fence is the (L–R) Taylorsville Skateboarding Park is a home away from park has a pretty good flow to it and worst part about this park. Cracks and home for Austin Johnson, Ethan McBeth and Paulo Olmedo. a variety of different features. These patches are one thing, but the fence features include, but are not limited needs to go!” Demolition of this fence to, oversized expansion joints, Bondo would be a benefit to the public, the patches and Quikcrete fill-ins of all skaters and . Easier access sizes. That being said, the Taylorsville for everyone and less of a “ghetto” Skateboarding Park is a must-visit for look would create a cleaner and more any skater. Though the ground might positive atmosphere, as well as a not be perfect and the cracks are more clear view of the park from the road. than enough to keep one on their toes, the park is beautifully imperfect—much It would be a tragedy if Taylorsville like the raw street spots that we, as Skateboarding Park were to be shut skateboarders, will forever seek. The down. This park means a lot to local old age of the park is more than preva- skaters and will be a classic for future lent—the concrete boxes and ledges skaters. Instead of spending the time are built with perfect right-angle coping and money to install cameras and put on all sides, instead of the rounded-out a police detail on call, some of that coping that has become the standard money could be spent on renovation for newer parks. A bowl corner with and resurfacing of the park. No matter a sizable hip is a focal point for the how one feels about the park, no one park, in addition to some mellow transi- can deny that it serves as a place for tions and a lengthy flat bar positioned kids to be active and have fun. Shut- perfectly under the lights. This park is ting down the park wouldn’t stop the a ton of fun! There are a few features trouble—it would just stop the kids. that are less than inviting, but that is part of the beauty of skating old parks. Editor’s note: SLUG spoke with Taylorsville City Administrator John I spoke to some Taylorsville guys about Taylor, who asserts that a shutdown their park and their thoughts regarding is merely a rumor and that this instance the plausible shutdown—something of a shutdown threat was put to rest at they were all too familiar with. Whether city council meetings. To voice views it’s fights, drunks or anything negative, of the park, he encourages folks to Photos: LmSorenson.net the skate park tends to take the brunt attend a city council meeting at the Ethan McBeth, of it. For one local skater, Chris Flan- Council Chambers at 2600 W. Tay- Airwalkin’ in his home park. dro, Taylorsville Skateboarding Park lorsville Blvd. Room No. 140, which is like a second home. “I have been happen the first and third Wednes- skating here for a long time now, and day of the month where anybody can I know almost everyone who comes make public comment at 6:30 p.m.

14 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 15 The Tide Will Swallow and Consume Us All a Conversation with Huldra by Ricky Vigil • [email protected]

The ocean is a thing of immense beauty. It is calm- ing, massive and gentle, but at any given mo- ment, it can become violent and unpredictable. The ocean is terrifying, so it is no wonder why the ocean is such a staple in so many forms of art. It seems especially tailor-made for the sprawling and intense nature of post-metal. For their second full-length album, and fourth release overall, Hul- dra have turned their eyes to the ocean—using it to channel emotions of loss and grief, filtered through the spectrum of a man lost at sea. In the weeks leading up to the album’s release on Oct. 11, SLUG met up with the local post-metal group to discuss their upcoming album, Black Tides. (L–R) Matt Brotherton, Eric Smith, Levi Hanna, Chris Garrido and Scott Wasilewski release Black Tides at Burt’s Tiki Lounge on Oct. 11. Photo: Russel Daniels Featuring a consistent lineup since their incep- tion in 2009 of guitarists Eric Smith and Levi Hanna, bassist Matt Brotherton, drummer Chris Garrido and synth/keyboardist Scott Wasiliewski, Huldra have become one of the Songs from Black Tides have been kicking around uting once again to the oceanic atmosphere. It’s a hardest-working bands in Salt Lake’s metal scene. for as long as a year and a half, but the album was flourish that really makes the song stand out and Black Tides adds to their steady body of work, recorded in only four days by local wizard Andy will hopefully get those outside of Salt Lake to take including an EP, a split with locals Dustbloom, Patterson. “We had the entire album laid out notice of the band as well. It is also a testament and their first full-length album, Monuments, Mono- and did scratch tracks for all the songs, including to the tight-knit nature of Salt Lake’s metal scene, liths. The rapid release schedule has showcased vocals, which we had never done before. We put further punctuating SubRosa’s shout-out to many lo- just how much Huldra have evolved throughout a lot more time into this album,” says Hanna. “Be- cal bands (including Huldra) in national press after their existence. “I think we’re still swirling and fore, we’ve just gone into the studio and winged the release of their album More Constant than the traveling towards a certain something that we it.” This was also the first time Huldra have handed Gods. “All the bands here are really good, and haven’t entirely found yet,” Wasilewski says. off their recordings to be mastered by an outside it’s too bad not more people realize that. Even source, namely Magnus Líndberg of Swedish outside of metal, I think some of the best musi- Black Tides is indeed a new watermark for Hul- post-metal giants Cult of Luna. “It was cool be- cians in the world are here,” says Wasiliewski. dra’s sound. The band’s members have been busy cause he wanted feedback from us. There were since the release of Monuments, Monoliths last three or four different iterations of the masters,” With the various members of Huldra committed to year, with Hanna becoming a permanent mem- Brotherton says. Throughout the process- other projects, it’s a wonder that they found the ber of SubRosa (complete with world touring); ing, Líndberg beefed up the album’s sound, mak- time to record Black Tides at all, let alone have it Brotherton’s other band, Visigoth, being signed ing it Huldra’s heaviest-sounding album to date—a shine as brightly as it does. With touring, record- to Metal Blade Records; Wasilewski forming his fact that immediately strikes as soon as Brother- ing and other commitments, however, it has led solo project Portal to the Goddamn Blood ton’s voice explodes out of the opening seconds to less time for writing the next release, which the Dimension, as well as teaming up with Hanna of “Eye of the Storm.” Wasilewski says, “There’s band doesn’t expect until at least 2016. “Down- to form the experimental group, Star just the cool factor of it, too, because the guy’s time to evaluate the kind of stuff we want to write Grazer. When asked if these other projects in- a badass and he plays drums in Cult of Luna.” isn’t a bad thing,” Brotherton says. The band plans form Huldra’s sound at all, Brotherton speaks of on playing several more shows to close out the Visigoth frontman Jake Rogers, who said the One of the most memorable moments of Black Tides year, including a free album release show at Burt’s album is more riffy and less spacey than previous occurs on the title track, when Hanna’s bandmates Tiki Lounge on Oct. 11. The band will be playing albums. “Basically, there are more headbanging from SubRosa, Rebecca Vernon, Kim Pack the entirety of Black Tides, with INVDRS and Ox- bits and less contemplating, falling-asleep bits,” and Sarah Pendleton, lend their voices to its cross opening the show. Bring your earplugs, and Brotherton says. zenith. The three sound almost like sirens, contrib- prepare to be mesmerized.

16 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 17 Into that Good Night:

a look at salt lake’s graveyards Photos and words by Megan Kennedy • [email protected]

As a year-round cemetery aficionado, I’m pleased that that creep me out the most. We should go back to using square stone monument of prophet David O. McKay SLUG has given me the opportunity to introduce normies Death’s head.) and see for yourself what first-class delusions of grandeur to the beautiful mortuary art that lives in our fair city. I look like in death. Another great LDS-related grave is that know cemetery exploration isn’t a super-popular hobby, Near the running creek that flows through the cemetery, of notorious “destroying angel” and bodyguard of Jo- but it really should be. There’s nowhere like a cemetery on the eastern side, there is a row of metal headstones seph Smith, Porter Rockwell. for peace and quiet, and you never know when you’ll of the same design, simple and unembellished, save for stumble on some quirky or historic resting place. I went the Masonic seal. They stick out like sore, rusted thumbs There’s an odd sight to see on the winding road of 960 to two of Salt Lake’s oldest boneyards and found some among the gray and green of the cemetery, and are East 405 North—what looks like a grave dump: At the interesting stops for this year’s Halloween season. worth stopping to see. Keep your eyes lowered in this bottom of what looks like a stripped hill is a pile of head- area, because you’ll also find the charming yet eerie stones basically tossed aside in a ditch. Some are bro- Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by an headstone that is a small, open book carved with ken, some are lying as if they were placed there care- Act of Congress in 1874. It is located only the words “Goodnight.” fully and purposely; some are very old, and some look directly across 500 South from Rice- brand new. I have no explanation for its existence— Eccles Stadium on the University Head to the corner of cemetery you’d think if a hillside collapsed, they would clean up streets Prospect and Main for a the damage—but it’s a fascinating view, especially for lovely collection of historical folks who are into nerdy archaeology shit like I am. Near the creek that graves, Art Deco–style head- runs through Mt. stones and crypts with gor- One of SLC’s most famous urban legends is that of ’s Olivet, find the geous architecture all gath- Grave—a bullshit tale I’ve been hearing since I was a creepily charming ered in one general area kid, along with the rumors of Satanists who gather in near the streets on both sides. Memory Grove. Emo is also a Satanist in the urban “Goodnight” One of the oldest I found was legend world, and, supposedly, walking around the headstone. an 1877 family obelisk for a grave three times chanting “Emo” will make his ghost solider named W.M. Johns, appear. The grave is actually a crypt—that of one Ja- which had survived quite well. cob Moritz, and for the life of me, I’ve never been able of Utah campus, so peace and Take a few extra steps up to the to find out why the hell this legend exists or how it got quiet is not a constant here, but Young family mausoleum and attached to this long-dead founder of the Salt Lake there aren’t a lot of visitors, either. The glance inside the open but Brewing Company. Anyway, we’ve all been place is crawling with deer. I stumbled barred windows. The crypt to it. Instead, give some love to a grave within a few yards of doe and fawn groups is filled with pinecones. I I’ve been searching for for years (and more than once, and they seem wary of—if relatively guarantee that we won’t see that finally found—on the hillside just used to—the human presence. again for a while. above the crucifix statue in the Catholic section): that of Lilly Up in the Avenues sits the larg- Mount Olivet is home to historically significant graves— est city-operated cemetery west many of which are in good condition for their ages. of the —the Salt Lake Several governors and other prominent figures from This Halloween City Cemetery. Spanning over Utah’s history are buried here, as well as Civil War–era 250 acres across the hillside, season, take a soldiers. There are numerous examples of truly unique this is a cemetery with weight, stroll through Salt funerary art, including the classic “broken column” obe- history and beautiful character. lisk—which I’ve only seen in books until Mount Olivet. Lake’s beautiful, The first burial took place here in This cemetery also has, in my opinion, quite a bit more historic cemeteries. 1847, so it’s had quite some time modern art–leaning stone décor, and thus has a wonder- to build up impressive displays of ful generational feel. funerary art and statues, including the famous “angel scribe.” Gray Near the westerly border, there is a magnificent eagle . The headstone itself is typical, statue perched on top of a tall, square pedestal that but it’s the inscription that counts: “Victim of serves as a headstone. It is really a sight to behold. A great deal of LDS pioneers, apostles and related peo- the Beast 666.” It’s truly bizarre, and the only answer A walk southeast from the eagle, and one finds some ple of importance are buried in this place, and interested we have as to its origins is speculation about Gray’s interesting religious statues, as well as a bench head- parties can find maps online, specifically to locate these mentally ill husband inscribing the stone for insanity’s stone with a copper statue of a baby and puppy. (It’s particular stones. Even if you don’t give a fuck about most sake. Regardless, it’s one of those things that will rarely, always the ones that are meant to be most comforting of them, you definitely need to at least drive by the giant if ever, be repeated. 18 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 19 to write a love song. Later in Punk’s Achilles’ Heel the process, I realized that what I was writing was a country song. Then I started filtering it through this vision of god and megalomania.”

The video for “The Lord’s Favorite” expands on the group’s flippant sense of humor, previ- ously only hinted at in their dry, anti-interviews. “We made it in an afternoon with our friend Cali Dewitt,” says Rønnenfelt. “My idea was that I By Christian Schultz • [email protected] wanted to lip-sync because it seems like a kind of a no-no for a band like us to do.” The video features Rønnenfelt lip-synching alongside a cast of characters After two albums of the kind of romping around in what he calls, “Hungarian crime boss scorched-earth, blackened punk that swank.” thrust a teenage band from Denmark into the global limelight, the savant-as- Lest you think that the group has swerved wholly into brighter ever Iceage have finished their third and territory, Rønnenfelt maintains that the album isn’t one-note, stark most accomplished album yet. Plowing Into bleakness or merry punk—the tracks reveal poise and variety. “On The Field of Love is a collection of tracks that My Fingers,” the album’s opening track, establishes the same com- shed any of the shackles ever wrestled onto their bustible energy of earlier Iceage songs, but is restrained by a more intentions as a band. Iceage bring their visionary exacting approach to songwriting. It features a marching drum-and- act to Utah for the first time at Kilby Court on Oct. 27. bass beat and that marks the song as a lilting march, while a buzz saw guitar and Rønnenfelt’s gravelly drawl hints at the coming uncertainty. Iceage have always hewn a rough position in relation One track, “How Many,” might have found a place on You’re Nothing; the to their audience. Upon the release of their debut album, next, “Glassy Eyed, Dormant and Veiled,” sunders in with a pent-up dirge that New Brigade, in 2011, the Danish youths were heralded as has Johnny Marr–style, Meat is Murder–era guitar textures and horn passag- saviors of punk, seen as injecting a youthful focus into a di- es. “Simony” wrenches from a young Sonic Youth while Rønnenfelt versified global culture then littered with lifer reunions and Tum- swoops overhead with a droll, Kim Gordon–esque mumble that sharpens blr-ified death rockers. Their follow-up, You’re Nothing, brought as the track progresses. much of the same breakneck-speed and manic punk vigor of their debut, as well as a media-spun controversy surrounding their use of “In my opinion, it’s possibly the darkest [album] yet,” Rønnenfelt says. classic fascist aesthetics and a cold approach to interviews. While “It’s all about self-denial, fantasy and artificial bliss and self-confidence, their profile as a young, determined band caught them in the crosshairs looking for love, not being able.” Even as the band relents its an- of anyone commenting on the state of music in this decade, both albums tagonistic posture on tracks like “The Lord’s Favorite,” or the playful, hinted at a stifled underbelly of dismantled beauty. mandolin-riffing “Abundant Living,” Rønnenfelt encases listeners’ experiences with unease. “The effect I wanted to portray on some For all the hardened, hardcore-envisioned post-punk that the band has of the more joyous-sounding songs is that of walking on stilts,” he been making, they’ve insisted that the aforementioned labels don’t says. “You’re way up there, but you’re extremely easy to knock matter to them. “It isn’t really for us to worry about if audiences over—everyone can see your Achilles’ heel.” and the media respect or appreciate our intentions,” says Iceage bassist Jakob Tvilling Pless. “Our intention is to make music Plowing Into The Field of Love drops on Oct. 7 via Matador that we like and put it out there. What people get out of it is up in the U.S. Be sure to catch Iceage’s ferocious live show at to them.” According to vocalist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Kilby Court on Oct. 27. the band’s music is “an extension of the individuals behind it. We don’t strive to do ‘post-punk.’ The music just comes out like this,” he says.

Plowing Into The Field of Love, which, according to Pless, the band recorded at a farmhouse “isolated in a for- est” in Northern Sweden, finds the band trading in their hostile punk aggression for a more diverse set of sounds. The first outgrowth of the album released into the world, “The Lord’s Favorite,” and its ac- companying video, mark the starkest difference in Iceage’s tone so far. With what can only be described as an up-tempo, Johnny Cash– meets–Bo Diddley country tune, the track reveals a lighter, limber vision of the hard- ened punk band.

