MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44

MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44

For fans of: Celebration, Gxlliam!, Canyons, Leg Yield, Graf Orlock, Nerver, Pretty Mouth, and Big Water.
Genres: Punk / Hardcore / Metal / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence / Powerviolence / Grindcore

Related artists: AGENT, Any Kind Of Cleaning Supply, Big Water, Bluehealer, Bummer, Con College, Gridlock, Leg Yield, Pear'n, The Deacons, Vestibule, Horseboy, Iwakura, Joust, Product Lust, Black Pope, Byrgeau Noil, Lushing, Tall Boys, Abandoncy, and Riala.

Country: Independence/Kansas City, Missouri U.S.A.
Years Active: 2022-present

Label(s): Self Released

     Preceding my podcast with Matt Perrin is the band he told me about during said cast, MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44. I checked them out after we concluded and instantly fell in love with this slab of Missouri-drenched goodness.

     Featuring members from a ton of sick bands, the conglomerate ends up being very reminiscent of early Nerver material when they went under the name Celebration. The six tracks that comprise 'Seventeen Dead in Caldwell County' mix noise rock and emo-violence with that dank and dirty KC-style that has dominated the scene for years through bands like Canyons, Big Water, and the aforementioned Celebration. The music is heavy, sludgy, knows when to lay down breakdowns with panic chords, short, dirty, and anxiety-inducing.

     Their debut EP opens with a track that sounds like a fuckin' demon's sermon and leads beautifully into the banger that is "Fuckin' Boggs" that hangs on to reality by a thread, and ending in just 36 seconds after a massive breakdown. My personal favourite "Bonnie Lonnie Lauralie" follows and is a dissonant romp with enough speed and ferocity to make it truly frightening. "Crooked River" is a noise track followed by "F.L.D.S." and "Root Beer", both of which slap and have music videos embedded below for you to check out, the latter of which ends with some hilarious repetitive shouts of "somebody get me a fucking root beer!".

     I don't know what's coming next for this band but I'm fucking stoked on it already!

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DISCOGRAPHY

2023 - Seventeen Dead in Caldwell County cd/cassette EP (stream/buy here)

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(2023) MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44 - "Bonnie Lonnie Lauralie" (from 'Seventeen Dead in Caldwell County')

https://youtu.be/92Hj35xtZmM

(2023) MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44 - "F.L.D.S." (from 'Seventeen Dead in Caldwell County') [official music video]

https://youtu.be/Cv9S3R38j_U

(2023) MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44 - "Root Beer" (from 'Seventeen Dead in Caldwell County') [official music video]

https://youtu.be/O4we-TZzxsc

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*** PODCAST #142 For The Mathematics ***

     In early 2005 I discovered FOR THE MATHEMATICS, a five-piece sassy rock/post-hardcore band out of Ottawa. I picked up 'The New Science' and jammed it incessantly. Then my girlfriend at the time (now wife) and made the 4-hour trek to see them play, where they killed it. I rabidly picked up the next EP demo and a year later 'We Impend' was released on Year Of The Sun Records. Two years after that they broke up and Robb's next band Higher Rites released an album with some leftover/reworked FTM jams. In the 16 years that have followed I have never stopped jamming these two EPs, for they are fucking incredible. After a few years of chasing the band around I finally was able to sit down with vocalist/guitarist Robb and bassist Albert to discuss the band's history and possible future, as well as: Zaphod Beeblebrox & the Ottawa scene, an avalanche of compliments, Robb's writing framework, the Faraday to For The Mathematics bridge, factors of influence/discovery, music bombardment, restraining the unrestrainable, low budget music videos, FTM keggers & the 5-minute keyboardist, ravenous youth & the East Coast, too many drummers, Alberto leaving the band, doing their 'In Utero', being in a Horse The Band pit during "Cutsman", the 20th anniversary, etc. Bands played in this podcast: Girl Arm, Horseboy, Nation Of Language, Self, Sufjan Stevens, and Tropical Fuck Storm. Listen to podcast #142 which is available to stream and/or download for free via this link.

      Some additional band member information! Clay was in Jetplanes of Abraham for a while before Higher Rites. Robb was in the band for about 5 minutes but was testing out a draft of 'We Impend' on them and realized it needed to go to For The Mathematics. They were pretty popular in town for a while before breaking up. Liam was in The Balconies for a good while. These guys were on Warner, and probably the biggest band that members have been affiliated with in some capacity. James (FTM drummer #2) and Robb are in The Pale Light right now. Their second album 'Leviathan' sounds closer to For The Mathematics than their first, 'Future Eaters'.

FOR THE MATHEMATICS

https://youtu.be/JQH7UD0Qhgk

1 I Don't Know If You Know How Awesome You Were and the Full Body Blush

~no music

2 Low Budget Music Videos are the Best

TROPICAL FUCK STORM "You Let My Tyres Down" (Robb) [official music video]
SELF "Cannon" (Albert) [official music video]

GIRL ARM "Jetsons" (Dave) [official music video]

3 Four Drummers and Picking Up the Pieces

NATION OF LANGUAGE "The Wall & I" (Robb) [official music video]

4 East Coast Old Man Energy

SUFJAN STEVENS "Jacksonville (live at Austin City Limits)" (Albert) [official music video]
HORSEBOY "Vicious Mockery" (Dave)

~Dave

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PODCAST #142 linked here

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Ива (aka EEVA)

Band: Ива (aka EEVA)
For fans of: VS Self, Raein, D'Amore, La Quiete, Rutka Laskier, Alas, and The Exploration.
Genres: Punk / Post-Hardcore / Emo / Screamo / Skramz

Related artists: Le Desespoir and He Called Himself Jesus.
Country: Moscow RUSSIA
Years Active: 2009-present

Label(s): Self Released

     Ива has been around for awhile with a variety of different work. The primary reason I'm posting this today is because Moscow "post-hardcore" band began with a sick screamo-esque debut which has since been taken down from the band's socials. The newer material is much more subdued and less playful, which is why I won't bother covering that here.

     I'm just here for the self-titled 'Ива'. Consisting of seven short jams generally hovering around the minute-and-a-half mark, the band weaves intricate patterns mixing gorgeous noodles with barely distorted guitars and minimal heavyness. The vocals are shouted to the point where they break into screams, but this is more like later La Quiete and Raein material where the emphasis is on the mood of the music, and the vocals are more of an afterthought (as well as less screamy). If you dig these jams you should at least look into their later material, but I'm pretty sure there were member changes that resulted in a pretty quick shift out of this style.

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DISCOGRAPHY

2010 - Ива cdEP (download here)

then a bunch more stuff you can check out yourself on the band's Bandcamp

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(2010) Ива - "3" (from 'Ива')

https://youtu.be/Xfhe-Wz0L2A

(2010) Ива - "7" (from 'Ива')

https://youtu.be/UCDpJS6Dtlk

(2010) Ива - "6" (from 'Ива')

https://youtu.be/O564SdOOYBA

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