Every song on this album fades in, but each time into some new variation on jangle pop guitars and a clean, up front overall sound. The Feelies' debut album had its fair share of critical success in 1980, still managing to shine in music magazines up against the likes of Boys Don't Cry by the Cure, Closer by Joy Divison, The Specials, The Buzzcocks, and a slew of other big names. Crazy Rhythms seems to be drastically unappreciated in the popular realm. The album is very feel-good and is rather straight forward indie-twee, but it really follows a model more like REM and helps to define "college rock" of the 1980s. They even cover a Beatles song, speeding it up and peppering an underground feel to it. Crazy Rhythms feels as though its being played intimately, the live sound of them in basement seems to be captured well in their studio sound. The title track feels like early Talking Heads, with vocalists Glenn Mercier and Bil Million belting:
You remind me of a TV showOn many of their songs, they jam over the quick back beat creating drawn out dance interludes which seem to launch back into choruses and verses with quick, clean enthusiastic abandon. The quirky Fa-Ce La is a good culmination of minimal keyboard work, crisp drumming, and fast-paced, washed guitar. Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness seems to define their hip-nerd style of post punk. Raised Eyebrows, after a choppy start, hits a wall of party chanting at the 2:13 mark, shouts of "he said oh" and a distorted guitar sounding larger than their native New Jersey.
That's alright, I watch it anyway
I don't talk much cause it gets in the way
Don't let it get in the way
We'll do our job, we'll get things done
Work real hard and get things done
It's time to sail but not now
Can't relax when there's things to do
Fans of Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, or Cake: tuck in your shirt and put on your glasses.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16th
6 PM WUML
Below Lydon Library
We wont actually be smashing the pillars of centralized government or mechanizing, standardizing, or brainwashing...well... never mind. But have you ever tried being on the radio? Have you ever wanted to voice opinions, air music, read news, and much, much more over the airwaves of the Merrimack valley?
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6 PM WUMLBelow Lydon Library
We wont actually be smashing the pillars of centralized government or mechanizing, standardizing, or brainwashing...well... never mind. But have you ever tried being on the radio? Have you ever wanted to voice opinions, air music, read news, and much, much more over the airwaves of the Merrimack valley?
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Although it doesn't drop until the 6th of October, you can listen to it here, and it is worth the listen. The Smell scene seems to embrace the writhing under current of a rhythm section with pretty, washed out guitar lines above (think Abe Vigoda, Captain Ahab, new HEALTH, or Mae Shi). You need look no further than the title track on the EP which in usual No Age fashion begins pretty and reserved, and then opens up into a second section of riding along, constantly layering itself. "Genie" begins with a up and down guitar ballad, full of fuzz and Randy Randall's chunking, and soon invites us to sit and listen to Dean Spundt sing, it fades in and fades back out into "Aim at the Airport." Beginning with an erie sample and ambient interludes, No Age sounds more like Books than new age punk revival. So far, the album is a perfect cut-out from last years incredible Nouns and then we run into October's punk anthem "You're a Target." With characteristically huge guitar, loud cymbals filling all four, and Spunt matching the top-to-bottom melody, No Age isn't changing for the worse, but adding for the better. 2007s Wierdo Rippers coagulated their first 5 EPs onto one album, Nouns gave us a strung together version of No Age which crystallized their sound, and Losing Feeling seems to just give us a piece of something we've been wanting since last May. 7 No Age Partying Jams:
1. Teen Creeps from Nouns
2. Everybody's Down from Weirdo Rippers
