11th March 2010

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Archie Bronson Outfit - You Have a Right to a Mountain Life/One Up On Yourself
Coconut (Domino)

Archie Bronson Outfit demonstrates a wide array of influences, from krautrock to snake charming, on their third release, Coconut.  Songs range from the heavily distorted rock stomper “Magnetic Warrior,” driving and intense, to “You Have a Right to a Mountain Life/One Up On Yourself,” which begins as  a strangely acidic Bollywood dance, and soon moves on to become a wall of low-end noise.

This is another one of those groups that people seem to enjoy describing as “surf” music. They’ve got the heavy reverb thing going on the vocals that, for some reason, is supposed to remind you of Dick Dale, except that he never did that. I’m not really sure what thickly reverbed vocals have to do with surf music, but it sounds neat, so I guess that’s good.

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