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#251> APRIL 3rd '08 - new issue here every Thursday afternoon |
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Midnight Organ Fight? |
 Vanilla?
Strawberry? Lime? Life is still peachy and using up all nine of your lives
twice and crime and he proposes that there are four types of control. Direct:
by which punishment is threatened or applied for wrongful behaviour, and
compliance. Control through needs satisfaction, i.e. if all an individual's
needs are met, there is no point in criminal activity. I'm so very happy
that you didn't need prompting to remember your Friday assignment, you
know you should always be here on a Friday to explore. Perhaps I am reading
into it, perhaps not, how many leaves left? Five. The bigger the
hope, the bigger the trap and don’t ask us about the Giraffe and prepare
for more Bright Ambassadors and Plagues of Lighthouse Keepers and why don’t
people commit crime is the real question? Not why do they? Why don’t people
commit more art? Why don’t people explore the music crime out there? Why
are they happy with the pap they are force fed? The constant question.
Travis Hirschi and paradigm turned on a head and why and who and where
and wear that and do as you’re told and Pretty in Pink – the new Dresden
Dolls album just landed with their Pretty in Pink. Fine to have a wish
list, just do as you’re told and say thank you. This week’s Organ then
and more spanners thrown in to more works...
These are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then just hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts
are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to
feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the instant hit of the www. |
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
 PURE
REASON REVOLUTION are starting to reveal plans in terms of their much anticipated
new album. The new single and the first fruits of this new period
of activity will be a limited edition CD single here with us on ORG. Victorious
Cupid is out on April 14th as part 37 of the on going ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES
SERIES. The band play a one off low-key gig to tie in with the release
on April 12th at London’s Water Rats (aka Metro) in King’s Cross (with
support from the excellent post-rock outfit from Leeds you know as Vessels).
Both the single and tickets for the gig are selling fast. Advice is book
your tickets now, last time we checked the gig was about 80% sold out and
we’re not expecting the band to play again until the album is ready to
go. Pure Reason Revolution have now joined Oceansize and And You Will Know
Us By The Trail Of Dead on rather good looking new alternative German label
Superball Music. The new album is in the final stages of recording
now
We
like Pure Reason Revolution, they’re not a band you can easily pin down,
they're certainly not a band to play things safe, if they are a prog rock
band then they're are progressive in the realest sense of the term - the
new single Victorious Cupid is the stepping stone that will lead you in
to this new period - the bridge if you will. The lead track itself is a
sugar sweet harmonised bite that marries their now established melodic
progressive Beach Boys flavoured West Coast sound and their ever rising
English ambition. The lead track is coupled with an intriguing remix version
from CEDO SIMPLEX as well as two beautiful acoustic re-workings of old
favourites The Intention Craft and Nimos & Tambos – hear a taste over
at www.myspace.com/purereasonrevolution
or mailorder the single from us here.
FREE
RADIOHEAD DOWNLOAD - The BBC is making a free Radiohead download
available - of their performance of 'Videotape' from Steve Lamacq's 6 Music
show, which is great news for Radiohead fans who like their music for free,
which is lots of people if some of the rumours around the band's 'pay what
you want' download promotion are true. You can get the download at
www.bbc.co.uk/radiohead
but it's there for a limited time, so go do it now. The Lamacq session
was just one of various Radiohead guest spots across BBC radio earlier
this week, which included a special concert in the Beeb's Radio Theatre
aired on the Mark Radcliffe show.. |
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
The
new IMPERIAL LEISURE single, Man On The Street, the second release from
the band with us here at ORG, is out this week. In theory you should be
able to find the beautiful three track CD is any decent independent record
shop, the reality is that you may find it in some of the more aware shops
but you probably won’t find it in too many – Maybe Normans, or Rough Trade,
Punker
Bunker down in Brighton, the ever excellent Spillers over in Cardiff (is
Spillers still alive, hanging on last time I checked – hang on, yes! They’re
still hanging in there, good to see those Manic Street Preachers fighting
for Spillers!), Cob in Bangor (they better have some in Cob, I spent every
school lunch hour and all my dinner money in there - I was a skinny kid,
damn impressive record collection though), Probe in Liverpool, Vinyl Tap
(actually I see Vinyl Tap are selling old ORG releases at silly collectors
prices, twenty seven quid for that one, you can get it for a quid direct
from us!). Yes indeed, the reality is that you’ll maybe find the new Imperial
Leisure single in some places where they’re actually on the case and aware
and care. Where they think the risk of buying the stock is worth the gamble
when the release in question is from a band most haven’t actually heard
of yet – go check out those cool shops where people want to talk about
music and share the experience rather than just sell you sanitized marketed
product (if you’re lucky enough to have such a shop in your town).
