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Post by left side brain on Feb 3, 2009 15:44:44 GMT
Reviews of 'Collider' go here...
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Post by left side brain on Feb 3, 2009 15:54:19 GMT
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Post by left side brain on Feb 3, 2009 16:04:56 GMT
And the February issue of 'Big Cheese' contains the following:
LEFT SIDE BRAIN Collider (Sugar Shack) Competent but not brain melting stoner/hard rock 3/5 This Bristol outfit can rock with the best of them; the drums sound solid, the guitars are harsh (yet with a bit of shine) the vocals are impassioned yet stern and the bass is a series of detonations. It instantly pulls forward strong influences like Foo Fighters, and QOTSA, and there lies the problem. Every track here is well produced and arranged; 'Gifted' is euphoric in the chorus, with the guitars adding drama, but it just didn't hook me in 100%. This band will surely get better as they develop their own style, but until then they're making some cracking rock tunes regardless. Jonathan Falcone
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Post by left side brain on Feb 11, 2009 9:00:22 GMT
From this week's Kerrang!:
LEFT SIDE BRAIN Collider (Sugar Shack) KKKK RIFF-ABUNDANT THIRD ALBUM FROM BRISTOL FOURSOME If it ain't broke, why fix it? Left Side Brain's third studio effort follows on from their critically-acclaimed 2006 album Action Potential. With a canny knack of penning bone-crunching verses and anthemic choruses, this Bristol quartet return with 11 stadium-sized tracks. From the opening, dizzying suckerpunch of Ad Hominem to the snarling guitars of Weaponise, Collider is lean, mean and bursts with confidence like a heavyweight fighter. Better still, is the closing track Chewer, which signs off with a riff big enough to threaten the foundations of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Something that Isambard Kingdom Brunel didn't take into account when designing it in 1830. Tool. SIMON YOUNG DOWNLOAD: Weaponise, Chewer. FOR FANS OF: Helmet, Kerbdog.
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Post by barrythief on Feb 11, 2009 9:05:13 GMT
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
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Post by left side brain on Feb 25, 2009 13:21:23 GMT
From Rock Sound: LEFT SIDE BRAIN COLLIDER (SUGAR SHACK) 8/10 Anyone who pens a tribute to the late, great satirist and humanist, Kurt Vonnegut ('Mastermind'), gets Rock Sound's vote. On their third long-player, Bristol's Left Side Brain go one better by combining a developed understanding of and aversion to the world with throbbing, Tool-esque mantras ('Ad Nominem') and taut, post-metal workouts ('Capitulate') that manage to side-step all the hazardous clichés, especially in the vocal department. 'Weaponise' - a slight upon religious fundamentalism - even proffers a suite of prog-drenched vocal harmonies that elevates their visceral sound to the ethereal. With his much invention and innovation in abundance, LSB shouldn't be crawling in the dirt for too long. Unless, of course, they like it down there. FOR FANS OF: Helmet, Tool, Reuben, Soundgarden. DARREN JOHNS
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Post by left side brain on Feb 25, 2009 15:48:44 GMT
From PowerPlay magazine:
LEFT SIDE BRAIN COLLIDER (Sugar Shack) 7/10 Ever wondered what would happen if AlterBridge, Wolfmother and Nebula pooled their ideas? Me neither, but that’s about as close as I can get to summing up what these guys sound like. Thinking about it, I forgot about Muse. I’ve described them as Classic Rock but there are elements of stadium rock, math rock and stoner in their finished sound. As you’d expect, the production is crisp enough to make this work: couple this with riffs galore, subtle yet complex tempo changes, and more hooks than a square metre of Velcro and you’ve got an album you should be racing out to buy. Well very nearly. You see as good as this is, it still gets very samey. I suspect they are phenomenal live and would guess that this is where they really come into their own. Pick of the bunch are ‘Weaponise’ the first faster track on the album with a chunkier guitar sound. ’ Mastermind’ which contains the best riff, and the wonderfully-titled ‘We All Got It Coming, Kid’ where the complexity is made to sound frighteningly easy. This is a good album that suggests there are even better things to come and I await the next album with interest. (Chris Van Souwe)
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Post by barrythief on Feb 26, 2009 10:36:28 GMT
"samey" ? Only if you count "non-stop-awesome" as "samey". I take it Chris Van Souwe would prefer a song that utterly sucked, or (THE HORROR) an acoustic ballad halfway through.
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Post by G on Feb 27, 2009 9:47:17 GMT
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Post by barrythief on Feb 27, 2009 11:19:34 GMT
haha, I think you should have that printed on your van
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Post by rightsidebrain on Mar 2, 2009 17:37:58 GMT
Yeah so as I said on your MySpace... I finally got my grubby wee mitts on a copy of "Collider" and it is freakin' sweet.... "Capitulate" is a classic....
I love the homeopathy digs as well....
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Post by G on Mar 3, 2009 10:32:48 GMT
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Post by left side brain on Mar 4, 2009 9:11:18 GMT
From Classic Rock:
Left Side Brain Collider Sugar Shack Three's a charm for LSB. Set, strangely, somewhere below the radar given that this is Left Side Brain's third album and is as compelling and daring as their acclaimed 2006 release, Action Potential. The band recalls the best elements of Helmet's Meantime and Therapy?'s Troublegum and, occasionally, the much overlooked and equally missed Serafin. With a punchy production and the self-confidence to forge ahead with edgy, terse arrangements and a dense, sometimes almost impenetrable wall of guitars, LSB take you out of your comfort zone and eventually, somehow, you'll be glad they did. At its electrifying best on the thunderous Colloblast and the driving Weaponise, Collider is an unexpected gem. 8/10 Philip Wilding
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Post by G on Mar 4, 2009 11:01:29 GMT
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Post by G on Mar 12, 2009 9:12:29 GMT
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