On a recent road-mission heading up the East coast of Tassie, I put on the only CD in the glove box, The Drones' 2006 LP Gala Mill. I learn from cool-older-cousin Barney that the band recorded the album in an old saw mill not far from where we were, and that his old mate Aaron co-produced the album with frontman Gareth Liddiard. Radical. It's a great album, check out the song 'Words From The Executioner To Alexander Pearce'; a most epic interpretation of a good old gut-wrenching tale from colonial times. The Cannibal Convict. Intense. Awesome.
The point of all this you ask? I'm getting there, you rude cunt. Here it is: I've just been put onto Aaron's new project CIVIL CIVIC, thanks to his cousin, who happens to be my old high-school media teacher. Hey Clay. So yeah, with partner-in-crime-and-crazy-noises Brad Green completing the pair, the two are currently based in London, booking gigs and getting ready to conquer the world. Stylistically speaking, they're about as far as you can get from The Alpha Males' breezy indie-pop or Drones' doom-laden rawkenrawl. But.. they're fucking awesome.
Production genius..something..like I was saying...eclectic...genre-delineating...see..drums..it all makes sense..What?
Anyway, stick this in your indie-electronica crack pipe and smoke it:
Hell yeah. Sounds like... if you took the shimmering electric/electronic vibes of the very-rad Ratatat, then wore the sheen off a little with a lot more distortion? Someone else brought up Steve Albini's apparently-seminal 80s punk/noise/beats project Big Black. Seminal eh? Never heard of 'em. Next on the listening list, perhaps... that there wiki-scription reads as tasty as taco's. Ahem. Whoever or whatever they sound like, they sound fucking sick. UK music press heavyweight NME thinks so too, and with CIVIL CIVIC obviously having completed 'indie-brand management strategy' and 'using the viral marketing machine to your advantage' classes somewhere along the way - [erm, don't forget to order your limited-to-100-copies-and-only-on-retro-reel-to-reel-cassette copy of their debut 4-track EP. In the colour of the customer's choice, for fuck's sake. Hehe.] - there's basically no chance they won't be making headlines in no times. For a cassette, or a free MP3 download of the single version of 'Life Unless', head over to their blog here.
