Back on the same track as with the Johnny Foreigner post: new British indie stuff. Dananananaykroyd (awesome name, huh?) is a band from Glasgow. They exist since 2006 and are getting more and more attention as time passes. DiS even named them the “best live band in the UK”. You know how it goes. The 6 members of the band present an angst-ridden, noisy, post-hardcore shouting-feast which must look awesome on stage. They call it ‘fight pop’. Anti-popculture and the war between mainstream and underground seems to rise again. Of course, you can draw a wide picture of influences with the most notorious lo-fi bands but more obviously this new single Pink Sabbath is like Refused, At the Drive-in, Sonic Youth and Pretty Girls Make Graves. More US than UK sound. Is the band more than just another instance of the marginal wave of UK indie rock bands whose time has passed in 2005-6? Yes, they are definetly more. One of my friends said that 2009 will be the year of rock again and maybe after they’ve recorded their album in New York and it came out on Moshi Moshi they can be a part of it. Part of the process when young hipsters find their way back to the raw power (hi, Iggy!) of music which is now easily simulated in electronically engineered stuff. There’s a beauty in finding the hidden gems of the future today.

Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath [zshare] // Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath [ysi]

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am and is filed under dananananaykroyd, fight pop, post-hardcore, noise rock, uk, indie.