Distorted Americana influences have a storied history of creeping into punk, so it’s not hard to see Iceage (L–R) Johan Sur- exploring a crooked country song. rballe Wieth, Elias “[The song] is kind of a play on Bender Rønnenfelt, the aesthetics and imagery that Dan Kjær Nielsen and lies in country music,” Rønnen- Jakob Tvilling Pless of felt says. “When I started out Iceage hit Kilby Court on writing the song, I was trying Oct. 27. Photo: Lawrence Price 20 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 21 With Any Luck, I’ll Rest When I’m Dead By Heck Fork Grief • [email protected]

Pho to: Jo hn B a rk ip le

Th d e B an th asil tly, . e B Maid sligh o ee en cockta booze on r tw r Ca il sets the m fo n Chic drea ken is a classic dish that’s a castle separates the rich from the poor with kind of mean. There are beers, too—in a fine selec- towers, walls and guards. A speakeasy separates the tion of bottles. hip from the square, with secrecy, passwords and hidden entries. Bodega, andA its underground, vault-like restaurant/bar, The Rest, are separate, but they let In a bar where the drinks are so well-conceived and delightful, the addition of a all the customers be hip. Upstairs at Bodega, there are affordable shots, priced-just- food menu might seem like an afterthought. But then I order, and the menu reads right beer, handheld food and a jovial atmosphere—very different from its secret like a Christmas tree loaded with presents. Unlike presents, though, the food here downstairs cousin. If you haven’t made a reservation, you must ask to be admitted is, by and large, better than I hoped, and more surprising. Like the cocktails, the to The Rest (dress up before you come here, as it’s a nice joint and you should food menu changes with the seasons. I had the Garden Toast and Pickled Onion look the part). I’ve come here before without a reservation, but only on off nights Rings ($7 each) on different occasions, and both are great appetite whetters. and earlier in the evening. The two rooms are cozy, and they fill up as the hours progress. If admitted, proceed through a plain door and down a wind of office- The Scotch Egg ($8, a hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage, rolled in breadcrumbs, style stairs to another nondescript door behind which the light changes and the air and fried) is really a breakfast dish, as is the Pork Belly ($10). Both are a.m., but in grows more worthwhile. I enter this dark space and feel … lighted—it is “The Bar.” a p.m. kind of way. The Pork Belly has a particular drunken sweetness that, mixed It’s the bar I want to find in the basement when I walk down those last stairs of this with the oily pleasure of the meat, makes my mouth feel primal and holy. The Scotch life, impossibly tall yet claustrophobic enough to make drinking and lovely friends Egg is a city cousin of lumberjack food. Dominating its beautiful presentation like a into dreamlike memories. The barroom and tables are darkly lit, and in the back is plush meat fruit, it appears a fist-sized, egg-shaped challenge, but it eats just fine. a grotto-inspired library with conspiracy-sized seating arrangements. If Easter were a sausage holiday and not about chocolate, we would hide these for hungry children in the forks of yard trees every spring. The whole space is musically propelled by an honest-to-god turntable and a respect- able collection of vinyl. Looking out over the various tables are the seven deadly If it is on the autumn menu, get the Paella—I have a private rule: Always, when sins hidden behind crystal eyes that peer cyclopean from bird houses that might there is paella available, get the paella. It is good here—not dominated by saffron have once housed inky finches. Ancient photographs, oil portraits and numerous like my childhood paella, but subtle—both rich and light, which is the trick to this taxidermies haunt the upturned eye—a room inspired by the Brothers Quay. It’s dish. It’s served Vegetable ($28) for vegetarians, Valencia ($32) with pork, chicken a place that loves itself maybe a little more than it should, but that makes it all the and chorizo, or Seafood ($37) with scallops, shellfish and shrimp … and chorizo. more attractive. Like some self-amused genius at a party, one won’t have to add to It serves two quite nicely. the conversation to enjoy the monologue. For goodness’ sake, if you like meat, get the Beer Can Chicken ($35). It is one of The drinks here are fine examples of the speakeasy cocktail—simply made with the best simple pleasures served in this town, offering a hearty serving of sublime quality booze and classic bitters. Caleb Cannon and staff are constantly creating feeling. Served with a surprisingly great, warm fingerling potato salad, aspara- new recipes and variations on classic drinks, so the cocktail menu varies. I had a gus and wild mushrooms, it is, for the carnivorous, a magnificent way to break Basil Maiden with a house-made rhubarb shrub that set bread. One could eat the whole thing, but it’s meant for the booze ever-so-lightly on. Sweetish, but good with two. And presented first, whole, its wings outstretched, food, the Little Horse was an easy ride (each is $9). The 331 S. Main St. sassily perched on its beer can and then re-presented After Dark ($10), a kind of Walter Matthau/Billy carved and boned for dining, it is a show in itself and Bob Thornton breakfast drink, made with coffee, egg Tuesday – Saturday, a no-brainer for the active foodie. and bourbon, and The Fathom ($11), a pirate-inspired 5 p.m. till late. zombie (lots of rum and coconut and some more rum), The Rest is my “why Salt Lake is great” restaurant/bar were both great variations on more common drinks. If bodega331.com/theRest of choice right now, which might be a problem, as it is you need a belt and feel a twinge of noir, the Prescrip- 801.532.4452 so small and so special. I almost hate to share it with tion Julep is a whisky and cognac cure-all. This is a anyone new—not for fear that it will go away, but that Dorothy Parker drink—witty, almost sweet, but also there won’t be any room left for me. 22 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 23 A VISIT FROM THE DEAD

By Henry Glasheen [email protected]

hen I talked to King Diamond, it was impos- the afternoon or something—we were the last band sible to avoid getting swept up in his charis- to play on the stage that night, and it went perfect.” ma and enthusiasm for his work. After almost W Coming from him, that is no small statement. He feels an hour of discussing his incredible life experiences that King Diamond’s live show has reached the point and plans for the future, I was struck by how friendly where the band can finally express their ideas fully. and down-to-earth he was and by the way that he “We have a production now that is probably as big answered my questions so attentively. King is the kind as ’s,” he says. “It’s a show you will of guy who has heavy metal in his soul—in a way never forget.” that goes far beyond the theatrics and posturing that dominate the scene today. When I asked him about However, the virtually unmatched staging of King the biggest changes he had seen in the heavy metal Diamond’s performance isn’t just limited to the annu- Photo Courtesy of Metal Blade Records scene over his long career, his answer was simple but al Wacken Festival, which every metalhead dreams thoughtful. “It hasn’t changed that much,” he says, of attending. “That show from Wacken? That’s what “but you keep learning more and more all the time.” you’re going to see in Salt Lake,” he says. “The show is so much bigger now than it ever was, but even The last few years have been difficult for King per- when it was reasonably big in the past, at least half sonally, but he’s taken the opportunity to truly re- the time we’d play, half the stuff was in the truck. It’s turn to his roots and gain a clearer focus on his not [as] fun, you know?” The band is taking a two- original artistic vision. Even at 58 years old—only story stage and their own lighting rig so that they four years after he had triple bypass heart surgery, can accurately replicate the experience at each stop during which he was essentially dead for several in their North American tour and not have to leave hours—he feels like he’s in the prime of his career. anything out. “After [the surgery], we were out doing shows, sounding better than we ever did. My voice sounds He also mentions that Utah’s show will feature one better than I have ever had it in my entire career,” of our city’s up-and-coming local metal bands. “Salt he says. “Normally, if you sing falsetto and you Lake City is the only show on the tour where there reach a certain age, it’s only gonna go downhill. will be a third supporting act,” he says. “A local Usually, the band will end up having to de-tune a band of yours, called Visigoth. It’s by special re- little to keep up, but that’s not been a problem at all. quest that they have been added to the bill.” My voice has only gotten better.” For now, he’s focusing on preparing for the tour, but He says that there’s a good reason for the change. King has also purchased new home-studio equip- “I’ve quit smoking since I had that procedure—com- ment to help him start writing material for the next pletely,” King says. He also started eating healthier King Diamond album. “I will be able to record vocals and staying active, and he says he can feel his instru- so much better than I’ve ever done them before. I’ll ment is more than simply healing. “It has changed King Diamond never have to compromise because of time. I can do a lot for the voice—big time, man. The breathing it all,” he says. “I can go in and work on 40-voice has changed completely.” Though he’s had to make choirs if I want to sound like Queen, without think- sacrifices along the way, he says it’s all been worth will bring heavy ing, ‘Oh, we don’t have time for that.’” He likes it. “For me, it was a choice. Either you give some the idea of being able to start with the vocals and things up, or you can go die,” he says. “I felt I had then write music to fit them. “I could never do that a lot more to give.” metal horror to before—that would never be allowed by everyone. Like, ‘Hey, I’m going to spend the next three days As King continues his regimen of healthy living, the fucking around with vocals, OK?’” The Complex on members of King Diamond are preparing for their first North American tour since ‘04. They spent the Give your soul to King Diamond, Jess and the summer playing European festivals and were even Ancient Ones and Visigoth on Oct. 26. They’ll be invited to be the headliners for the “Black Stage” at Oct. 26. lurking in the dark of The Complex, and you only this year’s Wacken Open Air Festival. “There were have to pay $30 to have one hell of a sleepless 92,000 [fans] there,” he says. “[Wacken] was the night. Join the ritual, or you must rest in shame! biggest [show] we’ve done so far. It was not a spot in

24 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 25 Good Advice Duck

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26 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 27 PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ’S JUSTIN K. BROADRICK

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The new material meshes harsh mechanical guitars It can make one question exactly where that bottom is with an abyss-like bottom coming from the signature coming from. It’s just the unison of textures. This new Godflesh bass guitar, played out on songs like “Life record is really minimal as well—it’s very much about Photo: VB Giver Life Taker.” Repetitive and unrelenting beats punishment in a way.” and rhythms drive the musical machine. With the heavy-ended style also comes the classic explorations With the blunt and brutal intensity of Godflesh—the into minimalistic content, like the tracks “Obeyed” or stuff that’s meant to be as negative and crushing as “Forgive Our Fathers,” from the new album. Rhythms possible—comes equally intense lyrical themes, which are broken up into diverse and dynamic atmospheres, are screamed right in the listeners’ faces. Broadrick (L–R) Justin K. Broadrick (guitars/ all meant to be unsettling. had no intention or desire to change the messages vox/drum programming) of Godflesh, which, lyrically, are never excessively and C.G. Green (bass) of Godflesh. Broadrick went on to talk about how, after the infa- verbose. The themes explored don’t venture outside mously heavy and Pure albums, God- the typical Godflesh subject matter: religion is evil flesh became diluted and was going through a sort of and man is a beast or savage. Broadrick describes seems fitting that Godflesh—a band that identity crisis. Though Broadrick, aside from feeling it as the sound of resignation and self-frustration. ended abruptly, shortly after the 2001 re- that there is no Godflesh album that he feels utterly Further elaborating, he says that the frustration isn’t It lease Hymns—returns with A World Lit Only convinced by, he still has a love and respect for the just looking outward but looking inward—specific to By Fire, to be released Oct. 7. The , UK– later albums. This new album is driven to meet the Broadrick’s point of view, saying what he sees on the based group was forged in the same city that gave initial goals of Godflesh: “I wanted to just get back outside, he sees in himself. “There is no good, there birth to another legendary and tumultuous band, to machine rhythms—monolithic minimal blocks of is no evil—the fact that we encapsulate that whole . Godflesh is borne of a landscape of sound as inhumane-sounding as possible, but simul- gamut of emotions and possibility, which I often find industrial concrete castles—each one, at its mechanical taneously retaining groove. Primal and direct—that’s quite terrifying, but I just resign to it,” says Broadrick. heart, is a fire. That fire was reignited in 2010, when what’s most unique and singular and identifiable Godflesh founding member Justin K. Broadrick about our sound,” says Broadrick. Godflesh is a vehicle of harsh sonic bombardment approached fellow founding member C.G. Green to that rarely relents, with a strong devotion to nega- perform some live shows. Technology—in terms of of production and creation tivity. People tune into such an assault for the same of music—has changed drastically since the birth of reason that Broadrick creates the music. “Godflesh, During an interview with Broadrick, Godflesh’s guitar- Godflesh. Broadrick asserted that the biggest benefit as much as being cathartic, it’s therapeutic—all the ist/vocalist/drum programmer, he said that he started of current technology is its convenience. In the early music I create is therapy … The mad thing is, instead to really miss Godflesh a few years prior to the reunion. years, it was a bastard to program a . of spending money on therapy, I make money out of It started to become necessary to do something aggres- Broadrick maintains a semi-digital and semi-analog it. I’m quite lucky, really. Thankfully, other people take sive again. Leading up to the reunion of Godflesh, studio to create his recordings. In addition to the con- something from it, too—in a way it’s a gift, a negative Broadrick started creating heavier material with Grey- venience is an added clarity to the new material. I gift. It’s a gift for me, but it’s a gift for other people, machine and his solo project, JK Flesh. brought up how I felt that A World seems to have which, for me, is quite humbling.” a more weighted sound with the bass guitar. Broad- A World Lit Only By Fire is fueled by Broadrick and rick brought up the fact that people were shocked at It’s ironic, for sure, but to conclude the interview, Green’s desire to return to what Godflesh was when the how much bass was on Streetcleaner, because, when Broadrick said that Godflesh breaking up was one of band began in the late ’80s. “Having Godflesh not exist- it was released in 1989, a lot of other records had the best things the band has ever done. “We’ve come ing for such a long period of time afforded me the luxury thinner bass sounds. back twice as strong, directly knowing what we want of being able to examine what I loved the most about to do. This band is stronger than it ever was, and this Godflesh. And what I loved the most was the intent of Broadrick says, “I think that, with the marriage of the is one of the best albums we’ve made.” A World Lit the first few records,” says Broadrick. guitar and bass, there’s something working with the Only by Fire will be released on Oct. 7 on Godflesh’s unison that’s made it a bit deeper on the bottom end. label, .

28 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 29 ROUGHSIDE OF THE TRAX : v 1

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SLUG’s Summer of Death skate contests have been a skateway drug for countless Utah skaters for 15 years. This summer’s second and final installment of Summer of Death, Roughside of the TRAX, took place on Sept. 13, and made use of some sweet spots along Salt Lake’s TRAX lines. Starting at Fairmont Skate Park and working their way Down- town, competitors nailed some amazing tricks in pursuit of First Place. Skaters Mike Zanelli (Third Place), brothers Jordan and Nate Brown (Second Place tie) and Clark Thomas (First Place) made it to the podium, while Jose Sweet won Best Trick. See you next year at Roughside!

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1. Caleb Orton, frontside boardslide. 2. Isaiah Beh, over the flat. 3. Roughneck soldiers heading to the second Roughside loca- tion. 4. Aaron Wilkinson, Airwalk. 5. Nate Brown (Second Place), Frontside 360. 6. (L–R) Logan Summers, Moriah Roberts and Jeff Griffin. 7. Mike Zanelii (Third Place), frontside noseslide. Photos: Cezaryna Martín Rivero Samuel Milianta Weston Colton

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1. (L–R) Jordan Brown and Nate Brown (Second Place tie), emcee Steve Goemaat, Mike Zanelli (Third Place) and Jose Sweet (Best Trick). 2. First Place Winner Clark Thomas receives a RAMP from SLUG Marketing Coordinator Robin Sessions. 3. Jared Smith, judge. 4. Johnny Roughneck (center) standing at the podium with Summer of Death winners. 5. Jose Sweet (Best Trick), frontside smith. 6. Clark Thomas (First Place) 360 flip off the loading dock. 7. Dravin Fackrell, backside boardslide.

Photos: Cezaryna Martín Rivero Samuel Milianta Weston Colton

See Steve Goemaat’s recap and more photos on slugmag.com.

