Eat Skull
 

Any takers? I like them but I can't stop thinking that they remind me of an inferior version of Time New Viking. Or maybe I'm just being daft.

http://www.myspace.com/eatskull

i think you're just being daft

why?

another siltbreeze winner

because they're good in their own right & not a tnv knock off

I like them, don't get me wrong (or if you do just drown in a pool of your own blood). I just don't think they're as good as TNV because some of their songs remind me more than a bit of them.

they're great, they deserve a mention in the no-fi thread. i've really been enjoying these siltbreeze band's as of late.

well, i've only heard their myspace so it's unfair for me to compare them to tnv, and while there are obviously things they have in common there's nothing about Eat Skull that makes me think "oh, TNV"

i listened to the songs on myspace, they're good but in a novelty sort of way.

punk trips is my new favourite song.

I listened to a about 6 songs by them and they made me think of TNV straight away. I've ordered ''Sick To Death'' today. It doesn't matter, they're still one of the better rock bands around.

I'm into them. The record didn't grab me that much on first listen but it's grown on me. I'd say they're closer to the slightly more shambolic sounds of Psychedelic Horseshit than TNV.

Both TNV and Eat Skull have a serious streak of The Clean running through them, but aside from recording fidelity and dark lyrical matter, TNV are really not too much of a damaged pop band the way Eat Skull and Psychedelic Horseshit are.

Eat Skull certainly seem more diversely influenced and have a wider-ranging sound, especially when you compare a song as catchy and sing-songy as "Shredders on Fry" to their noise-core barrage on their cover of Psycho Sin (on the flip of the "Dead Families" 7"). Psycho Sin is an obscure band of ultra-direct and confrontational HC that is hilariously inept.

If you watch both bands' stage performances, you get a very different vibe, too. Eat Skull turn some of their sweetest songs on record into nasty, mean menaces live. Yet I was impressed that there were so many girls up front at their show in Portland two Fridays ago, singing along to all the choruses. TNV live are also swell, but more about the business of playing the songs faithfully as recorded. They lock into grooves, unlike Eat Skull who are more prone to abstract them. And even abstract the vibe.

One notable connection between the two bands, however, is that Rob from Eat Skull (singer, keyboardist, some guitar) was in a band with Beth from TNV called Hole Class, and they made a brilliant cassette that shoulda been made into a vinyl because it is certainly worth documenting in a more permanent form.

Eat Skull interview on here: http://www.agitreader.com/agit_reade...eat_skull.html

thank you, love the hospitals, didn't know about this band.

The Hospitals are possibly one of my favourite bands right now.

Yeah, that Hospitals record is pretty great. Eat Skull share members with them or are somehow related aren't they?

I should be getting this in the next few days hopefully...I'll have to make do with the myspace stuff in the meantime.

speaking of the hospitals. has anyone heard john dwyer's newish band, the oh sees new record? i dont what to make of it yet.

I have heard a couple of songs by them and i like those too. I've downloaded them on some mp3 blog, not enough to form an opinion, though. It is hard to keep up with all these good bands that are coming out at the moment.

i bought the eat skull record this week, i like it a lot

As it happens, when I went to the shops to buy a French stick I discovered that the Eat Skull record was waiting on the doormat for me along with the new Sic Alps record (both only cdr promos, alas). Having listened to them both once or twice each, as is possible with them both being sub 30 minutes, my initial impression is that they are both tops but the Sic Alps record is the toppermost....so far.

The Sic Alps record is ace.

which sic alps record? i keep reading about how awesome trhey are but i've been underwhelmed by the hanful of songs i've heard by them

I have Pleasure and Treasures. What songs have you heard by them?

They have a new one coming out soon too!

i can't remember which songs i've heard by them.

The one I have is the new one called U.S. Ez and it is pretty great.

Is that one a collection of some of their singles or something like that?

No, the one I have is the one on Siltbreeze which has either just come out or is out quite soon.

The one you have is out on the 15th of this month, apparently. Got confused and I feel a little slow-brained today. How did you manage to get promos for those?

The west coast tour is happening now. Seein' em in Sacto tonight!

I put a little tour feature up here...
http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/2...threat-in.html

I'm going to see Sic Alps on Tues. YEAH!

im still trying to wrap my head around all these amazing wierd rock/punk bands. i mean, im still obsessed with pink reason's 'cleaning the mirror', and thats been out for like a year already.

Is that post-post-way of wrapping a post-wrapping a head? It's gone now.

Having seen both bands live a couple of times now I totally agree that they are nothing like each other.

Well they had Rich Johnston of Psychedelic Horsehit on drums, who's great at them. They seem like one of those bands that gets better and better the more booze and drugs they consume. And they do have quite the thirst/appetite for them.