I'm sure i've mentioned today's band before but it's about time I did a proper post on them. They became my favourite new band at the end of last year and they still are today. 'They' are Dinosaur Pile-Up. The band is the creation of Matt Bigland formerly of Mother Vulpine. The tunes are catchy indie but some songs have a heavier feel. The recordings at the minute are pretty rough bedroom recordings but you can tell they're ready to be polished into diamonds. Songs such as My Rock N Roll and Let's Get Up show American influences of Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. The song that got me hooked is Our Love's a Boat And We're Sinking (not a bad metaphor, eh?) It's an absolute belter of a tune with just one riff repeated throughout the whole song. The chorus of 'Honey, our love is a boat and we’re sinking' is screaming to be bellowed out by the festival masses.When I've seen them live on some occasions there's barely been 30 people in the room but they've still blown the roof off. It's fair to say they're one of the best up and coming live acts at the minute. To say there are only 2 recordings on MySpace and about 6 recordings floating about overall they aren't short on material. They played at least 5 songs I'd never heard the other night. All of which sounded brilliant.
MySpace: www.myspace.com/dinosaurpileup
Get hold of: Love's A Boat, What Howard Says, Melanin
Next is a little treat for any Cribs fans. Before the band formed the lads were in various other bands, namely Kavolchy, Rat Monkey and Wrinkle. Wrinkle included the twins Gary and Ryan and listening to them you can see the lo-fi punk element which was more prominent in The Cribs' earlier material, especially their self-titled debut and demos such as Song From Practice 1 and Death To The Dead Bodies. Below's a link to 'The Source The Flood'.