32 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 33 34 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 35 says. “It wasn’t a big ship—probably the way back to the parking lot, I decided size of a small plane.” He says it must 9:24 p.m. – Standing in to try driving closer to the ranch’s en- have been 25 to 30 feet up in the air, the parking lot again, Sera- trance on the north side, which Sera- and it was circular. “There was some- wop and I see a bright-white wop pointed out earlier. I found the thing in my head that was telling me we light appear in the sky over- road and headed west. As I neared needed to get back inside the building, head. It moves slightly north, the entrance at the end of the long which is odd,” he says. “After we started flashes red and blue, and fades dirt road, I saw the concrete barricades walking back into the building, it started to nothing. He says that he often sees illuminated in my headlights. I was suddenly moving south,” he says. Serawop and things like this, but many times, the light will filled with complete dread, and immediately his coworker went inside, locked up, and suddenly shoot straight up before disap- overhead, a bright-white light shot above me, checked on the treatment center clients. Serawop pearing. Serawop bids me farewell and I’m travelling the same trajectory as my car, and dis- realized that while he was outside, a half hour on my own. appeared. That’s it, back to Salt Lake. had passed. “After that, this big flash of light just hit—you could see everything like it was day … It 11:08 p.m. – I sat in the parking lot 3:01 a.m. – I found my way back to Highway was really bright white, and [then] it was gone,” for a while after Serawop left, but I got 40 and headed west to go home. I felt really Serawop says. When he got home from work, a weird feeling, so I started driving sleepy, though, so I’m back at the Bottle Hollow Serawop’s wife interviewed him about what he’d around. I don’t usually get feelings just parking lot. I’m going to take a nap before I seen. He posted the video interview to YouTube, driving around. I’m going to check out leave so I don’t careen off the road and die. I and started a Facebook group called Fort Duch- Skinwalker Ranch. park facing west, recline my seat, and bundle esne UFO. Three months after the incident, which up with my knife in my lap. he described in detail in his security report, Sera- 11:2 2 p . m . – Stopped on the side of wop was let go from his job. the road just west of the ranch, watch- 5:20 a.m. – I just awoke suddenly to a ing. On the way here, something dashed bright-white light shining into my car. My heart 7:52 p.m. – Getting dark. Still sitting in the across the road in front of my car and I felt like it stopped. The bright-white light of a truck. Serawop showed me a photo that his almost hit it. It was a white rabbit. I’m tribal police cruiser spotlight shined in my face friend took two weeks after the incident in 2012. fucking terrified. I don’t know why— as it drove quickly past my car. Oh my god, I Apparently it’s a portal in the sky over the Bottle this sort of thing doesn’t usually thought, I’ve had enough—it’s time to go. Illustrations: Robin Banks Hollow Lake/Reservoir. He says people saw he- scare me. Trucks kept following me By Cody Kirkland • [email protected] licopters chase a UFO near here and it dove and that makes me nervous, too. 6:29 a.m. – Stopped at a rest area off of into the lake to evade pursuit. The photo shows a I’m afraid to get out of the car. Highway 40. I’m sitting on a bench overlooking convoluted, blue-white ring in the night sky with Good thing I brought whiskey. Starvation Reservoir, drinking “Mountain Roast” Before dawn on the morning of Feb. 12, 2012, night, waiting for something paranormal to hap- a dark center. It sure looks like a portal. I’ve checked the door locks twice. gas station coffee, facing east toward Fort Duch- security guard Corey Serawop was halfway pen. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, I left Salt Lake esne as the pink beginning of daybreak begins through a graveyard shift at a Fort Duchesne al- City in search of insight. What follows is my log We drive to the rehab facility where Serawop 11:30 p.m. – Getting more to push away the darkness of the previous night. cohol abuse treatment center when the power of the trip. saw the UFO. He said it was about as big as freaked out. Same spot. Got out I don’t know what it is that’s happening in Fort went out. Serawop saw red-and-blue flashing the building or smaller, so about 30 or 40 feet of the car to get the crowbar out Duchesne. There is definitely something strange lights outside the building. Assuming the police Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 across. Headed south, we pass an electrical sub- of the trunk and hear weird sounds going on there, though. had arrived in relation to the power outage, 5:09 p.m. – Somewhere on Highway 40. Ap- station—the one that local authorities said had just southwest of here. There are he went outside to meet them. Instead of a po- parently, the only CD I brought is Surrealistic Pil- failed and caused the incident in 2102. It’s at three mosquitoes in my car. I keep 10:50 a.m. – I got home at 8:30 a.m. and lice cruiser, Serawop saw something unimagi- low by Jefferson Airplane—on repeat since least a mile away from the rehab facility. “How thinking I hear voices and footsteps slept until now. I got undressed to take a shower, nable—something he had only seen in movies. I left. There are multiple versions of “Somebody does that explain what I saw?” Serawop says. in the gravel behind my car. I think and I have a large, irregular rash covering my to Love” and “White Rabbit.” I have heard I’m going crazy. right knee and thigh. On the middle and ring fin- Fort Duchesne is a town on the Uintah and “White Rabbit,” like, six times so far. I’ll see how 8:39 p.m. – Serawop says people in this area gers of my left hand, where both fingertips touch Ouray Ute Reservation in Northeastern Utah. long I can handle this. sometimes hear scratching at their doors. Some Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 each other, my skin has an orange discolor- The nearby Sherman Ranch, eventually dubbed see strangely behaving lights in the sky, like the 12:08 a.m. – When I step outside the ation. In the shower, I scrub it vigorously, but my Skinwalker Ranch, was the purported location 7:05 p.m. – I just met up with Corey Serawop one several people reported seeing during the car, the sound to the southwest sounds like skin is still orange. I haven’t touched anything of numerous paranormal sightings, peaking in the parking lot at the entrance of Bottle Hollow. Ute powwow on July 4 of this year. I ask him a helicopter starting, revving up like a Har- that could have stained or irritated my skin. in the 1990s. Disembodied, flying spotlights, He’s a large, personable man, 37 years old and about Skinwalker Ranch—he knows all about ley Davidson, idling, stalling and starting over wop points out an orange light in the distance, sentient mists, indestructible wolves, Bigfoot, of Ute descent. Sitting in his security patrol truck it. We talk about skinwalkers—even though again. It’s about a 10-second cycle, but it’s irregu- Whatever I experienced in Fort Duchesne—or above the Uinta Mountains. The light fades in multidimensional portals, cattle mutilation and (he is a security guard for the Ute tribal office), I they’re part of Diné (Navajo) lore, Serawop is lar. It sounds like someone kick-starting a helicop- whatever I imagined I was experiencing—was and out, starts moving laterally to the east, then skinwalkers are among the things reported to ask him what happened on that morning in 2012. familiar with the concept of people using dark ter. The surrounding area is flat. The sound seems ultimately inconclusive. I mostly spent the night disappears. It’s out of the ordinary, but not un- be seen in the area. This caught the attention “I witnessed a UFO, up close,” he says. It was magic to change their form for evil uses. He to be coming from nearby, almost overhead, but alternating between driving around and working explainable. On the way back to the parking of Robert Bigelow, founder of NIDSci, (the a cloudy morning, still before dawn, and it was shows me where his friend saw a shadow per- there are no lights at all. It could be an oil-drilling myself into a terrified frenzy. I saw and heard lot, Serawop tells me about a time a few years National Institute for Discovery Sciences) and snowing. The power went out at the rehab facility son at one of the tribal government buildings. operation. That is common in this area, but it some things that I couldn’t explain, but I wouldn’t ago, on this same road just west of the ranch, Bigelow Aerospace. In 1996, Bigelow bought at which he worked. He saw red-and-blue flash- He points out the road leading to Skinwalker sounds like it is right here and I don’t see anything. consider any of those things to be evidence of when a floating, blue orb followed his brother’s the Sherman Ranch and NIDSci began investi- ing lights outside the building, then he and Ranch. Stood listening for a half hour. paranormal activity. It’s hard to ignore Serawop’s car. As the orb got closer, his car shut down. gations there. a coworker went outside to investigate. stories, though. The orange on my fingers faded The orb disappeared but the car wouldn’t start. They saw a large object hovering We circumnavigate the ranch, stop- 2:33 a.m. – I spent the last two hours driving within a few hours, and the rash disappeared af- His brother left the car and walked to a nearby In the interest of hearing Serawop’s first-person above their building, and the flash- ping on the south end to look at the around, investigating the sound and then stand- ter a week, but those stories stayed with me. I’m friend’s house, where he let his fear subside be- account of his experiences, I planned an over- ing red-and-blue lights changed to gigantic, orange moon beginning to ing on a remote stretch of road in the middle of beginning to think that Serawop is right—there fore going back for the car, which started fine night trip to Fort Duchesne. After interview- solid red. “I had to put my hand up to rise. We spend a while standing be- freaking nowhere, just looking around. On the must be something out there. ing Serawop, I intended to stay up all cover the brightness of it,” Serawop side the truck, looking upward. Sera- afterward.

36 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 37 have only seen a no comply done in Polar Skate Co. video. know tricks invented before 1990, as well the readers who This photo is for the SLUG readers who “used to skate” and only westoncolton.com By Weston Colton Tyler Braithwaite No Comply Over the Chain – Provo, Utah

38 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 39 skeletons in the closet Utah’s Horror Film History

by Alex Springer [email protected] Though Utah got its cinematic start with the westerns of John Ford, it’s no stranger to the horror genre. Our state has been the backdrop to several celluloid slashers—pe- ruse the list … if you dare. the girl in black stockings (1957): Girl is a noir-laced murder mystery that takes place at a swinging hotel in Kanab. The premise is a tad far-fetched—mainly because I find it hard to believe that there are any swinging hotels in Kanab.

carnival of souls (1962): The Great Saltair has a tragically fascinating history, so filming a horror movie there makes sense. It was put to eerily good use in this film.

the house of seven corpses (1974): Films about haunted houses and documentarians seldom have happy endings. The Governor’s Mansion was cast as said haunted house in this mid-‘70s creeper.

halloween 4: the return of michael myers (1988): Salt Lake and Midvale became the fictional town of Haddonfield for this installment of the Halloween series, making Michael Myers the first major cinematic monster to terrorize Utah.

warlock (1989): According to folklore, salt is really bad for warlocks. When the heroine of Warlock figures this out, she plans to hole up in the Bonneville Salt Flats and season her enemy to death.

troll 2 (1990): Perhaps the best worst movie to come out of Utah, Troll 2 is the unintentionally bril- liant story of a boy, his family and a town full of vegetarian goblins. You can’t piss on hospitality.

the stand (1994): This adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic novel was filmed everywhere from Pleasant Grove to Ogden—not to mention the fact that Sam Raimi gets choked by a demon right outside of Lehi.

joyride (2001): Paul Walker, Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski find themselves hunted by a depraved truck driver on a road trip that takes them through Delle, Utah. Say it with me now, “Caaaandy Caaaaane … ”

dawn of the dead (2004): Not entirely filmed in Utah—just a little bit in Salt Lake—Zack Snyder’s zombie flick also featured Utah resident Ty Burrell. Best. Reboot. Ever.

frozen (2010): Before Disney appropriated this title for their own purposes, a team of indie filmmak- ers used the Snowbasin Ski Resort to explore a terrifying premise: What if three skiers get stranded halfway up a lift only to spy a pack of wolves that are waiting for them to drop like ripe fruit? 40 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 41 ByMoving Mike Brown • Instagram: @fagatron

any of my friends are drifters. Bouncing around from place to place they don’t have booze in them anymore, much like my liver in the morning. and couch to couch, they’re gifted in the fine art of mooching and not Everything I own, one by one, goes into an empty liquor store box—just like paying rent—a bohemian lifestyle of sorts that I oftentimes find myself how every feeling I own, one by one, goes into an empty liquor bottle. jealousM of. I lived in the same apartment for 12 fast years. Time flies when you are as drunk as I am. Several roommates had come and gone: some complete Next comes the lifting. I hate lifting things. I’m skinny and not cut out for deadbeats, some amazing lesbians whom I never had to ask to clean, and manual labor (a desk job scares the shit out of me, too, so that leaves me kind one methhead who took down all my blinds for no reason and stole my watch. of fucked in the realms of existing in the real world). But lifting things sucks. Like that whole, “Do you even lift, bro?” Internet meme shit? If someone asked All in all, it was a good 12-year run. I was able to somehow pay my rent on me that I’d be like, “No, and I’m quite OK with it. Lifting things sucks, dude.” time every month and convince my landlord I was an upstanding tenant—de- spite numerous late-night parties full of peeing off the balcony, breaking every After I lifted all of my things, I had to clean things—quite possibly the worst dish I own from time to time (on purpose nonetheless), not to mention letting part of moving. You have to clean your new living space, plus your old living fireworks off inside—the illegal kind from —and other numerous il- space as you go along. Cleaning sucks and I hate it. Everything you ever legal activities that shall go unmentioned in this article. clean will just get messy again—what’s the point? My utopia is a planet with no cleaning. There comes a time in every man’s life where it’s just time to pack up and move on from a situation. I don’t believe in karma or god or any of that hippie shit, Oh, well. Either way, I successfully cleaned and moved, not so far away. Now but there were quite a few indicators that I needed to just get the fuck out of my I have a new, clean place that I get to make messy again. apartment. So I did. I guess things like bed bugs and carpet beetles infesting your abode qualify less as god telling you to move—it’s more like a, “Yeah, I really should get the fuck out of this shit hole that I created.”

Seeing how it has been 12 years since I had changed living spaces, I really had no idea what a pain in the ass it would be. I figured I could get all my shit out in two weeks, paint the place, get my deposit back and live happily ever after. After seeing so many of my friends move away over the years, I figured the process would be easier than a two-cent whore. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

The first thing I realized is that moving sucks. I hate moving, like, literally. Even moving around. When I’m done with work, the last thing I want to do is move. I want to sit in the same place and drink and ignore those pesky things Illustration: Steve Thueson like dishes. Doing nothing is usually my absolute favorite thing to do. When it came time to put stuff I own in boxes—fuck that.

My first thought was to just go get some dudes to do all this shit for me, like the guys that stand outside of Home Depot and jump in your van and you just pay them to do a bunch of shitty work you don’t want to do. Then the idea of strangers touching my stuff set in, and I just couldn’t have that. The realization that I have to do this myself with the help of my previous roommates started setting in—we ain’t exactly the dream team when it comes to getting our shit together.

First thing’s first—ditch all the furniture. Most of it was severely booze–stained and infested anyway. We successfully managed to get all my old couches, bed and La-Z-Boy on the neighbor’s lawn—I’m sure they didn’t mind. After getting rid of all my terrible, gross furniture, I can never look at a free couch on the side of the road the same way again. There’s a reason it’s free. If not for the chances of it being infested and piss-stained, just think of all the gross people that probably fucked on that couch without Febreezing it afterward.

After I threw out all the crap I didn’t want, I had to put my whole life into boxes—a complicated and frustrating chore, indeed. Luckily, I’m at the liquor store a bunch, and they have tons of boxes—boxes that are lonely because Mike Brown hates moving more than he hates anything else. 42 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 43 By Mike Riedel [email protected]

Normally, for October, I’d be pes- tering the shit out of all of the local breweries—hitting them up and gath- ering up all of the pumpkin beers I could find for one massive Utah beer “gourd-gasm.” But let’s be honest— How many damn pumpkin beers can you drink in a month? My money says a handful at best. This October, I’m not going to beat you over the head with pumpkin and spices. Instead, I thought we’d treat our palates to beers that are all nice, round and full espresso and toffee malt. The of diversity—a month full of all-new flavor follows the nose with roasted beers as different as the leaves on pumpkin flesh and coffee bitterness. the trees. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still Some doughy zucchini bread notes throwing in a pumpkin beer. Pumpkin come in next, which provides a nice beers are one of the few ales that, for backbone for the roasted flavors. North Americans, evoke a unique au- It’s quite a nice balance. Nutmeg tumn feel. Christ, if I didn’t, it would and cinnamon round out the back be the equivalent of a “mommy blog- end, blending in quite nicely with ger” not blabbing about gingerbread espresso-like bitterness. The finish is houses over the holidays! smooth and creamy, with a subtle, boozy kick. Fröhlich Pils Overall: This beer is a blend of Brewery/Brand: Wasatch’s Pumpkin Ale and Squat- Red Rock Brewery ters’ Outer Darkness Imperial Stout: ABV: 5.5% an all-in-one, handy-dandy, lil’ bottle. MONEY SPENT HERE Serving Style: 500 mL bottle Description: This new release from Ales of No Return STAYS HERE! Red Rock pours a brilliantly clear Series pale-golden color with two fingers of If you spend $ at a ... lacy white foam. This bottle is fresh, (Mutton Buster) 100 and the nose doesn’t disappoint—it’s Brewery/Brand: National Locally Owned Business full of fresh, grassy and toasted Payette Brewing Retailer in SLC in Ogden in Wayne County grain. There are hints of spruce and ABV: 4.0% lemon rind lingering beneath, as Serving Style: 12 oz. can well. The taste starts out with freshly Description: This -made beer baked bread and a hint of cookie- pours a clear-brown color that’s full ONLY dough sweetness. The hops pop in of amber highlight. The head is a next, providing a nice, grassy and ruddy, off-white color that leaves herbal bitterness that balances the a sh’load of lacy residue in the base malts quite well. The finish is glass. The nose smacks with hints of $13.60 $52.00 $48.30 $65.90 bold but overly drying with a hint of pumpernickel bread and some toffee ...will stay in rye-like spiciness. maltiness. The taste starts with some Utah’s Economy ...will stay in Utah’s Economy* sweet, lingering caramel malts, and Overall: Introduced in August as next, some slight hazelnut notes. $ 30 a year-round offering, this German On average Stays in the Local Economy Toasted bread and cocoa rounds out 55. Style Lager has no season, and is the back with a splash of pine at the perfect anytime. end. It finishes earthily and slightly That’s a multiplier dry. Black O’ Lantern effect of Brewery/Brand: Overall: This is the 4.0-percent ABV version that Payette has made Wasatch Brewery for the Utah market. Compared to ABV: 6.5% 4x its 5.5-percent brother, this version is 4x Serving Style: 12 oz. bottle slightly thinner, but no less tasty. Description: This beer is black and MORE MONEY! dense. There’s a nice, frothy tan cap Got any questions? Hit me up at [email protected] or check out of foam on top that hangs around *Based on the Civic Economics Utah Study Series. For study details, visit: longer than expected. The nose is an my other ramblings at the Utah Beer inviting mix of rich, roasted pumpkin, Blog. Prost! www.LocalFirst.org 44 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 45 Marcee Blackerby uses mixed media to create works that are as unique as the sideshows that inspired them.

