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Year: 2005
Label: Monitor / Rock Action
Overlooked band from Glasgow, Scotland, and that's a real shame because they kill. They are completely fantastic, and this, their second album fucking slays. They are on Mogwai's label, and you may hear that influence on the opening track, but once you get on from there, it's just rocking, catchy, driving, quiet/loud, goodness. I think someone somewhere described them as "Pavement covering Black Sabbath", which isn't too far off. There's some crazy psychedelic metal in there, some pure pop indie rock, some creeping sludge, and some good old fashioned grungy noise rock. Teenage Fanclub versus Torche? Chavez versus Todd?
I'm surprised this band isn't huge. Of course, I'm surprised I'm not huge either, but that's sort of another issue I suppose.
7 comments:
Gonna have to be a dick and point out these guys are from London. As a Glaswegian I'd claim them if I could. Great band.
yours,
A. Pedant Esq.
good heavens...i owe you and the sovereign state of scotland an apology. thank you for pointing that out.
maybe it was all the mogwai talk that got me mixed up.
Gracias loko por este tremendo disco, muy buena la banda...saludos desde Chile...¡ salud !
Excellent band.
are these guys still a band? this album and the other one they put out both rule...criminally underrated band.
New album out in Spring '09 called "Thriller".
Saw these guys opening for Mogwai a few years ago, and I thought they were awesome, but I never got around to looking for a cd.
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