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| ORGAN
#195 > FEB 15th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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WAS THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, NINETY TONS OF THUNDER... |
A
Secret Society? Rubbish trucks will stop in the street, birds will fall
out of the trees, no one will head south at the speed of sound and now
one will answer the question that is asked about any secret society. A
secret society? Don’t ask us, if we said anything then it wouldn’t be a
secret.
“Secret clubs have always
influenced society. It is true the most powerful secret societies are actually
running the world, seeking to destroy 'morality' and the family unit while
publicly appearing to be the biggest champions. Their ultimate weapons
are power and time. They have the power; only time will bring their obscure
scheme to it's inevitable conclusions. For centuries humans have been trying
to keep information from other humans. Paradoxically, many have come to
the conclusion that the best way to keep a secret is to tell a group of
other people and then swear them all to secrecy. Strangely as kids we all
wanted to belong to a secret club. They seemed adventurous and exciting.
We knew things adults didn't”.
This is getting rather Smeared,
the smears and irons in fires, not tooooooo many though, never too many..
Back around to the start
and a full circle and the smell of brown leather and the dirt of the weather,
off on a British Rail cheapskate have it away day, another holiday in someone
else’s misery, did we say that already? Never mind The Police reforming,
or The Jam, HUGE BABY’s original line up are back in some kind of form
or other (we’re surprised they’re still all alive!). Now who knows if the
return of the original line up is a good thing or not, or indeed if they’ll
actually make it on to the stage? Are beer crates going to fly at heads
again? Will they touch that magic again? They’re at The Fly in Oxford Street
on May 13th doing a KBY gig with Brighton’s rather fine Little Trophy also
on the bill. The will, without doubt, be beautiful chaos. If you were there
for those brief six months at the start of their lives back in the last
century and the start of ORG Records then you’ll know. You’ll be
excited or apprehensive or at least burning with curiousity. If you weren’t
there then go grab a history lesson. For six months Huge Baby were the
only thing in town.
"Y'know how every now and
then, when your faith in music is waning, a record seems to come out of
nowhere and shows you a whole new infinity of possibilities that need exploring?
Happened with Public Enemy, Throwing Muses, LFO, The Young Gods and now
Huge Baby. This band are most intriguing..." Neil Kulkarni, Melody
Maker single of the week (1994)
"Huge Baby, in a perfect
world, should provide the soundtrack to Omen III... This is an evil, malevolent
and unspeakably scary record which you should only play in the hours of
daylight, if accompanied by a priest, do not be fooled my children by the
seemingly frivolous title. Growling satanic bass, grinding guitar which
can often sound like it's actually sacrificing a live goat in the studio,
whiningly inhuman vocals, horribly grimy violin-ish squeaks and somewhere
along the line, macabre ambient tunes to ensure you sleep in your mum's
bed for the next week" - NME Single Of The Week
Huge Baby never touched those
heights again, they made some good records, played some fine gigs, they’ll
probably argue that they did make better records, we stepped away and watched
from the side. That the way we’ve always done things at ORG Records and
all things ORGAN, light the blue touch paper, set it off and stand back.
We’re not here to build careers or push product and we’re certainly not
here to deal with music industry bulshit that attempts to invade our space
on a daily basis. Since that Huge Baby 10” (the second “proper” release
on ORG) we’ve seen thousands of bands come and go, we’ve had a million
people shout the odds about our “bad attitude” and the way we do things
(and then come band and say “wished we’d listened, you were right”). We
do things our way, we like doing things our way, we’re still excited by
the new music we release. There’s been around 200 CDs, albums, singles,
compilations on ORG since that now legendary Huge Baby ten incher, we’re
rather proud of pretty much all of it and for some reason I find myself
rather excited about a Huge Baby gig that’s still three months away. Even
more excited about our next batch of releases though, can’t wait to get
this next batch of singles out and into your lives. Ah, fug the history
and Huge Baby, we’re all about the next stuff, we were almost getting tempted
to put that threatened best of ORG cd together just then, we’d never fit
it all on though, we’d need a box set, nah, no time for that...
Have you checked out THE
SMEARS yet?
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IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
Following
on from the rather successful release of the LEAVE THE CAPITAL single
on ORG we have the following happening, all as parts of ORG-AN-ISED
SINGLES SERIES
SPIRITWO – Out Feb
26th - Part 29 of the singles series, her rather delicious version
of Foundling as part of a four tracker (Foundling is a CARDIACS cover done
in a rather delicate way), the EP also feature’s her extremely different
disco/electro version of SEPULTURA’S Inner Self.
