Every so often the resolute snapper and scribbler from Fighting Boredom head to a pub and listen to a load of music sent, bought and discovered between them, they speak their thoughts which often deteriorate over the stage of the evening and then I set them down for you to peruse. This is part two of the epic reviews session that started here.
Last time you left us on singles review night we were approaching drunkenness as we ploughed our way through a playlist that was just short of two and a half hours long. We made Dead Pioneers excellent anti nazi track single of the week and I promised the second half soon, well here it is. Have a listen and read and then try and argue with us, by the time we got to this lot we were feeling pretty argumentative..
Ben Auld – From Now On
This is scrappy fuzzy pop, think Teenage Fanclub and good. The Photographer says it’s just like any other indie band??? It’s definitely Teenage Fanclub.
Pig – Sex and Suicide
Industrial for the kids, it’s okay, would have played it at the disco way back when. The Photographer says that it’s slow paced industrial metal, not offensive.
Hunter As A Horse – Paradise Lost
Tomorrow Woman – Ultrasound
An electronic slow moving groove, a rich sounding and laid back track. The Photographer says I didn’t think much of it at all, started off going nowhere and didn’t get anywhere in the end, pointless.
Rhododendron – Like Spitting Out Copper
Noise. Battering guitars and drums, quiet bit in the middle then noise again, screaming, just a bit ho hum. The Photographer says there’s a bit of a Slint feel in the slow bits.
Wheelchair Sports Club – EAT MEAT!
Now this is something else, a wheelchair bound woman hating everything with scrappy electronics and noise, apparently her gimp is the drummer. The Photographer says its great punk rock encompasses it all proper punk rock rock.. I love it.
Skinhead – The Plan:1
This is a great street punk track, nice shouty rough vocal and great music and it’s under two minutes long. The Photographer says it’s street punk innit… THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN LAIBACH. (Please see Part 1 for explanation)
Tanya Tagaq – Fuck War
This is a throat singing anti war song, it is fucking terrifying. It i also fucking brilliant. The Photographer says that it is terrifying unhinged madness and I like it a lot, the build up doesn’t give you enough of the terrifying lunacy that is about to smash your face in, it’s brilliant.
Dez Dare – Dunning-Kruger on Hl
This is Low Key Dez, emotional and slow, and a great song. The Photographer says that it’s not his greatest record and he’s got a lot more in his bag, go back a little bit and you’ll like what he does.
Brother Wallace – Who Do You Love
This is an old fashioned fast soul groove and it’s wonderful. The Photographer says that it’s not the better of the two tracks split over the two weeks of reviews. Great orchestration and well produced rounded track.
Gene Richards Jr – Broken (Viniclus Honorio Rework)
A fantastic techno track, with deep, full bass and it goes on forever. The Photographer says that I like the original version of this on the same EP.
Slift – A Storm of Wings
This one is all slow alternative rock guitars and drums with a shouty vocal, it’s a decent enough song. The Photographer says it’s got a hint of Led Zeppelin, the vocals are definitely a bit Robert Plant. It retains my interest and so it’s alright.
Dälek – Normalized Tragedy
This is hard dark decent hip hop. The Photographer says I like the vocal and the extra bits but it sounds a little bit formulaic – not a bad track with a nice political throw on it.
Dead Pioneers – No Kings
Dead Pioneers with another excellent punk protest song, livid and hard. The Photographer says I like it a lot. In your face political punk and they dont fuck around.
Downtown Boys – No Me Jodas
It starts off with a Doom groove, messy and great and then punks up into a messy groove with Spanish vocals, it is bonkers and it is great. The Photographer says it’s shouty ska as it gets going. I like it but don’t understand what they’re saying, but I don’t speak Spanish…
ZANJEER – Anti-Deutsch
This is rough as old boots, hard core punk, great stuff. The Photographer says it’s just a bit too meh -heard it all before, but then there are a load of kids that haven’t heard it before..
Beyond the Styx – Never Ending
This is a screamy nasty angry punk metal crossover. I quite like it and I bet the photographer will hate it. The Photographer says.. double beat metal madness screamy stuff.
Terrence Dixon – When Stars Remember
A rich, classy techno tune, an ace track. The Photographer says, somewhat drunkenly, we don’t review techno, its ace ultra techno… make of that what you will.
Speedy J – Arp Amp Chasm
I’m not sold on this one, a bit droney and going nowhere. The Photographer says that it’s dark and fuzzed out and it could be track of the week.. It isn’t.
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As you can probably tell from the comments, by the time we’d reached the end of this review session we were ever so slightly the worst for wear. But to sum it up, the single of the week went to the utterly brilliantly terrifying Tanya Tagaq and ‘Fuck War’. You can disagree with us, but you’d be wrong. We hope you’ve enjoyed the music.
All words by Martin Ward and Adrian Bloxham
