Hi all,
Here we are for a new review of a contron album. Maybe you'll remember the previous one ? Well, this one is, it's now usual, very pleasant. Some lo-fi recording, voice nevertheless heavily here, guitar, sometimes harmonica, and that's all.
The contron magic resides maybe in the hypnotic voice lines alongside with guitar arpeggios and chords, and, all I can say is that the magic operates. This album is a kind of masterpiece. I can't believe I waited till today before I went to the contron Bandcamp ( http://contron.bandcamp.com/ ) to realize there were a new album available.
I talked about chords and arpeggios, but solos are very nice too. I talked about the hypnotic part of the voice lines, and I must stress on this point : the voices are very addictive, if that's the kind of thing you like.
Overall, a really neat album, that I would recommend if you like this kind of american music, very soulful.
You can download this album in a name-your-price manner, including for free, and if I were you, I wouldn't miss this opportunity to discover (unless you were wise enough to listen to the previous one after reading the review here) someone who definitively deserve to be called a great musician.
I wish I could have written for this review for much more lines, but actually I think I summed up quite well : this is a sort of must-have. I got my copy. What are you waiting for ?
Aug 3, 2013
Computers Kill People - The Fun Machine
Wow. Wow. Wow. I discovered this band by a lucky strike, trough a YouTube suggestion for their Doors cover. Actually, I didn't listened much to the cover, but this Parisian band seduced me enough - what a name ! to have me downloading their maxi-EP, which is available for free from their own website, http://thefunmachine.cpukillpeople.com/
Wow. Wow. Wow. What a slap ! Actually, the kind of release I totally enjoy, with overdrive. Makes me think a bit of LAMF by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.
But while LAMF is a straightforward (and awesome) punk rock release, here we got some heavier music. Queen of the Stone Age is a influence, as quoted by the band. I just enjoy this music a lot. This is plain excellent stuff, powerfull.
I'm listening while writing, and this is **definitively** very good stuff. A slight Pixies/Post Grunge influence on "The Perfect Twin", with more poppy guitar riffs, well, this is a kind of rocky heaven. This band rules, I tell you. I guess they may have a pretty decent career, if they keep on their non-compromisive way to rock and roll.
May I add that the band is decent enough to provide free FLAC lossless format download ? Let's drink my cup of coffee and keep on listening.
Well, how can I sum up ? While the overall result sounds very modern and 2010's, there's also a real 60's approach in the way songs are written, maybe a Steppenwolfian thing, I don't know. Actually this band seems born to be wild. Stooges are never far away, too. MC5 may be round here, too. Well, don't misunderstood me, this is still a QOTSA influenced band with heavy, overdriven sound, but it seems, there's something deeper, digging at the roots of 60's rock and roll counter-culture. But I may be wrong.
Well, the EP is almost finished. Seems a ballad is coming... Oh, overdriven guitar, low tempo, nice way to end a release. This is (You Could Be) My Sin. The release is still slightly overdriven, this is really very nicely produced.
I guess we'll keep on earing about them.
Wow. Wow. Wow. What a slap ! Actually, the kind of release I totally enjoy, with overdrive. Makes me think a bit of LAMF by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.
But while LAMF is a straightforward (and awesome) punk rock release, here we got some heavier music. Queen of the Stone Age is a influence, as quoted by the band. I just enjoy this music a lot. This is plain excellent stuff, powerfull.
I'm listening while writing, and this is **definitively** very good stuff. A slight Pixies/Post Grunge influence on "The Perfect Twin", with more poppy guitar riffs, well, this is a kind of rocky heaven. This band rules, I tell you. I guess they may have a pretty decent career, if they keep on their non-compromisive way to rock and roll.
May I add that the band is decent enough to provide free FLAC lossless format download ? Let's drink my cup of coffee and keep on listening.
Well, how can I sum up ? While the overall result sounds very modern and 2010's, there's also a real 60's approach in the way songs are written, maybe a Steppenwolfian thing, I don't know. Actually this band seems born to be wild. Stooges are never far away, too. MC5 may be round here, too. Well, don't misunderstood me, this is still a QOTSA influenced band with heavy, overdriven sound, but it seems, there's something deeper, digging at the roots of 60's rock and roll counter-culture. But I may be wrong.
Well, the EP is almost finished. Seems a ballad is coming... Oh, overdriven guitar, low tempo, nice way to end a release. This is (You Could Be) My Sin. The release is still slightly overdriven, this is really very nicely produced.
I guess we'll keep on earing about them.
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