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Showing posts with label Screaming Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Screaming Trees. Show all posts
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Screaming Trees - Dust
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Album Review: Screaming Trees – Invisible Lantern
In 1988 the Screaming Trees released their third album, Invisible
Lantern. Opener Ivy immediately sets the
tone for the album, it’s muddier, heavier and more unhinged than their previous
2 albums. A rough and ready, downward spiraling
riff is the bedrock for Mark Lanegan to roar his vocals over, and roar he does
with a gloriously messy performance.
Walk Through To This Side, is more psychedelic, with jangly, 60s
sounding guitars, before following track Lines & Circles kicks up a fine
racket with a bludgeoning riff right out of Gary Lee Conner’s book of monster
riffs. After the noise of She Knows and
Shadow Song, Grey Diamond Desert slows things down, turning the fuzz down a
shade and heightening the doom in Lanegan’s voice.
Some of the rest of the tracks are a little interchangeable, but
Even If (presumable held over from 1987’s Even If and Especially When) has a
fine gallop and a strong melody. The album is quite far removed from the band’s 90s material, more
like a punky, garage band than the classic rockers they would become.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Album Review: Various Artists – Fifteen Minutes: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground
The early 90s saw US underground rock godfathers the Velvet Underground finally receive the full-blown tribute by some of the early 90s European and American indie fraternity.
The album kicks off with a bang with Nirvana’s powerful version of Here She Comes Now where Kurt Cobain and co build up from a low growl to a visceral roar, vocally and musically finishing in a haze of distortion. Forgotten shoegazers Swervedriver take the once muted Jesus and transform it into a blissed-out, distorted anthem, all mumbled vocals and searing guitars.
Lee Ranaldo sounds unrecognizable from his dayjob in Sonic Youth as he slide-guitars his way through Stephanie Says. Things get really demented with Fatima Mansions’ electro-pop version of Lady Godiva’s Operation, Cathal Coughlan barking the lyrics like the inmate of a correctional facility, as chainsaws perform the ‘incisions’ in the lyrics!
Some of it doesn’t quite work, Echo and the Bunnymen turn Foggy Notion into one of their latter-day chug-along rockers. Stronger are the Wedding Present’s faithful homage to She’s My Best Friend and at the other extreme, the Screaming Trees’ desecration of What Goes On .
Like any tribute album, it’s an uncohesive and at times incoherent listen. But like any good tribute album, this makes you dig out the original material so in this regard, it succeeds.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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