With the election of the label from the tranquil town of Bloomington students the four men from Viet Cong have ever made a mistake Jagjaguwar applies with Black Mountain, Foxygen, Volcano Choir and the Pink Mountaintops in the broadest sense as a model for post-boarding, Prog, Fashion and Psych rock and just somewhere in between also the music of the quartet from the Calgary can locate. After singer and bassist Matthew Flegel and drummer Michael Wallace had been given with their colleagues of their former band Women literally in his hair and the formation took as inglorious as tragic end, it should therefore now together with guitarist Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen in more professional tracks run more smoothly, you can hear that, though it is not there. At least four of the seven pieces on the debut album will be, sometimes slower, sometimes faster, set to none of the above subgenres alone and let sit better equal between all chairs. The wummert times enormous and dull (Newspaper Spoons, March In Progress) will, to an electrically amplified guitar around the ears hewn (Pointless Experience), the eleven-minute closing track Death unites all and fluctuates between an orderly noise and driving chords. Only the two singles Continental Shelf and Silhouettes treat the audience a bit more catchiness, the latter leans slightly to the Wave sound of the early 80s on, and Bunker Buster goes this way and reminds a bit of the (albeit late) Gang Of Four. Thus probably one of the more exciting releases this year that will win live with security still in intensity. mapambulo: blog
