Below the Sound compact dry nagging riffs with a mechanical rabbit-punch whacking from different angles until you’ve been worked over by a sock fulla golfballs.
If I was as popular with teenage girls as The Bouncing Souls… I’d be in a lot of trouble. Plus, I don’t think I could handle all the giggling and gossip.
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ 15 minutes have come & gone. So the first reaction to Asylum Street Spankers would be “been there, listened to that, sold my tux already.”
They could gig with Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and be just fine. Clean female vocals, occasional organ fills, geeky squared-off rhythms, a bit of minimalist pretension.
On Arcturus’ vocalist’s (and post-metal mastermind) label and described by the bio as “suicide rock.” All I can think of is The Stone Roses when I hear it.