9 posts tagged “pulkse”
Why
Oh why
Do I let humans upset me so?
They're so caught up in their emotions, every little human so absorbed in themselves that they can hardly tell when they've lost their grip on reality.
I don't mean to ruin the mood. Let's not pretend that I don't function in society or that I am some kind of human-hating ogre. I just grow very weary of the self-assured, self-absorbed, ugly shells of a personality that fill the void in their persona with traits taken from all the most shallow romantic comedies and most meaningless extreme left-wing propaganda.
And what upsets me most, perhaps, is that I am one of them. I share all the weaknesses, all the fleshy scars of a wounded man, that make me just the same as you. I hate even the fact that I can hate.
I can be more than this. As can you. But first, you have to let go. You are not special, just as I am not. Understanding this is key to letting go of those views that bring you down, and I with you. Let go of the anger, let happiness and serenity in, and you'll live a content life.
I ride on a bus for 2 hours a day when I could just as easily get the train in an hour. Two hours of living in my own head and observing the world as an alien voyeur is a beautiful thing.
The real salvation lies in Science.
Pulkse will be back in the Summer for a small number of shows in Leeds and/or London. Contact us for any enquiries.
Pulkse.
It's been too long, hasn't it?
Pulkse are a band what got 9/10 in the last review they recieved. It was on the song Single Serving Friend and it was from the lovely people at Living Atheist. Rather than paste the entire review here, we'll just give you a link:
MySpace Blog - Living Atheist on Single Serving Friend - 9/10
There, wasn't that easier for us all?
Pulkse are a band that are taking several breaks over the next few years. Since we will now be university students, we will only be a "band" in the traditional sense in university holidays. You should refer to our shows then. But for now, and the immediate future, we thank you for your attention and we hope that your life is fulfilled and stress free.
With great sadness, but immense hope for the future, we bid you good evening.
For now.
Pulkse
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I'll divide them into songs, cause they're all for specific songs.
Em.
1. Rating: 6/10
Nice guitar intro, basic but original sounding. Better production values could greatly improve the overall sound.
2. Rating: 5/10
This song is mediocre. The vocals are quite boring, and the melody is not exciting either. If you sit down and write some new stuff which fits the style of singing your vocalist has, you have potential. I like the bit about 3:30 minutes in.
3. Rating: 4/10
Some good composition and ideas. Needs work though.
Australasia
1. Rating: 6/10
Good solid album track. Draws the listener in. Good arrangements though quite long. Will go down well with the Radiohead fan.
2. Rating: 4/10
Doesn't really go anywhere. Non-offensive. OK as a B-side.
3. Rating: 3/10
too long,does'nt really take off or go any where
4. Rating: 1/10
to slow and boring and four minutes too long
5. Rating: 8/10
A different sound to 'Exposition of Exegesis'.
To me, this is a darker offering, with the emphasis more on the percussion and vocal. They'll go mental, but this is more of a Thom Yorke effort than the previous number.
It's a quality effort with a clean sound and personality.
Musically good. Again. Thoughtful. Again.
There's a very bright future ahead for Pulkse, should that be their desire.
If they start doing this as a profession, you're gonna wish you knew them before they were famous.
Exposition of Exegesis
1. Rating: 8/10
Fantasic piano work and great layers. elements of muse here however it has a nice mystique and darkness to the proggression.
2. Rating: 9/10
Depth, pitch, haunting undercurrent, love it! Great harmonies, crescendos, suspense, this song has it all, I had to listen to the whole thing. Center section (around 3 min) seemed to drag a bit, but lead nicely into the next section, building gradually. Loving the resolution of the chords too, but I'm not so sure about the drum before the last section (around 4 min) where it slows down, think it would be better just to add in drums later.
3. Rating: 9/10
This is like Muse. We need more bands like this taking chances and not conforming to the latest fad. Piano works really well and vocals are great, if not quite powerful enough yet.
4. Rating: 3/10
self-indulgent arrangement, vocals could be stronger, reminiscent of muse. Well played instrumentation lovely guitar in the middle and nice piano or though its a little to classic sounding and could do with a better mix and production. I would suggest and upright piano recorded or at lest panned in mono. Very good drums. This is one of the songs there never seems to go anywhere.
