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#198 > MAR 15th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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| Multi-coloured
flying monkeys and following the signposts on the organbrick road... |
“I
have turned the country upside-down and there is a frothy wake everywhere”
said the Empress of beautiful chaos, don’t ask us, we’re not to blame when
our family runs riot. Did you miss us last week? Another surreptitious,
flagrant, reptilian, reprehensible, forlorn edition of your on line Organ.
No time to blame fixture congestion, forty-hour flights of fancy and more
reptiles feasting on blood over on the Northern line. All that and the
flying monkeys and the fallout from the very secretive not very secret
Secret Society set of incidents that seems to have deliciously confused
those who are so easily confused – why do you need it all so safely packaged
and marketed at you all the time? What ever happened to rule breaking and
letting the music do the talking.
We’re off to see the wizard
and the blizzard and hang on while we hit the big red eject button and
detonate this dreadfully dull demo. That’s better, I’m sure they’re very
nice people and we’re sure they’re always kind to animals and orphans and
their mothers probably love them lots and lots but hey, we don’t need no
average demos from tedious rinky-dinky bands who clearly aren’t ever going
to offer anything worth anyone’s time, effort or emotional cheese on toast
– we do not need average music stinking up our over crowded busy busy day.
We have standards, stop sending us your average compromised music, we don’t
need your general mediocrity cluttering up life’s essential qualities,
send it to the NME wannabes. Time to fight off the flying monkeys
and the clueless industry types, time to go nail up some more blatantly
obvious signposts. Please do go follow the signs to the good, the signs
to the bad and the ones that lead to the leftover crack. Oh look a letter
from the castle, not the out of reach tower, they haven’t got a clue what
day it is up there, they’d never dare to look down the Organbrick road,
no, this one is from the crunchy castle...
“Hi. Just a quick line to
thank you for introducing me to M*** M****** N***** (name removed to protect
the guilty and the sanity of the innocent). I'll tell you what, for ALL
the bullshit that inhabits the other 99.9% of MySpace and everything else,
I'd willingly sacrifice it for the likes of M*****, G******, G**** etc
who I'd NEVER have hooked up with if it weren't for Organ. But then I quess
this was what it was all about though wasn't it? Yeah okay, the music's
paramount, but those damn signposts of yours sometimes have the lovely,
unpredictable habit of leading travelers like me down wonderful alleys.
Ta. 'Follow the Organbrick road my friend' I'm often telling people...it's
that multicoloured thing that meanders off into the distance..." but beware
of Crunchenstein Castle ~ evil flying monkeys and stuff ...Baaaaaad place.."
Yes, Dr Crunch, it is mostly
about the music that can be found down all those multi coloured broken-bricked
roads with the thirty foot tall pink windmills made of junk and scrap and
cheap essential scenery. It is about the people involved and all that revolves
around the music just as much as it is about the music. This week’s Organ
is as much about the positive energy of the Leeds Ladyfest crew or the
art of Eric Drooker or how George Tabb is doing today or what’s going on
in the land of SchNews or... It is about the music but hey, if you
choose to just allow yourself to consume the music they want you to consume
and you choose to just let them treat it as mere product and allow yourself
to be treated as nothing but a gig going consuming customer, there to have
your wallets and purses emptied at the concessions stands, then you’re
missing out on so so much...
The signposts we put up are
just to point you vaguely in the direction you need go to help you find
all these wonderfully exciting inspiring inviting musical things waiting
to be found out there every single week. It really is up to you to decide
which signs you want to follow - nothing is compulsory, if your happy with
the View then stick with the view, if you think that signpost we just put
up there sounds like it points to something interesting then go have a
look for yourself, just click on the link and find out for yourself.. You
got all the links and you have your minds (you do still have your minds
don’t you? You didn’t let the marketing men and their mainstream media
take it away did you? You can make up your own mind can’t you? You didn’t
trade it in for last year’s Download ticket did you?) Just work out which
signposts and signals interest you most, choose the ones you want to follow
and go get involved, you’ll find lots of good people waiting to feed you
and include you and involve you and share with you and get in to what you’re
doing today and it really is still all about contacting and switching the
other. Don’t just be a consumer and don’t say we didn’t warn you about
those flying monkeys... watch out for those flying monkeys!!
