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Read Yellow @ The Soundhaus, Great Russell Street, Northampton, 23.09.04

Read Yellow

They may do little for the Bush campaign but they do at least provide some semblance of continuity for that other missing link: hard, experimental rock. Natasha House has the details...

10/10/2004

Math, maths, tomato, tomato. Whatever, to be American is about as far from cool as you can get these days. Unless you’re from New York, of course (!) And until you’ve heard Read Yellow.

Fifty-five minutes, five songs. Do the math. Read Yellow are probably the coolest thing to come out of Massachusetts since, well, who ever came out of Massachusetts and wrote a load of songs to rival kinsmen the Pixies’ moody intensity or At The Drive-In’s mental experimentalism? From the neck-bulging yelling of frontman Evan Kenney to the fret-scraping and feedback inducing guitarist Jesse Vuona Read Yellow make no apologies for jumping into the crowd and waving their guitars perilously close to people’s heads. A minor problem, less so than the fact that the lyrics too frequently get lost. We know thay’ve got something to say, but don’t hear it until Model America – a crushingly black take on ‘the state of their homeland.’ It’s great to hear an American band translating the sound of their country’s tragic inertia into a great bass-driven damnation of government and governed, instead of a sappy ‘woe is me’ ballad (see Warchild for that).

At times the combination of yelps and atmospherics echoes the similarly politicised At The Drive In, but Read Yellow are unmistakably punk at heart, and not averse to the occasional melody, with female bassist Michelle Freivalddoing the honours with the perfectly balanced ‘The Art’.

At fifteen minutes per song, an encore is out of the question and the charts hardly beckon, but Read Yellow sound important – the missing link between trendy garage rock and hardcore craziness, perhaps. Which is, like, pretty neat.

Relevant sites:
http://www.readyellow.com/



Natasha House for Crud Magazine 2004©

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