skinny wolves
Well-Known Member
Skinny Wolves Presents:
NUMBERS (USA, Kill Rock Stars)
& Guests
Wednesday 7th November
Whelans, Dublin
Formed in the fertile IDM-meets-post-punk training ground that was late 90s San Francisco, Numbers were once the premier dance-rock outfit with whom we found our salvation from the curse that was the coming of a new century. Now, however, Numbers are at the pinnacle of a new era of self realization and enlightenment.
Previously three individuals - Dave Broekema, Indra Dunis and Eric Landmark - taking turns at yelping, buzzerk-ing, pushing, shoving and coming together occasionally to make fight music for pyjama parties, now the trio are producers of one, immense, singular sound - an epic, mind-driving sound, that appeals as much to the pop-trained ear as the aching heart or frazzled mind.
'Now You Are This'
Building on the expansive pop of the 2005 'We're Animals' album, but taking the sound into a newly pensive wilderness, 'Now You Are This' is a worry-stained record - all minimal, bluntly entrancing riffs, insistent drumming and tense, reverberant synthesizers. There isn't an easy comparison for the dire, wounded poise of these songs - a secret pact between beauty and fear? The futuristic propulsion of Kraftwerk filtered through the raw-knuckled roughness of Suicide?
Surprisingly, the most disquieting aspect of the songs is their subtle charm - 13 tracks of dazed and charged near-collapse that unexpectedly catch in your mind, echoing their haunted buzz for days and weeks after the record ends. Not since The Silver Apples has a band so successfully wedded a cacophony of electronic keyboards with such a clear-voiced pop sensibility.
A significant part of this catchiness lies in the vocals, in the floating, hypnotic lilt of Indra Dunis and in the timeless, intuitive harmonies lent by Eric Landmark and Dave Broekema. The weave of their raw, upright voices lends a poignant, unflinching and steady guide to the dogged, swirling waves of sound that propels the record.
With such ache, such urgency, Numbers draw a line from the honest clarity of traditional American music like the Carter Family through the troubled pounding of today, creating a phenomenal, appropriately dark vision of tomorrow's pop music.
'Now You Are This' is a double LP - two 45 RPM 12" discs in a gatefold sleeve. A CD version, with alternative artwork, is available from Kill Rock Stars.
WEBLINKS
www.myspace.com/numbersmusic
www.numbersmusic.com
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/numbers.html
www.killrockstars.com/artists/viewartist.php?id=1128
PARTY WEIRDO
http://www.myspace.com/partyweirdomusic
Three ladies from Dublin, Ireland, Party Weirdo are an enlightening amalgam of musical experimentation, feminist expressionism and performance art. Aside from the 3D talents of vocalist / guitarist Cara Holmes and drummer Emily Aoibheann, the multi-instrumentalist Therese McKenna changes the dynamic of each song, by turns playing flute, cello and bass guitar. The result is a set that ranges from tight post-punk pop songs to loose anti-structures of whoops, squeals and free-rock abandon.
"Think the Fall meets Erase Erata at a riot grrl convention." - Rough Trade
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YOUR ONLY MASSIVE
http://www.myspace.com/YOUREONLYMASSIVE
Youre Only Massive is Maebh Cheasty, and DJ Megadrive. They live down the road from each other in Waterford. Youre Only Massive is electronic music, riot grrrl and hip-hop and that sudden sense of excitement you only get in summertime. Megadrive lays down beats and Maebh rhymes on top. Megan sometimes sings too and Maebh sometimes hula hoops. They try their hardest to get you to dance with them. Maebh is also currently preparing a show for the Dublin Fringe Festival.
"Irelands answer to CSS?"
Video:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm ?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=13822425
NUMBERS (USA, Kill Rock Stars)
& Guests
Wednesday 7th November
Whelans, Dublin
Formed in the fertile IDM-meets-post-punk training ground that was late 90s San Francisco, Numbers were once the premier dance-rock outfit with whom we found our salvation from the curse that was the coming of a new century. Now, however, Numbers are at the pinnacle of a new era of self realization and enlightenment.
Previously three individuals - Dave Broekema, Indra Dunis and Eric Landmark - taking turns at yelping, buzzerk-ing, pushing, shoving and coming together occasionally to make fight music for pyjama parties, now the trio are producers of one, immense, singular sound - an epic, mind-driving sound, that appeals as much to the pop-trained ear as the aching heart or frazzled mind.
'Now You Are This'
Building on the expansive pop of the 2005 'We're Animals' album, but taking the sound into a newly pensive wilderness, 'Now You Are This' is a worry-stained record - all minimal, bluntly entrancing riffs, insistent drumming and tense, reverberant synthesizers. There isn't an easy comparison for the dire, wounded poise of these songs - a secret pact between beauty and fear? The futuristic propulsion of Kraftwerk filtered through the raw-knuckled roughness of Suicide?
Surprisingly, the most disquieting aspect of the songs is their subtle charm - 13 tracks of dazed and charged near-collapse that unexpectedly catch in your mind, echoing their haunted buzz for days and weeks after the record ends. Not since The Silver Apples has a band so successfully wedded a cacophony of electronic keyboards with such a clear-voiced pop sensibility.
A significant part of this catchiness lies in the vocals, in the floating, hypnotic lilt of Indra Dunis and in the timeless, intuitive harmonies lent by Eric Landmark and Dave Broekema. The weave of their raw, upright voices lends a poignant, unflinching and steady guide to the dogged, swirling waves of sound that propels the record.
With such ache, such urgency, Numbers draw a line from the honest clarity of traditional American music like the Carter Family through the troubled pounding of today, creating a phenomenal, appropriately dark vision of tomorrow's pop music.
'Now You Are This' is a double LP - two 45 RPM 12" discs in a gatefold sleeve. A CD version, with alternative artwork, is available from Kill Rock Stars.
WEBLINKS
www.myspace.com/numbersmusic
www.numbersmusic.com
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/numbers.html
www.killrockstars.com/artists/viewartist.php?id=1128
PARTY WEIRDO
http://www.myspace.com/partyweirdomusic
Three ladies from Dublin, Ireland, Party Weirdo are an enlightening amalgam of musical experimentation, feminist expressionism and performance art. Aside from the 3D talents of vocalist / guitarist Cara Holmes and drummer Emily Aoibheann, the multi-instrumentalist Therese McKenna changes the dynamic of each song, by turns playing flute, cello and bass guitar. The result is a set that ranges from tight post-punk pop songs to loose anti-structures of whoops, squeals and free-rock abandon.
"Think the Fall meets Erase Erata at a riot grrl convention." - Rough Trade
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
YOUR ONLY MASSIVE
http://www.myspace.com/YOUREONLYMASSIVE
Youre Only Massive is Maebh Cheasty, and DJ Megadrive. They live down the road from each other in Waterford. Youre Only Massive is electronic music, riot grrrl and hip-hop and that sudden sense of excitement you only get in summertime. Megadrive lays down beats and Maebh rhymes on top. Megan sometimes sings too and Maebh sometimes hula hoops. They try their hardest to get you to dance with them. Maebh is also currently preparing a show for the Dublin Fringe Festival.
"Irelands answer to CSS?"
Video:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm ?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=13822425
