Mestre Bergman travelled to Turkey to discover a new band. Istanbul band The Away Days released two singles from their debut album (due out in 2017) earlier this year, along with playing their first European headline tour. It’s dream pop that draws influences from India and the far east as well as the likes of Joy Division, The Smiths and the La’s, and has attracted support from Savages, Belle & Sebastian, and Everything Everything.
Fa poc dies George Michael va morir a la seva casa de Londres. Aprofitem l’ avinentesa per rendir-li un petit homenatge. El nostre estimat Il Dottore. per cert ara viu a Londres, ens ha preparat com cada setmana una versió molt especial. En aquest cas la que va fer el cantant anglès d’una de les millors cançons dels també britànics New Order: “True Faith”. L’any 1984 mentre estava com a convidat al show “Eight Days A Week” declarà que era fan de Joy Division i que el seu disc “Closer” era un dels seus favorits. Anys després versionaria “True Faith” del New Order pel British charity Comic Relief, La versió està farcida d’efectes vocals.
Dan Boeckner, guitarist of the edgy band Wolf Parade, changes register and moves into the sphere of eighties electronic pop and synth-pop with Operators, a project that he shares with drummer Sam Brown (Devojka, Divine Fits) with whom he updates the dark sounds of bands such as New Order and Joy Division. After publishing a presentation EP in 2014, the band has released their first LP this year Blue Wave, an album that has elements of LCD Soundsystem, Depeche Mode and Future Islands. This next friday night at Primavera Club.
The project led by Gerard Alegre Dòria was one of the great revelations of 2013, the year in which the Barcelona band surprised with a debut of vibrant, dark techno-pop bursting with hints of bands such as Décima Víctima and La Mode, and also of The Smiths, Orange Juice and even of El Último de la Fila. Now, after playing on stages of Spain, Lithuania and Mexico and proving with the maxi single “Tu casa nueva” that they are not a one-record band, they are back with a new record that they have been working on recently. It is a good moment for dark anthems while defending the Joy Division-New Order sequence. The will be playing at Primavera Sound.
Aquesta grup madrileny de post-punk va començar el 2012 amb l’EP Terror en el Planetario i aquest 2016 acaben de treure un EP que es diu Rubí. Els relacionen amb Joy Division, The Horrors o Parálisis Permanente i els seus treballs tenen molt bona acollida entre la premsa especialitzada. Aquesta nit a la sala Razzmatazz.
Mestre Bergman flew this time to Australia to meet a new band. Gold Class is a Melbourne post-punk four-piece and a force of nature. Its debut album, It’s You, was recorded in just four days and captures all the immediacy, power and potency of the live shows the band is becoming known for.
Both musically and vocally, comparisons to Joy Division and The Smiths are fair. And while Gold Class wouldn’t have sounded out of place playing The Haçienda in the ‘80s, its grit is more Melbourne than Manchester, and vocalist Adam Curley’s lyrics speak of a more homegrown political dissatisfaction.
Divus Julius Bonasera ha triat com a “pardals” d’aquesta setmana a El Último Vecino que acaben de publicar el seu segon disc “Voces” i que seran a la sala Apolo per celebrar el 5è aniversari de Canadà compartint cartell amb Evripidis & His Tragedies i Extraperlo,
El projecte comandat per Gerard Alegre Dòria va ser una de les grans revelacions del 2013, any en el qual la banda barcelonina va sorprendre amb un debut de techno-pop fosc i vibrant ple de referències a bandes com Décima Víctima i La Mode, sí, però també a The Smiths, Orange Juice i inclús a El Último de la Fila, però sobretot The Drums- Ara, després de passejar per escenaris espanyols, lituans o mexicans i després de demostrar amb el maxi-single “Tu casa nueva” que no són flor d’un dia, els barcelonins tornen amb un nou treball al qual han estat donant forma durant els últims temps. Bons temps per als himnes foscos i per reivindicar la seqüència Joy Division-New Order.
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