Ringo Deathstarr – Very Cool Bananas Indeed
Well my little Toadlings, I thought I was going to be at work until the wee hours, but here I am at 2am ready to go home, having been entirely successful. This calls for a celebration, and I have cracked open a beer and will write a quick post before I go home.
The post in question – Ringo Deathstarr. Despite the name I either think is genius or slightly stupid depending entirely on what day of the week it is, the music leaves no such questions. My Bloody Valentine-style shoegaze, with driving guitars a-plenty, this is the kind of music that usually takes ages to grab you. Usually, the brain adjusts to this new brand of racket, and then slowly starts to filter through the noise, and so the core of the melody is slowly and satisfyingly teased out.
Not so here, this was candy right from the beginning. It’s music to be played loud – really, really fucking loud, so that it all just shakes its way through your skeleton as you stand there trembling slightly and wondering if music this loud is actually physically safe. Ah, fuck the neighbours.
The whole EP can be bought here for an enormously generous £2, and they’ll apparently be touring with the Dandy Warhols shortly, and if they can replicate this kind of wall of sound with any sort of aggression on stage, that should be well worth catching.
Ringo Deathstarr – Swirly (Edit) For the full album version, you’ll have to buy it.
Ringo Deathstarr – Starrsha
For me it took a nudge in the ribs from Simon and Liz, but I got there eventually. Really surprisingly catchy for such shoegazey stuff.
Thank yous for the heads up in one of the toadcasts – This EP fucking rocks. I just bought it – only thing is that I wanted to pay in dollars instead of euros, bleh. Since the dollars is so low, that is. Ah, so nice. Candy indeed.
Have bought this -blogged on them back in February and on the basis of Some Kind Of Sad alone it was clear that these guys were bloody fantastic. May they be deserdevly massive!
Ed