Dinosaur Pile-Up - My Rock’n’Roll
In Jurassic Park, scientists use blood from a mosquito preserved in amber to recreate a host of long dead lizards. It’s all vaguely pointless. Now imagine those same boffins put their knowledge to better use, dredging up the DNA of a long extinct lifeform – grunge – to create a new living, breathing beast. Dinosaur Pile-Up would be the result of that genetic jiggery-pokery.
The Leeds based three-piece combine the chugging guitars wielded by Soundgarden and Helmet and meld them with big drums, a Cobain-esque mastery of quiet/loud/quiet dynamics and Matt Bigland’s slightly sedated slacker drawl.
First single, My Rock’n’Roll is a big, dumb celebration of rock itself, chugging along in joyful circles before breaking out into a chaotic conclusion. Meanwhile, the b-side, a demo version of future festival anthem Love Is A Boat And We’re Sinking hammers its central analogy hard, taking a brittle guitar figure and double tracked vocals and twisting them into a perverted version of Pavement.
With Foo Fighters apparently avoiding these shores for the foreseeable future, there was a vacancy for purveyors of crunchy power pop. Dinosaur Pile-Up, the job’s yours.
Mic Wright
10:37 AM | 01/12/2008
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