A SECRET SOCIETY -
Out March 5th, Part 30 in the series. A SECRET SOCIETY’s next show will
be a headline at the London Astoria in late May, their last London show
was a word of mouth sell out with over a thousand credit card ticket orders
having to be turned down. I'd be grabbing this single rather quickly if
I were you
Part 31 of the ORG-AN-ISED
SINGLES SERIES is the long overdue debut single from THE SMEARS
– all girl in your face punk rock action from Nottingham, out on March
19th.
And coming up as the April
release we have.... well watch this space.
LEAVE THE CAPITAL play a
home town gig on Feb 23rd at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach. THE SMEARS play
Nottingham Running Horse on Feb 24th and a whole load of shows in March.
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
Rumours
are that PURE REASON REVOLUTION are running in the shadow of a tusk
with a chain that's broken and some albertross and are off off off on a
UK/European Tour (supporting sleepy dinosaur Porcupine Tree off-shoot Blackfield).
Things start at the end of this very week.. 16/02/07: UK, London, Mean
Fiddler, 17/02: Holland, Helmond, Plato, 18/02: Belgium, Vosselaar, Biebob,
20/02: Germany, Hamburg, Knust, 21/02: Germany, Berlin, Kato, 22/02: Poland,
Warsaw, Proxima Club, 24/02: Switzerland, Pratteln, Z7, 25/02: Italy, Milan,
Alcatraz, 26/02: Germany, Bochum, Matrix, 27/02: France, Paris, Café
de la Danse, 28/02: Holland, Zoetermeyer, Boerderij. Followed by some UK
TOUR DATES - 05/03 – Southampton, Joiners, 06/03 - Cambridge, The Loft,
07/03 - Reading, The Fez (Homecoming Festival pt 2), 08/03 – Bristol, The
Cooler, 09/03 – Leeds, Brudnell Social Club, 10/03 – Hertford, Marquee,
11/03 – London, Barfly. More from the recently hacked but not by Hackett
pages over at www.myspace.com/purereasonrevolution
Legal notice: We were in
no way implying that Pure Reason Revolution are this century’s Fleetwood
Mac just then and no green manalishi were harmed in the making of this
week’s Organ, no one had a two pronged crown and no one busted in on anyone's
dreams making them see things they just don't want to see. .
John on the phone...... |
Elliott
Smith - New Moon
On May 7, 2007, Domino will
release a double CD of music by Elliott Smith entitled New Moon.
The album contains 24 songs recorded 1995-1997, a prolific time in Smith's
career, when he recorded his self-titled album and Either/Or (both also
released by Domino).
Arguably the most gifted
song-writer of his generation, Elliott Smith produced a large body of work
that includes five solo albums, as well as From a Basement on the Hill
(2004), a collection of songs completed before his death in 2003. Like
his other work, New Moon reflects the power of Smith's ability to integrate
rich, melodic music with poetic, multi-layered lyrics.
The final mixing for the
double cd was done by Larry Crane, who is the archivist for the estate
of Elliott Smith. A significant portion of proceeds from the album sales
will go directly to Outside In, a Portland-based social service organization
dedicated to providing diverse services for homeless youth and low-income
adults.
Elliott Smith died October
21, 2003, in his home in Los Angeles.
The Album will also be released
in the US on Kill Rock Stars on the 8th of May who also put out the 'Either/Or'
and 'Elliott Smith' records mentioned before.
www.dominorecordco.com
/ www.myspace.com/dominorecords
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The new year long series
of
ORGAN TV is on your screens
in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm
on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY
173. And now due to the
fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.30pm.
What's it all about? Simple,
just good music, and the art of good video making... Same musical
policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts,
as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy
eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post
man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity
for the open minded
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ORGAN TV - WEDNESDAY 24th
FEB -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 so you probably missed it, but
but but you still have time to catch the repeat that's on OPEN ACCESS
1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 18th Feb at 11.30pm
THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING
VIDEOS....
