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Author: zoo
Date: 05-15-12 16:30
Never heard these guys before, but just fnished listening to Mezcal Head on Spotify.
This albums kicks all kinds of butt. I'm VERY impressed.
Any other fans here?
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-15-12 17:12
I'm not a rabid fan, but yeah, I dig Swervedriver. Shoegazer with drive - more Stooges than...whatever shoegazing is influences by. Still kicking myself for not going to their reunion tour stop here in Austin.
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Author: breno
Date: 05-15-12 17:56
Love Swervedriver, but always thought the fact that they were considered shoegazers was kind of odd. I guess they were just around at the same time, used lots of distortion and were signed to Creation. But they never really had the woozy atmospherics that most of the shoegazers had.
Most of the shoegazers made you feel like had just been punched in the face and were trying to make sense of things. Swervedriver always felt like they were still punching you.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 05-15-12 18:00
Ha! Check my thread from last fall. (Oops, the linky thing didn't work. Here's the longhand version: http://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=36761&t=36761#reply_36761)
Mezcal Head is my favorite, but I like all their albums. I did catch them on the tour stop here a month or so ago and it was pretty great. As you might imagine, they don't put on the most impressive stage show you've ever seen, but the music was great. I was struck in the live show by how much they reminded of a British Dinosaur Jr. I'd never made that connection listening to the albums, but it was a pretty apparent comparison live.
I also recently picked up an Adam Franklin disc from a couple of years back, and it's pretty good too. Not as raucous as the Swervedriver stuff and certainly less heavy than even modern-era Dinosaur, but not quite singer/songwriter quiet either.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 05-16-12 10:26
Swervedriver?
Loved the first two albums. I had an old friend who used to describe them as "Elvis Costello fronts Ride."
That used to make me smile.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-16-12 11:22
I saw Franklin do a solo set at SXSW a few years ago (as in solo music - he had a full band). He was pretty dull, frankly. The studio records are pretty, though.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-16-12 20:21
"Duel" still sounds good to me. But a lot of Mezcal hasn't aged as well for me. But I could say that about MBV and Slowdive too...and I once loved them as well.
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