Banjo or Freakout - 105 / Dead In The Snow

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3...according to our Dave on Thu 02 Dec, 2010.

This single from Banjo or Freakout is like being rocked to sleep by Hightower from Police Academy. It's gentle yet oddly stoic. It can also throw pigskins at you and catching it will propel you through a wall. It reminds me of Grandaddy. It's psychedelic and quite folky and it doesn't do anything offensive enough to make you hate it. It also has electronica elements that sit quite well with the more acoustic elements. What's all this element baloney? The flip side is called Dead In The Snow which is quite ironic as I was dead in the snow yesterday. I wasn't caught in the wintery weather we've been experiencing in Leeds, I was caught by the police with my face in a huge mound of devil's dandruff. It's also a gentle romp through the world of softly strummed alt rock (the song not my made up drug story). I reckon it's a single......

· Banjo Or Freakout is Alessio Natalizia, an Italian
multi-instrumentalist and producer living in
London.

· ‘105’ is his first single for Memphis Industries and
the first cut from his upcoming debut album, due
out in early 2011.

· Banjo Or Freakout has been creating a waves over
the past couple of years with his eerily affecting
remixes and reworks for bands such as Wild
Beasts, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, The Soft
Pack, Bombay Bicycle Club.

· ‘105’ was, like the rest of the forthcoming
longplayer, recorded at Rare Book Room Studios in
New York with Nicolas Verhens, known for working
with Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Dirty
Projectors and Spoon.