These guys still rock your fucking ass. Just because they’re intelligent and superior musicians doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten how to connect emotionally.
Technical, precise, educated, informed, but ultimately boring to anyone who doesn’t give a shit about how music works and just cares about how music sounds.
This mix of Southern-fried garage blues, sing-song female vox, and the get-down-on-yer-knees-and-worship-at-the-alter-of-fuzz moment takes ’em outta the box.
Lead singer of Long Fin Killie, violinist for Mogwai, Luke Sutherland is all about whispered, disturbed vocals and lush harmonies with pointilistic drums.
He doesn’t mix “the hip-hop with the Southern rock” but mines a woozy out-of-time, out-of-space reality from the Eisenhower era with a similar black/white mix.
Like his buddy Wild Billy Childish, Dan Melchior plunders elderly American musical styles (like, uh, rock’n’roll and blues) and then rams ’em back home.