Wednesday 9 April 2008

URGE OVERKILL – NOW THAT’S THE BARCLORDS (SUB POP)


URGE OVERKILL – NOW THAT’S THE BARCLORDS (SUB POP)

Urge Overkill was always an act caked in personality.  Taking in their being based on the photo of them on the front of this Sub Pop Singles Club release for May 1991 is a succulent thing, almost a joke.  All in all they look like refugees/casualties from Warhol’s Factory.  This is how they do in Chicago.  Always have, always will.

This seven inch arrived on fluorescent green.  Its amazing looking vinyl, the kind of look that works when sipping cocktails at a swanky club.  Here be the insinuated existence of Urge Overkill.

“Now That’s The Barclords” is three minutes of classic new wave that sounds very much like Elvis Costello is full flow complete with big hook and rocking chorus.  The intention to paint and envisage a better way of being for the listener and on the outset it is mission accomplished as reflection is made in a positive direction.  In execution the band does not rewrite or reinvent rock music but the offering is sufficient enough to improve any day, any moment and give the listener something to spring to in solid affection/attention.

On the flip is the altogether wider and more philosophical “What’s This Generation Coming To?”  This is a song that sounds straight from the Steve Albini school of rock offering jagged stabs and audible consideration.  In its questioning the intention appears to be to offer a different way, a separate mode of thinking and a more blustering existence to attach.  It really is possible to take all this from one rock song.

Urge Overkill are OK.

Thesaurus moment: prim.

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