• The album was released to generally positive reviews and is regarded as being one of the pioneering albums in the slowcore and sadcore genres. (flyingnun.co.nz)
  • Like many other insipid genre descriptors ending in "-core" that ran rampant in the '90s, "slowcore" and "sadcore" personified the gloomy side of the early part of the decade via Low, Red House Painters and Codeine. (stompandstammer.com)
  • Slowcore , [a] also known as sadcore , is a subgenre of indie rock and alternative rock characterised by slower tempos, minimalist instrumentation, and subdued lyrical performances. (cloudfront.net)
  • Slowcore is occasionally referred to as 'sadcore', and many journalists and scholars consider them to be synonymous labels for the same genre. (cloudfront.net)
  • Codeine released their first album Frigid Stars LP on the German label Glitterhouse in August 1990. (wikipedia.org)
  • It can be quite a schlep to get your hands on Frigid Stars LP , a 1990 album by one of the earliest slow-core bands, Codeine. (livemint.com)
  • Following the Frigid Stars LP, slowcore trio Codeine went to Harold Dessau Recording studio in New York City in 1992. (withradio.org)
  • When Codeine released the Frigid Stars LP in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented what would later - somewhat cloyingly - become known as "slowcore. (withradio.org)
  • Mit der Veröffentlichung von Frigid Stars LP (1990) erfanden Codeine fast im Alleingang das, was später als "Slowcore" bekannt werden sollte. (orf.at)
  • Codeine pioneered the indie rock subgenre slowcore, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as Low, Idaho and Red House Painters. (wikipedia.org)
  • Slowcore is considered a subgenre of indie rock , alternative rock , and pop . (cloudfront.net)
  • Codeine was formed by members Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums), and John Engle (guitar). (wikipedia.org)
  • Codeine is an American indie rock/slowcore band formed in 1989 by members Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums), and John Engle (guitar). (digitalinberlin.de)
  • Excepting Chris Brokaw, little has been heard or seen of the members of Codeine, and Mark Kozelek has aged into a fussy old bat. (stompandstammer.com)
  • from 1990-1994, new york city's codeine were making somnambulant waves on a musical landscape reeling from sub pop's better known exports. (listenrecords.net)
  • In February 2012, Codeine announced it would perform on the request of Mogwai at All Tomorrow's Parties' sister event, I'll Be Your Mirror on 26 May 2012 in London, United Kingdom at Alexandra Palace, along with other shows, to commemorate a comprehensive reissue of their recordings by The Numero Group in June 2012. (wikipedia.org)
  • But Galaxie 500, which lasted for all of four years, disbanding in 1991, sound way more upbeat than Codeine, possibly the real pioneers of slow-core. (livemint.com)
  • C'est avec Frigid Stars, le premier album de Codeine sorti en 1991, que l'on trouve les prémices les plus sombres et les plus précoces du mouvement slowcore. (modulor-records.com)
  • its a collection of totally fuzzy post rock and slowcore sounds comparable at times to the meeting of slint and codeine. (breakingtunes.com)
  • Codeine is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in New York City. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lyrics within slowcore are often melancholic, with the vocal performances subdued. (cloudfront.net)
  • This Days Next Year" is just a wonderful emotional slowcore song, with a a very slow crescendo of melancholic tension, as the context and landscape are slowly build until a final superb and totally moving instrumental second part which is without doubt their best moment ever, their ultimate classic song. (blogspot.com)
  • [6] Less frequently, slowcore songs borrow elements from other genres, including shoegaze and midwest emo . (cloudfront.net)
  • Even to this day, there are bands that make slow-tempo, minimalist music that could have been influenced by Codeine. (livemint.com)
  • Nine songs on this fourth album but only three of them really successful, precious, the first track and the two last ones where the slowcore inclination really blooms and uses only the best parts of math-rock and post-rock, coming close to the works of bands like Codeine, C-Clamp or Seam. (blogspot.com)
  • Ben Vida joins forces with NYC piano and percussion outfit Yarn/Wire and soprano Nina Dante for an album that's bewilderingly and brilliantly unexpected, yielding a set of gently trippy chamber-songs that remind us of Robert Ashley's groundbreaking manipulation of the form crossed with a kind of slowcore jazz. (boomkat.com)
  • Codeine is supported by Berlin's Schneider TM aka Dirk Dresselhaus, who is since the late 80's active in different musical fields as indie-noiserock, experimental electro-freak-pop and electronica. (digitalinberlin.de)
  • The 'slowcore' label has been criticised by scholars and bands, calling it pejorative. (cloudfront.net)
  • shows a return to bands like ​Codeine, where the hypnotic guitar part is slow and heavy. (goldenglades.de)
  • In an interview with The Paper Crane podcast , Sparhawk said his friend had coined the term 'slowcore' as a joke and that he had humorously mentioned it in one of his band's earliest shows. (cloudfront.net)
  • [24] American Music Club are considered an early slowcore band. (cloudfront.net)
  • Combining the slow-core of the 90s, like Codeine, with a psychedelic post-rock version of Explosions In The Sky, Les Dunes is a brand new instrumental band from Norway. (thebandwagonusa.com)
  • Secondly, if this exchange of '90s alternative and slowcore elements for more doom and gloom remains constant in future releases, then True Widow will find themselves a more traditional metal band with nontraditional, un-metal vocalists. (slugmag.com)
  • Seit über 20 Jahren veröffentlicht die Band um Alan Sparhawk und Mimi Parker verdammt gute Platten im Spannungsfeld zwischen Slowcore und Dream Pop. (sundayservice.de)
  • [5] Slowcore articles often take influence from related genres, including dream pop , post-rock , folk , and americana . (cloudfront.net)
  • seminal slowcore progenitors sub pop albums reissued individually, and as a deluxe boxed set. (listenrecords.net)
  • While my teenage loneliness and pain has mostly subsided, hearing Codeine always snaps me back to that place. (withradio.org)
  • Then Ka Mate Ka Ora go back to their previous slowcore solitude with The funeral march of the whales , a 6 minutes long path to Death. (inkoma.com)
  • No offence, the seven names are great indie proposals, some cult artists indeed, but Björk and Neon Indian are not my taste, Codeine 's slowcore is not very appealing in principle, and with Yo La Tengo I have never been capable to maintain my interest further than a few songs. (blogspot.com)
  • Ten songs of talk-whispered vocals, sloshing guitar solos, scattered snare rolls, Velocity Girl's Sarah Shannon, and the original version of Codeine's slowcore classic "New Year's," on LP for the first time in 30 years. (vinylgram.com)
  • This style of folk- and americana-inspired music would become one of the defining styles of slowcore music. (cloudfront.net)
  • Across its duration "Talking Secret" vacillates between torrential downpour and ominously restrained dirge, reminiscent of both the dense guitar landslides of classic Smashing Pumpkins and the creaking tension of Codeine. (bandcamp.com)
  • [32] [7] Unlike these genres, the early years of slowcore did not have a defined scene or any geographic hotspots. (cloudfront.net)
  • But it's just a sip of what come later in the tracklist, because it follows We're finally on our own - which sounds like if Three Mile Pilot copulated with Codeine , and Birdy (like, later, Jasmine's lullaby ) is pretty gentleness à la Mojave 3 , touching and disarming. (inkoma.com)