Now, I'd love to moan about the bad ones and say "Those who can, do. Those who can't, review." to nurse my wounds but I'm not actually that hurt. If there are bad reviews there, I think "well, maybe someone else enjoyed it"... cause I enjoy what I do, so there MUST be someone else in the world who does, right? Also, some of the reviews clearly aren't to be taken seriously. "Four minutes too long"?!?! No one would appreciate a 1 minute long song, silly billy.
I dunno how many people read this blog. It doesn't seem the A&R people do, and if they read those reviews they probably won't anymore... I'd like everyone to get in contact, even if it's just for a chat. I have a lot more time on my hands than you'd think, I'll have a chat with you if you like.
Also, give our music a comment. I'm sure you'll do a lot better than some of the more clueless ones up there ^^^
Oh yeah, the site those reviews came from is SlicethePie.com ... it's a bit of a rubbish website really, but I thought I'd give it to all the musicians who think they could benefit from it.
Peace out, brethren.
Pulkse
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Edit: I feel it's worth adding that I agree with some of the bad reviews, too. Those who say Australasia is an album track, for instance. That's exactly what it is. It's not involving or varied enough to be strong on its own, it has to be part of a whole. And we know this. It's tracks like that that fans will love having listened to a complete LP, not that will draw new listeners in. As we all know, to market a band and draw people in, you use the strongest tracks and then the listener will begin to love the weaker too. I didn't want it to seem like we had just shrugged comments like that off, because we do take them to heart and try to make something out of them.
...Or so they would have us believe.
We gave a little demo' at a primary school this week, promoting taking up musical subjects in secondary school. The kids loved it, and we loved that they did. Some kids said they wanted to be rock stars when they were adults, while others commented on the whiteness of my teeth. "It's because I clean them regularly", I said. Such a good role model.
Anyway, all the staff attended the "show", and gazing across them all you would've thought you were at a WI meeting. Every staff member except for one was female. Are we living in such a prejudiced world, so perverted that we assume every man who wants to make kid's lives better must be a paedophile? It dawned on me what a horrible society we live in, where everything has to be related to sex.
We're all human.
We'll book up a studio for our next EP soon. Some names and tracks have been thrown around, but nothing's concrete yet. Look out for it, you'll be the first ones to hear it.
Pulkse
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I'm thinking of how I write songs. George sits with his piano and bashes something amazing out; PeZ sits with a guitar and writes a basis for me to build on; but I, Aaron, the singer/guitarist, can't sit with an instrument and write a song from scratch. I come up with a tiny bit in my head, write it out proper musical like, and I try to build on that. Instruments only come into it when it's written and I need to learn it and develop little add ons that I couldn't write on a score. It's a strange way of writing, I feel. Maybe I need to work on that.
Anyway, how is everyone? Pulkse have been moving slowly, but we're about to get moving again. Hold onto your hats.
I made you, and now I take you back.
Muse played some place called Wembley Stadium tonight. Apparently, It's in this city of ours.
I just read a fresh review on the NME website. Sounds amazing. Since the dawn of Pulkse, I've wanted a clear drum kit with a logo and neon borders. I've wanted female dancers who would give their take on our songs as silhouettes backstage and at the front too. In high heels and top hats. Made up to look like they were going to a funeral. I've wanted showmanship that would match our epic sound. I want to put on the kind of show that leaves an imprint on people's lives. Makes them realise that our great escapism is all for them. Shows that art is beautiful, in any form.
And that's what Muse did tonight. And do at every show. They know no boundaries. One of my favourite songs, Blackout, they played while two gymnasts suspended from massive balloons floated over the audience. Take A Bow, a masterpiece that I loved from the first note, was ended with a torrent of flames. This is art. The way I see it.
Of course, you have to start small. And that's what we're all doing, isn't it? Most of us will never live the dream, and you can't bank your life on it. All you can do, I suppose, is put your all into your songwriting. And treat every show like it's your last. Our last show was amazing. We played a beautiful venue and our best songs. And the crowd were pretty impressed. We were certainly the most original, and least "Arctic Monkeys", band there. When I listen to something like Exposition of Exegesis, I think "Wow. This is amazing." I love what I do. But I suppose, everyone loves what they do, or they'd be out there searching for something to fill the void.
