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Freshkills
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Website: http://freshkillsband.com/
Bio: Freshkills – yes, one word – are a five-piece tour guide to the lives, awkward conversations and head games that play out deep into the ... (more)
night in New York City's dark bars and messy bedrooms. Each protagonist is motivated by sordid appetites, like moths attracted to blackness. Each song has the sound and feel of a mini-apocalypse.
The band comprises of vocalist Zachary Lipez, guitarists Johnny Rauberts and Timothy Murray, bassist Mitchell Jordan and drummer Jim Paradise. The influences most at work are Nation of Ulysses and Drive Like Jehu, as the band combines the lyrical flair of the former and the chops of the latter. Lipez's red-lining vocals are infused with paranoia, aggravation and twisted vulnerability. The rhythms - though rarely slow - are controlled, ominous and sometimes hypnotic. The twin-guitar work is droning and breathtaking, and leads are rare.
The band recently completed their second, currently-unnamed, LP, produced by Alex Newport (AT THE DRIVE-IN, THE LOCUST, TWO GALLANTS). It delivers emphasizing hooks and streamlined song structures, without sacrificing any of their dissonance, dark sarcasm, or cutting social commentary. The effect is brand new material that is immediate, unsettling and lasting.
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August 14 2008
DOWNLOAD: Freshkills - I Know I Know + 2 More

Freshkills’ bio mentions that they’re pretty into Drive-Like Jehu and Nation Of Ulysses. That’s obvious when you listen to the songs below—acute guitars, pummeling rhythms, barked lines of poetry—but that fails to mention the quintet's obvious infatuation with more anglo sounds. “I Quit Smoking” is a slower, Mancunian wanderer in debt to the toppling bass lines of Peter Hook and Gary "Mani" Mounfield (of Stone Roses and Primal Scream fame) while the shifty beats in “I Know I Know” quote the epilepsy of young British band Foals. That aside, these guys obviously own a large chunk of the Dischord catalog and play garage-burners for the coffee house set, so download three tracks from their debut full-length (out September 2) below and go out and eat a vegan cookie or something.
Sounds like: Foals, Crystal Stilts, The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Download: Freshkills - I Know I Know
Download: Freshkills - Revelations
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