Jul. 28, 2010 - Issue #771: Young at Heart

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Here comes the blinding light

Local noisemakers launch their new seven-inch vinyl platter

Joe Gurba / joe@vueweekly.com
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KRANG—Jared Majeski, JJ Foster, Parker Thiessen and Dean "the Jam" Watson—is back with another testament to the blaring disassociation of man. Though the group's previous offering, They Came From Planet D, was a subversive manifesto to lengthen the average attention span, these new songs clock in at to four and six minutes. Unfortunately, a blunder at the record press resulted in a batch of 45s that needed to be 33s if the entire jams were to fit on the seven-inch.

But if KRANG’s vinyl doesn’t arrive in time for Saturday’s show we can all rejoice: the apocalypse has been postponed! Uniting the tripped out stagger of '70s drug rock with the noisy electro delinquence of the new millenium, KRANG’s new seven-inch, featuring "Speed of Tent" and "Spirit Animal," is an impending Armageddon.

Whether the record is at the event on Saturday or not, the anticipated release show will no less march the four horsemen of post-Led Zeppelin psych-rock newphoria onto the horizon of every noise connoisseur this side of North America.

Side A, "Speed of Tent," is a door-pounding dirge with a half-time guitar reprieve for the gods to hear. "Spirit Animal," the lengthier B-side, is a swaggering mid-tempo jawn that puts you in the desert without a compass or a name, equipped with a phantom feedback dancing in and out of the mix while the bass line catwalks up and through your disorientation. It’s a money-back guarantee that both KRANG songs bring you home with the face-melting malignancy of noise and flaming chariots. But it’s the attention to build up and balance in the songwriting and in the mix that make these rock and roll oratorios so commendable. V

Sat, Jul 31 (8 pm)
KRANG
With Netherward, Gab’d
Sideliner’s Pub, $5 
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