Well, That’s Different: “Freaking out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded Gallery Strolling with and restricted standards of thinking, Mariah Mann Mellus dress and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his By Mariah Mann Mellus environment and the social structure as a whole.” [email protected] The people of the Art Access Gallery are During October’s Gallery Stroll, which very sensitive to those with differences. will be held Oct. 17 from 6–9 p.m., Their vision is to “create community I’ll be heading over to the Art Access understanding that the arts are a universal Gallery for the opening of Differences, vehicle to celebrate our differences and A Dialogue. The show features 15 artists ultimately connect people.” They work exploring what it’s like to be different— tirelessly to provide equal opportunities or a freak. Yes, I said freak, and this to access the arts—no matter the group of artists is not entrapped by physical, mental or financial limitations. the word. One of the show’s curators, It is through these efforts that they have Marcee Blackerby, whose mixed- amassed a talented group of diverse media projects have graced the walls artists, and—to be frank—in order to of many galleries and arts festivals be a good artist, one must have a little around the state, is known for her freak in them. What better group to play candid approach to life and art. This with the representation of the word freak little powerhouse has never let anything than a group of people who understand stop her, which, in today’s society, living an original existence, celebrating might just make her a freak—but before diversity and differences and not being I offend anyone too much, let’s break concerned with the norm? down the word “freak.” The fabulous list of artistic freaks include The word freak has deep roots in the Marcee Blackerby, Ric Blackerby, English language, first popping up in Bonnie Sucec, Logan Madsen, Cat the 17th Century to refer to a fleck of Palmer, Travis Tanner, Stephanie color, then in the mid-1700s, it was used Swift, Wayne Geary, Frank in reference to something of whimsy or McEntire, Linda Kalmar, Mary fancy. It’s possible that that whimsy or Wells, Trisha Empey, Grant Fuhst, fancy things frightened a few people, Brian Bean, Matthew Jones and and by the mid-1800s, the word freak Doug Wildfoester. became the title of shows depicting animals and humans with physical Sheryl D. Gillilan, Art Access abnormalities. For years, the word freak Executive Director, says, “As you view was dragged around from town to town this exhibit, we challenge you to think and used to define anything that wasn’t about difference, identity, perspective the norm. and power—and what freak might mean 100 years from now.” Just as the word has evolved, so have we—by the ’60s, “freak” and “freaking Be sure to stop by the opening of out” became synonymous with breaking Differences, A Dialogue on Oct. 17 from out of the confines of a gentrified 6–9 p.m. at Art Access Gallery, located existence. Frank Zappa claimed that at 230 S. 500 W. 46 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 47 Dear Cop, and Tubbs, the new generation is influenced by Lesnar, Bieber, I love your answers to the commu- Timberlake, etc. ... and yes, nity’s questions—thank you! I believe that’s why new coppers just look douchey. The metro-sexual I have the most cop-befuddling ques- movement that swept the nation tions yet, and I anxiously await your was the downfall of the neat, reply. I’m wondering about male cop coiffed, Ron Burgundy look. Al- fashion (specifically male because I though, the modern-looking, only notice certain “trends” in male bald cop does have advantages cops on duty). Obviously, cops must when the beat-to-shit victim tries wear a uniform, which extremely de- to pull your hair to stop you from limits the leeway with which a cop taking their abusive spouse to jail. COULD have any fashion/self-expres- sion through clothing. I notice, how- Militarization of police is hog- ever, that there is a stark difference wash. I know both services very between the generations of male cops well. Some equipment is similar, in regard to hair. It seems that, in the but tactics are a total 180-degree good-ol’ days, cops would opt for opposite. “Militarization” seems the “traditional” look: neat, coifed, like the new police “slam” term parted hair and a mustache—maybe by the “if it feels good, do it” crowd (aka looters). even a handlebar mustache, if they felt so inclined. They look like they Yes, a similar “uniform” ap- could be your dad … or an aging pearance for cops is necessary. porn star. Nowadays, with younger Where cops can accessorize is in male cops, they all seem to look like their equipment. An old, ’stache- Brock Lesnar: more shaved and spiky wearing copper might have with more tacky facial-hair styles; or leather gear, and the new Bieber- shaved heads and look like Butter- esque patroller could have nylon. The Eric Estrada–esque old-timer bean. What do you feel demarcates might deploy an AR-15 type these intergenerational style markers rifle, and the boot might prefer in male cops? Are the more militaris- an H&K 416. I don’t know any, tic looks for younger cops propelled but there’s probably an old timer by the likening of the police force holdout somewhere who still car- to the military? Or do younger cops ries a revolver. I’ll bet he sports a just really like UFC and looking like wicked-cool mustache, too. they wear Affliction? ‘Cause it looks Cop hair standards exist, but it’s douchey. more about length than style. I’d love a standard for “how” a Love, cop wears their hair. Gnarly 911 For fashionism disturbance calls with boozed-up revelers suck when your backup Dear Fashionista, really does look like the Bieber. It never ends well. You should pro- Not that I’m any kind of fash- mote yourself to the various po- ion expert (Costco wardrobe for lice departments as a liaison with me), but I, too, many years ago, the fashion industry. If you can sported the John Holmes, ’70s get the hair and clothing right, porn ’stache. It was LA County maybe people won’t think we’re Sheriff deputies who made this “cop look” famous. so militaristic, or at least not so douchey. You’re on target that new cop- pers have a completely differ- ent grooming style. Whereas the older generation was influenced Have a question for the cop? by a ’70s mustache, or even Email him at a little more modern, Crockett [email protected] 48 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 49 33 1/3: Can’s Tago “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Mago Heavy Metal Movies debunks this say- ing entirely when it comes to the ex- Alan Warner ceptional artwork and visuals painted Bloomsbury Academic by Andrei Bouzikov and layout Street: 11.01 by Bazillon Points. The cover actually In high school, I came upon the book gives the viewer a small teaser as to Twilight of the Gods by Wilfred what type of flicks you will find inside Mellers, a 1973 study attempting the book. However, most of the mov- to explain the importance of the Fab ies from A to Z described in the book Four’s music through a musicological have nothing to do with heavy metal. analysis of their works. This seemed You’ll find that most of the films fall extremely absurd. I recently realized, under the categories of blockbusters, after reading several books in the 33 cult classics, plain classics, - 1/3 series, that it’s not really about the individual albums profiled—it’s house, B-horror movies and movies about what it’s like to be a fan. It’s about metal music. Ninety percent of about what it’s like to view a particu- the metal music movies that are listed lar work as the pinnacle of aesthetic in the book are documentaries or mu- accomplishment—to experience the sical films. Don’t get me wrong: All the unique sensation of “This speaks to flicks picked for this book are good, me!” There is also a fetishization of Ark of the Covenant–style face melt- the vinyl album as an art object. Each ers in their own way. We have good band and record in the series is my- movies made by great directors and thologized as much as the authors’ other, horrifically campy grindhouse experience of discovering them is; in movies, which makes them even bet- the case of Can’s 1971 album Tago ter. HMM offers a top-notch approach Mago, Warner describes their “stoner to each review by giving the reader athleticism.” The Scottish novelist re- the movie title, year released, director alizes the absurdity of this linguistic and major actors, followed by combi- attempt to describe music, as much as nations of short words to describe the Mellers, but Warner’s volume about film. I give this book two devil-horn the German psychedelic band is rich hands up! –Joshua Joye because he shows how “Tago Mago gave me permission to dream.” Tago Monsters in America Mago, along with a number of other W. Scott Poole Can masterpieces, will be reissued on Baylor University Press vinyl alongside the release of the 33 Street: 10.15.11 1/3 book. –Stakerized! Put aside your summer reading, be- cause it’s time for Halloween. Mon- Heavy Metal Movies sters in America by W. Scott Poole is Mike “McBeardo” the perfect accompaniment to your McPadden horror film marathon this fall. This Bazillion Points book delves into the sociological and Street: 06.09 historical aspect of horror—or to be more specific, monsters. According to Poole, monsters are the “underground history of the .” Monsters in America is a captivating read, cov- ering everything from Tod Brown- ing’s Freaks to Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire . Poole is a tenured professor of American Histo- ry at the College of Charleston, S.C., so, of course, the book is smart and engaging. Poole is the kind of profes- sor whose lecture you would actually enjoy listening to. Pick up a copy and make a list of the horror films you need to re-watch now that you under- stand all of the sociological subtext. –Amanda Rock

50 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 51 “I dunno, guys. Those beer kegs look pretty well-defended.” Who doesn’t love smashing things with a hammer? Smashy smashy! Halfway seems to have lost its shine. Maybe layout as the original game, but the have minions of a sort in this game— it’s a lack of new features, or maybe, PS4 reboot means gorgeous graphics, kitty minions! You collect cats for the Robotality/Chucklefish because I’ve become such a massive easier controls and a new physics en- craziest cat lady of them all throughout Reviewed on: PC (exclusive) fan of a different football, the NFL just gine. If you are a gamer who enjoys the game, and you can send them out Street: 07.22 doesn’t interest me that much anymore. going above and beyond, there is still to collect items for you. It’s a random Madden 15 is the first Madden, for the additional task of rescuing other but adorable addition to this decent Halfway takes the nostalgia of Micro- probably four years, that has made Mudokons from the corrupt Rupture RPG sequel. –Ashley Lippert Prose’s original X-COM: UFO Defense me fall back in love with the series. EA Farms, which has also received a nice and cranks it up to 11 with healthy Tiburon has gone back to the drawing update. You now have the ability to doses of atmospheric horror and tight The Walking Dead: board and released one of the series’ command multiple Mudokons, rather storytelling. The game puts the player very best. Some notable improvements than just one at a time. Lastly, one of Season 2, Episode Five in control of a soldier on the space- include a complete overhaul of de- the biggest changes New ’n’ Tasty has ship Goliath. After what appears to – No Going Back fensive mechanics. Things like a safe to offer is the “Quicksave” option, be a ship malfunction, he sets out to tackle cone and timing prompts make it which wasn’t implemented to the se- Telltale Games find and rally any survivors to see if possible to enjoy and excel at defend- ries until Abe’s Odysee’s sequel, Abe’s Reviewed on: PC they can figure out what went wrong. ing. The leap in visuals and presenta- Exodus. Needless to say, this is a more- Also on: PS3, PS4, PS Vita, As it turns out, whatever caused the tion, even over last year’s version, are than-worthy reboot to a great, original Xbox 360, iOS, Android, ship to malfunction also caused an also very noticeable. That said, this is platformed classic. –Nate Abbott outbreak of zombified crewmembers. , Ouya still Madden, so if you weren’t hooked The top-down perspective and 16-bit Street: 08.26 before, you won’t be now. The biggest graphics are a nice throwback to a Tales of Xillia 2 improvement, however, comes in Mad- The final chapter in Season 2 of The bygone era, and the developers have den Ultimate Team, or MUT. The trad- Bandai Namco Games Walking Dead game brings forth some- done an excellent job of establishing a ing card mode has received a much- Reviewed on: thing not normal to gaming. The game solitary, menacing tone—I kept think- needed facelift, from the way teams PS3 (exclusive) mechanics have not changed since ing of Ridley Scott’s Alien. Combat are managed to the way cards are the original season, and almost every is turn-based, and aspects like cover Street: 08.19 traded, and is now insanely addictive game in the Telltale arsenal plays the and action points are vital to the team’s Tales of Xillia 2 is a beautiful RPG that and fun. Overall, Madden 15 is a big same. Yet the soundtrack, visuals and survival. Unlike the X-COM games, takes place a year after the firstXillia step in the right direction. story are so on point that the game is squadmates don’t die for good when game in the gorgeous but dying world –Blake Leszczynski completely enthralling and, to its very they’re dropped to zero hit points. of Elympios. Xillia 2 follows Ludger core, depressing. Choices are missed, This made sense—it would be hard to Kresnik, who is having one hell of a such as when Kenny bares his soul to continue a character-driven narrative if : day—he finds out his brother could be the player about his struggles since your characters could potentially suffer New ’n’ Tasty evil and he ends up with an outrageous losing his family, and the player stares permadeath—but without the threat of Just Add Water/ loan, which you spend a good chunk silently instead of responding, simply losing a squadmate hanging over the of your time paying off by doing go-for because the gamer is so engaged in player’s head, a wee bit of the piss quests. You spend the rest of your time the story unfolding in front of them. This is missing from traditional turn-based Reviewed on: PS4 hunting down your brother to clear his led to my version of Clementine com- gameplay. –Alex Springer Also on: Xbox One, , name and yours. You only use a per- ing off as cold and disinterested, when PS3, PC centage of the combat system when really, the player was bewildered and you’re fighting normal monsters, so it Madden NFL 15 Street: 07.22 crushed. The theme that there is no EA Tiburon/EA Sports gets a little tedious. During the longer hope in the zombie apocalypse is very Oddworld: New ’n’ Tasty takes one of battles, though, combat is interesting much a factor, not because of the zom- Reviewed on: PS4 my favorite games from the late ‘90s, and dynamic—you can change the bies, but because of the brutal truths Also on: PS3, Xbox One, Oddworld: Abe’s Odysee, and improves partners you link up with and weapons of self-preservation. No matter which Xbox 360 it in every way. New ’n’ Tasty is not just in battle in real time. The conversation ending you find yourself tied to, it is a Street: 08.26 a remaster of the memorable platform- choices are a bit jarring when they pop common theme that no matter whom ing adventure—it is redesigned from up, which, in turn, takes you out of the you are with, you are still very much Madden used to be a yearly automatic scratch. The level design is the same conversation you just started. You also alone—good luck. –Thomas Winkley buy. Over the last few years, the series 52 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 53 Chrome Industries much in facial features but in essence. Sol Republic Pound for pound, these are the best Forged Rubber™ The deck itself skates well. I sent it into Tracks AIR headphones I’ve ever owned. Timur Sneakers some ledges, and although it dented, solrepublic.com –Alexander Ortega chromeindustries.com it did not chip. I also did some exag- gerated back-lips on a small downrail I’m 100-percent for marriage equal- Underwater Audio Chrome’s always on point, and the trying to snap it, but to no avail. The ity—so much that I think that I should Swimbuds + Waterproof Forged Rubber™ Timur Sneakers are deck is light, and the concave and be able to legally marry these head- iPod Shuffle Bundle phones. Like, if I were the kid in the no exception. Chrome’s website says pop will meet the specs of a guy who underwateraudio.com Cap’n Crunch commercial, and the that they craft these shoes by hand skates the kinds of things I do—a little other kid said, “If you love it so much, I’m a fan of the iPod Shuffle with its with the aid of “70-year-old machines bit of this, a little bit of that. Others in why don’t you marry it?”—but if the clicky buttons, and if you ask me, [they] salvaged from Slovakia,” and the Art Classics series include Jose cereal were actually these head- there’s nothing better than a finely I believe ’em—they’ve provided me Rojo’s face transposed onto Mexi- phones—I’d kick her, and then I’d say, tuned, 88-bpm playlist clipped to your with durability I didn’t think possible in can Revolutionary leader Emiliano “I am.” They’re wireless, enabled by collar when spinning up Emigration. a sneaker for my pedestrian commutes Zapata from the iconic photograph; Bluetooth, and, after a quick charge Music improves the running or cycling all around Downtown. I’m pretty hard Nestor Judkins’ face replaces that (only about 10 minutes), they paired experience, but I’ve drowned a Shuf- on shoes, but their seemingly inde- of the goddess Venus in Botticelli’s with my phone with a click of a button fle or two in the rain during my bike structible vulcanized rubber (purport- Rennaissance classic “Birth of Venus”; and a device selection in my iPhone’s commute. So when it comes to swim- edly at 300 degrees) has given me sol- and Wieger van Wageningen Bluetooth menu. The efficiency of this ming, no music always meant an hour id hope that I can wear these through as Michelangelo’s “David.” You’ll product is almost egregious—I run of gurgling monotony ... until today. the oncoming winter. I took them on probably scrape the graphic away in around the SLUG office every which Underwater Audio’s Swimbuds iPod a hike up Millcreek, too, and though one session, but it’s fun to have none- way, grabbing documents to edit, and Shuffle kit ($165) makes me want to they could benefit from a bit more theless. Nurture the arts! I now don’t have to carry my phone swim. It sings a siren song that lures arch support with the interior in that –Jordan Deveraux with me if I’m in Headphone Land, me along for another lap, and it tricks context, they sure as hell proved that concentrating on a task and blocking me into kicking on the beat for faster they are built to last. The website says Huf out Poliça. Should one risk lessen- splits. Since I swim with goggles, it’s that they should be water-resistant, but Dylan ing crucial audial traffic signals—as easy to clip the Shuffle to the rubber mine leaked water in through the back hufworldwide.com I am wont to do—while cycling, they strap and wrap its short wires to take portion of the sole when I stepped into make for an absolutely perfect music- up slack. The in-ear speaker plugs the creek. They were a little stiff initial- The Dylan is the perfect go-between listening accessory when beating a keep water from flooding my ears and ly, but I was happy to break them in, from casual to classy in shoe wear. An- red light, pedaling to Dawnbringer. killing the sound, and a little Vaseline seeing as how the rigidness evinced gel-tip-style stitching in the front (with Sometimes they cut in and out in this on the earbuds improves their seals the quality of the materials. My pair the “tip” tucked under another layer context, but it’s an infrequent inconve- (the plugs must seal to work well). of full-grain burnished leather) lends boasts slick, black “fire hose” canvas nience. Be sure to turn your phone’s The stiff buttons don’t clicky click like these sneakers a dressy feel, but their with a red stripe on each shoe, which Bluetooth off before you pair with an unmodified Shuffle, but that’s a matte-black color, “burnished black,” breathes well and looks stylish—it’s your computer’s Bluetooth, as the small price to pay for aquatic bliss. renders these kicks the perfect first- rare to find a shoe with the utility of headphones stay paired via the first- UA claims that the buttons will break in date shoe: slick enough to show that Patagonia and the simple, fashionable established connection to a device. with use. Don’t expect crisp, bell-tone you got game, but understated to the design of Vans, rolled into one. The While paired with a phone, though, highs and thumping bass underwater point where it looks like you put ’em on Timurs also include an “antimicrobial answer/end calls with a button; while —you will also hear plenty of sloshing in the morning without thinking twice music is playing, quickly hit the same and straining as you swim, so expect sock liner for odor resistance”; my feet about it. The $120 price tag leans more aren’t the most fetid in the world, but, button once, twice or three times to ambient noise to seep into your audio toward the former designation, but the pause/play, skip forward or go back, bubble. Buy this kit if you swim once a nonetheless, I’ve noticed that it signifi- Rieders’ sturdiness proves that—as cantly cuts down on any retained foot respectively. They insulate sound and month—you’ll likely swim more often. with each Huf product I’ve tried— block out outside noise well, to boot. –John Barkiple smell. At $85—a fairly standard men’s high-quality clothing is well worth the sneaker price across the board—the investment, style- and longevity-wise. Timur Sneakers are a steal. These shoes were a bit of a travail to –Alexander Ortega break in, but once they did a couple weeks later, they were like leather driv- Enjoi ing gloves gripped to my feet. They’re Art Classics series definitely fall/winter shoes, as rockin’ enjoico.com them in the summer was a bit too hot, but I’m becoming increasingly grate- The Art Classics are Enjoi’s newest ful for their heat insulation since we’re series of skateboards. I got a chance well into autumn. The elastic fabric to skate the Louie Barletta model, that connects the tongue to the in- titled “mona louie” after Da Vinci’s ner sole (beneath the insole, often classic portrait. The deck features

