It’s a caludron of free samples for you this week; Dinosaur Pile-Up return to the scene with their debut LP penned, bearing a free gift in the form of our Download of the Week ‘Headspinner’. Also this week, Aussie grunge unit Violent Soho and Philadelphia Grand Jury (above) exclusively let you get your mits on these freebies. Enjoy…
1. DINOSAUR PILE UP- ‘Headspinner’ (FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE WEEK)
Three EPs down the line and their LP is ready…Pile on!
http://www.dinosaurpileup.com/
2. COIL SEA – ‘Lattice of AUM’
Prog rock band with waves of unforgiving guitars.
http://thrilljockey.com/assets/freedownload/Coil_Sea-Lattice_of_AUM.mp3
3. MAX SEDGLEY – Sound Boy (Kraak & Smaak Remix)
Purveyor of everything with a funky pulse.
http://fairtilizer.com/track/131877
4. DARKER MY LOVE – ‘Dear Author’
Murky indie-rock California rock.
http://dangerbirdrecords.com/resources/downloadcodeplayers/download-dmldearauthor/
5. THE JOLLY BOYS – ‘Great Balls Of Fire’ (Cover)
This musical family cover the legendary Jerry Lee Lewis song.
http://www.yousendit.com/download/T1VtNU1HcWZsUjgwTVE9PQ
6. VIOLENT SOHO – ‘Jesus Stole My Girlfriend (Dillinger Escape Plan Remix)’
Aussie grunge band remixed by the visceral metal merchants DEP.
http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/reg/reg.pl?id=4973-138497
7. MIGHTY MOUSE – ‘The Beast’
Remix whores turn nasty.
http://fairtilizer.com/track/133784
8. ROBERT BABICZ – ‘Remote Kiss’
Dirty techno all the way from Cologne.
9. SON OF KICK’S – Revolution A
Insane psycho-dubstep…
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lgaqk1
10. PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY – ‘The New Neil Young’ (EDITOR’S PICK)
http://soundcloud.com/stayloose/philadelphia-grand-jury-the-new-neil-young
Guilty of enough soul to be sent down by…well, a grand jury!
Somewhat puzzlingly signed to Thurston Moore’s label, Violent Soho are an Aussie quartet who want to pretend it’s 1992. Grunge it seems is back, however it’s not the Mudhoney/Nirvana/Tad sound that made the world fall in love with it, it’s the formulaic dreck that came after when every major label on the planet rushed to Seattle with open chequebooks to sign anything wearing a lumberjack shirt. It’s a bit Pixies, a bit Weezer, contains no hooks, and could be passed off as novelty, other than that it’s on Ecstatic Peace! – whether bad or good, Sonic Youth are at least always evolving and Violent Soho are retrograde in the extreme. If you bring nothing new to the party, then at least be damn good at what you do. If this had appeared in 1992 it’d have been passed off as bad grunge, so there’s certainly no cause to celebrate it now just because some time’s passed. And no props for that attention seeking title – if you’re in a rock band and Jesus stole your girlfriend – a dude whose musical friends are Cliff Richard, Stryper and the Jonas Brothers – then your girlfriend’s telling you that your band’s hopeless. As am I.
Like bandwagon jumpers emerging from a coma at their landing, Violent Soho wake up to bring us their out-dated grunge stylings. Like those other Australian sub-Seattleites (whose name we shall never speak of again…) they come surfing a wave of hype, or at least on the backs of more established bodies – their PR namedrops Thurston! Norton! Rubin! And hearing the record it is clear these guys suck balls in more ways than one. Thankfully choosing the punk-Sabbath route over the maudlin Chewbaccaneering offered by hairy bastards like Nickleback, this is the kind of band that could be the first love of many a 13 year old boy – which, to be fair, is not a bad thing – but anyone past thinking Lynx Africa is the height of sophistication will find this a real stink. As the track titles suggest, the lyrics are full of empty sloganeering for lack of any real violence or danger in their noise. People accused the young Manics of this, but then they had lyrics like ‘I laughed when Lennon got shot’; while here all we find are scattershot soundbites like ‘run away, fuck the system’. Like, totally, dudes – you go ahead… I-I’ll see ya there…
