Music:
Member Since: 14/10/2007
Band Members: Matthew Jenkins
Nick Di Lena
Sounds Like: "The Sound is thick and sticky as tar and not that drowned in feedback as other bands from this genre.
Vocals are also more in the foreground and not that drowsy with both male and female lead.
But the guitars, well they are for sure drowned in fuzz.
Cool record with really cool stand-out tracks as "Black Black Smoke" and "Do it again" -
especially the latter has a black black groove."
The really trippy stuff is also to be found in a song like "Perfect Precription".
Low Cut Magazine/Webzine-Copenhagen.
****/5
"The Scientists at their swampiest and Television at their most raw are two of my most favorite things and this unknown combo from Perth (aka The World's Most Isolated Capital City) invoke both in as many songs.
Sounds like they've listened to a lot of Velvets inbetween Spaceman 3 albums with style of fuzzy psychedlia that comes on like a cross between a foggier "Loaded" and a hazy Alex Chilton bender. Jesus and the Mary Chain are an obvious reference point too but The Long Strides don't seem to have their gazes fixed on their shoes as much as on their fuzz pedals.
If the thought of listening to a psych album scares you because it recalls interminably long passages of noodling and backward-masked guitar, fear not. These tunes are short and straight to the point with 11 songs clockming in at just over half-an-hour. You won't be disappointed - The Barman"
Webzine/1-94-Sydney.
****1/2
Record Label: Off The Hip
Type of Label: Indie
