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New Single From East Brunswick All Girls Choir
They may be called East Brunswick All Girls Choir, but this Melbourne band's music is anything but classical choir tunes and there's actually only one girl in the band.
Melbourne's East Brunswick All Girls Choir Release Single 'Dirty Bird'
To the unaccustomed, a gnarly, gut-wrenchingly authentic blend of late 90s garage and lumbering, distorted country/blues is not exactly what’s expected from a band named East Brunswick All Girls Choir.
Songs bulging with the strain of relentless tension and commanding honesty, a tribute to the art of getting down and dirty with music-making. This is exactly the brand of music this fearless ensemble is championing.
Having enjoyed a year-long stint in Berlin following the independent release of 2009 mini album Dead Air, the now Melbourne-based quartet returned to home soil to finish work on their much-anticipated debut full-length album Seven Drummers, with engineer Casey Rice (Dirty Three, Grand Salvo).
Taken from the forthcoming album, lead track ‘Dirty Bird’ is a fine example of East Brunswick All Girls Choir genius. Marcus Hobbs’ lyrics are considered and direct, a perfect accompaniment to the dynamic rhythm section of Rie Nakayama and Jen Sholakis. The sections in which Hobbs’ agitated vocals wail amidst the wall of guitars created by himself and Rob Wrigley are perfectly balanced by those in which they are – ever so slightly – more restrained.
‘Dirty Bird’ is a solid and vastly appetising concoction pulled off in style by a special band that deserves every bit of praise that comes its way.
East Brunswick All Girls Choir’s debut album Seven Drummers – aptly named for the total number of drummers the band has seen come and go in its lifetime – will be released in early 2014.