Monday, 29 September 2008
The brain consumes 20% of the oxygen a human breathes. At least that's what Wikipedia says, so you may as well invent your own fact and the chances of it being true are about the same. Anyway - the point is that brains are bewilderingly impressive, and do remarkable things. Issac Newton's brain, for example, spewed out the three laws of motion and the theory of Universal Gravitation while he was dozing under a tree. Or something.
Meanwhile, us mere mortals, incapable of generating ideas that shape entire societies for hundreds of years, are left with all that brain power punching and flailing in a million different directions at once, only occasionally revealing hitherto unknown abilities. Unfortunately, my special brain-skill appears to be playing crap songs on loop in my head for hours on end. The nadir of this anti-Zen skill consisted of a whole weekend wandering around Barcelona humming, out loud, the chorus from Eddie Murphy and Rick James' half-hellish, half-genius 80's hit 'My Girl Wants to Party All The Time', confirming locals' suspicions that all tourists are idiots.
While I was in France recently, this idiotic superpower kicked in again, but this time - bliss! - it finally picked a good song, Little Patton by ex-New Band of The Day, The Seedy Seeds, and I spent a whole two weeks happily whistling to myself. Perhaps my relentless pursuit of new bands is specifically so that I can push all the crappy old songs out of my head with good new ones. If so, then Today's New Band is another step in the right direction.
They're That's The Spirit, they're from Canada, and they write songs that are gentle, melodic, mind-massages. Moreover, the songs are fitting for the time of year - when summer is drifting lazily into autumn, and a feeling of mild hopelessness prevails. Always Coming Back is chiming, bright and understated, and Every City has a strange yearning feeling written large; its clanging guitar sounds the pen, and your woozy mind the A4 sheet of notepaper.
That's The Spirit's songs are the ones you'd want to listen to on a drizzly day, as you doze cozily inside, watching the outside world disappear in grey watery nothingness. Listen to their songs here, and drift slowly into a womb-like comfortable slumber.
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Meanwhile, us mere mortals, incapable of generating ideas that shape entire societies for hundreds of years, are left with all that brain power punching and flailing in a million different directions at once, only occasionally revealing hitherto unknown abilities. Unfortunately, my special brain-skill appears to be playing crap songs on loop in my head for hours on end. The nadir of this anti-Zen skill consisted of a whole weekend wandering around Barcelona humming, out loud, the chorus from Eddie Murphy and Rick James' half-hellish, half-genius 80's hit 'My Girl Wants to Party All The Time', confirming locals' suspicions that all tourists are idiots.While I was in France recently, this idiotic superpower kicked in again, but this time - bliss! - it finally picked a good song, Little Patton by ex-New Band of The Day, The Seedy Seeds, and I spent a whole two weeks happily whistling to myself. Perhaps my relentless pursuit of new bands is specifically so that I can push all the crappy old songs out of my head with good new ones. If so, then Today's New Band is another step in the right direction.
They're That's The Spirit, they're from Canada, and they write songs that are gentle, melodic, mind-massages. Moreover, the songs are fitting for the time of year - when summer is drifting lazily into autumn, and a feeling of mild hopelessness prevails. Always Coming Back is chiming, bright and understated, and Every City has a strange yearning feeling written large; its clanging guitar sounds the pen, and your woozy mind the A4 sheet of notepaper.
That's The Spirit's songs are the ones you'd want to listen to on a drizzly day, as you doze cozily inside, watching the outside world disappear in grey watery nothingness. Listen to their songs here, and drift slowly into a womb-like comfortable slumber.
Labels: Blame Canada, sleepy, wandering minds
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Everyone says the worst thing about holidays is coming back home again, facing reality, and then spending a week gently beating your head against the desk, to see if you'll wake up back next to the pool in France where it was sunny and warm and stress-freaking-free.
However, at A New Band A Day, we don't buy into this school of thought for a second, and just see the inevitable horrors of returning to The Real World as a really good reason to get re-aquainted with the pub at lunchtime, just in case there's a chance you can find that elusive back-to-the-holidays magic door there too.
Anyway, here's what ANBAD listened to whilst on holiday:
With that in mind, here's Today's New Band, Syntaks, who are - SURPRISE! - French! No, of course they're not really - they're Danish, STUPID. Syntaks makes music that's somewhere between the ubiquitous 70's Kraut, Orb-like soundscapes and the sound that your brain begins to invent while you're in a sensory deprivation tank. Song Redgrass is a semi-delirious float on orange-tinted clouds and Killgore Lives almost becomes as epically heroic in its loopiness as the great man himself.
