Sightings in Prague
New York’s noise-rock trio SIGHTINGS will perform at club 007 on June 15th.
They combine the inventiveness and raw energy of the No Wave scene of the 80’s through bands like DNA and Sonic Youth,
with the extreme sonic qualities of Einsturzende Neubauten and a twisted groove of their own. Like their peers Wolf eyes and Black Dice
they have been always two steps ahead on pushing rock music’s boundaries and have become known for the intense and earsplitting live shows.
SIGHTINGS have been released by Load records, who’ve put out such bands as Lighting Bolt and more recentlty Andrew W.K.
The latter has been a big supporter of the band, having produced their latest outing Through the Panama ,
which is now out on vynil on Thurston Moore’s own imprint Ecstatic Peace. The support will be Kaspar von Urbach,
noise/psychedelic band from Prague with a brand-new record called Selfbondage (KLaNGundKRaCH, 2008).Through the Panama
(CD on Load Records, 2007; LP on Ecstatic Peace 2008)
Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic twine envisioned in future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose.
This is the band's sixth album and takes the notch so much higher than previous efforts in terms of songwriting and production. With ANDREW W.K. as a producer, some of the caustic curtains that swathed past albums have been parted to reveal a coldly pulsing artificial heart. And the beat of this heart sounds off in an alien tongue of bass and drums. Guitars descend like unforgiving sheets of napalm from the smoldering skyline. Songs pop out of this miasma that tick off icy coolness with piano and vocal stylings. Indeed, hot and cool. To accentuate the difference this album has versus previous Sighting's records, a Scott Walker cover is included. This is a rock album, but a rock for times coming, a sound of future days. Break the chains from the days of past, listen to SIGHTINGS and evolve.
LINKS
http://myspace.com/sightings
http://myspace.com/kasparvonurbach
http://klub007strahov.cz
LOAD RECORDS
http://loadrecords.com
http://muzikus.cz/clanky/Po-nezavislych-labelech-Load-Records~19~srpen~2007/
LAST FM
http://www.last.fm/event/604405