The Bleeps / 586 / The Sailplanes / Pre
The ‘Good Music’ section of my links is growing at a scary rate and I’m getting seriously behind in letting you know who’s who so I thought I’d give you four treats at once today to aid catching up.
Firstly The Bleeps, a garage-pop band with a focus on massive drums and dirty bass. It’s hard to pick a favorite from their offerings on MySpace: ‘I Am A Diskotek’ is a murky swamp of a track interspersed with bursts of noise, ‘Doing So Well’ has a whiff of hip-hop about it, but my personal favorite would have to be the hypnotic ‘Dull Thud’, a masterpiece in post-Pixies pop.
586 are another addition to the no-wave revival of the decade, reminding me a little of The Dance after too much sherbert. Start at the fantastically quirky ‘Money is the Drug’ and go from there.
The Sailplanes recently uploaded ‘Photograph the Past’, a track that’s just great on so many levels. Drab vocals deliver bleak lyrics over a dark post-punk beat that gets rudely interrupted by screaming razor sharp noise, eventually building to a fantastic climax.
Finally Pre, these guys remind me a lot of Numbers only with less moog and more jarring guitars and loud screaming. The music is filthy, violent and exciting – I ask for little more of a band. Start with ‘And Prolapse’.
Listen to The Bleeps here.
Listen to 586 here.
Listen to The Sailplanes here.
Listen to Pre here.
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