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* Shoegaze * Indie * Post-rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Ambient * Ethereal *
Artist..: The Megphonic Thrift
Album...: Decay Decoy
GENRE....: Indie
STYLE....: Shoegaze
LABEL....: Club AC30 SCENE.....: 2016-01-24
BITRATE..: 919 kbps avg STORE.....: 2011-00-00
ENCODER..: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V TRACKS....: 9
SIZE.....: 286.0MB SOURCE....: CD
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Megaphonic_Thrift
- TRACKLIST
1 The Undertow 3:54
2 Talks Like A Weed King 3:21
3 Neues 4:40
4 Sister Joan 4:43
5 Candy Sin 5:56
6 You Saw The Silver Line 5:32
7 Dragon vs Dust 4:52
8 Mad Mary 4:39
9 Queen of Noise 5:38
Total Playtime: 43:15
The name may bring the Polyphonic Spree to mind, but when NorwayÆs the
Megaphonic Thrift started becoming popular in the States in 2010, critics
consistently compared the group to Sonic Youth. The similarities are hard to
ignore. Both bands share a similar lineup -- a female bassist (Linn Fr°kedal)
singing next to a guy with a drowsy drawl playing choppy chords on his Fender
Jaguar (Richard Myklebust) while a second guitarist fans the fire with
squalling dissonance, as a steady yet explosive drummer keeps it all in line.
Even if æ90s rock is an obvious touchstone, this take on the past style is
done impeccably on Decay Decoy, making it a solid debut, filled with songs
that manage to blend disheveled indie rock grit with straightforward pop
melodies. In fact, the Megaphonic Thrift are so apt at filtering the best
parts out of the glory days of noise pop, dream pop, and shoegaze that any
beefs about originality will probably be drowned out by the albumÆs thrilling
hooks.
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The joy in listening to Sonic Youth is that you could hum along even when
humming along made no sense at all. You could get lost in a songÆs
acrobatics, match its rise and fall with your humming and whistling, but it
wasnÆt like you were ever going to get trapped in a pop nightmare of
sameness. Just as you begin to figure out how to hum along to the chiming,
warbling, screaming guitar in one section, well, then everything falls apart
into a noise oblivion, taking you to the next floor of the abandoned
warehouse of sound.
Enter now NorwayÆs Megaphonic Thrift. Sit back, begin to hum along and enjoy
the melody, and then realize you lost track of that melody somewhere quite
soon but youÆre still humming anyway. The Megaphonic ThriftÆs Decay Decoy has
that obliterated melodic structure that enchants you and throws you off at
every twist and turn.
ôThe Undertowö opens the album with a guitar noise shockingly similar to
Billy IdolÆs ôWhite Wedding,ö but then the song takes on mainly a classic
hard rock stance with riffs and soloing guitars all over the place. Yet, all
along you feel like prog rock will take over and blow the thing to
smithereens. It becomes a combination of My Morning Jacket and Black
Mountain.
ôTalks Like a Weed Kingö punks things up more towards that Sonic Youth way of
chanting and railing through the pogoing. ôNeuesö sets a foundation at its
beginning that clangs and rattles but in its own way can only be described as
beautiful.
And perhaps thatÆs the key with the Megaphonic Thrift. You have to be ready
to describe the off-key, wheels-falling-off-the-speeding-truck music as
having great beauty.
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