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Tweak Bird
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Description: | CD on Souterrain Transmissions |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Metal | |
| Label: | Souterrain Transmissions | |
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£9.79
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...according to our Ant on 26 August 2010.
Now this is some good old fashioned heavy rock... The duo are brothers and this is their debut album. This has been produced by The Dutch Uncles which is Dale Crover of the Melvins and Toshi Yasai and they get a really weighty sound. Tweak Birds sound is kinda a blend of classic heavy rock/metal like Black Sabbath combined with 60's psychedelic elements and themes of space travel. It makes for a thoroughly enjoyable record with some catchy hooks and infectious riffs. Certainly comparable to Big Business and 'Stag' period Melvins. All good fun.
Tweak Bird, produced by regular collaborators Deaf Nephews- Dale Crover and Toshi Yasai of the Melvins, who also worked on 2008’s mini-album Reservations- features beats as tough as the Birds’ fraternal harmonies are ethereal. Recorded in less than a week, the record regularly returns to themes of space travel and escape, the raucous astral optimism of ‘Lights In Line’ and ‘Sky Ride’ evocative of lost sixties psychedelic dreamers like KAK and Population II. They are less convinced by perennial Black Sabbath comparisons. “That never bothers me. Why would it?” says Ashton, but it’s obvious that he doesn’t really believe it. The Bird brothers are self-effacing to a fault. Yet brothers they are, responding to cues onstage with expressions that range from delight to fury. They’re just as unpredictable offstage. “When we’re not playing music we’re arguing about something,” says Caleb. “We bring friends along on tour which brings the tension down.” But it’s the tension that makes their sound so intriguing. Clad in one of the great mock-heroic sleeves, Tweak Bird defies easy categorisation, sometimes frenetic, sometimes ominous, always joyous.
1. The Future 2. Lights In Lines 3. Round Trippin 4. A Sun/Ahh Ahh 5. Beyond 6. Tunneling Through 7. Sky Ride 8. Hazement In The Basement 9. Flyin’ High 10. Distant airways
