Tastemakers will tell you that dance music’s days as a mainstream force are long gone. Try telling that to the tens of thousands of fans who ensured that Pendulum’s current UK tour was an instant sell-out.
Formed in Perth in 2002, the six-piece specialise in a frantic-yet-accessible form of drum n’ bass, marrying the genre’s trademark syncopation with the fist-pumping dynamics of hard rock. Far from being dance music purists, they list Led Zeppelin and Queens Of The Stone Age among their key influences, and perform with live instruments, as well as turntables and samplers.
Theirs is quite a dated sound in some ways, reminiscent of the late ‘90s, when the likes of The Prodigy and The Propellerheads were daytime Radio 1 fodder. Indeed, it’s Radio 1 who are largely responsible for Pendulum’s recent success. Heavy rotation from Zane Lowe powered debut album Hold Your Colour to 100, 000 sales. Not bad for an independent release.
Now signed to Warners, Pendulum return with Granite, a typically frenetic slab of dancefloor-slaying sturm-und-drang. It’s loud and bulldozing and obnoxious… but, purely as a night out, their live shows are surely preferable to standing around at the Camden Barfly, watching the latest pointy-shoed Libertines clones on the block...
1:17 PM | 12/11/2007
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