Hi. I have band for you.
Nelson
Parisian twenty-somethings Nelson are currently working on what will be their second album and it's about time people took notice quick sharpish. Why? Well, leaping from their melancholy, Factory Records-influenced debut Revolving Doors they've embraced the happy - as evidenced by last nights Artrocker Fest headline slot. The band are a revelation live, swapping instruments, all singing, all performing as if their little lives depend upon the energy they get from the crowd. Anything to work us up from dancing, using a radio to sample static, thrashing their guitars - see my little bit of wordz on it http://www.artrocker.tv/reviews/article/artrocker-festival-night-two
Anyway, truly brilliant songs and their new stuff is sounding more than promising - they sound like vital, urgent anthems.
Abe Vigoda
If you split this band open they'd probably spill out a bewildering array of viscous colours. Using tropical melodies as a starting point to ACTUALLY create noise in tuneful shapes means they're one of my favourite discoveries of recent times. Live they are borderline chaotic, as you'd expect, but always hitting those evergreen sweet notes they swim in. Skeleton, their only UK release, captured my imagination in a way similar bands really didn;t. Why? Again, it's because of the noise factor - the unexplainable descent into discordant fizzing and weird off-key elements that actually seem to provide a symphony of sound, for that split second they resonate.
Incredible.
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