Editors' Picks: Please Mr. Gravedigger / Coffin Lids / The Icarus Line
Scott: I'm not sure exactly how to describe Please Mr. Gravedigger except by just saying this fucking rocks. Like, seriously. Here's a track off their debut album Here's To The Life Of The Party, coming out this Tuesday on Pluto Records:
Please Mr. Gravedigger - Nothing HolyAdam: I've been spinning the new LP from Boston's Coffin Lids quite a bit this past week. The band recently released the appropriately titled Rock and Roll on Burbank's Bomp Records. It's 14 tracks of fuzzed-out low-fi sleazy rock that's earning them comparisons to The Sonics and The Mummies. Check this out:Coffin Lids - Michelle
Aubin: The Icarus Line's major label debut Penance Soiree has been released with next to no promotion, and seemed to have slipped under most radars, but undeservedly as it's a hell of a rock and roll record. Any worries that V2 Records would dull the bands raucous. sound have been soundly trounced by the feedback driven noise-rock that permeates the disc.
The Icarus Line - On the Lash