Stabs, The / Dead Wood
Album: Dead Wood   Collection:General
Artist:Stabs, The   Added:Dec 2009
Label:Spooky Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-03-28 Pull Date: 2010-05-30
Week Ending: May 30 May 2 Apr 25 Apr 18 Apr 11 Apr 4
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 3 5

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 26, 2010: Daydream Disaster
Dead Wood
4. Apr 21, 2010: Brownian Motion
The Hated One
2. May 27, 2010: The Orphanage Thursday Edition!
Dead Wood
5. Apr 14, 2010: Brownian Motion
Dead Wood
3. Apr 25, 2010: The DJ Never Has It
Yellow Blues
6. Apr 08, 2010: FLASHBANG RADIO: THE AMERICAN DREAM
Yellow Blues

Album Review
Andy S
Reviewed 2010-03-20
Dark and snarling hard rock from Australia. Really impressive back-country electric guitar. Think a bleaker Nirvana or Mudhoney with a heavy out-west (or Outback, rather) slant. RIYL: Dead Confederate, The Dead Weather, Black Diamond Heavies. My picks: 5, 7, FCC: 3, 6, 8, 9, 10 –Andy

1 - Great transistor radio guitar sound; big overpowering entrance; twangy and ominous, with pounding drums
2 - Grunge guitar part and indignant, don't-give-a-fuck punk vocals
3 - FCC: "shit", "fucked"; in true Nirvana style, growling bass riff with mellow vocals that fly into a rage on the choruses
4 - Grabbing guitar/drum groove; real surly vocals
5 - Mid-tempo, with long intro full of nice guitar work
6 - FCC: "fuckin"; slow, plodding, and scary, with psychotic low vocals and screeching guitar accents; kind of 4/4 for a "Waltz" but has that feel
7 - Whoa - 9/4 time murder ballad. Super rockin, super psychotic. Intense stuff.
8 - FCC: "fuckin"; slow, lots of feedback and screeches, strained vocals drowned in huge guitar
9 - FCC: "fucked"; arresting opening with piano, shaker, vocals; nightmare lyrics, glass sound effects
10 - FCC: "fuckin"; slow and pounding, bleak and threatening, cathartic shouting toward the end

Track Listing
1. Dead Wood   6. Funeral Waltz
2. Split Lips   7. The Hated One
3. No Hoper   8. Family Trust
4. Ain't That The News   9. Cabin Fever
5. Yellow Blues   10. Blues In F#