found in skate shoes) makes for a bit Photo: John Barkiple the skateboarder’s face transposed of a meticulous time when putting them onto the Mona Lisa’s. What’s odd is on in the morning rush … but feeling that there is some overlap between this fresh, I hardly even care. the famed sitter and Barletta, not so –Alexander Ortega

54 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 55 Camp X-Ray After crashing his car in the getaway, even more so because I’d rather have Noomi Rapace. Gandolfini offers Martin regains consciousness in the lo- watched 107 minutes of that. The dis- one last, powerful performance before Director: Peter Sattler cal hospital only to realize that he has paraging elements to this franchise his untimely death, but he certainly IFC Films been accused of his friends’ deaths are the monotonous characters and went out on a respectable note. While In Theaters: 10.17 and the surgeon has attached Herzog’s their first-world problems. Do I go to a the characters and their shadowy pasts Kristen Stewart plays Amy Cole, a arm to his body. Think 1924’s The luxurious semester at sea on a beauti- are the film’s highlight, the pacing and small-town girl who joins the Army to do Hands of Orlac or 1991’s Body Parts. ful yacht and sail around the world, or storyline need attention. The paranoia something important with her life and is The appendage has a mind of its own. do I stay with my dolphin friend? Who and thrilling tones rev their engines to assigned to Guantanamo Bay. Despite For some inexplicable reason, Wirkola cares? However, it was nice of Mor- the fullest extent, yet fail to deliver an orders not to treat the prisoners—er, decides to tap into the Hollywood tra- gan Freeman to return to his role, adequate reaction to the buildup. This detainees—as humans, Cole forms a dition of filmmaking and includes the deliver the film’s moral lesson for five shortage of fulfillment could be due to kind of friendship with Ali (Peyman “Zombie Squad U.S.A.,” a trio of zom- minutes, collect his paycheck and exit. the fact the film is based on a short Moaadi), one of the imprisoned Jihad- bie aficionados, led by Martin Starr, –Jimmy Martin story rather than a complete novel. ists. At first, Cole/Stewart’s tough-girl who travel to The Land of the Midnight –Jimmy Martin façade seems forced and unbeliev- Sun to assist Martin’s efforts of put- The Drop able, but she pulls it off and gives a ting an end to Herzog’s reign while Director: The Equalizer surprisingly good performance as she constantly spewing out annoying lines Director: participates in dehumanizing disciplin- of dialogue from Star Wars. Where Michaël R. Roskam ary acts, is struck with a “shit cocktail,” Wirkola succeeded in 2009 with a Fox Searchlight Pictures Antoine Fuqua and is victim to misogyny on both gruesome horror film that included bits In Theaters: 09.12 Columbia Pictures sides of Guantanamo’s internal war. of comedy, he fails this time around In Theaters: 09.26 Moaadi, though, might be the best with this cheesy comedy that includes It’s been 13 years since Denzel part of the film—he hilariously pesters bits of horror. Sure, there are multiple Washington partnered up with di- Cole to procure a Harry Potter book laughs to be had, but it’s not the same rector Antoine Fuqua for Training for him and forces her to question the fragrance that we fell in love with five Day, the role that garnered him the very basis of what she and her country years ago. Maybe Wirkola’s introduc- Academy Award for Best Actor in a stand for. The film feels a bit drawn out tion to Hollywood last year with Hansel Leading Role. The two have reunited toward the middle, but James Lax- & Gretel: Witch Hunters changed his to bring life back into the 1985 televi- ton’s beautiful photography keeps filmmaking style, but I miss the true grit sion series that revolved around retired your attention. Sattler’s focus on hu- he once possessed. –Jimmy Martin government operative Robert McCall, man interactions and attitudes rather who fights for those who cannot de- than politics is sure to please crowds Dolphin Tale 2 fend themselves. In this revitalization, while simultaneously questioning the Director: McCall (Washington) lives a quiet life “War on Terror.” It does seem pretty Charles Martin Smith working at Home Mart and dining at cheesy when a montage tries to draw the same diner at the same table ev- Warner Bros. parallels between soldiers saluting ery evening. Upon witnessing Russian In Theaters: 09.12 a flag and Muslim prisoners bowing mobsters abusing a young prostitute toward Mecca, though. Camp X-Ray There’s rejuvenating than (Chloë Grace Moretz), the trained is worth seeing, if not for its criticism witnessing a mediocre film somehow killer takes it upon himself to set the of U.S. military practices, then for the strike a chord with audiences around wrongs right. Washington and Fuqua only film performance by Stewart that the country, watch it nearly triple its hop back on the saddle as if they never doesn’t suck—although she still bites budget at the box office, and know left it and continue to produce stylized her bottom lip about a hundred times. that an unwanted sequel is soon to fol- If you know anything about the films action that oozes with calculated cha- –Cody Kirkland low. Such is the case with the dramati- that have been adapted from Dennis risma. I don’t know what deal Wash- zations of the operations taking place Lehane’s novels (Mystic River, Gone ington made with the devil, but he Dead Snow 2: at the Clearwater Marine Hospital in Baby Gone), then you know the multi- continues to get more badass as time Red vs. Dead Florida. This time around, Winter, the tiered emotional states that each char- moves forward. The violence embed- dolphin with the prosthetic tail from acter is given and the challenge it is for ded within the film is not for the faint Director: the previous production, is left alone the actors to fully immerse themselves of heart, but it’s definitely in alignment Tommy Wirkola after her tank mate, Penelope, passes in those lives. In The Drop, Bob (Tom with Fuqua’s previous endeavors. If Well Go USA Entertainment away. With the USDA regulation that Hardy) bartends at his cousin Marv’s you thought this director loved power In Theaters: 10.10 all marine life must have a partner in (James Gandolfini) establishment. tools with his Stanley Tools commercial their quarters bearing down on the However, Marv lost control of the tav- at the beginning of his career, wait till Five years after its predecessor, employees, time dwindles as the facil- ern to mobsters, who now use it to ex- you see what he has Washington do Wirkola picks up the story at the exact ity must find a suitable pairing or risk change illegal funds from one hand to with a power drill. You’ll never look at moment where he left us. The sole one- losing their main attraction. While another. The situation goes from bad a Home Depot or a Lowe’s in the same armed survivor of the first endeavor, the real life experiences of this facility to worse when two masked men rob fashion again. Yikes! –Jimmy Martin Martin Hykkerud (Vegar Hoel), nar- are extraordinary, watching them in a the bar and the mob set the blame on rowly escapes the clutches of General fictionalized capacity is not. Director Bob and Marv. The most prominent Herzog (Ørjan Gamst) and his army Read more Charles Martin Smith does offer foot- accomplishment of this feature comes of undead soldiers, but not before tear- age from the actual events, just before from the performances of a well-versed reviews ing off the commander’s arm as well. the end credits roll, which upsets me cast, which also includes the talented at slugmag.com 56 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 57 refrain “gotta, gotta, gotta, I got to Street: 01.17 ing track or sped up and featured in Socialists = The Clash + know you, want to, want to, want to, I Kemp. = The Pharcyde + a heavier tech set, which isn’t an easy Dead Kennedys – want to show you,” is irresistible in its Brigham Young with feat. In other words, it’s flexible. The Jello Biafra understated, nerdy charm, and the rest entire album flows like some glitch new attitude Now here’s a couple of good, old- of the disc follows suit. This is the Little wave jazz masterpiece. Hel Audio is fashioned leftist releases, Engine that could. This is a CD to walk “Emo raps perfected,” boasts Kemp. on doing great things for our musical com- by local band the Socialists. You might hand-in-hand with, dorks! –Stakerized! “Cougar Tails.” It’s a striking moment munity, and I’ve been impressed with want to call this group more of a “col- on a record that does get, well, emo- everything they’ve produced this year. lective.” They are true to their beliefs James Junius tional. Still, that line works on a couple I can’t wait to see what Nida comes up enough that they include “Praise Boss,” of levels—as both a raison d’être and with next. –Kamryn Feigel moth,wing,dream, an endearing moment of self-depre- with lyrics by the Australian IWW from Self-Released cation. Kemp. is clearly aware that Patchz the early 1900s and “This Little Scab” Street: 08.12 there aren’t many genres less appeal- with lyrics by the Chicago IWW and Lightz Out see: a band with work ethic keepin’ on. Bombay Bicycle Club James Junius = múm + ing than wimp-hop, but he goes for it Local 329 SEIU. Hell, the packaging Alexander Ortega Second Thoughts They scored an impressive guest spot Rocky Votolato anyway and deserves credit for trying and printing of the sleeves are union- The inside cover of this album says, Wallwalker EP on “Decohesion (II)” with CJ McMa- to transcend it, too. He covers a lot of Street: 06.07 made. As far as the sound, it’s the punk “With my sincerest heart, I am so sorry A fluttery work of ambience, Self-Released hon of , but it’s ground, lyrically—rapping about Mor- Patchz = Atmosphere + rock of the era when the genre started for who I was.” The music that follows moth,wing,dream, evokes images of Street: 08.08 not like their vocalists needed the help. monism, West Jordan and even Minor CeeLo Green turning “hardcore,” with a heavy Dead is apologetic and cathartic, yet full of a flickering light in a cabin or a mid- Alexander Ortega = The album is full of very strong highs Threat. Respect. That’s difficult subject Kennedys influence and acerbically yearning. “Junius” combines upbeat night walk through a cemetery. It could Lightz Out is a seven-track sampler of Leonard Cohen + Nick Cave and lows, and the kind of lyrical en- matter to tackle in any genre. He has proclaimed lyrics. “Hasta La Rock” vocal harmonies and emotional bursts be a soundtrack for a horror film with rap, hip-hop and R&B material, with + Huun-Huur-Tu nunciation that jerk prose-pushers like skills, and whoever did the beats has even sounds like it coulda been an of guitar with the lyrics “I never thought its hushed chords and sci-folk vocals. different guest vocalists to break up me appreciate—not just for the sake of an ear for hooks, too. However, I do album title by The Clash. The releases You may have seen SLUG Magazine’s I would die right next to you.” “May- “Lake Days” is composed in the style the musical compositions. It begins pretty words, but because it actually wish he had ignored the little voice in also have Mike Sasich all over them, Managing Editor, Alexander Ortega, uri” begins with gentle strumming that of Morrissey, with simple synth gui- with “Grounded,” a rap song featur- does add a new variable to an other- his head responsible for “Heaven Is a recording, mixing and mastering, and playing around town, including Fri- sounds like drops of rain, fading effort- tar and repetitive, gloomy lyricism. ing B Still, and moves right into a wise generic sound that can be an ex- Place.” Teary-eyed ex-girlfriend rhymes they just sound sensational: razor- day night in-store local-band appear- lessly into the next track, “Solstice.” “Grateful” follows more of a folk vein, pretty, little R&B ditty on the second ploited strength. I love the drums on this over acoustic guitar riffs? C’mon, sharp guitars and just the right amount ances at Diabolical Records and the There is just enough distortion to give expressing his love for his family—“I’m song, “Cry for Help.” From what I thing, like a rolling stampede of Mon- dude. Just keep that shit in your diary. of punch. –Stakerized! busking area at the Craft Lake City Apology a dreamy, distant feel, but grateful for my mother who holds my can tell from the track listing, Patchz gol hordes through a mountain valley. –Dan Vesper DIY Fest. Now, his musical ability has the tender and stark lyrics keep it from obscured melodic passages peer out heart in hers, and for my father for put- himself has the smooth voice that is The mixing is really clean, if a little on TelePathiQ coalesced into a three-song EP that is floating away. The musical spacing is of cavernous, swelling sounds. Heaven ting up with the last 19 years.” “Wing” echoing CeeLo Green’s vocal style, the sterile side, and I feel like there is Mañanero diverse enough to demonstrate several quick at times, as if following a heart’s House is the loudest quiet album I’ve is a collage of noises and sounds, in- and he does a great job. It’s a solid Dark Room EP some depth missing from the songwrit- facets of his talent. “Broken Color Sys- lament—at other times, it’s the heavy ever heard—appropriate for speaker- cluding the flutter of birds’ wings. Al- Self-Titled effort with talented individuals chiming She Says Records ing, even compared to their previous tem” uses some nimble finger-picking in and deliberate feeling of moving on. destroying maximum volume when it though there are a variety of genres Self-Released in to do their thing and a definite flow Street: 04.21 effort, Zoo, but I can’t quite put my fin- minor tonalities as an intro to the fore- It must have made Pena vulnerable to is necessary to drown out the calami- and influences at play, the continuity Street: 08.04 throughout. The album art by Josh Tai TelePathiQ = DJ Shadow + ger on what exactly needs tweaking. boding “Year Of The Snake,” in which open himself up emotionally for Apol- tous, Ferguson, Mo.