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IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
nO
DON'T BOOKMARK US, THOSE sUBBA CULTCHA people know what's really going
on...
SINGLE OF THE MONTH - A SECRET
SOCIETY - THIS TIME - ORG RECORDS - The not so secret disguise for 00's
rock saviours My Vitriol, return with another excellent representation
of rock brilliance, those Posies-licious melodies, the deep sense of melancholy
and those teutonic riffs and bleeding guitar noises - it's as if they've
never been away – A welcome return from a not so secret band. - www.subba-cultcha.com |
AKERCOCKE TOUR WITH BON
JOVI - Gentlemen death-metallers Akercocke have confirmed a UK headline
tour with Cephalic Carnage and Ted Maul in May to celebrate the release
of their new album (as yet untitled) through Earache records in May. Okay,
we lied about the Bon Jovi bit, here’s the tour.: AKERCOCKE, CEPHALIC CARNAGE,
TED MAUL May: 15th The Attic Rushden (Akercocke only), 16th Nottingham
Rock City, 17th The Music Box Manchester, 18th Belfast Spring and Airbrake,
19th Dublin voodoo lounge, 20th The Cathouse Glasgow, 21st Rio's in Leeds
(hang on person who sent me these dates, isn’t that in Bradford?), 22nd
The Park in Peterborough, 23rd The Academy Birmingham, 24th Sheffield Corp,
25th Cardiff TBC, 26th The Nexus Southampton, 27th The Underworld London.
AKERCOCKE are also playing
2 *intimate* shows on 29th March at Colchester Arts Centre and 31st March
at Water Rats, London. “Catch an exclusive preview of their new album at
these shows” said an Earache spokesperson |
THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
THE
SMEARS have been added to the Ladyfest Leeds bill on 15th April,
more details as soon as we have them, Ladyfests are going on all over the
land, indeed all over the world, there’s been over 100 Ladyfests all over
the world since 20000. Go get involved, create is still the main word.
Here’s some words from the Leeds team - “Ladyfest Leeds is a festival
celebrating creativity, diversity and gender equality, taking place from
TUESDAY 10th to SUNDAY 15th APRIL for the people of Leeds and Yorkshire,
as well as visitors from around the Ladyfest Leeds aims to break down the
barriers between the art world and of us who are creative every day – we
want to celebrate the talents of all women”. Check out the website at www.ladyfestleeds.co.uk.
The Smears will also be playing
a hometown show on 13th April at Nottingham’s Rescue rooms
Meanwhile, talking of Ladyfests
and such, SAUCY LIL TART in conjunction with LADYFEST LONDON 2008
Presents the LADYFEST LONDON 2008 LAUNCH on APRIL 2nd 2007 @ THE OLD BLUE
LAST with The Bobby McGees, The Congregation, Tom Hatred and Naomi Hates
Humans. Doors are ar 8pm and entry is free. The Old Blue Last is next
to the Nailgun Arms at 39 Great Eastern Street London ECE
And the Saucy Lil Tart herself
would like to say “those of you wondering what the f Ladyfest is
will probably benefit the most from getting involved... It all started
many moons ago, first came love: riot grrl in the nineties in America,
then came Ladyfest - a DIY festival. o don't know when the first Ladyfest
was, Wikipedia reckons it was 2000, but I reckon it was before that. The
last one in London was 2002 - that's 65 periods ago for most of us... The
next chance to rip it up in London is 2008, which is f**king ages away...
but we have a fix for you ahead of time. Come and meet and greet the crew
of Ladyfest London 2008, soak up the vibes and spread the word. it's free
so you have no excuse...
www.myspace.com/saucyliltartpromotions
WILL HAVEN SCRAP TOUR
- Will Haven have virtually scrapped all of their previously announced
UK tour. The only date left is Metro in London on April 12. This is to
allow them to go back to America and finish their comeback album.
EVERYTHING MUST GO
are out and about again, it isn’t like they were going to let St Paddy’s
day go by without letting off a musical bomb or two is it. E.M.G play the
annual St Patrick’s Day Punk Rock Bash this coming Saturday March 17th
with Alcholholocaust (a gig promoter who does things the right way).
