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Super Wild Horses 7" LP

Article published 3rd Apr 09
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WHAT
SUPER WILD HORSES 7" EP

WHO
SUPER WILD HORSES

ON
AARGHT! RECORDS

RELATED LINKS
'WHAT STARTED THE NOISE' 7" TRACK AT MASS HYPERBOLE BLOG

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Lots has been made of 'shit-gaze' and 'no-fi' production values in music for a while now, most notably in America where the blown-up, overdriven sound of originals like Pink Reason, Times New Viking and Vivian Girls has seriously crossed over in indie circles to become almost a movement in itself, regardless of content. What once was a no-choice, broke recording option for songs that simply had to be heard, now seems confused - over there, anyhow - by mannered style considerations and second-wave questing to be the next real, 'lo-fi' thing.

Luckily, us provincials can ignore all that crap and concentrate on the perennial business of making do-or-die garage rock. Melbourne duo, Super Wild Horses, sound fashionably of the moment on their debut 7", but then again they're so primitive that to say as much is a waste of time. The six cuts included are mostly one/two chord riffs with schoolyard singing amidst pounding, echo-warehouse drums - super minimal, short, catchy and wound-up in the girls' special brand of distancing tin wool. More solid garage ruckus from Aarght! (Eddy Current, Dead Farmers, Ooga Boogas) with an extra dollop of Electric Prunes' dream

By Mark Gomes

Release: 7"

To Cure: A predictable playlist

Keywords: Garage, Melbourne, Lo-Fi

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