Friday, May 6, 2011

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Arlo

STAB THE UNSTOPPABLE HERO (2002)

I thought a bit of fresh power-pop will not wrong to jump right into the weekend and so I have chosen for today another huge catalog endless references Sub Pop The main reason I decided to buy this album from the band from Los Angeles (California) was its origin label, as it always is synonymous with quality for this illustrious publication stamp we all know to be the first 'home' largest quarry Nirvana and grunge movement. I saw it tucked away in a drawer mess (mostly because I was totally messed up) of a record store downtown paltry five hundred pesetas, and we were still immersed in the foreign exchange and had not yet finished entering the euro in final form, and most surprising was that by the year of issue had to be a very recent album, maybe even just days before he was put on the shelf of developments in the extortionate price, but the fact is that if he had purchased under such other circumstances would have been just as happy because it was quite a find to take him blindly. Little known, since it is quite difficult to find information about them and I do not know if still active, Arlo do (or did) an alternative rock purpose of power-pop that feels like a welcome shot of adrenaline Vitamins, boundless rhythms and catchy melodies, with bouts of optimism and carefree, which traps the second in this second job that brought a couple of changes in training and was defined at the time as a treaty influenced by the imagery of Guided By Voices, The Ramones and Pixies. Twelve Songs exciting, fast-paced and full of energy, among which include the original "Little American" with the punk-rock base and those vocal play halfway and Teenage Fanclub The Posies, the guitar "Working title", with powerful hard-rock riffs and a chorus bright and sober at the time he can bring to mind Fountains Of Wayne, the rowdy "Runaround," which crushes the ropes to give you the strength just a few verses that stand out for their round lucidity, the eponymous "Stab the unstoppable hero," the first break that we provide although not lose the pulse under stress style, a tad closer to the ideology of early Weezer, the sensational "Culture", without a doubt my favorite of the group and, of course, start with that disk and that exuberance sweeping coral as well feel enjoy the nice "Stoned", which in its harmony rock leaves a sweet taste with their flirty vocal play so close to the brightness of The Beach Boys as a remembrance of the sixties spirit that today evoke The New Pornographers, the amusing "Bus Stop" with some accommodation and trend acoustic pop with a touch balanceable, the restless "Temperature", where the hair loose and leave no instrumentally speaking puppet head with a rate of constant battery, sharp and furious guitars and a Sonic Youth one hundred percent to accompany these melodies that could have signed Canadians Sloan in its infancy, "Too sick to tango", with a sound that defines the imagery of the band and strongly penetrating inside the listener, and "Up", where they have the luxury collaboration Josh Schwartz, Beachwood Sparks guitarist then and formerly was in the great FUTH, and that brings its bit to make this an enviable debt cut classic rocker. A good album. Arlo was formed by Nathaniel Greely, Sean Spillane, Ryan "Shmedly" Maynes and Tom Sanford.

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