–producing world of the album is not lost—and although Mañanero = Tom Waits + Taeoalli and Will E. Petersen is ab- Phantogram Nevertheless, all the tools to fix it are the vocals are sung in the overtone ogy, but he pulls it off beautifully. and quiet enough to be played as you it explores musical distance and mini- Iggy Pop + Blessure Grave solutely beautiful, with new details to manner of Tuvan throat singers—with within reach of a band as dedicated as do homework or settle into a novel. malism, there is an ember of warmth explore every time I take a look at it. –Kia McGinnis I like lo-fi, but you might want to listen to its sinister lyrics, it’s quite effective. Alumni appear to be. –Megan Kennedy Heaven House isn’t a formless void of throughout that invites intimacy. It’s a lovely local release and perhaps this album on some high-quality speak- “Inside Every Soul” tells of a meeting unmoored sounds, though. There is an –Kia McGinnis even more fun because it included so AudioTreats ers. In my car’s weak sound system, I with Satan, and Ortega’s strumming Andrew Maguire’s Art inherent structure to this house, even many other local talents. Check it! –Is- was ready to give up on Mañanero, adds urgency. His melodies and chord Vol. 2 if the blueprints aren’t available to us Jay Citrus cha B. Project but at home, I had much less trouble progressions are slightly repetitive, Self-Released mortals. Glimpses are found in the Artsy As Fuk Suck My Lemons making it through the album. The au- but one could imagine them as metal Street: 08.05 swelling, arcing melodies of corralled Replica Mine Self-Released Self-Released dio peaks and crackles throughout the or punk rock arrangements that sound AudioTreats = Pretty Lights static and in the ghostly remnants of Street: 06.11 Street: 05.30 simplistic songs, which consist of low, Three Noble Truths pretty cool, too. There’s a wildness that + CHVRCHES / Rustie noise-on-noise quadrupling. This effect Jay Citrus = Snoop Dogg + growling vocals with repetitive guitar Endless Shadow is contained within the acoustic guitar Andrew Maguire’s Art Proj- crafts a glowing white, offering depth- I’m stunned by the quality of music that The Underachievers and the occasional sample. Mañanero Street: 07.23 singer/songwriter format that makes it ect = Jonathan Richman + less depths of sound exploration and has come out of Utah’s EDM scene as feels experimental at times, like in track Replica Mine = even more powerful. –Stakerized! Gary Wilson – Elvis Costello healing. If you listen to only one drone Jay Citrus isn’t exactly a visionary—his of late. AudioTreats’ Vol. 2 is no excep- seven, “Alligator,” which is just rough Nine Inch Nails + “Artsy” is in the eye or—in this case— album this year, let this be your Talk rhyming is sloppy, he gets his song tion. This album is a hypnotic tapestry falsetto vocals hovering over a looped ear of the beholder. Usually, “art” in Amongst the Trees or Endless Summer. titles from classic hip-hop tunes and, Alumni of hip-hop and . Each track sample of James Brown singing the conjunction with makes one –Ryan Hall on at least one occasion, he straight-up This album is split into three parts: Decohesion is incredibly fluid, and they each fit word “Alligator.” I can handle Mañane- In just three songs, TelePathiQ packs think of turgid, overblown prog rock, jacks a beat without any attribution— Existence, Cause and Cessation. In- Self-Released together in perfect harmony. Utilizing ro a few tracks at a time or if I’m in the enough intensity for a full-length al- but Andrew Maguire’s Art Project have George Charles “The Scenario” is Yeezy’s “Blood on corporating both industrial and earthy Street: 09.02 enchanting vocals and killer drum se- right mood, but it’s not easy listening. bum. Booming drums are silhouetted a punkish garage band energy that’s the Leaves.” Nevertheless, this is one of sounds, Adam Harmon creates a quences, this collection is an amazing Nelson III –Steve Richardson by classical riffs of piano and paired Alumni = + the better local rap albums I’ve encoun- rich and eclectic texture. The vocals infectious, awkward and fun—full of creation. I really couldn’t be more ex- with female vocals. The result is a vintage Little Engine tered. It succeeds because the beats have the grungy, distorted edge of the “art school confidential” type self- cited about this release. “Farewell Part composition that is both dark and Sweet Salt Records are fresh and Citrus has an uncanny Matt Nida early ’90s, which contrast the earthy referentiality and fake gossip. I haven’t A.” and “Farewell Part B.” were two light—the shadowy texture of the Street: 07.25 ability to kick batshit rhymes like they Explorer tones of the guitar and bass. The drums seen them play live, but I imagine them totally complementary and completely beats is complemented by the George Charles Nelson III = were handed down from God. “No Hel Audio in the intro track, “A Lasting Fate,” have wearing thin ties and cheesy plastic standout tracks on this album. Sinuous cool, creepy vocals. “Dark Room” has Fakebook-era Yo La Tengo + half-steppin’ around me,” he warns us Street: 07.14 a Smashing Pumpkins flavor and ’80s-style sunglasses. They would have and seductive, these songs will slowly a dramatic, strobe-light effect as the Flaming Groovies + Eels on “No Half-Steppin’,” but fails to give follow the album to its end track, “Trails been at home on the Stiff Records lull you down into the deepest depths Matt Nida = Corduroi + intro song, while “My Misdemeanor” a compelling reason why we shouldn’t. of Gold.” “Fire and Brimstone” features label. Andrew sings, “Go ahead, take of AudioTreats’ mind. Trust me, you’ll Sweet Salt Records was founded last ODESZA leaves a softer, more illustrious image. a picture of me, archetype of the young At first, I wanted to half-step like a a synth layer that pairs nicely with the want to just go with it. –Kamryn Feigel fall by Tom Bennett, a transplant from Immaculately produced and incred- “Breaks My Heart” adds gloomy, intro- and free,” and his tongue is very much motherfucker. Then I realized that this guitar melody. Replica Mine seem to North ’s Piedmont region and ibly sharp, Matt Nida’s latest release, spective lyricism, stating, “I have a deli- in cheek. These extended rambles will kind of harebrained hyperbole is ex- be digging into some deep ideas about Braeyden Jae singer/songwriter “in his own write,” Explorer, pays homage to the cosmic cate soul.” Dark Room is a satisfying make you want to make your own “art actly what makes this record so fun. existence and consciousness, but their to borrow a phrase from John Len- gods with sounds and themes that re- length with layers of beats that make it project.” –Stakerized! Heaven House I’m on Team Jay, but when you use philosophies don’t overpower the musi- non. The label soon added numerous flect the deep, dark reaches of outer a compelling work of . Patient Sounds someone else’s beat, you need to give cianship. –Kia McGinnis folk artists, and fills an interesting and –Kia McGinnis Street: 06.25 credit where credit is due—even on a space. After the first listen, “The Jump” Anthony Pena much-needed niche in the local music Braeyden Jae = Eluvium + mixtape. –Dan Vesper immediately became my favorite track. scene. “Bury Me In Leaves” is George Socialists Apology Hakobune + Fennesz Its steady beat resounds deep into my Charles Nelson III’s ode to living in Self-titled LP/Hasta La Rock Are you in a local band? Self-Released Kemp. soul. Its buildups grow and fade with Street: 07.07 SLC native and ambassador Braey- Salt Lake City, complete with returning flawless transitions, not to mention that EP Send us your album, and Anthony Pena = Incubus + den Jae has created an album full of library books, shopping at thrift stores Empty. the track itself is quite mixable. I can Self-Released we’ll review it in print: This is EP number two for these dudes near-perfect textures. The timbre of and going to the Twilight Concert Se- acoustic Self-Released see it being used as either an open- Street: 08.08 of , which is always nice to all-encompassing waves drone, and ries. It’s a bit of a name check, but his [email protected] 58 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 59 Allo Darlin’ Avi Zahner-Isenberg wants to rub Monstrosity + more funeral doom elements, it’s a hell his dick all over your chest, or at least Deeds of Flesh of a lot faster than most funeral doom. We Come From The Same that’s the message I’ve gotten listening I appreciate the progression and get- Well, this was a pleasing surprise! Place to this album. It’s been four years since ting something new out of listening to Arguably the flag bearers of all death Slumberland Records Avi Buffalo released their self-titled de- the EP. Melodies are explored further, metal, are going to Street: 10.07 but album and, as much as things have adding a different type of atmosphere. make fans old and new very happy Allo Darlin’ = changed with this band, not much has “Embrace of the Darkness” is an excel- with . Admittedly, I changed at all. Musically, Avi Buffalo lent song with elements of everything The Lucksmiths + The Softies kind of stopped caring about the CC has seen a significant course correc- the band has done with the new flair. + Belle & Sebastian after Bloodthirst, and that was 15 years tion, for the better, in my opinion. In- Cemetery Fog may not offer something ago. I listened to every album the band Following their debut’s charming pop stead of playing busy pop and riffing entirely new, but the depth of the EP put out afterward and always found smarts and ’s astonishing poise, on bands like Band of Horses like is well worth the visit to the Cemetery. a few tracks I liked, but I never really Allo Darlin’ have returned with their on the debut, this record is dreamy –Bryer Wharton listened to the albums. I have a feel- third full-length, We Come From The pop that takes after greats like The ing that this one is going to be play- Same Place, brought to the U.S. by in- Flaming Lips and The Beatles. Un- ing on my stereo and in my head for DieAlps! die powerhouse Slumberland Records. fortunately, despite the strides they’ve a while. did not produce DieAlps! Musically, the band is as adept at tug- made musically, the lyrics on this al- the album (he did the last three). It’s a New Granada Records ging one’s wistfulness as ever—with bum leave something to be desired. welcome change-up that brings a lot of Street: 09.23 trademark ukulele jangle, the sincere The lyrical content on their first album the older elements of CC mixed with strum of gentle guitars, prodding bass was appropriately juvenile for a group DieAlps! = the new to the table. It has a bulky yet lines and crisp drumming that weave just out of high school, but if Avi Buf- Rachel Taylor Browns + crisp, not overly blasting drum-click- into an , nostalgia-inducing falo really want to be taken seriously, The Cranberries blanket sewn together by Elizabeth track sound and a feeling of renewed they might stop writing about boners. Taking classical waltz structures and Morris’ keen observational song- interest in actually writing good death –Alex Gilvarry applying them to a rock n’ roll setup, writing. Morris’ extraordinary lyrical metal songs. With new songs like “Kill DieAlps! creates a retro, upbeat sound strength comes from her knack for pull- or Become” standing as strong as the Bleached with lyrical compositions (by Cor- ing the life’s ordinary heartstrings and classic “Hammer Smashed Face,” this nelia “Connie” Calcaterra) that connecting them—like on “Crickets In For The Feel Corpse is ready to crush once again. cover issues of loneliness and feeling The Rain,” a bittersweet but bright tune Dead Oceans –Bryer Wharton left out. As she moved from Austria to about moving forward without sinking Street: 09.16 America, Connie paired with husband into the past, a theme also explored in Bleached = Go-Go’s + Cemetery Fog and bandmate, Frank Calceterra the elegant “History Lessons.” Upbeat Shannon and the Clams Towards the Gates (guitar and vocals), and added a full dance-around-your-kitchen tunes like When I recently revisited last year’s Iron Bonehead production that feels festival-worthy (al- “Half Heart Necklace” and a duet with Ride Your Heart, Bleached’s first and Street: 08.01 beit with Barnum and Bailey vibes) in guitarist Paul Rains, “Bright Eyes,” only full-length, I couldn’t get all the Cemetery Fog = an attempt to connect to her home and abound, too—simple and sure, Allo way through. Half of the songs were deal with the changes that come with Darlin’ have warmed my heart again. Paradise Lost (old) + Winter too boring and unoriginal to keep me moving to a new country. “Rules of Dis- –Christian Schultz + My Dying Bride from skipping to the good ones. Lucki- cipline,” with a steady, marching beat, ly, three-song EP For The Feel comprises felt like an elephant parade, while she Avi Buffalo only good ones. The title track starts repeats the phrase “No one can ever At Best Cuckold with the band’s typical beach-bum pop hurt me”—a nice sentiment, despite Sub Pop punk, with vocals that are cool enough sounding like a kid trying to prove Street: 09.09 not to sound sappy. Next is “Poison herself on the playground. The energy Avi Buffalo = Ivy,” a surf-pop song with girl-group in her voice pars with the passion of harmonies. Last, and best, is a cheer- Karen O + , but I couldn’t quite connect ful, Bleached-blond version of “Born with the pre-tantrum-sounding whines. Tame Impala to Kill” by The Damned. It’s an un- –Brinley Froelich expected move, but they pull it off with Joan Jett flair. For The Feel distills the Dive Index fun of Ride Your Heart, but with more Lost in the Pressure looseness—though it isn’t remarkable, Neutral Music it’s worth the investment just shy of a buck per song for digital or a buck per Street: 09.30 inch for vinyl. –Cody Kirkland This Finnish doom band made some Dive Index = Sumie + waves with their rough and gritty 2013 Park Avenue Music cassette demo, Shadows from the Cem- Cannibal Corpse After listening to this album for about etery. With Towards the Gates EP being two minutes, I figured that it would be A Skeletal Domain Cemetery Fog’s first official release, a good nighttime album, something to Metal Blade time will tell if the band takes off. There prepare me for sweet dreams. How- Street: 09.16 is a huge difference between the demo ever, after listening to it, I found myself Cannibal Corpse = and this release. Though Towards the even more awake than before, trying + Gates takes a cleaner approach with to unwind layers of composition, deci- 60 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 61 pher between soundscapes, swarmed in ‘04. It’s the work, aw yeah,” Brian Fallon sings Wendy Carlos by something part lo-fi, part REM cycle first time in a long time Exodus have in “Rollin’ and Tumblin’.” C’mon, Fallon. and part swanky lounge. The acoustic made catchy, hook-laden, massive I love you guys for your Springsteen- guitar and the electronic percussion thrashing songs. “BTK” and “Numb” like grittiness, but I can’t find any of mixed with the rotating cast of vocalists are beyond excellent for modern and it here. Please take the year off, find provide a swirl of dreamy diversity. I classic thrash. Also worth note, Kirk yourself and release another album loved that I never knew who was going Hammett (), once a part next year that sounds nothing like Get to be singing on the track or the direc- of Exodus, guests a solo on the track Hurt. Love you! –Alex Cragun tion the song was going to take. Stand- “Salt in the Wound,” which is slicker out tracks include “Scars,” “Counting than any “solo” Metallica has put out The Growlers Umbrellas” and “Constant Chatter.” there in decades. The production, Chinese Fountain Check this out if you want to get lost while crisp, retains that raw thrash Everloving Records and start questioning everything. sense to appease new and old fans. Street: 09.23 –Allison Shephard So, for my ears, Exodus is back and sounding great. –Bryer Wharton The Growlers = Allah-Las + El mató a un policía The Babies motorizado Foxes In Fiction The Growlers have coasted with al- In the last several years, there has been Ontario Gothic bums like Gilded Pleasures and Hung a noticeable expansion in the amount La Dinastia Scorpio at Heart, but deliver something a little Nacional Records Orchid Tapes of time it takes for me to finish a book. Street: 09.23 different with Chinese Fountain. Chinese I attribute much of this to the amount Street: 07.29 Fountain is an obvious attempt at ma- Foxes In Fiction = of time spent with my smartphone. In El mató a un policía turity—with meta-narrative aside from The Year of Hibernation–era the interest of time, I’ll stop reading if I motorizado = Built To Spill the girl next door—and they’ve ap- Youth Lagoon / don’t find something compelling within + Pixies pealed to those who are attached to the first few chapters. Records I don’t Porcelain Raft Chinese Fountain If you don’t typically listen to music in the pre– Growlers and find interesting are retired nearly as Spanish, don’t fret—this music tran- This is bedroom pop at its finest. It’s to those who are interested in what else quickly. Organic instrumentation—or- scends language barriers. La Dinastía gentle, soothing, and seems to be the they can achieve. It’s still their classic gan, horns, etc.