Showing posts with label Triffids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Triffids. Show all posts
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
The Triffids- Beautiful Waste and Other Songs: Mini Masterpieces 1983-1985 (2008) MP3 & FLAC
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Triffids- Treeless Plain (1983) MP3 & FLAC -For common01-
"Even people in love get hit by bullets."
During the late seventies and early eighties, there were few places as fertile as Australia when it came to innovative alternative music. While bands such as The Church and The Go-Betweens managed to experience brief flirtations with commercial success outside of their homeland, many other fine bands went virtually unnoticed, especially in the U.S. The Triffids more or less exemplified this unfortunate situation, despite having been one of the more interesting and singular bands to emerge from Australia during the eighties. Combining the darker inclinations of bands like The Velvet Underground and Television with the same American country-blues influences serving The Birthday Party as main muse, The Triffids were peerless at conveying a sense of stark desolation through the melodic structure of a pop song. Their debut LP, Treeless Plain, finds David McComb and co. still feeling their way toward their finest work, but there are, nevertheless, flashes of the brilliance to come peeking around every corner. For example, the album kicks things off with a stunner, "Red Pony"; with strings vaguely evoking the Middle-East and McComb's off-kilter croon, the song sounds something like Nick Cave fronting The Church. On "Hanging Shed," the band moves into darker territory in a way reminiscent of The Birthday Party, but then the song takes a surprising turn with a hooky chorus that manages to make the gloom all their own. While not The Triffids' best album, Treeless Plain is, nevertheless, an under-appreciated chapter in the discography of a vastly under-appreciated band.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
The Triffids- "Wide Open Road" Video (1986)
An absolute gem from a sublime and (at least here in the States) ridiculously under-appreciated Australian band. More on the way...
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