tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441336786507708286.post8355117568272403230..comments2015-11-27T15:28:30.943+01:00Comments on Lo-Fi Your Brains Out: The Resurrectionists - Working Class Since 1832 (Noviembre 2013)Marçal P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05710538649434866383noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441336786507708286.post-30173539596666560682014-01-13T00:20:51.488+01:002014-01-13T00:20:51.488+01:00Orange County, land of geniuses. Was 1976 when ‘Th...Orange County, land of geniuses. Was 1976 when ‘The Middle Class’ was released, the missing link connecting the first hardcore wave with the Californian punk, and now in 2013 The Resurrectionists release their first EP ‘Working Class 1832’.<br />What is that these people drink? What do they eat? What kinds of drugs do they take? Or is it because of the sun? Does it shine in a way that the plants grow greener and the young grow up bouncier? And they don’t even blink when mixing alternative genres and their variants! Their area of expertise touches freakiness or divinity, depending on the eyes you look at them with.<br /><br />The Resurrectionists are pure garage, but also psychedelic, punk and hardcore, advocating for one or another depending on the song you choose to play. Hailing from San Clemente in southern Orange County, CA, they are James and William Daley on drums and guitar respectively, Sean Christopher on bass and Kelly Stardust, Bowie’s lost son, as the undisputed frontman with its charismatic voice, who although often sounding a bit too correct, raises with an incorrigible lofty halo of nerve and boredom. This is the first and only band to date for all members, here I see the fruit of its eclecticism and risky hybrid style.<br />In the words of Stardust himself, and facing my relentless string of questions, he tells us that they have taken their name "from the medical students from 1832, that was the year the Catholic Church proclaimed using cadavers for science would be forbade and considered a crime. It was difficult to come by bodies so the medical students would sneak into the Cemeteries after dark and steal bodies that had been recently buried. For procuring the cadaver the student's tuition would be reduced or waved. The students who did this were referred to as Resurrectionists". As suggestive as the place of origin of these musicians, leaving nothing to improvisation.<br /><br />This first album is recorded in the Distillery of Costa Mesa, a mecca in the west coast where The Shrills also recorded their Meltdown, and where Ty Segall and The Spits also stopped by. This being a quality stamp, as here it is Estudios Ultramarinos in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. The result, with a curiously analog sound that seems the work of a four-track, could well be a daring proposal from Dischord, but the clinic eye of Resurrection Records was faster.<br />Like all good albums, cooked with intelligence, it asks for two plays, to catch you and make you another adept in their ranks.<br />‘Working Class Since 1832’, despite being released in an almost religious white vinyl, sounds sinfully dark, psychedelic, touching metal’s most schizophrenic siblings, but taken to softer and accelerated ways. Cacophonies, heavy beats, and imagined-for-a-psychotropic-nightmare guitar rhythms. And don’t be fooled by the emocore riff that opens the second song, "Irma Jean & Entropy" is authentic garage, combines the immediacy with romanticism and nostalgia for the emotional stream. On the other side "Obsession Waltz" is low fidelity taken to the easternmost land, arabesque, combined with a more typical rhythm section of The Wipers or Antelope. <br />You never know where the composition will take you, they lead and you follow them, but the road is pure delight, and we’re not scared from the spaces between the sun and darkness.Fueenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17292736369539427466noreply@blogger.com