/

The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By.

I feel kinda slow just getting around to this now, but damn. Fucking good. Sounds like a slightly higher-voiced young Nick Cave fronting a garage blues band while consuming copious amounts of whiskey on a pirate ship. And they're Aussies too, which is always a plus.

The Pitchfork review is actually quite apt:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-review ... t-by.shtml

I did an obner search and din't find anything about them here, but i'm pretty sure they'd be quite a few peoples' cup of tea.

i coulda sworn you or someone else mentioned this band before

i'm no Indiana Jones, but i searched briefly and uncovered nothing.

What do you think of them?

Also, we owned you in the basketball at the games on friday night.

its one of the best "indie rock" albums of the year for sure.

word.

whatever, i gave up on NZ basketball years ago

besides, you have a country of what, 20 million? we have a country of not even 4 mil. I hope your proud of yourself.

anyway, ysi a sample song you bastard

Population is no excuse. See America get whipped at Athens?

Anywho:

The Drones - Shark Fin Blues

hPOOp://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3F0 ... KGBIRV3GOT

The opening track, also one of the stronger songs. It brings the rock. I just bought this record this arvo and lhave listened to it thrice in a row. I'm also thinking it could possibly challenge Broken Social Scene for best record of 2005. The album as a whole is very Australian in the themes and topics of the songs, unlike most good Australian music, which seems to try and hide its roots.

hmm not too bad at all

I dont hear that much Cave though, apart from the australianness

thanks

he yelps quite a bit, kinda like boys next door era cave. And in some other songs on the record he sings about an octave lower, so he sounds Cavey.

Pretty good fucken lyrics as well:

Standing on the deck watching my shadow stretch
The sun pours my shadow upon the deck
The waters licking round my ankles now
There ain't no sunshine way way down

I see the sharks out in the water like slicks of ink
Well, there's one there bigger than a submarine
As he circles I look in his eye
I see Jonah in his belly by the campfire light

See the albatross up in the windy lofts
He gets to beating his wings while he sleeps it off
I hear the jettisoned cries from his dreams unkind
Gets to whippin' my ears like a riding crop

The captain once as able as a fink dandy
He's now laid up in the galley like a dried out mink
He's laying dying of thirst and he says or I think
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in

Well you are all my brothers, and you have been kind
But what were you expecting to find?
Now your eyes turn inwards, countenance turns blank
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain
It looks like nothing but the sea and sky remain

I sing na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na

A harpoon's shaft is short and wide
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry
I said, why don't you get down in the sea
Turn the water red like you want to be?

Cause if I cry another tear I'll be turned to dust
No the sharks won't get me they don't feel loss
Just keep one eye on the horizon man, you best not blink
They're coming fin by fin until the whole boat sinks

Fin by fin
Fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin


dude doesn't put it on either. He's from a tiny mining town in Western Australia that is one of the most isolated places in the world. His first girlfriend committed suicide in his van. i don't know, that just makes him seem legit or something...

bump 'cause evreryone should hear this.