It all happens at the rather fine ELBO ROOMS in San Francisco and the bill
also features NO ALTERNATIVE, LA PLEBE, FRACAS, MIDNIGHT BOMBERS, THE VILLAGE
PISS.
MY VITRIOL have just
announced the release of a new single 'War of the Worlds', the single will
be released on May 21st 2007 via all digital outlets, e.g. iTunes,
etc Pre-order details to follow in about a week so say the band, I guess
the best place for news will be via their My Space page or the rather good
looking myvitriol.net (although
both of those pages haven’t told you who A Secret Society are yet, don't
ask me, it's a secret guv)
ME FIRST & THE GIMMIE
GIMMES play London Kentish Town Forum June 29, Birmingham
Academy 30, Newcastle Academy
July 1.
MICHAEL J SHEEHY,
he of SAINT SILAS INTERCESSION and indeed DREAM CITY FILM CLUB has
a rather fine sounding solo album out on April 2nd. The beautiful
thing is on Red Eye/Glitterhouse I do believe. We’ve been waiting for this
to come out, if the album features the same material that we heard last
year then you’re in for a very fine treat (the so far unreleased Saint
Silas album is excellent as well). Get a taste of Michael’s album over
on his My Space page http://www.myspace.com/michaeljsheehy
A SECRET SOCIETY’s
This Time was featured on Steve Lamacq’s BBC Radio One show last night
as one of the “hottest five tracks in the world right now”, Mr Lamacq seemed
to think the true identity of the band was “the worst kept secret in rock”,
I don’t know, I thought we’d kept it to ourselves rather well up to now
LESS THAN JAKE are
to play the Mean Fiddler in London from September 11-16. The band will
play a different album each night. The records in question are 'Pezcore'
(1995), 'Losing Streak' (1996), 'Hello Rockview' (1998), 'Borders &
Boundaries' (2000), 'Anthem' (2003) and 'In With The Out Crowd (2006)'.
The band have yet to determine which albums will be performed on what dates.
John on the phone...... |
| MIXING IT: TERMINATED AT
BBC RADIO 3 RESUSCITATED ON RESONANCE 104.4FM
In February 2007 stalwart
new music programme Mixing It was inexplicably dropped by BBC Radio 3 Controller
Roger Wright after 16 years of broadcasting. This was perceived by many
as a grave moment for composers and performers of experimental music, since
a major highway to mainstream audiences had been denied, it is also reflective
of the increasing conservatism that BBC Radio 3 has been infected by since
the appointment of Roger Wright as Controller. However, Mixing It is back
on the air courtesy of Resonance FM.
"Resonance FM has always
welcomed refugees - with regular programmes by Somalian, Congolese, Iranian
and Serbian groups. We're equally happy to provide a haven for broadcasters
expelled by the BBC," explains programming director Ed Baxter, who recently
wrote a Guardian feature about the influence of "Mixing It". Mixing
It's first broadcast goes out on Wednesday nights. from 11:00 - 12:00pm.
See www.resonancefm.com |
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 11.15pm.
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 14th
Mar -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 March at 11.15pm
THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING
VIDEOS....
ANTI PRODUCT - Better Than
This
AMON TOBIN - Verbal
ChthoniC - Quasi Putrefaction
THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch
CULT OF LUNA - Leave Me
Here
CIRCLESOUND - Can't Blame
Me
ZERO CIPHER - Stupid People
Make Me Angry
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
THE
SCARLET LETTER UNION - Two Love Songs - This week’s token Explosions In
The Sky style nice polite twinkle-bright and delicately warm post-rock
band are The Scarlet Letter Union. Actually TSLU is a one piece mostly
instrumental band from Winchester and this two track recording (limited
release of just 200 in impressive inviting handmade covers) is a well crafted
emotion journey in to polite melody and dissonant emotion. Sounds like
lots of things that are coming our way right now though and we’re crying
out for a little more identity - but hey Rome wasn’t built in a day and
this is ambiently good in a 65 days of very very calm static kind of way,
worth your time and let us hope for lots more - www.myspace.com/thescarletletterunion
ALSO
CHECK OUT
TORQUE
ARMADA – Users And The Wasted Youth - A rather decent rather energetic
rather busy punky/grungy/indie-rock three piece of a band from deepest
Essex. Full albums worth of material, impressive amount of committed gig
activity and hard work going on here. Nothing that really stands out from
the musical crowd yet but there are the seeds of ideas and moments that
demand attention in here, could be worth watching and seeing what develops.
