Showing posts with label Iceage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iceage. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Iceage - The Lord's Favorite (video)

Like Rancid covering Chris Isaak, Iceage have made a sound shift and released this woozy, twangified, love-yowl. If you know Iceage you're probably familiar with the sheer brutality, and raw power of their music. Like the screams of a drunk man justifying his disgust for the world, outside a noisy club, Iceage have never held anything back. Here they have dialled down the distortion, yet the ramshackle sound of a train near derailment still remains. So get out your dice and your martinis, its The Lord's Favorite:

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Eagulls - Tough Luck

Eagulls, the terribly named, Leeds punks are about to blow up the net. They played Letterman Friday afternoon and then the Burg later that night (at 1 in the morning!!). Eagulls produce Punk that lies somewhere between Iceage, and Merchandise. They rekindle an early English sound, reminiscent of the Buzzcocks, but also Echo and the Bunnymen, or The Chameleons. Their a band that fills a necessary Post-punk void in 2014. Where A lot of their contemporaries rely heavily on either wishy-washy jangling guitars, or an overly fuzzed-out sound, Eagulls fit somewhere in the middle while not getting lost in it. Check out their latest video for Tough Luck and a live performance of Possessed: