8/27/07

My noise rock friends...

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket I know a bunch of lads who are mad into noisey post-rock. So much so that they regularly jet off like a begraggled version of the Monkees to British holiday camps and custard factories to hear their fave musicians tear these odd places new bumholes with scary loud music. Hanging around with the boys is great. They eat sleep and drink noise and sound. Whether thats weirdbeard avant garde music like lightning bolt and wolf eyes or more structurally conventional but no less visceral stuff like today's track, its normally a bit dark. In these faddy days of cool-for-two-minutes indie-dance, its refreshing to know a bunch of dudes in sonic youth t shirts who stand around discussing the merits of Pelican's drummer. Back to today's track. Its the new Liars single, plaster casts made of everything. The video for this track is also linked. Its a gleefully cheesy skin-crawler that matches the freakin' out on bad drugz vibe of the track perfectly. Seems to owe some to David Lynch's Lost Highway with all that rushing nighttime tarmac and those creepy superimposed faces. Its got that filthy B Movie buzz. Primal Scream often try to do what this tune does. I think these lads do it better. Now look at that video. YIKES!!! Its like a nudey version of Karma Police.

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