Hailing from London, garage rockers Brute Chorus belie their name with a sound that takes in the stomping soulful music of the late 1970s with a more delicate and melodic folk twist. The BestTuna blog sums them up succintly: ‘In a UK music scene full of non descript interchangeable bands playing mind numbingly indistinguishable indie it’s great to hear a band with the courage to forge their own identity and serve up a cocktail of breathtaking swamp rock that sounds three steps removed from the usual tepid sludge’.
Cold War Kids / Hang Me Up To Dry
This is a lyrically brilliant, dark but shiny bit of indie rock. The dirty laundry analogy works in all its possible computations throughout a minimally arranged yet heavy song. The clean production seems to play against the words and feel of it all. So indie but so pop.
Effie Briest / Newlyweds Song
This was the B-side to Effie Breist’s first single on Loog Records. It’s actually a cover of a song by an old jazz musician called Jim Pepper. It’s haunting and sexy at the same time. By covering such an obscure track, Effie Briest came up with one of their more accessible songs.
Lord Auch / Grass Fingers
We’re touring with Lord Auch in January. This is their first single, part of a double AA. It’s dark brooding and the words aren’t clear but the chorus is such a cathartic release it gets us all singing along mouthing the sounds of the words even though we don’t understand it. A grower and a rush.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Black Betty
One of the B sides to The Singer single they put out in 1986. It’s just vocals, one drum and lots of stomping and clapping, with savage backing vocals from the Bad Seeds. Pretty influential on us when it came to learning how to strip down.
Black Lips / Dirty Hands
This was part of their first single release on Vice last year. It’s a trachy dirty take on that Spector-beat thing, without getting pompous and epic like Glasvegas. It’s about friendship and has a great spoken word section in the middle about getting tattoos together and ’smoking chiba by the water’.
Tom Waits / Goin’ Out West
From Bone Machine, it features a super heavy overblown fuzz guitar, ideal for roadtripping, which we do a lot. It’s absolutley crammed full of Wait’s outsider imagery. Every time this comes on Dave screams ‘turn it up’ and we all join in for the line “goin’ out West where they’ll appreciate me”.
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Patti Smith / Gloria
Another cover. I’ve just really started getting into Patti Smith. She completely makes it her own: adding her own verses, starting the song slowly, and speeding up as she goes. The fact that she’s singing about a girl and hasn’t changed the sex adds to the sultryness of the song. Plus Gloria is simply one of the best words in the English language. It’s a beatiful thing to shout out: G! L! O! R! I! A!
Canned Heat / On The Road Again
Essential tour listening, this sums up exactly what it’s like to be moving on from one place to the next. It’s an adaptation of the Floyd Jones song of the same name, with awesome harmonica playing and a crazy Indian inspired drone.
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