Box Elders are named after the bugs that infested the house they grew up in. (“We had a snare drum with hundreds of dead box elder bugs in it. When you hit it you could hear them rattling around,” they say on their MySpace page.) Well the whole bug name thing worked for the Beatles, Buddy Holly and the Crickets and, of course, the Scorpions. While I’m not expecting them to play live in Red Square, Box Elders do share something with the first two acts in their awesomely catchy garage pop sounds, short snappy songs and 60s-sounding organ riffs (the latter of which especially dominates the track below – it pretty much skips the notion of a verse and just repeats a great chorus). Read more »
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I need an Eddy Current Suppression Ring
I’m in Wales at the moment and it’s wet, so, so wet, and in an attempt to counterbalance my drizzly depression I’m listening to some sunny-sounding music. Well, a band from Australia anyway, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and specifically their record Primary Colours, the second best record called Primary Colours of the decade. Now, a lot of you clued-up blog bastards will know these Aussie punks and their two flawless long-players, but screw you, I’m obsessed with them. Read more »
