Mass Movement of the Moth - 2007 Beyond

Band : Mass Movement of the Moth

Album : Beyond

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Screamo / Hardcore / Experimental

Tracklist : 

01. Twenty One (Doubox Recording)
02. Twenty (Half)
03. Twenty (Sequenced Demo)
04. Tofu Hoagie (Early Morning Mattress Jam)
05. Crime (Spiritual Center Unplugged)
06. Swallow the Black Fabric (Spiritual Center Unplugged)
07. Riddle Me 666 (Spiritual Center Unplugged)
08. Ous We Are (Spiritual Center Unplugged)
09. The Trickery of Tom Sawyer (Spiritual Center Unplugged)
10. Crime (Halloween Cafe)
11. Molar Jam

NOTE :

01. Twenty One (Doubox Recording) - This was a new jam we were working on, I believe originally for Exotic Fever's Compassion Over Killing benefit compilation. We recorded it just for reference during practice in the basement of Lazerbird Mountain with a boombox. It's pretty neat that Christian's playing a baritone on this.

02. Twenty (Half) - Halfway completed recording of song Twenty, which was originally for a compilation Fil was putting together of 20 second songs. Brian recorded this in Joey's bedroom, and we ate a lot of vegan pizza from Pumpernickel's Deli in Tenley Town. We never recorded any vocals or overdubs.

03. Twenty (Sequenced Demo) - The original electronic jam of song Twenty, composed on Fruity Loops for later collaboration.

04. Tofu Hoagie (Early Morning Mattress Jam) - Impromptu jam recording in the midst of waking up one morning at Club Vegetable in Philadelphia, where we all collectively dreamt of eating Tofu Hoagies from that convience store down the street for breakfast. And then we did. Joey's singing, Christian's playing a cymbal, Ashley's playing guitar, Adam's clapping and banging.

05. Crime (Spiritual Center Unplugged) - Oct 14th, 2006, on Adam's birthday, we were asked to play a special acoustic show in the upstairs of AU Kay Spiritual Center. We recorded it with the intention of putting it out on a CS tape, but the cymbals came out a bit too loud.

06. Swallow the Black Fabric (Spiritual Center Unplugged) 

07. Riddle Me 666 (Spiritual Center Unplugged) 

08. Ous We Are (Spiritual Center Unplugged) 

09. The Trickery of Tom Sawyer (Spiritual Center Unplugged)

10. Crime (Halloween Cafe) - This was the first time we actually tried playing this song live, before we had all the parts worked out or even vocals. So many wrong notes. Recorded 10/31/2005 in DC at Cafe Mawonaj. It was in this recording that we heard an unintential crow caw halfway through the song, and decided to honor it on the real recording.

11. Molar Jam - The original idea for the Moth/Polar split was a 10", with 2 songs from each band on the A side, and a long song played by the collective us on the B side. Unfortunately we ran out of time to complete the long jam, but this is an early version recorded on a boombox in Tara's basement.

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Mass Movement of the Moth - 2007 Finally!!

Band : Mass Movement of the Moth

Album : Finally!!

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Screamo / Hardcore / Experimental

Tracklist :

1. One (version)
2. Two (version)
3. Three (version)
4. Four (version)
5. Five (version)
6. This Potion Knows No Other
7. Acknowledge
8. Seven
9. Silence
10. One (Animal Inside Mix by Sir Ramsey)
11. Two (Sibling Project Version)
12. Two (Manip Mix by Tygr! Tygr! and Chromoscope)
13. Moth Mash-Up (by James Willett)
14. Three (d.R.O.N.e. to keep the kids off the dance floor by SARS)
15. Stars (Demo by Christian)
16. Four (Sword of Freedom Mix by Amplific)
17. Silence (Demo by Christian)
18. Four (Live in RVA)

Note :

This is the compilation album from Mass Movement of the Moth

track 1-5 is taken from finally
track 6-7 is taken from split 7" with sing! sing! prison
track 8-9 is taken from split 7" with polar
track 10-18 is taken from funally (B-Sides from the Funally Compilation Tape)

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Mass Movement of the Moth - 2006 Outerspace

Band : Mass Movement of the Moth

Album : Outerspace

Release Year : 2006

Genre : Screamo / Hardcore / Experimental

Tracklist : 

1. Idle Minds Speak in Binary
2. Fang
3. Seven
4. Ous We Are
5. Crimps and Ties
6. Riddle Me 666
7. Translucent Insides
8. De-Viced
9. 2:13 am
10. Crime

Mass Movement of the Moth is a band doing it the right way. Playing together for years and making a name for themselves in the DC hardcore scene and to some extent the whole Northeast. 

It would be impossible to describe Outerspace, or Mass Movement of the Moth as a whole, in one word or genre. Hardcore is obliviously the first word that comes to mind, but one word cannot do this record any justice; it would be like calling Saetia “emotional,” and leaving it at that. No, this album is not just hardcore: Outerspace is bearded hardcore under a flashing strobe light in the middle of a low budget sci-fi movie. Synthesizers and sound effects abound, this album can take you from one feeling from the next, all at the stroke of a keyboard and a change in tempo. One minute you’re in a haunted house from a childhood carnival, the next you’re in a bar listening to psychedelic bebop. The progressiveness of this album is obliviously apparent, but not to the point where it comes off as obnoxious or overly experimental. Rather, Outerspace is like a complicated puzzle that fits together perfectly when all the pieces are put into place.
Besides the intense sounds Outerspace emits, the album has so much more to offer then spooky, psychedelic sound effects. The vocals range from singing, yelling and screaming, and even reach death metal growling, with many of them intertwining and rising and falling until a climax is reached. Unlike previous efforts, the vocals are much tighter, all the while retaining the same urgent and ferocious sound as before. Lyrics range from the personal to the political, and are complicated without being overly cryptic.
Why rush into things as a band? With Outerspace, Mass Movement of the Moth shows that sometimes, waiting and perfecting your sound can be better then rushing out and making an album after a few practice sessions and a weekend tour. Outerspace is a breath of fresh air to a scene that is in need of progression, and through all the waiting we’ve had to go though before a debut album was released, Outerspace proves that it has all been worth the wait.

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