tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441336786507708286.post3253929832814917133..comments2015-11-27T15:28:30.943+01:00Comments on Lo-Fi Your Brains Out: Tres discos para despedir el verano: GRMLN, Poppets y Diarrhea PlanetMarçal P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05710538649434866383noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441336786507708286.post-49702810992038824202013-09-11T17:11:02.986+02:002013-09-11T17:11:02.986+02:00Diarrhea Planet - I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest...Diarrhea Planet - I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (August 2013)<br /><br />We are facing one of the best albums this past summer has left us. Although this time the result may not be as bright or striking as in the previous ‘Loose Jewels’, also published on Infinity Cat Recordings, this Nashville’s rock sextet, with a singular name and consisting in 4 guitars, is something out of the ordinary and doesn’t leave anyone indifferent (or shouldn’t).<br /><br />From "Dream Lite", warming the six strings like a boxer warms up before a fight, it is clear what the band offers: a good side of classic rock, delirious riffs a la hair metal, quite punk, another of the main ingredients, and of course, SST’s alternative rock, from where Milk Music hails too.<br /><br />Always overlaying guitars, and placing them among plucks and ecstatic chords, the harmonies are the foundation on which rests the music of Diarrhea Planet.<br />"Separations" is the perfect example, pure emotion, magical sound. <br /><br />Going from "Kids", a ballad style, relatively speaking, kinda like the legends Thin Lizzy with a grand finale, to school punk "Hammer of the Gods", in which cannot miss the double riff, we are a then set in the middle of the album, with the two-in-one "Ugliest Son".<br /><br />And the level does not decay, much less. "White Girls" is the result of bringing together the equivalent guitar (and reduced) of "Baba O'Riley" first seconds and traces of 'heavy' power pop, ‘Big Star’, ‘Three O'Clock’ or ‘Cheap Trick’. In fact, part of the sextet's sound is influenced by this electric and 'hard' side of pop.<br />Towards the end, we found "Babyhead". Happiness, harmonies, guitars and classic punk that easily could have been sign by ‘Audacity’, mixed with a southern flair that seems a salute to their neighbors ‘Natural Child’.<br /><br />And, after "Skeleton Head", the saddest of the thirteen songs, which as the frontman says is about living alone (and that's exactly what it conveys: loneliness, sadness and melancholy), "Emmett's Vision". Unsteady and a perfect end for the album, standing apart from the first part of the song, with an epic that may resemble, again, to The Who. The vinyl should be accompanied by fireworks and pyrotechnics, like the ones going on at the end of these big-ass-stadium gigs, and instructions saying, "Lit from minute 1:30 to the last track on the LP".<br />Marçal P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05710538649434866383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441336786507708286.post-72740730004185283632013-09-11T17:10:06.236+02:002013-09-11T17:10:06.236+02:00Poppets - Steal It Like A Thief (July 2013)
Latel...Poppets - Steal It Like A Thief (July 2013)<br /><br />Lately Sweden is well known for good music, but so far had not shown anything of this style. Poppets are a bubblegum garage-pop duo, a duo of guitars to be exact, with background drum machine (as some of our idols in their humble beginnings did, like ‘Ty Segall’), which makes them a hybrid between ‘NOBUNNY’ and ‘King Khan & BBQ’, also two guitarists, although one of them (Sultan) in charge of percussion.<br /><br />Opening with "Steal It Like A Thief", they fill you with happiness and desire to drink a few beers on the beach, and the organ with that they play here is partly to blame.<br /><br />The ease with which Lina and Magnus create catchy melodies is astounding, although with a second listen some songs start to look too much the same.<br />Still, the record speeds ahead thanks to perfect songs and as short as strong (none of them is lasts more than 3 minutes), and "Long Highway", much to the style of our guys from ‘Aliment’, the 'Swedish' "Hjärtats Slag", the final "in Your Arms "or" Doomed City ", with a melody that sounds like a classic from old better times, and somewhat sad lyrics ("the city is doomed, there's a sign in the sky ").<br /><br />While entwining their guitars, not living a second to catch a breath, they blend their voices, his sounding like Justin Champlin’s, and hers similar to ‘The Okmoniks’ (where our favorite rabbit also played).<br /><br />Just a tad up the revs with "Dark Cloud", making us think that with a bass and a more powerful drum they would be closer to ‘Bad Sports’ or ‘Marked Men’ punk, but making this song the icing on the cake of this remarkable “Steal It Like A Thief”.<br />Marçal P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05710538649434866383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441336786507708286.post-82606531894295023722013-09-11T17:09:17.511+02:002013-09-11T17:09:17.511+02:00September arrived and many people looks back at su...September arrived and many people looks back at summer, remembering the holidays, summer festivals, getting drunk outdoors. There are also those who are mentally preparing themselves for the "mission: back to school" or going back to the job they hate 11 months per year. <br />Then there are people like us who celebrate this damn summer is finally over, because we hate the heat, the months where there are barely no gigs, and few records are released.<br />From this summer, and what (not so) little that has been published, we highlight these three albums, and we celebrate with them the soon-to-arrive autumn and peak season for concerts and releases every week.<br />Welcome SEPTEMBER!<br /><br /><br />GRMLN - Empire (June 2013)<br /><br />Refreshing and surprising, ‘Empire’ is all that you can ask for in a debut.<br />Although the Korean-Japanese-Californian is still the brain, the soul and the composer of GRMLN, what began as the solo project of Yoodoo Park, ended becoming a band, and this is reflected in the abrupt change in the sound regarding its first EP, ‘Explore’.<br />His unique vision of music, mixing distressing, sad or nostalgic lyrics (and of course great) with catchy, youthful melodies, sometimes so dazzling you need to wear sunglasses.<br /><br />Citing influences, although he says that does not sound like them (and truthfully so), we find Fugazi, but on second glance we find a cult to 90’s rock, the decade in which grunge 'flourished', ‘Nirvana’, an indie worship for ‘Superchunk’, ‘Archers of Loaf’ or ‘Sebadoh’, and alternative rock like ‘Dinosaur Jr’. and even ‘Hüsker Dü’ could be named. All in all, the result ends up being something indescribable, but we all would agree to add the “pop” tagline on any label.<br /><br />Starting with "Teenage Rhythm", probably the best and most intense song on the album (and included in our Mixtape #2), GRMLN opens wide the doors of his world, speaking about feelings, adolescent relationships, always on a thick layer of lo-fi and with a voice straight out of a voice box.<br /><br />In addition to the second and third single that the band chose (quite rightly, they made the waiting endless), "Hand Pistol" with a splendid electric plucking, and "Do You Know How It Feels", one of the deepest songs, with a much more off feeling, stands out "1993", an invitation to listen to our primal urges, or "Cheer Up", a tune that seems set to sing in unison at a concert, the mid-tempo ballad that is a MUST in all great records. And this, definitely is.<br />Marçal P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05710538649434866383noreply@blogger.com