"Holding onto the life raft / Prolonging my epitaph / Well play me a requiem / Or something from Louisville"
It is always a total surprise what will come over my electronic desk, the genres are many as are the sonic touchstones. The scowling, artful meets gleefully harsh punk punch of "Holding On" by Bristol UK underground alt rock outfit Silver Halide, pushed my head around like a smoky mosh pit in a dark dank cinder block venue somewhere back in 1985. Yeah, this bands sound might strike you in other ways and so often it has to do with one's age, ones musical situational awareness but I am feeling a glorious nostalgic tone and attitude here. I am thinking of 1985 alright, of Dramarama's "Cinéma Vérité" album, of the Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers and Pixies (of course) and oddly or not, Midnight Oil.
This sound is close to my heart, sits heavy on my shoulder like a low slung scratched up guitar.
LINER NOTES:
Holding on kind of the antithesis of Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping". You get knocked down and you stay down. All uplifting stuff. Sonically it embraces quiet/loud dynamics combining raucous guitars, melodic bass lines and a interesting drum beat.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/track/5bng3IK1LSfF0Cr7HP5vkj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm9UixuzDYw
https://www.pandora.com/artist/silver-halide/holding-on/holding-on/TR7Zj6Z7ZPX46fg
Silver Halide is an underground Bristol, UK-based alt-rock band who are influenced by legendary bands and solo artists such as Television, The Cure, Wire, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Slint and Bob Dylan.
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