Chapter 37 - Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be / Menomena - Mines / Zs - New Slaves 2010
There's nothing to do, come the first warm and now I impoltronisco.
Distracted from concerts and festivals of Abbabula Trimpanu in that of Sassari, I lent an ear to the news output at this time only the last week.
begin by reviewing the debut of the all-female punk (?) Band Dum Dum Girls, who, with their Sub Pop debut weblog begins to run from some time in my laptop . Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Jesus & Mary Chain, Punk, and what else you want to approach this rrriot girls are worth a listen especially since U.S. women are promised along with the Vivian Girls and the Grass Widow. With their hard
I Will Be give us 11 retro tracks that remind us in full in the mid 80s. Sure, it's hard not to note how the quartet of Los Angeles affected many of the high points of pop from the '60s to today. Originally, Dum Dum Girls was one-woman show. Kristin Gundred (pen name Dee Dee) presented the draft taking lo-fi '60s pop and turning it inside out it becomes a self-titled debut EP. I Will Be still retains the grit of his EP, but smartly updates the sound, enlisting three new members (including ex-Vivian Girl Frankie Rose) and Richard Gottehrer assume (co-writer of the eternal "My Boyfriend's Back "and producer of seminal albums of bands like the Go-Go's and Blondie) to produce the album alongside Dee Dee. The result is a more accessible version of Dum Dum Girls, supported by terrific harmonies (three of the four girls contribute to the items) and a rhythm section more clear. Most notable of all is the production: no longer a group lo-fi, DDG has become a rock band. The songs are a flurry of and entertaining two minutes, cutting the closing Dee Dee is doing a version of ethereal Sonny and Cher "Baby Do not Go." 3 full stars.
Menomena is the name of band from Portland, Oregon, and if not to say anything more, go to listen to their previous work which reported in 2007 by the handful the lessons of this new American
sound of Arcade Fire and TV on the Radio.
Justin Harris, Brent Knopf and Danny Seim with this their fourth album titled
Mines however diverge from the former in a positive way. You can see the progress of the band in terms of writing songs and musical references it Started to be different. The songs are performed and the initial
Black Acid Queen with vocals similar to David Byrne that recalls the Beach Boys will go away by touching the rock-hard talking with
TAOS with a background of strings to the Oasis and so after the past plan
Killemall it comes to acoustics intro
Dirty Cartoons that turns up with rounds and choruses in a lament they reminded the Kings of Leon. Tithe
Coldplay is pure, and
BOTE Lunchmeat play blues,
Oh pretty boys ... is a classic gospel-soul. The final part of the triptych cabaret
Five Little Rooms via the electronic lullaby of psycho
Sleeping Beauty and the ethereal final
INTIL to lead after 55 minutes at the end with lots of mini pigs in a hidden track little doubt. Record of the Year?
The output is for July but the album is already available online. 4 stars.
Finally I propose a challenge. Slaves of New
Zs can be depending on who listens to a musical masterpiece or a hell. P
embodies According to almost uncomfortable. It 's like your worst nightmare to take urban life in the form of music, let loose to terrorize the world, at least for the duration of the disc epic. And then everything goes blissfully nervously quiet once again . The brand of noise and stuff avant-garde New Slaves found on is not for everyone, of course, and many people will be knocked out by what is happening here. As for me, I found myself listening to the band through Brooklyn hypnotic eight tracks threatened by noise and free jazz with unlimited determination. Each piece reveals itself more and more demanding, both by means of repetitive percussion scores that loudly or who knows what. The Zs are Sam Hillmer (tenor sax) Ian Antonio (percussion and electronics), Ben Greenberg (electric guitar and electronics). The trio is joined by Amnon Friedlin on guitar for the recording of the disc. The album is shocking but exhilarating, showing an endurance test really rewarding listener. This time
the stars you see them.