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Kevin Greenspon of Bridgetown Records sent me - with kindness and a presumption of my own writing abilities (I have none and this is how i stand out) -
Actually, hey! Welcome back! 2010! Woop!
He stares drunkenly at the corner, then looks up. A dark face watches from the window.
-a little package of joy in the form of a Winter Sampler of some of the heavy flow Bridgetown is putting out in 2010. Let's begin.
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Nicole Kidman - West Covina, California's Jon Barba - is kind of the Trash Humpers of music. Emotionally taut, with shines of Moldy Peachesian confession, but driven by an angrily rotten aesthetic that turns pop snagginess into fascinating scrappy journal pages, handed round the classroom in any order. In stand-out superfun no. Miley is Awesome, NK assumes the role of Cyrus defender and achieves an anti-intellectual, infantile honesty.
Nicole Kidman - Woman Overload (Malice)
Listen ~ Nicole Kidman - Woman Overload (Malice) (with Kevin Greenspon)
Ohio's Cloud Nothings crash into the dining room with so much to say, yet still manage to tailor punk crunch into some friendly and beautiful vocal phrases. It's a trampled, trampy, urgent swagger that recalls Bitters' irrestible cave pop efforts of yesteryear.
Cloud Nothings - Can't Stay Awake
Trudgers' first CDR as a fully-fledged band band (with members of Norse Horse, No Paws (No Lions) and Dollchimes) is to be released by Bridgetown, and it seems that there has been no drop in quality at all from a band that explores such black worlds with no recognisable fear whatsoever. 'For Marc' is an exceptional lesson in being walked to the back of the garden and shown something hideously dark you have never seen before. 'Nothing Perfect Ever' is another great track; with a heady, romantic drone. Sickly and hypnotic.
Trudgers - Wait For You
Vehicle Blues' tour-bus shoegaze is a colourful experience of just-woken-up vibes. 'Subway Riders' is a great distorto-crystalisation, and 'Punks on Transit' is so what is says on the tin its humbling. A kind band.
Vehicle Blues - Punks on Transit
