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Album Review

Various Artists Live at Purr
Purr Records

Article written by Ged M
Nov 11, 2005.

Some albums like ‘Live At The Roxy’ and the NME’s ‘C-86’ cassette capture the moment perfectly; not just the songs but the accompanying energy, excitement and sense of possibility. ‘Live At Purr’ does the same. Recorded on two nights in April and May this year, this is a key reference for the indie/underground/outsider scene in the mid-noughties. While it makes no grandiose claims to collect the best music, the record (which is being released with a live DVD ‘Ready, Steady, Purr’) has more than its fair share of corkers.

Manic Cough are a glam rock Wizzard as seen through X Ray Spex. The anthemic ‘There U R’ is a stand out while ‘Stalker’ shows an observational skill worthy of Art Brut, with oodles of pulsing menace and humour too: “wrapped up my favourite pair of knickers/ the thought of him gives me the quivers”. Go and see them before they decide to come and see you. The marvellous Fog Band combine manic Fall-style drumming with garage riffs on the wild ‘The Maths Coincidence’ while the Grindrod croon on ‘the Cummerbund Years’ reinvents them as indie Irving Berlins.

Tiger Force combine hip hop and indie rock into a shouty, rhythmic dirty bomb of beats, breaks and riffs. Snow White create waves of MBV and Dinosaur Jr guitar noise, above which emerge throat-shredding vocals. As an encore, the feedbacking noiseniks torture a twist of melody into a disorienting scream in the magnificent ‘It Ain’t Art It’s Paedophile Porn’. Comanechi do Black Sabbath-meets-the-Kills on the rhythmic violence of ‘Upside Down’ while ‘Lucky Cane’ sounds like the Mission Impossible theme by a death metal band: awesome. ‘Saviour’ by Pete and the Pirates closes the album with a brilliant 7-minute Jonathan Richman-like punky-pop groove.

There are eight bands in all and I’ve just given six good reasons why you should hear this record. You might spot the odd low point; that’s the nature of gig going. But as a recording of a seminal moment in indie pop, this record is priceless.

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