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Soundtrack To Tear Us Apart, the third LP by Atlanta,
Georgia's Young Antiques, cannot help but be the
garage/power-pop trio's best release to date—and there's a few
good reasons why:
Its origins. Engineered by Tim Delaney (Selmanaires,
Swimming Pool Q's) in the basement of Atlanta's historic
Biltmore Hotel, the album is raucous and energetic, focused
and passionate. It features previously unrecorded live show
favorites such as the post-punk scream-a-long "Crown" and the
moody domestic drug-tale "Laws" nestled alongside
newcomers like the angelic power-pop "Tadao Ando" and
noise-guitar stomp "(There Isn't Anything That Means) Nothing
At All."
It's been a long time coming. Singer/songwriter Blake
Rainey and bassist Blake Parris formed the group sometime
around 2000 and soon released their first full-length: Wardrobe
For A Jet Weekend. In 2003, the band recorded and released
Clockworker on the Two Sheds label in Atlanta. But after
supporting both albums touring through the Midwest and up the
northeastern coastline, the 'Tiques entered a forced hiatus as
Clockworker drummer John Speaks exited the group. Rainey
soon went on to release two solo albums (also on the Two
Sheds label) and Parris joined local honky-tonk rockers
Sodajerk.
Pop in to see a random rock show on the Atlanta scene in the
past few years and you'd be hard pressed to not have heard
lament for the 'Tiques long absence. Fortunately, Sodajerk
drummer Kevin Charney convinced the Blakes that they weren't
finished with the project by a long shot, and became the final,
galvanizing piece of the band’s equation in the summer of
2007.
Soundtrack To Tear Us Apart is a forty-minute snapshot of a
talented rock n' roll group picking right back up where they left
off, continuing into the latter half of this decade with the same
energetic stride they had when this new damn century began.
With its own raw and potent mixture of post-punk, new wave, garage rock, and power pop that eerily drifts somewhere between 1977 and 1982 in spirit, The Young Antiques’s compositions tend to be short, catchy, and brash, following the canon of the Ramones, Elvis Costello, the Jam, and the early loud, fast rules of the Minneapolis scene.
2009 Review:
Young Antiques – Soundtrack to Tear Us Apart (Independent)
You’ve got to love a band that can rock out in a song about Japanese architecture, and that’s exactly what you get from Atlanta, Georgia’s Young Antiques. Track two of this beautifully constructed artefact is a paean to Tadao Ando, master of melding nature with modernism. Young Antiques are drawn to the oxymoronic without ever descending to the simply moronic. They are angelically tough and their garage sound deserves to be heard by the outside world. Singer-songwriter Blake Rainey has taken years to develop the Young Antiques’ raucous, energetic and passionate signature. “Laws†sees the tempo drop, but the intensity and sheer class of the operation is upheld. Rainey can switch from the detail of the mundane to huge sweeps of power chords and a keening vocal howl. A note of praise should be sounded for engineer Tim Delaney, who produces with clarity and power. Soundtrack To Tear Us Apart is more than likely to bring people together in praise of the Young Antiques. www.myspace.com/youngantiquesrock
Carl J.
Leicesterbangs.co.uk
BOOKING CONTACT:
BLAKE RAINEY -
[email protected] - 404.207.2389
KEVIN CHARNEY -
[email protected]
Matta Love - November 23rd At the EARL Atlanta GA 2007