—and a well-conveyed Scorpio is the first American release for stuff dreams are made of. On the open- psychedelic sound and beach-rat at- sense of ominous space/dynamic, at these creative indie-rockers, who have ing track, “March 2011,” a hushed titude, but cleaned up a bit on tracks turns hazy and warm, make Entopic toured festivals in the U.S. including vocal delivery is greeted by a syn- like “Big Toe,” clinging to their roots on Landscape’s four pieces, each rather Lollapalooza and SXSW. With synth chronized synth and guitar track that tracks like “Good Advice,” and spark- long, worth hearing in full, in their keyboards like The Strokes and en- opens up like a dreampop opus. This ing a new side on tracks like “Going entirety. This is music that I’d imagine Chinese Fountain gaging melodies like Minus the characteristic is present throughout the Gets Tuff.” is a transi- would be best heard in an old theater. Bear, this album has a strong balance album, where each song inevitably cul- tion—showing that the band is another Barring that, listening to “Entoptic of both acoustic and garage rock ele- minates in an emotional swell of noise year older and wiser—but it is anything Landscape: Version 1” for reference in Lizz Corrigan ments. “Más o menos bien” has a dis- that’s reminiscent of M83 productions, but a disappointment. – your living room or office should help tinct twinkling, resonating sound, while but with a lo-fi feel. Despite references to determine if this album is for you. “Noche negra” is a layered electric lul- to similar artists, Ontario Gothic has Kasper Bjørke –T.H. laby. El mató’s music is bright and has its own charm, and with string ar- After Forever an eager, youthful tone that’s entirely rangements from Arcade Fire’s very HFN Music Literature Owen Pallet endearing. There’s a touch of wistful- own , you can rest as- Street: 09.22 sured that the sound is nothing short of Chorus ness that makes it ideal as an end of Kasper Bjørke = Com Truise grand, albeit unobtrusive. It’s just there Slumberland Records summer album. –Kia McGinnis x Drive soundtrack waiting, not forcing you to listen, but Street: 08.19 Exodus waiting for you take flight along with Icelandic pop: Doesn’t that sound in- Literature = St. Christopher it. It’s worth experiencing to see what teresting? It conjures up feelings of + The Bodines + Blood In Blood Out landscapes or memories it conjures in cold and warmth intertwined to cre- Wild Nothing your mind, and using headphones will ate crystalline structures that are only Sifting through the flavors of indie pop Street: 10.14 definitely aid in that process. possible through sound. Kasper Bjørke on Literature’s debut album might be Exodus = Overkill + –Justin Gallegos is a Danish producer himself, but like as bad as calling the whole bloody Death Angel + Forbidden many slick producers these days, thing the dreaded “T” word, but there’s he prefers an album full of intriguing The Gaslight Anthem a history here. Let’s start with this: If guest vocal appearances rather than Get Hurt you prefer tunes brimming with jan- an album full of instrumentals. “Apart” Island Records gling, exuberant guitar riffs that move features Icelandic pop trio Sís.Ey, and Street: 08.12 in thrilling and interesting melodies, their vocals bring a Sade element to The Gaslight Anthem = then Chorus is absolutely perfect for a cold wave techno sound. This album your ears. If you’re of the pop-inclined Kings of Leon + emanates a cool, heavy nightlife vibe, sort, then you’ll be excited to know Hanni El Khatib but its strongest element is a roster of that Philly-based Literature flawlessly relatively unknown international talent. People grow and change with age— refreshes the C86/Sarah canon—as Bjørke’s music will keep you in a rhyth- it’s expected. Just look at the writ- an unabashedly, cloying jangle pop mic spin, but it will also introduce you ing style of Laura Jane Grace on band—with contemporary produc- to a whole new field of artists that most Against Me!’s first album and com- tion sheen and, in doing so, manage likely sound just as good, if not better, pare it to Transgender Dysphoria Blues. to shed the genre’s weight and cre- than what you’re currently listening to. Sometimes there is an awkward phase, ate an albumful of deft tunes, any of –Justin Gallegos Consider Blood In, Blood Out a come- like Bob Dylan’s Street Legal, and Get which could make for a stellar single. back album. Many fans regard the re- Hurt is The Gaslight Anthem’s awkward That being said, if you’ve never been cent vocalist ’ albums the phase. Overproduced and lacking in Lauren Redhead able to discern the difference between worst Exodus have released. Exodus any sincerity, I haven’t felt this turned Entoptic Landscape Gedge and Googe, this is a great actually fired Dukes and brought back off by an album since hearing Hanni El Pan y Rosas Discos place to fall head over heels into the Steve “Zetro” Souza for Blood In Khatib. It sounds good, but this ode to Street: 08.04 rabbit hole of indie-pop music—or at the butt-rockin’ Nickelback lifestyle Blood Out. Is it a comeback for Exo- Lauren Redhead = least let it tickle your feet into tapping dus? Well, wouldn’t you know it—this isn’t for me. “Baby I was born on the those toes. –Christian Schultz Fourth of July/Exploding like a fire- Pauline Oliveros + is the best Exodus have sounded since Bernard Herrmann + 62 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 63 Mark Rogers & gods and lands that have never been Collective, Maxwell has the ability to Sanctuary tamed. –Megan Kennedy lay dreamy melodies over a bed of The Year the Sun Died Mary Byrne disjointed noise. There’s nothing pol- Century Media I Line My Days Along Your ished or glossy about these 10 tracks. Obscure Burial Street: 10.14 Weight Epiphany They’re just expressions of Maxwell’s slightly twisted mind, plastered with Sanctuary = + Important Records Invictus Productions psychedelic fun. Bursts of the Million Hellstar + Control Denied Street: 10.14 Street: 09.15 Mark Rogers & Mary Bryne is a welcome addition to the world of With the current trend of classic bands Obscure Burial = Nihilist art rock, and its songs are open invita- = Valerie June + reuniting or members returning to old (Sweden) + early Mayhem + tions to audible hallucinatory journeys. projects, it almost seems like beating a The Highwaymen Sadistik Exekution –Justin Gallegos dead horse. Sanctuary is better known For a soothing retreat, I Line My Days This is a neat, little release from Fin- as the band that —the Along Your Weight by duo Mark Rog- land’s death dealers, Obscure Burial. Pawns or Kings awesome heavy metal vocalist—was in ers & Mary Byrne dabbles in the bluesy Epiphany can be considered a demo, Pomme De Terre before the mighty Nevermore. Sanctu- twang of older folk songs, with a fresh both in its rough production, length Self-Released ary’s return seems warranted with Nev- take that gives this album a timeless ermore dead and all original members and the grim cover artwork, yet it could Street: 07.25 appeal. Byrne’s sultry voice interplays intact aside from guitarist Sean Blosl. stand up to many of the studio albums Pawns or Kings = Passenger gracefully with old-school instrumenta- from major labels that I’ve heard this This is not the same Sanctuary as it was + Mumford & Sons tion from Rogers, including a hundred- year. The vocals have a slight delay on their prolific 1987 album, Refuge year-old mandolin, upright piano and a on them, giving them a ghoulish, in- Pawns or Kings is a group of indie folk Denied. Dane rarely comes close to lap steel guitar, among others. The two, human quality (think Deathcrush by Missourians, who appear to be in the his falsetto highs from that album. The now married, create an intimate set- Mayhem). “Night Queen” starts with melting pot of words—or languages, production value has increased expo- ting with these tunes: Take “A Gracious guitar feedback and then builds into a that is—nestled away in the Midwest. nentially in pure positive form. Much Host,” with its deep, melancholic drawl bestial onslaught of fast black/death, The French-titled album, Pomme De of the record is subdued and melan- fitting for a journey into the soul, or uncut and straight from the heart. No Terre, is accompanied by sets of instru- choly. The shredding, raging opening “Walk With Me,” with Western-infused melodies here, friend: just buzz-sawing mental songs, catchy folk tunes, and track, “Arise and Purify,” shows metal- sounds to maintain a mythos of the un- bass lines like the one in the intro to Spanish lyrics on tracks like “Wan- crunching dominance. The slow and known. –Brinley Froelich “Dweller In The Abyss,” nauseating dering.” They live up to classic folk brooding closing track, “The Year the guitars (the good kind) and blasting artistry—a good song, with an even Sun Died,” is just the prime example of Myrkur drums. Tremelo riffs and chugs adorn better voice. Pomme De Terre is a state- the depth of the album. It’s something Self-Titled the album in humble doses, and put ment record; that Pawns or Kings can heavy metal junkies are going to play Relapse Records bluntly, I’m thoroughly impressed. deliver 10 solid, original tracks to ac- and play again. –Bryer Wharton Street: 09.16 When I’m at the dinner table this commodate folk fans across the board. Where some songs lack speed and ex- Myrkur = Agalloch + Thanksgiving and that certain brother- Sarah Silverman in-law asks me what I’m thankful for, citement, they certainly don’t lack tal- We Are Miracles Darkthrone ent, especially on the banjo. Pawns or I’m going to toss a copy of this album Sub Pop over to him and let it speak for me. Kings have established that they have Street: 09.23 –Alex Coulombe talent, but I’d like to see the energy in “Light Over the Ridge” be spread over Sarah Silverman = Oscillator Bug the album as a whole. –Lizz Corrigan The confident easiness of Janeane Garofalo + Bursts of the Million Run On Sentence The irreverent Chutzpah Dymaxion Groove throne of Joan Rivers Street: 09.09 Feelings Oscillator Bug = Hush Records There was an episode of Louie where Sarah Silverman alluded to her shtick ( / Street: 07.15 in the ‘80s as being “Oh, gee … did Animal Collective) + Run On Sentence = Drive-By Truckers + that hot girl say something that dirty?” (Of Montreal / That probably was the truth at the time, Bright Eyes + Raleigh Moncrief) but here we are, after her stints on Lynyrd Skynyrd Mr. Show, after her countless stand- I hated this album the first time I heard up gigs, after her own hilarious (and Myrkur—Icelandic for “darkness”—is it, but something changed around sorely missed) sitcom on Comedy Cen- making waves in the black metal com- the third listen. Run on Sentence, aka tral, and we all know the bottom line: munity. All we know of this mysterious Dustin Hamman, takes some getting When Silverman is on stage and spews act is that a single Danish woman has to know, but his passion and charm re- the crassest shit on earth, it is comedy created a gorgeous atmospheric black ally carries him. He’s a modern country- genius. When someone recalls shower- metal album, which is apparently con- western everyman, and you can hear ing with her mom as a kid, and men- troversial, because what would black the wiry scrape of his thick beard in his tions “’70s Jew bush,” bully to them. metal be without its constant bitching fuck-you-I’m-singing delivery. His care –Ashlee Mason about authenticity spiced with a little shines through in his lyrical content and misogyny? For real, though, this album the carefully crafted musical accompa- SBTRKT is beautiful—a mixing of familiar ele- niments that backs it. From lazy Wonder Where We Land ments into a new, feral creation. The guitar to strong pure-toned solos, you’ll Young Turks lo-fi hellscreech of second-wave black like him ‘cause you know him. You’ve Street: 10.07 metal is combined with soaring cham- Oscillator Bug’s Zaid Maxwell is of- sung “Stoned, Drunk and Blind” in a SBTRKT = James Blake x ber choir vocals, weaving melodies of fering a disturbing dose of “new” with slur at the bar. You’ve thought about Jai Paul Celtic, Nordic and medieval descent. his debut album. Befitting its name, love as Hamman does on “Magical The mixing creates an interesting di- Bursts of the Million is equally full of Mirror,” and you’ve pumped your fist to If this album is less “pop” than SBTRKT’s chotomy between the bell-clear warmth carnival-like synth explosions—some something like the hearty “Run To You.” debut, it’s because it’s deeper and of the clean vocals and the grating, messier than others—and jagged gui- He might not be the most original, and more emotional. SBTRKT is a producer faraway chaos of the instruments and tar licks. Maxwell’s voice has a glam his pipes ain’t silver, but his sound goes whose sounds occasionally convey screams. The transitions aren’t always rock–influenced croon to it that gives great with a beer. –CJ Morgan a sexual undertone, but overall, they as smooth as I would like, but it is inter- visions of a New Age Bowie gone mad exude class. They may have nothing esting listening nonetheless, providing with . Similar to Animal to do with the sexual, but they’re so emotional visions of deep nature, dead 64 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 65 smooth and lucid that they never fail you listened to them. This mostly works Last year’s Sleeper was Ty Segall’s to reach your deepest emotions, espe- to their advantage. Songs like “Olly starkest and most serious release, and cially on this album. On “Higher,” rap- Olly Oxen Free” and “I’m Glad You’re it showed off his virtuosity without the per Raury gives a subtly sinister rap Crying, Cowboy” balance between trademark layer of fuzz and snotty, about defying expectations, or care- harmony and feedback in a way that’s distorted shrieks. Now, with Manipu- lessly exemplifying them, and caring both refreshing and kind of annoying. lator, Segall ditches the Marc Bo- less about a father who left him. There In all, if you’re into bands that sound a lan–stranded-in-the-desert sound of are some danceable numbers, like little like Shellac, you should give this Sleeper and basically rewrites ‘60s and “Lantern,” that could lend themselves one a listen. –James Bennett ‘70s rock with absolute mastery. This to some intense footwork routines, but is Bowie’s acoustic guitar strum over the rest of the album finds SBTRKT in a Terry Malts a rock orchestra; this is Black Sab- paced and abstract atmosphere work- Insides EP bath playing “Taxman”; this is Led ing with showy vocalists like Caroline Zeppelin without any lemon squeez- Slumberland Records Polachek of Chairlift and A$AP ing. Segall has honed his songwriting, Street: 09.23 Ferg, who complement SBTRKT’s oth- unmistakable voice and knack for killer erworldly dub sound. In terms of futur- Terry Malts = Jawwzz!! + guitar licks into something undeniably sound. While not fully ditching the istic music, this is one of the most essen- The Descendents + The Chills special. By the time the single piano dark synth and gloomy vibes, Danilova tial albums of the year. –Justin Gallegos Upon finding the play button for this chord rings out at the end of “Mister explores new territory in the realm of quick listen, I am immediately doused Main” 10 tracks into a sprawling ‘90s pop revival. Songs like “Danger- Sleepmakeswaves in Insides’ high energy, rhythm pound- 17—an obvious nod to “A Day in the ous Days” and “Hunger” offer us a Love of Cartography ing punky salvo. Though certainly pop- Life”—I’ve already decided that this is much more mainstream, radio-friendly my pick for album of the year. Manipu- perspective, while “Long Way Down” Bird’s Robe Records py, Insides has an actual edge to it and lator is Segall’s fullest, most complete and “Nail” give us the taste of Danilo- Street: 09.23 foregoes the bland taste of pop