Nine Black Alps – Unsatisfied
I may have been a little hard on the Nine Black Alps album. But I must say it grows on me more and more with each listen. “Unsatisfied” grabs you with the brilliant intro. The song is well polished and has a great hook, which will get the kids dancing and singing a long. It’s full of great riffs and Sams voice sounds just right, The appeal is huge and it really has potential to become quite a big hit. I’m surprised it wasn’t released sooner but it’s a really solid track, I keep singing it, I cant stop.
By John Siwicki
Others, The – Others, The
The Others hail from London which has a very booming scene at the moment. They are friends with Pete Doherty and they have been playing gigs in tube stations and in every other odd places you can think of. Now, I think its time for them to give us the goods.
“Lackey “kicks things off and its bit meatier here and It does help. The slow start really gets me excited. “Lackey” is a solid tune and its lyrics even inspired me a bit “your watching tv on a Friday night” “William” is almost like a nursery rhymes. But its Dominic tell us a lovely tale of his friend William. “How I Nearly Lost You” is one of the more tender moments on the album. A love song about losing a friend to drugs and oddly enough its one of the more poppier moments here. “Stan Bowels” is simply mega and great placement right in the middle of the album. “Psychovision” touches again on the issue of drugs which does come up a lot here but this song is a solid rocker. “Johan” is interestingly enough a song about Dominic’s transsexual lover Johan. “This Is For The Poor” is of course the one that got everyone looking. The track is there epic anthemic tune, which is a classic now.
The Others made a very good debut album. It will get people together and signing a lot because there are some ace tunes here.
By John Siwicki
LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
James Murphy has release a handful of stunning singles. They were near perfect. Everything just sounded so right. Every since 2002′s debut ” Losing My Edge”/”Beat Connection” we have all been waiting for an album. After, all the praise for his singles could he live up to it with a full length. “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House” starts off an Murphy is already making a bold moving by name checking a peer in the first tune of his album. Yet, is a great starter to this record. “Never As Tired As When I’m Waking Up” is quite a change of pace. The track would fit well a Beatles record or perhaps even Pink Floyd. “Movement” is a stunning noise affair that just gets me entranced. It’s loud, catchy and downright fun. Murphy does sound a lot like The Fall’s Mark E. Smith. Its hard to imagine a song as such. “Tribulations” is a huge epic masterpiece that will rip up the dance floor all year long. “Disco Infiltrator” would be a marvelous single choice. The track is a funky and at times Murphy sounds like Prince. The cowbell is a lovely touch. It’s just a great song. “Great Release” is another one that is a bit unexpected. This track sounds like it could have been cooked up by none other than Jason Pierce. It is a grand and wonderful way to end things.
We were a bit skeptical about whether they could deliver and a strong album or have the just worn out. There were a few unexpected little numbers here “”Never As Tired As When I’m Waking Up” and “Great Release” are some very undancebale tunes and it shows the genius that they really have. They really are just scratching the surface on what they can come up with. What we really have here is a Movement.
By John Siwicki
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart
Trail of Dead last left us with a true masterpiece of an album in Source Tags and Codes. They released an EP to follow that with some interesting songs that showed some possible directions that they would take with this LP. It’s been three years and what does a band do to follow up a masterpiece. Get more grandiose and huge sounding?
After an interesting intro that makes you feel like the world is going to end “Will You Smile Again” kicks in and the track reminds of almost a prog rock tune. It sounds absolutely insane A change for the band but the song works. “Words Apart” starts off with a Fuck You and some children laughing already you know this just isn’t going to be good. The song is about the future of rock and roll in a sense. “Look at these cunts on MTV with cars and cribs and shit/ Is that what being a celebrity means?” what has happened folks. “Summer of 91″ first off that is just a horrible tired. Conrad sounds really bad here the vocals are all wrong and the song feels like an early 90s pop rock track. Maybe that’s the point and what’s that women saying in the middle of the song.