Post by left side brain on May 18, 2005 8:32:31 GMT
From today's issue:
ANEMIC
Plus: Left SIde Brain, Dopamine
CAMDEN UNDERWORLD
23.04.2005
KKKK
BITTERSWEET-EMO DISPLAYS DARKER UNDERBELLY LIVE
Left Side Brain's metal-tinged, post-punk lacks enough tunes to rule the world, but solid riffs and vocals suggest them worth keeping an eye on. Dopamine, meanwhile, have no shortage of killer tracks. One-time-home to bassist Gareth Davies before he joined F4AF, Dopamine is South Wales’ grunge-tinged answer to Finch, and gems like ‘Beauty Queens and Bloodbaths’ and the fierce scream and stage-presence of Neil Starr, their bespectacled frontman, is wasted in the Underworld, leaving only the guitarist’s dubious obsession with moonwalking into angular emo-poses as the only ingredient difficult to digest.
Headliners Anemic are a Bristol-based Californian quartet who offer infectious post-hardcore laced with extreme urgency and American punk twang. Now two albums wise and newly adorned in topical Goth-punk attire, they’re electric tonight, the poweral melodies and crisp vocals of ‘I Wish You Well’ and ‘Remember’ complimented cunningly with brothers Kevin and Daniel Peters’ mad gyrating and insistent gestures. Utterly hypnotic, frontman Kevin is equal-parts seductive and twisted, and vocals which threaten hard to pull-off live are reproduced flawlessly tonight with vicious emotion and added bite. Darker and more sinister than on the quietly intoxicating but starkly-produced recordings, Anemic out-do themselves live.
NIK YOUNG
ANEMIC
Plus: Left SIde Brain, Dopamine
CAMDEN UNDERWORLD
23.04.2005
KKKK
BITTERSWEET-EMO DISPLAYS DARKER UNDERBELLY LIVE
Left Side Brain's metal-tinged, post-punk lacks enough tunes to rule the world, but solid riffs and vocals suggest them worth keeping an eye on. Dopamine, meanwhile, have no shortage of killer tracks. One-time-home to bassist Gareth Davies before he joined F4AF, Dopamine is South Wales’ grunge-tinged answer to Finch, and gems like ‘Beauty Queens and Bloodbaths’ and the fierce scream and stage-presence of Neil Starr, their bespectacled frontman, is wasted in the Underworld, leaving only the guitarist’s dubious obsession with moonwalking into angular emo-poses as the only ingredient difficult to digest.
Headliners Anemic are a Bristol-based Californian quartet who offer infectious post-hardcore laced with extreme urgency and American punk twang. Now two albums wise and newly adorned in topical Goth-punk attire, they’re electric tonight, the poweral melodies and crisp vocals of ‘I Wish You Well’ and ‘Remember’ complimented cunningly with brothers Kevin and Daniel Peters’ mad gyrating and insistent gestures. Utterly hypnotic, frontman Kevin is equal-parts seductive and twisted, and vocals which threaten hard to pull-off live are reproduced flawlessly tonight with vicious emotion and added bite. Darker and more sinister than on the quietly intoxicating but starkly-produced recordings, Anemic out-do themselves live.
NIK YOUNG