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Live Review
by SashaS
12-5-2005
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Live: Sons And Daughters
100 Club, London
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Sons & Daughters: major sonic intoxication
New names emerge as contenders as often as… well, it feels like - daily. Sons And Daughters and The Magic Numbers [playing London tomorrow night] are just a couple of names tipped for the ‘shape of things to come’ in 2005. Thus, S&D played last night under a banner of expectations known as “the next Franz Ferdinand”.
They do come from Glasgow and play art-rock of sorts but that’s where the similarity ends. This is a two-boys/two-girls outfit commanding wider musical language that absorbs New Wave and Krautrock, musical minimalism of The Velvet Underground variety as well as some pastoral, rockabilly and avant-noisenik elements… There is an incredible tonal array on the album that gets replaced with the more immediate and ‘rockier’ side during the shows.
Onstage the four are much rowdier and energetic, singer Adele Bethal [also a guitar/bass/keys player] recalls Siouxsie Sioux often with her mostest-in-your-face, at others getting more resolute-yet-irrational like Lesley used to from the frontline of the long gone Au Pairs. Guitarist/co-vocalist Scott Paterson fires his guitar with passion and inventiveness without posing as a budding axe man.
Bethel is dressed in an electric-blue satin strapless number that really counters the sound and band’s attitude; bassist/mandolin player Ailidh Lennon also sports a mini whilst the boys like shirts’n’slacks combo. Not so lo-imaged but certainly not so precious as they are about music. The band’s debut album ‘The Repulsion Box’ is a blast of short/sharp and vibrant songs that mix punch with hypnotism.
The new songs are welcomed with anticipation and awe, older tracks - seven cut album ‘Love The Cup’ was released about a year ago - are embraced with warmth only old friends provide. The new album’s cuts are all prime: ‘Choked’ riots, ‘Red Receiver’ is spellbinding, ‘Medicine’ rings with its mandolin-lead. The new single ‘Dance Me In’ is a mini-explosion.
The single was produced by Edwyn Collins, the legendary leader of Orange Juice, the band their record boss believes S&D resemble. Another heavy comparison but this foursome can take it… they have got it in them.
Rough, uprising and ready to confront your fears/desires/curiosity… Comfort? Sons And Daughters don’t take wimps into consideration. For the rest - deeply moving.
Set-list:
'Monsters'
'Dance Me In'
'Taste the Last Girl'
'Gone'
'Medicine'
'Rama Lama'
'Johnny Cash'
'Royally Used'
'Hunt'
'Choked'
'Blood'
SashaS
5-6-2005
Sons And Daughters’ single ‘Dance Me In’ is released on 23 May by Domino
Sons And Daughters’ album ‘The Repulsion Box’ is released 06 June on Domino
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