tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181079775930141632024-02-07T02:30:31.612+00:00Basement FeverUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18107977593014163.post-71482681061950955722016-01-10T16:41:00.000+00:002016-01-10T17:17:24.145+00:00Interview: crumbs<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Stuart, Gem, Ruth and Jamie are crumbs, from Leeds. I first saw them supporting <a href="https://thespookschool.bandcamp.com/">the Spook School</a> at the Wharf Chambers (my band, Grubs, played too) and totally loved them. They write no nonsense indie pop songs with post-punk influences and it's very good.<br />
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I sent them some questions about being in the band crumbs, being in Leeds, other bands they're in, other stuff they do, other bands they like, and the stuff they having coming up. They were kind enough to send their answers back to me and here they are below.<br />
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<b>Hello the band crumbs. Who plays what instruments in your band? </b><br />
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Stuart: Ruth sings, Gem plays drums, Jamie plays bass and sings, and I (Stuart) play guitar.<br />
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<b>Who writes the songs/how do the songs come about? </b><br />
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Stuart: Ruth writes all the lyrics, and the rest of us write the music, but we all come up with the song titles because we like puns and dad jokes. Ever since the beginning the music just kind of happened, usually just starting with a beat, and usually develop very quickly, then Ruth puts words/stories over the top.<br />
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<b>Which two or three bands did you bond over most/aim to be similar-ish to when the band was starting out? </b><br />
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Stuart: Myself and Gem used to cover <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7KNRC8SSAw">Beat Happening</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qIARknhMg">Vaselines</a> songs before we met Jamie and Ruth. Then we didn't really aim to be similar to anything, but our influences can definitely be heard. When we all first got together we talked about <a href="https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband">Shopping</a> and <a href="http://www.dischord.com/band/antelope">Antelope</a> I remember, because we liked them and noticed some similarities.<br />
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<b>And how do you think you compare/have changed as a band since then? </b><br />
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Stuart: As our confidence and ability have improved we try out new things, I think the songs have become a lot more eclectic, and on stage we talk and joke more and that interaction with the audience is more fun than just shivering with fear like before!<br />
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<b>What's good about Leeds? </b><br />
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Stuart: The d.i.y music scene is so fertile and welcoming, and seems to get better every week. Oh, and the market. Gem saw a woman with a cat stuffed down her coat drying her socks under the hand dryer in the toilets. They also do cheap crisps.<br />
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Gem: <a href="http://www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk/">The Brudenell</a>. I base everywhere I live on it being within walking distance. It is really that good!<br />
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<b>What's bad about Leeds? </b><br />
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Stuart: All the corporate and consumerist elements that seem to be fuelling the gentrification of the place. But that stuff is avoidable if you are able to create your own world within it, and the d.i.y music scene is one such world, hooray!<br />
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<b>Which new bands from Leeds and beyond should people be listening to? </b><br />
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Stuart: Not sure how 'new' new is! Buttttt <a href="https://commiserations.bandcamp.com/">Commiserations</a> from Leeds, <a href="https://wearedirtygirl.bandcamp.com/">Dirty Girl</a> from York, and also <a href="https://hilaryandthehatecrimes.bandcamp.com/releases">Hilary and the Hate Crimes</a> from Leeds are some of my favourites.<br />
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Ruth: I am very excited about the new band from the former members of <a href="https://thedauntlesselite.bandcamp.com/">Dauntless Elite</a> (Leeds). I've not even heard anything yet but Dauntless Elite are one of my favourite ever bands! I am also constantly playing the demo from <a href="https://bloodbuzznoise.bandcamp.com/">Bloodbuzz</a> (Hampshire). It's so bloody good!<br />
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Jamie: I am a large fan of Dirty Girl and <a href="https://syslak.bandcamp.com/releases">Syslak</a>, who are both reasonably new and unreasonably very brilliant . And I saw Pale Kids’ [Members of No Ditching, T-Shirt Weather, Martha, and Ferret Legs] second gig in Durham recently and they were a dream. A deeply perfick dream. I strongly advise keeping your eyes peeled for them (not literally; it might sting a bit).<br />
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Gem: <a href="https://milkcrimes.bandcamp.com/releases">Milk Crimes</a> are super great! I also saw Golden Meat for the first time this year. It's really exciting electronic music with a live drummer. They are both Leeds/Yorkshire based. I put on <a href="https://arkless.bandcamp.com/releases">Arkless</a> recently and fell in love. They are London-based emo. Nice!<br />