1: TIME.SPACE.REPEAT - Joy
2: ROSE MELBERG - Take Some
Time
3: BEYOND DAWN - Among The
Sedatives
4: BEECHER - Function Function
5: WENDYKURK - Freckles
6: COLT - Never Know
7: HELMET - Monochrome
8: SLIPKNOT - The Heretic
NEXT WEEK expect, oh I don't
know what you can expect, let's just kick those rat-bastards and
put our own people in charge. We have nothing to lose except fun and the
joy of watching... That and the words of the good Doctor
Now that's what I call music
TV.
Want to get your video on?
Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send
us a link to your video
on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something
that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format
and wallop, sorted |
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DEMO TIME |
| Like
we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos,
we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more
time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective,
when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
Welll,
once again nothing quite hit the spot enough to make us shout, we're picky
around here and the policy is quality not quanity. When we say something
is good we want you to be able to trust us and know this is not the work
of some underhand tretcherous jabbering music pimp ready to jerk you up
by the back of your pants, shoot you full of angel dust and slam you in
to a Slayer pit with your nails painted pink, your mouth blazing fiery
red lipstick and the tips sliced off of your thumbs. Once again there is
is no demo of the week.
Last
week's demo of the week - There wasn't one damn you, why does there always
have to be one?
Previous
demo's of the week - STRAY BORDERS / FOUR
LETTER FRIEND /
ALSATIAN / THE
VIPERS / LILY GREEN / THE
VELCROS / MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI /
FANTAPLASTIC
/ CLUB LE SHARK / THEY
DIED TOO YOUNG / INVASION / OPHELIA
TORAH / THE MERLIN BIRD / LEAVE
THE CAPITAL /
GRAVANZIA / CHET
/ LADY PROMISE / FTSE100
/
STEAL GANDHI /
ALL
DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE
/ THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH
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THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS
/ BLACK JACKSON / INNER
RAGE / ALLERGO
/ BROOKE / CARTRIDGE
/ PERHAPS CONTRAPTION
/ THE PROCESS VOID |
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BURN THE GALLOWS... |
GALLOWS
original demo from 2005 is coming your way again on Holy Roar Records om
March 19th 2007
In need of no introduction
right now, Gallows have recently been touted as ‘the best British punk
band since The Clash’ by the NME, a completely over the top and rather
inaccurate statement that kind of tells you more about what the NME don’t
really know, but hey, as we’ve said around these parts several times, they’re
a decent enough band. So there’s a 7” vinyl release of old demos on the
way, limited to 500 copies. This strictly limited edition release of their
original demos is on London’s Holy Roar Records, recorded in 2005, features
three older, and different, versions of tracks which were eventually re-recorded
for their ‘Orchestra of Wolves’ album, and one track which is not available
anywhere else. On white vinyl, with black and silver artwork and a pressing
of only 500 copies. Hay, mine had five tracks on it...
Of course the first coverage
of that demo and indeed the band’s first radio play came from us music
pimps here at ORGAN so don't go putting me in no subhuman Arkansas chain
gang 'cause there's no demo of the week again this week... Aren't there
laws about impersonating music journalists like this and peddling such
whore--faced gibberish, I got my wheeeeeels of steel rolling if you're
coming come quick, let's get out of here before someone notices we know
DEMO OF THE WEEK ORGAN issue
143 - OCT 31st 2005
GALLOWS - A fizzing set of
meshed up hardcore slashing wholesomely flavoured pronkoid discordant raw
as F punk rock goodness from the outer edges of England. Screamingly frantic
vocals and urgent rushes and bites that taste of the Panixphere side of
cardiac arresting life. Mayday Mayday, man overboard again! Screaming slabs
of slightly complex and scratchingly violent and urgently clever shout-along
hardcore – screaming mad beauty and frantically urgent threats and grab
some air, let me breath again. Just because you sleep next to them doesn’t
mean you’re safe. This is the captain of your ship, completely overboard.
We like this lots, the kind of thrashing thrailling thrashing hardcore
punkoid tantrum metal that requires a little more colour and imagination.
