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09 10 31
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Modern Creatures, White Cuts, and Nu Lines, covering the Misfits at the Media Club, October 30, 2009.

Misfit makeup is so fun, skulls so close to raccoons or something else adorable. Nu Lines spat out five songs, making me wish more bands had two lead singers. Scotty and Bruce held down their usual spots while Andrea got occasionally lost on bass, sans vocals. Daniel and Ryan didn’t bother splitting the vocals, stepping on each other’s toes, meshing surprisingly well with their combined combined charisma.

I’m not much of a Misfits fan. I’ve got Earth A.D. and Walk Among Us on cassette but I’m listening to the Black Album instead. I love Attitude, but that’s ‘cuz of 666, not Beware or Bullet.

Where Eagles Dare was my grad song. I thought my grad song was actually Graduation by Kanye West, but I just looked it up and realized that’s an album, not a song… Probably it was Good Morning. I wasn’t there to hear it, ‘cuz I ditched dancing at Canada Place to go to the Emergency Room, where Defektors ended the comp release at 4 or so with Where Eagles Dare.

White Cuts didn’t have mannequins with them, but they did play both of those. Thanks!

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08 11 08
Modern Creatures - Thick Thick Black

Modern Creatures - Thick Thick Black

Modern Creatures - Thick Thick Black
Grotesque Modern 2007 (GROSSMOD04)

Basically, this record is a solid, danceable retread of the faster side of bleak post-punk. Modern Creatures have a surprising level of dynamism for having two basses, and it works for this EP, but it remains to be seen if it could last for an entire album.

Despite and because of the spot-on aural aesthetic, it all sounds the same. Thick Thick Black and To a Crowd sound uncannily similar. Luckily, all three tracks are decent songs, made better by an interesting narrative. The title track was written and recorded, and then subsequently lost. The creatures tried to rewrite it with Time to Go, realized that they were way off, pumped out To a Crowd, and then rediscovered the original song. I just invented that story, but the more I think about it, the more it sounds true.

Thick Thick Black is a fun, disposable record that’ll get thrown on at some parties, especially towards the end of October. Emergency Room completists probably need it, but it’s by no means an essential, even within that scene.

MP3 - Modern Creatures Time to Go

A1: Thick Thick Black
A2: Time to Go
B: To a Crowd

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