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Recommended by us on 2nd March 2012
...according to our Brian on Thu 01 Mar, 2012.
Well, there's a lot of this rumbling bleak new-wave stuff going around at the moment and this lot are particularly excellent at encapsulating that grainy, listless yet implicitly determined mood which kind of suits our current times eh? The KVB rack up somewhere between a lo-fi shoegaze Joy Division and Downwards launchboard compadres Tropic of Cancer with a bit of early Blank Dogs into the mix.
It's a weird, dusty dystopian sound they conjure up and I'm totally engaged by its barren, propulsive charms. What is especially endearing is they sound really natural and somewhat organic, there's no poseur preening, over-egged gothic nonsense or production excess here, neither is the sound artificially saturated or overtly lo-fi. The songs are beautifully formed, stripped-back and possess a pure soul leaving you quietly moved. I'm reminded of early Flying Saucer Attack rather a lot in the fuzzier parts but fans of bands such as Crystal Stilts and Moon Duo should love this, also original 80s JAMC/Spacemen 3 obsessives will delight in the brittle flow and fizzing electric release.
Yeah, I'm thoroughly smitten, I was kinda hoping it was gonna be a duffer as I've too many bastard records piling up at the moment and my dx are currently in disrepair but this is absolutely top notch and demands to be in my collection and hopefully yours...
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