Totally unhinged and bending around it’s own violent corners, singer man
sounds like he’s about to lose everything and he can’t swim, Ladies and
gentlemen, may I have your attentions please, this is the captain of your
ship, you need this delicate little five track violent onslaught, you’re
time is up, you have no clue how much you need this..... It may be raw
and very DIY and blisteringly homemade, but hey, you need this fine and
tasty violent noise
www.myspace.com/burnthegallows
/ www.holyroarrecords.com
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'NEW
ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEE |
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
MONOGONO
– Amuk (Mother Should Know) - Oooooo, that second track just seriously
grabbed our attention. New name to us, didn’t know a thing about them,
just threw the CD on... Started with some nice pastoral peaceful keyboards
that, predictably, erupted like a million extreme metal band albums do,
oh well, same old same old then... Yeap, Monogono were threatening
to be just another cookie monster vocalist screaming and growling over
a slightly interesting noise type extreme metal band until somewhere around
a minute in to The untold Story Part 1 and hang on! Those guitars just
went all bendy and Seaside Treats Gibbering and Twitching on us - things
have started to go off and things, squalor is alive again. (actually now
I go back and listen again, those keyboards at the start are rather sinister
and discordantly dark). Amuk has taking off, we’re talking serious Cardiac-Bundleist
action and clever jazzy interludes and Pat Metheny jumping on Meshuggas’
toes whilst King Crimson’s tongues are roasted in ferocious aspic. Oooooooh
yes, we got a live one, strap yourself in for a raving and drooling review.
Where the hell did Monogono come from? There’s four of them, they’re from
Portugal, serious musicians, relentless creative clever extreme noise terror,
laced with warm creativity and plenty of light and shade. Four tracks in
and we’re hooked, things have turned seriously heavy now, less Cardiacs,
more Voivod and their chaotically organised jazzyness has given way to
serious sludge and metallic delight so good we get to name drop The Mass!
Hey, when we name drop The Mass you know things are special, this is Trapped
Under A Ice serious!! Predictable Crime is anything but predictable and
if this is a crime then bring on a wave of it. “Renato, Dani and Nuno studied
jazz at college together and then joined forces with Goncalo to produce
their own brand of music with hiphop influenced lyrics underpinned by powerful
rock riffs and jazz keyboards” – We’re not hearing that much of a hiphop
flavour, we are hearing seriously inventive boundary pushing front-line
progressive (in the real sense) avant-metal. Hang on, they’ve warped
out and gone very bendy and experimental and no-wave Wire reader chin-stroker
on us with a fifty-seven second track called Agnosa, I like their style
and sense of diverse pace. They’re back to pummelling us with riffs that
are very early Cardiacs now, oh, no, they’ve gone all jazzy and experimental
and instrumental and multimental and on an Endless Trip (Part One and Two),
we’ve gone somewhere else completely, every time I think I’ve worked them
out they contradict things in a most delightfully positive manner. And
as for the hidden extra bonus track, now that is serious avante manicness
and screaming over some kind of alien code and hey, one of the albums of
2007 just invaded our lives - you’re gonna be hearing lots more about Monogono
around these parts. This album rules – if you’re in to Mr Bungle or Cardiacs
or Meshugga or The Mass or King Crimson then go investigate - www.mothershouldknowrecords.com
/ www.myspace.com/monogonoband
ALSO
CHECK OUT
ALABAMA
THUNDERPUSSY – Open Fire (Relapse) – Leaner and meaner this time around,
eleven slices of first rate Southern flavoured hard edged stoner rock.
Kind of Sabbath/Kyuss for Molly Hatchet fans and armed with powerful new
vocalist Kyle Thomas (Exhorder, Floodgate). Righteously cool old school
hard rock and a short sharp and toooooo the point review with no riding
down the road and no flirting with disaster, whatever next? Released in
Europe on March 12 – www.atprva.com / www.relapse.com
MAGNUM
– Princess Alice and The Broken Arrow (SPV) – Thirteenth studio album from
the distinctive English pomp rock band. Magnum fans will be more than satisfied,
Princess Alice is more of the band doing what they do best, those bouncing
anthems and stirring tales of dragons and knights – there’s moments where
they hit previous heights, there’s moments that sound a little like nothing
more than filler material... The album is out in March, they tour the UK
in May, Magnum fans will be happy, no one else will care, no one will get
hurt, he'll carry on drving that red Ferrari and annoying the English butler,
solving crime in some kingdom of madness, how far Jerusalem, at least they
sound like they're supposed to, now get it out of here now please – www.magnumonline.com
ASTERIA
– Slip Into Something More Comfortable (Broken English) – Standard issue
mid-west US emo pop. Polite, breezy, harmlessly infectious, they do their
thing really well. Heard it all before, no trace of identity, no hint of
any kind of desire to be even the slightest tiny little bit different.
