April 23, 2010
The Daily Choice: Disappears - Magics
There’s a sort of knife-edge punk amidst the roiling waves of noise that make up the foundations of Disappears’ multi-hued sound. The vocals on tracks like “Magic” aren’t the sing-songy melody you’d perhaps associate the pulsating tremolo of kraut-rock influenced drone-psych like this. Oh no, the monotone holler that slices like a switchblade through the repeater fuzz is almost pure spiked-leather punk rock. I want to turn this music on in the background as I smoke a tightly rolled joint just as much as I want have this blasting from cracked speaker boom box as I comb up my mohawk and caress the words stab-tatted on my knuckles.

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May 5th, 2010 15:09
[...] guitar whirlwinds (here’s an .mp3 for “Gone Completely” from their website and another from Sound on the Sound, “Magics”). I could tell just how much Case influences the Ponys’ moody and rhythmic garage-pop with [...]