Monday, 5 January 2009
It seems important to hit the ground running in the New Year. Christmas was an inevitable blur of overindulgence and snoozing, without thought of the future or the past. Come the first of January though, and both eyes swivel, panicked and wide, towards the TERRIBLE, INEVITABLE AND RAPIDLY APPROACHING future.
It therefore seems reasonable to have a quick look at the year ahead, and what might snare your attention in it. Predictably, not all of this will be pretty.
Music is all about revivals, whether you like it or not. As a quick example of what might happen in the next 12 months, here's two people who might benefit from this unlovable trend:
2009 might be the year when we find a group of people brave enough to rekindle The KLF's art/noise/stadium house/chaos regime again, and if Pop Incorporated start dumping dead sheep around London, we'll know it worked. Or maybe it'll be the year when too-cool-for-school ironic-facial hair supremo Master Shortie 'goes mainstream', as if his slick late-08's-with-a-slant pop sound wasn't aimed there all along. Who knows.
For us at A New Band A Day, though, the news that ANBAD darlings Art Brut are recording an album with Black Francis from The Pixies sent us into spasms of joy, incredulity and OMGOMGOMGOMG. This surely is the musical meeting of minds that will Win Big, as The Kids say. Time will indeed tell.
To keep our feverish minds distracted whilst we wait for the Best Album Ever, we'll be featuring a great new band, every day, as usual. So dubious congratulations to The Covergirls, who are the first New Band of 2009!
Yet another band unearthed from the rich seam in the Glasgow Great Bands Pit, The Covergirls' songs are musical ADHD - in turns scuzzy, twinkly and robotic. Songs like Catch The Tiger and La Casilla de la Muerte stomp aggressively just as unexpectedly as they tiptoe melodically, as if the band's kid sister has crept into the studio and is cheekily flicking the Fuzz/Clean switch on the guitar amps at random.
Riffs, clobbered drums and sweetly cooed vocals all meet in the middle, hoping to reconcile, but just end up having a spectacularly colourful and enjoyable brawl. As a consequence, songs like Say It Don't Spray It features one of the most violently choppy riffs heard for ages, and the band thrashes around to keep up.
Then, finally, in an attempt to lever more praise from us Pun-Lovers at ANBAD (but probably not), they even bung in a corker of a song title in the form of Slouching Digger Paper Waggon. The Covergirls are a jolting, fun and thrillingly noisy start top the year. Got cobwebs? Blow them away here!
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It therefore seems reasonable to have a quick look at the year ahead, and what might snare your attention in it. Predictably, not all of this will be pretty.
2009 might be the year when we find a group of people brave enough to rekindle The KLF's art/noise/stadium house/chaos regime again, and if Pop Incorporated start dumping dead sheep around London, we'll know it worked. Or maybe it'll be the year when too-cool-for-school ironic-facial hair supremo Master Shortie 'goes mainstream', as if his slick late-08's-with-a-slant pop sound wasn't aimed there all along. Who knows.
For us at A New Band A Day, though, the news that ANBAD darlings Art Brut are recording an album with Black Francis from The Pixies sent us into spasms of joy, incredulity and OMGOMGOMGOMG. This surely is the musical meeting of minds that will Win Big, as The Kids say. Time will indeed tell.
To keep our feverish minds distracted whilst we wait for the Best Album Ever, we'll be featuring a great new band, every day, as usual. So dubious congratulations to The Covergirls, who are the first New Band of 2009!
Yet another band unearthed from the rich seam in the Glasgow Great Bands Pit, The Covergirls' songs are musical ADHD - in turns scuzzy, twinkly and robotic. Songs like Catch The Tiger and La Casilla de la Muerte stomp aggressively just as unexpectedly as they tiptoe melodically, as if the band's kid sister has crept into the studio and is cheekily flicking the Fuzz/Clean switch on the guitar amps at random.
