- Elementary Revolt

8/01/2007

Tracklist

01.Snack Heads On Empty Part I & II [5:30]
02. Minimalist [4:43]
03. Rock Star [2:48]
04.The Break Song [7:14]
05.Life is Like A Constant Winter [2:39]
06.What Do You See When You Sleep? [4:06]
07.My buddy is A Robert [2:04]
08.Spoons Are OK [6:40]
09.All Right Chop Chop Get On With It [4:54]
10.Riot For Boozers (Why Don't you Scream ?) [10:04]

Info

Some years ago, naming your new band after a famous football team seemingly was fun in Belgium. Now, us Belgians are hooked up with bands like Arsenal, Sheffield Wednesday, Chelsea and Galatasaray. The striking thing about the latter is that they're 12, audibly well-trained and in my humble opinion… just better than the rest.

Boxing Camp For Blues Oriented Snack Heads is the first release for Vlas Vegas records and the second album for Galatasaray, after 2003's Montana. Both Vlas Vegas and Galatasaray are based in Kortrijk, Belgium. The band's 12 members are spread throughout the alternative music scene of that city and include people of bands like Hitch, Hawai, Think Of One, Gèsman and Ozark Henry.

Boxing Camp For Blues Oriented Snack Heads is still instrumental, but sounds a lot more steady and rocking than Montana. Whereas the first album clearly had the emphasis on the trumpets, trombones, clarinets and saxophones, the new full-length is more diverse and leaves additional space for firm guitar riffing and a solid rhythm section. It introduces us to the darker and heavier side of the band and will probably appeal more to the rock fans than before. Some interesting guitar breaks and twists, the intro for Life Is Like A Constant Winter, or Snack Heads On Empty Part II could come right off a Hitch album.

The song What Do You See When You Sleep?, in the middle of the album, kind of breaks with the tempo and atmosphere created so far, and its rest is welcomed. Then again, the distortion and (de)structure on a song like Spoons Are OK, gets us focused again. That song is one of the highlights of the album if you ask me. It perfectly integrates the diverse instrumentation of the band in an interesting song with some jazzy hooks.

Boxing Camp For Blues Oriented Snack Heads is an album that constantly switches between genres and ideas. Because of that some songs might water down for a moment, but it never takes long before the band returns to the core of every song, eventually even throwing in a dancy brass sound. This is a solid new release from a seemingly restless band that courageously thinks beyond genres. Make sure to catch this friendly gang live!

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Listen:Life is Like A Constant Winter

8/01/2007

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