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Category Archives: The Orwells
Best of 2011- Chris’s Favorite Songs
I like what Glen did for his end of the year song list, so I am following in this new direction.
Atlas Sound– “The Shakes,” “My Angel Is Broken,” and “Parallax”
The Beets– “I Think I Might Have Built A Horse”
Big Mess– “The Hook,” “No Good Time,” and “Gueule de Bois,”
Black Lips– “Family Tree,” “Spidey’s Curse,” and “Don’t Mess Up My Baby,”
Colleen Green– “Dance the Night Away”
Fat History Month– “Old Lady Smokers,” “Things I Enjoy,” and “Free As A Cat”
Girls– “Honey Bunny,” “Magic,” and “Saying I Love You,”
Hunx & His Punx– “Lovers’ Lane,” “Too Young to Be In Love,” and “Keep Away From Johnny”
Mark Sultan– “Just For a Moment,” “Axis Abraxas,” and “Song In Grey”
Natural Child– “Easy Street,” “Hard Workin’ Man,” and “White People”
The Orwells– “Halloween All Year”
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart– “Belong,” “Heart In Your Heartbreak”
Peach Kelli Pop “Eeenie Meenie Minie Moe,” “Do the Eggroll,” and “Doo Wah Diddy”
Shannon and the Clams– “The Cult Song,” “You Will Always Bring Me Flowers,” and “Sleep Talk”
Saralee– “Circle of Hands,” “Ceiling,”
Silhouette Rising– “Don’t You Hear Me Calling”
Smith Westerns– “Smile,” “All Die Young,” and “Weekend”
Those Darlins– “Screws Get Loose,” “Be Your Bro”
Ty Segall– “Comfortable Home,” “Goodbye Bread,” and “California Commercial”
Wavves– “Nodding Off (Featuring Best Coast),” “Bug,” and “I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl”
BOTW: The Orwells
Band of the Week is one of my favorite parts of KLYAM because it gives us a chance to constantly promote a band; you can’t come on here and not come across these bands. They’re always there! Great bands all of the time and this week is no exception, but they are exceptional, no doubt. The Orwells are perhaps the coolest-youngest band I have seen. Seriously, these guys have incredible potentional. They are only teenagers and they play real rock and roll and do it better than most jokers five or ten years their senior. Check these Elmhurst, IL natives out right now!
Review: The Orwells – “Remember When” [2011]
Release: 10/2011
Label: Self-Released
1. “Lays at Rest” – A
2. “Mallrats (La La La)” – A
3. “Halloween All Year” – A
4. “All The Cool Kids” – A
5. “Suspended” – A
6. “Painted Faces and Long Hair” – A
7. “Hallway Homicide” – A
8. “In My Bed” – A-
9. “Never Ever” – A
10. “Like No One Else” – A-
11. “Ancient Egypt” – A
12. “Under The Flowers” – A
Comments: The Orwells caught my attention earlier this year and they’ve damn secured that attention now. Remember When is the band’s debut full-length. It’s a loud listen, exploding with blasts of unrefined rock N roll slime. The pop slime that sticks to your brain like a piece of Wrigley’s chewing gum. Local reference indeed. I shit you not when I say these tracks stack up to the best of comparative material from recent years i.e. slightly to a lot better known bands like Cum Stain, Natural Child, Ty Segall, Diarrhea Planet, and Thee Oh Sees. The in-your-face production tactics are well-oiled, particularly on “Suspended,” which has some big echo on the vocals. It’s like if Julian Casablancas got the shit kicked out of him during the making of Is This It and wanted revenge via the recording process. That kind of thing. The shimmy shimmy might be what Reatard wanted to make when he was 15 and bashing on a pair of buckets and a shitty guitar, if only he had a few other older dudes around to make it ‘fuller’. Well, that eventually happened. The point I’m really trying to make it is that in an age of bands sprouting in an instant it’s always quite excellent to hear a youthful effort that particularly stands out. Orwells can just as fine do the slower/slacker (example, “Never Ever”) thing as the fast thing (example, “Mallrats”) as the Arctic Monkeys thing (example, “Ancient Egypt”) as the choice old tyme intro samples (“Under the Flowers” particularly is CHOICE). If this is their Animal Farm, will their next be Nineteen Eighty Four?
Grade: A (93)
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