3. Brain Burner from Nouns
4. Sleeper Hold from Nouns
5. Dead Plane from Weirdo Rippers
6. Eraser from Nouns
and now
7. You're a Target from the upcoming Losing Feeling
TODAY:
The Middle East -
- The Cult - House of Blues
- Telefon Tel Aviv, The Race, & Coralcola - Great Scott
- Sondre Lerche - The Paradise
- The Box Elders, & Hospital Rats - O'Briens
The Middle East -
- Sept. 14 - Deerhoof
- Sept. 20 - Youth Brigade
- Sept. 30 - Mono
- Oct. 9 - Built to Spill
- Oct. 16 - Art Brut
- Sept. 21 - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
- Sept. 30 - Butthole Surfers
- Sept. 21 - Chain & the Gang (ex-Nation of Ulysses), Bodega Girls, Lindsey Starr and the Chemical Smiles
- Sept. 22 - HEALTH, Big Digits, Pictureplane, Bearstronaut
- Oct. 2 - Jay Reatard
- Dec. 3 - Pelican
- Sept. 27 - Wavves
- Oct. 5 - Japandroids
- Sept. 28 - Sunny Day Real Estate
- Oct. 10 - HAPPY MONDAYS / PSYCHEDELIC FURS
- Sept. 16 - Yo La Tengo
- Oct. 4 - Os Mutantes
TODAY:
The Middle East -
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Depreciation Guild, & Cymbals Eat Guitars - The Middle East
- Dan Webb and the Spiders, Movers and Shakers, & Mikey French Fries - O'Briens
- Pet Shop Boys - House of Blues
- Death and Taxes, Jason Bennett and the Resistance, Lenny Lashley, & Brunt of It - Harper's Ferry
- The Love Me Nots, Anabolics, Jeddo
- Stars - The Middle East Upstairs
- Timothy Cushing, Four Squares, Wells Fargo, & The Wagons - TT the Bear's Place
- Finisher, & Whitey - O'Briens
- Motorhead!!!!, Rev. Horton Heat, & Nashville Pussy - House of Blues, 8PM all ages
The Middle East -
- Sept. 11 - Angry Samoans
- Sept. 14 - Deerhoof
- Sept. 20 - Youth Brigade
- Sept. 30 - Mono
- Oct. 9 - Built to Spill
- Sept. 21 - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
- Sept. 30 - Butthole Surfers
- Sept. 21 - Chain & the Gang (ex-Nation of Ulysses), Bodega Girls, Lindsey Starr and the Chemical Smiles
- Sept. 22 - HEALTH, Big Digits, Pictureplane, Bearstronaut
- Oct. 2 - Jay Reatard
- Dec. 3 - Pelican
- Sept. 11 - Anderson Comedy Group with Chris Fleming
- Sept. 27 - Wavves
- Oct. 5 - Japandroids
- Sept. 28 - Sunny Day Real Estate
- Oct. 10 - HAPPY MONDAYS / PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Although it doesn't drop until the 6th of October, you can listen to it here, and worth the listen it is. Thank fucking god for No Age. The Smell scene seems to embrace the under current of a rhythm section with pretty, washed out guitar lines above (think Abe Vigoda, Captain Ahab, HEALTH, or Mae Shi). You need look no further than the title track on the EP which in usual No Age fashion begins pretty and reserved, and then opens up into a second section of riding along, constantly layering itself. "Genie" begins with a up and down guitar ballad, full of fuzz and Randy Randall's chunking, and soon invites us to sit and listen to Dean Spundt sing, it fades in and fades back out into "Aim at the Airport." Beginning with an erie sample and ambient interludes, No Age sounds more like Books than new age punk revival. So far, the album is a perfect cut-out from last years incredible Nouns and then we run into October's punk anthem "You're a Target." With characteristically huge guitar, loud cymbals filling all four, and Spunt matching the top-to-bottom melody, No Age isn't changing for the worse, but adding for the better. 2007s Wierdo Rippers coagulated their first 5 EPs onto one album, Nouns gave us a strung together version of No Age which crystallized their sound, and Losing Feeling seems to just give us a piece of something we've been wanting since last May.
7 No Age Party Jams:
1. Teen Creeps from Nouns
2. Everybody's Down from Weirdo Rippers
3. Brain Burner from Nouns
4. Sleeper Hold from Nouns
5. Dead Plane from Weirdo Rippers 6. Eraser from Nouns and now
7. You're a Target from the upcoming Losing Feeling
Here is a new addition to WUML...which has existed for some time, but we'll be revamping it finally. Is WUML in need of a blog? We could weigh in on this but why not just write one. Our own directors will be publishing various posts related to the station, events, and underground music.
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