Your Black Star + Drum:Kan

Your Black Star + Drum:Kan Artist: Your Black Star , and Drum:Kan
Label: Iron Compass Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 790168514128
EAN: 0790168514128
ASIN: B0002XVS8I


Release Date: 2005-01-04

Your Black Star + Drum:Kan


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Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
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Tracks:

  1. Lousy Smarch Weather - Your Black Star
  2. Medina Sod - Your Black Star
  3. Hell - Your Black Star
  4. Follow the Shark - Your Black Star
  5. Movie Girl - Drum:Kan
  6. Please - Drum:Kan
  7. Spread Wing - Drum:Kan
  8. Speed of Film - Drum:Kan

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars You're on your own.......2005-01-19

Your Black Star have been playing boring post-rock for a while now. They always sounded to me like they couldn't decide if they wanted to sound like Mogwai or Elliott, so they kind of threw the two styles together. Don't get me wrong, Your Black Star has always been a great band and I've enjoyed their music. It's just that honesty and this new split with Drum:Kan has forced me to realize what my friends had always told me: Your Black Star was boring. Keyword = was.

The opening song, Lousy Smarch Weather, rocks more than anything the band has ever written. It sounds like a B-side from U. S. Songs era Elliott. The drums are gigantic and the guitar plays around gracefully while the bass hides in the back, keeping pace the whole while. Your Black Stars vocalist has a slightly annoying voice but I enjoy it. Think Chris Higdon from Elliott if his voice wasn't so high and he had a cold. And liked to sing thorugh his nose. the thrid song Hell rocks it like I always knew Your Black Star could, a rock song that lasts longer than five minutes and still manages to hold my intrest. Even the re-recorded song Meina Sod sounds more full, more realized. It sounds alive compared to the version found on Grateful Nation.

It seems that the addition of former Elliott member Kevin Ratterman has breathed new life into Your Black Star. Their sound has been given a jolt of energy. Before, with their last effort, it felt like their sound was a foggy haze of rock without much kick and a was a collection of mundane but still enjoyable songs. Maybe it's the production, maybe it's the inclusion of Kevin, maybe the band has just grown. Now instead of sounding like a poor immitation of Elliott they sound like a really good immitation of Elliott with a little bit of their own style added in. While the reason the band has changed remains unlcear, the promise of a killer long player coming from this Louisville band is certain.

Drum:Kan I had never heard of before. They are from Japan I think. They sound like a bland indie rock band from Japan. They're pretty good but I couldn't get into their sound. I think it's the vocalist, it's just strange to hear him singing in English. It sounds like it's forced or too difficult. I dunno, just not my cup of tea. They covered Elliott's Speed of Film which is a fine song.

Music Album:

  1. Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists
  2. No Guts...No Glory ~ Molly Hatchet
  3. Making Tributes Is Easy: The Ultimate Tribute to Radiohead ~ Various Artists
  4. Gothsmack: A Gothic Acoustic Tribute to Gothsmack ~ Various Artists
  5. All Their Best ~ Atlanta Rhythm Section
  6. She's Gone ~ Hall & Oates
  7. How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
  8. Shinjin Kreva ~ Kreva
  9. Believe in Angels Believe in Me ~ Angel
  10. Electric ~ The Cult

Music Album

Music Album

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Something to Ponder ~ Jimmy Ponder

Wild Root ~ Woody Herman With Charlie Byrd

The Value of Mistrust ~ Crash & Burn

The Finest of Hard-Rock, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists

Piazza Del Campo: Live in Siena ~ Pfm

Com Voce... Meu Mundo Ficaria Completo ~ C%C3%A1ssia Eller

Chantent Starmania ~ Enfoires

Estrada Nova ~ Oswaldo Montenegro

Mio Fratello E'Figlio Unico ~ Rino Gaetano

Pytania Do Ksiezyca ~ Edyta Geppert