7 august - The Reykjavik Grapevine

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