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<b>Do any of you play in other bands or do stuff outside of music? </b><br />
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Stuart: I am in another band called <a href="https://mmmolars.bandcamp.com/">Molars</a>, making kind of krautrock, indie-pop influenced stuff, and I draw posters for gigs and bands and make zines. I used to make conceptual art, but the compulsion wore off!<br />
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Ruth: Crumbs is the start of the end of a musical hiatus for me (mostly due to moving cities twice then becoming a teacher and having zero free time.) I had been in bands in Manchester and been pretty involved in putting on gigs and I am so jazzed to be making music again. Thanks, crumbs pals! I am also working on my first zine at the moment. It's a mixture of exciting and scary. We'll see.<br />
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Jamie: I play solo indie-folk as <a href="https://travelsbytelephone.bandcamp.com/">Travels by Telephone</a> which I’ve been doing for 7 years now (cripes), and is currently having one of its periodic hibernationary dozes. I’ve recently been helping out various friends’ bands playing live which has been lots of fun; playing keyboard/bass/glockenspiel and a percussive plastic yellow egg for <a href="https://mamalips.bandcamp.com/">Mama Lips</a>, and bass for Dirty Girl the once (again please!). I also put on house shows in York as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/owlsowlsowlsrecords/">Owls Owls Owls</a>.<br />
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Gem: I want to start a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NOPE-146175485446697/">Nope</a> tribute act with Hilary <a href="https://cowtown.bandcamp.com/">Cowtown</a>. It's going to be called Yep. But in all seriousness, no – this is the first band I have been in ever! I have been putting on DIY gigs for nearly nine years now, though, under the guise of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fancyclaps/">Fancy Claps</a>!<br />
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<b>What stuff are you hoping to do in the next 12 months? </b><br />
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Stuart: With crumbs, we just want to keep playing, and we are close to being ready to record an album, so pretty excited about that. Other stuff, I dunno, I'd like at least one other cat, and maybe a mini pig. Yes.<br />
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<b>Thank you, Crumbs!</b><br />
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In October, crumbs released a split cassette with Dirty Girl. You can buy it on bandcamp <a href="https://crumbscrumbs.bandcamp.com/album/cassette-store-day-ep">here</a>. They also have a f<a href="http://crumbscrumbs.bandcamp.com/album/demo">ive-track demo release on bandcamp</a>, which you can listen to above.<br />
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They play <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/535392489957966/">a house show in London in 6 February</a>, Wharf Chambers in Leeds on 26 February, and at the Fox & Newt in Leeds on 5 March.<br />
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(Photo stolen from their Facebook, taken by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/indiehorse">James Robert Birtwhistle</a>).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18107977593014163.post-2391379921851110712014-02-18T19:42:00.002+00:002016-01-10T16:47:12.484+00:00Interview: DOE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">I wrote about London pop-punk scamps DOE for the NME, didn't want to repeat the same boring words on here, asked them some questions instead.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicola plays guitar and sings, Jake plays drums and sings, Alex plays guitar. We don’t have a bass because we can only just about bear each other.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Who writes the songs?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicola and Jake come up with the main ideas, then make each other’s ideas better, then we all get together and work on arrangement and finishing touches.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Which one band did you bond over most when the band was starting out?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Helium was the first band we chatted about when we started putting the band together; we properly bonded over a shared love of Weezer in those awkward early days though. (We’re still awkward and we still love Weezer). </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">What's good about London?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s just so much going on all of the time, you can do whatever you want. The people we’ve come across on the DIY scene since starting out have been so lovely too, just great people who are all super supportive and passionate. It’s a great place to be in a band and make friends and have loads of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">What's bad about London?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">People that walk slow. And pigeons.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Which three bands from London and beyond should people be listening to right now?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">No Ditching are an excellent band from Durham, we played with a band called Cousin in the Summer too who were ace. Playlounge (no brainer).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Do any of you play in other bands or do stuff outside of music?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Jake plays in The Exhausts who we’re good friends with, we’ve played a shit ton of shows together and all love each other a disgusting amount... all the guys have seen each other’s balls far more than is necessary too. He also does a tiny wee label called Keroleen Records which we put our Summer tape out under. Nicola’s just started an all-girl punk band which is super exciting, so watch out for that. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><iframe seamless="" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3311440961/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 120px; width: 100%;"></iframe><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">What stuff are you hoping to do in the next 12 months?</span><br />