You’ll find the new CD in some shops and you may not in others. If you
really want this single right now then mailorder (or off the band at gigs)
is the reality of the way it happens right now. Won’t be in most shops
until there’s a great big well-oiled machine bankrolling a release and
backing it with advertising campaigns and tours and pretty much giving
away the stock to the HMV type shops for free. That’s how it is (yes, sure
we’ll stock your record if you sell us a hundred for the price of ten and
you pay the costs of our HMV advert in the music press and the band will
do an in-store for nothing and you sacrifice a goat before we open the
doors and...). Who can blame the little shops – tough running a real independent
record shop with millions of bands no one really cares about being hyped
and advertised all over the NME and places like The Fly (“we like your
releases but you don’t have a marketing budget for advertising do you”
said Mr Fly outside The Monarch the other day). Poor record shop owners
are clogged up with the latest hypes that no one actually wants – almost
as tough running a shop as it is running a real independent label these
days. So the reality is if you want this CD now before it gets re-issued
by some big label (or fake indie label backed by a major) and hyped all
over the place - and quite frankly were not here for all that “marketing”
and “product” and all that soul sucking stuff, we’re here because we love
music and we do things our way because we don’t want what we do polluted
and watered down by the evils and the back stabbing of the music industry
– no doubt in six months time Imperial Leisure will be on some kind of
label that does things the conventional way and in six months time NME
will be telling you about how they’ve discovered this hot new band and
Zane b***dy Lowe will be on the radio with his “hey The Zipper here, taste-maker
for the nation with the hottest new band in the world - hey kids, I’ve
been on this one since day one baby, does my shit smell of roses or what”
The Fly will run a new band feature in conjunction with some mobile phone
shampoo company who want you to drink their crap larger, Rocksound will
finally bother turning up to a gig and everyone will congratulate themselves
on how on the case they are when it comes to covering new bands. So if
you want the single now then mailorder
is the way – don’t think of staring a record label and supporting new bands
now, you’d have to be sucker these days to want to try and run a REAL independent
record label and do things the right way...
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John on the phone... |
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ON YOUR RADIO - WEEKLY on SUNDAYS AT 9.00pm via RESONANCE 104.4FM in London
and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com
more details here
This
week we're armed with new Dresden Dolls, Tribute To Nothing and who knows
what..
Talking
of RESONANCE... THIS LOOKS (AND SOUNDS) rather good
Exhumed
and Defrosted New Musical Explorations. Resonance104.4fm is proud to present
a unique concert of new music featuring Australia's foremost improviser
JON
ROSE.
Friday
11th April 2008, St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, Kings Cross. Doors
open at 8pm and concert starts at 8.30pm. Entrance £8 and £5
concs. There will be a bar. This is a unique (for British audiences probably
the very last) opportunity to hear the music of Jon Rose and two of his
own very favourite acoustic settings:
The
Kryonics - Jon Rose, violins (including the Stroh cello); Aleks Kolkowski,
violin (including the Stroh violin); Joe Williamson, contrabass violin
+ Temperament - Jon Rose, violins; Veryan Weston, resident Brindley &
Foster wind organ with tracker action
“At
last audiences in London can find out what this euro-star-music is all
about as the wind organ at the oldest church in Britain - St. Pancras,
London (founded 314 AD) - has been confirmed for a Weston-Rose concert
on 11th April with Aleks Kolkowski's Kryonics Stroh Violin project on the
same bill.
