Labels: Quarterstick
Review by: Dan Baker
OK, so I’m reading the NME(before you ask, I didn’t buy it) and I’m browsing through the review pages, and I see the name Slint mentioned in a review of a band called June of ’44. Now I like Slint I do, and even though NME gave them 5 (who believes the ‘indie’ press anyway?) i chose to buy this record. After buying this thing, a canadian i’m working with in a pub in camden told me they were named afer some boat or ship thing that happened in June 1944, cos they like ships. so now you know.
After listening to this record a few times, the last thing that came to mind was Slint. This album is weird, not in a math rock or post hardcore kind of way, but in a, well, weird kind of way. Sometimes, it sounds like karate with funny time signatures and annoying noises, other times it sounds like mellower seam with annoying out of tune vocals, and other times it just sounds boring. And annoying. Obviously.
But to be nice about it (and to contradict myself in a rather punk rock manner) i do kind of like this record. Sometimes, the vocals and lyrics especially, it reminds me of the Van Pelt, a band i really like, and as i type right now i find my feet are tapping away at the jazzy drum beats and bass lines. I also have to, by principal, give this band a better score than the Nme, a publication that likes Shed Seven.