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King Kong Ding Dong
Youth Culture Index

A Norman Records recommendation (21st May 2010)

Cover art for Youth Culture Index by King Kong Ding Dong Description: LP on Dekorder
Format: LP
Genre: Experimental / Abstract
Label: Dekorder
Price: £10.79
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Average staff rating: five-stars.png
Based on 1 review(s).

Rating: 5
...according to our Brian on 20 May 2010.

When that little slaphead dude with the sad eyes and silly t-shirts barks at us the titles of records he wants us, like, to review & stuff, we all shun his democratic ways with sneery lips, hunched, indifferent shoulders and words such as "dunno", "not bothered" & "just give us any old shit & leave us alone, someone's ordered an antelope's head & a wax cylinder in the same order, how am I gonna fucking pack THIS?" When he yelled King Kong Ding Dong at me yesterday I nearly shagged his arm off to get at it. It's on Dekorder and stumbles between hypnotic, chiming abrasive psychedelia, Goofy lo-fi experiments ala Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, beautifully mangled chunks of bloodied shoegaze, deliciously bent spacerock & spangled minimalist guitarchitecture (ask Dave Callahan...) One track sounds, for instance, like old tremelo warping Boston-ites Swirlies being bitten on the arse by Glen Branca's pet Yorkshire Terrier, Fucking crazed guitars monotonously zinging off before settling down into more hypnotic cyclical patterns. These Philly residents make a wonderful monged, eerie & groovetastic noise that sounds like one of those fantastcally weird & wonderful albums they used to make in the early 90s when everyone was sitting in their back garden doing bongs & peyote whilst skateboarding with non-ironic mullets & making their dogs wear ridiculous sunglasses whilst pretending to drive pick-up trucks. I want this record really bloody badly. Now. And so do you.......http://www.myspace.com/thekingkongdingdong

What their label says...

After an extended period of dormancy, King Kong Ding Dong returns with their first full- length album, Youth Culture Index, recorded in various bedrooms, basements, and other amorphous dwellings over a lazy year and a half period of musical Indian summer progeny. This collection of eleven tracks incorporates pieces built around samples, guitar tunings, and field reverberations. The music within relies more on pulsing percussion and sonic textures than on lyrical content. Using samplers, de-tuned guitars found in the trash, and stand-up drumming with random melodic percussion, Philadelphia based group King Kong Ding Dong make tribal, dreamy/nightmarish music with hints of pop. The music incorporates drone experimentation, whammy bar tone bending, and 4- track sound manipulation. The group shares members with A Sunny Day in Glasgow, but does not share the same sound, instrumentation, nor set musical concept. These are the perfect summer jams and the CD-r release has already been made "Record of the Week" over at Aquarius Records and praised by a bunch of influential online blogs. This is Rock music reduced to it's core: euphoric, charming, effortlessly smart, unstrained, willingly unhip, and unambitious in the most positive sense, summoning echoes of Drag City-era early Pavement or a heroin-less juvenescent Royal Trux with MDMA replacing the Opiate infusions, combined with the DIY aesthetics of several Not Not Fun and Woodsist related bands. The group has performed with:Ponytail, Health, High Places, The Mae Shi, Man Man, Yacht, Lucky Dragons, These are Powers, Tickley Feather, Double Dagger, Soft CircleRecommended for fans of:Sonic Youth, The Raincoats, Liars, This Heat, The Swirlies, Jandek, The Monks, boxes of kittens

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