I rant don't I. It's cause I'm so frustrated that we haven't found our "Right Place, Right Time" scenario yet, where someone with influence realises that we have potential. Am I deluded? Would it take too much work to make us a good sound? I think we'd do most of the work ourselves. I have massive visions for Pulkse, and I can't see laziness getting in the way of those. I'd be a perfectionist with our sound, given the time and facilities.
Or maybe we're just not everyone's thing. Are we all too Fall Out Boy to listen to Radiohead these days? Too Panic! for Portishead?
Stem my flow.
Talk to me.
Pulkse
x
PS - I have started my search for studios within our budget for our second EP. Should you be interested, it's going to be more adventurous than our first, and have more of us letting ourselves go - "rocking out", as it were.
Pulkse Given 8/10 Online
Pulkse were rated 8/10 by an online music organisation called "Living Atheist" yesterday. The review being the band's first, they were thrilled at the news; despite the slating of Aaron's vocals ("weak" - "Matt Bellamy could've done much better") and the organisation's constant comparison with Muse.
Pulkse resent being compared to Muse. Yeah, we have our Muse moments, but it's by accident. "It's hard to mix classical piano and rock guitar without sounding like Muse or being shit" says George. He has a point. Still, we're pleased with an 8/10 and we're now in their top friends on MySpace so I suppose we'll get a little bit more recognition now. Check them out by visiting our MySpace.
Talking of comparisons, we were compared to Radiohead quite a lot on GoBusker this week. Some woman said that Exposition of Exegesis was more Radiohead than Radiohead, and that we have no style and we should make our money as a cover band. After stifling our fits of laughter, we pointed out to her that Radiohead have never and will never write a song like that, and asked what song she had heard that led her to that conclusion. Thinking on it, she probably just noticed it was in a minor key and could only think of one band that would ever be so "depressing" that they would write a song in a minor key - Radiohead. We spent a lot of time on Exposition, and any suggestion that we took it from anywhere will always anger me.
I compiled a list of our networking sites too. Here:
http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/pulkse
http://www.purevolume.com/pulkse
http://www.nme.com/newbands/pulkse
http://www.gobusker.com/Band/99/default.aspx
Check them all out. Particularly the NME one.
We haven't posted in a while, we know. We're ashamed of ourselves. But then, we haven't really been ourselves of late. A wave of heavy circumstances have weighed us down and we've been out of the game. That isn't to say we haven't been working on our stuff - we had a nice big session of developing our newest one - Glow - a simple rock-out fest; and an old toughy - Parallel Face - the proggiest song known to Pulkse, all sorts of time signature changes and whatnot. Never played it live cause we've never been ready. Were we given the opportunity to make albums I think we could safely assume it would have to wait until our second or third before it reared its progressive head. We've got the material now for a damn good album that would be all killer, or two that would have to include some filler. What I want, though, is some attention. It's all very well and good having a little community for musicians but what I notice is that everyone just cares about their own advancement, rather than sharing attention and noticing and criticising each other's music. The point I'm making is, we're all so busy saying "Ooooh, ooooh, look at me, I've made some brilliant music, check me out, I want a record deal lolz0rd!" that we forget that the actual point here is to listen to each other and say "I really like this. But you could have..."
Yes, I'd like a record deal for my band as much as the next member, but I know that the A&R guys haven't listened to our stuff and they probably won't for a while - they're busy guys, they get a lot of requests. Wait... What was my point again?
...Oh yeah. My point is that I want more people to listen to our stuff, and for them to feel free to do it with a critical ear. We're not afraid, we're proud of our compositions, and we'd like to hear how you think they could be improved. We listen to other people's stuff a lot. Or, we did back in the day of using this a lot.
Er... I went off on a massive tangent there. I'll get good again... wait...
Nah, I can't manage it. Peace out, brethren. Give me some love. I'll give it back.
Pulkse
Pulkse are playing a gig in a week.
In New Cross.
£5 to enter, bands play from 9 till 11 and DJs play from then till 4am.
Amersham Music Room, 388 New Cross Road, 21st April 2007
Come along, support a band, buy an EP. You know how it is. Judge us, you know you wanna.
Pulkse x
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