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Modey Lemon - Thunder & Lightning |
 Modey Lemon are a two-piece from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and 'Thunger +
Lightning' is their second release from Birdman records. The album is a hash of fast
track drumming, painfully good vocals - so raw and crude that it makes you sweat
listening to it. It's all these nme bands stripped naked to the bare essentials: a
microphone, a keyboard, some guitars and a drum kit. It's a total paradox of beauty
but that's what makes it unique from other albums, it's produced and exists purely
for the love of it all.
Phill Boyd's vocals echo the gore and gritty wrath of Kurt Cobain and Paul
Quattrones drums sound like they're gonna take off. The first single off the album 'Predator' hides nothing, a perfect introduction of what to expect of the album: lust, sex, drugs, love, hate, and err, electronic sorcerers. 'Tongues' is a beautiful and sexy love poem that's been attacked with a sledgehamme of glorious speed drumming and pure rock and roll guitar, accompanied with smotehered vocals. 'Electronic Sorcerer', I mean, what the hell is this all about?! The oppresive fear of a social society that's ever so slowly becoming dependent on machines? Or too much acid on a Saturday night? You decide, I'll just accep it's aceness.
Just because one may compare this album to a corn beef hash of artistic instrumental energy, doesn't mean it's a tremendous effort.
Because it is.
Christina McConnell |
| Coding: Darren Burrows