Comments on: Chess Club Records

By: anon

anon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:35:35 +0000

Absolutely love Mumford and Jay Jay, good post. Haven’t checked out Ghostwood before but definitely will now. Another band I feel are worth mentioned are Wave Machines, also on Chess Club Records. Their debut 7″ ‘I Go I Go I Go’ is fantastic.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:16:09 +0000

This is excellent stuff.

I absolutely see what you mean about Mumford and Dave Matthews. His voice is similar, which is good because Dave Matthews voice was once easy to listen too. What is different though is all the music, and that Mumford is not followed around by twats. This has some of the best banjo I’ve heard in ages.

When Toad returns you should let him know that more posts introducing labels and displaying their artists is a great idea.

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:58:26 +0000

I’ll concede that the resemblance between Mumford & Sons and the DfMfB is merely superficial, and probably peculiar to this track. As I said, all three tracks are “really really good.” But upon further listens I continue to believe that the guy’s voice and guitar playing are somewhat evocative of DfM. In fact, it is precisely the “unusual rhythm changes” that remind of DfMfB, who are well known for such insufferable wankery. Now that was just gratuitously provocative, of course, but I have no other way to express my belief that Mumford & Sons is simply a DfMfB side project disguised as indie, just as the soul-patched “Chris Gaines” occasionally stands in for Garth Brooks.

I don’t disagree with you much on Ghostwood because For Against was undoubtedly influenced by the Cure and U2, although probably more by the Chameleons and some of the Factory Records bands, but it just sounds to me like For Against are a more direct ancestor of what Ghostwood is laying down, at least on this track.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:15:53 +0000

I’m not hearing much Dave fucking Matthews fucking Band in that song, myself. I think the Mumfords’ unusual rhythm changes during the song set it apart from the basic four-to-the-floor stomp one expects from the Dave fucking Matthews fucking Band.

But hey, I rarely listen to the Dave fucking Matthews fucking Band myself so I’m not particularly familiar with all their output.

When I say rarely I mean never.

When I say never I mean I’d rather stick my head in an industrial threshing machine to make the horrible noises go away.

Hang on, hang on… You didn’t agree with me about Ghostwood either! You’re just trying to start an argument aren’t you! Well, come over here and say that!

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:57:19 +0000

Well that is a pretty diverse stable of acts, innit? Really really good, all three of them, although that Mumford & Sons track bears a disturbing (for me) resemblance to the Dave fucking Matthews fucking Band. The Ghostwood doesn’t remind me of the Cure and U2 so much as For Against, which is a big plus in my book.