(Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Noise Rock, Slowcore, Sadcore, Post-Hardcore) Lowercase - Дискография (1994 - 1999, 8 релизов), mp3 (tracks), 320 kBit/s

01. As Your Mouth (03:42)
02. Palace Vaccine (04:31)
03. Ringbleeder (03:54)
04. The Faded Line (03:12)
05. Because I Can (09:21)
06. Earth Minus One (06:23)
07. Sometimes I Feel Like a Vampire (03:21)
08. [untitled] (05:02)
09. Deceit (06:14)
Время звучания альбома: 00:40:00

01. She Takes Me 5:21
02. Slightly Dazed 7:57
03. Severance Denied 3:05
04. Neurasthenia 6:07
05. Stairways 1:54
06. Rare Anger 8:45
07. You're A King 12:03
Время звучания альбома: 00:45:12

01. Floodlit 6:08
02. Willing To Follow You Down 5:41
03. The Going Away Present 3:50
04. Glisten To The Pink 6:55
05. The Open Sea 3:51
06. On A Bender 4:40
07. Last Stand 6:20
08. Thistrainwillnotstop 11:47
Время звучания альбома: 00:49:12

01-Sometimes I Feel Like A Vampire
02-Surefire Solvent
Время звучания альбома: 00:07:10

01-Brass Tacks
02-Star 80
03-Sixteen Million Miles
Время звучания альбома: 00:12:22

01-Cadence
02-No. 6 Arc
Время звучания альбома: 00:08:57

01-The Open Sea
02-Don't Cry No Tears
Время звучания альбома: 00:09:30

01-Imbedded In Ice
02-We Don't Need The Wolf
Время звучания альбома: 00:11:18

05-My Shame Your Shame
Время звучания альбома: 00:03:42

02-Surefire Solvent
Время звучания альбома: 00:03:38

Lowercase is a guitar-drums duo (Imaad Wasif and Brian Girgus) from San Francisco (via Palm Desert) that plays a weird hybrid of lo-fi pop, post-rock and slo-core, a veritable summa of 1990s alternative rock dialects. They debuted with three singles that established a credible record of heavy albeit minimal noise-rock: Sometimes I Feel Like A Vampire (Punk In My Vitamins, 1995), Brass Tacks (X-Mas Records, 1995), and Cadence (Amphetamine Reptile USA, 1995).
The album All Destructive Urges (Amphetamine Reptiles, 1996) expanded their sound towards more dramatic forms of expression. Occasionally, the duo enters a catchy melody, but As Your Mouth is pop that ends in terrified screaming, and Earth Minus One is pop depressed by suicidal agony. Their normal mood is one of extreme passion and emotion, like in the discordant, unstable Palace Vaccine, like the incendiary atmosphere of Ringbleeder, like the frantic bacchanal of Sometimes I Feel Like A Vampire. The Faded Line swings from tormented quiet to clinical paroxysm, as if Bedhead jammed with Jesus Lizard. The nine-minute psychodrama Because I Can owes to Slint's convoluted harmonies as well as to Built To Spill's free-form counterpoint: the music ebbs and flows, punctuated by a depressed slow-motion raga-like guitar line and disrupted by sudden bursts of grief. As in the best tradition of progressive hardcore, the (horrible) vocals, the (distorted) riffs and the (pounding) beats are artsy as well as demented. The resulting sound is a contrast of extremes.
A bass player guests on Kill The Lights (Amphetamine Reptiles, 1997), but only She Takes Me and Stairways, the two most aggressive songs, benefit (atmospherically speaking) from the addition. She Takes Me is like a Rolling Stones song (say, Street Fighting Men) that focuses only on the terrifying groove and reduces the melody to a Nirvana-esque lament/howl. Stairways is a two-minute instrumental that builds up a dissonant maelstrom, a sort of "the Sonic Youth meet the King Crimson".
The rest is a descent into a personal hell. The eight-minute Slightly Dazed is virtually a documentary of a man losing his mind, the guitar repeating an ominous pattern over a funereal beat until it becomes a death toll (the overall feeling being similar to Pink Floyd's early psychodramas). Neurasthenia is even less musical, and, by making the most of the least, paints a harrowing picture of claustrophobia and desperation. The lengthy instrumental overture of the nine-minute Rare Anger returns to the Pink Floyd-ian suspense, with an additional dose of guitar noise and dejected melodies, and this time the screaming reaches an apocalyptic intensity.
On the other hand, the heaviness of the 12-minute nightmare You're A King owes a lot to the Melvins. For several minutes a slow, hypnotic dirge digs deep into the soul. Then the vocalist intones a dilated melody that sounds like a Navajo psalm over martial drums.
The single Imbedded on Ice (Punk In My Vitamins, 1998) heralds a more austere phase, that dawns with the hypnotic, droning tracks of The Going Away Present (Punk In My Vitamins, 1999). Lowercase (the founding duo with yet another bassist) borrows stylistic elements from early Sonic Youth and early Swans to concoct dark, menacing, desperate pieces (The Going Away Present, Floodlit, Glisten to the Pink). The new self-indulgent tour de force is the 12-minute This Train Will Not Stop.