Week of January 17, 2007, Issue #587
MUSIC
Haiku Quick Spins
Whitey and TB Player / quickspins@vueweekly.com
Of MontrealHissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Polyvinyl
Is there a law that
Great indie rock discs must have
Pretentious titles?
Youth Group
Casino Twilight Dogs
Anti-
Yes, apparently
There is such a law, it’s called
The “Oberst” Effect
Static Through
In The Trenches
Hellcat
The sound of unrest:
Crap tones, trite messages plus
A grown man barking
Ektomorf
Outcast
Nuclear Blast
Pummeling metal;
Drop D clunkage plus another
Barking older chap
Menomena
Friend and Foe
Barsuk
Flaming Lips channeled
Chock full of skronk and bombast
The skronk makes it good
Busdriver
Roadkill Overcoat
Anti-
Dexterous rapper
Is he full of shit? Who knows?
He goes too damn fast
The Apples in Stereo
New Magnetic Wonder
Yep Roc
Sweet-ass pop features
Mellotrons, vocoders and
Angry English mobs
Mnemic
Passenger
Nuclear Blast
Confusing metal
Boy-band harmonies mingle
With bum-sex screams
Snowbyrd
Snowbyrd
Saustex
Decent enough band
But it all gets lost in the
Shoddy recording