THE SOUND OF RAILS
Night Time Simulcast (Caulfield Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This record reminds me a lot of the early Sonic Youth stuff, complete with droning guitars and barely-heard conversational muttering in the background, heavy handed guitar leads and screaming, beautiful melodramatic crescendos at all the right moments. The opening track, "Rulo," especially reminds me of Sonic Youth, like one of those songs that Kim Gordon would have sung/told a story to, except with a male vocalist instead of a female one. The album is pretty cool on its own, though, although I'd probably be happier with it if it didn't sound so much like Sonic Youth. The nice thing about getting so old, though, I think, is that all this music that I loved 20 years ago is being rediscovered by a new generation, and those new bands are putting out cool music influenced by the old stuff and trying to make it sound fresh and new.

[Pick this up at midheaven.com.]

© 2004 - Holly Day