Sunday, April 18, 2010

Another request, and another release on Moo Cow Records. This time it's the Handful Of Dust / Song Of Kerman split 7" from 1998. I know very little about Handful Of Dust from NJ. They used keyboards as an integral part of their sound, which usually means the end-result is complete shit. However, these 2 songs are pretty good, surprisingly enough, the industrial edge of both the keyboards and the music definitely helps here. I have no idea if this band did any other releases. Song Of Kerman from Florida was ex-Gray Before My Eyes, a band that had already released a 7" on Moo Cow Records. Song Of Kerman did a 7", this split 7" and an LP (the LP would also be released on Moo Cow Records). Solid emo-ish hardcore with political lyrics and a (feminist) spoken word track with feedback & piano soundtrack underneath. Love the 1st track, the 2nd track not so much, although the words (by William Lloyd Garrison) are intense and still ring true. I don't know their other 7", but the LP is also pretty good. All in all, a good split, so check it out.

Handful Of Dust / Song Of Kerman - split 7"

3 comments:

-cja said...

Handful of Dust were kids who had worked or were working at Vintage Vinyl in NJ. i'm not sure if he plays on this split, but Joe, who owns Regimental Records, played drums for them. he plays for Open Grave now and toured with Krieg many years ago.

thuglifebaldwin said...

awesome!

i had the song of kerman lp and had big expectations of this band but it was a dissapointment......sounded just like BSF which is pretty bad in my book.......


however this split is alot better

Anonymous said...

re-up please