The Good, The Bad : 'From 005-008'
Released: 22nd February 2010
Label: Stray Cat Records
Ever wondered what a potential instrumental clash between The White Stripes and Arctic Monkeys would sound like? Well, The Good the bad would be a good bet for an end result.
The instrumental trio, who hail from Denmark, have released a 4 track EP, labelled just by track numbers (005-008). I suppose you don't need to bother much with track titles if they're instrumentals, nice going!
The opening track has an edge of early Kings of Leon about, not too far off the trail of Molly's Chambers. It eminates a nice upbeat twangy rock n roll sound, with Lead guitarist Adam Olsson showing his surf rock sounds to good effect.
006, the following track, sees the band take a slight turn to a pacy flamenco beat, which bellows out a very wiry and firey bassline. It's something you wouldn't be too surprised to find in a Wild West film and also not to disimilar to Knights of Cydonia by Muse.
Track 007 kicks off magnificently, like a Danish slung bullet hitting you square faced in the head. Accompanied with an edgy bassline and fruitful drumming, It's a brilliant noise to make you smash your head through a table!(if you're in 'that' place of course). It has a few seconds of Arctic Monkeys-type twanging, as the song tempararily halts to eventually give way to an explosion of drum bashing madness.
Track 008 Instantly sounds like Miles Kane' previous band,The Rascals, Very slow and psychadelic. After 20 seconds of light guitar prodding, the drums of Johan Lei Gellett kick in to join in this 2 and a half minute sneaky psychadelic aggression.
The content if you actually analyse closely isn't all that awe inspiring. But it's certainly fresh to see a band who really do appreciate the music and show that having a lead singer isn't necessary in all cases. You can tell that as a live act you'd expect to see a pretty rock n roll, appreciative and probably sexual experience.
Fans of proper guitar music will enjoy a welcome break from the current dreariness of electro-indie scalping and R n B nonsense (Yes,N Dubz,you lot!). Indie guitar music may well be in a detritus but listening to this Danish trio tells us that Rock n Roll will never go away.
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