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#4: Buildings- Melt Cry Sleep --Top 20 Favorite Albums/Scottie Diablo of MTV‘s Soundtrack Blog

“Goddamn...Buildings is one HELL of a killer loud rock band with major aggressive guts and balls.  The guys in this band play like there's no tomorrow. They're all fired up and full of explosive energy...but there is substance lurking beneath the waves. Instead of nonsensical noise, Melt Cry Sleep is full of surprisingly smart well-thought out songs. No formulaic stuff here.  Kickass rockers include "Rainboat," "Born On A Bomb," "I Don't Love My Dog Anymore," and "Wrong Cock." Fantastic in so many ways... TOP PICK.” --babysue

"Their sound is tough to pin to a genre but, make no bones about it, the dudes are angry and loud. The songs, despite their rather direct tone, switch gears constantly, from pissed off ragers to calm breath-catching moments within, to spastic interplay between the instruments. There’s a lot that can be said about Buildings but, while their music is stylistically challenging, the overall tone is as direct as it comes.  The last two minutes of the album, in “Crystal City,” are mostly discordant chords topped by Lake’s repetition of “fuck you,” and it seems entirely appropriate instead of trite." -- Loren Green, Scene Point Blank

"Where the first record was raw and loose with plenty of bleed, this one is tight and disciplined with an almost martial sense of purpose. Melt Cry Sleep is far more effective than its predecessor, the songwriting invariably superior. Songs like "Born on a Bomb" and "I Don't Love My Dog Anymore" combine straight trash chords with a black sense of humor, an excellent distillation of their raucous live shows. The finale, "Crystal City," is a ferocious cocktail of screams, cackles, and a jagged bass line that attacks from all angles." -- Jeff Gage, City Pages

“Rock + Noise + Minneapolis = Amphetamine Reptile Records fersure, and this band Buildings (from Minneapolis) fersurely would’ve fit nice and snug between Hammerhead  and Halo Of Flies on one of those Dope Guns comps AmRep used to crank out every so often years ago.  Melt Cry Sleep is ferocious from start to finish.” --Jeff Moody, ThirdCoast Digest

"A few years, a full-length, and a new bassist later, Buildings’ sound is coming together, running the aggression and riffs of the Jesus Lizard through a very ’90s D.C. and math rock filter. While you could look at the record as a retread of its past influences, it really doesn’t matter, because Melt, Cry, Sleep blends those all up into a furiously satisfying record. As the rock cliché goes: Play this one loud, it’s the way it was meant to be."--Reviler.org

“The dudes in Buildings take time to attack all the little details of what make a record so great. Melt, Cry, Sleep, is a new gem. It’s rare to hear a record that is so high energy... real, ACTUAL energy, from beginning to end...It’s so, so loud. A damn cool record.”
--Erica Krumm, Wunky Zine

“Buildings play aggressive math/hardcore but tempered with a noise rock vibe. The songs are as tight as fuck and the production makes sure that all the instruments are clearly heard so the arrangements can really kick you in the face.” --Tony Penny, Black Insect Laughter (UK)

“Buildings make aggressive music, hardcore to the hub, but with a flowing motion that provides a superlative drive, propelling the sound of the music forward.  Sure there’s always and element of near thrash, but it all adds up to a truly invigorating experience.”  --Kevin A., Leicester Bangs (UK)

Live on Radio K: Buildings - "Rainboat" from Radio K on Vimeo.

Buildings - "Rainboat" Music Video from Northern Outpost on Vimeo.

New BUILDINGS video for "Rainboat" done by the always amazing Northern Outpost.

You can now stream Melt Cry Sleep in it's entirety. You can also purchase on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, eMusic, Spotify
Locally you can buy the album at Cheapo, Electric Fetus, Roadrunner, and Treehouse Records

New logo, new albums. First of which is the debut from Oshkosh, WI's, Haunted Heads. The band features members of Happy and The Willis. Think 90's Superchunk meets The Replacements with two vocalists. Their self-titled debut will be available as a limited edition LP w/ a CD inside. Check out the video for their first single, "Lex" below. The band will be in Minneapolis at Hell's Kitchen on Sat Dec 10th w/ All the Way Rider, With a Gun for a Face, and Torch the Spires. You can by the new LP (w/ a CD inside) here

BUILDINGS will be releasing their 2nd album ,"Melt, Cry, Sleep" onto the world this winter. Locally, it will drop on Sat Dec 17th @ Hexagon Bar.
The band will also be playing live on Radio K's Off the Record on Fri Dec 16th. You can purchase it here

self-evident is going to be recording their follow-up to Endings in February 2012 with Carl Amburn, the sound man behind the band since 2004.

Both BUILDINGS & self-evident will be playing a number of shows in and out of town come December. See dates to the right...

More things to come.

NEW RELEASE: Buildings- Braille Animal (dpg 018)

This Minneapolis three piece is loud and heavy. Peel back the layers and you'll hear a more rhythmic Jesus Lizard, an angrier Liars, or a more methodically paced Frodus. Like those bands? So do I. Check them out

New self-evident European Tour & live videos

Check out footage from the band's European Tour with Bear Claw here

self-evident - "In Cowardice" @ Hell's Kitchen from M. Becker on Vimeo.

self-evident - "Steve Stevens" @ Hell's Kitchen from M. Becker on Vimeo.