They certainly don’t want to just ape their record collection and they’re
more concerned with the music than the latest emo haircut. There’s an anthemic
hint or two of potential left-field creativity here and it is good
to see a band just getting out and doing it with the right attitude and
commitment rather than sitting there and waiting for a knock on the door.
Nice one. I’m guessing their intention is to release this as an album themselves
then gig like hell in every pub and toilet venue in the South... respect
to them. www.myspace.com/torquearmada
Last
week's demo of the week - KOE
Previous
demo's of the week - DEATH LIST FIVE / BITCH
SLAP BARBIE / 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
/
THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS
/ BLACK JACKSON / INNER
RAGE / ALLERGO
/ BROOKE / CARTRIDGE
/ PERHAPS CONTRAPTION
/ THE PROCESS VOID |
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BURN THE... |
| No, don't burn things down,
buy things goddamn |
'NEW
ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
SHINING
– Grindstone (Rune Grammofon) - Just how good is this album! We’ve been
drinking in the roller-coaster of intensity again and again for weeks and
weeks now and I still have no idea how to tell you about it. We could just
cut to the chase and go for one of those lists and talk of driving Henry
Cow and manic Cardiacs and Jazzy Gong and Walter/Wendy Carlos and Ligeti
and Ornette Coleman and Jaga Jazzist and Mahavishnu Orchestra but that
would only give you a very vague idea. We could talk of weird space operas
and futuristic filmoid widescreen soundscapes and A Clockwork Orange and
A Space Odessey and John Williams and John Carpenter and no one here makes
a sound, standing up or sitting down and Van Der Graaf Generator or King
Crimson or Messiaen or Two Lone Swordsmen or 65Daysofstatic or Beethoven
(Clockwork Orange again...) but the list would have to go on and on and
end up being far too long and out of control and... Oh, this is a stunning
good and highly original album. There’s all these fleeting flavours and
ah that bit sounds like X and no, hang on, now it tastes of futuristic
Mozart made on synths in 1975 days of static style glitch-prog and no,
hang on, lush strings now... no hang on... Really this album sounds like
nothing you’ve heard before (there goes another big lump of Cardiacs orchestration
followed by some filthy King Crimson death metal and more glitch-prog and
post-rock junglist genre smashing and some delicate synth and...).
And the weather keeps on changing, one minute sunny and bright, then we’re
in a gushing blizzard of noise. Right now things are all squelchy and almost
entirely instrumental although strange voices and vocoder-like words occasionally
come through the fog and the static. And those glorious chords and that
gothically baroque Metropolis angel and... Track one is called In The Kingdom
Of Kitch You Will Be A Monster, that title will give you some kind of idea
(maybe?). No, no idea how we’re going to explain how good this album is.
Multi instrumentalist writer and mainman, Norwegian Jorgen Munkeby (one
time member of Jaga Jazzist) leads us (and his four piece band) through
all kinds of genre-hoping and complex riffing and filmic landscapes and
jazz and... Classical and modern composition and... No, no idea how we’re
going to tell you how good this is, no, we’re stumped this time – brilliant
album. www.shining.no
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK 2
LEFTOVER
CRACK / CITIZEN FISH – Deadline (Fat Wreck) - So are we animals just machines
being used by our own sneaky genes so that they can carry on? No time to
deal with that kind of question right now, or the skulk or the dialectic
of it all, we got a Leftover Crack/Citizen Fish double header throwing
questions and demanding answers (or at least some thought), don’t go cop-calling
on us now, that won’t get you anywhere. The Fish and the Crack combusting
together on one fine album and no changing channels is gonna make this
one go away, what a double header! Fifteen slices of politically charged
question-throwing authority-baiting edge-of-the-seat creatively good punk
rock tunes for all you Government loving fundamental Christians out there.