So, just a quick band update today, but as of tomorrow, all will be back to normal. Hear all of Syntaks' music here!
P.S. Thanks for all the many emails and Myspace messages suggesting new bands - they're always HUGELY appreciated! I'm working my way through them all now, so don't fret if you've heard nothing in reply...
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However, at A New Band A Day, we don't buy into this school of thought for a second, and just see the inevitable horrors of returning to The Real World as a really good reason to get re-aquainted with the pub at lunchtime, just in case there's a chance you can find that elusive back-to-the-holidays magic door there too.
Anyway, here's what ANBAD listened to whilst on holiday:
- M83's Saturdays = Youth (good for snoozing by aforementioned pool)
- Crazy Horses by the Osmonds (a lot)
- A French music radio station (107.4 FM, frequency fans) that played both dreadful maudlin squeezebox rubbish and thrillingly phlegmy French hip-hop - and thus provided a sugar-coated turd of a snapshot of the French music scene as a whole.
With that in mind, here's Today's New Band, Syntaks, who are - SURPRISE! - French! No, of course they're not really - they're Danish, STUPID. Syntaks makes music that's somewhere between the ubiquitous 70's Kraut, Orb-like soundscapes and the sound that your brain begins to invent while you're in a sensory deprivation tank. Song Redgrass is a semi-delirious float on orange-tinted clouds and Killgore Lives almost becomes as epically heroic in its loopiness as the great man himself.So, just a quick band update today, but as of tomorrow, all will be back to normal. Hear all of Syntaks' music here!
P.S. Thanks for all the many emails and Myspace messages suggesting new bands - they're always HUGELY appreciated! I'm working my way through them all now, so don't fret if you've heard nothing in reply...
Labels: Danish, drifting, holidays
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Monday, 15 September 2008
The A New Band A Day "Team" has dragged itself, blinking, sweating and disorientated, out of the A.N.B.A.D. Nerve Centre* and has decided to slump, wearily, next to a swimming pool in France for a couple of weeks.So, there will be a paucity of new bands for that time - BUT BUT BUT - here's some things to look forward to on ANBAD's return:
- An invigorated, refreshed and sunny outlook on life, love and New Bands
- A deep mahogany tan
- Tousled, sun-blonded hair
- An aversion to any more Steak Tartare
- MOST EXCITINGLY OF ALL - a whole slew of new, fabulous bands just waiting to LITERALLY blow your SOCKS off.
So, to keep you moist with excitement, why not peruse the archives just over there to your right, and get acquainted with some of the band's you'll have missed over the months. We'll be back before you know it, with a token holiday present for you, possibly of a straw donkey.
Lots of French hugs 'n' kisses (on both cheeks),
Joe et l'equipe de Nouvelle Bande Par Jour!
*Box room
**The use of the word 'love' might not be in it's usual terminology
Labels: holidays
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Friday, 12 September 2008
A New Band A Day continues its trawl through the Best of, er... Bestival
A.N.B.A.D. is about to go on holiday. Not the kind of holiday we've been on recently, when canvas, mud, cider and temperatures approaching zero Kelvin have been the primary features, but one in France, where the sun is out all the time, the steak is de cheval and the music is one of two options: Stupidly bangin' or merely stupid.
But before we cram ourselves with the rest of the cattle on the cheapo flight out there and dream of all the vin rouge, steak tartare and hypermarchés that makes France so special, there's time for one more fabulous nouvelle bande for you to rub against your curious ears.
Indeed, Today's New Band, Appleblim, are perfect for those in-between moments in life, say, whilst you're helplessly speeding at 300 MPH in a metal tube in the stratosphere, and you need to be distracted so that your whitened knuckles loosen on the arm rests.
Detached and calm but jittering, Peverelist Appleblimcircling skitters lopsidedly, whilst its cousin, Peverelist Appleblim Over Here is almost 'anti-dub dub', and electronic, spacey, wide-open track of epically small/large proportions. Circling Bass Clef Remix is even further removed from the ordinary, threatening to veer either towards mentalism or straightforwardness, but never reaching either point, thankfully.
Check it out and then check your mind out to Appleblim's space-tastic tunes - right here.
