The LA summer heat would be absolutely unbearable if it weren’t for two very simple things, awesome pools and kick-ass music. Who better to bring you both at the same time than Modular Records? Our 1st of 3 summer pool parties is kicking off at The Standard Hotel in Hollywood on Saturday, July 26th with DJ sets by Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Health, DJ Kid Lightning, and Jordan Z. FREE with RSVP!
Like the majority of acts mooching around downtown LA venue the Smell, DiS has become rather enamoured with Abe Vigoda of late. As we head into December, it’s customary to the point of reflex to stop running, turn around and survey the wreckage of the last 12 months; glee and horror and all. First came No Age, in which Randy Randall and Dean Spunt were forced to slim previous outfit Wives and returned looking fitter than ever; pop, but with just enough noise on their bones to give us something to hang on to. Then, in whatever order, Mika Miko, Barr, the Mae Shi and more all stripped off pieces of our collective heart before HEALTH clattered into view in autumn and we thought that, surely, would be our lot.
No – Vigoda are great; self-proclaimed tropical punks lighting up what they claim unashamedly as their scene, lighting up England’s dark, November, concrete days, lighting up Christmas shopping like a Caribbean holiday brochure in the rubble of tack and toy. Full of youth and play, the quartet tune their guitars tight to steel-pan effect, teach drummer Reggie Guerrero to drum soca on turtle shells, record the thing, take it to the beach, bury it in sand and wait.
We’ve dug up this, an exclusive download of the act's forthcoming and still-in-production third album. Heading off into the weekend and the grey and grit of London, we'll be using it to stave off the pangs of pranging down we’re catching from the Burial record and all this inane Christmas lighting. Which hometown are Abe Vigoda tracking? “NAUGHTYVILLE, California, United States”.
Gimme gamelan, fuck Roy Wood.
Drownload: Abe Vigoda - Dead City / Waste Wilderness
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- Kev Kharas
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