Music I Liked – Groza, Jo Quail, Violet Cold, Kronk Men, Southeast Asian Post-Rock

I started writing this post back in November, then it got buried in my drafts. Anyway, it wasn’t all this week, but I liked Groza, Jo Quail, Violet Cold, The Kronk Men, and lots of Southeast Asian Post-Rock.

Groza

I discovered Groza’s Unified in Void in a review on Angry Metal Guy, which linked them to Mgla, which I like. I liked Groza, too. So here it is.

Jo Quail

On Exsolve, Jo Quail plays creepy cello. Need I say more?

Violet Cold

Wait what? I saw Violet Cold on a music blog, where they were described as Azerbaijan-based post-everything. Post is my musical catnip and I’m a sucker for unusual origins. Then I went to their bandcamp page where they were described as

Violet Cold is an experimental AI simulated music project from 40°22’37.7″N 49°50’51.6″E

Is this some kind of vocaloid scenario? Probably it’s just a smart-ass bio, but either way, I like how k0smik sounds.

The Kronk Men

So I’m always interested in bands from places I’ve traveled. So when No Clean Singing broke their rule to feature The Kronk Men‘s doom surf chaos from the high desert of central Oregon (read the middle of nowhere outside of Bend) I was defenseless. Bonus for the Bosch/Dali type cover art.

Southeast Asian Post-Rock

I’m breaking my own rules here. Instead of focusing on an album, I discovered a genre. Or more properly a scene? Anyway Bandcamp Daily does these wonderful genre histories and scene summaries. I liked everything I heard in their list of Southeast Asian Post-Rock. For the sake of symmetry, though, I’ll just post the first band mentioned, Pandelic from Myanmar.