Meanwhile, look out for ANBAD on our return in two weeks, with loads more acers bands (durrrr), but also a MONSTER MASSIVE SUPER SURPRISE! What could it be? You'll have to wait and see to find out!
Oh, OK, it'll be a WOW-WEE SUPER site re-design. Pfft. A Bientot!
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A.N.B.A.D. is about to go on holiday. Not the kind of holiday we've been on recently, when canvas, mud, cider and temperatures approaching zero Kelvin have been the primary features, but one in France, where the sun is out all the time, the steak is de cheval and the music is one of two options: Stupidly bangin' or merely stupid.
But before we cram ourselves with the rest of the cattle on the cheapo flight out there and dream of all the vin rouge, steak tartare and hypermarchés that makes France so special, there's time for one more fabulous nouvelle bande for you to rub against your curious ears.
Indeed, Today's New Band, Appleblim, are perfect for those in-between moments in life, say, whilst you're helplessly speeding at 300 MPH in a metal tube in the stratosphere, and you need to be distracted so that your whitened knuckles loosen on the arm rests.Detached and calm but jittering, Peverelist Appleblimcircling skitters lopsidedly, whilst its cousin, Peverelist Appleblim Over Here is almost 'anti-dub dub', and electronic, spacey, wide-open track of epically small/large proportions. Circling Bass Clef Remix is even further removed from the ordinary, threatening to veer either towards mentalism or straightforwardness, but never reaching either point, thankfully.
Check it out and then check your mind out to Appleblim's space-tastic tunes - right here.
Meanwhile, look out for ANBAD on our return in two weeks, with loads more acers bands (durrrr), but also a MONSTER MASSIVE SUPER SURPRISE! What could it be? You'll have to wait and see to find out!
Oh, OK, it'll be a WOW-WEE SUPER site re-design. Pfft. A Bientot!
Labels: Bestival Theme Week, bleeps, Dub
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Thursday, 11 September 2008
More Great bands as seen at Mudfest 2008 Bestival 2008...
Mixing and matching is a whole bundle of fun - that's why Fuzzy Felts and Sticklebricks were the the weapons of choice at playschool when i was a nappy-bound dribbler. This inquisitive desire to put two and two together and see if they make three, four or even five stays, latent, with even the most rock 'n' roll of adults.
Hence a band that has a smattering of Talking Heads' polyrhythmics, whilst simultaneously somehow summoning up the spirit (though not the sound) of 80's RAWK, yet without any of the awful associated ear-pounding, poodle-haired horrors. This sounds like either alchemy, insanity or stupidity - but it's actually a fair starting point when describing Today's New Band, White Williams.
Pulling sounds together and fusing them to make something that is almost entirely unique White Williams are creative, idiosyncratic and mysterious. Funnily enough, when these facets of rock align, great tunes almost always result - and guess what, it's happened again.
Songs like New Violence chime and shimmer brightly, then dip into lo-fi simplicity, before bursting out, wide-eyed into joyfully soaring choruses. Violator also draws influence from a billion different bands all at once, and works to produce a fabulous new sound that wobbles along like a happy fat man in a Hot Chip-py, Lou Reed-y sort of way.
Always restrained and controlled, but not compromising their ambitious scope, still managing to zip around inventively with a wilful naivety, White Williams are dreamy, happy and brilliant. Listen now!
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Mixing and matching is a whole bundle of fun - that's why Fuzzy Felts and Sticklebricks were the the weapons of choice at playschool when i was a nappy-bound dribbler. This inquisitive desire to put two and two together and see if they make three, four or even five stays, latent, with even the most rock 'n' roll of adults.
Hence a band that has a smattering of Talking Heads' polyrhythmics, whilst simultaneously somehow summoning up the spirit (though not the sound) of 80's RAWK, yet without any of the awful associated ear-pounding, poodle-haired horrors. This sounds like either alchemy, insanity or stupidity - but it's actually a fair starting point when describing Today's New Band, White Williams.Pulling sounds together and fusing them to make something that is almost entirely unique White Williams are creative, idiosyncratic and mysterious. Funnily enough, when these facets of rock align, great tunes almost always result - and guess what, it's happened again.
Songs like New Violence chime and shimmer brightly, then dip into lo-fi simplicity, before bursting out, wide-eyed into joyfully soaring choruses. Violator also draws influence from a billion different bands all at once, and works to produce a fabulous new sound that wobbles along like a happy fat man in a Hot Chip-py, Lou Reed-y sort of way.
