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Impressions
With easily the best record name of the
year, Sideasideb are mining the outer edges of alternative rock music
with 'Car Sex', with surprisingly listenable results. I'm going to
use 'wankery' in the affirmative now because this album is filled
with it, but unlike a lot of other records (half the records with the
name 'The Mars Volta' on them, say) where the band lets loose with
crazy guitar licks, effects pedals, and bursts of machine gun
drumming, Sideasideb inject these moments into fully realized pop
songs, not try to form songs around the noise. Nothing clocks in
longer than three and half minutes either, a good sign we're not into
progressive rock concept album territory. The vocals tend to fall
into the 'dream-like' category (both singers) which gives 'Car Sex' a
rather surreal tone - “The Cascade Room” for instance is like a
walk down memory lane with rose-tinted glasses. “10 Speed”
follows this pattern closely, until its midsection turns into a
nightmare and the experimental aspects of the album kick off their
initial appearance. Not content to simply bust out pop rock sound
experiments for 6 tracks, Sideasideb take aim at different genres
throughout album (and more straight forward things get on), going
with post-rock on “Plum Trees Snow Laden”, while “Situation
Smoke”s vocals and drums dominate the acoustic garage rock. Every
songs sounds different than the last, but everything is held together
by the dreamy quality the songs share and the occasional bit of
instrumental mayhem. Treat yourself to some 'Car Sex', you'll be glad
you did.
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