{"id":617,"date":"2007-06-26T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2007-06-27T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T10:37:13","slug":"the-heavy-that-kind-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"the heavy &#8211; that kind of man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>track listing : that&nbsp; kind of man, coleen,  easier<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the debut release by <STRONG>the heavy<\/STRONG>, on  the <EM>ninja tune<\/EM> affiliated <EM>counter records <\/EM>label, hits the  ground running determined to make a very quick impression.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">no nice easy <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">on the  ears intro, no build up, oh no. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">instead as soon as the laser hits the digital  bumps, the opening track bites hard with a riff and a hard as nails drum loop.  <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">coming from the west country, the band negate any  traditional associations, and rip into the world of deep southern funked up soul  music of the 60s and 70s variety.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the results are dramatic and fantastic, making such  comparisions to the music of tv cop shows and <STRONG>beastie boys<\/STRONG>  instrumentals an easy and obvious reference point, with the results coming on  strong as a tag team collision between&nbsp;the urban grit of&nbsp;<EM>the  professionals<\/EM> and the pimped up&nbsp;<EM>starsky and  hutch<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">however, alongside the excellent instrumental  backing, the 3 piece band have a singer, <EM>swaby,<\/EM>&nbsp;with a voice from  the gods, sweet and soft, hard and raw that matches the sexual swagger  perfectly.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">and all this excellence is on evidence within the 9  minutes contained here.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the myspace hangout is filled with various coded  messages alluding to a back up bunch called <EM>the heaviettes<\/EM>, and lots of  reference to the ways of the old world of blues and soul.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so one can only imagine how wonderful this band are  live as this is a raw undiluted slow burning sound, with little connection to  the polished hybrid that permeates the radio airwaves in 2007.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">all thats left to say, other than track this down,  is <EM>bring on the album<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail : <\/EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theheavy73\">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>track listing : that&nbsp; kind of man, coleen, easier the debut release by the heavy, on the ninja tune affiliated counter records label, hits the ground running determined to make a very quick impression. no nice easy on the ears intro, no build up, oh no. instead as soon as the laser hits the digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}