This album is filthy, with a really dirty sound.”ĩ1. David Bowie called them the great lost band of the 70’s. They came from California and played dirty rock’n’soul. They featured two sisters by the name of June and Jean Millington. Stella Mozgawa, Warpaint: “Fanny were pioneers, one the first rock bands to feature all women, and the second ever to be signed to a major label when they signed to Reprise in 69. Fanny – ‘Mothers Pride’ (Reprise Records) But of course, it didn’t, and they’re not.ĩ2. Had this album come out in a post-Bloc Party, post-Dizzee, post-Crystal Castles world, Jarcrew would have been huge. ‘Jarcrew’ wilfully smothered brainstorms before they could ignite, creating a cut and shut line of jagged collusion that veered from sleazy synth-pop to proggy punk and back into hands-in-the-air metal before you could catch your breath. The legacy of Jarcrew rests on the unbridled creative brilliance that was their self-titled 2003 debut album. It’s great for samples, there’s a lot of percussion and space in it and there’s a lot of weird African vocal chanting, and then there’s also some great heavy drum riffs that sound like they could be sampled in UK garage.” I would describe it as kind of experimental jazz. Jamie XX: “It’s a jazz album from the early 70s that’s quite innovative, it has rhythms that could still be played out now in the dance clubs. Jackie Mclean and Michael Carvin – ‘Antiquity’ (Steeplechase) But the whole album is just beautiful musically, and it was a real departure for the band.”ĩ4. The lyrics to one of the songs, Fault Line – “Racing with the rising tide to my father’s door” – that’s poetry, that is. But you can tell when you listen to it that the album is really coming from the soul. Guy Garvey of Elbow: “People didn’t really get it, and nobody ever really picked up on how good it was, maybe because it was so different to their first two records, being mostly acoustic. In the light of the female bands going down, Frightwig are getting overlooked.” They were a huge, attitude-ridden wall of sound with a lot of sexual angst thrown in. In face, L7 totally ripped them off in that they end all their songs in German with all that ‘Ein, schwein!’ stuff. They were a huge inspiration for L7, too. The fact that they could put out a record and make themselves known was a very important thing for me. Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera: “Frightwig were great friends of mine. Frightwig – ‘Cat Farm Faboo’ (Subterranean) Same thing with ‘November Spawned A Monster’, another song that doesn’t get aired or talked about much these days.”ĩ7. That sounds ridiculous now, but you just wouldn’t get anyone signing about such a topic anymore. ‘Picadilly Palare’, the first track, is one of my favourites: it’s basically about a secret language that transvestites and gay people used to use, back when it was illegal. Lee from Brother: “This is kind of a compilation of stuff that came out between his first two albums, which has been a bit forgotten by most people. They seem like a band who are making music for music’s sake, and nothing else.” 98. The Walkmen – ‘You & Me’ (Talitres)įelix White of The Maccabees: “They’re a band who seem to be known to everyone, including all our mates, as ‘That band who wrote that song The Rat.’ They sound like one of those really insular bands who don’t really listen to much modern music, but the soundscapes on that album are just amazing, the guitar sounds the manage to get are unbelievable, and the songs just really get you. The album inspired me to start a band when it came out and we make numerous references to it. So few artists write with such honesty and just let the songs stand up for themselves. His lyrics are on par with anything written by Charles Bukowski and his guitar sounds like everything that’s great about the Kinks. Michael McKnight of Frankie & The Heartstrings: “I believe this to be the 100th album that Billy Childish recorded and although it was well received upon its release in 2002 it nowhere near was given the plaudits it deserved considering he is the modern day William Blake. Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways’ Fanciers Association – ‘Steady The Buffs’ (Transcopic) 100 cult classics that deserve your love, picked by NME writers and your favourite bands 100.
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