Not since the gothic horror of H P Lovecraft in his 'Music of Erich Zahn'
has the art of music offered such an evening of candlelit weirdness and
intrigue. The combination of Tenor violin, half stopped organ, Stroh violin,
bass violin, and bowed saw will set the spine erect and tingling. The setting?
None other than London's home of spook - St Pancras Old Church. Equipped
with the notable stiffs of Johann Christian Bach, Mary Shelley, and Thomas
Hardy to name but a few, the graveyard offers little comfort for those
who would entertain an evening on the hard pew contemplating mortality
and the ancient and modern of music. The crow awaits you at the door. Dress
code: Black. Makeup: Black.” - www.jonroseweb.com
(Go explore his Australian fence music!)
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DEMO TIME |
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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 good then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
Don't believe we heard anything
worthy enough this week, we did listen to lots, still a big pile here though
and you know how picky we are...
ALSO
CHECK OUT
SHADOW ARMY – Hey look,
they sent it in, they do their thing well, nothing here that has us that
excited but then the American sounding emo-voiced alternative pop of bands
like Hundred Reasons or Finch or maybe those Foo Fighters or the way Reuben
or InMe went doesn’t do that much for us either. This is a well recorded
set of songs, songs that are put together well enough, this is a demo that
deserves a mention, a band from Reading with their thing together. Musically
all very conservative and no real identity and another band content to
sound like their record collection rather than feeling the need to add
a little extra – we need a little extra, if you don’t then go explore –
apparently the singer Alex grew up in America, hence the vocal style, go
explore, there’s the link, our work is done here - www.myspace.com/shadowarmy
Last
week's demo of the week - DIE DIE DENEUVE
Previous
demo's of the week - BOMB FACTORY
/ KONTAKTE /ATLAS
/ THE HAROLD WARTOOTH / COSMIC
MICROWAVE BACKGROUND / EATEN
BY TIGERS / MOLLOY
/ THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT
/ 2 OUT OF 3 RULE
/ THE JACKPOT GOLDEN BOYS
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
| This
week the best new things we’ve been listening to were...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
MATTHEW RYAN – Matthew Ryan
vs. The Silver State (One Little Indian) – He’ll quietly get in to your
head if you let him, very easy to dismiss Matthew Ryan as just another
American singer/songwriter and let him pass by. He’s quietly released eleven
albums now (apparently) and it would be very easy to just say yeah, great,
another singer/songwriter, all very nice, thank you very much and politely
pass it on. Yes I confess I nearly did – anchors away, I made myself stay
while he quietly got in to my head and made me want to say something. You
see we don’t write about everything that comes our way, we don’t see the
point, we could spend days and days being negative or telling you about
the uninspiring and the average – we choose to only tell you about the
things that a actually worth writing about. Matthew Ryan has this understated
soul, this whispered alt.American voice; gorgeous, vulnerable, bold, and
to reject it is to cover up your fear and hide in noise and punk rock and
things like, well... well anyone can cover it all up in anger and
energy “and listening to the Clash”. This album has so much spirit, so
much heart and conscience and one more thing – you’ll have to let go. An
album that really does have enough to pull you through all the disappointment
with the strength of those words and the precise sounds, the warm instumentation
and the spot on production and mostly with the honest soul. Be patient,
be persistent, let his songs in, take your time to discover Matthew Ryan’s
craft and you’ll find it worth your time. www.myspace.com/matthewryan
or www.indian.co.uk/matthewryan
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HEADQUARTERS – Booker one
Time (Unlabel) – A brooding set of alt.math equations, Jesus Lizard/Big
Black textures, smoldering twists, pointed darts of noise – jagged, fluid,
abrasive, atmospheric, claustrophobic, experimental. Always easy to go
with, hardboiled when they want to be, never uncomfortably so – well maybe
a little uncomfortable when they want to suffocate a little and let this
be warring to you, don’t get caught with your hand up again. What
is it with Gingerbread men? Take a couple if you wish, they’re on the dish
- claustrophobic paranoia and slamming awkward twisted doors on hands and
how long does it take before it becomes rude to not reply to one’s message?
