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Author: mats84
Date: 02-08-12 06:35
Any TP'ers enjoying this record? I didn't hear much at the end of 2011 that caught my ear but I like this album a good bit - so it's basically the only new music I've been digging.
Albini produced, at times evoking an SST kinda sorta vibe.
One of the poppier ones on it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68CWlE9K40
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Author: MrFab
Date: 02-08-12 12:32
Funny you should mention this mats - I hadn't heard of this band til yesterday, when a dj on our finest local college station played a song off it that kinda threw me in a time machine back to '80s post-hardcore, and then said how much he liked this album, and had been playing most tracks from it on his show. Def. caused my ears to prick up.
The guitar riff on that vid you posted - what does it remind me of...what?
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 02-08-12 12:55
I'd been interested in hearing this band too and this song was kinda cool (Dinosaur meets The Wedding Present?). I didn't think all that much of the vox though. Are all the songs like that?
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Author: wade
Date: 02-08-12 13:45
Quote:
"(Dinosaur meets The Wedding Present?)"
I keep hearing The Magnolias crossed with The Strokes. But maybe I haven't had enough caffeine.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 02-08-12 14:51
"Dinosaur meets The Wedding Present"
Damn - I'm clicking on that link right now.
***Edit a few minutes later: I see what you mean about the vox - not terrible, but they might become wearing over the course of a whole record. A little too Gordon Gano for my tastes. But the song itself is pretty damn good.
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 02-08-12 16:15
The kid (Dylan Baldi) sounds like Gordon Gano on some tracks, less so on others. The new album's a marked improvement on earlier stuff I'd heard. I dig the playing across the board. 8 songs, one of which ("Wasted Days") approaches 9 minutes, and everything still wraps up in under 35 minutes. Promising, especially for a 20-year old.
SST makes sense to my ears, although Attack on Memory's fidelity is a bit better/less tinny than most SST stuff...
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Author: mats84
Date: 02-08-12 19:46
When I posted "Stay Useless" I didn't even realize this whole album is on Youtube at the moment.
Damn, kids have it easy nowadays.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 02-10-12 16:05
I'm listening to the record now. Sometimes he sounds just like Gano - other times he reminds me of Squirrel Bait-era Peter Searcy. I dig the music a lot - I think it's good enough not to let his vocal quirks detract. There's a definite SST vibe going on in some songs.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 02-10-12 17:17
Good to know. I'll probably pick it up, as much as a cross between Gordon Gano and Peter Searcy frightens me. I adore Skag Heaven - close to a desert island disc for me - but I found Searcy's post-Squirrel Bait stuff nearly unlistenable. I think I still have that Big Wheel album, but I disliked it immediately upon purchase and just couldn't bring myself to get rid of it because I loved Squirrel Bait so much.
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Author: STEVE
Date: 02-10-12 21:10
i havent got past that first youtube song. a (perfect) mix of the fletcher pratt & chameleons.
i ate it up.
it was fucking delicious.
can't wait to hear more. maybe here/hear long at last is a band ready to take on the mighty curse of tp hype?
whatever, i will follow up on this one.
the bands from CLEVELAND?!
wierd, i just bought a WMMS 100.7 plastic coffee mug @ a yard sale last week. i use it to hold tv remotes in the bedroom.
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Author: STEVE
Date: 02-11-12 02:40
for real fans check out the interviews. local bands playing in the park provide soundtrack.
& for fuck all sakes, someone please buy that interviwer a beer/shot!
wow, ohio really is full of people like dennis kucinich.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 02-11-12 13:40
They're playing SXSW this year - I'm gonna make a point to go see them.
Edit 2-14-2012: Just ordered the record as well.
Clearly, someone needs to do a TP entry.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 02-14-12 14:04
Wow, this band is fabulous! Their singer does have a nasaly whining thing going on occassionally, but is overall very effective. On their harder stuff, they sound like Trail of Dead, but they also have some more pleasantly melodic tunes. The last song on the record "Cut You" has pretty much the most gorgeous chorus I've heard on an indie rock sing since, say, "Heart Attack", the last song on Call The Doctor. Man, its' great hearing a decent guitar rock record - its such an endangered species nowadays.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 02-24-12 16:11
Just got the Attack on Memory CD after listening to streams a few times. I dig this more every time I hear it.
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Author: STEVE
Date: 02-24-12 20:23
nice to see this thread right back on top. they got like ten or twenty videos. i just hope they stay together, play more songs and ride roller coasters together.
thanks mats!
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Author: nosepail
Date: 03-25-12 15:19
I am forgoing seeing the Cloud Nothings playing in Boston tonight - a show I would dearly like to see - in order to see the inevitably-mediocre Hunger Games movie with my girlfriend. (I'm more of a foreign indie subtitled actionless tragic drama kind of guy...) Man, the things we do for love......sigh.....
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Author: STEVE
Date: 03-26-12 22:57
i always say, 'love your wife/girlfriend/partner'
while listening to their/your favourite music.
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