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Recommended by us on 18th June 2009
...according to our Business Lady on Thu 18 Jun, 2009.
'Ships Leaving' is a split cd release by At Last an Atlas (Greg O'Brent) and Paul O' Reilly who are two singer songwriters from Ireland. First up i'm admiring the classy Stumptown printers cd design and packaging! Beautiful recycled hard card offset printed in posi-vegan inks, nice. At last an Atlas stumps up five tracks of ambient pop beauty. Predominantly organ an drum machine based compositions are accompanied by fragile vocal melodies of drunken wrongness padded out with noise and field recorded sounds. The drum machines sound amazing and i'm a getting a Thee more shallow vibe mixed with a little early Mogwai. Warm and fuzzy stuff. Paul O' Reilly writes calming acoustic folk songs with the simple ingredients of a single nylon string guitar and singular vocal. There's something immediately inviting about Paul o' Reilly's compositions that reminds me of Jose Gonzalez and Appendix out. Very tranquil, warm songs of regrets and love's lost. An excellent little split yo!Hope Freaks is the second album from London's new-school, no wave naughties PRE. Recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and mastered by Weasel Walter in San Francisco, “Hope Freaks” is a power-vault up from the acclaimed newborn gnarl of their debut 'Epic Fits'.
Like it's predecessor, “Hope Freaks” weighs in at a lean twenty minutes. Every punch is packed, and with a master at the faders, you will feel the devil in all its detail. Each unhinged swing never fails to connect. Since forming in London three years ago, PRE has taken their spring-loaded
live-show to the people. Two massive UK tours with The Gossip and stints with the likes of Health, The Mae Shi, Finally Punk and Mika Miko in the US has refined their footwork into a dizzying dance of precision instruments. A sold out performance at the Knitting Factory resulted in a two page
spread in SPIN Magazine and the band's infamy lead to a bootleg vinyl release in Eastern Europe.
And now; bare-knuckled, fist in hand with Skin Graft Records; PRE spring forward for round two - unprotected, unwavering - and with infectious left hooks guaranteed to leave listeners staggering Gonzo punkers PRE are well on their way to superstardom.
"Like Karen O on a cocktail of narcotics, crazy lead singer Keeks Matsuura screeches alongside messy metal guitars with an energy that'd make
duracell proud." - NME
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