Oh yes, there’s still hope when there’s bands like this prepared to still
not compromise – a match indeed made in the squats around the back of heaven.
No need for laughing as a sign of self-defense and no going back
to square one now, not while getting along is still top of the list and
silence can never be wrapped in a flag. Two of anarcho ska-punk’s powerhouses
- and packed with cameos from the likes of Jello, MDC’s Dave proctor and
that guy with the mohawk from the CIA (you know the one, always asking
too many questions and handing out too many flyers, you’ve seen him, pink
hair, started his own record label..). Ah look we love Leftover Crack and
Sturgeon and his train-hopping, garbage-eating gravel-hoarse vocalized
politics of the street, we just love the guy okay. Empowering energy
and anti-whatever-you-got to get anti about this week. Musical chaos in
the face of the impending apocalypse and a buttress as a metaphor for something
or other. Ah look we love those subhuman Citizen Fish even more than we
love the Crack, we love their smashing and side swiping at the capitalistic
dream and those ford cortinas and household pets and does your lifestyle
contradict the words you sing? There are still some out there you know
you can put your hope and all your faith in - Hang on that’s Leftover Crack
ripping through a Subhuman song. And all wrapped in the finest Eric Drooker
artwork tooo, go check out Eric when you have a moment. Long live Sir Dick
Lucas and his positively insightful socio-political lyrics and more importantly
just who is Philip The Sock Monkey anyway? So, new material from
two of the finest punk rock bands out there, both sounding as strong and
challenging and up for the fight (what ever that fight is) as ever. Two
proper punk rock bands, you’re not going to catch these two playing Download
for Clear Channel, no Anti-Flag compromise so we can reach more people
crap here. Good looking artwork, fine sounding music, argument-provoking,
debate sparking lyrics to invest a thought or two in - good everything.
Good. Can you live without the whole damn cake? No you damn well can’t,
go buy it, hang on, no, um, no,don’t buy stuff.... And the thing
is, when you strip away all the politics and the sentiment and the good
energy and the demanding drive and the shots at war and hate and the call
to arms and smashing the new world order and you just strip it down to
the basic craft of the song then this is still first rate tune-making and
these are two damn fine and rather talented front line bands. Two of the
very best bands out there and don’t let no gun-toting god-fearing government
agent in an earth-destroying SUV tell you otherwise – burn down the malls,
burn down whatever they don’t want you to burn down. Oh look the new world
order has downsized and the savages on the other side of the wall are trying
to break through, only punk rock can save us now, don’t buy more stuff
besides this stuff and don’t burn down the malls that sell this stuff,
hang on, no, that’s not right, yes burn it all down, burn the lot, burn
you computer. Who are these Organ people anyway? Who funds them? Can someone
please join the dots up. Two great bands, both on top form, one great album,
covering Choking Victim and Subhumans songs and making the world just a
little bit better than it was this morning. Don’t go burning anything down
now. Don’t go burning anything down now, you got to find different ways
of dealing with the disappointment of humanity – there are good people
out there thinking like you and hey you can trust the authorities not to
burn your house down can’t you?. www.fatwreck.de
/ www.fatwreck.com / www.drooker.com
/ www.citizenfish.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
ANDENSUM
– Lucky Witness (Crash) - Decent enough melodic nu-metal that crunches
where it needs to crunch and bites where it needs to bite. They’re from
Oxfordshire, they sound rather like of lot of things we already heard far
too many times, but then so do a lot of bands far worse than this - www.andensum.co.uk
PORNOHEFT
– Frantic and angular and very stylistic and Germanic and uber-new wave
punk crash and burn and and and another fine album from our favourite Germans.
