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XMAS REVIEW ROUNDUP PART 2Thursday, 7 January 2010A little later than planned due to the fairly hectic schedule I've been keeping over the New Year, here's a quick summary of the best and not so best of what we received in our intray over the last few months. --- Chucky's River - Wexford tinted blues-rock. Fantastic songwriting, great lyrics, and stellar vocals that you have to hear to believe. Will undoubtedly see success very soon. -- Third Harvest- Straight outta Keady, Co. Armagh - the heart of Metallica, the roots and soul of Maiden, but with subtle vocals. These guys are the pick of the up and coming rock/classic rock bands I've heard, and I expect very good things from them in 2010. -- Picture The Sound - Editors, Interpol and Elbow. I'm very excited about this brand new band from Rasharkin who could very easily go all the way onto daytime radio. Expect to see them in Belfast soon. -- Deadlights - Their latest EP has shown the Lisburn 4-piece progress from a good solid rock band into an even better, exciting precursor to Alexisonfire, Smashing Pumpkins or Jetplane Landing. The playing is tighter, the vocals are raw but have real emotion and the riffs and melodies are a lot technically better. It's really exciting when bands make a jump in quality like this so I'd highly recommend you get to the Deadlights EP Launch on 4th March at Lavery's, Belfast and set your ears to ROCK! -- Not everything that comes into the office is good. That's OK - I never say bad things about a new band, I'll always try and be constructive. However when a band with a track record like Derby math-rockers Beyond This Point Are Monsters send an album that's where the first two tracks are plain unsettling to listen to, I have to give it even more attention before I deliver a bad verdict. Although bits of it are reminiscent of Explosions In The Sky at their finest, some of it just sounds like sloppy Tracer AMC. OK the "off-kilter" elements gives it a bit of Battles but honestly, there's little structure to some of the tracks, sounding like a bunch of ideas glued together with problems at the seams. Well produced, but poorly executed. At the level they aspire to, and they've played with some fairly high calibre bands inclusing our own ASIWYFA, you have to be that little bit better. Do check them out though as they do have some good moments. ----- Phew! And that's not even counting the Sang By Fire EP! That'll wait until next week. For now, I hope you're pumped for '10. Hrm, '10 doesn't have the same ring to it as '09 but I'm pretty sure the future of music will carry on regardless... |
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