The Lepers

Reviews of The Lepers' Caulfield Records release, The Love from Above:
"The Lepers are a two piece of drums and guitar that manages to make a sound quite large and significant. Comparisons to the darker more experimental sides of Sonic Youth, Unwound, and Birthday Party will be the most obvious.
The Love From Above is probably only intended for people with an open mind, as far as music goes. There isn't much to sing along with, rarely occasion to pump a fist in the air, and only random opportunity to tap the foot. If one is able to look past the initial lack of friendliness, this CD can become a welcome and handy evil buddy, replete with darkness, brooding, and peril throughout.
"Feel The Love" is the album's first proper song, and the guitars and very warm, ringy, and highly creepy, and sound very similar to the guitar tone used by Sonic Youth for their Evol album. The drumming is tribal, and the vocals, strangely enough, sound like the lead singer of math-metal rockers System of a Down, without the weird accent.
"Instrumental" is probably my favorite song from the album; the tribal drumming, bizarre guitar lines, and overall feel of the song remind me of the late Babes In Toyland's instrumental songs. The Lepers really cut loose on this song, too, spending a minute pounding away on a riff with some really dirty sounding distorted guitar work, whilst the drummer goes insane!
The Love From Above will make fans of math rock, art rock, and some goth kids very happy. I love the completely downtrodden and black nature of this album; it's as if the world is at its worst for the 60 or so minutes that this album lasts. One hundred percent recommended for fans of the moodier side of life."
Daniel Mitchell, INK 19
"Grade: A For a band with only a guitar player and drummer, The Lepers are full of variety. Their dynamic ranges from softly sung and played songs to outpourings of immense volume that might make you uncomfortable, like being in the room with your friend as his family is in the middle of some huge domestic dispute; if they weren't done so well. This same band configuration is how Lowercase started out, and there are actually some similarities between the songwriting and certainly with intensity, except this is more like later Lowercase without the bass. All told, any cd that begins with a track called "Finale" that is an intense instrumental piece is going to be worth checking out, and luckily for the Lepers, the rest of the cd is just as good. The Lepers fill the void of amazing bands like Unwound, Engine Kid and Lowercase who aren't around anymore, bands who know that it's just as important to be loud as can be as it is to be able to write a good song that doesn't have to rely on volume to be good."
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