new Bottomless Pit!

I love pre-orders, especially when they're so far in advance that you forget all about them until one day a package appears in your mailbox, like a gift from the past. Today the new Bottomless Pit 12" showed up under my door, something that had only crossed my mind a few times since I ordered it months ago. Last year's Hammer Of The Gods Lp stayed on my turntable through winter and well into spring, and I've already flipped the four song Congress 12" a good dozen times today, A/B/A/B, repeat. It's a perfect extension of Hammer Of The Gods, musically, thematically, like a lost fourth side. Their songs draw you in and closer examination is rewarded as the songs and stories unfold.

Bottomless Pit "Red Pen" (from The Congress EP, 2008)

new Bottomless Pit

Bottomless Pit have a new 12" entitled Congress coming out in summer, and half of it ("Red Pen" and "Angry Swan") went up on their myspace a few weeks ago. No surprise, the new songs sound excellent, like an extension of Hammer Of The Gods. Definitely looking forward to the EP..

Switch / Bottomless Pit

I caught Switch at Republic last night. I was pretty amped for it and he did a great set of predominantly new tracks, including a Hervé remix of Bucketheads' "The Bomb" (I'd need to hear that one again before commenting, heh).

He didn't drop this one last night and it's not new, but it's new to me and probably the best thing I've heard from him in a while:

Busta Rhymes "Light Your Ass On Fire" (Switch Dub) (2007)

On a completely different tip, I've been caught up listening to the Bottomless Pit album for the last couple weeks. I found out about it via Scratch, but it was actually released back in November. The band features 2/3 of Silkworm, who I regretfully never really checked out, along with the former drummer from Seam, who I loved. Had I heard it last year, the album would definitely have made my best-of-the-year list.



Bottomless Pit "Dogtag" (2007)

Enjoy.

More updates soon, including more UK DIY stuff and many, many recent rips.