Here are a couple of really inventive bands that for whatever the reason I've rarely brought up on these pages before. Rhode Island denizens
Six Finger Satellite, as their adjacent picture to your right is likely to suggest, were a band who very much functioned on their own wavelength so to speak. Bearing the same artful, aggro aesthetics of Volcano Suns, 6FS wielded wily dynamics and flirted with avant affectations, yet possessed a lopsided accessibility that catapulted both of their songs here, including the wonderfully urgent "Sex Transistor" over the top. These guys were a trip to witness live, and left us with roughly a half dozen albums, mostly rearing their weird little heads in the mid-90s.
Also from New England, and equally as fascinating were the Massachusetts based
Green Magnet School, a noisy, sonic caterwaul of an indie rock proposition who were amped-out as all get up and sublimely guitar driven. Lots of angularities too and they had a penchant for gravitating towards austere motifs without ever succumbing to anything overtly gloomy. The concise, blitzkrieg assault of "12 Guage" mines an early Jawbox vein, while a considerably slower cover of Neil Young's
Freedom deep cut "Don't Cry" is surprisingly enthralling and effective. GMS' 1990 debut platter,
Blood Music is a heady, hot mess of a fever dream that is not to be missed. I might be sharing more from these folks at some point.
Six Finger Satellite
01. Crippled Monster Bearing Malice
02. Sex Transistor
Green Magnet School
01. 12 Gauge
02. Don't Cry
1 comment:
DAG!...thanks... I have this 7" somewhere ..the GMS version of Don't Cry is so damn good
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