Obviously there's music and there's music. Some music makes your heart bleed and some music stimulates your brain. Then there's music that makes you wanna dance like an idiot, rip off your clothes and throw yourself in a nearby canal. Music which makes your arms explode or melt. To me that mostly happens when I listen to lobotomized rock. And last time it happened was when Awesome Color played a gig in a tiny basement under a gallery on Brick Lane. Best gig of the year, if you ask me.
I saw them another couple of times in London after that but this was how they're meant to be seen. Insanely hot and sweaty venue with lots of people dancing. Everything on the border of breaking down, speakers almost blowing, microphones screaming. The drummer girl going mental and Derek, the singer and guitar player, creating some weird noises. It makes you understand why Thurston Moore signed them to his label Ecstatic Peace. The album doesn't tell what's going on here though - you have to see them live.
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