Showing posts with label Siouxsie and the Banshees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Siouxsie and the Banshees. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Wax Idols - Lonely You

Thru the shadowy thicket of gloomy, guitar slangers, we find the decrepit remains ancient mansions once home to Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Chameleons, Dead Can Dance, and other murk lurkers. Wax Idols with its equally cryptic name, follows in the dusty footsteps of gothic heavyweights, crankin the flange and chanting through the wind. Like the sounds of a death swamp, where one has lost their way, Lonely You is a journey into scarce complexity. Like infectious madness churned through a meat grinder into a terrific pop tune, if you like it bleak and refinded you will dig this song. Wax on, not off:

Monday, January 12, 2015

Vic Godard & Subway Sect - Split Up The Money

Look Back In Anger: Vic Godard and Subway Sect, originally just Subway Sect, were an early punk group that sprouted up (like so many others) in the wake of the Sex Pistols. For several years they bopped around the Punk scene, enduring numerous line-up shifts with Godard remaining at the helm. By 1980 Goddard restructured the group, refining the sound around an early Rock-N-Roll vibe. Chanted harmonies and jangling guitars became a hallmark of the Subway sound, as they joined compatriots like Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Clash in adjusting popular music of early 80s England. Have a listen to Split Up The Money, from their first real LP, What's The Matter Boy: