| Mute Socialite / More Popular Than Presidents And Generals |
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| Album: | More Popular Than Presidents And Generals | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Mute Socialite | Added: | 07/2008 | |
| Label: | Dephine Knormal Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-07-13 | Pull Date: | 2008-09-14 |
| Week Ending: | 31 Aug | 24 Aug | 17 Aug | 10 Aug | 3 Aug | 27 Jul | 20 Jul |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 28, 2009: | Memory Select - Joe Maneri Edition (Prelude) / The Damaged Country | 4. | Jan 02, 2009: | Memory Select (Prelude)/The Damaged Country, Me't | |
| 2. | Mar 20, 2009: | Memory Select (Prelude)/The Damaged Country | 5. | Aug 29, 2008: | Memory Select Me't | |
| 3. | Feb 11, 2009: | Baptism of Solitude Violet Smith | 6. | Aug 21, 2008: | press and release More Painful Than Sex, Me't |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2008-07-04 | ||
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Punk/metal instrumental band led by Moe! Staiano, with fast scribbly guitar, ten-ton bass, and TWO drummers. Rapid-fire, agile pieces, a slashing noisy attack with thickly dissonant chords. A sense of abandon but played with precision. Solid, crisp rhythms and speedy riffs -- so you can rock out *and* enjoy your brutal harsh noise all at once. It's maybe like an instrumental XBXRX ... but I'm sure there are better comparisons out there in the world of hard prog/metal. The skeleton of prog's multifaceted writing, the blood of 150-degree speed metal, the overcaffeinated nerves of well executed punk rock. 1- Fast, a bit dizzying, with a stomp-stomp beat. Awesome bass twiddling in the first minute. 2- Fast and shredding: Hummable, in a dissonant, chaotic way. Downshifts for a nifty fast-driven segment later 3- A slow-grinding burn, dark and spooky. 4- Big booming crash-beat, mid/fast, head-bobbin'. Lotta scribbly guitar and some "calmer" avant-noise breaks. 5- Low-key interlude 6- Ghostly lingering w/fast clock-ticking beat; hard-crash guitar/drums. Later, some catchy melody, before plunging into fuzzy noise. 7- Danceably strong beat, almost new wave keyboard sounds. Crazed babble near the end. 8- Hard-pulsing brutality, fast. A cover of the band Massacre! 9- Slow, heavy, dissonant. 10- Midtempo, almost conventional rock-sounding 11/12 - Distant guitar noodling, then hard-driven mid/fast stuff, a nice intense conclusion to the album. | ||
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