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Down For You Is Up

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Great, raw, garage Indie music. This album has an almost urgent, lo-fi quality with a guitar sound ranging from early 90's Sonic Youth (Bright Side) to J. Mascis-like riffs (You Want It) tied together with what sounds like Pavement, Velvet Underground, and early Jesus and Mary Chain influences. Back that up with solid, driving drum beats and surprising bass lines and you have an impressive result.

I picked this up on recommendation from the Hives page. It's really good. It's a pretty rockin record and alot more varied than I expected. The first track's got a great catchy hook going. It fits well among the hives, the white stripes and the strokes thing that's going on, but doesn't really sound like any one of them. There are these really short little instrumentals on it that were cool at first but feel like speed bumps to the full songs after awhile. But that's what the track forward button is for! Overall, it's a good one.