Portland’s Hockey, who I’ve been a fan of for some time, get the love from the Guardian Music Blog this week.
Hockey could easily be enjoyed by Dylan, Springsteen and Hold Steady fans as much as they could by devotees of LCD Soundsystem and their ilk. In fact, if James Murphy ever decides to produce the Strokes then this is roughly how it might turn out. It’s been treated by the same sort of FX used to make Julian Casablancas sound as though he’s singing through a megaphone in a wind tunnel. Witty, literate songs you can dance to – they don’t quite give Dylanesque narratives a dubstep undercarriage, but they do effect a collision of opposites that is quite unprecedented.
Have a listen to Too Fake.
These dudes are seriously the real deal. One of the best Portland (via LA & Spokane) bands in ages…
September 24th, 2008 at 9:20 am