They’re like some kind of Motorhead or Mudhoney for people who like positively
charged weird/wired Kraut rock and unpredictable operatic punk and strangely
obscure European new-wave Pere Ubu flavoured bands from 1981. Think Ramones
in a healthy ruck with Einsturzende Neubauten and you’ll be somewhere near
getting there. Things seem relatively straight froward this rime around,
relative is the key word though, last time around Pornoheft were extremely
extreme and very left field - this time they seem to be relatively accessible
– still weird and wired and rewarding and just as gloriously recommended
and as worth you valuable time as last time around though www.pornoheft.org
DAATH
– The Hinders (Roadrunner) – Some kind of subtle as a brick to the head
sledgehammer onslaught of a technical death metal show-off band. The sort
that those serious metal people who never ever smile like, all technical
guitar wankery and Trivium/Maiden/Queensryche posing. Growling grunting
death/black metal style cookie monster vocalist, cram as many bombastic
notes and keyboard runs in to it every bit of it while the drummer with
the small-dick complex hammers away – no time to ever think about space
or light or shade, just sledgehammer it all in and look at how fast that
fret wanking is. I guess they’re really good at it, impressive musicians
with serious technique and I guess if you like this kind of stuff then
they do it rather well. Not doing much for us, we like our metal with a
bit more raw attitude or an edge of danger or maybe to be really out there
and challenging the boundaries of genre rather than this safe conservative
option that Daath are offering us. This kind of death metal fret wanking
is just not clever, still everyone to their own thing and they do do their
chosen (rather unoriginal) thing rather well. If you like the sound of
it then follow the sign posts and go find out more, each to their own and
blah blah blah - www.daathmusic.com
THE
PONY COLLABORATION – The Pony Collaboration (Series 8) - Maybe it helps
that the sun came out and right now we’re basking in the beauty of a breezy
spring afternoon? Or maybe this would be just as charming and refreshing
on dull wet day? Yes, I think it would. Whatever, this really is delightfully
uplifting and positively charming. Delicate, refined, relaxed, very English
sounding Americana if you can have such a thing – you can’t, but you know
what I mean don’t you? A tea and fine bone china take on that Calixico
easiness. Very easy, unforced, natural and they really do sound like they
come from Cambridge. Just perfect pop, perfect tunes, perfect production,
perfect textures, everything feels just so right. Loaded with warmth and
soul and maybe even a hint of breezy Northern Soul in there with the strings
and the glockenspiel and melodica and the refined percussion. Positively
lazy pop to get lost in for hours and hours - recommended
www.theponycollective.com
THE
MIGHTY ROARS – Swine And Cockerel (One Little Indian) – London’s rather
infectious Mighty Roars with their Yeah Yeah Yeah style spiky bolshy sometimes
scratchy and rather electric indie rock. – www.themightyroars.com
BLACK
STONE CHERRY – Black Stone Cherry (Roadrunner) – From Edmonton Kentucky
with some Southern flavoured classic hard rock. A reasonably modern retro
flavoured take on early Aerosmith, on the mighty Molly Hatchet, on those
Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd and maybe a hint of Nickelback... Neat Southern
sounding version of the Yardbirds classic Shapes of Things (covered by
many, few have done it this well). They got a great big groove, they got
soul, they’re the real deal, they’re hardly revolutionary - sometimes a
musical revolution just isn’t necessary. They do their thing right and
they do it well - www.blackstonecherry.com
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terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!! |
| Roooooo |
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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
ALMOS
– Silly Icarus, But You Can’t Really Blame Him For Everything (Pet Piranna)
- Yeah I know it came out on the 5th, blah blah release dates, what the
hell, we’ve been busy and there’s battles to fight and what the hell do
we know and who cares about release dates. Rules? We shit ‘em, this ain’t
one of the NME wannabe sites who give a toss about release dates, oh mummy,
we can’t review that, it’s already a week old and we are oh so very important
you know. This is excellent! A classic ‘proper’ single, intelligent post-rock
edge to a glorious left-field clever indie-pop rush, absolutely everything
you ever want from a single, put it on repeat and enjoy it for hours and
hours (and hours). Their finest moment yet, Icarus has these great big
