Labels: Exploding In Sound Records
Review by: MH
Exploding In Sound Records have put out some cracking records over the past couple of years or so including releases by Speedy Ortiz, Pile and Ovlov. This latest release is by a Boston band showing an appreciation of all things 90s indie rock whilst adding a much more rowdy side to it. The band they remind me most of all of from that era is Pavement. However, it is the more warped and noisier side of Pavement that springs to mind. There is little of the more laidback sounds Pavement displayed as this record is fairly raucous in comparison with plenty of energy, disonnance, hefty rhythms and angular guitars. That side of them reminds me far more of Speedy Ortiz. A sound somewhere between the two perhaps. Most of the songs don’t follow any standard time signatures and there is much in the way of tangents and jumps. Lyrically we’re talking streams of consciousness and the whole thing has an off-kilter feel. I’ve enjoyed this – it’s an interesting take on the sound. Somehow I hadn’t heard of them before but there is a whole bunch of their stuff to delve into by the looks of their Bandcamp page.