Clockcleaner, “New Slow”

i guess i could have picked “interview w/ a black man” for this entry, if only because you can understand the words and it’s more obviously aligned with the band’s influences, but nearly wordless, unintelligable and distorted is the best route to understanding the majestic fucked-upness of clockcleaner. they don’t play the game fair, so neither will i. sharkey’s yelps and screams pepper “new slow” but it’s totally backseat here; the main focus of this song has to be the thunderous plodding of the drums and extended guitar solo lurching its way to the end. i don’t really think of clockcleaner as the band that kind of jams, but this is about as close to it as we’re gonna get. this track is stranded-in-death-valley-and-there’s-vultures-swarming-over-me ominous. bataan death march ominous. (and by the way, there’s nothing wrong with the mp3, clockcleaner likes to let songs bleed from one chord to another, which is why you need to pick up the entire record.)

for purposes of full disclosure, i should note that in addition to booking clockcleaner for shows, in the past i’ve handled a bit of publicity for them. im not a very good publicist because i hate hype but i gotta say nevermind, their new album out on repitilian (on which i am thanked in the liner notes but thats as far as my involvement goes) is definitely the best local release of this new year so far. seriously solid, totally offensive.

(Purchase Nevermind here.)

for those heading to sxsw, clockcleaner aren’t officially part of the festivities, but they’re down there. will the city be left standing? there’s only one way to find out:

March 19 2006 @ 8:00P at SXSW [with] Clorox Girls @ Beerland, Austin, TX

This entry was posted on Monday, March 13th, 2006 at 12:27 am and is filed under mp3blog.