Cardiac arrests and ... They’re from Kent and they’re for those who appreciate
the musical adventures of bands such as Cove and Charlottefield. There’s
a twelve minute whisper toward the end of this rather fine album that gives
you an idea of the ambition. Released on heavyweight vinyl as a limited
edition of 200 and well worth you grabbing while you can (I guess they’ve
released this somewhere on CD as well?) - www.unlabel.com
or www.myspace.com/unreliabledropoutdossers
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FRIGHTENED RABBIT – The
Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat) – Don’t leave them at arms length or steer
clear of any disease, they’re an intriguing outfit. Folky in a precise
alt.rock/refined pop kind of way. So very very Glasgow and to call them
lo-fi does their finely textured crafted sound a disservice, they have
a lo-fi vibe, an edgy attitude, this is a finely crafted hi-fi album though
perfectly produced; raw edges and jagged words left out there to catch
your skin and graze your flesh. A distinctive Caledonian singing voice
and a lyrical bite that grabs and twists with clever sarcastic wit. In
all the hurt and the down at heel bitterness there’s an uplifting heartwarming
spirit and a defiance and turn off the TV, the thing is killing us, we
never speak or listen. This is an album to listen to. A soft spoken wordy
work and redemption for the old fashioned and something that’s just about
words and songs and tunes and back to how things used to be so you don’t
have to rely on memories. Just fine songs and a fine fine album that now
and again has the power to really grab you and take you with it. www.myspace.com/frightenedrabbit
or www.fat-cat.co.uk
MAN MAN – Rabbit Habits (Anti)
– Are this band incredibly good or just a little too irritating and wacky
for their own good with their Ballad Of Butter Beans and such? They’re
from Philadelphia and they’re certainly very clever with their percussion
and their multi-instrumental glockenspiel and milk bottle blues style.
There’s no real obvious reference point, there’s hints of avantness (well
loads of real avant adventure really), a sense of Tom Waite, maybe a far
more analogue and far less pretentious Talking Heads... Yes, healthy Captain
Beefheart flavours, nothing anywhere near enough to pin down as an obvious
reference or influence though (and these days when everyone sounds like
everyone else that has to be a breath of fresh air). Maybe the musical/lyrical
humour of Zappa (yes, I know most people love the humour of Zappa, irritates
the hell out of me...). I guess we could talk of vaudeville and jazz and
Gypsy blues and there’s all kinds of Clavinet sounds and saxophones and
Fender-jazz bass lines and that Rhodes piano that flows through the album
the further you take the time to get in to it... unless the aren’t-we-wacky
factor has you reaching for the eject button like it has me doing right
now. I don’t know, this is going to take a little more time - www.wearemanman.com
or www.myspace.com/wearemanman
4ft FINGERS – New Beginnings
Of Old Stories (Not On Your Radio) - Melodic gallop-along anthemic
punk pop is how things start off here, surprisingly slick this time around,
kind of how you expect a new album from England’s 4ft Fingers to kick in
though – we know what they’re about don’t we? Hang on! Hang on, things
are a little more tuneful here, things are a little more considered. A
little more mature? Dare we say polite? Getting old? Are 4ft Fingers growing
old as gracefully as punks approaching middle age possibly can? Where did
all those legends go anyway and why don’t bands quite sounds so good anymore
– that what they’re asking (no us). Burning out? Does everything eventually
have to be a let down? 4ft Fingers then – always thought they were OK,
good honest hard-working committed type of no messing punk-pop band. A
no messing band of the people, nothing revolutionary, always worth seeing
when they come to your town (and there probably isn’t a town they haven’t
been to). Be very easy to throw their new album on and just think ah yes,
another decent enough punk-pop album from a decent enough band, be very
easy to pack them on the back, say well done and politely move on – hang
on though, hang in there and let it breathe a little, give them the attention
and the time this new album deserves and you’ll find they’ve gone and made
a surprisingly accomplished album. 4ft Fingers are growing old as disgracefully
as they should be, they’re doing it with grace, there’s a new maturity;
a melodic reflective maturity . This really is life in England, this is
about the reality of growing up and approaching middle age, wondering what
there is left and was that it? About sharing, about the unity of music,
or the catalyst of real street-level punk rock music and the friendships
that form around it – songs of hope, 21st century English folk music.
