jed_ said:
Bark Psychosis = most overrated underrated band ever.
mmm... loved 'hex' when it came out. I lost the cassette in a house move recently and realised I hadn't really listened to it that often. Even so I was mildly dismayed to hear Simon R.
here admit that he hadn't even heard it since his original rave review in Melody Maker!!
How many other LPs has he convinced me to buy and love that he abandoned with such impunity and callousness?! Most other reviewers I would take with a pinch of salt, but Reynolds always had me running to the record shops.
I have to confess I never really loved AR Kane's LPs either despite Simon's eulogising - always sounded half-baked, under-produced, better ideas than music. Then there was his beloved Bass-o-matic "Set the controls for the heart of the bass", which was nice in parts but a little cheesy for my tastes - Ladytron recently quoted it as a big influence, along with 10 City, War of the Worlds and Bob Dylan?! (Ladytron (like Portishead), maybe the most underrated overrated band ever. They never seem to put a foot wrong - not a drop in quality anywhere over 2 albums, brimming over with affecting melodies and lyrical mystery, synth riffs and digital organ drones that seem to flow directly into the bloodstream and caress the nervous systems's peasure centres, punishing drum-box beats, delirious details - Joy Division doom-bass guitar, atonal violin squall, phased guitar chords - pop pleasure overload in a post-industrial dystopia...)