Holy Mountain – “Wrath” b/w “The Sovereign State”/”Re-Construction”
I’ve had a Holy Mountain CD sitting around for 3 years now. Never listened to it. Then for some reason I bought this 7-inch, on limited marble-grey vinyl. Come to find out this group contains former members of Combatwoundedveteran.
For those uninitiated, Combatwoundedveteran RULED ALL KINDS OF ASS with spastic, all-out, minute-long post-power violence jams in the vein of The Locust, Fat Day, An Albatross and many, many more.
Holy Mountain are a lot more traditional than CW-veteran, redolent of hardcore acts like Black Flag/Minor Threat and crustier punks like Crass. The singer screams like the dude from Hatebreed, too.
I’m not too thrilled with this, but I’m not totally turned off either. It’s a tosssss-up!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero” b/w “Zero (Animal Collective remix)”
If you know Gumshoe at all you know I bought this 7-inches-deep treat for the Animal Collective remix. That said, Yeah Yeah Yeahs comport themselves fairly well on “Zero,” sandwiching The Breakfast Club soundtrack between latter-day Pretenders and probably a few other ’80s favorites. I’m also remembering this song from the Monolith Festival … cool!
And the Animal Collective side … well, this is very … AC-ish, not too Yeah Yeah Yeahs-ish. JUST AS I HAD HOPED!
Look for swampy beats, blurp-y bass burps, dubstep riddims, clacking timbales (I think), blurry swathes of sound and more Excepter-ish gibberish I can’t seem to get enough of these days. Sorta minimalist for Animal Collective actually, but I like that …
What’s next? Oh yeah, “Summertime Clothes” …
