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| Some Underground Diy Band Reviews
I wanted an excuse to put these up on here lmao | | 1 |  | Peeple Watchin
Somethin Ta Tell Ya
Boston?s Peeple Watchin? exist completely outside of time. They could have supported Bad
Religion?s early shows, or they could have formed out of your friend?s garage yesterday. They
shout, they scream, they probably spend most of their live show jumping around. Their songs
scream about self-defiance and queer liberation. Their songs rush forward before you even
notice them. Hardcore weight and pop bounce. These songs could save people. They probably
already have.
FFO: The Max Levine Ensemble, RVIVR | | 2 |  | Inevitable Daydream
Thank You! Idris?
Guitar music has been dead for at least five years and for at least twenty years. All we can do
now is rehash old sounds and aesthetics pass them off as retro so journos have stuff to jerk
off over. But as long as the tunes are good, I don?t care.
These three boys from Sevenoaks long for those euphoric moments just so they can capture
them in glorious reverb and heavily filtered photos, and then write a classic song about it. The
reference points are all there but, the thing is, they?re good ones. Inevitable Daydream?s
songs yearn for moments that are both real as fuck and heavily idealised, but then again all
the best songs are. In a live setting these boys go from spaced out jams (because they know
how to) to blistering Dinosaur Jr. covers.
By the way, ?Summer Song? is one of the best pop songs of the year.
FFO: Slowdive, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | | 3 |  | Chain Of Flowers
Sleep
Throwing yourself in. Messy. Someone else?s sweat. You have to wake up at some point
tomorrow.
Chain of Flowers play it messy. These boys from Cardiff throw their guitars around like the
last twenty years never happened. The title track from last year?s Sleep EP wastes no time in
drowning you in delicious reverb and snarled vocals. They plead for a break from monotony,
but the music never shifts. At one point it stops, only to lunge back in. They create their own
boredom and it?s incredible. ?Death?s Got A Hold On Me?, which appeared January this year,
mixes spacious twinkly guitars with a lurching doomy bass. Despite its attempts, the vocals
struggle to be heard. Chain Of Flowers are a band that aim to lose themselves in themselves,
and it gets more brilliant every time.
FFO: Japandroids, Nirvana | | 4 |  | LUVV
Two
LUVV are, again, from Cardiff. Again, LUVV play angrily, and confused. But instead of seeking
catharsis, they seek pure escape. Instruments barge against each other in different keys,
hoping to work. ?More? creeps about its verses with its shiming guitars and ghostly bass,
before offering two distinct key changes in its refrain, one that is affirming, and another that
screams, is desperate. ?Show me more / I want more? is the only thing screamed over
droning bass and crashing cymbals. It?s a lone scream from the abyss, to the abyss. If that?s
what it is, ?Free? is them leaping out of the abyss. It operates under a similar formula, but is
this time completely jubilant. The cymbals ring with glee, not horror. The Johnny Rotten
vocals dance about the drum fills. LUVV are here to help you no matter what.
FFO: iceage, Public Image Ltd. | |
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