While aspiring to postpunk art-house dance music, Bloc Party wisely refuses to let its genre fixations get in the way of tunefulness.
On songs like Here and Summer Babe, the rhythm section lays down pulsating grooves as saxman Carter uncovers the bluesy tunefulness buried beneath Pavement's trademark static.
Doves, a Manchester trio, is a pleasant exception, a band that actually enjoys its own tunefulness.
MTN ISL issues 'God Become Animal' via Muckman Records Having only been in existence for a handful of months, post-hardcore quartet MTN ISL has performed a slew of sets alongside the city's noisiest racketeers (HAWKS, deadCAT, Skin Jobs, and more) and even written and recorded its debut. Featuring members of Sunglasses and Rapturous Grief, MTN ISL peddles frayed and dismayed runs of acerbic and open-ended tunefulness.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to ...
Dec. 6, 2013 - Creative Loafing Atlanta
Brett Gurewitz in Exclaim! Epitaph head-honcho and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz says, "Settle has everything I admire in a great band: poetry, tunefulness, originality and vision, all pursued recklessly, as if the whole thing might fall apart at any second:and you...