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We've got some shows coming up in London and further afield over the next couple of months, we’re recording for a split 7" with Canadian band Taxa as well as for a tape/zine release on Keroleen, and we’re almost done booking a UK tour which is happening in April. I’m sure there will be loads more stuff later in the year too. We’re kind of incapable of not doing stuff constantly.<br />
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I wrote about Pinact in NME Radar because I like them. Instead of writing another short, boring bio on them for here I thought I might as well ask them some questions. I guess maybe I'll make this into a little regular thing.<br />
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Pinact are Corrie and Lewis from Glasgow. They write noisy pop songs that sound a little bit like Paws and a little bit like No Age but not that much like either really. They're about to feature on <a href="https://artreeks.bandcamp.com/">a split</a> alongside <a href="http://poledo.bandcamp.com/">Poledo</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/radstewart">Radtsewart</a> and <a href="http://www.joeyfourr.co.uk/">Joey Fourr</a> jointly through <a href="http://reeksofeffort.bandcamp.com/">Reeks of Effort</a> and <a href="http://artishardrecords.tumblr.com/">Art is Hard</a>. Questions below.<br />
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I (Corrie) write the songs although they don't really become Pinact songs until we get in a room together and learn to play them. They usually end up changing quite a bit from me playing them on an acoustic guitar in my room. There's no set way we go about it though, sometimes the song comes about the complete opposite way. We might start jamming something in practice we think sounds cool and then I take it home and work out what to sing over it. They usually end up being our favourites.<br />
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It's really hard to bring it back to one band but I guess at the time we were really into the Milk Music EP Beyond Living. I don't think we've ever particularly sounded like them but that EP was a big influence when we were first getting the band together. We were living together at the time and when we got drunk we would always blast that EP. It's safe to say our neighbours weren't as enthusiastic about it as we were.<br />
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Glasgow is great, there's a lot of really good bands at the moment and a lot of good people supporting those bands. In comparison to somewhere like London it's pretty small although it still has the feeling of being in a big city. We've made a lot of friends in other bands from here we probably wouldn't of made unless we'd started the band and it really feels like everyone really supports each other and wants the best for everyone.<br />
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<b>What's bad about Glasgow?</b><br />
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It rains a lot, although I guess in terms of being creative and making music being stuck indoors can make you quite productive.<br />
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<b>Which three bands from Glasgow and beyond should people be listening to right now?</b><br />
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Tuff Love<br />
Algernon Doll<br />
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Not at the moment, we're both pretty busy balancing the band with jobs and a constant lack of money. Although I've been saying for ages I'm gonna start a monthly club night in Glasgow where we get a band we love to play that might not really get a chance to come up here very often. Over that past year or so we've met and discovered some really great bands form all over and from a purely selfish point of view I'd love to see them live! It's gonna be called Stand Still Until You Rot and I'm definitely gonna start it soon (Hopefully this year). <br />
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<b>What stuff are you hoping to do in the next 12 months?</b><br />
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Well we're writing what we hope is gonna be our debut album right now. I guess the aim is to get that finished soon and once we're happy with it we'll look into how were gonna record and release it. I think we're pretty bored of doing EPs and we want to challenge ourselves with a full length. It feels like we're ready to do something a bit more substantial. <br />
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Apart from that we're gonna try and play as many shows as we can, wherever we can. Hopefully we'll venture over to Europe for the first time before the year is out. That definitely seems realistic!<br />