4ft Fingers have made an intelligent album, an album of substance, an album
that fits comfortably alongside the more recent output of other ‘mature’
road-wise punk bands – bands like Against All or Bad Religion - not a mere
copy of those Americans though, 4ft Fingers are very much from England
and this is an album that’s as English as The Levellers at their best,
as English as Snuff or Carter or Leatherface, not just another set of American
wannabes. An album with a defiant beating heart, and they’re in too deep
now to just walk away - so more new beginnings to old stories then, and
you can’t teach an old dog too many new tricks – or can you? 4ft Fingers
have just made their finest album by miles... don’t dismiss it or then
as just another punk-pop band – www.myspace.com/4ftfingers
or www.notonyourradio.com
LIQUID SKY – Identity (Insomnia-Media)
– Great big bold female fronted epic ambitious symphonic gothic/pomp metal
– somewhere between the feminine drama of Evanescence and the progressive
metal of Threshold. If you like the idea of something that’s somewhere
between those two then Liquid Sky do their thing impressive well, they
stand out from the vast crowd and you’ll no doubt be far more impressed
then those of us who really don’t get that excited by this kind of over-dramatic
operatic Euro metal, they're good at their thing and they stand out
- www.liquid-sky.co.uk
PG.LOST – Yes I Am (Black
Star Foundation) – Instrumental post rock epicness from Sweden, Pg.Lost
let their melodic atmospheres flow in that now familiar refined caressing
sky touching manner. A beautiful shivering warming relaxing sound of epic
proportions - delightfully played, boldly paced restraint and if we didn’t
already have Mono, Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed YBE and all the others
then this album would be something to recommend. Thing is we already have
all those bands and they’re already done all this. As pleasant as
this is, there’s not a thing on here that goes anywhere near a hint of
identity or touch of real progression. What we have here is a nice enough
album from a band who’s melodic approach to post-rock adds up to little
more that just a very pleasant summary of the average post rock record
collection – enjoyable, serene, beautifully played, epic - but why just
sound like all the others when you’re obviously capable of so much more?
www.myspace.com/pglost
or www.blackstarfoundation.com
AKAHUM – Electwistery (Worldvenue)
– instrumental electronic free-festi prog-psych that falls somewhere in
that gap between Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles. Kind of thing you might
have found on a Better Days tape back in the daze of Club Dog, the free
festival spirit of Oroonies/Ullulators/Magic Mushroom Band and the Monkey
Piloted times or yore. Akahum are from Wales, they make for a pleasant
bubbling easy-on-the-ear psychedelic space-prog sound, not really adding
that much but hey, enjoyable enough when you need the head space and there
aren’t too many bands around who sound like this anymore – www.akhum.com
or www.worldvenue.com
JENX – Fuseless (Massacre)
– French band with a debut album that’s loaded with killing jokes and abrasive
slabs of industrial-edged metalcore from the darkest fields of nephelim
– www.myspace.com/jenxnoise
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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LIVE |
| FOUNDINGS
– Bull & Gate, London, 28th March – Fine band, mellow band, took their
own sweet sparse time with their locked on narrative and their refined
blend of gentle progressive kraut rock. Nothing but a name to us, we were
here for the excellent headliners Little Trophy, heard Foundlings briefly
on My Space – but then who has time to listen to bands on My Space properly?
