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Apr 9

Indica Ritual

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Indica Ritual

The cool combination of duplo rock/prog pop/alternative/stadium wonk makes this music indescribable. The next “big thing” within music are a mix of totally different genres get mixed together in a way you wouldn’t believe was possible. It’s possible – and it’s Indica Ritual.

This colorful band was formed in Liverpool for about two years ago by Nick, Tom, Ferg, George and Andre.

They’ve released the single Tradeshow/Looking for Derek (2007) and the EP Four Blockheads Go Pop. (2006)

The last single Seamless Ejaculation with its flip-side Alpha Male was released in September 2009 through two independent Liverpool based labels, Samizdat and Post Music.

The two tracks here give you a great view of how mad and experimental crazy this music is.

The first single, “Seamless Ejaculation” give you the usual new wave vibes, mixed with a steady and at the same time irregular rhythm rock sound. Something that makes this to a inventive and new wave experimental piece of work.

“Alpha Male” makes sense – in a weird way. A combination of trumpet rock, experimental rock and some quirky vocals is give you something of the most unsystematic and unpredictable thing you’ll hear from Indica Ritual.

They are currently working on the debut album, due out 2010.

Mar 28

Wave Machines

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Wave Machines

“Liverpool’s third best band.” “Art rock disco made on Cash Converter keyboard and start-up drum kit.” It’s a good place to start isn’t it?

This electronic/pop/indie band are made up by Tim Bruzon (vocals, guitar, keyboard, drum machine), Carl Brown (guitar, keyboard, percussion, vocals), James Walsh (bass, synth-bass, percussion, clarinet, ukulele, vocals) and Vidar Norheim (drums, malletcat, vocals).

And they wanna make music who sounds like “a theme tune to a Michael Gondry animation”. Something they carry out perfectly!

There is something about this music. It’s the rhythm and song structure in all of the songs that makes this music so special and extremely good in this genre.

Wave Machines has so far released three EPs: “Wave Machines EP“, “I Go I Go I Go” and “The Greatest escape we ever made“.

Album review for the debut album “Wave if you’re really there” can be found here.