At the risk of turning having this weeks blog overrun by stray dogs tonight's post features Manchester post punk trio StrayDogCafe following on from last night's post on Russia's Stray Dogs.
New Black Light Machine From: London, United Kingdom Here come London's New Black Light Machine to save the world from the Take That reunion and bury landfill indie for ever.
Throwing angular nu wave shapes and jittery fidgety post punk moves the unbelievably cool looking quintet are heaven sent to rejuvenate a music scene that's been looking a little frayed around the edges.
The tracks on their myspace site sound like an application form for fame. Disguise sounds like The Fall on fast forward, while the live rehearsal of Light Burns Black show a band not afraid to punk it up old school with lead singer Russell McNally (possibly the least rock 'n roll name this side of Engelbert Humperdinck) yelping like his dicks on fire. But it's on 'Between Silence & Silence' that they truly hit paydirt. With it's disembodied vocals and stabbing 80s synth it sounds like The Killers morphing into These New Puritans.
New Black Light Machine are here to save the world and prove for once and for all that light truly is the new black.
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MP3 - New Black Light Machine - Light Burns Black This track is linked direct from the New Black Light Machine Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.
I stumbled upon Joy-Rides while wandering aimlessly around Last.FM looking for music that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
They've been wandering the mean streets of dear ol' blighty for nigh on five years putting the mental in experimental and forcing their noisy post punk clatter into the heads of anyone who gets in their way.
The Devil's favourite track the awe inspiring Bishop Of Southwark sounds like The Fall having a nervous breakdown and would be a shoe-in for the top ten of John Peel's festive fifty if it was still running. Within the last couple of weeks Joy-Rides have changed their name to The Cadillacs (a name they share with a Harlem doo wop group of the 1950s). I don't know whether this is merely a change of band name or whether there has been any change in personnel or sound because there is no information on the Cadillacs myspace site at all. I for one hope that it's nothing more than a change of name and that the Cadillacs continue churn out inventive, interesting and intriguing songs like Bishop of Southwark.
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MP3 - Joy-Rides - Bishop Of Southwark This track is linked direct from theJoy Rides Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.
StrayDogCafe
