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Recommended by us on 26th March 2009
...according to our Business Lady on Thu 26 Mar, 2009.
YES!!!! It's time for the return of T.I.T.S a.k.a T.I.T.S OF AMERICA!!! This assortment of San Francisco ladies have been rocking the kids in all sorts of bands back home from Crack:WAR and Death Sentence Panda to MeowMeow and the MeowMeow's and Towel but it could be argued that when they combine their powers in T.I.T.S they are stronger than ever before. These girls fully kick ass!!! There split LP with Leopard Leg was one of my favorite records of last year and their gig at the Fenton made me beam from ear to ear. So you see I'm biased from the outset...... Anyhows.... Now the obvious difference between 'Second Base' and their first release is the vastly improved confidence of the band. The split with Leopard Leg was really doomy and heavily influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath, Boris and the like. They've maintained the spooky, witches around a couldron atmosphere in the tracks but the tracks are much stranger and less reliant on heaviness to put across the message. Tracks centre mainly around solid drum patterns and eerie vocal chants with the addition of wiry guitars and the essential doomy basslines giving the tracks the appropriate weight to be considered HEAVY. I've run out of time to talk about it more but trust me....This is a totally awesome record!!! Available now on the oh so reliable Upset the Rhythm!!! Get in!* T.I.T.S are the four ladies of San Francisco better known as Kim West (Crack: WAR, Death Sentence: Panda!), Abbey Kerins (Verbalala, Death & Dying), Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough (MeowMeow and the MeowMeows), and Wendy Farina (Towel, Condor, Amber Asylum).
* The quartet ply their trade in a kind of witchy / experimental / spaced-out / doom-laden pop, which could easily evoke reminiscences as diverse as Sabbath or Vivian Girls or The Troggs or Boris maybe?
* Second Base is the bandís sophmore release, following on from their sold-out split album with Leopard Leg, itís an album that draws from metal and doom, but in which individual songs are stripped down even more to an icy core. Chanted vocals, sparse, jarring guitars and a drum-centric focus all lend to a compelling sense of drama and impending ruin. Songs move into and out of chaos, regimented rhythms collapsing into squally feedback like a í60s freakout taken to almost parodic extremes.
* Coloured vinyl, stunning artwork Limited to 500 copies on blue vinyl.
* Tracklisting: 01. Void 02. Childs 03. Thighs 04. Octopus 05. Mute Force 06. Echoes 07. Golden Cage 08. Brown Mountain 09. Ghosts
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