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emmelinemayreview of Working with Children and Animals the latest Wasp Factort release featureing interlock!!
Interlock are a complete contrast. All of a sudden, we're in the rock zone. Or, at least, Interlock's own weird corner of it. 'Birdman' is all crashing and tumbling guitars - a big, rich, warm sound (D.U.S.T. please note!). Paradoxically enough, the song is driven along by a dance beat: a stylistic collision which would be incongruous and awkward in the hands of most bands, but Interlock's main man John Hull has a sure touch and he stitches it all together most impressively. The vocals are a call-and-response workout between a male voice and a female voice: it's all mixed low, and I don't know if that's intentional. The effect is rather like listening to your neighbours having a domestic through the wall. Interlock's second track, 'The Hold', begins as a sultry, menacing, piano piece, and then picks up with a loping, swinging beat and, again, that warm guitar sound. Once again we hear combined male/female voices, sometimes singing over each other, sometimes exchanging lines, back and forth. It's idiosyncratic stuff, but it works. Interlock simply couldn't be anyone but themselves, which is why you'll find no comparisons here. Their music taps into the power of rock and uses it to fuel a very individual sound.
Interlock are a complete contrast. All of a sudden, we're in the rock zone. Or, at least, Interlock's own weird corner of it. 'Birdman' is all crashing and tumbling guitars - a big, rich, warm sound (D.U.S.T. please note!). Paradoxically enough, the song is driven along by a dance beat: a stylistic collision which would be incongruous and awkward in the hands of most bands, but Interlock's main man John Hull has a sure touch and he stitches it all together most impressively. The vocals are a call-and-response workout between a male voice and a female voice: it's all mixed low, and I don't know if that's intentional. The effect is rather like listening to your neighbours having a domestic through the wall. Interlock's second track, 'The Hold', begins as a sultry, menacing, piano piece, and then picks up with a loping, swinging beat and, again, that warm guitar sound. Once again we hear combined male/female voices, sometimes singing over each other, sometimes exchanging lines, back and forth. It's idiosyncratic stuff, but it works. Interlock simply couldn't be anyone but themselves, which is why you'll find no comparisons here. Their music taps into the power of rock and uses it to fuel a very individual sound.
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Date: 2002-08-16 05:41 am (UTC)I must admit the vocal mix got me fist time I heard you guys, but it's a sound you need to listen too which I think adds to the effect. ;-)
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Date: 2002-08-16 05:58 am (UTC)"like metallica doing enter sandman turning into new order's blue monday with goldie throwing some breakbeats over the top while the human league rehearse next door"
i think it went.
:)
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Date: 2002-08-16 06:03 am (UTC):-)
yeah...uncle Nem's got a way with words, eh?
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Date: 2002-08-17 06:32 am (UTC)