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MURDER BY GUITAR
"Rock Bottom" EP 33RPM 7"
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WAVE MAGAZINE (USA) OCTOBER 2006 Sometimes we record reviewers have
to admit that we just aren't that smart. Hell, sometimes we aren't even necessary!
And I'm alright with that. If a label guy does a far better job describing a
release than I ever could, I don't fight it. I don't attempt the slightest one-upmanship.
I just raise my beer in the air and say, "Right on!" Of its latest
and greatest 7-inch release, Alien Snatch says, "Murder By Guitar has the
magic like the Real Kids would back Roky Erickson on Teenage Head songs."
RIGHT ON! That description is fucking PERFECT! Why even bother coming up with
one of my own? Murder By Guitar features two members of Swedish garage-punk
sensations The Locomotions - Martin Savage and Loco Lopez (along with drummer
Rikard Johansson). Both men are billed as singers here. And the vocals on this
record are totally effing great! They're delivered with a passion and emotion
rarely heard in the powerpop genre. They're screamed, but not in a hardcore
or emo way. I'm reminded more of those classic soul singers who poured their
hearts, guts, and darkest demons into every single note they sang. As the above
description suggests, the sound is mid-tempo powerpop with a '77 punk rock n'
roll feel. I'm reminded quite a bit, actually, of the very first Alien Snatch
Records band – The johnnies. You know – it's pop, and it's punk,
but it's not pop-punk. But Murder By Guitar is a really unique-sounding band.
There's something different here - something I can't quite put my finger on.
I can definitely see fans of the Exploding Hearts getting into this group, because
both bands used the punk/powerpop form to express meaningful, deep-from-the-heart
sentiment. "Rock Bottom" and "Wrong Side of Town" are simply
amazing songs - memorable, unbelievably catchy, and dripping with raw emotion.
I sense a dark undercurrent running through this group's music. This sure ain't
happy-go-lucky sugar pop! These fellas sing as if life has totally kicked them
in the ass and left them for dead, lying in the gutter, but they have survived
and roared back with a vengeance. I can relate. Along with the last Mojomatics
EP (which also came out on Alien Snatch!), this is the best 7-inch I've heard
all year. There's a full-length Murder By Guitar album on the way, and I can't
fucking wait to hear it! (JR)
HIGH HEELS SLUT #6 (BELGIUM) AUGUST 2007 Yet another one the countless bands and project Martin Savage continues to spawn. In Murder By Guitar he teams up with one of his former bandmates from the Locomotions (and who also used to be in the Sons Of Cyrus). With this new effort they leave the broken blues and fucked up rawk’n’roll approach of their previous bands and head for something different. Let’s start at the flip this time with “I’ll Be Gone” and “Wrong Side Of Town”, two cool songs that sound like a powerpop rendition of Dead Moon. “Rock Bottom” on the A-side is a midtempo tune that lacks the Dead Moon reference and just sticks with powerpop. A nice surprise!(WC)
INCOGNITO
(GERMANY) SEP 2006 Die legendären CRIME aus San Francisco hatten einen Songtitel Namens "Murder By Guitar" der bestens zu ihrem schneidenden Gitarren-Sound paßte. Die schwedischen MURDER BY GUITAR haben zwar keinen ganz so extremen Gitarren-Sound, killen einen dafür aber mit äußerst hitverdächtigem Songwriting. Ihre musikalische Mischung aus Powerpop Punk und Garage, erinnert an frühe REAL KIDS, TEENAGE HEAD wie auch an die SONS OF CYRUS, was kein Wunder ist, denn deren früherer Gitarrist LOCO LOPEZ ist neben MARTIN SAVAGE auch im Lineup von MURDER BY GUITAR. Neben dem überdurchschnittlichen "Rock Bottom", enthält die 7" mit "I'll Be Gone" und "Wrong Side Of Town" zwei weitere rauhe Powerpop Punk'n'Roll Überflieger. Kommt in fester farbiger Papphülle mit Artwork von MARTIN SAVAGE (ALIEN
SNATCH)
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It ! (FRANCE) OCT 2006 Une livraison garage en diable avec variantes trash, pop et punk selon les paliers. Prenez *Murder By Guitar* par exemple, le groupe de Martin Savage et Loco Lopez, soit les deux tiers des Suédois Locomotions, on dirait des Real Kids saisis par la débauche trash ! Martin chante à tir tendu et démontre des talents de mélodiste et guitariste (tubesque "I'll Be Gone") pas toujours forcément mis en avant sur ses précédents méfaits (encore que, avec les Locomotions...). Sur l'autre face de ce EP 3 titres, c'est Mr Lopez qui dirige les opérations et le champ d'action est identique : trash pop fièvreuse et feeling cahotique convolent pour un "Rock Bottom"* dont l'intro est un clin d'oeil déglingué au "All Kindsa Girls" de qui vous savez. Un album est en préparation.
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