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DOWNLOAD: Tussle - Night Of The Hunter

Four-on-the-floor kick drums in rock songs are, to me anyway, the holy grail of percussion. Who doesn’t love stammering along, looking like Joe Strummer caught in a discotheque, all poised upper body and constantly jacking legs. The heartbeat metaphor is too easy, but it’s also hard to avoid, the drum's constant pulse infecting the veins of those listening or watching like a rhythmic disease. Tussle’s “Night Of The Hunter” rocks one of the best four-on-the-floors I’m jamming too right now, buffering it with two-note bass drone, sampled piano and reversed bites of sound. Halfway through, the beat cuts and all that’s left is the echoing feedback of looped samples, which drift away until the drums come back, the bass goes lower, and the song turns into a shuffling disco freak out. It’s one hell of a journey—and an instrumental one at that—but it’s a healthy preview to the San Francisco troupe’s Cream Cuts, due August 26 on Smalltown Supersound. As the headline on their MySpace says, “Give the drummer some <3”.

Sounds like: Nisennenmondai, Battles, Crystal Antlers

Download: Tussle - Night Of The Hunter

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