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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]RD Mauzy - Top Bear
Angsty Teens and Drag Queens
Okay, I’m going to take this opportunity to tell you all that I’m getting pretty bummed out by all the boring synthesizer stuff I’ve been hearing a lot lately. I don’t want to be a jerk or anything, but I’m pretty interested in things happening in music. I can get down with drone, but let’s have some texture at least. I feel like 80% of what I’ve heard this summer has been just one long bass note played on a midi keyboard. I’m sure I’m probably being a hypocrite — I wouldn’t be surprised if you found a posting somewhere on this blog with me raving about one long bass note being the best thing I’ve ever heard — but I’m real close to banning all-synthesizer submissions. Let’s get some organic sounds guys.
Anyway, that gives you an idea of what place I was at when I got RD Mauzy’s latest track. A while back I posted a song from Mauzy’s 7-inch record Oppols ond Bononos, a four-track lo-fi slab that should’ve gotten more play than it did (so listen up this time, you fuckers). I wasn’t just relieved to hear someone actually playing something, I was excited to hear something that really packed a punch. This one’s a little less conventionally rockin’ than the last one you’ve heard (not to say it doesn’t rock, because it does), but it’s still aggressive, and it comes with some strange slide-guitar sounds as well. Comparisons could be drawn to Old Time Relijun, but just give it a listen and see for yourself.
“Top Bear” is from the upcoming RD Mauzy record Angsty Teens and Drag Queens, which you can keep up with here.
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I caught Thee Oh Sees playing a free show at the South Street Seaport on Friday. Now, as I’m sure you already know if you’re familiar with the group, they fucking rule. The show was fantastic, and though I missed the first opener, So Cow, the second one, Golden Triangle, was pretty solid, so, all around, it was a fine show.
Here’s the issue though: I hate everyone that goes to shows. From the crazily rowdy mosh pit to the smelly young-professionals/brosephs standing too close to my face, every single person there made me wonder how so many people could have so little regard for the people around them. There were a couple of great crazy people in attendance, however, and I guess their awesomeness kind of comes out of that same disregard for other people’s comfort that leads to aggressive moshing and smelling terrible and having an asshole face. There was some lady who was at least ten thousand years old, and she was dancing all sexual. Too sexual, in fact, to be captured on (digital) film by a (terrible) photographer like myself. There was also some dude with green pants and a suitcase who made some sort of strange sea-lion noise after every song. ANYWAY, Thee Oh Sees fuckin’ annihilate. But you probably already knew that.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Retribution Gospel Choir - Hide it Away
2 (Sub Pop)
The press sheet that came with this record is three paragraphs long. The lead paragraph is about what great athletes the band is. What the fuck? This is the first sentence of the whole sheet, which I think, in theory, is supposed to make me want to listen to the album: “The most important thing to know about the rock trio Retribution Gospel Choir is that they are likely the most physically fit band on Earth.”
Honestly, if I hadn’t already enjoyed their self-titled debut, I would probably have thrown this whole package out after reading that. Lucky for me and you, I knew that there was a reason to listen.
Retribution Gospel Choir - which, by the way, includes Alan Sparhawk from Low - is all about epic pop tunes, covered in distortion. Imagine a cross between Dinosaur Jr. and U2 (if U2 was any good), and you might have a good idea what to expect. Actually, if I were to go on a mission to teach people how to love Dinosaur Jr., (which I’m this close to doing), I might recommend this group as a primer. It’s just a bit more accessible, with it’s harmonies and often flowery sound, but still has a good bit of sludge and screamin’ guitars to get things moving.
In all, 2 is a pretty good record, though I would probably recommend the self-titled record before it.
That press sheet is still retarded. But then again, maybe I’m just missing the obvious musical importance of being able to “destroy any other band in a 10k race, and then still do the gig.”