Always restrained and controlled, but not compromising their ambitious scope, still managing to zip around inventively with a wilful naivety, White Williams are dreamy, happy and brilliant. Listen now!
Labels: actual brilliance, Bestival Theme Week, Pick 'n' Mix
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008
And next in our "Bands From Bestival" week...
Humour, apparently, is largely incompatible with the majority of bands. There are some exceptions - Aphex Twin seems to be largely playing it for laughs these days, and Hot Chip know how to have fun (and GASP! even dare to show it when they're on stage) - but it's hard to imagine po-facers like our old Über-serious chums Razorlight popping a 'Ringo Track' onto one of their albums. Given the choice between playing a song that suggests frivolous fun and inserting something spiky into his urethra, Jonny Borrell would not waste time in reaching for the Rawl-Plug. 'Happy' is, like, for the un-cool people, maaaan.
That must make Today's New Band, Slagsmålsklubben, super-un-cool, because their music is as much fun as bellyflopping into a swimming pool full of thick yellow custard. Hopefully, songs as smile-forcingly unpretentious as Sponsored By Destiny, which splashes synths, drums and twinkly beats around with wild abandon, will make them enough money to buy enough tins of Bird's to make this dream a sweet, sweet reality.
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Humour, apparently, is largely incompatible with the majority of bands. There are some exceptions - Aphex Twin seems to be largely playing it for laughs these days, and Hot Chip know how to have fun (and GASP! even dare to show it when they're on stage) - but it's hard to imagine po-facers like our old Über-serious chums Razorlight popping a 'Ringo Track' onto one of their albums. Given the choice between playing a song that suggests frivolous fun and inserting something spiky into his urethra, Jonny Borrell would not waste time in reaching for the Rawl-Plug. 'Happy' is, like, for the un-cool people, maaaan.
That must make Today's New Band, Slagsmålsklubben, super-un-cool, because their music is as much fun as bellyflopping into a swimming pool full of thick yellow custard. Hopefully, songs as smile-forcingly unpretentious as Sponsored By Destiny, which splashes synths, drums and twinkly beats around with wild abandon, will make them enough money to buy enough tins of Bird's to make this dream a sweet, sweet reality.Malmo Beach Night Party is almost too bonkers to be released on record. It's a manic collision of kids' TV themes, the music played over the credits of an 80's video game and a marimba gone crazy. If the Joker listened to music when he made his breakfast each morning, it'd be this. So happy and non-threatening that you start to look over your shoulder, just in case.
So here's to Slagsmålsklubben, un-cool, un-caring and un-hinged. More fun than 10 bouncy castles. Listen to their borderline mentalism here!
Labels: Bestival Theme Week, happy happy joy joy, Sweden
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Having returned from Bestival yesterday, the most surprising aspect in retrospect was that the weekend of mud, more mud and a dislikeable mixture of mud and (hopefully cattle) faeces, did not actually dampen (GEDDIT? LOLZ!1!11!!) the intrepid A.N.B.A.D team/posse/masochists one bit. In fact, it was almost a triumph, and the Saturday night, after the powers that be had finally decided that we were requisitely muddy, was one of the best ever experienced at a festival.
So here's the very briefest list of Bestival high points:
Obviously, being A New Band A Day, we weren't only there to see these established bands, but to also check out some of the new 'uns. So for the rest of the week, we're keeping on our inevitable 3-am purchases of Peruvian pixie hats, glo-sticks and day-glo face paints and we'll be showcasing bands from Bestival. A Themed Week! Hooray!
Today's New Band managed to brave the Introducing stage, shortly before it finally plunged head first, Titanic-style, into the mud. They are Zombie Zombie, and, like their name, are delightfully confusing and confusingly delighting in equal measure.
Live, their swirling, wilfully bizarre sound fills the air with the same all-consuming unease in the same way a crowd of the undead pressing their faces against a window might. On record, they sound less ear-worrying, but grind out great tunes - Walk of the Dead is a the bleepy, creepy, sound-of-adrenaline music that would be played in a futuro-dystopian zombie movie during the bit where the hero steels themselves to face the flesh-hungry hoards.
With that in mind, Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free soundtracks the scene where the same, now-bloodied, hero only just manages to flee, terrified and weeping. It's pin-sharp, taut and would give you the creeps if you listened to it in a dark room. Yummy. Sometimes a good scare is what you need.
