Does anyone else feel that chill when they hear the term Dance-Punk? There's something about it that just sounds wrong. It could just be the old disco/punk rivalry I hammered into myself when I was angry, young and poor. Despite my dislike fo the name, bands like Test Icicles, Dandi Wind and Crystal Castles have brought us some fantastic albums in the last few years.
With remixes by a few of the Test Icicles guys and headed up by Kevvy Mental, who has his finger in many pies (Fan Death and Birthday Massacre production credits, and a couple of official Dandi Wind and KMFDM remixes) Fake Shark-Real Zombie! are quickly filling my void for new Test Icicles quality material. Meeting people is terrible, produced by one hell of a heavy weight in Dave Ogilvie (yeah, that one) is the second album from these guys, with a third slated for release at some point this year.
As an album, it definitely comes together. My only disappointment is the lack of energy on some tracks in comparison to what I feel is the stand-out track Six Sick Suck. Just because it's loud doesn't mean it's got feeling, but it does get into that heavy alt-rock vibe I know the kids love.
Still a really quality album, I suppose we can thank Dave Rave for how well this ties together (Kevvy Mental is a great producer in his own right, but we can't deny Dave's sheer talent and experience). I'm a fan of shorter EPs over albums for this genre, but as a full length this is a great album, and somehow it comes togeather. Tracks like Jewellery have an almost deftones vibe to them where Six Sick Suck is almost a polar opposite and pulls up all the energy and passion of a Test Icicles release, and the official single Angel Lust actually made me write the whole album off for a while(too much funk/rock).
Videos after the jump.
Unfortunately the best I could find for SSS was a live video, it's really flat, so find it on last FM or something.
As for actually videos, there are impossible to find. Here's Avril Kadaver, but I don't encourage stealing music from small label artists, so ignore their vid description.
And whilst I was looking for that I found this:
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