The News Review:
- Music to Brood by Desolate and Stark
- Boys Noize: Oi Oi Oi : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- South Australian metropolitan and country radio station programs on…
Music to Brood by Desolate and Stark
New York Times – Oct 7, 2007
Far bigger bands like the Clash and Pink Floyd are still waiting for their biopics but this post-punk cult band from Manchester England has two to its name. The first the bright hyper-active… Bernard Sumner’s guitar sounds as if it has been chipped out of granite; Peter Hook’s bass playing is fluent but unyielding like steel cable. In performance as documented on the live recordings packaged with these reissues Joy Division’s dense assault approaches heavy metal. But its studio music was stark and desolate permeated with a cavernous spatiality courtesy of the brilliantly inventive producer Martin Hannett. Joy Division’s unsettling combination of the visceral and the ethereal has hooked generation after generation of listeners. New Order the more commercially palatable and dance-oriented (yet still angst-tinged) outfit that the band became after Mr. Curtis’s death has helped maintain Joy Division’s profile. As with the Velvet Underground Joy Division’s name has been kept alive by the vastly more successful groups it influenced like.
Boys Noize: Oi Oi Oi : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Oct 7, 2007
The formula is perfected on other standouts like ?Shine Shine? ?Let?s Buy Happiness? and the hard-drive-melting ?Oh!?Save for on a remarkable remix of ?My Moon My Man? ? in which Feist?s gossamer croons provide the perfect foil for Boys Noize?s full-throated digital gargles ? the album offers little in the way of vocals. Of course that may be Ridha?s way of kindly telling listeners to shut the hell up and sing along with their feet. At its best Oi Oi Oi with its robotic chants and inhuman aloofness is a harder better faster stronger version of Daft Punk?s disappointing man vs. machine concept album Human After All. But while Ridha?s youthful brashness makes forefathers Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter look like fogies his immaturity shows in the album?s monotone balls-to-the-wall clip. Fortunately what Boys Noize lacks in grace or variety it makes up in pure testosterone. Sure it may be difficult to relax and listen to Oi Oi Oi all the way through.
South Australian metropolitan and country radio station programs on…
NEWS.com.au – Oct 7, 2007
Midnight Decks in the City (jazz funk fusion). 7 – 1am Adelaide’s Best Music.