The trio mixes and matches indie rock with noise and takes the best of bands such as The Verve and The Strokes, turns them on their heads and comes up with a scowling, psychedelic, new wave-tinged assortment of sounds that kick serious butt.
Pounding in with trademark snarling B.M.R.C. -- sounding tunes Stop and Six Barrel Shotgun, events take a turn for the out of the ordinary shortly thereafter, when the trio's slow, rhythmical and psychedelic 1960s-based We're All In Love ambles in.
What follows are nine tracks in which Peter Hayes, Robert Turner and Nick Jago prove that B.M.R.C. is more than just you're common or garden garage band.
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Fei Hsiang Yang Guang Fei Hsiang Ni (
Fei Records
While the nation is not short of testosterone fuelled youths more than willing to amp up an electric guitar and a distortion box, very few have the talent to pull it off with the necessary conviction or believability.
Taiwan's newest indie label, Fei Records, however, has found a bunch of bands that (although their nice middle-class members have little to rebel about) do have the chutzpah to try and pull it off. And several of the bands actually do a decent job.
Fei Hsiang Yang Guang Fei Hsiang Ni (廢向陽光廢向你) features tunes by seven bands, Reproduction (複製人), Fire Extinguisher (滅火器), Land of Mess (混亂之島), The Nerve Band (神經樂隊), Silly What? Fire Extinguisher (滅火器), Oi and Liberty System (自由式).
The album might have its ups and downs, yet the material is what it claims to be -- punk rock -- and nothing but. Highlights include Reproduction's Question Mark, a tune that proves that the popular punkers are easily Taiwan's answer to Indianapolis' hardcore act Toxic Reasons, Oi's Let's Break the Law (想一下犯法呀), a number with an offensive chorus and the clout of Sham 69, and Fire Extinguisher's catchy rabble rouser, Let's Go.
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