Thursday, June 21, 2007

Listen Before You Die

You Will Die Alone, an experimental surfy grunge lofi jamster four piece, have had plenty of gigs around Melbourne the past few months, with slots at the Tote, Roxanne, and the Espy amongst other places. These gigs, playing alongside established acts such The Crayon Fields and Deloris, as well as a positive review on Mess and Noise led me to check out their debut three track EP Duets, just released on Hot Diamondz, and I have to say, it's a very promising debut.

This little gem starts off with a slow burner, You Will Die, It's the perfect late evening summer song to match the glorious pinkish setting suns on the cover art. It might be even one to drift off in the banana lounge to, if it wasn't so comprehensively interesting, with duelling layered guitars riding and crashing into the eardrums. The amps are cranked up a bit more on the next track, Predators and Villans, kicking the listener back into full consciousness with a thumping bass drum and crashing cymbals. The guitars respond with some soaring reverby hooks and solos, before calming down, picking up and launching into the searching, liberating solo journeys again. Like all the tracks on the EP, the vocals are sparse, muffled and fairly incomprehensible and with the raw production it combines to give the record a very arty indie cred. But this is just a bit of icing, for me it's the killer solos which are the balls of this record. This is confirmed with Knife Fightz, a more urgent offering, but still with a deliciously pulsating improv six string attack. If you're into pioneering 80s indie rock, or you just are dying to bring out your complex air guitar manoeuvres you should definitely buy this record.

Purchase Duets from Missing Link.

See You Will Die Alone tonight at Pony, their last gig for a while before vocalist and guitarist Ben Pellatron heads to U.S.A.

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