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"Punks making pop music in Columbus, OH" is how All Dogs sum themselves up on <a href="http://alldogsohio.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>. You can't argue. It's somewhere between Swearin' and Waxahatchee. What more do you need?<br />
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I've been sitting on Pinact for a while because I'm a terrible new music blogger. They're a two-piece from Glasgow and they're fucking great. Abrasive yet melodic, they write pop songs with riffs and distortion and fuzz and cymbal crashes and "WOAH"s. Music comparisons are lazy and shit but if you like Paws and Poledo and Rice Milk and Joanna Gruesome and Dolfinz and all those other sweet bands then you'll like them.<br />
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They've just streamed new track 'Brew' through <a href="http://artishardrecords.tumblr.com/">Art is Hard</a> as part of the label's postcard club series and also have a lot of ace stuff on <a href="http://pinact.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp</a> - including the really good (and totally free) <a href="http://pinact.bandcamp.com/album/spill-your-guts-let-out-some-noise">'Spill Your Guts, Let Out Some Noise'</a> EP. <br />
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Neon Windbreaker are from Toronto - the town Metz are from. Neon Windbreaker are releasing an EP recorded by Alex Bonefant - someone who formerly recorded Metz. The 'New Sky' EP is coming out on 28 October through We Are Busy Bodies - a label who formerly released Metz. Neon Windbreaker are in your face and energetic and noisy and loud and exciting and fun. Neon Windbreaker sound like Metz - and that's a good thing.<br />
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Check out 'Pink Suit' below.<br />
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Previously working under the name FNORDS for a little bit, FFNORDZZ is a dude from my home town of Plymouth who I've blogged about before but who I've never met and whose real name I don't know. <a href="http://ffnordzz.bandcamp.com/album/acid-at-the-beach-surfer-of-the-apocalypse">His earlier tracks</a> were experimental pop songs which I really liked so it's cool to see the arrival of a new EP.<br />
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Imagine a modern day Frank Zappa writing out and out pop songs and you're not far off. The result is something that could (hopefully fairly) be compared to Gross Magic in that it shares that kind of guitar-led, relatively lo-fi experimental pop sound. Lots of high-pitched guitars, catchy melodies, and even at times that hushed vocal. It's cool.<br />
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'Pop Stardom' is the name of the new EP. It's also the opening track and I supposed the 'most immediate' of the five. Listen to it below or <a href="http://ffnordzz.bandcamp.com/album/pop-stardom-e-p">download the whole thing on bandcamp</a>. Apparently there should be another EP out this month too so eyes peeled etc.<br />
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Super prolific, very talented, and criminally under-rated, My Name Is Ian has written another new album and obviously it's good. <br />
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'eleven', called so because it's the Cardiff/Newport/south west England musician's eleventh record (and fourth full-length - the first with a 'proper' band), is released on CD and cassette in a month (23 September) but also available digitally today <a href="http://mynameisian.bandcamp.com/releases">on bandcamp</a>.<br />
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'Gotta get out soon' is heading the release and it's a super cool, fuzzy, melodic bedroom pop track along tpical Ian lines - a bit odd, super catchy, and just makes you feel kinda warm and happy.<br />
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'eleven' also sees Ian revisiting some older tracks and giving them the full band treatment, with 'Larger than the largest dinosaur that's ever existed' sounding especially good. <br />
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Went to a house gig in Bristol last week to watch King Of Cats in the guy from Trust Fund's bedroom. Trust Fund were the first of three bands to play and I was totally blown away with the beauty of his music and how powerful and emotive his songs were. It was a literally teary-eyed, hairs-on-end set that makes you question everything and one that I completely didn't expect. <br />
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The recorded stuff is equally as eloquent and charming and absolutely heartbreaking. Hear stuff below or catch them live at <a href="http://www.shacklewellarms.com/listings/eventdetails/16-sep-13-joanna-gruesome-album-launch-the-shacklewell-arms/">Joanna Gruesome's album launch at London's Shacklewell Arms on 16 September</a>.<br />
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New music from two-piece Newcastle noise pop weirdos following their <a href="http://rrricemilk.bandcamp.com/album/rice-milk-ep">impressive first EP</a> earlier this year. I excitedly <a href="http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/neu/rice-milk/">wrote about them on DIY in April</a> saying they sounded a bit like No Age And PAWS and Let's Wrestle and that they wrote catchy, charming songs so it's cool to finally hear more. <br />
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'nnnv' is set to feature on a new EP, out on cassette <a href="http://asdfgrecords.tumblr.com/post/58408169070/were-releasing-the-new-rice-milk-record-and-heres-a">through ASDFG Records</a> on September 30. It's good. Listen.<br />
