DEAFCULT‘s Auras made it into every Best of 2017 Shoegaze list I came across, but I wonder if they named ‘Echoes’ for the not-so-subtle throwback to pinkshinyultrablast‘s BTWF*-era ‘Blaster’
*BTWF = Before They Were Famous
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Balms vs. Nothing
You have to wonder if in naming their track ‘Nothing In’, Balms aren’t giving a tip of the hat to the band of the same name (that’d be Nothing) whose track, ‘Fever Queen’ opens the best album of 2016.
While I agree that My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus and Mary Chain should be exempt from any and all soundalike competitions, the sheer audacity of The Sorry Shop’s ‘Anxiety’ as it rubs up against a (probably oblivious) ‘You Made me Realise’ makes this comparison worth a listen.
NB: Added lols for ‘Anxiety’ itself being a cover of the Ramones.
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Kennedy Green vs. The Field Mice
If not, then it’s probably because it’s illegal to sound too much like The Field Mice.
its name is not worth listening to. It’s nothing personal, it’s a
principle I apply to ‘kids’ and ‘hands’ in band names as well.
Something about a lack of creativity in a name likely to reflect in
the music.
You can imagine I’m not the biggest Yeah Yeah Yeahs fan. That’s
why I needed someone else (My Favourite German™) to point out this
resemblance I know their song ‘Maps’, of course, but the name always
makes me think of the band Maps, which is unfortunate because
it makes the song a disappointment before it even starts.
Anyway, I’m not here to critique songs, least of all for no fault of
their own. If anything, the YYYs are the ‘good guys’ here because it’s
The Twilight Sad‘s ‘That Summer, At Home I Had Become The
Invisible Boy’, released four years later, that mimics their opening
percussion. Then again, it could be the beat is so common, it’s just
validating my principle of unoriginal name, unoriginal sound.
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Tamaryn vs. Verve
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Brief Candles vs. Mansun
Please, please tell me which Mansun song the first track is. Please,
please, please it’s driving me out of my mind.
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Ambulance Ltd. vs The Cardigans
Let’s go for a twofer, shall we?
As you recall I last said that Ambulance Ltd. were an unwitting guilty pleasure because of the inescapable poppiness of their songs. From the same LP as the last I give you ‘Sugar Pill’. A fantastic song with a hook that eluded me for months till a eureka moment last week pinned it atop the Cardigans‘ ‘Erase/Rewind’.
Pop!
Take for example, the first track on their LP… a song called ‘Heavy
Lifting’. Its remarkable similarity to the second-most mainstream
indie-band in the world (The Flaming Lips) ‘s most mainstream
song (‘Do You Realise??’) is unmistakable.
In this post-modern age, you’d think bands would know better to engage in the search engine gaffes that no doubt plague such blameless acts as The Who, The Band and The The to this very day by picking such ungoogleable names as…. Then.
Admirably unwilling to bend to the demands of publicity, this Macedonian-Catalan (! wtf !) duo are responsible for Happy Cloud – a wonderful EP that I am happy to help spruik by leading you to their last.fm profile from where you can nick the tracks for the princely sum of $0. Also helping them/Then out is the remarkable similarity their song ‘Oblivion 2’ shares with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s ‘Wisdom’.
I can’t point out precisely what makes the two songs sound alike, but even if I’m imagining this, the mishmash still makes for a lovely listen.