The Tubs
- Sexta-feira, outubro 2
- 19:00-23:00
- The Joiners 141 Saint Mary Street, Southampton SO14 1NS, Reino Unido
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Cotton Crown is a level up album which sees the band expand their sonic palette to take in a range of influences: everything from soulful pub rock to Husker Du aggression to melancholy Smiths-like pop gets a look in. As Pitchfork noted, The Tubs see jangle as a vast world of moods and muses and Cotton Crown sees them continuing to explore this world and creating a distinct Tub-ular sound in the process. This is in no small part down to Owen O Williams’ vocal performance, often compared to a young Richard Thompson, and his frank, bleakly funny lyric writing with a palpable sense of risk in his self assessments and confessions.
The trick Cotton Crown plays is to offset Williams’ lyrical bleakness with hook-laden blasts of pop. This is largely down to the guitar work of George Nicholls, who, across the album, slips between the jangle of Marr, the driving folk-rock of Pentangle and the chorus-heavy hi-fi grooves of contemporary bands like Tops or The 1975. Add to that the rhythm section of Taylor Stewart (drums) and Max Warren (bass), who attack each song with power-pop ferocity, recalling Guided by Voices, and you get a focused recipe for indie rock.
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The Joiners
141 Saint Mary Street, Southampton SO14 1NS, Reino Unido