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Lone Omi is Joss formerly of London shouty-punks <a href="http://yuckyslime.bandcamp.com">Yucky Slime</a>. Lone Omi is considerably less shouty-punk than Yucky Slime. Lone Omi is dark, intense, sparse, dense, unsettling, but absolutely beautiful.<br />
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Four tracks <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lone-omi">on SoundCloud</a> or my pick of the bunch below.<br />
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I find it pretty darn irritating and somewhat patronising when you see music writers, DJs, bloggers etc claiming how 'proud' they are of a certain band's success - almost as if they deserve some of the credit for the success that the artist has forged for themselves.<br />
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That being said, to have seen Joanna Gruesome grow from a conversation on Facebook chat to be releasing their debut album on Fortuna POP! and Slumberland has been a real privilege. Even from their <a href="http://joannagruesome.bandcamp.com/album/e-p">first five roughly recorded demos</a> it was pretty obvious they had something pretty special going on (Owen is quite simply an incredible song-writer), and an album on two esteemed labels is nothing less than they deserve.<br />
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I also find it incredibly irritating when bloggers, journalists, DJs etc brag on various social media platforms about all of the albums they've heard ahead of release, but I can say without any sense of exaggeration that their debut album is bloody excellent. Its release has been officially announced today - it'll come out on September 9 in the UK on Fortuna POP! and on September 10 in the US on Slumberland. <br />
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With the addition of vocalist Lan (Alanna McArdle, who also sings as Ides and with A Grave With No Name), they've added an extra dimensions - her voice able to switch from sugar-sweet to in-your-face and angry in an instant. And that's something demonstrated on 'Secret Surprise', the excellent first song to be unveiled from the record, below.<br />
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Blogging for blogging's sake is kind of pointless. I don't write this stuff for the potential 'career' benefit of accidentally stumbling upon a band before they become successful, and I certainly don't do it for the hits - I write about a band for the love of the band. I guess this is just me explaining why the blog hasn't been as active lately as it could have been. That's not to say I'm not finding lots of excellent new music that gets me excited, but I am finding increasingly less time to shout about it. Hello quiet Saturday. Hello excited blog post about Heathers.<br />
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I stumbled upon Heathers a few weeks back thanks to a tweet from Cardiff Joanna Gruesome (whose new songs are sounding excellent, by the way) and am very, very thankful to them for that. They're a three-piece from LA and 'Teenage Clothes' is their only song online, but that's okay because it is fucking excellent. Fast-paced, energetic, and catchy sunny indie pop with some really lovely jangly guitar, it's also surprisingly moving and actually really sad thanks to lyrics like "there's no easy way for me to say / there's no easy way for you to stay". Genuine love for this.<br />
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About 18 months back (fuck I'm old) I <a href="http://basementfever.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/stacey-adams.html">blogged about garage rock Toronto three-piece Stacey Adams</a>. You probably don't remember. I barely do. Anyway, Thomas Mazurkiewicz of that band recently got in touch about a solo project he was working on. "It's alot different from stacey adams, but im alot happier with the music," he says in the email - and he's not wrong.<br />
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The title of the debut EP - 'Teddybears & Weed' - from Home Alone probably tells you a lot about its sound. It's sweet and cutesy while pretty laid-back and a bit trippy. A big step away fromt he scruffy lo-fi rock of Stacey Adams but nonetheless impressive and enjoyable. Obviously I'm not the first person to say this (hiya <a href="http://www.crackintheroad.com/music/19930-introducing-home-alone/">Crack In The Road</a> and <a href="http://dotsanddashes.co.uk/blog/on-the-horizon-alone-jealous-and-stoned-home-alone/">Dots & Dashes</a>), but who cares, give it a listen below or stream the whole EP <a href="http://myhomealone.bandcamp.com/">on bandcamp</a>.<br />
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Always listen to your editor. <a href="http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk">DIY</a> boss Stephen Ackroyd sent me Menace Beach ages ago. 26th June 2012. I listened. I liked. I forgot to listen again until a few months ago, and have taken this long to post them on the blog. Yeah, I actually get paid to write about music.<br />
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Menace Beach are great. Their lo-fi grungy, poppy, 90s-ish sound combines everything I love about <a href="http://joeyfourr.bandcamp.com/">Joey Fourr</a> with everything I love about <a href="http://basementfever.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/gross%20magic">Gross Magic</a>. That's a pretty fucking great combo. It's mucky but it's catchy as hell. They've recorded with MJ of Hookworms at his Suburban Home Studio in Leeds which is always a great sign (he also plays in the live band) and they're going to be putting out a release on the Too Pure singles club in the future which will no doubt be very good indeed. Before then you can check out their four track EP, which is out now on French indie label <a href="http://desirerecords.bigcartel.com/product/menace-beach-dream-out-dsr055-limited-to-100">Desire Records</a> and also available as a free download (or pay as much as you like) from <a href="http://menacingbeaches.bandcamp.com/">bandcamp</a>.<br />
