Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Telecom Tuesday

It's funny when I play through this Telecom EP, Modern Adventures, in my mp3 player, cause once the five tracks have passed their eighteen minutes, it slides straight into See No Evil by Television. And sometimes it takes me a few seconds to notice.

I reckon four Melbourne boys on their first EP would be pretty happy to be mistaken for the ultra-cool New York band who started their thing. Truth be told, they're not yet as good, probably missing the innovative artiness and searing minutes of guitar solo. And they're probably too tight, on this EP, to match TV's anarchy.

More appropriate comparisons are with their Melbourne peers like Bit By Bats or Children Collide. They just want to rock us out with their guitars, and what could be wrong with that? And they succeed, pretty much, most notably on the opener, Second Feature. The EP's got short, sharp songs, decent riffs and good playing, and a song named after Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! (That cute kid's now 35.)

[download Second Feature from their myspace]
[buy the EP from Missing Link and other places]

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