Riffs, clobbered drums and sweetly cooed vocals all meet in the middle, hoping to reconcile, but just end up having a spectacularly colourful and enjoyable brawl. As a consequence, songs like Say It Don't Spray It features one of the most violently choppy riffs heard for ages, and the band thrashes around to keep up.
Then, finally, in an attempt to lever more praise from us Pun-Lovers at ANBAD (but probably not), they even bung in a corker of a song title in the form of Slouching Digger Paper Waggon. The Covergirls are a jolting, fun and thrillingly noisy start top the year. Got cobwebs? Blow them away here!
Labels: deranged, glasgow, PUNS
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Friday, 6 June 2008
Wowsers - today's band has it all. That is, all that makes us excited and tingly here at A New Band A Day. Firstly, today's band is the third in the Fabulous Glasgow Triple Bill, hot on the heels of the wonderful ERRORS and super Q Without U. And then, secondly, and almost more groin-pulsingly exciting, is the Super Fantastico Name that they have - pretty much a prerequisite for getting on ANBAD, such are our soaring levels of idiocy.
So then, here's today's New Band - DANANANANAYKROYD! Let their name roll over your tongue a few times, because it's a whole truck-load of lot of fun to say it out loud. In many ways, it's the perfect band name, appealing to those who like mildly novelty names (like us) and people who like dressing up as the Blues Brothers at any given fancy dress party. It may appeal to other people too, but we don't have that wide a variety of friends, so we aren't in a position to judge.
Anyway, DANANANANAYKROYD's music is great. Considering they're from Glasgow, where, by the sound of it, crafting great pop songs is taught in Infant School, this is no great surprise. They yell, grind and crunch their way through a bunch of swift and sneaky songs - check out British Knights (MC Hammer's trainer of choice, fact fans) for a burst of super, howl-at-Button-Moon rock. Cleaning Each Other follows a pleasingly similar path of yell-blast loud guitars-thrash drums, and yet keeps the all-important melody churning through it all.
Glasgow 3 Rest of World 0. Check out their Myspace page here!
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So then, here's today's New Band - DANANANANAYKROYD! Let their name roll over your tongue a few times, because it's a whole truck-load of lot of fun to say it out loud. In many ways, it's the perfect band name, appealing to those who like mildly novelty names (like us) and people who like dressing up as the Blues Brothers at any given fancy dress party. It may appeal to other people too, but we don't have that wide a variety of friends, so we aren't in a position to judge.Anyway, DANANANANAYKROYD's music is great. Considering they're from Glasgow, where, by the sound of it, crafting great pop songs is taught in Infant School, this is no great surprise. They yell, grind and crunch their way through a bunch of swift and sneaky songs - check out British Knights (MC Hammer's trainer of choice, fact fans) for a burst of super, howl-at-Button-Moon rock. Cleaning Each Other follows a pleasingly similar path of yell-blast loud guitars-thrash drums, and yet keeps the all-important melody churning through it all.
Glasgow 3 Rest of World 0. Check out their Myspace page here!
Labels: glasgow, novelty triple bill, yelping
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Thursday, 5 June 2008
Oh, bugger it. We had the hat-trick of dinosaur-themed bands the other week, and it should be clear to you regular readers by now that we love gimmicks just about above anything else here at A New Band A Day. So, after yesterday's super Glaswegian Scrabble-fiends* Q Without U, we're going for broke and pumping two more Glasgow bands at you, today and tomorrow. Glasgow, similarly to issues we've expounded limply about Wales before, must have something special in the water (no jokes about Tennants Super, please) as the city is churning out superb bands left, right and centre at the moment.
So, Today's New Gimmickly-Induced Band is ERRORS. If I was mildly cretinous, I'd make a poor joke about how there is nothing erroneous about their music, because it's fantastic. Unfortunately, I am that cretinous - there is nothing erroneous about their music - they sound exciting, inventive and are so pleasingly non-Razorlight/Kooks/etc that I almost did a backflip listening to them. To be slightly glib, they sound a bit like A.N.B.A.D. favourite PixelH8 coupled with the gloriously noisy Battles. You honestly have to hear Salut France, a song with all the skippy beats, gorgeous melodies and bleepy poking you'll ever need. Focussed and sharp, but without falling into that awful laptop featurlessness like most electro-noise bands.
