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Album Review

The Pack a.d.
We Kill Computers Mint Records

Article written by Ged M - May 26, 2010

The Pack a.d.: We Kill Computers

The Pack a.d. are a two-piece that occasionally sound like a lot more from Vancouver, Canada, comprising Maya Miller (drums) and Becky Black (guitar, vocals). They’ve moved on from the overt bluesy influence of their first two records to a grungier garage-rock sound on this album but it would be understandable if you were to think of other garage-blues duos. On a couple of tracks (‘Everyone Looks Like Everyone’ especially) they sound a little like the White Stripes but Maya beats Meg in the way she beats her drums and Becky can get positively hard rock at times: check the Sabbath-like opening to ‘1880’ and their brutal, blitzkrieging way with riffs and percussion on the raucous ‘Big Anvil’. So it comes as a bit of a surprise that the lyrics refer to the natural world so much, from snakes and sharks to deer (“all the deer they follow me/ they all know we’re not enemies”) - maybe it’s all the nature they observe on what seems like almost constant touring. And on the softer, animal-friendly ‘They Know Me’, they concede in a Cobain-like angsty moan: “people are the worst of all”.

It’s not all loud but they give it gravity; the album gets the balance right between amps-at-11 noise and more nuanced garage-blues, with its heavy, pounding riffs (‘Math, The Stars’) but leaving space for a catchy tale like, err, ‘Catch’. They set out to capture their live sound on record and they’ve pretty much succeeded; We Kill Computers is garage with gonads, a mix of hard labour and good music.

Links:
http://thepackafterdeath.com/
http://www.mintrecs.com/index.php?component=artists&action=profile&tag=The_Pack
http://www.myspace.com/thepackad