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July 18, 2006
night sweats
One of my friends ran into Pat Noecker on the street the other day and asked him about No Things (which was, to recap, Pat and Ron Albertson from the old line-up of Liars with Christian on vocals)- turns out the band has broken up (which is a shame), but the good news is that Pat has formed a new band, called Powers. Apparently a third member is going to be added some time in the future, but for now, Pat is working with Anna Barie as a duo, and they have three songs up on their site, all of which definitely fit their mysterious self-categorization of 'ghost-punk'.
'With All My Might' is full of desparation and loneliness, and it's frightening, in a specific way. Not in the straight-up gory, chomping on animal viscera manner, but more like threatening: it moves in an unnatural way, lurches, stumbles, bends its joints in the wrong direction (the song exudes the possibility of bizarre forms of violence). Three primary elements make the track- the piercing siren echoes, that short-lived, burrowing bassline, and Anna's voice, which, although it sounds like it's being projected from 1000 miles away, is delivered with the intimacy of a whisper in your ear (like she's screaming to you through an empty transcontinental pipeline, trying to get your attention). The other two songs up on the band's site are mostly instrumental, but are just as pleasantly disturbing ('Do Not Interfere' is particularly intense- definitely the best Ouija board jam I've ever heard). Should be interesting to see what happens when they find that third band member.
Posted by Kevin at July 18, 2006 12:19 AM