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All Truth, No Lies: Big | Brave Interviewed
Photograph courtesy of Lisa Griffiths
Au De La, the new album from Big | Brave, often sounds like a band damn well grappling with its gear. Two guitarists crafting feedback into melodies, yearning and aching to get those explosive feelings out. One drummer crashing and falling into his kit, expelling broad strokes of wrath into sketched beats. One voice twisting its words into ritual yelps and bewitching tunes. With the aim of forging a brutal sort of noise, and with a songbook of rituals built around the druidic vocalisations of Robin Wattie, Big | Brave put death metal bursts of energy into every moment of their sprawling epics, from the pindrop whispers of droning guitar strings at the beginning of the minute &#;Look At How The World Has Made A Change&#; to the carpet bombing of riffs and screams that open the album on &#;On The By And By And Thereon&#;. Possible descriptive references are both scattered and contradictory &#; the spacious melodic metal tendencies feel like the modern-day incarnation of Southern Lord labelmates Earth, the chasms of emotion recall the output on fellow Montreal residents Constellation Records, even the jagged edges of Shellac&#;s sheer brute force are present &#; but it all adds up to the same
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Trill Your Idols
At long last, part two of the twenty albums you should hear from ! Click here for part one, if you missed it.
Release: August 30
From the first seconds of the lively Talkie Talkie opener, “Hi!”, it’s clear that Los Bitchos are very concerned with having a good time. Actually, upon reading their bio, I can confirm that they are indeed “united by a commitment to having fun”, officially. The London-based instrumental quartet’s members are Turkish-Australian, Uruguayan, Swedish, and British - and much like it is difficult to say where this band is actually from, I honestly can’t tell you what genre this is either.
It’s not like you’ve never heard these sounds before, just maybe not together. This is a party record, but it also sounds pretty good when you’re doing the dishes. It's surf rock, but it’s funky…and there’s some disco too… oh, and Latin jazz - and some angular post-punk guitars in there just to round it all out, ya know?
I don’t know either, this is starting to sound like rock critic bingo. All I do know is that their second LP, Talkie Talkie lives up to the heavy-handed promises of fun. I’d point out a track or two but honestly this record just kind of flows like one long piece that goes in a bunch of different directions, and unt