Played them for the people I stayed with this week, and he said they reminded him of Stump, which also seemed a fair assessment.
― hard, ginger, nuts (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:48 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OK, I'm officially interested now.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
it's an easy life, yes it's an easy life it's an easy life
NO IT'S A HARD LIFE HARD LIFE IT'S A HARD LIFE HAAAAAAARD!!!
no it's an easy life yes it's an easy life
See them live, they're really incredible. Like, they do ALL of that mad switching stuff totally live.
I thought it was all going to be sequenced to a click track but no, the rhythm section is totally prog, and Boy Synth Wizard Potter triggers the samples to the drums, rather than vice versa so they can do all those mad SPEED UP and slow down and mainly SPEEEEEEED UP things live and loose and beautiful.
(Sorry the teacup munchkin noises aren't done live, they're all triggers on Potter's lovebox. (except for the bits that are actually cowbell.) The mad drumming at the beginning is, though, it's an AMPLIFIED BEDFRAME!!! How can you not love a band mad enough to use an amplified bedframe as an instrument, Fabulous Furry Freak Brother stylee?)
See, I don't think these guys belong in Nu Rave at all - they're far more along the Captain Beefheart continuum.
I am actually going to go to ::GASP:: Bugged Out at Heaven to see them again. Oh, the shame!
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Mark, they're more like an amalgamation of all the good things that Klaxons / MGMT / Foals promised in theory but didn't deliver in practise, but younger and brattier and wittier and more inventive and more instinctive and more reckless and more (sigh) "angular" (but in the best sense of the word). It's also quite "teenage MySpace electro", as someone put it on another thread - but again, in a good way.
I am absolutely longing to see them live. Which shouldn't be too difficult, considering they're local.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, they're in NYC right now and not planning on going home for a while so it might be a while. Sorry!
And they're more textural than angular. (ha ha, ILM bugbear words)
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Now, you just hand them back, d'you hear?!
Another band who match their jumpy angular/textural (!) electronics to a trad live rhythm section, without any pre-programmed beats, are Holy Fuck. They were astonishing when I saw them play last week.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
first band in ages i want to go out and see live (and not just from kate's enthusiasm)
(actually go on tour with, be a roadie for, if i'm getting just a little carried away.)
also: what mike said about inventive and instinctive and reckless.
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:56
WHO ARE YOU AND WAHT HAVE YOU DONE WITH KAET
― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
THE LORD OF THE BEASTS COMMANDED ME!!!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/legolass20034/Graphics/a2113387.png
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, OK, So I'll get one, already! Sheesh!
(:-)
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
LOOK INTO MY EYES. YOU ARE GETTING SLEEEEPY. VERY SLEEEEEEEPY. YOU WILL BUY THE ALBUM. YOU WILL PLAY IT LOADS. YOU WILL LOVE THIS ALBUM. YOU WILL BE MY SLAVE. AND WHEN I SNAP MY FINGERS YOU WILL AWAKE AND NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION.
http://a864.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/96/m_dfef676d68d68237db20063060f51d77.gif
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh-er
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi, there. How yz all been?
(bye)
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 October 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not Kate Moross what did the artwork. Apparently it's a man named Daniel Has Potential.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhpee/
Very interesting stuff - I *love* the map of the album he did, I wish that had been included in the album as a poster or something!
― Ironic Erection (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
just saw them in a ridiculously sweaty zodiac/carling academy/whatever it is now: by the end they were topless, and all I could think was 'oh if only Kate were here!'
they were ace, btw.
― c sharp major, Monday, 16 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Biggest disappointment of 2008 albums list = where the fuck is Fantasy Black Channel
― there's no antivote to (country matters), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
So anyway, I take it this bunch have packed it, yeah?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so young, peace god
― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
These guys were really great. What ever became of them?
― Walter Galt, Monday, 17 February 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
the main songwriter joined connan mockasin for the completely incredible 'please turn me into the snat/forever dolphin love' album. then left connan mockasin who subsequently put out a lamentable record last year. absolutely no idea on the others
― Know Scot! Free Getaway: Glen, Handa Island, Rua Reidh (imago), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
That explains so much about Connan Mockasin
― Iain Mew (if), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
that album last year was so pathetic, and after such a truly classic record
― Know Scot! Free Getaway: Glen, Handa Island, Rua Reidh (imago), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
I know this is going to sound uncharitable, but they're one of those bands I'm *so glad* never put out a followup. After the amount of hype, and the impossibility of sustaining it, and how many brilliant bands get savaged for failing to reach the giddy heights of their debut - I just think it's so much better that they put out one such perfect record, and then disappeared. It's just a fantastic artefact of a moment. I don't want to know what happened next.
― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Monday, 17 February 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/21/late-of-the-pier-drummer-ross-dawson-dies-in-sudden-accident/
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 May 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
aw hell
rip
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 21 May 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
not sure about this LA Priest stuff tbh
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link