punk. Insides’ flavor arises via the dark and and most inspired record yet. This is va’s creepier side that we became ad- Sleepmakeswaves = fuzz-filled melodic sound that backs lyr- Segall’s White Album, his Sgt. Pepper’s. dicted to in 2011’s Conatus. Normally, Explosions in the Sky + ically catchy numbers like “Grumpiest –Cody Kirkland I would be upset at such a drastic, un- Russian Circles + Dntel Old Men” and the tune “Let precedented change in style, but this I can’t think of any context in which You in.” If that’s not enough for you, this Yarah Bravo offers catchy goth-pop that is more I’d want to listen to this album again. fun, little ditty includes a sweet cover of Love Is The Movement authentic than anything actually on the Although instrumental post-rock isn’t The Chills’ “Hidden Bay” as the final radio, and with much stronger vocals. Duzz Down San Records –Allison Shephard my favorite , I get it—ex- track. Simply put, this is fun, fast and Street: 04.30 needs to be played loud. Check it out! pressing deep emotions without the Yarah Bravo = confines of lyrics and traditional rock –Nick Kuzmack Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes + structures, jamming really hard for a re- Del tha Funky Homosapien Star Climbing ally long time, etc. I can’t get into Love Trentemøller Street: 08.29 of Cartography, though. It’s too epic, Lost Reworks Combine all of the ‘90s R&B soul by the Embassy One Recordings too vast, too sweeping, too chees- In My Room Records legendary divas with a motivational Zoot Woman = ily emotional—and I’m a sentimental message, and mix it with new sounds Street: 09.01 Fischerspooner – guy. The song titles are as corny as the infused with down-tempo electronics, Trentemøller = Felix Da Housecat + Blur melodies: “How We Built The Ocean,” jazz and pop beats, for an exhilarat- “Something Like Avalanches,” “Your Blonde Redhead + ing blend that only a true legend could I’m a bit embarrassed confessing that, Time Will Come Again.” Unlike the T.O.M. And His Computer + muster, with skill and sincerity un- despite this being their fourth album, horn embellishments in their last album, Depeche Mode matched. Bravo not only spits raps off I’ve honestly never heard of the UK’s … and so we destroyed everything, the Every once in a while, a song comes her tongue effortlessly (being multi-lin- Zoot Woman before now. Oh, sure, little electronic bleeps and bloops along that one could hear over and gual probably helps, sampled in “Fuer- I know the great production work of punctuating the loud/delicate/loud over for weeks and still find new things za”), she even handles the instrumental the trio’s most famous member, Mr. motifs actually make Love of Cartogra- to enjoy about it. The Trentemøller side of the production, with encourag- , and even Price and phy worse. “Emergent,” with theremin- remix of “Come Undone” has this ca- ing lyrics to match upbeat tempos. Bra- keyboardist Adam Blake’s fantas- like guitars and a heavy sequence rem- pability. The sorrowful, sultry female vo touches on themes of empowerment tic remix (under their Paper Faces iniscent of Refused, is the one track I vocals pulled on my heartstrings while through leadership (“Leader”), refusing moniker) of ’s “Let It Will actually like. But with this release, even the harmonious keys and sexy bass to be silent (“Hazeem”), the power of Be,” but small point, I guess. The at its loudest, Sleepmakeswavesmakes- carried me away into audial bliss. I love, being fearless and other positive most refreshing thing about this band mesleep. –Cody Kirkland admire how he is not afraid to alter messages, but in a way that avoids be- is that they don’t seem to be taking his work on “River of Life.” The higher ing clumped in with clichéd inspiration- themselves too seriously, appearing to Sterile Jets BPMs in the original provide energy for al quote boards. Light it up with one be more about their music than their Liquor Store the track, but I prefer the newer, softer, of her Ziggi papers, available with a image. Early pioneers to the elec- CD purchase at YarahBravo.bandcamp. troclash movement, Adam’s brother Self-Released slower version. As with most of Tren- com, and sink into the soul of a reincar- Johnny Blake’s guitar and his Street: 10.24 temøller’s recent releases, I was not nated diva. –Brinley Froelich smooth vocals complete the trio. Ele- Sterile Jets = disappointed by these lost revisions. This migration to more of an electronic ments of this genre filter throughout, Future of the Left + Mclusky sound will most definitely secure him a Zola Jesus like on the hooky lead single, “Don’t + Sonic Youth place in my favorites of 2014. I would Tear Yourself Apart,” or the especially Taiga catchy “The Stars Are Bright” and On Liquor Store, the second record from pick up the original lost release as well Mute Records Long Beach–based trio Sterile Jets, a as the Lost Reworks—both will blow you “Chemistry.” Two slightly stark bal- Street: 10.07 lads (“Elusive” and “Waterfall into the serious attempt is made to reduce post- away. –Mistress Nancy Zola Jesus = Sia x rock music to an asymmetric, thunder- Fire”) close this memorable album. Chelsea Wolfe + Austra / ous howl. The band does a fairly good –Dean O Hillis Ty Segall Rihanna job toeing the line of heavily distorted, Manipulator no-frills rock music while staying true to Combining powerful cinematic instru- Drag City the drudgery of their artistic vision. The mentation and shockingly upbeat mel- Street: 08.26 strangely melodic distortion, paired odies with Nika Roza Danilova’s Read more with cynical lyrics can wear a bit thin at Ty Segall = new, finely polished vocals adds a reviews times. The listener clearly gets the mes- Ziggy Stardust–era pop element to the singer/songwriter’s sage that the band couldn’t care less if David Bowie + formerly ultra spooky, pseudo-goth at slugmag.com The Beatles + Fuzz 66 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 67 Chalk, Fossil Arms - Diabolical Hayden James - Urban Cannibal: A Love Story Koolade Experience - Complex Horrorfest - Jazzy’s Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company - Rose Wagner The Contortionist, Intervals, Big Wild Wings, In Color, - Egyptian Theatre Monday, October 20 Flashbulb Fires, Grass, - In The Venue Sarah Degraw - Kilby Michael Dean - Garage Destroid, Flux Pavilion, Excision, Vincent Draper, Great Interstate, The Psychedelic Furs, Cazzette, Marshall Aaron - Park Marinade - Hog Wallow Caked Up Terravita - Complex Claire Elise - Shred Shed The Lemonheads - Park City Live City Live King’s Peak, House Of Sons, Patty Griffin, John Fullbright - Depot Ásgeir, Low Roar - State Room Tuesday Farmer’s Market Noam Pikelny, Aoife O’Donovan The Berriers - Jazzy’s Together Pangea, Rylee McDonald - Tin Angel - Pioneer Park - Peery’s Egyptian Aaron Behrens & The Midnight Stroll, Mozes & The Firstborn, The The Rocky Horror Picture Show Push and Pull: Ideas of Migration in Krewella - Saltair Ranch Ghost - Kilby Memories, AJ Davila, Terror Amore - Tower Theatre the Beehive State - UMOCA Busdriver, Milo - Shred Shed Guttermouth, Against The Grain, - Kilby Poliça, Web Of Sunsets - Urban Afghan Whigs, Joseph Arthur The Rural Alberta Advantage, In The Whale, Ulteriors, Victims loveDANCEmore: Mudson - Masonic Ryan Innes, Pando, Midas Whale - Urban July Talk - State Room WIlling - Loading Dock Temple - Velour The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Cotton Ponies, The Cliterinas, Insance Clown Posse, Erasmus, Among the Ashes, Treason, Wednesday, October 29 - Tower Theatre Braindead Constance, Sparks Fire Mushroomhead, Da Mafia 6ix, Seasons - Why Sound Erasure - Capitol Theatre Bears Den, Dan Mangan + - Mojos Madchild, Jellyroll - Saltair Tony Holiday & The Velvetones , Blacksmith, Christof - Urban Battle of the Bands - Night 4 SpyHop Presents: 801 - Woodshed The Black Dahlia Murder, Chelsea Mimi Knowles - Velour Get your event listed for free in print, online and on our iPhone app! 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A.C. Daktyl - Urban Sara Bezdjian! - Worm, Richie Kissinger - Kilby DJ Suicide, Miss DJ Lux - Downtown Farmer’s Market Sunday, October 26 David Williams - Tin Angel Save Our Banksy - Egyptian Theatre Newman, Neko Case, Dan Bejar), The Brocks, Imperial Mammoth I. Conscious, Richy Rych, Kira Stone, Brenda Xu - Muse Music Juana Ghani, Danny Wildcard Thursday, November 6 - Pioneer Park Happy Birthday, Fat’s Grill Art Is 100 After-Hours Party - UMFA Total Slacker, Paws, Flashlights The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Velour Yard Squad - Bar Deluxe Burnell Washburn - Shred Shed - Joe McQueen Quartet - Garage Seeth McGavien! 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Allen Michael Quartet - Garage - Claire Elise, Kitfox - Velour Capture The Crown, For All Those Vampire Drag Halloween, - Rose Wagner Jazzy’s Jennie & The Right Vibes, MiNX, Tuesday, October 7 Lazlo & The Dukes - Fat’s Bar & Grill Main St. Morgan Snow - Hog Wallow Shred Fest: I Am The Ocean, Little Barefoot, Jacob Barton, Sleeping, , Palisades. Erik The Red - Shred Shed Liquid Joe’s Shasta & The Second Strings Irony Man - ABG’s Gigi Love - Garage Meatbodies, Hunters, Junior Prom, Jam - Jazzy’s La Verkin - Beard Of Bees - Why Sound Myka Relocate, Youth In Revolt Dirt Cheap, Radiata - Friday, November 7 Genre Zero - Mestizo - Woodshed Forest Film - City Library Bad Feather - Hog Wallow Creature Double Feature - Kilby Sonreal, Better Taste Bureau, Rachael Yamagata, The Dove & The - In The Venue Pick up the new issue of SLUG State Room Thira, Every Passing Dream, Restless Finch, Maps & Atlases, Weatherbox City Of The Weak, Scarlet Canary, House Of Lewis - Kilby Wolf, Hemming - Friday, October 24 Beartooth, Vanna, Sirens & Sailors, Blind The Fold, The Stillborn King, - Anyplace cool! Tin Angel Muse Music Saturday, October 4 Streets, Adjacent To Nothing, I’m - In The Venue Backwoods Burning, Colonel Lingus LVL UP - Loading Dock David Williams - Crushed Out, Swamp Ravens, Sylar, Alive Like Me - Murray Theater Sky As Skin - Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra Jim Gaffigan - Abravanel Alive - Metro Storm the Mic Presents Poetry Slam - Metro Battle of the Bands - Night 3 Third Saturday for Families: The Nods - ABG’s 4th Annual Haunted Halloween Party - Abravanel UMFA Monday, October 27 Photo Collective Studios Juana Ghani, Hectic Hobo, Folk Aaron Carter, Kenz Hall, Smile For - Jazzy’s The Summer Flea - Muse Music Animal Masks - Prokofiev’s Symphony No.7 - Ballet West: Giselle - Capitol Theatre Urban Happy Birthday, Saltair Hogan - Bar Deluxe The Captain, This Boy That Girl, WIldcat! Wildcat!, White Hinterland - Salt Lake Equestrian Park The Polish Ambasador, Liminus Bonobo, SL Steez - - Abravanel Steve Aoki - Mary Lambert, Jillette Johnson Andrew Schummer! Latin Jazz Factory - Bayou Matt Ryan King - Murray Theater - Kilby - Park City Live We Are The Strike, Blue Aces, Chalula - Bayou Real Friends, Neck Deep, - Complex Velour Happy Birthday, Joan E. Rose & Petrichor, Secret Tuesday Farmer’s Market Deluka - Loading Dock Monday, October 13 Public Photo Critique - Photo Kenzie Nimmo - Con Bro Chill - Complex Cruel Hand, Have Mercy Paul Trainer, Quincy Weigert Janie Greenberg! Shred Shed Abilities - D&R Spirits - Pioneer Park Black Lion, Scenic Byway, Burnell Happy Birthday, Ben Melini! Johnnyswim - State Room Curtis Wardle, Jace Allen Miss DJ Lux - Downstairs - - Downstairs Why Sound Happy Birthday, The Led Zeppelin Experience, Head North, Red Bennies, Washburn, JSavage, Bolander St. Lucia, Haerts - Complex Grand Opening - Michelle Moonshine, Dan Tedsco Marinade, Grits Green, Pure Prairie League Mason Rodrickc! State Room No Quarter - Depot Bear Eats Fish - Shred Shed - Metro American Authors, Mowgli’s, - Uptown Cheapskate - Garage Merchant Royal - - Egyptian Theatre Sunday, October 19 Tin Angel WRD: Beehive Brawl - Derby Depot Yoga at the UMFA - UMFA Honor Code, Approach The Throne, - Depot Literary Death Match: Angela Lovell, 5th Annual Pink Dress Breast Cancer Alt-J, Lovelife - Complex Blackout Dinner - Wampire - Garage Happy Birthday, Gossimer, Braeyden Jae, Anecoria Mata Leon, Still Hated, Apache Dropout, The Nods, Molly Gaudry, Adrian Todd Zuniga Awareness Fashion Show The Origins of Hallowe’en The Rocky Horror Picture Show , , Chad Kirkland! Tower Theatre - Diabolical Wednesday, October 8 Of Ivy and Ashes, Set Back - Mojos Albino Father - Diabolical - Urban - Gateway Grand Hall - Crone’s Hollow - Major League, PVRIS - In The Venue Screaming J’s - Garage Happy Birthday, Nick Ketterer! GirafficJam, With Our Arms To The PechaKucha curated by Craft Salt Lake Design Week Brotha Lynch Hung, GHO5T, Stonefed - Hog Wallow Kimbra, Empress Of - In The Venue Max Pain & The Groovies, Zak Waters - Kilby Complex Urban Aura Surreal, King’s Peak - Jazzy’s Crazy Eyes, Elle Carpenter, Red Sun, Olin A., Violet Waves Lake City - Fallout - Various Venues Suspect & Dalima - Lyndy Butler, Megan Huard, Iceage, Helm, Fossil Arms - Kilby Dark Seas, Breakers - Drowning Pool, Like A Storm, Complex King Nico, Ocean Commotion, Bennies, Watches, Artifical Flower - Muse Music St. Lucia, Haerts - Kilby Lakes, The Festive People - Velour Passafire - Ashlee Woo - Jazzy’s Lionfight, The Ongoing Concept, Park City’s Last Friday Gallery Stroll A Breach Of Silence, Red Tide Rising Garage Various Galleries Versus The Man - Kilby Company - Burt’s Faina Lushtak - Rose Wagner Alex & The XO’s - Muse Music Bullets & Belles - Jon Bellion, Rhetorik, Better Taste Sea Swallowed Us Whole, Cities of - - Murray Theater Step Afrika! - Kingsbury Joey Bada$$ - Complex Making Fuck, Yaktooth, Die Off Recuser, Aviator, Season Change, Friday, October 17 HVDD: Molly Morbids vs. Rocky Bureau - Kilby Desolation, Oculus - Loading Dock Luna Lune, Static Waves, Barsie Alienate - Rose Wagner Golden Spike The Last Wednesday, Monkey Rum, Keys N Krates, gLAdiator, Thugli - Shred Shed Felix Culpa, Sights - Shred Shed Baby Gurl, Yaktooth, The Troubles Mountain Contenders - Hive Mind Book Club Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., - Velour Poor Man’s Whiskey - State Room The Departure, The Berriers - Depot Sugar House Farmer’s Market The Lone Bellow, - ABG’s Turquoise Jeep, Yip Deceiver, - Ladies Literary Club Miniature Tigers, Madi Diaz - Urban VanLadyLove, Truman Brothers, Kilby - Loading Dock Koffin Kats, Oc45 - Jazzy’s - Sugarmont Plaza Hugh Bob & The Hustle - State Room Veterans’ Art Exhibit, Differences: A-Rodge - Avatar, Shadowseer, Dead Revelator, Saturday, November 1 RKDN - Velour Shadow Windhaw & The Forest Book Readings - King’s English Rylee McDonald - Tin Angel Salt Lake Design Week A Dialogue - Art Access , Front Porch Step, Silent Sorcerer, Radiata Tuesday, October 28 Happy Birthday, Philip Cannon Piranhas BC, The Rompstompers, Morticians, Godhunter, Tree Tour - Miller Bird Refuge SLUG Localized: Great - Various Venues Hot Doggin’ Friday - Bonnevillains Heart To Heart, Brigades - Loading Dock Halloween High-Jinks - Abravanel Cirque de la Symphonie - Abravanel Tainted Halos - Why Sound Demon Lung, Secrets Of Under Cities, Scylla, Of Ivy and Interstate, Strong Words, Utah County Swillers - Brewskis - Loading Dock Active Strand, Breezeway, The Howl, Flyleaf, Lullwater, Ryan White Method Man & Redman, B-Real, The Femme Medea, MiNX, The Sky, Hummingbird Of Ashes, Second Nature - Mojos Grass - Urban Tuesday, October 14 - Complex Signals, Fat Candice - Shred Shed Covariance - Muse Music - Complex Berner, Mick Jenkins - Depot Oh! Be Clever - Woodshed Death, Reproacher, Sorxe, Hail The Sun, Stolas, Visitors, Icarus Joshua James, Quiet House - Velour Captured! By Robots, Cornered By Dum Dum Girls, Ex Cops - Depot Odesza, Ambassadeurs, Gramatik - Park City Live Clockwork Indigo, The Electric DJ Juggy - Downstairs 68 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 69