TUESDAY OCTOBER 7th:
BLITZEN TRAPPER +
ABSENTEE
7:00PM - 11:00PM ~ £8 IN
ADVANCE / £10 ON THE DOOR
BLITZEN TRAPPER have self-released three albums since
2003, including their latest, Wild Mountain Nation. The struggle of DIY indie
bands can be over-romanticized, but in the case of Blitzen Trapper, the freedom
to work at their own pace is most likely what brought them to come up with the
cock-eyed stylistic blitzkrieg of Wild Mountain Nation. It's better for all of
us they've refused to focus. While I'm loathe to make a Pavement reference, Wild
Mountain Nation comes closer to catching the carefree fuck-off sprawl of Wowee
Zowee than any record in recent memory. Here the band sail through any number of
genres and styles without giving off a whiff of effort, their apparent West
coast breeziness covering for the judicious amount of detail crammed into nearly
every song.
ABSENTEE Born to the sounds of Barry Manillow and The
Carpenters, raised on romantic comedies, and schooled in failed love and
misfiring lust Absentee emerge well-versed in the rigours of romance with their
finest album to date, Victory Shorts. Marked with the influence of Johnny Cash,
Pavement and The Velvet Underground, produced/engineered/mixed by Nick Terry
(Klaxons, Libertines, Bernard Butler), and shot through with the originality and
humour we've come to expect from Absentee, Victory Shorts stands alone as the
band's strongest, most honest record yet.
BLITZEN TRAPPER +
ABSENTEE
7:00PM - 11:00PM ~ £8 IN
ADVANCE / £10 ON THE DOOR
BLITZEN TRAPPER have self-released three albums since
2003, including their latest, Wild Mountain Nation. The struggle of DIY indie
bands can be over-romanticized, but in the case of Blitzen Trapper, the freedom
to work at their own pace is most likely what brought them to come up with the
cock-eyed stylistic blitzkrieg of Wild Mountain Nation. It's better for all of
us they've refused to focus. While I'm loathe to make a Pavement reference, Wild
Mountain Nation comes closer to catching the carefree fuck-off sprawl of Wowee
Zowee than any record in recent memory. Here the band sail through any number of
genres and styles without giving off a whiff of effort, their apparent West
coast breeziness covering for the judicious amount of detail crammed into nearly
every song.
ABSENTEE Born to the sounds of Barry Manillow and The
Carpenters, raised on romantic comedies, and schooled in failed love and
misfiring lust Absentee emerge well-versed in the rigours of romance with their
finest album to date, Victory Shorts. Marked with the influence of Johnny Cash,
Pavement and The Velvet Underground, produced/engineered/mixed by Nick Terry
(Klaxons, Libertines, Bernard Butler), and shot through with the originality and
humour we've come to expect from Absentee, Victory Shorts stands alone as the
band's strongest, most honest record yet.
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