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▀███▄ Iran - The Moon Boys ▄███▀
artist : Iran
title : The Moon Boys
date : 2002
label : Tumult
genre : Indie
rls. date : Dec/05
tracks : 12
bitrate : VBRkbps
size : 51,6 MB
Indie rock buried in fuzz and hiss.
Iran take ultra catchy pop, and drag it through the
detritus of lo-fi noise rock, picking up an ungodly
assortment of buzz and blur and scuzz. Imagine a Pavement
record on Siltbreeze. Or Sebadoh, if Lou Barlow was a
jaded fuck instead of a sappy romantic. Or old Smog
covering Skullflower. Or Harry Pussy playing Built To
Spill. A
beautifully cacophonous mess.
Iran play damaged folk music, bombarded on all sides
by a wild assortment of squeals and shrieks, static and
hiss, and speaker clogging grit. Huge and slowly shifting,
dronescapes that evolve into perfect little pop songs and
then explode into jagged shards of high end skree. Iran
are psychedelic and textural and noisey and totally
catchy.
Add an unhealthy obsession with Brian Wilson, Roman
Polanski, indie rock, and Norwegian black metal, a handful
of disasterously deafening live shows, and a charmingly
fractured obstinance, and you've got Iran. Hardcore
hook-filled low fidelity un-pop noise. Pop. Plus fucking
wicked tiger cover art.
The Moon Boys is the second missive from San
Francisco's premier NOISEPOP band, not 'noise pop' in the
jangly-pop-punk-San-Francisco-festival-tight-pants-slacker
-next-big-thing-major-label-bidding-war-rehashed-bullshit
sense but in the
gorgeous-pop-songs-buried-under-a-thick-splattery-wall-of-
buzz-hum-whir-skree-guitars-set-on-self-destruct-Beatles-f
litered-through-Skullflower sense. Like Sebadoh or
Pavement being backed up by Throbbing Gristle or
Whitehouse. Or
Nurse With Wound fronted by Elliott Smith. If you get our
drift. For record number two, IRAN has scaled back the
noise just a bit and let the pop shine through. And shine
it does. Gorgeous, heart-breaking, voice-cracking lo-fi
love (and un-love) songs, delivered in a wavery falsetto,
over gentle guitars, naive drumming and strange but
wonderful backgrounds woven from vocals, amp hum, guitar
buzz, as well as rumbling low end and squealing feedback.
When the noise does kick in, it's not noise for noise
sake, Iran handle the squirming serpent with a deft hand,
molding gorgeous sonic squalls and speaker shredding skree
from overdriven amps and detuned guitars, with buried
melodies and strange and mysterious rhythms laying beneath
the storm, like looking through a murky pond at the
secret life below. Adventurous indie rockers could very
well be looking at their new favorite band, and
experimetal/avant garde-niks may just find themselves
developing a pop sweet tooth.
http://www.tumult.net/catalog/iran.html
01-Tee Hee [00:53]
02-Four Armed Star [03:04]
03-Locked Up Tight [03:31]
04-Black Eye I [01:11]
05-Fading Out [04:31]
06-Butterfly Knife [03:01]
07-We could go away for a while [05:34]
08-Wuthesing Heights [03:48]
09-Black Eye II [02:44]
10-Pretty Raws [01:24]
11-The Moon Shiwes Bright [04:19]
12-Long Time Now [03:17]
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37:17 min
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