No idea why or what the point is but hey, if you want another US emo-pop
band who sound like loads you already heard then Indiana’s Asteria do it
rather well. www.asteriarock.com
/ www.brokenenglishrecords.com
How polite we were this week....
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terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!! Weasel says check out VESSELS |
"Hey
WEASEL,
Hope you're good. Just thought
I'd let you know that we, VESSELS, are touring and releasing a single
very soon".
Tour dates are:
Sunday 11th - Exeter, The
Cavern
Wednesday 14th - London,
333
Thursday 15th - Cambridge,
The Loft
Friday 16th - Southampton,
The Hobbit
Saturday 17th - Sheffield,
The Cricketers Arms
Monday 19th - Manchester,
Dry Bar
Wednesday 21st - Lancaster,
Yorkshire House
Thursday 22nd - Dundee,
The Balcony Bar
Friday 23rd - Glasgow, O'Henry's
Saturday 24th - Leeds, The
Brudenell
Sunday 25th - Kingston,
The Peel
Monday 26th - Oxford, Port
Mahon
7inch single/digital download
"Yuki/Forever the Optimist" out on Cuckundoo Records on 5th
March. Available for pre-order
on myspace and at shows.
''Dynamic post rock which
stalks around your room before launching itself through a window.''
- Steve Lamacq (Radio 1)
Here's the ORGAN demo review
from June 2006 (yeah, yeah, that’s three repeats this week, Huge Baby,
Gallows and Vessels, what the hell...)
VESSELS – Now this band really
do stand out, one of those treasures that very occasionally lands here
unexpectedly, one of those delights that stops everyone and has us (politely)
fighting over who gets to play it on the radio first. They have such a
beautifully easy style. Post rock that takes all the time it needs to just
unwind in a deceptively clever way and then delicately exploded in just
that right uplifting soothing reassuring manner. Vessels are doing all
the right things that are needed to be so so right for right here right
now (and especially for this sticky summer heat where every action is an
effort). That easy glowing flow of Appleseed Cast, the musical demands
of Battles or Don Cabellero, the positive beauty and sparkle of 65Days
- no glitch here though, flow rather then glitch – 65daysofquietglowingsparkle.
It's like Vessels have naturally absorbed all the best musical things from
these golden times and then filtered it all in their own refined and delicate
way to come out with something just as equally as fine as all those bands
we've just mentioned themselves. And when you think it's just going to
be an instrumental thing, the emotional, no not emo, the occasional understated
emotional vocals lift you up even more. Look At That Cloud really is like
looking at a cloud on a sunny evening – "another wave of electric-blue
noctilucent clouds (NLCs) swept across northern Europe last night.
These mysterious clouds favour high latitudes, but they have been sighted
in recent years as far south as Colorado and Utah. Northern summer
is the season for NLCs, so be alert after sunset for sinuous, blue-glowing
ripples in the western sky".Five tracks, its impossible to pick out a favourite.
Armed To The Teeth is beautifully quiet in the finest of Thee More Shallows
at 2AM kind of ways. Actually there is some restrained delicate glitch
in the re-mixed fourth track Happy Accident – ah, this is so so good, so
much power and emotion in the delicate restrained, sometimes quiteness
is where the real power is and less really is so so much more - -
www.myspace.com/vesselsband
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SINGLES |
| So
we have three singles of the week this week, so what? We had a good week
for singles and we don't mean on no hornymatch dot com either...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
HONEY
RIDE ME A GOAT / MOTHGUTS – spilt 12” (Kitchen Dweller) – Red vinyl, we
like red vinyl and we like this! Yes we like this lots, let me run a little
test... yeap, turn it up loud and just as expected, everyone comes running
to see who what and where. Going to need some serious dancing around
architecture to get anywhere near describing Honey Ride Me A Goat with
mere words as tools – help! Twisted turning obtuse instrumental post rock
pronkoid springly boingy avant jazz-rock post-punk jazzness that’s seriously
way out there without ever once getting too far out there. The sound is
unique, all the challenge and complexity of Upsilon Acrux or the Aleuchatistas,
challenging enough to be on a respected label like say Cuniform or Skingraft.