You could dance to them, you could strut around town to them, and if you were pretentious, you could stroke your chin to them. Whatever you do, just listen, because they're SUPER.
Listen to them, quick! Myspace here. More Glaswegian bands tomorrow!
*possibly true
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So, Today's New Gimmickly-Induced Band is ERRORS. If I was mildly cretinous, I'd make a poor joke about how there is nothing erroneous about their music, because it's fantastic. Unfortunately, I am that cretinous - there is nothing erroneous about their music - they sound exciting, inventive and are so pleasingly non-Razorlight/Kooks/etc that I almost did a backflip listening to them. To be slightly glib, they sound a bit like A.N.B.A.D. favourite PixelH8 coupled with the gloriously noisy Battles. You honestly have to hear Salut France, a song with all the skippy beats, gorgeous melodies and bleepy poking you'll ever need. Focussed and sharp, but without falling into that awful laptop featurlessness like most electro-noise bands.You could dance to them, you could strut around town to them, and if you were pretentious, you could stroke your chin to them. Whatever you do, just listen, because they're SUPER.
Listen to them, quick! Myspace here. More Glaswegian bands tomorrow!
*possibly true
Labels: actual brilliance, bleeps, glasgow
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008
As anyone who has spent time stuck in a caravan on a rainy week in Wales will know, Scrabble is the kind of game that only people with giant intellects can really play. All the rest of us just take part, and grind our teeth with frustration as our opponent beats your last move of "dog" with "onomatopoeic", or similar.
That said, these insufferable people are directly responsible for the invention of the video game, allowing us mouth-breathers to be victorious at something, so perhaps they can be spared from utter hatred. Either way, Scrabble champs would take a situation where they were faced with the dreaded "Q" tile in their stride. They've memorised the list of all words spelt using Q without U, you see. Yes, there are 24 of them. No, you won't know what they mean, or ever need to use them. Or know how to.
For those of us with social lives, the only instance of Q without U that will be of any importance is Today's New Band. From Glasgow, like just about every other band of any interest, Q Without U meld super-tuneful guitar rock with whizzy synths into punchy pop songs that, like in ace tune The Deficit Model, tread on the right side of traditional rock without descending into Runrig hell. So, melodic, but not drab, and not taking the easy route. Songs like Our Luck Is A Prostitute are quirky enough, with its soaring chorus, to soar a bit before floating gently back to earth.
Oh, and they say that they're "Like the shit bits of your favourite band", which is a good enough starting point for me.
Listen to their songs on their Myspace page here!
That said, these insufferable people are directly responsible for the invention of the video game, allowing us mouth-breathers to be victorious at something, so perhaps they can be spared from utter hatred. Either way, Scrabble champs would take a situation where they were faced with the dreaded "Q" tile in their stride. They've memorised the list of all words spelt using Q without U, you see. Yes, there are 24 of them. No, you won't know what they mean, or ever need to use them. Or know how to.For those of us with social lives, the only instance of Q without U that will be of any importance is Today's New Band. From Glasgow, like just about every other band of any interest, Q Without U meld super-tuneful guitar rock with whizzy synths into punchy pop songs that, like in ace tune The Deficit Model, tread on the right side of traditional rock without descending into Runrig hell. So, melodic, but not drab, and not taking the easy route. Songs like Our Luck Is A Prostitute are quirky enough, with its soaring chorus, to soar a bit before floating gently back to earth.
Oh, and they say that they're "Like the shit bits of your favourite band", which is a good enough starting point for me.
Listen to their songs on their Myspace page here!
Labels: glasgow, scrabble, synth-o-tronic
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