Listen to Zombie Zombie's great tunes here! (But arm yourself with an improvised weapon first - fire extinguishers are useful for bewildering and clunking)
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So here's the very briefest list of Bestival high points:
- My Bloody Valentine - still mind-warpingly loud, even when outside
- Hot Chip - defying all rock 'n' roll logic by continuing to get better, bolder and more bangin'
- Lethal Bizzle - couldn't have got the crowd more excitable or more kinetic unless they'd lobbed AIDS-riddled rats with live hand grenades strapped to their backs into the audience. Brilliant.
- Wandering backstage by mistake and finding a row of pristine, spotless (i.e. poo-less) toilets - pure pleasure.
Obviously, being A New Band A Day, we weren't only there to see these established bands, but to also check out some of the new 'uns. So for the rest of the week, we're keeping on our inevitable 3-am purchases of Peruvian pixie hats, glo-sticks and day-glo face paints and we'll be showcasing bands from Bestival. A Themed Week! Hooray!Today's New Band managed to brave the Introducing stage, shortly before it finally plunged head first, Titanic-style, into the mud. They are Zombie Zombie, and, like their name, are delightfully confusing and confusingly delighting in equal measure.
Live, their swirling, wilfully bizarre sound fills the air with the same all-consuming unease in the same way a crowd of the undead pressing their faces against a window might. On record, they sound less ear-worrying, but grind out great tunes - Walk of the Dead is a the bleepy, creepy, sound-of-adrenaline music that would be played in a futuro-dystopian zombie movie during the bit where the hero steels themselves to face the flesh-hungry hoards.
With that in mind, Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free soundtracks the scene where the same, now-bloodied, hero only just manages to flee, terrified and weeping. It's pin-sharp, taut and would give you the creeps if you listened to it in a dark room. Yummy. Sometimes a good scare is what you need.
Listen to Zombie Zombie's great tunes here! (But arm yourself with an improvised weapon first - fire extinguishers are useful for bewildering and clunking)
Labels: Bestival Theme Week, French, synth-o-tronic
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Monday, 8 September 2008
So by now, we're probably trying to swim back from the Isle of Wight in a vain attempt to wash the mud off before careering home. OR, in the unlikely event it was warm, sunny and dry, we'll be feeling like the smuggest people on the planet. Somewhere in between the two is most likely. So, tomorrow, there'll be an exciting update on which were the best bands we saw at Bestival, before filling you in on all the juiciest new bands whose soothing sounds you'll need to ease you into Autumn.
Love,
Joe & the ANBAD "roadtrip posse in full flavasome effect"
Labels: camping
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Friday, 5 September 2008
So by now, we're probably lopping off toes due to either trenchfoot or frostbite, or both. But we'll have seen some great bands, without doubt. We also might be "drinkin' thru the pain," a bit like I fancy Lynyrd Skynryd would do. But without also getting high on crack and crashing a plane.But you, the dry, happy, non-drenched reader needs new bands. So here's the BEST OF A NEW BAND A DAY, all for you to catch up on the best bands, noise makers and crazies we've had on A.N.B.A.D.! Great times.
Spare a thought for us!
Labels: camping
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Thursday, 4 September 2008
So, after refusing to learn from our last, chastening experience at a music festival in this summer-less country, the intrepid A.N.B.A.D. team is at another one, this time about as far south as you can go in the UK, in the vain hope that the weather's better there. It won't be.
We'll be sheltering from the rain, wind and stupefying frustration of 30,000 damp people at the lovely Bestival, on the Isle of Wight. The line-up might just make the inevitable rain worthwhile, comprising as it does of super-music-types like My Bloody Valentine, George Clinton, Aphex Twin and a whole BUCKET LOAD more.So, there'll be a reduced service here at A New Band A Day until Monday, but we promise to return refreshed*, happy** and with a brain full of ace bands to yap excitedly about***.
In the mean time, why not have a good old scroll around the column on the right and see if any of the old bands of the day you might have missed tickle your fancy?
In the mean time, why not have a good old scroll around the column on the right and see if any of the old bands of the day you might have missed tickle your fancy?
Love,
Joe and the ANBAD gang
*sodden
**desperate for warmth
***this bit's probably true
Labels: camping
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Firstly, please accept A.N.B.A.D.'s huge, sloppy kisses, wilted flowers and drunken apologies for their being no Band of the Day yesterday. It's never happened before, and it won't happen again, I promise. In fact, the litany of problems and unforeseen issues that stopped anything being posted was so ridiculously unlikely, It can't happen again.
