I stumbled across this band recently and they seem to have promise. They released an EP in 2005, an album in 2006, and they have a scheduled release of a new album on April 14, 2009. They opened for Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, and Snow Patrol.
their sound drips with fuzzy sounding distorted guitars, and it hints at the shoe-gazer genre. Oh and by the way, they have a girl in the band so they must be cool!!
This album had a major impact on my life. It was the first time that I heard music that was not in heavy rotation on the radio and liked what I heard. Loved what I heard. I played this cassette in the 80's so much that it wore out and I had to get a second copy. Now R.E.M. have remastered and re-issued what I consider to be one of the finest albums ever recorded.
Murmur was arguably the first album to start the college radio music scene. Any band who calls themselves alternative has R.E.M. to thank for blazing that trail through the music landscape.
This album is a mix of Stipe's garbled lyrics, Peter Buck's jangling guitar, and Mike Mills driving Rickenbacker basslines in the backdrop. The songs were like nothing else at the time, and were largely ignored by the public being lost in the storm of vanhalen, heart, and 80's one hit wonders.
Check out this interview with Peter Buck to get his take on the reissue.
Of course nobody could understand Michael Stipe's lyrics back in the day. Maybe the remastering will make it all clear. Hope not.
Here's a few samples of this masterpiece
First off let me say that the title of this post was inspired by a recent post by losbastardosunidos, but it just seemed appropriate for this post.
Max and Blume strike up a friendship based on the two seeing aspects of their "ideal self" in each other. Max then falls for Ms. Cross and upon sharing this with Blume, he promptly follows suit. Friendship takes a competitive turn and Max and Blume engage in a series of personal attacks which prove to be hysterical. ...
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