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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 813 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donat (or anyonbe else), do you know anything about new (to me) Brisbane band The Zebras? Their album Worry A Lot got a 4 star review in The Australian at the weekend. It compared them favourably to The Go-Betweens. Is the album worth getting if I can find it anywhere? | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 108 Registered: 12-2004 |
The Zebras released a self-titled album in 2004 containing 9 tracks. It's a pretty good debut with at least a few really good tracks. The opening track 'The Forces of Light' received a bit of airply on TripleJ a couple of years ago, and the similarity I noticed to The Go-Betweens, while not too strong, led me to buy the album. Although it's not on my favourites list, it made me eagerly await a follow-up, which I have not yet heard as I did not know was available. Most of the songs on the debut album are short - the total playing time is 27:19. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 217 Registered: 11-2004 |
They played on the night of Grant's funeral at Ric's. They come highly recommended! They're a neat little Brisbane combo, and are on myspace of course. Lost & Lonesome put it out, that's Mark Monnone from the Lucksmiths' label. http://www.myspace.com/ilikezebras This is what I wrote about them in Time Off: THE ZEBRAS Worry A Lot (Lost & Lonesome/Soundmalfunction) With their long-awaited second long-player, Brisbane’s guitar-pop exponents are back. With a dry, no-frills production ethic, the sextet and their 12 songs continue on with a sound that’s split three ways between Dunedin’s Flying Nun bands of the mid-80s, Brisbane indie-pop of same era (particularly DogFishCatBird) and Scottish groups such as Teenage Fanclub and The Pastels. It makes for an exciting mix of tricky drum patterns, melodic down-strokes and sweet harmonies. Vocalist Jeremy Cole’s situational lyrics about the perils of loaning vinyl on the title track ‘Worry A Lot’ display a slight sense of tweeness, but this record isn’t as wimpy as one might expect. And with three electric guitars chiming away at any one time, it resembles a Spector-like wall of melody that carry the three minute songs from end to end. If you were to take seven songs out, ‘Worry A Lot’ would be a killer EP, but stretched out to an LP form, it’s still a masterpiece in Brisbane pop terms. Shine on, Brisbane! 3.5/5 (Donat Tahiraj) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 820 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks David and Donat. Nice review Donat. I was hoping you would have written about them. I walked by Ric's on the night of Grant's funeral and saw there was a band on! I would have gone in but I was so drunk there was no way the bouncers would have let me, so I didn't bother trying. The review in the Australian bemoaned the fact the new album is only 35 minutes long David! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 821 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just ordered the album through their myspace site. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 51 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've ordered it as well, any talk about belle & sebastian and Manchester has to be worth $20. Hope that covers postage to the UK, but I'll give them a quick message. Cheers Jon |