I listened to Big Star's album "Number one star" earlier in this list, and I have to say that this is a different kettle of fish altogether. Whereas that was an interesting upbeat pop-rock record with some nice vocal arrangements, this is a stripped down, gloomy AF dirge of an album (with occasional moments of lightness)... and I've gotta say; I prefer this.
The music kind of reminds me a bit of 'the Dunedin sound' in NZ, which was a similarly downbeat, stripped back, droney garage pop/rock... almost shoegazer stuff but without quite as much of the washy guitar usually associated with that genre.
I really dig it. Unfortunately the band broke up around this time. Oddly, the album was recorded in 1974 but didn't manage to get released until a few years later. A while later, REM and a few others cited them as an influence, and they were inevitably received a bit more attention.
No comments:
Post a Comment