Jesus digs Glue Wave
We have been going on about Times New Viking since the invention of sliced bread more or less, you know they did it with mangled melodies, burning wire and serrated peaks of distortion, a sonic field of love fever, a mattress in a bedroom crammed with memorabilia and grainy posters from legendary shows only ten kids attended, Pat broke his ankle trying to invent a new dance to this jerky shitgazing craze, a yellow cast covered in old skool graffitti of the fuck this world lets make a new one variety eventually discarded on top of a pile of sneaker detritus, yes, in some basement in Columbus Ohio they sat like mediums saturated on a universe of 90s glory and ectoplasmic garbage, the best of which harkens back to the glory days of psyche garage primitivism, and then they vomited it like cold coffee over black slabs of Siltbreezy vinyl, if you stare hard into these records, not the sides etched with lyrics like cryptic messages in a county jail cell for party hard types, the other side, flip it now, you can glimpse hallucinatory vignettes of doomed love, pristinely sloppy balladry and frantic manoeuvres of epic nihilism, fragmentary visions in the floor of Harmony Korine’s editing room, a total hurricane we can’t wait to see live in their show with No Age and Los Campesinos at Komedia in Brighton this Tuesday, as part of the Shred yr Face tour.
This you can get in their Stay Awake EP.
Jesus weeps every time I play Catatonic Youth’s Piss Scene EP in the stereo, the needles cry me a river of blood as a sludgepunk juggernaut spills out of the speakers and lays waste to the room with methodical viciousness, their music is a malevolent force situated somewhere in between Chrome’s machine sex stomp, Suicide’s gnarly ululations, J&MC’s toxic drone and the no future attitude of the true dead icons of the Cleveland punk pantheon, weasel exterminator pop to scare the shit out off your parents, broken bottles, barbed wire around your wrists and lycanthropic transformations in a feral moshpit which some exit minus a few teeth, perchance a limb, every song is a poisonous nugget and a harbinger of doom, viscous drops of black stuff accumulating in a strategic location south west of your ribcage, bad voodoo to be deployed against the concrete walls of reality under a sky the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel.
And this is them being sweet.
Catatonic Youth- Freedom Vanilla
All good psychedelic music converges into a blurry event horizon of truths, myths and preternatural images floating around you like burning ideograms in the interstitial space between heaven, hell and the there and now of some Japanese video game concocted by an illuminated wannabe God designer off his face on some really fucked up acid, hence the normality of my listening to Los Llamarada in their latest 7”, out in Italian label AVANT!, and thinking, sweet baby Jesus everything makes sense, if Can had been a psyche garage outfit with a penchant for recording dissonant stomping epics from the vantage point of a vulture gliding in the incandescent winds of the Mexican desert, good Samaritan anointing the sick and dying of the world with a hungry kiss which is an end and a beginning, then ‘Oh yeah’ would have sounded like this. Fucking uncanny kids, fucking uncanny.
Los Llamarada- Against the Day
WE ARE HAPPENING GLOBALLY
NYC and Brighton: anti-dualistic turbine of fucked up power, and the horrible concretion of an ideology that lives by night. Welfare for the sick, Dario Argento is our prophet.
NYC on Tuesday, Dev from Lightspeed Champion and Telepathe guest DJ
Brighton on Saturday 18th October, the old skool hardcore nerd out where it all began, then off to Angry Dance Party at Micro.
finally you’ve evolved your musical taste..
Monday, October 13, 2008 1:00 pmAlekosX
Woah, careful there Mr. Evolved.
Monday, October 13, 2008 1:12 pm20JFG
thanks for the big up.
lol @ darwin
Monday, October 13, 2008 2:37 pmchris pell
What would Devo do?
Monday, October 13, 2008 8:06 pmdann
New York AND the NME? Media Darlings..! xx
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:36 amheadphonesex
Found this, thought of you all…
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:42 amRogerniner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:43 amRogerniner
tunes were eh.. i’m not sure about this “i’m more lo-fi than the next guy” approach.. it used to be out of neccessity to be a boombox/4trx recording
“artist” was it not? i’m not convinced it should be an
“aesthetic” genre.
hey, rogerniner! those safety films are fucking brilliant! the one with cyclist and car action was parodied on the Young Ones if i’m not mistaken..
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:38 ambcr
more good stuff from Columbus, OH :
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:11 pmpsychedelic horseshit
sword heaven
ryan jewell
mors ontologica
peasant graves
etc…
mikkie
We already covered Psychedelic Horseshit and will investigate all those others, thank you!
Are El Jesus de Magico from Columbus as well?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:13 pm20jazzfunkgreats
yes they are !
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:43 pmand also
Cheater Slicks,
Guinea Worms,
Unholy Two,
Brainbow
etc etc etc etc
mikkie
BCR, this stuff sounds natural and good to me, just because technology advances it doesn’t mean everything else should.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:05 pm20jazzfunkgreats
sorry but i forgot one important name :
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:28 pmEnvenomist (a.k.a. David Reed) doctor in gloom.
that’s it !
mikkie
no i agree.. maybe i’m just of the opinion that there are so many options available that it seems inconcievable that anyone would want their music to sound like total shit for “aesthetic” reasons. hey i LOVE the gnarled noisy garbled audio belch of TG just as much as i LOVE me some of that smooth n’ silky lite steppin’ jazz funk of someone like level 42.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:27 amthe sound palette of our age is diverse enough even for our “garage” dwelling friends to pull from it and destroy what they wish!
bcr
I also wrote today’s post so I see what you mean!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:32 am20jazzfunkgreats
BCR, I can tell you that these bands are indeed lo-fi by necessity. Maybe not TNV anymore now that they are on Matador…but they definitely started out that way.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:58 pmDJ Rick