Artigos com o marcador punk
Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again (2010)
22/07/10
Obeying the old adage about leaving ‘em wanting more, the Austin trio give us just 9 tracks in 26 minutes – packed with walls of guitar noise, dirty riffs, pounding primeval rhythms and slashing distortion. Taking a cue from the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Velvet Underground (with additional nods to Suicide, The Cramps and the Damned), Woven Bones makes raw sinews-exposed rock’n’roll from blasts of indie guitars (‘I’ll Be Runnin’), primal rock’n’roll drumbeats (‘Creepy Bones’) or extravagantly garagey fuzzrock (‘7 Year Mirror’). They sweeten the darkness, however, with plenty of melody, especially on the 60s garage-poppy ‘Guess You Already Knew’. It’s an outpouring of pent-up passion that despite the fuzz and the crepuscular influences is pretty ecstatic when it comes to presentation. ~ Ged M, SoundsXP
My Rate: 8/10
Áudio de “Guess You Already Knew”
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Brilliant Colors – Never Mine 7″ (2010)
08/06/10
SLUMBERLAND San Francisco’s Brilliant Colors have staked-out a unique spot in the indie music landscape. Inspired in equal parts by post-punk DIY fervor and the spiky pop of C86 and early Flying Nun/Creation label output, they hearken back to a time when the best tunes came out on 7″ singles and weekends were spent digging through the stacks at your favorite local record shop. Their 2009 album, Introducing, is one of the finest debuts in recent memory, combining guitar buzz with dreamy melodies and rushing rhythms into some dream combination of The Dils and Shop Assistants.
Now the band is back with their first new recordings since that great album, and boy are they winners. “Never Mine” is simply 1:49 of punk-pop perfection, singer/guitarist Jess Scott’s spare riff underpinned by Diane Anastasio’s steady thump and Michelle Hill’s busy, melodic bassline. It’s Brilliant Colors in a nutshell: crunchy garage punk played with total purposefulness, leavened by an instinctive pop sense. On the flip side the pace picks up for “Kissing’s Easy”: all rolling snares and frantic guitar strum and Jess’ echoey vocal sass. Like all the best classic punk tunes it’s over just a little too soon, leaving you no option but to turn the record over and play it all over again.
Recorded with DIY simplicity by Ty Segall, who knows a bit about garage pop himself, the minimal sound fits the bands tune like a glove. This great single hones Brilliant Colors’ spiky, angular crash-pop and points to a very interesting 2010 for the band.
My Rate: 7/10
Brilliant Colors – Introducing (2009)
27/05/10
ALLMUSIC Clocking in at just under 23 minutes, Introducing, Brilliant Colors’ 2009 debut, flits by like a will-o’-the-wisp. It’s just enough time to get a decent impression of what the band has to offer: refreshingly raw yet smart indie pop, reminiscent of old-school New Zealand indie pop acts (the Chills, the Bats) and the puckish side of C-86 (Talulah Gosh). At their strongest, Brilliant Colors are gutsy and tender, nocturnal and innocent — a spine-tingling blend of pop-oriented fizz and punk-influenced grit. At their weakest, they are oddly forgettable; there really isn’t one memorable track on Introducing, and it’s puzzling. “I Searched,” for example, seems to have all the makings of a single-worthy track — it’s just the right blend of needling guitars, warm reverb, and lead singer Jess Scott’s primal croon. But the second this song seems to really get cooking, it comes to a halt — and it does so well under the two-minute mark, too, making it more of a jingle or a theme song than anything else. In this way, Introducing does just what its name implies — it’s a tantalizingly brief, not quite fully realized sample of what Brilliant Colors have to offer. And for this reason alone it can hardly be called required listening for fans of this genre, especially when there are a number of likeminded bands out there doing a better job (Liechtenstein, Je Suis Animal, and Betty and the Werewolves are all good examples). That said, Introducing is strong enough to qualify Brilliant Colors as one of those bands to keep an eye on. [by Margaret Reges]
My Rate: 7/10
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Nobunny – Love Visions
03/04/10
Genre: Garage / Lo-Fi / Punk
Based: US
Label: Bubbledumb
Year: 2008
My Rate: 9/10
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POPMATTERS The story of Nobunny is the story of a mysterious bunny-masked stranger from Tuscon, Arizona who began his strange career as an attempted Animal Elvis Impersonator. Touring the mock-Presley circuit as Elvis Bunny, and busking on the street as No-Money-Bunny on the side, Nobunny eventually made his way to Chicago, where he debuted his own material on stage the very day that Joey Ramone died (the set was dedicated to his memory). In his always unpredictable live sets, Nobunny has been known to pass the mask (and attendant duties) off to others on the occasion of losing his voice, strip down to his underwear (though the mask always stays on) and to schedule conflicting show dates staffed with Nobunny imposters. On one notable occasion, he was even assaulted and robbed while performing on the streets of Philadelphia.
Complete with a cleverly Ramones-mocking album cover and the “Land of a 1,000 Dances”-aping lead off track “Nobunny Loves You”, Nobunny’s barely-full-length debut (12 songs in just under 23 minutes) is a quick and dirty blast of lo-fi garage rock that would feel right at home on both a Nuggets compilation and a late-70s NYC punk club. Staffed with an array of pawn shop instruments—a ‘60s-style organ on “Not That Good”, a cheapo drum machine on “I Am a Girlfriend” and “Tina Goes to Work”—and all performed in Nobunny’s authentically shouty and nasal vocals, Nobunny never strays far from garage’s bubblegum roots. The result is an album that is fun and catchy, but which leaves the lingering impression that Love Visions is still only a fraction of the Nobunny experience (…) [By Jer Fairall]
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Chin Chin – We Don’t Wanna Be Prisoners EP
14/01/10
Genre: Punk / New Wave / Indiepop / Noise Pop
Based In…: Switzerland
Label: Farmer Records
Year: 1984
My Rate: 10/10
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Tracklist:
1. We Don’t Wanna Be Prisoners
2. Desires Only
3. The World’s Burning
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Chin Chin – Stop! Your Crying
14/01/10
Genre: Punk / New Wave / Indiepop / Noise Pop
Based In…: Switzerland
Label: 53rd & 3rd
Year: 1987
My Rate: 8/10
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Tracklist:
1. Stop! Your Crying
2. Dark Days
3. Never Surrender
4. Cry In Vain
5. Revolution
6. Stay With Me
7. My Guy
8. Jungle Of Fear
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Skids – Scared To Dance
30/11/09
Genre: Punk / Post-Punk / New Wave
Based In…: UK
Label: Virgin
Year: 1979
My Rate: 9/10
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ALLMUSIC So, just what exactly were Skids? Punks with O-levels, new wave cop-outs, or just chance-takers and opportunists? The answer is probably a combination of all three. Far more important, however, is the fact that they left behind a clutch of great, if universally pretentious, singles. On album, it was hard not to get a little miffed at Richard Jobson‘s would-be aristocrat pop nonsense. Still, this debut had some good tunes, courtesy of pre-Big Country Stuart Adamson, like “The Saints Are Coming” and, of course, the wonderful “Into the Valley.” Of huge importance to Skids fans is that the CD reissue includes the original live B-side to the latter, “TV Stars,” a song which will mean nothing to anyone who didn’t grow up watching British television, but a whole heap to those who did. [by Alex Ogg]
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