It's been awhile and I'm sorry for that. I think I've taken a long enough break and it's time to start again. Thanks for the encouragement and kind words about the previous posts. Hope these new, probably shorter posts will still fit the bill for ya!
So let's get started again with a band I had in mind since day one; the Milwaukee chaos merchants named Call Me Lightning. I first saw them on the Pretty Girls Make Graves farewell tour at the Black Cat a few years back. I really doubt if more than a handful of the folks in the sold out show had heard about them. I had never even seen their name in a magazine or a blog post. I should have been looking harder, man. From the first song I knew I was in for a good show and by the end of the set I was pretty sure that I had just found a new desert island band. While most of the crowd chatted amongst themselves, CML tore through a set of chugging, punk-meets-arena rock songs. Guitars snarled and drums got the living crap pounded out of them from the first notes until the very end. Despite having the guitars turned up to 11, Nathan Lilley had the pipes to deliver crazed, yelping, yet somehow intelligible vocals above the swirl. It was awesome. They sweated and thrashed and never once looked disappointed that the crowd was too busy talking to listen up. It was an amazing performance and to my surprise, I found that their live performance energy translated pretty well to the record I picked up; 2007's Soft Skeletons. I like it so much that it only took a week before I got their eponymous debut which is pretty dang good. However, I think their most recent record, When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free, could be their best to date. The whole record just really hangs well together and show a little more experimentation with different sounds. Choosing songs to post below took forever. If you like what you hear, you will not be disappointed by their records.
One other quick point. As many of you know, I love a good F-bomb from time to time. I know, childish. But the song "Soft Skeletons" ends on pretty much has the most cathartic, blood curdling F-bomb ever. I like the song so much I've posted the track and a live video below. I think you'll like it too whether you like F-bombs or not.
From Soft Skeletons (Frenchkiss, 2007)
Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons
Call Me Lightning - Nobody Dies
From When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free (Dusty Medical, 2010)
Call Me Lightning - Called to the Throne
Call Me Lightning - The Fog
Some pretty awesome videos after the jump!
So let's get started again with a band I had in mind since day one; the Milwaukee chaos merchants named Call Me Lightning. I first saw them on the Pretty Girls Make Graves farewell tour at the Black Cat a few years back. I really doubt if more than a handful of the folks in the sold out show had heard about them. I had never even seen their name in a magazine or a blog post. I should have been looking harder, man. From the first song I knew I was in for a good show and by the end of the set I was pretty sure that I had just found a new desert island band. While most of the crowd chatted amongst themselves, CML tore through a set of chugging, punk-meets-arena rock songs. Guitars snarled and drums got the living crap pounded out of them from the first notes until the very end. Despite having the guitars turned up to 11, Nathan Lilley had the pipes to deliver crazed, yelping, yet somehow intelligible vocals above the swirl. It was awesome. They sweated and thrashed and never once looked disappointed that the crowd was too busy talking to listen up. It was an amazing performance and to my surprise, I found that their live performance energy translated pretty well to the record I picked up; 2007's Soft Skeletons. I like it so much that it only took a week before I got their eponymous debut which is pretty dang good. However, I think their most recent record, When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free, could be their best to date. The whole record just really hangs well together and show a little more experimentation with different sounds. Choosing songs to post below took forever. If you like what you hear, you will not be disappointed by their records.
One other quick point. As many of you know, I love a good F-bomb from time to time. I know, childish. But the song "Soft Skeletons" ends on pretty much has the most cathartic, blood curdling F-bomb ever. I like the song so much I've posted the track and a live video below. I think you'll like it too whether you like F-bombs or not.
From Soft Skeletons (Frenchkiss, 2007)
Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons
Call Me Lightning - Nobody Dies
From When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free (Dusty Medical, 2010)
Call Me Lightning - Called to the Throne
Call Me Lightning - The Fog
Some pretty awesome videos after the jump!
"Soft Skeletons" live
"Bronze Hell"
"My father took me aside. He said, 'My son, you see, my boy you will not be a man until you fall in love.... and you'll fuck it up!'"
"When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free"
and
"Bronze Hell"
"My father took me aside. He said, 'My son, you see, my boy you will not be a man until you fall in love.... and you'll fuck it up!'"
"When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free"
and
The Who - Call Me Lightning
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