published: 22 /
6 /
2007
Label:
Polyvinyl Records
Format: CD
Manic-sounding, first-rate post-punk on second album from Californian-based group XBXRX
Review
After leaving quite a rumble resounding around their native Oakland, XBXRX tried hard to get off the trodden path. Picking up the torch of their predecessors, their new blend of post-punk, which combines sharp bites at the confusion in our lives with sneering cynicism, works remarkably well. Agitpop punksters, cherished by members of bands such as Deerhoof, don't have much room to move about musically but nonetheless XBXRX have found some empty places.
Their new album 'Wars' toys with the idea of including intermezzi that - given the rush they're delivered with - ultimately might become the actual centrepoints of the tracks on the album. Gifted maniacs, that's what XBXRX really are. Yet at the same time as the band winds itself up to great momenta, it indulges in a few punk rock clichés just as well.
Track Listing:-
1
Center Where Sight
2
Freezing Water
3
sheets and Organs
4
Here to Ruin the Party
5
Eighth War
6
Suffocation
7
Minds
8
Sons of Horn
9
In Veins
10
Towers of Silence
11
Day Eleven
12
Ear Ever Hear
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