Artist: Broken Water
Album: Normal Never Happened 7"
Release: 2010
Label: Fan Death
Tracklist:
1. Normal Never Happened
2. Faux King Vogue
Coming off the release of their subtle, yet excellent debut LP, Normal Never Happened is the newest single from Olympia's Broken Water. If you haven't heard Broken Water, they play a style of music similar to Unwound and Sonic Youth with dual male-female vocals, only channeled through a shoegaze lens. Obviously, this is relevant to my interests!
The A-side, "Normal Never Happened," features the female side of the vocals in what I feel is one of the prettier songs the band has come up with thus far. The song features a bombastic intro, but eventually the song locks into a state of repose before, unsurprisingly, coming full circle and ending on a similar loud note.
The other side is also comprised of only one song, "King Faux Vogue," which sounds more in line with the Sonic Youth than shoegaze and features their male singer. Actually, it's always been kind of frightening, yet impressive, to me how much homeboy sounds like Thurston. This particular song is more propulsive than the "Normal" and acts wonderfully as a companion piece.
Check it and keep an eye out for future releases.
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-Adam
12 comments:
beautiful band. the demo is perfect.
unrelated to this post
thanks for paper-clipping
yer blugg's address to
the files. the innocent
little glib in the titles
led me to your wondrously
coherent blugg.
thanks pal, good work, you rule,
good night.
blugg is a great word.
any chance of the new neon blud or salvation going up soon? ;)
I have files for the Neon Blud, I just have to cut them up and make sure it's cool with the band and label. I'm super lazy.
As for Salvation, I haven't even heard the record yet, so who knows?
-Adam
just saw em in oakland a few weeks ago. totally bang bang set. wusgood adam?
vinnie in chihuahua
I MISS YOU, VINNIE
when's the Whirl LP coming out?
January 2011
WHAT ABOUT THE WEED HOUNDS LP?
JK
KIND OF
UGH FUCK OFF
March 2011? They aren't recording it until January.
Enjoying Broken Water. Thx!
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