"If you're leaving / For the weekend / Will there be somebody there like me / Cause when I'm gone and / I get to thinking / Of all the better ways I could be..."
The distorted busker punk subversions of "Shitty Weekend", by the mysterious indie rock outfit The Loving Arms Race, feels seeded from the raw sides of all kinds of iconic alternative iterations. I am totally appreciating the ostensibly live purity of the sound, the jangly and heavy guitar sounds, the dancing drum play, the nice bottom bass sounds, ooooh and aaaahs behind a rough throaty vocal wail. Off the top of my head I feel sonic connections to artists like Superdrag, early Foo Fighters, Sebadoh or an amalgam of similar such artists / sounds but I also feel hints of older artists I love, the D.N.A of beat poet folk and 70's old school indie rock stalwarts like The Velvet Underground, like Patti Smith.
"Shitty Weekend" is the last track from The Loving Arms Race album "Tourmaline".
-Robbert Donker Curtius
The Loving Arms Race, indie rock, alt rock, folk rock, jangle pop, post punk, alt punk, busker punk, "Shitty Weekend", raw sounds, throaty sand paper vocals, distorted guitars,
No comments:
Post a Comment