The screachy vocals thing is the ego not wanting to be called a hippy by self conscious hipsters..
I'm totally down with that. Most of these groups just have no idea where to take that though really.It's not about technique or chord structure or originality. It's about sensibility: you just wanna repeat & repeat & repeat until everything goes white.
Play something we don't know more like.
You just illustrated that mindset perfectly. It's not transgressive or exploratory, it's just tediously familiar.
Sorry - that was a xpost reply to straight.Well that's religion for you!
There is that. Not sure if it justifies much though.I think I can see why they bother making the music they make, & that's a damn sight more than I can say for 95% of the bands I'm unfortunate enough to be exposed to.
It is a Hoxton age & I'm probably giving them too much credit.
This reminds me of an idea for a 'humorous' tee-shirt I had a few years ago: a drawing of some sort of ancient Briton with a big Asterix-style moustache, long mullet-type hair, tattoos etc. labelled IRON AGE, and next to it a drawing of a Shoreditch hipster ca. 2003 with an essentially identical haircut/facial hair, labelled IRONY AGE.
They were punching the air,
No, that's just as bad. :slanted:
what is it with these "new-noise" acolytes and the black power salute? it comes off as particularly ridiculous when they're surrounding a grown man crouching on the floor pushing toys around in front of a combo amp.
YAH DUDE!