Nick Oliveri’s meth-riddled, screeching 13-year old Queens of the Stone Age persona is given an album’s worth of space in which to jump around and break stuff.
Drilling, kicking, biting four-piece working up a fine 35 minutes of art punk dosed up with proper ass-end, angular playing, with a fried, wild-eyed mouthpiece.
I’m no longer clinging to albums like these, trying to relive over-dramatic romances, but Kill Them With Kindness makes me think of picking up the habit again.
Dysrythmia are not interested in playing the most complicated, fucked up eight-minute instrumentals. They’d rather dance around each other’s gliding shadows.
From the same Detroit pop scene as The Sights and Outrageous Cherry, The High Strung compose pop songs worthy of being mentioned alongside those two fine bands.
Rock and roll that’ll remind you of your grandad’s scratchy copy of The Stones’ Between the Buttons and The Creation’s early Mod power pop (Who-style) singles.
This release is so below the radar, it doesn’t even qualify as a caricature of “Diamond Dave,” something that would at least satisfy like a sugary cereal.
Ilya succeed at what so many desperate indie bands are tripping over: The combination of sultry female vocals backed by minimalistic, tasteful arrangements.