Brandon White of Cuss Words is more prolific than anyone at the moment and the brilliant thing is he can write a great tune. This is classic guitar led psychedelic garage rock with tinges of country and folk in there too. Each and every track feels timeless and classic, the inflection of of vocals and guitar, the riffs, the production, the hooks its all beyond anything that's needed from simple self released records.
This new album (14 tracks long) is under the title of "Brandon White's Cuss Words" and you can buy it/download it from Bandcamp for $8.
Sometimes you just come across a really really good guitar based record from some unknown.. today is one of those days..
Brenden Codey is the band, a trio from Philidelphia, they have an EP out called Casco. Its six tracks of timeless classic amazing americana, strains of Neil Young filtered through post rock and shoegaze all the while keeping a watchful eye out for beautiful dynamics, melodies, hooks and all the gubins that proper old-skool song writing provided for the ear.
This band are amazing and you should definitely go buy the Casco EP on cassette from Treetop Sorbet Records here. You can also download the songs as .wav files from their Soundcloud here.
Cuss Words are as prolific as they are talented as they are varied, this latest self release takes a more clean and British psychedlic route than past shoegaze releases, sounding at points like Sid Barrett era Pink Floyd while at others it goes all Neil Young '70s contemplative rock with country-esque tinges. Brilliant songs, brilliant production, brilliant hooks and lyrics.. everything about this band is straight up killer! The album is available to download for $7 from Bandcamp. Get it its worth it.
While waiting to put out a proper album one of my favourite bands Cuss Words have gone and released a stop-gap EP called "It's Just A Game" With everything played by singer Brandon White this EP diverges from Cuss Words normal shoe-gazey trio grunge sound into a more electronic post rock world but still it feels just like Cuss Words with the catchy grunge pop hooks and epic gnarly vocals. This dude can write a hit song in his sleep, I highly urge you to go buy this for the $1 dollar it costs to download this from Bandcamp.
Grungy post-punk Shoe-gaze lo-fi punk with more soul and heart than you could find in a thousand days of searching Bandcamp and Soundcloud for good guitar bands. This is so unconscious and raw, emotional but way cool with it!
Cuss Words creates the sound of perfect grungey punk hooks and choruses, fuzzed out and discordant at times, beautifully melodic and poised at others. This reminds of first hearing Cerebral Ballzy not because it is in any way similar but because it has that feel of a band very naturally creating a familiar sound in a very original way!
Cuss Words sound is infused with Americana, with guitar noises and vocals that have strains of The Grateful Dead to Kurt Cobain to Pavement to even The Foo Fighters, but it's all so brilliantly loose and lo-fi, so warm and home-made. Jeffrey Lewis's City And Eastern Songs album with its punked out thrashy tracks is also a sonic reference that comes to mind as do the harmonies and quiet beauty of some old Neil Young.
The bands current location is Brooklyn but its members come from all over, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Canada and the band are unsigned at the moment; this needs to change quick -some UK Independent needs to get on this quick! This band is also a three piece which is just a such a winning combination, plus they have a female drummer! Win!
Cuss Words EP is $5 from Bandcamp and I more than strongly encourage you to go buy it! It's a total winner!
