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Ten Kens
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Description: | CD on Fat Cat |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Indie Rock | |
| Label: | FatCat | |
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£10.29
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Dave on 26 August 2010.
"The second album, 12 gracious melodies...to listen.." The newie from Ten kens is a brash brooding piece of plastic. A bit like Chucky from late 80s schlocker Child's Play, but instead of wanting to possess your children's souls, Ten kens want to possess your aural palace. It has mood, texture and rawness in spades. It has a sort of surf garage feel to it, with maybe a hint of goth indie, which is an enchanting mix. They have quite a rep on the live circuit and have played some incendiary shows apparently, with loads of car chases and explosions and crunching fight scenes. Well mebbe not the car chase/action part. It has quite a haunting feel too, and has slick dynamics and a really arid production. And one of the gents is called Dan Workman. If that doesn't make you want to purchase this CD and dance about in your aunties nightgown then I don't know what will.
A return for Toronto’s re-grouped Ten Kens, a blistering and boldly inventive take on indie / alt-rock.
Ten Kens’ acclaimed self-titled 2008 debut was a volatile mix of
bittersweet melody and spiked, lysergic alt-rock. This, their follow
up, is borne of a band member reshuffle and an intense recording period, for which the band lived and slept in the studio. Fittingly, the reclusive nature of the recording process has informed an album that is darker than the self-titled debut, and incredibly focussed.
Whilst ‘For Posterity’ is a very different beast to the previous, self titled album, many of the elements that yielded such a critically well received debut still survive and are enhanced.
Ten Kens are an idiosyncratic band that find delight in toying with
the listener’s expectations, often at multiple points within a single song.
Having built up a reputation as a fearsome live act, Ten Kens are set to widen their remit for the release of the album, with US and European tours currently in the planning stages.
Tracklisting:
Johnny Ventura
Back To Benign
Insignificant Other
For Posterity
Screaming Viking
Summer Camp
Grassmaster
Hard Sell
Style Wars
Welfare Green
Yellow Peril
Can’t Not Be Dark
