{"id":525,"date":"2007-04-23T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2007-04-23T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:23:09","slug":"saturna-some-delicious-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"saturna &#8211; some delicious enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">keen diggers around this corner will know that i  have a certain love for fuzzed up dirty spaced out rock-n-roll excess.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">if the guitars&nbsp;drone and hardly move on from  their single chord progressions then my love flows even more. so, say hello to  the latest name on the block for fans of : <STRONG>the dandy warhols<\/STRONG>,  <STRONG>brmc<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>the warlocks<\/STRONG> etc etc.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">hailing from portland it&#8217;s  <STRONG>saturna<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the album that the band have self released is a  cracker of the usual elements, drawn out guitar lines, layers of guitars and  lazy sunshine kissed melodies with hints of darkness hidden away in the corners.  despite the lack of record label budget,&nbsp;superb opener <EM>roll down  <\/EM>even manages to revive those backward underwater guitars that <EM>kevin  shields <\/EM>took years to create for the <STRONG>my bloody valentine  <\/STRONG>masterpiece, <EM>loveless,<\/EM>&nbsp;which legend has  it,&nbsp;bankrupted <EM>creation records <\/EM>in the process, so someone has  been studying the art to an excellent degree.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">thankfully, the album is not a one trick pony and  the use of machine created noises in the blissed out chaos of <EM>fall  <\/EM>which descends into a full on old school acid rave beast with synths  clashing for your attention. brilliant and very refreshing from all the usual  black leather dourness that goes alongside such a band. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>pop rocks <\/EM>really hits the pleasure spot  with an obvious love for snarled lip arrogance of early days <STRONG>brmc,  <\/STRONG>but with an interesting use of layered vocals and beach boys styled  breakdown in the middle before the guitars are let loose again. the tempo is  then given a break, as the mood quietens off for the drawn out psychedlic  meanderings of &nbsp;<EM>blanket of stars, <\/EM>and <EM>much more <\/EM>making  the album lull a little it must be said, however, as these extended workouts are  followed by the more concise pop melodies of&nbsp; <EM>springboard <\/EM>with a  definite lighter feel (piano !) the mood lifts just in time for the white  knuckle ride that is <EM>just for thrills, <\/EM>a song that almost makes you  want to flip the bird to your boss, walk out of your humdrum job (or is that  just me?) and buy a big muthafuggin&#8217; motorbike to rip along a highway to. in  other words, yes&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;more of those&nbsp;<STRONG>jesus and  marychain<\/STRONG> melodies and fuzzed to the max guitars.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the closing few tracks of the album take the foot  off the trottle, slightly, bringing things to a warm and lovely close.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">ok, i&#8217;ll admit that the results across the 43  minutes of this debut, aren&#8217;t exactly original, but then, so what ?  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">this is a fine buzzy guitar album to just mellow  out to.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.saturnamusic.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>keen diggers around this corner will know that i have a certain love for fuzzed up dirty spaced out rock-n-roll excess. if the guitars&nbsp;drone and hardly move on from their single chord progressions then my love flows even more. so, say hello to the latest name on the block for fans of : the dandy [&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-525","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\/525","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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}