As way of further apology, we've managed to rustle up a Band Of The Day that is worth the wait. One part electronic mayhem, one part crazy yelping and a billion parts awesomeness, Soft Toy Emergency are the band to reach up your trouser leg, grab you by the balls and then drag you to the dancefloor - and you'd thank them for it.
Colourful, buzzing and twitching, MIX ME is driven by the squelchiest riff you've ever heard, and jerks itself around like a hyperactive kid at the school disco.
On I KNO U WANT IT, they channel the bizarro-spirit of the B-52's and squish it into the shape of an electro-pop HIT. Managing to pull off the tricky challenge of producing a sound that is now and stylish but without any of the awful too-cool-for-school posturing that usually drowns the sound in idiocy.
Soft Toy Emergency sound like they are having the most loosely controlled fun of all time and it sounds a like a blast of monster proportions. You'll want to put on technicolour spandex and frug yourself stupid, and then post a video of yourself doing it on Youtube - because you just WON'T CARE. Listen to their acey-tunes here!
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As way of further apology, we've managed to rustle up a Band Of The Day that is worth the wait. One part electronic mayhem, one part crazy yelping and a billion parts awesomeness, Soft Toy Emergency are the band to reach up your trouser leg, grab you by the balls and then drag you to the dancefloor - and you'd thank them for it.Colourful, buzzing and twitching, MIX ME is driven by the squelchiest riff you've ever heard, and jerks itself around like a hyperactive kid at the school disco.
On I KNO U WANT IT, they channel the bizarro-spirit of the B-52's and squish it into the shape of an electro-pop HIT. Managing to pull off the tricky challenge of producing a sound that is now and stylish but without any of the awful too-cool-for-school posturing that usually drowns the sound in idiocy.
Soft Toy Emergency sound like they are having the most loosely controlled fun of all time and it sounds a like a blast of monster proportions. You'll want to put on technicolour spandex and frug yourself stupid, and then post a video of yourself doing it on Youtube - because you just WON'T CARE. Listen to their acey-tunes here!
Labels: happy happy joy joy, synth-o-tronic, yelping
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Monday, 1 September 2008
It's a sure sign of ever-increasing age when:
a) You start complaining that summers aren't as sunny as they used to be;
b) Your little sister suddenly hits 18 and you wonder what happened to the 10-year-old version;
and c) Months start flying by faster than ever before.
All those things have happened to me recently, but the third one only registered in my fuddled brain when I looked at the calendar today and realised the non-summer was nearly over. That moment of minor terror was relieved by this list - the Five Best Bands From August that graced A.N.B.A.D! Hooray! This is good news, because it was probably the best month on A.N.B.A.D. ever. Feast on their collected glory! So, in no particular order:1) BAND OF THE MONTH: Indica Ritual - Congratulations to the Liverpudlian crazies, who are August's Band Of The Month, and for good flippin' reason.
We said, breathlessly: "Their song 'Top Forty' is all of these things: 1) Bonkers, 2) Super-duper funky, and 3) Sounds like a test version of the 1973 Tomorrow's World TV theme tune that was rejected for being too 'out there'. Indica Ritual are quite possibly the band you have been looking for, like, ages. They are actually brilliant, in every sense of the word. You must listen to them now, or your life will be that much poorer."
2) Glam Chops - Eddie Argos and David Devant's Glam Experiment gone right!
We said: "HUGE guitars, HUGER choruses and chant-along verses VAST enough to climb on and lever the earth out of orbit."
3) Insecticide Lobotomy - Mentalist Brain-Noise!
We said: "a tsunami of spasmodically repetitive high- and low-end fuzz boring into your brain and removing all thoughts except acknowledgement of the noise itself."
4) Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin - Non-Russian Über-upbeat songs!
We said: "so relentlessly upbeat that they make a song titled Think I Wanna Die sound like exactly the sort of song you'd want to listen to whilst driving a convertible down Highway 1 to Big Sur"
5) The Seedy Seeds - Kazoos, Bontempi Keyboards, Good Times
We said: "They're not content with writing unusually catchy bites of poppy indie, but even have the brass neck to squeeze a Kazoo solo into the joyous 'The Little Patton'."
So HOORAY! again. The best Best Five Bands yet. Another month of super-songs and brilliant-bands are coming...now!
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