Canines [Vinyl]

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Canines [VINYL]Opis:Review Brighton/London five-piece Shrag have always possessed a darker edge than their indiepop/twee label suggested. As the title indicates, third album Canines sees them baring their teeth to produce a set that blends sweetness with something more menacing.

It would be easy to let the sheer joyous racket that the band creates fool you. Shouty sloganeering on Show Us Your Canines, Chasing Consummations and Devastating Bones, and the boy/girl sing-along vocals, create an initial impression of cheerful, lively naivety. Dig a little deeper, though, and a more serious, sometimes troubling, side comes through.

Often carried on a wave of aggression from post-punk guitars or with ominous basslines, there is a focus on the visceral – Devastating Bones’ protagonist posing “on your rib cage”, the prospect of the titular Jane With Dumbbells ripping out her teeth – and the carnal (Show Us Your Canines, Chasing Consummations).

One of this album’s delights lies in the band’s exuberant use of language. Lyrics clearly springing from an enjoyment of, and gift for, words abound, from …Canines’ “I’m enamoured of your feral sighs” to wonderfully economic yet descriptive couplets like “Synergies and simulations / Painted smiles and calculations” (Tears of a Landlord). Elsewhere Jane With Dumbbells offers “toxic mornings and saccharine days”, and Flinching at Forever “clean tired people who drink gin on the train”.

A skewed take on contemporary life in the UK seems to be a loose album theme, with a couple of songs – perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not, in this Olympic year – focussing on sport. The bouncy Tendons in the Night is a fascinating take on the sometimes sadistic appeal of sports, training or spectating: “Something blossoms in the soul when the gymnast cries (…) Through that chrysalis and rebirth / We understand our own worth.”Throw a few more lushly instrumented segments into the basic see-saw-guitars-and-drums formula (the strings of On the Spines of Old Cathedrals, the brass of the closer) and it is clear that, musically, thematically and stylistically, this is a band that subverts expectations. And, in doing so, bring us something altogether more complex and interesting. --David Katz Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Product Description Brighton's boy-girl scuzzpoppers Shrag flash back to the heyday of such personages as Prolapse or Delta 5, bringing analytical attitude to the debased trade of pop and serving it up with bulldozing portions of raw guitar noise. Uncut // Shrag will be releasing their hotly anticipated third album Canines via WIAIWYA and Fortuna POP! in July. Recorded at Gargleblast Studios with producer Andy Miller (Life Without Buildings, Mogwai, Sons and Daughters), Canines is a visceral pop record bristling with urgency, melody, and danger, and is the sound of a band fully in their stride. Canines is a fiercely idiosyncratic record which stalks new territory for Shrag; in its counter-intuitive journey from the feedback-drenched fury of album opener Tears of a Landlord to the bittersweet lushness of closing paean Jane with Dumbbells , Canines interrogates structures, of the body, the mind, and the city. Suffused with bones, skin, and inappropriate desires, the album s first single Tendons in the Night is a voyeuristic ode to the estimable pursuit of gymnastic perfection, whilst the second, Show us your Canines , is a blood-heavy exhortation against martyrdom and for movement, distilling the urgency and compulsion which lends the tone to the record as a whole. The glam-rock nonchalance of sun-soaked stomper Devastating Bones gives way to the claustrophobia and menace of the family curse threading its way through That s Static! , and the heady impulsivity and rush of On the Spines of Old Cathedrals and You re the Shout are offset against the elegant defiance of Chasing Consummations and Flinching at Forever , where the band insist on a potent celebration of their oAutor:ShragNośnik:VinylPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2012Waga: 0.97 gramWysokość: 0.7 cmSzerokość: 12.7 cmDługość: 15 cmShips in Certified Frustration-Free PackagingUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.