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SOUTHALL RIOT "Warp In My Dreams" Details
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from Robots and Electronic Brains
Split with George but, trust me, you'll only be wearing out one side of this vinyl. The dream in question involves the Mary Chain's "Upside Down" without quite so much distortion, a more obvious Brian Wilson fetish, a super huge fuzz bass and a super reverb vocal. And the warp, of course. This is catchier than Chinese Flu.
from Record Collector
... Southall Riot's home-recorded track is a bit rough around the edges, but dig those harmonies! That chorus! That blissed out guitar solo! Bloody great.
from Shredding Paper
.The B-side however, is pure pop. Southall Riot do the kind of sloppy, Beach Boys-influenced pop that only the Summer Hits could pull off. I'm going to hunt down everything that they ever did. I hope there's more.
from The Gull Buy
... For me though, the prize is clearly Southall Riot. I really really like their song, and will look for more stuff by them. They sound like an Elephant 6 band if Elephant 6 bands used early My Bloody Valentine instead of Beach Boys/Beatles as a starting point. Really Boss! I want to hear it again and again
from Boa
.Southall Riot sound like mod fans. There's a bit of the Who in here and a nod in the direction of "My Mind's Eye" by the Small Faces. I suppose that if this had been given the major label treatment to polish off the rough edges, I may have not liked this, but there's plenty of splashiness to make it pretty good fun. It ends with a locked groove too.
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