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ARM04
Released: Monday 12th May 2009
CD / DL

Armellodie is overjoyed to announce the release of Sheffield’s finest wonky riff-based pop albino’s, Kill the Captains, with their debut eponymous EP.

Kill the Captains came to be in 2006 as a rough-hewn psychedelic jam band, nasty by all accounts. However slowly but surely these four buxom comrades refined their drones into the energetic pop bullets on display here. These lean mean tunes are unique, and yet totally unforgiving for being steeped in the band’s shared love of 1990s American Alternative music, Shoegaze and Krautrock.

Recorded in October of last year with acclaimed producer Alan Smythe (Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Long Blondes, Reverend and the Makers), the EP is the perfect introduction to a band who believes that adventurous, noisy rock music can be fun and temper their most out-there moments with shout-along choruses and fizzing interplay between their dual-guitar attacks. 

From the opening feedback of lead track, ‘Bottom Lip’, with its preppy Buzzcocks-esque chugging guitars, to the breezy 12/8 pace of ‘Chrunt’ concerned with God complexes and mistaken identity no less. Then there’s the beautiful lullaby, ‘Long in the Tooth’, the closest the band are ever likely to breach ‘power-ballad’ territory. The closing track, and live favourite, ‘Fun Anxiety’ documents a very serious psychological condition suffered by many of Kill the Captains nearest and dearest. Everybody in the world is currently having more fun than you and you can't even remember the paltry amusements which do crop up from time to time. This is because you are also suffering from "Funmnesia".

Since forming, Kill the Captains have been relentlessly gigging in and around their native homeland and have such developed into a ferocious live act with a burgeoning reputation in Sheffield and beyond, they even host their own popular monthly club-night, ‘Mutiny’ in the city. Favourable comparisons have been made to Sonic Youth, Animal Collective and Les Savy Fav to name but a few, and the band cite Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Slint, Pere Ubu, Television, Can and Neu amongst their many influences so hopefully you’ll get the gist of what it’s all about and get onboard.

Kill the Captains are Paul Pickavance, Leon Carter, Yoz and Paul Andrew Collins Esquire. They are having fun without you. Everyone is.

KILL THE CAPTAINS - Fun Anxiety

The Snow It Melts The Soonest

Sundown by Dark Moon

You're Looking Through Me?

Thirty Pounds of Bone sings Chris T-T on an EP of cover versions released on Woodland Recordings. Songs by The Electric Soft Parade, Mary Hampton, The Great Park, Something Beginning With L, Le Reno Amps and Dive Dive also feature on this beautifully quiet and affectionate collection.
Available on limited CD at http://www.woodlandrecordings.com/RELEASES/WR046.html
More from Thirty Ponds of Bone at http://www.thirtypoundsofbone.bandcamp.com

WR046 - Thirty Pounds of Bone 'Ankles (Chris T-T)'

Track : Worlds
From: DEBUT ALBUM MARCH 2013 ( reverberation society US )

Cult of dom keller - Worlds

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