Bambara – Mythic Love + Birds9 (live)
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Shoot-em-ups, horrors, and Westerns were the kinds of movies that were made quickly, with a slim budget and few expectations about what they could do at the box office. They were the correspondent of comic books and pulp novels, things that once read or seen could just be discarded forever.
This kind of bubblegum violence, however, ended up affecting the lives of many future creative people. The generation of writers and movie directors that grew to witness these cheap, violent movies ended up making their own versions. The only difference was that now many of these movies were being made for large budgets and being shown around the world.
Aggressive, menacing post-punk is a lot like that. Bambara’s live versions of their songs Mythic Love and Birds9 find a group that is angry, but not so much not to be aware that listeners are expecting production values for these kinds of rough, rowdy songs. After all, it was murder ballads that carried Nick Cave across the world. And so, Bambara put their best forward on these tunes and made sure not to sacrifice the melodies and the tight production work even when the walls get bathed in blood.
Lunavela- Next of kin
Similar artists: Blur, Pulp, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Wilco
For the most part, making rock music is an occupation fit for people with serious mental issues. Most of the time, these are the only people that make music worth hearing. Now, I am not suggesting that you do any sort of reverse engineering and go and acquire such problems in order to become a better songwriter. That won’t work! It’s hard to manufacture it.
Artists are usually people who want to strike a connection with people and do it on their own terms. If they manage to become successful enough, they are allowed to become the tiny dictators of their tiny circle. If they don’t achieve tremendous success, well, at the very least, they can find something that they can actually control.
Lunavela’s Next of kin is a song that desperately is reaching out in a bid for some kind of intimacy. It’s a small, strange pop sound mixed with clever observations. It’s the sort of tune that you’d imagine people who walk by themselves through the woods would be putting together in their minds. It’s a wonderful tense tune about washing to know someone.