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The point of a new music blog: to point people in the direction of new music they might like that they otherwise might not have heard. It's fun, I like doing it, but I tend to not find enough time to commit to it properly which results in a blog updated sporadically featuring music that turns out to be not that new after all. Still, let's ignore that this album from the Yawns has been on bandcamp for a good few months. Let's ignore that the band have been around since 2011. Let's ignore that I've been listening to it and not getting around to writing about it for that time. Let's ignore that this blog post comes just as they finish a tour of the UK rather than, more usefully, just before they start one. Let's ignore that both Gold Flake Paint and Song By Toad managed to include it in their albums of 2012 lists. Let's ignore that even R. Stevie Moore liked them before me. Let's just focus on the fact that this is a really bloody good album. <br />
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They're a band from Glasgow apparently made up of some of Copy Haho (not that that is especially important) who write jangly, woozy, slightly shoegazey pop songs with lovely guitars and ace vocals and stuff like that. It's so good that the lovely people of Records Records Records decided it <a href="http://recordshop.greedbag.com/buy/the-yawns/">deserved to get pressed to vinyl</a>. It does. Enough blabbering, listen below.<br />
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London's Giant Burger kind of defy genre and description. There are vocals and drums and guitar and bass and keys. There are melodies and there is noise. It's kind of experimental but it's also kind of pop at the same time as being kind of rock and prog and punk and blah blah blah. But then, being made up of a good few members of the now deceased <a href="http://basementfever.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/BAANEEX">BAANEEX</a>, this kind of skullfuckery is to be expected really.<br />
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All that really matters is that I like their songs and hopefully some people who frequent this blog will do too. 'Trapped In Egypt' sounds like the kind of song you might expect to soundtrack a kids' horror TV show, while new track 'Fridges' (taken from a forthcoming four-track cassette on London's Odd Box Records, I think...) hears them at their most self-assured and well-recorded to date. A band increasingly comfortable with their place in the corner of the room with no friends, and I admire that.<br />
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<a href="http://giantburger.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Giant-Burger/126249760850989">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/GiantBurgerBand">Twitter</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18107977593014163.post-14575365068554396612013-01-09T09:46:00.000+00:002013-01-29T20:15:44.922+00:00FFNORDZZ<img src="http://f0.bcbits.com/z/14/20/1420836867-1.jpg" width="420" /><br />
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When I was young, I was pretty vocally defensive of Plymouth, the city I was born and raised in, to anyone who ever criticised it. Only when I went to university in Cardiff and visited places like Brighton, Manchester, Bristol, and London did I realise just how shit Plymouth was. There is no live music scene, there are (or at least were, thanks to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLastShopStanding">The Last Shop Standing</a>) no indepdent record stores to buy new music, and there are even very, very few bands from or based in Plymouth - especially now <a href="http://basementfever.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/gorgeous-bully-im-little-worried.html">Gorgeous Bully</a> has pissed off to Manchester. So when I find an even semi-good band or musician in Plymouth, I get very excited.<br />
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Amazingly, one-man-band FFNORDZZ (formerly briefly FNORDS) is even more than semi-good. Also born and raised in Plymouth (and currently based here oncemore), the musician spends all of his time putting together experimental bedroom pop songs with a dark and sinister twist. Though he has no Facebook page, two songs sit on his bandcamp: 'Surfer Of The Apocalypse' hears frenzied high-pitched guitar sit atop a repetitive, creepy bassier guitar line, while 'Acid At The Beach' is a slightly lighter and catchier psychedelic-tinged surf-pop ditty. <br />
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They're taken from a split cassette single with <a href="http://paganmoon.bandcamp.com/">Pagan Moon</a> on Hello, Hello, How Lo-Fi? out on 17th January and I bloody love them both. Check them out below and keep an eye on his bandcamp for apparently 'a lot more material uploaded' throughout 2013.<br />
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I like the internet. Bands from hundreds of miles away can send me their music and then I can listen to it and then sometimes I really like it and write words about it and other people who might be hundreds of miles away again might read it and like it and then they might tell their friends to listen to it and stuff. That's pretty cool, right?<br />
