corey orbison | your name is poison | 5-song 45rpm 7" | out now |
everardrecords.comfile under: no wave sissy hardcore | you can listen to it on the everard site
it's available from the label, various places in the uk/ europe &
bistro distroi think i saw these girls years ago during ladyfest brighton, and they were one of my favourite bands of the weekend. i always like stuff where it sounds like the band is in the midst of figuring out how to play everything. it starts out pretty straightforward and quickly gets weirder with lots of guitar-destroying squiggles and sounds and slightly off-time tribal drums. all three of them seem to just chime in whenever they feel like it. it's almost like if INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS was slightly less weird and a little more straightforward. and from england. definitely on the goofier, weirder arty side of post punk. awesome.
(marissa magic | maximumrocknroll #307 | dec 2008 | it's also in layla gibbon's december top ten)
london three-piece drawing from the agit-punk, riot grrrl and k records pools of scritch-scratch-scream. tribal drumming, scratchy guitars, dancey basslines, shrill grrrl vox. four short ones on the a-side ... at their best they sound like an even less proficient SLITS and at their worst they sound like a bunch of fashion students who started a band playing in the common room at their art school ... yeah. it's mostly the latter. the b-side is pure art-wank. "i cut things up" it's called. yeah, we get it, you're confident women. and you're angry. we're sorry. cheers! scum stats: 350 on white vinyl in a nicely put together package though.
(rich kroneiss | terminal boredom)
despite the somewhat stupid name, this is a really cool trio from england! 5 tracks of shrieky and spastic no-wave noise-punk. reminiscent of SLITS, Y-PANTS, RAINCOATS and some of those bands on the once great and now defunct SLAMPT UNDERGROUND label!
(x-mist)
corey orbison have sent us a lovingly packaged white vinyl 7" and to begin with it's ... a load of discordant anti-rock, like SONIC YOUTH's jarring one-note overspill before it staggers into life as a rumbling no-wave street ruffian, complete with incoherent female lyrics spat out with nihilistic banshee-like glee. it's like the girl from LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS having ect. it's rough and compelling, jerky and uncompromising. truly diy, if you dig the SLITS & RAINCOATS & agit-punk then this screeing, wonky delightful dirge of spastic rhythms will surely grap you by the collar and spit in your face. kids these days eh ... and there's about 5 tracks or summat! buggered if i can tell where they begin or end!! ace.
(norman records)
looks quite non-descript at first but open it up and it contains lovely double sided card lyric sheets and and an individually stamped, numbered insert.
(piccadilly records)
corey orbison (aka the corey o's) are michal & lisa (who also play in bristol's
headfall) & irene (ex-lesbo pig, who were sort of a queer marine girls-meets-avocado baby ... totally great).
they say:
we formed in 2004, inspired by our friends in the diy-queer-punk-feminist-community.
we were born from the craving of young hearts and the fervour for connection in a cold, cold world.
our songs play upon the themes of treble, celebrity, resistance, loss, community, language, structure, friendship and contrast.
our style of music is the short and the sharp and the stop and the start. make a mess. break a heart. stick the rules. punk rock is for the wimps.
other interesting stuff the band are or have been involved with includes
local kid (modern reveries 7" out soon),
cafe kino,
irrk (no side to fall in comp 10" & red herring lp out now) &
homocrime.
this is their first record, following a (now sold out) tape on irrk/ local kid.
it's the first release on everard.
there are 350 copies on white vinyl, 35 of which came in a silkscreened, nametape'd cotton bag.
the bag version is sold out.
the regular version is cheaper & still very sexy (thick recycled card inserts & whatnot).
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