#steve brooks

[queenslandsoutherngothic]

[xycuro-illuminati]

Here I am making another one of these whatsapp memes sorry for partying rocking.

[evil-wawe-form]

Listen/purchase: Harmonicraft by Torche

[mademoiselleclipon]

Steve Brooks / Cuts

[cutbuster]

CUTS

[rainingmusic]

Torche - Changes Come 

[trysteroo]

the breakfast show

by Steve Brooks

when i’m in someone else’s new york style apartment i like virtually anything that’s playing on the fm radio when i’m at home i can’t find anything that i like i don’t like rock and roll or classical music the girl reading sylvia plath is too playful instead of filling my room the radio is a hole strange winds blow through the day begins when you wake up that is the moment people make their demands clear determined voices reach into my bed thousands of options are made insistently available get up i move to escape through the silent unsealed radio but someone’s pushing buttons and strange winds blow into my room like hands

The Paris Review, Issue no. 51 (Spring 1971)

[metalsongoftheday]

Monday, May 29: Floor, “Forever Still”

Floor’s first album in over a decade came about largely as a result of the underground acclaim Steve Brooks experienced with his subsequent band Torche.  As such, it was hard not to view Oblation as a sibling (or at least cousin) to sludge metal masterpieces Meanderthal and Harmonicraft.  Floor was its own thing, but Brooks’ riffing and vocals were so uniquely his own that the distinction was almost immaterial.  “Forever Still” closed Oblation in typically pulverizing fashion, summarizing the previous 40 minutes of subterranean riffing and thunderous percussion with a short burst of sunny stoner energy. The song actually felt a bit looser than Torche, in large part due to Henry Wilson’s dexterous drums.  Still, the song was exactly the sort of pummeling fun we’d come to expect and enjoy from Brooks in any setting, charging along and juxtaposing super-intense riffery with a disarmingly sunny disposition, making “Forever Still” a worthy interlude between Torche records.