| Lushes / Service Industry |
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| Album: | Service Industry | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Lushes | Added: | Feb 2016 | |
| Label: | Felte | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-02-14 | Pull Date: | 2016-04-17 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 17 | Apr 10 | Apr 3 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 28 | Feb 21 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 19, 2016: | Life Aquatic Circus | 4. | Apr 02, 2016: | Narnia Shed Weight | |
| 2. | Apr 16, 2016: | does radio suck? Check, Circus | 5. | Mar 31, 2016: | radio seven Check | |
| 3. | Apr 08, 2016: | Life Aquatic Low Hanging Fruit | 6. | Mar 29, 2016: | a strange pursuit Low Hanging Fruit |
| Album Review |
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| Shay Z Reviewed 2016-02-02 | ||
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The second full-length collaboration between drummer Joel Myers and singer/guitarist James Ardery, Service Industry is an agonizingly tense post-punk epic in the vein of Liars and Protomartyr. Myers background in classical music lies in constant tension with Ardery’s punk-rap tendancies to create an album oscillating between extreme strain and intense release. Songs tend to have tight, vocal-heavy intros followed by explosion of instrumentation. Monotonous, haunting vocals combat slick guitar work and wild drumming. Some seriously experimental tracks mix in with more traditional rock songs. RIYL: Protomartyr, Total Control, Liars, Sonic Youth, Parquet Courts FCCs: Track 3 Favorite Tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6 1. (2:58) Low Hanging Fruit* - Creepy vocals, monotone crooning, sinister but catchy guitars, slamming drumming 2. (2:55) Bleach* - Wistful synths, wandering lead guitar, building tension until explosion at 1:40 3. (4:54) Auction FCC (f*ck) - Awesome track, great explosive end, haunting lyrics 4. (5:19) Rub Your Eyes - Twangy, slower track until drum’s break in at 3:00, military esque drum repetition, Haunting vocal close, distant, warm synths 5. (3:59) You Only Have* - Distorted conversational lyrics, increasingly dissonant instrumentation. Song explodes at 3:00. Exhilarating, thundering drum rolls, explosive symbol crashes, distorted screams. Heavy but also amazingly cathartic 6. (4:40) Check** - Repetitive vocal mantra, eclectic drums, increasingly frenetic instrumentation overwhelmingly grows in background 7. (3:07) Circus - Squeeling horn intro, swaggering hypnotic vocal guitar combination, wild horns at 2 minutes 8. (3:28) Hyperaware - Mournful layered vocal, wistful guitar, droning noise closes 9. (4:46) Grey Tiles - Warm, peaceful synths and lyrics, purposeful drumming carries song along, wandering guitar 10. (6:45) Shed Weight - Neat looping synth section, growing cacophony of symbols, synths, chords, Grungy guitars grind in at 5:00 for epic close | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Low Hanging Fruit | 5. | Check | |||
| 2. | Bleach | 6. | Circus | |||
| 3. | Rub Your Eyes | 7. | Hyperaware | |||
| 4. | You Only Have | 8. | Grey Tiles | |||
| 9. | Shed Weight | |||||