Thing of the Day
Alive bring us White Noise Sound and more
December 29th 2010
Album: WHITE NOISE SOUND – White Noise Supersound
(Alive) - Alive seems to be just the right place for Swansea’s White
Noise Sound to call home. The cult US label has a reputation for the
slightly retro flavoured sounds of garage, psych rock, lo-fi blues and
such - a Bomp of a label if you will. White Noise Sound (not to be confused with the original 60s proto-Radiophonic Workshop Electric Storm in Hell lot) may not have
the most imaginative band name in the world but it does kind of nail
their colours to the front of their tin as they set about doing exactly
as it ways on the front. A locked-on forward moving set of Hawkwind
meets Spacemen 3 set of hues, bits that positively taste of the Dandy
Warhols take on the Slowdive/ Chapterhouse/ Ride sound, some radiant
slices of Primal Scream or My Bloody Valentine, a clean cut Kraut rock
flow and a whole fluid sound of white noise forward-moving goodness.
The Welsh six piece have a very precise sound, a crisp clear take on
that rush down the autobahn: that Valium Ten staccato stab, the lighthouse shining star in outer space, the throbbing of the engine...
White Noise Sound have their own take on that wall of sound; they power that
sound with an abundance of light and shade, reflective passages of
Tangerine Dream, an effortless flow of mellow warmth and driving space
rock that’s all loaded up for another ride, me and the devil walking
side by side… I just so like the way this feels.
White Noise Sound’s self-titled debut album is out in the UK on Alive Records on January 17th
More from www.whitenoisesound.net
Other albums on Alive in recent times:
SCOTT MORGAN – Scott Morgan (Alive)
– Eleven slices of authentically righteous-sounding late 60’s early
70’s soul; blues, Stax stomp, proper R&B, sweet sweet things to set
your soul on fire. Sounds like it has all been beamed in from an eight
track cartridge analogue studio somewhere down in the Mississippi Delta
or maybe the Motortown, somewhere around 1972, right there hitting the
spot just right…
HACIENDA – Big Red & Barbacoa
(Alive) – Operating somewhere in that primordial rock ‘n roll area
where things were evolving from the original primitive early 60’s
sounds of pop ‘n roll to the early moves of garage... Beach Boys, hot
rods, girls, blues and sounding pretty authentic about it all should
you be of a mind…
Explore the label here: www.alive-totalenergy.com