A fine blend of pin-point almost spoken word vocals and tails of journeys
along England’s psychotic autobahns - the spirit of the age. Man in the
middle behind music stand flicking at his papers, Neu shirt, man on Rickenbacker
twelve string adding a contradictory jingle that makes their inspired sound
rather unique – a kind of My Bloody Valentine for Motorway City times and
One More Grain disciples. Girl on bass holding things down (or were they
swapping instruments?). Chin up, chin up, replace the indignity and a rolling
sound that will succeed – they will succeed. I really was prepared for
them not to be very good tonight, shit week ending on a shit Friday and
if it hadn’t been for the thought of Little Trophy I could have easily
opted for staying at home tonight. I want them to be average so I can slip
back to the bar and find oblivion, I can’t though. Eyes flicker, rapid
movement, please, please, consume us all, why be angry? “Hey, this band
are rather good, who are they?” say the Trophy fan next to me. He’s right,
I rally like this band, I don’t want to, I want a drink, I don’t
want any more music, release, release, I want more music. Robert Calvert,
Mark E. Smith, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, can’t leave, must watch, and
all the time that contradictory jangle of that Rickenbacker – so obvious
a combination, why hasn’t anyone else done this? Maybe they have? Stone
Roses for Neu heads? The dye was cast, endure, endure, genocide, create,
fragmented, we’re on the same side, cease to resist - this is not a sound
to resist, inherent, all over, spit it out, too late to resist now – sinister,
intent, you made it so lie in it, goodbye, goodbye... fine band, fine fine
band... Foundlings... must go and see them again www.myspace.com/foundlingsband |
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previously - UNCLE PEDRO / EPIDEME
/ THE ENABLERS / IMPERIAL
LEISURE / DAS
WANDERLUST / YOU SLUT! / TRUCKERS
OF HUSK / THE BOBBY McGEE’S
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY
/ AIRBOURNE / SPIT
LIKE THIS / MOUSE
/ GRANTURA /
TO
THE BONES /DäLEK / DESTRUCTO
STORMBOTS / GUAPO
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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SINGLES |
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SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
EFTERKLANG
– Caravan (The Leaf Label) – We’ve almost said too much about them now,
we sense you becoming a little desensitised to our ravings and droolings
and talk of majestic parades that go on for ever (or at least until they
reach the sky). Single off last year’s Organ album of the year and backed
with the glorious ripples (that should be a capital R and a reference to
an unmentionable shimmering prog moment that those who know will get) of
The Romance On Mammoth Hill – a new piece to us and something alive with
shimmering anticipation, not a milling miles away from that buzz of excitement
when a full orchestra is warming up an stretching out before a performance.
Two wonderfully delicate glowing remixes of Caravan and the adorable Mirador
and all out a limited edition 72 or digital thing that you really do need
in your life – this must be how a magpie feels when that glint of treasure
is spied. www.efterklang.net or
www.theleaflabel.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
GRAMMATICS
– D.I.L.E.M.M.A (Dance To The Radio) – They have this warm glow and this
intelligent depth that matches the obvious ambition, an intense flow and
creative charm – a band who want a little more, a band who want to challenge
themselves and a single that suggests that, given the chance then there’s
a lot more to come. Warm orchestral beautifully voiced ambitious indie
rock – www.dancetotheradio.com
/ www.myspace.com/grammatics
RORY
McVICAR – No More Do I Cry (Series 8) – Norwich singer songwriter with
no name to defend and not a care – he really does sound like he doesn’t
have a care, actually he sounds like carefree sunny easy Morrissey with
time well spent – Smith’s flavoured, not a mere copy through, just a feel,
well worth checking out – www.rorymcvicar.com
THE
AUTHOR – Dannie (Weekender) - Fizzing synth pop for fans of The Bravery,
Bloc Party and such. Kind of galloping, kind of spiky in an indie pop kind
of way, kind of. Kind of like it in a very current indie synth pop nu-something
or other kind of way. Using up all nine of your lives twice.. kind of...
