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The absolute gleeful crazy indie rock energy of "Heated Meeting" by British Columbia's Fraser Valley's The Sylvia Platters feels like the sonic equivalency of those who chase the cheese wheel down the dangerously steep Cooper's Hill every year at Brockworth near Gloucestershire, England. Sprained ankles and broken arms aside, the angular guitar attacks, rabid drumming, screaming leads, glitchy ambience, raging drunken bass attacks and gritty / spitty vox make you need to catch your breath just listening.
As manic this track sounds and face it, manic = fun in a song like this (especially live) but the title and lyrics may suggest (heavily) the blood boiling tensions or a face off or two or three:
Trade me a swing
Will I survive?
Cut in, belittle, undermine
An empty threat
To cool your head"
AND the chorus comes out swinging, punching, kicking and screaming.
"It was a heated meeting
Without a word that bears repeating
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
Positively suffocating
It was a heated scene
To avenge in the sequel
Your fingers in a steeple"
Without a word that bears repeating
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
Positively suffocating
It was a heated scene
To avenge in the sequel
Your fingers in a steeple"
"Heated Meeting", in the end, exists as a cool track, purposely on it's toes that you want to know the back story, the dirty details. The track is from The Sylvia Platters' latest album "Vivian Elixir" out now.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Keen appreciation for melody and melancholy is Canadian band The Sylvia Platters‘ stock in trade. Hailing from BC’s Fraser Valley, the fourpiece outfit has been crafting idiosyncratic jangle pop gems since 2014. Alex Kerc-Murchison's bright, tuneful guitarwork and Stephen Carl O'Shea's dark, steady basslines complement and enhance brotherly duo Nick and Tim Ubels' knack for indelible lyrics and vocal melodies. Nick's jangly rhythm guitar and Tim's propulsive drumming round out the band's distinctive sound. Their 2022 cassette Youth Without Virtue garnered radio play and praise from metro dailies, music blogs, and college media from Toronto to Australia.
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