7 august - The Reykjavik Grapevine
7 august - The Reykjavik Grapevine
7 august - The Reykjavik Grapevine
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Úlpa from Hafnarfjörður have been around since late 1999 and have<br />
playing around with various styles and influences. Often have they<br />
come up with some great ideas but not always have they managed<br />
good enough songs from all of them. <strong>The</strong>ir recent show demonstrated<br />
that their new material is straighter forward (in a good way) and more<br />
stripped down which suits them well.<br />
Lights On <strong>The</strong> Highway consists of ex-members of bands like the extreme noise-core<br />
band Klink, Bisund, Solid I.V. and stoner-rock band Brain Police, but they sound nothing<br />
like those bands. <strong>The</strong>ir sound world is more similar to the late Jeff Buckley, or, to some<br />
extent, a mellow acoustic Alice In Chains. It’s so hard not to hear the vocal harmonies of<br />
Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell, which isn’t at all a bad thing, but not too original. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
sound is huge and this band is damn tight, but one still hopes they’ll move away from their<br />
influences.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Heavycoats from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) were described as a<br />
softer and less gloomy Interpol and that pretty much says it all. This band<br />
consists of five twenty and thirty something guys clad in black and with<br />
stylised haircuts. <strong>The</strong> rocky walls of the gallery made the reverb guitars<br />
sound a little bit too thin, almost painfully thin. This band should throw away<br />
their Interpol records and focus more on their song-writing instead their<br />
hairstyles.<br />
Grey Filastine from Seattle (Washington, USA) is a politically active disc jockey/musician who<br />
mixes together rhythms and sounds from hip-hop, electronica, dance hall, drum ‘n’ bass and<br />
experimental noise. He’s to some extent similar to a guy who calls himself DJ Rupture (who has,<br />
by the way, released almost every Filastine album). Grey has been around all South America and<br />
has recorded chants from countries like Cuba and more, and he samples them into his eccentric<br />
mix, which is really interesting. It’s a shame how few people witnessed this guy. Hopefully he’ll<br />
be back and maybe play a proper show in a darker place.