As much as singles can be used to document a local scene and friends bands they can also ignore geography entirely and be compelled to press something that’s completely inspiring. I had to be a little impressed when Bedroom Suck out of Australia pressed that single from Boston's Fat History Month. There’s no way they could have seen them live or even talked to them over the phone but they were impressed by shared bandcamp tracks enough to spend the thousand bucks or so and press up vinyl. So in a lot of ways this kind of blind support can say even more about a band than if good neighbors in your scene put a release together. This is the case with this release from the French label, Requiem Pour Un Twister and their latest single from The Young Sinclairs out of Roanoke, Virginia.
A-Side’s "New Day" hits on a laid back, psych style. Warm, rising and falling phaser trembled electric with a thick, layered vocal in dreamy English shoegaze style. I painted houses one summer with high school friends to Dear 23, it’s forever burned into the hazy summer days of fucking around and probably doing a shit job painting peoples vacation houses. Sharing one moped to get a ladder and buckets of paint to these houses and back home at night. Someone is walking home listening to the one Posies tape we had. God knows how we ended up with that. The Young Sinclairs are guitar focused, '60s in spirit but sounding contemporary in that echo on that vocal and even these cymbal crashes are done so as not to break this mesmerizing spell. It’s clearly inspired by the slow tempo psych where harmony is the centerpiece and the phasering of weird effects was trying to blow altered minds. Flash forward to the 21st century and Young Sinclairs bring a crazy clarity and attention to detail to these tracks.
B-Side's "Turned Around" uses a bigger guitar sound and this layered breathy vocal is sounds like the nostalgic parts of Bandwagonesque, what I remember anyway of that combination of heavier guitars, the grunge reply to Ride. It’s the sound of capturing that guitars every move, from the heavy, slow strums to delicate picking getting in there to mic the strings themselves and getting the warm reverb that peaks into distortion. Always clear drums, but the plate reverb in the vocal, or that very specific shallow echo they have here is so reminiscent of the Kinks or The Who, complete with just a hint of an accent. Samuel J. Lunsford’s vocals are always climbing into falsetto supported by this DIY collective who have gone as far as to assemble their own analog studio which allows them to pull this off in such an accurate way. The melodies are as varied and changing as Jeff Novak’s without the glam angle, the garage rehearsals were moved into the shag carpeted basement with lava lamps and that glittery attitude is redirected to a more introspective, laid back sound.
Pick this up stateside from the band's bandcamp page and check out the great interview with the band from the label/blog RPUT.
And don't forget their release on Planting Seeds Records as well. These guys are impressing more than a few labels out there.
Thanks to a trade with Requiem Pour Un Twister, I have some copies of this for sale over here for those of you in the US if you're interested.
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