Drainland "And So Our Troubles Began" 12"
Posted on Monday, June 14th, 2010 @ 6:46am » permalink
"And So Our Troubles Began" is a new six-song 12" EP (co-released by Headwrecker Records, De Graanrepubliek, and IFB Records) that marks my first exposure to Dublin, Ireland's Drainland. The band cites some of their primary influences as Dystopia, Cattlepress, Unruh, and Godflesh, and you can definitely hear that in their approach – which reminds me of a somewhat stripped down Dystopia with some of that loose, noisy guitar work you'd associate with Godflesh's earlier work. Expect a multi-vocal attack over loads of churning riffs where gnarled, dissonant guitars interact with massive pulses of sludgy bass in the form of everything from slow, pounding rhythms to quick bursts of grinding speed. And then there's also "The Scouring Process", which comes across as more of a surprisingly effective two-minute assault of power electronics. Part of me wishes the recording was a little more blatantly heavy and in your face, but at the same time the rugged sense of space they've got going on here does allow for some nice flourishes of texture, so it does add character aesthetically. I'm really diggin' this. The songwriting is strong, the diversity makes sense, and the overall feeling/atmosphere is right on the money. Great work, and I look forward to hearing more…
Pick it up directly from the band or one of the labels if you like what you hear, and look for more distro options (Crucial Blast, etc.) soon.
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great to hear a band like this, very cool sound. definitely seeing the cattle press influence. 'hordes' was a very special album
Good to have you back posting again…
Shit starts off strong as hell, but the dual vocals ruin it for me somewhat. The other dude just doesn't come off as strong, it disrupts the feel or something. I dunno. But I'm talking out of my ass now. Any band that has the Elephant Man on the cover is automatically awesome.
Heard a lot about this band and I mean a lot, going to listen now, anything cited as sounding like Cp gets my time.
cheers for all the kind words folks – much appreciated
quick update – l these are finally now with Wayne/Headwrecker in London so UK folks looking for it drop him a line at
xkucharz@gmail.com
US copies should be finally en route to IFB and Crucial blast this week.
cheers
J/DL
FINALLY available in the US from IFB now, so I expect a bunch of US distros will have it soon
http://www.ifbrecords.com
oh, and you can download it here
http://www.drainland.bandcamp.com