Thursday, August 12, 2010

MUSIC /// ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE

I have seen the future.

This group of presumably ADD-addled visionaries craft songs that can evoke everything from Guided By Voices to post-rock via a dollop of Midwestern emo, something that is pretty surprising considering where they hail from: Birmingham.

This city, situated in the West Midlands of England, is more famous for being the home of Black Sabbath (and, um, Duran Duran) than for being a hotbed of boundary-pushing indie-pop, but in recent years popular beat-combos such as Johnny Foreigner have been dragging the place out of the primordial ooze.

Good for them, because I don't think anyone could tolerate another The Twang.

k
xo

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