Post by maartjeappel on Jan 14, 2011 1:15:09 GMT
Thought I might just pop this up 
I do reviews of shows and albums and interviews for a Dutch website called ROARezine.nl. Currently did some translations on HR (-related) stuff, guess I'll be doing more of these in the future and some of you might be interested. Excuse me for the lack of proper English at moments hah. Got the following two done these last weeks. The Run,Walk! one is an immense better read than the Pariso one I guess!
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Pariso - Sooner Insignificant Better
They like to describe their own music as ‘Crush’. A perfect name for the mix of hardcore and grind that English band Pariso fabricates. Named after the American, female bodybuilder Betty Pariso, the band has been around for about two years. After the departure of their former drummer, they got rid of the ‘Betty’. After a couple of splits, they’re finally here with their very own release. In January, Sooner Insignificant Better hits the stores.
The intro of this mini-album, seven tracks, summarizes the band in little less than two minutes. The first sixty seconds are basically noise and slow guitars, but the entirety changes into a sucking vortex of trash when the drum kicks in. The track connects with ‘Solitude’ when the lead vocalist opens his mule. A nice song that unless his pace and the fact that it only clocks at little less over one minute, feels massively heavy. The gents really start to stand out at the fourth track though. It’s only when they dare to work ‘Birds’ by Crystal Castles. In the hands of these brutal Englishmen the infectious track changes into a real killer song to mosh to. Striking is how the cryptic lyrics fit perfectly into the image Pariso creates. Kids with a shitlife who scream and kick the hell out of everything through their music.
Single ‘House of Squalor’ again is dangerously heavy. However it’s the guitar in the first part of the song, which creates a little air to breath. The influence of mainly accepted indie music, as small as it is, makes this song truly captivating from start to finish. This sixth song is along with the seventh, ‘Lonqvist’, the only one which clocks over two minutes. ‘Lonqvist’ itself is one hell of a worthy closure to Sooner Insignificant Better. The small bit of clean vocals at the start drags all attention back to the album, as if you’ve ever lost it, and then the song shows the best of Pariso with a true wall of sound. The band takes over the baton of Throats, who sadly split a few weeks back, with this debut. They are immediately leaders of the English underground scene.
4/5
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Run,Walk! - Peekay
The Dutch had their chance to meet the two gents of Run,Walk! at Incubate 2010 or as Rolo Tomassi’s support. After a mini-album, an instrumental EP and numerous contributions to compilations, the duo now brings a downloadable for free EP to the table. Peekay is three songs, six minutes and six seconds on the clock. Fast, distorted, noisy and above all enormously catchy.
First track ‘Virus’ directly grabs you by the throat. While the short intro tune that vocalist and bass player Matt Copley squeezes out of his instrument plays, just before Tom Clements mashes his drums to smithereens, you can see the two standing there on stage looking all angry and snarling. After this little tune, the boys go crazy. Compelling noise is what these two English lads do. Because of the amount of effects that Matt adds to his bass, the instrument sounds as impelling as sharp. The mixture is being completed by his blatant voice. Not everything is in perfect pitch, but who minds with this music?
Title track ‘Peekay’ is more of a jaggy song than the former one. The shifts in tempo make that this track reminds you of telling a story at first. An exciting movie of just over one point five minutes. At about half of the song you think it’s ending, but that’s when another destroying bass tune is being squeezed out and Tom slaughters his drums again. After an abrupt ending we’ve already come to the last song. The one with the catchy title: ‘Throw Nothing at the Sea’. A combination of the two earlier tracks. This is Run,Walk! as everyone who listened to the previously released stuff knows them: abrasive and instrumentally impelling, topped by a layer of screamy vocals.
At the two live shows this band did in the Netherlands, most of the public reacted a bit mildly. This duo makes a kind of music that you will either love or hate, there is not a spark of middle road there. It’s questionable if they can pull this off when releasing a full length record, but this isn’t going to happen any time soon(ish). Something we can be glad for, as six minutes of Peekay already leave you gasping for air.