www.myspace.com/theauthormusic
COMPUTER
CLUB – Electrons & Particles (Split) - Another one of those slightly
epic, slightly heroic indie rock bands that taste of things like Bloc Party,
Editors and such. B-side is far better than the a-side, a-side isn’t bad,
b-side has us checking to see if it isn’t Leave The Capital back under
yet another name. Computer Club have a little edge and in that second song
a little bit of a finger print. Nothing that radically life changing, you’re
not going to catch us leaping off tall buildings to tell you you must check
them out or anything like that – they sound like one of those bands you
catch every night of your lives on late night Channel Four music programs,
one of those bands that the NME declare the best band in the world ever
and then write off the week after as crap really. I kind of like
the b-side - These Bones – the b-side hints at good things to maybe come....
www.myspace.com/iheartcc
Last
week's single of the week - NAVVY
Previously
- MAPS / M83
/ CATNAP / WHAT
WOULD JESUS DRIVE? / FRIGHTENED RABBIT
/ CAVALERA CONSPIRACY / SILVERY
/ PICTURES / STE
McCABE / THE DEATH SET / KUNK
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY / HERZOGA
/ THE DROPKICK MURPHYS
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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of OF THE WEEK |
AHLEUCHATISTAS
- The Same and the Other (Tzadik) - A welcome re-release of the Ahleuchatistas'
second album, appropriately enough as part of Tzadik's impressive Fullforce
Composer series. This is unfettered, pure musical telepathy: guitar,
bass and drums galloping and weaving through an intricate maze of riffs
and rhythms. Little studio trickery gets in the way of a very as-it-comes
sound, leaving the nearly tactile pleasure of their complex dynamics.
Ahleuchatistas glory in all the different shapes a stripped-down rock setup
can make; luxuriate in the joy of putting contrasting shapes and colours
against each other in time. It's pure (that word again) composing
- these guys have the skills to play anything they like, have so got over
showing off this fact, and are just into the joy of it. It's not
easy listening, and yet it's likeable in a way that's hard to define.
The three musicians have tastes overlapping US hardcore rock, avant and
progressive, with a healthy dose of jazz. A piece like Good
Question is archetypal Ahleuchatistas - dozens of changes, ranging from
incredibly tight unison stabs of sound to a guitar solo that starts off
seriously skilled, ends up having a lunatic conversation with itself, blinks
and pulls itself together for a perfectly sane rock-out finale with the
rhythm section. It's a delight: studded with brilliant ideas, and fun -
but then, pretty much every track is. The aptly named Joyous Disruptions
starts with guitar revving up like a motorbike, ends with it sounding like
jungle birds... and so it goes on, with imagination at every turn.
It's easy to hear why this became such a sought-after album before this
re-release. In comparison to more recent albums - What You Will and
Even In The Midst - the Ahleuchatistas sound is extremely similar, but
The Same and the Other may be a little heavier, meatier sounding, with
a more hints of sonic humour, a touch of the Carl Stalling in places. 'Recorded
fresh from a tour, in a blistering hot basement' - bands are never
better then when they're just done thirty tiny venues in as many days,
and Ahleuchatistas sound stunning here. This music fizzes with life and
energy. Well, well worth re-releasing. More info - www.ahleuchatistas.com
or www.tzadik.com
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