She Drew The Gun - No Hole

1. Who are She Drew The Gun?

She Drew The Gun are a psych-rock/pop band from Wirral, Liverpool, England. No Hole In My Head (Feb’17) is a cover and an album track from their debut album Memories Of Another Future (March’17). 

2. What kind of tune is No Hole? 

A poignant folk song with garage rock guitar. Rips shit up.

3. Who do She Drew The Gun sound like? 

St Vincent, Findlay, and The Big Moon. 

4. What have the press said about No Hole? 

“The guitars on this cover are sublime” – We Close Tonight.

“A titanic piece of fuzzed out indie bedlam” – Clash.

“Puts her own frustration and seductive stamp on the rendition” – The Fountain.

5. Which bands have influenced She Drew The Gun?

Some of their influences are John Lennon, Malvina Reynolds, The Las, Father John Misty, and Kate Tempest. 


6. Why should I give No Hole a listen? 

Because it reinvigorates a folk song with some cranking guitar and because the protest message has lost none of it's potency. 


7. What are She Drew The Gun's best songs? 

No Hole is top of the pile but Pit Pony is sound too.


8. Any more words?

The album Memories Of Another Future is produced by James Skelly from The Coral.

Who Drew The Gun won Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent contest in 2016. 

“Everybody thinks my heads full of nothin,’

Try to put this special stuff in,

Fill the space with candy wrappers”

FOX are a indie rock band from Luxembourg, with a classic rock sound. They have been playing together since 2013. FOX have recorded one album. The band are influenced by classic rock from the 60's and 70's and sound like Thin Lizzy or Dragon. Cool Cat is a track from their debut album FOX (2015). Cool Cat has a classic rock riff and struts into the room full of fucking swagger.

“Ohhh you better not start it with Charlie”

Thao And The Get Down Stay Down - Nobody Dies

1.    Who is this fine musician?

Thao and The Get Down Stay Down are an indie folk rock band from San Franciso by way of Church Falls, Virginia. Plying their trade since 2003 they have four long players in the bag. Nobody Dies (Dec’15) rattles and shakes off A Man Alive (March’16).
 

2. What’s the word?

Nobody Dies is a rollicking, rolling, indie rocker; forget the folk. Handclaps? Indeed. Curious vocal performance? Present and accounted for. Deeply personal lyrical content? You betcha. Hooks? More than a Chinese trawler in illegal waters. Personal favorite? The vocal and handclap breakdown.
 

3. Who do Thao and the far too long band name sound like?

Comparisons have been made to St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs. Really people? At this rate we are a generation away from just grunting at each other.
 

4. What pearls of enlightenment have the princes of the press dropped for us minions to devour like manna from heaven?

“A lilting, gnarled, bass heavy track” – NPR.

“Guitars warp and fade in a lackadaisical jangle” – Consequence Of Sound.

“Infectious stomp-along” – All Music.

5. Which bands have shone the light on the path to musical enlightenment for Thao and The Get Down Stay Down?

Thao Nguyen is influenced by country music, Blues, Motown and Lucinda Williams.

6. Why should I give Nobody Dies a chance to impress?

Nobody Dies juxtaposes melancholy with bouncy, joyous, rock'n'roll and plumbs the depths of both.


7. Do Thao and The Get Down Stay Down have any more pearlers?

Nobody Dies is the top of the crop.


8. Any more drivel?

Merrill Garbus of Tune-yards produced the new album.

“You made a cruel kid, come look what you did”

The Futureheads were a post-punk band from Sunderland, England. From 2000-2013 they coughed up five long players. Decent Days and Nights was the second single from their debut album The Futureheads (2004) and is a song NME called, “multi-faceted brilliance.” It's a belter.

 

“If the least you can do is show some restraint,

Then the most you can do is get carried away”