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The early demise of Welsh power trio Mclusky was unusually depressing, not so much because they were great, but because it seemed like they were just about to be. The band's breakthrough album, Mclusky Do Dallas (produced by Steve Albini) was funny, mean, and heavy. In direct contrast from the week-kneed strain of indie rock perpetually spilling through the tubes, it drew more heavily from the flaming wreckage of the Jesus Lizard than it did from Pavement's melodic irony. Beavis and Butthead would have LOVED that album. It's successor, The Difference Between You and Me is [...]
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Finally! If you are like me, then not only have you been eagerly awaiting former McLusky front-man Andy Falkous' new project, Future Of The Left , but also for a contemporary indie-rock band that actually rocks. Fortunately for us, their debut effort delivers both in one jarring package. Curses finds the Cardiff, Wales-based band picking up exactly where McLusky left off, only substituting bassist/singer Dave Chapple for bassist/singer Kelson Mathias, formerly of the Ammanford-based group Jarcrew , and occasionally Falkous' guitar for a synthesizer. The album dropped September 24th [...]
Huzzah! Hurrah! And thank fuck for that. Normal service has been resumed. All systems are go. Houston, we no longer have a problem. It seems weird having access to the internet at home again. Kind of disorientating. But I'm back and it's good to be here. So, what have I missed? Well there was the mass net hysteria over the most obviously not her celebrity sex tape that never was. Unsuprisingly, it turned out to be completely false. Then there was the will they-won't they news that Radiohead were releasing a next album [...]
Future of the Left Curses Beggars US/Too Pure 2007 Two years after Adrew Falkous and Johnathon Chapple broke up Mclusky, their loss is only beginning to be felt. More praise is bestowed on that band, and especially their 2002 release, Mclusky Do Dallas, now that they're not a band, then at any time while they were still a band. It's a shame really, since this would have been about the time that Mclusky would break it big. However, if you're at all familiar with Cardiff's Mclusky, [...]
Kate Nash "Merry Happy" - Kate Nash's songs primarily deal with minor relationship drama, but more specifically, the way teenagers and young adults must learn to interpret these events in their lives when they haven't got much first-hand experience, but are overly familiar with how these sort of things play out in books, television, and pop songs. Nash deliberately calls attention to the banality of her situations, but doesn't ever discount her emotions, resulting in jaunty yet melancholy pop tunes like "Merry Happy" that are simultaneously self-effacing and self-absorbed, i.e., the typical mindset of a lovesick student. When Nash [...]
Happy labor day to those who celebrate. Or something. Some stuff I've found on blogs/been given recently: --- When Mclusky broke up, I was pretty sad - talk about a fun band that knew how to rock out. So Georgy (our other Monday poster) alerted me that the new song from the singer and drummer was out. The band's name is Future of the Left, and this song kicks ass: " adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood ." --- [...]
Q: Another Wolf Parade side project? A: Sunset Rubdown ! Downloadables featuring the unique vocal stylings of Spencer Krug : "Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End Of Your Feral Days" (mp3) "Stadiums And Shrines II" (mp3) Damn them Canadians are busy beavers. Jagjaguwar page is here . Absolutely Kosher page is here . Daytroter session is here . Consider Clicking - The Modern [...]
Auf das erste Album von Future of the Left wurde hier ja schon ein paar mal heiss gemacht . Nun kommt es immer näher, das Album. Curses wird es heissen. Ein Video gibt es zur ersten Single mit dem martialischen Titel adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood bereits seit längerem, nun bietet pitchfork den Song auch als Download an. Future of the left - The lord hates a coward [...]
When the Welsh trio of Mclusky announced their break-up a few years ago, I was mighty bummed about it. I mean like go-home-and-kick-the-dog kinda bummed about it. Their music was spastic, urgent, witty, and had a snarl to it not heard since the days of Black Francis when he used to wail on Pixies records. Since then, band memebers have moved onto other projects, first we got SHOOTING AT UNARMED MEN from the band's former bassist Jon Chapple . Now we're going to get to check out the new [...]
So I've been listening to lots of mclusky and Shooting At Unarmed Men , then I realized that I should also listen me up some The Future Of The Left . (You know, for the sake of equity and all that, but it should be noted that their catalog is, well, limited compared to the other spawn of mclusky). Downloadable: "The Lord Hates A Coward" (mp3) (source: myspace ) Myspace page is here . Too Pure page is here . Emusic page is here . [...]
Before you ask, yes I do believe Andrew Falkous says, "She's got a lot of pickled onions hanging from her thighs," in the first verse of "The Lord Hates a Coward." No I haven't a clue why someone would have pickled onions hanging from their thighs. It's gotta be a Welsh thing. Could it be a magic charm to bring more vowels into their language? Who knows? I do know rock and roll, and pickled onions or no pickled onions, Future Of The Left F'N Rock. Future of The Left - The [...]
So sayeth Mike from his cubicle next to mine, anyway. But, I mean, he says stuff like that all the time and when has it ever been relevant to anything? Never. Academics... This time, though... this time it might actually be somewhat relevant. I mean, I can't exactly picture the guys from McLusky plopping down in an armchair on a lazy Saturday afternoon to catch up on their Žižek, but (one of) their new band(s) is called Future of the Left, and they do talk about how "violence [...]
Today is indie rock Friday and I have one hell of a band for you. If you remember any of the mid to late 90s Chicago, Illinois indie rock outfits we used to refer to as "stop-n-go", you will probably love today's featured band. If not, this song might leave you a bit confused. While you are listening to this raucous, but well orchestrated noise rock, I'll explain that there were a
If you didn't love Mclusky, you're an idiot. Easily one of the best British rocks bands of the last 10 years, and definitely one of the most underappreciated. Luckily their split hasn't meant that we've seen the last of the guys that made up the band. Singer/guitarist Andy and drummer Jack are back along with Kelson of Jarcrew on bass, and they're going under the name Future Of The Left. They've already done a bunch of tours, and had a loads of songs rotating on their myspace, but as yet they've not released anything. On the 29th of this month, [...]
MP3: Future of the Left - The Lord Hates A Coward A song that will put a knife to your throat until you agree to make them a cup of tea... they don't want to do you any harm - they just want tea. It didn't catch me immediatly - but I expect big things from these guys in 2007. The fantastic Ex- Mclusky and incredible Ex- Jarcrew team members come together in an strangely inevitable fashion to produce the inevitably exceptional music. The linkage [...]
"Violence solved everything" We truly ' Mclusky here at this Song Convention, and it's a tragedy that they disbanded without an ounce of the recognition they deserved (from what I gather, most of it came after the split). But the breakup wasn't necessarily a bad thing. The first band to come from the oh-so-handsome corpse of Mclusky was Shooting At Unarmed Men , with bass-player Jon Chapple (and two other chaps) here strapping on his guitar and clearing [...]
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