Spring King - Rectifier

1.    Who are these champions?

Spring King are a post-punk band from Manchester, England, that started in 2012. Spring King have released a couple of E.P.’s and singles. Rectifier (Feb’16) is a stand alone single.
 

 2. What kind of tune is Rectifier?

A bass string intro gives Rectifier bounce before it graduates to a full on rock out.
 

3. Who do Spring King sound similar to?

Estrons. Sundara Karma maybe.

4. What have the press said about Rectifier?

“Crisp build up, the distorted vocals and the delicious pop touch beneath the noise” – Clash Music.

“Pulsating” – It’s All Indie.

“One hectic motherfucker of a track” – When The Gramophone Rings.

 

5. Who puts the feedback in Spring King’s guitars?

Spring King’s list of influences are The Beach Boys, Arcade Fire, Ty Segall, The Clash, The Black Lips, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, The Projectors, Stan Getz, Chet Baker and Astrud Gilberto.

6. Why should I give Rectifier a fair crack of the whip?

Spring King’s opening blows in the fight for title of English rock’n’roll’s best newcomers, the singles City and Who Are You?, showed great promise. Rectifier comes good on that promise. Recitifier nails it. Rectfier is a rollicking piece of essential, noisy and addicitve rock’n’roll.


7. Do Spring King have any more bangers?

Who Are You? is the one you want.


8. Any more words?

Spring King were propelled into fame and fortune by Zane Lowe playing it as his first song on his new radio show.

If you want to know the bands favorite music and food and everything else then read this NME article. Boring ass shit but.


 

“I’m leaving this town”

 

 

 

 

 

Dessert is served by The Swedish post-punk band The Sounds. Started in 1999 and with five long players in the vault this band have been compared to Blondie and The Cars and have toured with The Strokes and The Foo Fighters. Yeah Yeah Yeah comes from their fourth album Something To Die For (2011) and is a tall strutting synth pop gem that kicks ass and doesn't take names.

“You don’t float like a butterfly or sting like Ali,

Dress like Prince but to the lowest degree”

 

 

DIIV - Under The Sun

 1.    Who are these barber dodgers?



DIIV are a shoe-gaze indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, making music since 2011 and with two long players on their resume. Under The Sun (Dec’15) is the third single to wind it’s way off the second album Is the Is Are (Feb’16).

2. What flavor of nonsense is Under The Sun?

Under The Sun is a post-punk, mellow, slow burner with echoes of classic English indie rock bands like The Charlatans and Ride.


3. Who do DIIV sound like?

The Cure. Indie Shuffle say Under The Sun sounds like Wild Nothing, Savages and Deerhunter. Knuckle shufflers. 


4. What have the press said about Under The Sun?

“Pinpricks of guitar and a sinuous post-punk bassline, gradually adding on layers until the whole thing just about touches the sky” – Stereogum.

“Poppy, positive and pure” – Pitchfork.

“Full speed ahead with reverberated-soaked guitars and echoing vocals” – Indie Shuffle.

5. Which bands have put their boot into DIIV?

The band have mad love for Nirvana. Elliott Smith, The Boo Radleys, Sonic Youth and Sky Ferreira were big influences on the album Is the Is Are.


6. Why should I give Under The Sun my undivided attention?

Under The Sun sounds like a happy hit from The Cure and has a low-key but addictive centre.


7. Do DIIV have any more brilliant tunes?

Massive hit Dopamine is second best but not to be sneezed at.


8. Any more words scribe?

It has been suggested Under The Sun is a love song for Sky Ferreira.

Pitchfork described the new album Is the Is Are as “Requiem For A Dream pop.”

“No, I won’t ask where you run”

The double dip is from Castlecomer an indie rock band from Sydney, Australia. The band have a debut album due out this year and Escapism (Dec'15) is described by Best Before as “a joyous, infectious tune”. Escapism is a bouncy pop rock banger.

“I don’t need no advice”

Public Access TV - In Love and Alone

1.   Who are these grips?

Public Access TV are a post punk rock band from New York City. They have a short player behind them and a new album to be released soon this year. In Love and Alone (Nov'15) is a double A-side single with Patti Peru.

2. What kind of tune have Public Access TV got?

An indie punk rocker with gang vocals that bangs along like the car they are driving. Not fast but with grit and style.

3. Who do Public Access TV sound like?

In Love and Alone is playing in the same sandbox as FIDLAR’s Why Generation, VANT’s Parking Lot. The Vaccine’s Handsome is over on the swings and Palma Violets' Danger In The Club is having a durry, chatting up a young'un by the slides.

The good bastards at Itcher throw out Spring King, Rory Wynne, The Jacques, Weezer and The Strokes as their go to bands.

4. So what have the press goons got to say?

The sycophants are licking this shit up. Public Access TV have “... already proved the goldmine of rock'n'roll classics has yet to run dry,” according to those venerable scribes at NME who went on to lap more up, In Love and Alone is  “... backed up by clattering, cacophonous guitars. It's noisy, chaotic and a true-to-life reflection of the tumult of emotions that comes with unrequited love.” DIY were wanting some of the same action, “bombastic,” they reckoned and, “their most unhinged, all-out rock and roll single yet.” “Rambunctious, loud, full of guitars,” straight batted The Most Definitely and Clash Music sensing they might be left only watching this love fest hurled themselves into the fray with “he American band are seemingly equipped with snappy anthem after snappy anthem.”

 

 5. Who are Public Access TV influenced by?

The band have said they got wood listening to The Strokes and were influenced by Interpol. Front man John Eatherly has talked about having some love for The Ramones, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Johnny Thunders.

6. So why should I give In Love and Alone a fair crack of the whip?

Do you like The Ramones? If not jog on. Slow Ramones with better production values. Raw but modern.  A song about un-requitted love. Universal themes. 

7. Do Public Access TV have any more red hot numbers?

Did cancer have a hard on for The Ramones? Try In The Mirror. It doesn't blow goats.

 8. Is there any more invaluable information to impart?

The bands apartment was blown up, up up, by a gas explosion you might remember.

The band have been on fluffer duties for good bands like Weezer, The Strokes, FIDLAR, WAVVES and Twin Peaks. 

“She is lost and she is scared now,

I should ask myself why and how”

Slippery seconds today is courtesy of another post punk New York band Interpol. Started in 1997 they have found critical acclaim, fame and fortune. Everything Is Wrong (Jan'15) is one of four singles from their fifth, and most recent, album El Pinter (2014). The album got rave reviews.

“Think I know why, what I say,

Inverse achievements, I rule the daze”