hooks and so much substance, as good as a Pixies single without ever resorting
to just ripping off the Pixies and their glorious formula like so many
bands do. As fine as the finest Sicbay song (you can take that as a massive
compliment). Almos are from Dundee (they sound positively American in the
very best of ways) they’ve made some rather decent records before, nothing
as breathtakingly good as this though, this moves them up a whole division
or two. Hey, I’m not going to spoil it with words and trying to break it
down and explain why this is so damn good – just accept that it is and
go be curious and find out why, have we ever let you down? No, I am a doctor
and you need this. B-side sounds a little Franz without ever being annoying
like Franz always are, thr a-side is just glorious. Yes, all is well with
the world and it is safe to fly close to that big bright yellow thing in
the sky after all. www.alamos.co.uk
/ www.myspace.com/alamos /
www.petpiranha.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
THE
DISAPPOINTMENTS – No Charades (Fierce Panda) – Bunch of seventeen year
olds from the discharge wastelands of Stoke On Trent. Sounds like a lot
of gloriously good in-your-face punk rock things we’ve heard a million
times already from a thousand wholesome ‘proper’ bands like Rancid or Anti
Nowhere League or blah blah blahdeeeeey blah. Sounds righteously good and
raw and rough and spiky and straight at you with no time to mess about
(and no fashion agenda or Hoxton toss either) . Not what you’d expect from
those Fierce Pandas, guess there’s hope for us all. Either that or raw
punk rock must be this week’s in thing with the industry. Cynical? Us,
nah mate – who cares what label it’s on, this is damn fine and we can always
use more attitude and energy like this, buy things, burn things down, yell
lots, don't buy things, stay away from that leftover crack and don't believe
anything those citizen fish tell you – www.myspace.com/thedisappointments
PORCUPINE
TREE – Fear Of A Blank Planet (Roadrunner) – Typical Porcupine Tree, politely
paced, as “expansive” as usual, same old well-behaved squeaky clean neo-prog.
All very very conservative and on the safe side of middle-aged middle-class
Pink Floyd – which of course will keep those who think Marillion are still
worth anything (and Radiohead are far too dangerous and cutting edge and
having more that one spoonful of sugar in your cafiene-free coffee is living
far too wildly) very happy and content. Hey look, I know loads of you out
there love this band and we’re not going to get in to any pointless rant
about hove very unprogressive and predictable and polite Porcupine Tree
always are - you obsessive Porcupine Tree fans will be more than happy
and no man is an island except the isle of man and we are sane and we are
not to blame - www.porcupinetree.com
LOST
PROPHETS – 4AM Forever (Visible Noise) – Talking of politeness and Marillion,
actually no, this is more like a radio friendly REO Speedwagon power ballad.
Oh for a time machine to take this back to those hardcore punk rock demo
tape touting Loztprophetz who once invaded the Organ office demanding a
gig and to be on a compilation album. Now you’re probably expecting us
to rip this apart aren’t you? No no no, everything Lost Prophets do has
that extra bit of class. Nothing wrong with an REO Speedwagon power ballad
when things are done as well as this and we’re allowed ot contradict ourselves
if we want to. And I couldn’t give two hoots about how unfashionable it
may be to say Lost Prophets always deliver and hey if they continue to
do so then we’ll continue to say they good – and hey they never claimed
to be anything they’re not. This is good, this is not the time to bring
in any ship to the shore and throw away no oar, not yet anyway – you can
fire your usual anti Lost Prophets e.mail at us now, you always do when
we say we like them. www.visiblenoise.com
THE
CONWAY STORY – Landing Light (IRL) – And hey, if you like Porcupine Tree
and the fragile edge of those Smashing Pumpkins then this is for you as
well - www.theconwaystory.com
TRADEMARK
Come To Love (Truck) - A slick enough, well polished, cut-price D.I.Y Pet
Shop Boys with a poppy OMD edge. Thing is, Pet Shop Boys are almost perfect,
everyone else is going to sound like a Sainsbury’s own brand version. Trademark
are good, they’re clearly ambitious, we need a little more than just a
cut price Pet Shop Boys from them though, more ambition – www.truckrecords.com
Last
week's single of the week - THE LOW LOWS
Previously
- I LIKE TRAINS / DINOSAUR
Jr / RADIO LUXEMBOURG / HONEY
RIDE ME A GOAT / MOTHGUTS / KILLA
KELA / CHARLES CAMPBELL JONES / TOBIAS
FROBERG / 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
/ THE LOVES / THE
EDUCATION / JESUS LICKS / EINSTELLUNG
/ SPIDERBABY / |
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