Description:	CD on Ba Da Bing
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Ba Da Bing
	Price:	£12.49
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...according to our Brett on 15 October 2008.

The Dead C are a band from a faraway land (New Zealand) who have been going since the dawn of time (1934). They have a new record out which they have called Secret Earth. That is a record which I like, despite the fact the vocals are like an alive rigor mortis man licking your ear because he thinks you are food and that food will save him from his undeath, which it won't. He sounds all slow and trickly and languid and grungey like an aroused snailette. If you played this on your hi-fi something bad might happen because this sounds the opposite of hi-fi so either the result will be mid-fi or you just won't hear anything which would be a waste of money. If you like Sonic Youth but wish they were more loose and dirgey or you were into that Heavy Winged LP and wondered where they might have got some of their inspiration from then you might want to listen to this. Even if you don't you should try because you don't know what you can do if you don't try. These men are seminal and this is probably equally as interesting as their best stuff from their olden days, but with a bit of a different sound. It's a bit more songy but not like Coldplay. I give this very influential band eight out of ten and this music here seven out of ten. That's good because ten is Daphne & Celeste, five is a Sonic Youth solo album and zero is Ocean Colour Scene.

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What their label says...

The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when The Dead C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenants of alienation in society with unrelenting forcea focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morleys monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern worldnothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. In its career, The Dead C has oscillated between two poles. Recent albums explore drones, electronic loops, and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead Cs recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh 70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. To coincide with this release, the band will be playing rare, select shows around the US in mid-October. They have not been to the east coast in over a decade, and will be visiting some places theyve never been (cheers, Seattle). In addition, Ba Da Bing is teaming up this fall with Jagjaguwar to reissue their two essential Flying Nun albums from the eightiesDR503 and Eusa Kills. If there was ever a time to explore the earthen extremes this magnificent band surveys, it is now.