RRR | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 17 February 2013 - 9:43pm

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Artist:

Hey Colossus

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a_108

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Year:

2 011

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0000

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Track-listing:

Teased From The Nest*The Drang*RRR*Rotated For Success*Almeria, Spain*Warmer The Belter*I Am Bunga Bunga

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Nominator:

Bean

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m_40

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Spotify-URL:

0GLJndkLHL0v2TfvtZUgct

Short-title:

RRR

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u_13

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

MusicBrainz-URL:

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album

Discogs-URL:

Hey-Colossus-RRR/master/333948

Allmusic-URL:

rrr-mw0002156378

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

4-7

Kraut, post punk, sludge doom, death metal. Whatever you want to call it, I think this band have found a niche of their own which isn't completely alike to anything else out there. That in itself is an achievement.

I find the album very hypnotic, and can easily drift off carried by the wonderfully layered sounds they produce. I like the fact that there are very few chord changes, that they create trance like grooves, and that there's no proper lyrics - just layered vocals which act is instruments in their own right. This is in fact the closest 'rock alternative' I've found to psychedelic trance.
71

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Come on your RRRrrrrs

1-7

This album is unusual in that you could describe at as having a loud, aggressive, overdriven sound but it is actually non intrusive. It can work as background colouring without you feeling distracted by overall structural changes, as there aren't really any. They don't attempt a lot in terms of musical development but they don't really put a foot wrong in what they do. What they have achieved is interesting textured treatments, with found sounds, samples and effects and nicely obfuscated vocals. There is a good ebb and swell to the sound, without there being any sharp changes – instead a quite effective barrage of noise. I think the drumming helped, as well, by largely keeping low key. Interesting one this.
66

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Hey Hey (My My), Noise rock will never die

If they applied their sound to some more hooky laden material they'd be in business. Sounds a little too much like a jam session still.
64

reviewed by

Richard Norbury