High Town - The Knockouts,
Clod Magazine and Luton Haiku
DROWNED UFO Return:
"Meets Honda Dealer"Drowned UFO's long-awaited cracked-fi weird sound second release is ready for you. Korean pop enthusiasts will find all the details they need on the main UFO site.
New from Simon Bish & Petit Mort
(High Town endorsed products)
Excellent debut Lp and edition 5 of filthy mag respectively.
DIARY DATES
The Knockouts play
The Hat Factory, Luton on Thursday 14 October 2010.
Other bands tbc.
Alternative Press Fair
Clod Magazine returns; our favourite event
Sunday 28 November 2010, Euston, London
A few live Knockouts cds, Live at The Turf
Club, featuring a turn the Knockouts did in June 2009 should still be
availably with issue 12 of the unerringly excellent
Ice Cream For Quo magazine.
The
mag is available for £1.25 only, via THIS LINK. We would suggest you mention you're after
The KO cd, as they will run out. Also of note for people new to Ice
Cream for Quo is edition 11, which has an extensive interview with The
Knockouts.
The Knockouts' Honolulu Suncream (2009)
number 12 in Mike Bradshaw's Seasonal Sixty
Paypal via this website (cd; better quality), OR download.
"It sounds like a distorted motorway." - Rebecca Fall
"It sounds like a robot chewing with no teeth." - Benjamin Fall
RAUCOUS, PRIMITIVE RACKET Topplers Records
"the intro sound isn't cool, only annoying. The un-tightness of it isn't cool either. ...... When the song actually kicks off, the one sound I like is the guitar, that is, during his chord playing. The drums sound awful, not just lo-fi. That bass sound—whatever it is—continues to break my balls throughout..... it is just too poorly executed for me to enjoy it." An Adrian album's review poster re: Zinc
a lurching lolloping groove of stumbling garage moves and brevitous kraut chug and unweedy rough traderry. if an austrian wrong-brained man-mental had locked the fall, swell maps and link wray in his hell-cellar and forced them to incestuously breed for generations what would come crawling out of this depraved bodily fluid soaked primal soup would be the knockouts Cows Are Just Food
effortlessly joyful and it made me want to dance drunkenly around the room and nothing ever makes me want to dance, drunkenly or otherwise Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Very possibly the best album released in 2009.....a wonderful collision of sparkling garagey rock with a real groove-based pop mentality. .... like a boxer who dances as he punches your lights out...... It's like the best bits of The Monkees, Neu, The Fall and Link Wray, with only the most minimal vocals on a couple of tracks........ let a little suncream into your life. Dazzling. Dave Gilmour's cat
a listenable fusion of sorts that doesn't annoy but just sounds like pure goodness. For fans of Devo, The Cramps, At the Drive in and Vhs or Beta this may just be the listen you have been waiting for Punk Rock, Hardcore and Ska Music Resource n Review
'The Knockouts are to Luton what the pier is to Southend; grand, essential, inextricably moored to its locale, yet severely in need of maintenance and attention. The new album is by turns thrilling, jubilant and life-affirming.'
and devotee of Rossi's famous Ice Cream
acousticatory marvel that is born from the drone of High Town and shaped in the delicate, some may say featherlike, fingers of The Knockouts Paul Curry, PDM Music
Each good album should start with a tune like Test Signal Michael (Cologne)
Knockouts new album / Is Honolulu Suncream. / It's really not bad Luton Haiku
Is it a bit like The Birthday Party meets Suicide meets Gallon Drunk? The title suggests it. Although i would have preferred Honolulu Sunscream. James Turner
Well done. Billy Childish
Not as good as the last album, to be honest. You need some new ideas. DJ Crazy Fish
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