{"id":523,"date":"2007-04-19T15:17:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2007-04-19T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T14:17:37","slug":"vatican-dc-make-it-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"vatican dc &#8211; make it ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a new album on the <EM>red flag label<\/EM> by a  noise filled guitar totin&#8217; bunch of gangsters. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>giving it the hard assed attitude with their  electrofied rock <STRONG>vatican&nbsp;dc<\/STRONG>&nbsp;sound like a bad tempered  cousin of <STRONG>kasabian<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>campag velocet<\/STRONG>, and to  be honest, i wonder if any of the band have ever heard any <STRONG>earl  brutus<\/STRONG> records. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>low slung bass lines, buzzing guitar chords,  chant-a-long choruses,&nbsp;and liberal splattering of synths make this album a  refreshing blast of football terraced noise to soundtrack your  adrenalin-n-amphetamined fuelled saturday night.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so imagine the surprise when a little digging  reveals the nugget that the band have within their ranks one of the old <A  href=\"mailto:menswe@r\">menswe@r<\/A> blokes (fact fans : <EM>chris gentry<\/EM>)!  still, as several of these unfussy but brilliantly direct songs hit the ears,  such associations matter little as the opening 3 songs&nbsp;whip along at a  fuzzbox&#8217;d to the max furious pace. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>things then veer into the more malevolent area with  the sinister sounding <EM>fountainhead <\/EM>or the <STRONG>public image  limited<\/STRONG> bass rattling groove of <EM>bugs (<\/EM>you can actually sing  <EM>rise <\/EM>along to the opening 45 seconds). though these slower moody songs  are mainly kept to a minimum&nbsp;as the bulk of this 12 track album consists of  zippy in-yer-face melodies, sharply focussed guitar lines and a slice of good  old fashioned punk snarl inflected noise.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.vaticandc.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a new album on the red flag label by a noise filled guitar totin&#8217; bunch of gangsters. giving it the hard assed attitude with their electrofied rock vatican&nbsp;dc&nbsp;sound like a bad tempered cousin of kasabian and campag velocet, and to be honest, i wonder if any of the band have ever heard any earl brutus [&hellip;]<\/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-523","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\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}