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Every Move a Picture are rock & roll Frankensteins. A patchwork of sounds and influences jump around their debut record: Duran Duran for a few seconds, then a dash of Interpol, early U2, Franz Ferdinand, and ten other bands on the tip of your tongue. This is the nature of pop music of course, and rock in particular. Choose your influences well, and prosper. But Heart=Weapon doesn't just benefit from what it sounds like, but what it doesn't: a pose. There's nothing unoriginal or co-opted about their infectious enthusiasm or their free-flowing songwriting chops. Brent Messenger's nasal yelp comes off like an unhinged Howard J
Every Move a Picture are rock & roll Frankensteins. A patchwork of sounds and influences jump around their debut record: Duran Duran for a few seconds, then a dash of Interpol, early U2, Franz Ferdinand, and ten other bands on the tip of your tongue. This is the nature of pop music of course, and rock in particular. Choose your influences well, and prosper. But Heart=Weapon doesn't just benefit from what it sounds like, but what it doesn't: a pose. There's nothing unoriginal or co-opted about their infectious enthusiasm or their free-flowing songwriting chops. Brent Messenger's nasal yelp comes off like an unhinged Howard Jones, and works wonders on the rockabilly chunk of "Chemical Burns" or the borderline electro of "Signs of Life." Every song's a driver, full of momentum and release. The album blows by fast and could profit from more of a dynamic range, which the band is clearly capable of producing (you'll wish for another minute or two at least of the coulda-been epic "Outlaw"). But the overall impression is of a band with limitless gusto, diving into their collective musical DNA with the zeal of true believers. --Matthew Cooke
Album Description
This San Francisco four-piece deliver their debut riding on an ever-growing industry and fan buzz. Before they even had a record deal, they had already taped a session for KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic", had their track "Signs Of Life" hammered on BBC Radio 1 and on modern rock station Live 105, played the Reading Festival and Live 105's BFD Festival, toured with The Futureheads, Radio 4, Stellastar, and Electric 6, and played shows with everyone from The Kaiser Chiefs and The Walkmen to Annie and The Rakes. All of this from a self-released EP!
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Manufacturer: V2 Ada
Release date: 11 July 2006
EAN: 0638812731524 UPC: 638812731524
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