TRAAMS have created post-punk, krautrock inspired perfection. “Modern Dancing’s” 11 tracks move along at a brisk and urgent pace. Each track has something to offer the listener; zero filler. It is a rare thing for me to hear an album where I refuse to skip a track, but Modern Dancing fills that bill with gusto. I almost missed out on this album. Luckily, I skimmed through my favorite tracks of the year while I assembled my Best Albums of 2015 list. I had listed the raucous and fevered “Succulent Thunder Anthem” as a top track for August. I knew this was something special. Any songwriter that lists Mclusky, Pavement, and Television as influences has my attention. On top of those influences, They flawlessly blend a math rock meets krautrock meets post-punk style that never forgets to reel you in with catchy power pop hooks. It is perfection.
Posts Tagged ‘Fat Cat Records’
TRAAMS – ” Giddy “
Posted: December 18, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSICTags: Fat Cat Records, Modern Dancing, Traams
TRAAMS – ” Cissa ” EP
Posted: December 17, 2015 in MUSICTags: Chichester, Cissa EP, Fat Cat Records, Grin, Traams
After a whirlwind year touring Europe with WIRE, completing a UK and EU headline tour of their own, as well as smashing SXSW on the dusty, drunken streets of Texas, Chichester based three-piece TRAAMS return rejuvenated and bloodthirsty with their first release of 2014 Cissa. Their debut album Grin, produced by fuzz loving tastemaker Rory Atwell and MJ of Hookworms, perfectly encapsulated that restlessness that defines growing up in a small town. Beat up pothole filled roads lit by flickering orange street lamps as opposed to the surreal bright lights and never ending noise of the big city. It screams and yelps, twists and turns, relentlessly releasing a fractured, fearsome energy. This new set of songs feels like it came from a similar place, whilst soaring through an as yet unexplored sonic world. They’ve reinstated their creative team of Rory and MJ, A producer power-duo if ever there was one, and it proves to be an inspired mix. Marbles has the melodic charm of Is This It-era Strokes, with a guitar solo reminiscent of Bad Brains world-beater Banned In DC. It would captivate even the broken 9-5 office worker, energyless after yet another day of computer screen monotony. Final track, and the one that the EP is named after, Cissa is a krauty, groove based number, driving along into the darkest dusk.
FATCAT RECORDS – ” Live at The Great Escape “
Posted: May 11, 2015 in MUSICTags: Fat Cat Records, the Great Escape
FatCat Records will be hosting a very special party on Friday 15th May at the Joker, Brighton.
We will be celebrating the Great Escape by hosting our very own unofficial Great Escape gathering.
It is free entry and there is no need for wristbands. The fun starts at 7.30pm.
On the night you will get to hear performances by
Honeyblood (their only show at this years TGE.)
Menace Beach
Best Friends
Shopping
Breathe Panel
listen to them below, but more importantly, come see them and say hello.!
BEST FRIENDS – ” Fake Spit “
Posted: April 12, 2015 in MUSICTags: Best Friends, Fat Cat Records, Sheffield
Best Friends explain they are “armed with a encyclopaedic knowledge of WWF, a full set of achievements on Mario Kart and several crates of beer” when it comes the release of their new album, as yet untitled, out May 18th via Fatcat Records. Their new single, ‘Fake Spit’, taken from the album, shows that the band have decided to depart aesthetically from their scrappy and dilapidated surf rock Art Is Hard days, but have still kept the fun and anarchy deeply imbedded in the music.
Their stark change from lo-fi to hi-fi production adds excitement value to hear what this new, mature version, of Best Friends will come up with. Guarantees can still be made though, that whatever happens, whatever the band come up with, whatever the music brings, it’ll always be laced with that free-spirited, riotous, party filled clamour that have made Best Friends so magnetic and unique amongst the surf garage horde.
MAZES – ” My Drugs “
Posted: August 3, 2014 in MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUESTags: Fat Cat Records, Mazes, the 1900's, The Bodega
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3nlPTZJHxc
Mazes formed from ex members of the band the 1900’s in 2004 classic indie pop and rock, initially from Manchester signed to Fat Cat Records, the debut album recorded on a studio boat in the river thames, and a new album “Ores and Minerals” released in February this year,
MAZES – ” Astigmatism “
Posted: July 30, 2014 in MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUESTags: Astigmatism, Fat Cat Records, Indie Rok., Mazes, Ores and Minerals
Mazes are Conan Jack and Neil having played with other bands it was time to be together again,
LOWLY – ” Daydreamers ”
Posted: July 7, 2014 in MUSICTags: Danish, Electronica, Fat Cat Records, Lowly
on Fat Cat Records, the Electronica of Danish Band LOWLY united in their love of bands like Talking heads and Tame Impala,
sweeping electronica Synth pop with shoegazy type vocal Lush……
The Fat Angel Sings 