{"id":415,"date":"2007-01-25T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2007-01-25T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:30:06","slug":"piskie-sits-the-secret-sickliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"piskie sits – the secret sickliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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no, i have no idea about the meaning of this bands name, nor the reasons for the title of their debut release, but as i have hammered this album for the last few days such concerns are totally unnecessary.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
having released a couple of impressive limited 7″ singles, this wakefield 4 piece now expand their template to stretch over the course of 35 minutes.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
well, i say stretch. the band have their fuzzbox and they’re going to use it.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
you see, piskie sits<\/STRONG> are reviving a form of indie rock that until recently has been wiped off the face of the earth, and is therefore a very welcome change from the usual brit-pop via music hall revival that’s currently making all the mainstream press. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
it took a few listens, but once the association hit, the penny dropped and i began to really get into the album.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
it all starts off with the dirty lo-fi production of no hidden chord <\/EM>and the use of the distorted, recorded through sandpaper vocals, if you have ever heard anything by dinosaur jnr. <\/STRONG>then you’ll know this song is a perfect homage to the scene that fashion forgot. before nirvana <\/STRONG>obliterated the underground alt.rock scene, america was the place for some superb alternative indie rock, much of sourced from fort apache <\/EM>studios. there was none of this nasty major label sanctioned emo crap. no, during the late 80s, early 90s, the genre known as indie rock was a far more honest, open and downright wonderful grotty sounding music (though in fairness this may be a personal rose tinted nostaligia trip), in which the fuzzed up guitars and bass were badly produced, the drums all over the place and production was kept to a bare minimum. yet for all this, there was often something about the quality of the songs, and in that respect, piskie sits<\/STRONG> have dropped a wonderfully listenable album for anyone who recall those messy days.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
there’s little to say other than these 11 future slacker anthems are rather special in a laid back, sloppy hair, checkered shirt wearing manner, and given a few listens, certain songs really step up to the mark and become rather wonderful, making this album <\/FONT>well worth checking out.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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more detail<\/EM> : here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  no, i have no idea about the meaning of this bands name, nor the reasons for the title of their debut release, but as i have hammered this album for the last few days such concerns are totally unnecessary. having released a couple of impressive limited 7″ singles, this wakefield 4 piece now expand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}