Ace Bushy Striptease – A Little More Suspicion in our Fairytale
Well I will confess that my first thought when listening to Ace Bushy Striptease was that I hoped the name didn’t imply some novelty band.
It didn’t, which was nice, but that worry was obliterated on first listen and replaced with a resounding ‘what the fuck is this?’
It reminds me of the first time I heard the Wave Pictures. Not that there’s any musical similarity, more that despite clearly being able to hear the bits which showed that they actually did know what they were doing, there were still plenty of places where I found myself wondering if this was perhaps the first time the band had actually picked up their instruments.
It’s like an odd mix of the Wedding Present and the Lovely Eggs, by parts classic indie, and by parts the hyperactive theme tune to a children’s television programme gone horribly wrong. Perhaps like that proverbial hurricane blowing through a junkyard and spontaneously assembling a 747, although we happen to have stumbled in on it halfway through the job. In amongst all the randomly swirling mess there are brief shadows of what is being built, but an awful lot is still left to the imagination.
It’s also a very, very brief album. Sort of like a firework. The songs pretty much all explode and burn out in and around the minute and a half mark, except for the mental eight minute final epic, which squiggles its way manically through to the end sounding like a cassette being fast-forwarded without lifting the playback head from the tape.
By the time I’ve finished this record I invariably seem to shake my head, wonder what the fuck these guys are taking, and then go back to the start and play it all again. It’s all over the shop, but it’s fucking brilliant too.
Ace Bushy Striptease – HM9 (Waterfall)
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Ace Bushy Striptease – Let Us Sit Quietly and Listen to Pop Punk
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There’s something about Let us sit quietly… that is entirely compelling. I’ve listened to 3 times now. In a way I can’t quite put my finger on, it reminds me of the yummy fur.
I find a lot of it like that – I just keep listening over and over. It’s a rather weird fascination, rather than many of the more usual music-listening sensations.
That’s the word I was searching for actually, yeah. It’s an odd “fascination”.
I just saw them at Truck actually, and it was just as ramshackle, but a lot more ferocious. Everyone I was with left before the end of the first song, which in an odd way made me enjoy it even more.
Everyone I was with left before the end of the first song
Was that when Miss Dynamite was on?
No then it was Neil’s turn for everyone to leave him behind.
DYNAMI-TEE-HEE!!!!!!
Mr. Bear. Ah me my. Not content with picking a fight with a girl, he then went and lost said fight as well. Not a weekend covered in glory.
This sounds like a lot of the indie scene from the nineties. Really good.
*cough*
It’s unspeakably uncool to Google yr own band and then even uncooler to comment upon what you find but yeah…
This is our 3rd record but yeah we put out the earlier ones ourselves and you can download them for free from our site now if you feel that’s maybe something you’d like to do. http://acebushystriptease.com/songs.php
Thanks anyways for the super review, it means alot x
Definitely just brought the album, and ordered a T-shirt earlier in the week. HM9 (Waterfall) sold it to me.
Not content with picking a fight with a girl, he then went and lost said fight as well.
He said he didn’t realise it was a girl until after he lost the fight, so I don’t know whether it technically counts as losing to a girl.
Title from a Million Dead song by any chance?
Speaking bit in “Let Us Sit Quietly … ” sounds a bit like Frank Turner too
It definitely does.
big soft spot for this band, and i think i like this album more every time i hear it.
gutted i couldn’t go to Truck this year and see them.
The title is indeed from the Million Dead song Charlie & The Propaganda Myth Machine…
Wow, this is proving popular. I was expecting a few more ‘what the fuck is this racket?’ comments on this one, I have to confess.
And a great song it is. I almost used that same line for a song title… you beat me to it.
As for the actual relevant music – I like the racket. Nice little songs with a lot of life.
can I just make it clear that I DID NOT fight a ‘girl’…. she was all woman.
Oh yes, sorry, quite right. The girl in that scenario, it appears, was you.
Sorry Niall. Once again a Toad thread veers woefully off-topic within about five posts. I appreciate your efforts though.
Aye, glad you like these guys, album is brilliant!. And they do indeed have rather nice T-Shirts.
Who knew there were so many Frank Turner fans on here. Yuck!
Hey, that’s Million Dead fans!
Frank Turner used to be cool…
“Speaking bit in “Let Us Sit Quietly … ” sounds a bit like Frank Turner too”
Oh dear, I hope you mean this in a good way because I personally loathe Turner’s solo work and, um, that’s me speaking.
Aye, he did actually. Once.
can I just make it clear that I DID NOT fight a ‘girl’…. she was all woman.
She was all up in your face with a whole can of whupass, that’s what she was!