So So Modern + The Brothers Movement

Thursday 25th February 2010

Captains Rest, Glasgow

Over 18s only

So So Modern aren't so much modern, or even postmodern, subtly incorporating elements from rock's rich tapestry, they are more past-modern. They sound like two groups - a retro garage band and a forward-looking techno one - fighting for control in one band's body. They call what they do "futuristic schizoid noise pop" and it is a bit like that: just when you think it's going to be pristine machine beats all the way, these NZ boys go and splatter filthy guitars everywhere. Their sound is a crash collision of New York No Wave and nu rave, krautrock and math rock, E'd-up acid house at its most exuberant and electronica at its most elegant. One of their tracks, The New Internationale, sounds like Battles in a battle with the Beastie Boys of Intergalactic, or Kraftwerk if they decided to make a grunge record, while another, Loose Threads and Theremins, has the demented propulsion and Ritalin-enriched yelps of Klaxons. But mostly they sound like Klaxons and Kraftwerk together, at once, joined at the hip, doing the Watusi at Gatecrasher. - The Guardian

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