The Voices - The Sound of Young America
0 Comments Published by Trev Lostmusic on Monday, September 10, 2007 at 22:54.
I first came across The Voices in 2005. I saw them at a Club AC30 night at The Water Rats. I was so impressed I went and sort out their debut LP - 'The Voices'. I loved it and at the time I called it 'a mammoth slab of a record'. So nearly two years on the band have released their 2nd full length record - 'The Sound of Young America' on My Kung Fu Recordings. This is what can only be described as another mammoth slab of drone rock. The 7 songs on offer sprawl over 42 minutes. 'I'll Always Be Within You When There's No One Left Inside' is nearly 8 minutes long and it drives forward before collapsing in shards of guitar noise which chime on for what seems like an age. This is a sound I will never tire of hearing.The band hail from close to my home town (Port Talbot) in South Wales - although they seem to have relocated to Cardiff. Some might call Port Talbot a bleak place. And from bleak places extreme sounds can be conjured. This is right on the edge of noise pop, as the pop in question is all but obliterated as the guitars wail and feedback. The Voices don't have a huge deal of variation on offer - as the bands that they most closely sound like are bands like My Bloody Valentine (mostly), Spacemen 3 (occasionally) and Loop (on rarer occasions). The band have my seal of approval for their influences. Sometimes I wish they step out from behind these shadows and stamp a little more of themselves on the record. That's a minor quibble though, as this record is better than their debut and I hear a young band growing and taking strides towards their own sound. The Voices are a band that are a rare beast these days, improving and growing as they go.
This is one for the shoegazers (young or old) of the world. If you've ever got a kick to Spacemen 3's 'Revolution' or My Bloody Valentines 'Isn't Anything' this is a band you should take the time to hear.
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