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Bananacondas are a Lansing, Michigan-based "not-so-typical punk" three-piece who write songs with riffs and licks and melodies and choruses that make me want to be at a house party with them doing silly but fun things. It's self-recorded but not to its detriment - the slightly rough sound suits their apparently pretty care-free take on writing songs. Music is supposed to make you feel something, and this makes me feel happy.<br />
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There are two free songs plucked from their bandcamp below, with apparently some more songs coming later this month and an album hoped for later this year. I am excited.<br />
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Sauna Youth's 'Dreamlands' was without doubt one of my favourite albums of 2012 (better than Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Grizzly Bear in my opinion, which isn't bad going) so an email about a new single from the London band was always going to be a pretty great way to start the day - especially when half of the single is a cover of Pissed Jeans.<br />
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'False Jesii Pt II / Oh Joel' is set to be released on 7" single through <a href="http://www.staticshockrecords.com">Static Shock Records</a> on 21st January and sees the band taking a somewhat surprising step towards indie pop. Where debut 'Dreamlands' was full of largely aggressive, energetic punk songs (albeit sometimes aggressive, energetic punk songs that went on for 10 minutes...) with vocals from drummer Rich, the new single hears lead vocals handed to usual backing vocalist Jen and a definite switch in sound. Gone is the immediate punk sound, replaced with a more melodic and noisy pop-oriented core - though somehow with none of the punch and magic of Sauna Youth lost. This is mighty good stuff, I think.<br />
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Earlier this year, Cold Pumas guitarist and Faux Discx label-boss Dan Reeves released a debut solo album under the name The Soft Walls. The <a href="http://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/the-soft-walls">self-titled record</a> was a delightful blend of Krautrock-ish loops and minimalist noise rock comparable to the likes of Deerhunter that was so impressive that <a href="http://toughloverecords.com/thesoftwalls">Tough Love</a> also offered to release it.<br />
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Today sees a brand new song from the Brighton-based musician and, as you'd expect, it's bloody ace. 'Never Come Back Again' (again comparable to the work Bradford Cox) slowly builds like a developing polaroid snap - electro din and a looping drum machine is gradually and delicately added to with spiralling bass-lines and repetitive guitar before being topped off with Dan's hushed vocals and synth to really quite excellent effect.<br />
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I bloody love Joanna Gruesome. I love their old songs. I love their new songs. I love their live shows. I love their faces. 'Do You Really Wanna Know Why Yr Still In Love With Me?' is their newest of their new songs, and I love that too.<br />
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I love the sinking guitar line. I love the crackling guitar sound. I love the crashing drums. I love the harmonies. I love the chorus melody. I love the breakdown. I love the filthy ending. I love this band.<br />
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The song is being released on 7" by <a href="http://www.hhbtm.com">Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records </a>. Love it below.<br />
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It's almost <a href="http://basementfever.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dolfinz.html">18 months</a> since I first stumbled upon and wrote about Stonehaven noise-monsters Dolfinz. Since the days of those early rough recordings, the two-piece have been fairly busy - touring the UK and Europe with Slowcoaches; releasing a 7" with Tuff Wax; featuring on a Song, By Toad 12" split along with the likes of PAWS and Sex Hands; getting played on Radio 1 and 6Music. But it's been a while since we heard much new stuff from them.<br />
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So it's good to see that the band have finally unveiled some new(er) material in the form of 'Yeah Right' on Art Is Hard Records' Pizza Club single series. Slightly less lo-fi and maxed out than their earlier recordings but very much still rough and ready, it's arguably my favourite track of theirs so far. Yeah right. I don't feel right.<br />
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I went to Cardiff for Swn Festival on the weekend. It was fun. I drank lots of beer and watched lots of bands and saw many friends.<br />
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Despite being a Cardiff band, Totem Terrors weren't on the line-up for Swn, which is sad because they are good. Their latest song, 'Unkind' is an example of this. Jerky guitars rallies with bass while vocals bounce between male and female, all coming together to sound slightly The Fall-style post-punk/art-rock.<br />
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For his recorded stuff, check out the previous post on this blog <a href="http://basementfever.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/king-of-cats.html">here</a>. You can also purchase his <a href="http://reeksofeffort.bandcamp.com/album/dr-strangelove">Reeks of Effort-released cassette</a>, and keep an eye out for his forthcoming split with <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ide-s">ides</a> too.<br /><br />
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