Wounded Lion_音乐专辑
Wounded Lion
表演者: Wounded Lion
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: Vinyl LP
发行时间: 2010-04-27
唱片数: 1
出版者: In The Red Records
条形码: 0759718517811
其他版本: Wounded Lion
专辑简介
Los Angeles gets a bad rap. The city is known for shallow glitter, brutal cops and urban unrest--and sure, the stereotypes are sometimes accurate, but there are also lots of everyday folks, living unpretentious everyday lives. It's also true that Los Angeles is famous for a healthy underground music scene, both in the past and in the present. Take the everyday folks and drop them into an underground scene and you get something like Wounded Lion, a great no-frills pop band that sounds fresh, even when they remind one of classic American power-pop of the '70s. Inspired by The Velvets, The Cramps, The Clean and The Vaselines (as well as Credence Clearwater Revival and Kleenex), Wounded Lion is regularly seen at Los Angeles haunts such as Mr. T's Bowl, The Smell, The Scene and Spaceland. Their hum-inducing, toe-tapping tunes wiggle their way into your brain and have you singing their choruses at the grocery store or waiting in line at the DMV.
There’s a certain naiveté that pervades Wounded Lion’s no-frills garage-pop — if I remembered having my first beer, the L.A. quintet’s three-minute blasts, unrepentantly disheveled but undeniably catchy, could easily have been the soundtrack. Whether visiting “Hunan Province,” immortalizing the “Omar Walk” or bellowing in French on “Black Socks,” the music on Wounded Lion’s self-titled debut album (due April 27 on In the Red Records) is the stuff of backyard parties and underground spaces. Smirk accordingly.
“Wounded Lion’s brand of charmingly timeless pop…rejects conventionally accepted aesthetics and approaches, to revel in an ecstatic indifference toward time, place, trend, and fashion… [Their] formula is relatively simple. The band writes shambling, alternately silly and poignant songs that bend and twist timeless pop hooks from the sixties onward.”
–Anomalous L.A.
“The drum skins resonate with deep thudding as the bass and rhythm guitars belch out raw distortion, lending the band’s music a primitive quality. But there is also a whimsical sensibility present that elevates its abrasiveness to a level of jubilance. Wounded Lion writes pop songs that celebrate the unrefined, dispensing with ego and tapping into the primal areas of the brain.”
–SF Gate
I must admit that Wounded Lion is from In The Red Records, home of Strange Boys, Vivian Girls, The Oh Sees and Jay Reatard (R.I.P).
Buy it if you can.
曲目
1. Hungry
2. Creatures in the Cave
3. Degobah System
4. Hunan Province
5. Carol Cloud
6. Hanging Ancient Circles
7. Belt of Orion
8. Pony People
9. Black Sox
10. Silver People
11. Omar Walk
12. Crunchy Stars
