Band Of The Day #27 - GENTLE FRIENDLY "Ride Symbols"
Crashing in on a wave of good will come London’s Gentle Friendly, a dazzling prospect enamoured with the same things we’re enamoured with – LA’s new noise, tracing exotic, Animal Collective and rhythm. David and Daniel (also of Peckham madcaps Buttonhead) stalk Dalston with a winning formula: salvage rusted drum kits and restaurant grade Arabica beans from skips, toss back the beans, bang the drums until joyous resonance is reached.
‘Ride Symbols’ is threaded with scratched noise, beaten into ticklish bruises by fedback shards and dumb-hearted drums; vocals playing cat and mouse in the gaps between. Gentle Friendly skitter and thrash and do all that you’d expect a new London Vigoda to, rhythm parts moving along docey-doe-eyed, melodies tapering up and out in traffic fumed ferris wheels like a more ready Fuck Buttons.
It’s pretty good, is what I’m trying to say. Listen, yeah?
Download: Gentle Friendly - 'Ride Symbols'
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- Kev Kharas
