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My name is Riley, and I play drums and write music for a band called Thrice.

This is where I ramble about music, sports, food, books, interwebbery, and whatever else I feel like sharing. I apologize in advance.

In addition to my ramblings here, I write a piece for OC Weekly called "3hree Things" that runs every Tuesday, and I'm also writing over at Flip Collective on occasion.

I'm the co-founder of a baseball-specific twitter feed and blog with my friend Ian, called Productive Outs.

And last, but not least, I have a bandcamp page and a soundcloud page that I'll be posting my own music and remixes on every once in a while.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions presented on this blog are mine, and do not reflect the position or views of the band as a whole.

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(Not So) Random Start: Cave In, “Sing My Loves”


I’ve been a raving super-fan of Cave In since we had the life/band-trajectory-changing experience of touring with them in 2001, I was crushed when I heard they were going on hiatus in 2006, and I almost exploded when I heard they were writing and recording new music for a 2011 release.

That release, White Silence, is finally here, and it’s every thing I hoped it would be and more. It’s got the crushing dynamic shifts of Jupiter era Cave In, the brutality of Until Your Heart Stops era Cave In, the melody and semi-psychedelic Pink Floyd/Beatles vibe of Steve Brodsky’s solo work, the headbanging sludge of Caleb Scofield’s Old Man Gloom and Zozobra projects, the thrashiness of Adam McGrath’s Clouds project and it’s all neatly packaged onto a concise thirty-six minute LP. And it’s that conciseness (and that I love this band to death) that I’ve had this record on repeat since Hydrahead made it available  for download yesterday afternoon. I can’t stop. I won’t stop.

They might be done touring, but I hope this band never stops making music together. There’s just nothing like it. Nothing that moves me like this band can.

Buy White Silence now for $7.

Notes

  1. leahahaha reblogged this from hermitologist and added:
    Can’t stop listening.
  2. worldwarmike reblogged this from hermitologist
  3. drydocked reblogged this from hermitologist and added:
    picked up this record,...incredible, wish more people appreciated them.
  4. blackbutshining reblogged this from hermitologist and added:
    randomly as I was looking through my “record releases and budget” google doc.
  5. eaglesbecomevultures reblogged this from hermitologist and added:
    truth/Cave In love.
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