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On its full-length 2007 debut for the revered Matador label, the trio Love of Diagrams offers up an assured set of angular rock. The Melbourne, Australia-based band is clearly influenced by distortion-loving acts such as Sonic Youth and Fugazi, as well as the classic U.K. post-punks that first introduced the concept of "angular" to rock's musical lexicon. The group, fronted by vocalists Antonia Sellbach and Luke Horton, excels at urgent, restless tunes that often pit Sellbach's rumbling bass lines against Horton's searing guitar riffs (see "The Pyramid"), making MOSIAC ideal for those who appreciate aggressive, off-kilter indie-rock.
Melbourne's Love Of Diagrams have been making their mark on the Australian music scene since 2003, with two frenetic, angular EPs, a 7" and an album on the Unstable Ape label. Now after two trips to the US and Europe, they have signed a worldwide deal with Matador. The band's sound reflects the experimentation of No Wave and the immediacy and off-kilter tunefulness of classic UK post-punk. Their stripped-down guitar-bass-drums racket and call-andresponse vocals emit a wonderfully controlled urgency. 'Mosaic', was recorded in Chicago at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio Studios with legendary producer Bob Weston (Shellac, Mission of Burma).
Composers: Sellbach; Horton.
Love of Diagrams: Luke Horton (guitars); Antonia Sellbach (bass instrument); Monika Fikerle (background vocals).
Personnel: Bob Weston (loops). Love Of Diagrams Mosaic Songs Mosaic Review
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Australian trio the Devastations debut with Coal, an album steeped in the outback-gothic vibe perfected by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. A similar set of influences is at play in the Devastations sound: the Gun Club, Bryan Ferry, Lee Hazelwood. (On a more recent tip, American Music Club and Elliott Smith are also worth mentioning, especially in lead singer Conrad Standish's strained croon; "The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying" is a particularly Mark Eitzel-like performance.) Although plainly derivative of their shared influences, the Devastations do make each song their own, through unexpected touches like the playful rhythm box samba beat that animates the opening "Sex and Mayhem" and the Western twang-guitar shuffle of "Take You Home." That said, an entire album's worth of little other than low-register vocals, minor-key tunes and self-consciously minimalist arrangements does get a bit draggy by the final third. ~ Stewart Mason
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