The Five O'Clock Heroes: Bend to the Breaks

Five O'Clock HeroesReminds me of Huey Lewis and the News meets later Clash/Rolling Stones, though it's far from being as infectious. The recording itself fails to give the album any kind of personality, which helps this amount to sounding like the best bar rock band in a minor metropolitan area that everyone there has heard of, but that never makes it beyond the surrounding suburbs. It's the band the nice but annoying girl you work with's boyfriend is in and that she wears the t-shirt of on casual Fridays. I wish they had foregone all pretense and just made over-the-top super-catchy pop music like the best Replacements hits, but instead I'll probably never remember any of these songs and probably never hear them again either. :: The Five O'Clock Heroes: Bend to the Breaks- Glaze Records/Pias

ck 03 Dec 06

MOUTHUS

Best of the recent Our Mouth stuff is the first Sullivan solo CD-R. Sullivan's comes under the name Eskimo King, and /Tooth-Shaped Migration/ is five thick, detailed chunks of sound spread over a quick 17 minutes. What I dig most about Sullivan is his wide-open outlook on what sounds are worth making. Mouthus may concoct a lot of deep, textured noise, but they also use acoustic guitar loops, dirgey metal-like stomps, polyrhtyhmic meditations, busted rock riffs, and tons more. (noiseweek.blogspot.com)

„Nein, nein, kein Soundtrack! Wir kombinieren nur die Stücke auf unseren Alben - wir schneiden erstmal alles auf Band mit, um dann, vielleicht Monate später, zu sagen: Oh, das hier passt ja thematisch zu diesem Stück und auch zu jenem. Oder: Dieses Stück würden zu jenen Anderen passen, wäre es nicht so grottenschlecht. Also: Trash it.” Brian Sullivan/HE Interview

MOUTHUS the final tribes

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The Five O'Clock Heroes: Bend to the Breaks

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