I’m not having a good day. Or week. Or month. Here’s hoping for some levity, however brief, in what appears to be an unending string of shitty days. So I’ve been driving a lot around town listening to Kowloon Walled City in the hopes that it will feed off the sludge coursing through my veins and turn it into something a little more…uplifting? I don’t know, I think I just want to feel angry and listen to cathartic music. Container Ships does that quite nicely, with its pummeling rhythms and shouted/screamed Chino-from-Deftones-like vocals.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering how Container Ships connects connects to this week’s theme of baseball related albums, bassist Ian Miller is a brilliant mind who works over at Baseball Prospectus (okay, not regularly but sometimes!). Here’s a scouting report he filed on last year’s number one draft pick Mark Appel. Oh, and Ian (as well as KWC guitarist Jon Howell, I think, unless its another Jon) play in another very baseball-specific band called Puig Destroyer (no, that’s not a typo). That band is very much more baseball-related, what with their namesake and song titles like “First To Third” and “Pitcher Wins”. If you’re sitting there reading this right now and wondering what a band like Puig Destroyer sounds like, you don’t have to try very hard to find out – the album is free to download (okay, it’s “name your price”) through their BandCamp page. Oh, and so too is the Kowloon Walled City album.
As for the vinyl, the original press was on white vinyl courtesy of Brutal Panda, and it has since been reissued twice, first on grey and black vinyl and then later on black vinyl again. It’s well worth your investigation.
A1. The Pressure Keeps Me Alive
A2. 50’s Dad
A3. Beef Cattle
A4. Container Ships
B1. Cornerstone [MP3]
B2. Wrong Side Of History
B3. You Don’t Have Cancer
