So....not sure if people dug my first review but whatever.I want this blog to be more than just a review for demos and music i would like it to be my personal bitchplace where i sulk about things, thought i do that enough on facebook, i would for once like to have a whinge without assholes talking to me about it IRL.Especially about my stance on organized religion but watever.Now without realizing I have already inadvertely had a sulk about sulking on facebook.....AH thought i was gonna say "FML" right? cocks.Plus im not good with words.I hate words.
This post will also have drawings, but i just got a new mac :D so i need to install some programs before i can bring em up here.
Alright nuff of that.
Found this demo at Blackwire, picked it up because it was free.Free stuff is good.Nuclear Summer hails from Brisbane.They've played their first gig in October last year and they seem pretty busy since then.Dont really have more to add, If i'd have seen em in action..but oh well.
I'm a sucker for this sort of post punk hardcore and anyone out there who's a fan of the likes of Touche Amore, La Dispute, Lungs and To The North (another brissy band, they prob know each other), Nuclear Summer will not disappoint.I honestly had my doubts at the start, but it slowly grew on me.I don't know why I didn't get into the tune that is "Pilot Wings" the first time round, but perhaps in comparison to "Do Unto" and "Perfect Agent", it intially wasn't the best opener, I dunno.I dont think the guy can sing very well hahahaa, sorry that was mean.But he really makes that up in a strong vocal delivery that cuts above the melodically well-formed stringed instrumentation and the jazz-tastic (yeh i made that up so sue me) drumming which all makes for some real tight compositions and rather fantastic songwriting wrapped in a more heavier vibe that makes them stick out from the pack.
If you're looking for the addictive emotional melodrama that is just drenched in some of those other bands that i have mention, then you might not get alot from this, it feels like it doesn't have the same energy that gives it the replay value that so many other bands have got nailed, and it's not because its of demo quality either.It personally doesn't bother me though but yeh it's the subtle differences yknow?
That being said I know another band that was in a similar situation that is now one of my favourite bands of all time, can you guess? Anyways my point is that I for one am very hopeful for what N.S has got to offer, I bet they would be alot more solid and awesome with their next release and they will blow everyone's socks off with giant sticks of dynamite.They didn't quite hit bullseye this time, but it was sorta close, a few inches away.They are playing a few gigs round soon so i suggest you suss em out, they sound like a band that will kick butt live!
http://nuclearsummer.wordpress.com/
Oh yeh and no one is going to guess what band i was talking about earlier but it was Fear Before (The March Of Flames).Saw em at their headline gig at Jannali,two words, fucking.brilliant!!!!! bigfoot costumes! Gatherer supported and they scared all the mosh crew scene cunts away with their stochastic-tastic (man i am on a roll with these words today) music!
Now, time to go play some Nintendo 64.