Honey Ride Me A Goat are from Medway (Kent) and who needs Cuniform when
you have Kitchen Dweller and curried cod recipes. Thing is Honey are clever
and complex and as pretentious as this is, it never ever is annoyingly
pretentious Hold the boat, I just got through the glorious thirteen
minute mind-boil of Honey and Mothguts are now pummelling us with some
seriously heavy post-rock Van Der Graaf Sax style Ornette Coleman flavoured
pronkoid earfood, that’s easily as challenging and wholesomely reward as
Honey Ride Me A Goat Mothguts are from New Jersey and they complement
the English band perfectly, an excellent match up. There’s only 300
on these beautiful slices of red vinyl to go around so we suggest you stop
reading this and go grab one for yourself right now – highly recommended.
www.kitchendweller.com
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK 2
KILLA
KELA – Reveal Your Inner Self (Hungry Kid) - Was he just rapping about
being soaked in blood just like Tampax just then? How dare you cheapen
us? How dare you be so devious? Serving up like a greasy dinner, hit you
in the face if you need a reminder, so your lips inflate like Steven Tyler.
This boy has front, blowing up like a bomb in where? Serious beatbox action,
whatever you fink - old school (like Days Of Thunder), strait out of London
looking like a muthafuggin role model. It does indeed ooooooooooze attitude.
We got ourselves some clever beatbox hiphop rhyme‘n bite action going down
here, the real deal, fit for purpose and ready to mess yer head. Four versions
to stick on repeat and trust these words, trust these paragraphs, hello,
feel the heat, come closer, you need this one, put it in your daily lives,
it will impress us when you do. Tasty remixes from plan B, Super Furry
Animals and Jack Beats (a collaboration of Plus One, Scratch perverts and
Beni G mixologists). Every action deserve a reaction, thou shall grab a
bite of Killa Kela, feel the heat, the machine you can’t rage against,
front line London beatbox action . www.killakela.com
/ www.hungrykid.com
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK 3
CHARLES
CAMPBELL JONES – Most Mathematicians (Bronze Rat) - Charles Campbell Jones
has a ‘problem’, you see last year Charles released the finest song of
2006 in the shape of the progtastic Stars. An epic song with the power
to grab you and take you right up there, a melodic sky touching tour de
force and absolute treasure, the yardstick by which everything he does
must now be judged. And there’s the “problem”, Stars is just so so magical,
Stars took us there instantly, and takes us there again every time we play
it (and we play it lots), Stars is just too damn good! Everything else
Charles Campbell Jones does is in the shadow of Stars. Most Mathematicians
is subtle, Most Mathematicians takes it’s own sweet time to take you where
you want to go, it does though, Most Mathematicians is every bit as good
as Stars only it takes a little time to realise that. When you take the
time to look and see (and see all the dirt on the floor) and you’re soaking
in sweat without ever noticing how hot you were getting (and your shirt
is soaked through). Let's cut to the chase with some hyperbole, see if
you sit up and take notice because with songs this good Charles Campbell
Jones really should be all over the mainstream radio and on your late night
music TV and selling albums in millions and winning Brit awards, he should
be a household name. Most Mathematicians just went on a downbeat and sent
that knowing shiver down my spine. Look, he’s the new Jeff Buckley, only
he’s better – is that enough over-the top hyperbole for you? Here they
come, here comes that buzz and that bus that takes you home and those subtle
strings and those understated choirs of mellotron-like sky touching moments
are here and he’s done it again. www.bronzerat.co.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT...
THE
MILK TEETH – Go Faster Stripes (Traficante) – Some kind of semi frantic
Zutons meets Cramps feedback-edged scuzzy blues thing that has us semi
interested. B-side As Good As It Gets kind of has us losing interest, a
retro English milk bar early 60’s Dick Dale sound should you want it. Hey,
there’s the link, Zutons, Cramps, Dick Dale, we told you about it, the
choice is yours... www.myspace.com/themilkteeth
Last
week's single of the week - TOBIAS FROBERG
Previously
- THE FLESH HAPPENING / GIRL
SCOUT HAND GRENADE / ZERO / BEATNIK
FILMSTARS / DAN LA
SAC vs SCROOBUIS PIP / FEAR OF MUSIC
/ THE RUBY SUNS / THE
SCHLA LA LAS / THOMAS TANTRUM / DUSTIN’S
BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS /GIANT
PAW / CHROME HOOF/
FRANK
TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE
RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ
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positive way and spreading the word about fine music and creativity and
underground/alternative art that go bump in the night. This is how it works
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do go spread the word, that’s what this is about – the spreading of information.
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little unsavoury like one bunch of nasty little right wing scumbags we
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