4/5
I do reviews of shows and albums and interviews for a Dutch website called ROARezine.nl. Currently did some translations on HR (-related) stuff, guess I'll be doing more of these in the future and some of you might be interested. Excuse me for the lack of proper English at moments hah. Got the following two done these last weeks. The Run,Walk! one is an immense better read than the Pariso one I guess!--
Pariso - Sooner Insignificant Better
They like to describe their own music as ‘Crush’. A perfect name for the mix of hardcore and grind that English band Pariso fabricates. Named after the American, female bodybuilder Betty Pariso, the band has been around for about two years. After the departure of their former drummer, they got rid of the ‘Betty’. After a couple of splits, they’re finally here with their very own release. In January, Sooner Insignificant Better hits the stores.
The intro of this mini-album, seven tracks, summarizes the band in little less than two minutes. The first sixty seconds are basically noise and slow guitars, but the entirety changes into a sucking vortex of trash when the drum kicks in. The track connects with ‘Solitude’ when the lead vocalist opens his mule. A nice song that unless his pace and the fact that it only clocks at little less over one minute, feels massively heavy. The gents really start to stand out at the fourth track though. It’s only when they dare to work ‘Birds’ by Crystal Castles. In the hands of these brutal Englishmen the infectious track changes into a real killer song to mosh to. Striking is how the cryptic lyrics fit perfectly into the image Pariso creates. Kids with a shitlife who scream and kick the hell out of everything through their music.
Single ‘House of Squalor’ again is dangerously heavy. However it’s the guitar in the first part of the song, which creates a little air to breath. The influence of mainly accepted indie music, as small as it is, makes this song truly captivating from start to finish. This sixth song is along with the seventh, ‘Lonqvist’, the only one which clocks over two minutes. ‘Lonqvist’ itself is one hell of a worthy closure to Sooner Insignificant Better. The small bit of clean vocals at the start drags all attention back to the album, as if you’ve ever lost it, and then the song shows the best of Pariso with a true wall of sound. The band takes over the baton of Throats, who sadly split a few weeks back, with this debut. They are immediately leaders of the English underground scene.
4/5
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Run,Walk! - Peekay
The Dutch had their chance to meet the two gents of Run,Walk! at Incubate 2010 or as Rolo Tomassi’s support. After a mini-album, an instrumental EP and numerous contributions to compilations, the duo now brings a downloadable for free EP to the table. Peekay is three songs, six minutes and six seconds on the clock. Fast, distorted, noisy and above all enormously catchy.
First track ‘Virus’ directly grabs you by the throat. While the short intro tune that vocalist and bass player Matt Copley squeezes out of his instrument plays, just before Tom Clements mashes his drums to smithereens, you can see the two standing there on stage looking all angry and snarling. After this little tune, the boys go crazy. Compelling noise is what these two English lads do. Because of the amount of effects that Matt adds to his bass, the instrument sounds as impelling as sharp. The mixture is being completed by his blatant voice. Not everything is in perfect pitch, but who minds with this music?
Title track ‘Peekay’ is more of a jaggy song than the former one. The shifts in tempo make that this track reminds you of telling a story at first. An exciting movie of just over one point five minutes. At about half of the song you think it’s ending, but that’s when another destroying bass tune is being squeezed out and Tom slaughters his drums again. After an abrupt ending we’ve already come to the last song. The one with the catchy title: ‘Throw Nothing at the Sea’. A combination of the two earlier tracks. This is Run,Walk! as everyone who listened to the previously released stuff knows them: abrasive and instrumentally impelling, topped by a layer of screamy vocals.
At the two live shows this band did in the Netherlands, most of the public reacted a bit mildly. This duo makes a kind of music that you will either love or hate, there is not a spark of middle road there. It’s questionable if they can pull this off when releasing a full length record, but this isn’t going to happen any time soon(ish). Something we can be glad for, as six minutes of Peekay already leave you gasping for air.
4/5