Ten Kens - Refined
With a name so twee, you would be forgiven for imagining Ten Kens to be some playful geek-pop combo –quite possibly all sharing the same forename. The pummeling ear-ringing truth could be barely be any further away.
The band’s carefully orchestrated noise is more akin to Sonic Youth playing Love covers and spaghetti western themes with gothic wails and lyrics so disfigured, even their own mother wouldn’t recognize them.
The band’s forthcoming eponymous debut is awash with reverb, much of the it sounds like it was recorded in a cavernous, echoing aircraft hangar with jet engines used to supplement the overdrive-heavy guitar sound.
At the heart of Toronto-based Ten Kens is the partnership between guitarist Dean Tzenos and vocalist Dan Workman, who hooked up in 2003 to jam and experiment, later recruiting bass player Lee Stringle and drummer Ryan Roantree and signing to Fat Cat.
Refined, a track from the album, is at first a much more restrained affair, although the calling cards of reverb and opaque lyrics are there, backed with a haunting Cathedral organ. It also owes much to prog-rock, tying together a suite of different moods until by two and half minutes in you are on a hurtling death-course of molten guitar. Or something.
The album Ten Kens is out on September 15
[You can hear Refined by Ten Kens here]
11:33 AM | 06/08/2008
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