And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Don't you love "hilariously" long band names? This first release from a band I'm going to abbreviate to AYWKUBTTOD (pronounced "eyew'k-ubt'tod," I have decided) would seem bold, exciting and dangerous to local Texan audiences that weren't familiar with Mogwai, and although it does essentially take on the exact same sound as those angry young Scots, it does so with a tad more accessibility and weirdly sounds even more like British indie rock as a result. As an early, prominent example of post-rock, another genre now stagnating through millions of copy-cat acts, AYWKUBTTOD use the traditional rock instruments of guitar, bass, drums and voice, ...  Read the complete review

This album to be frank is f**king amazing, a brilliant debut, slightly stranger than the follow up 'Madonna', strange is usually good however. Don't be put off by the fact it only has 8 tracks, each of these is a masterpiece, ranging from the truly rawk-tastic 'Richter Scale Madness', to the beautiful 'Half of What' to the very dark 'Novena Without Faith'. What is truly wonderful about both Trail of Dead albums has to be the raw emotion behind the lyrics and the music, which is mixed together to create what can only be described as beautiful noise. The album starts as it means to go on with 'Richter Scale Madness', ...  Read the complete review