BISCUIT

Two guitars, bass and drums. The mighty Young Fresh Fellows dedicated a song to this immortal formula and the four guys in Biscuit have been faithful to it since they started playing together in 1989. Their first band, Blue Bus (which also included an organ player as the guys love the sound of a good old Hammond as well) folded in 1994 after causing a bit of a stir in the Spanish psych garage scene with an album and a few gigs all over the country. Thus, Biscuit was born. Since then, Biscuit have been busy recording three cds, an EP and a bunch of songs for compilations (see discography below) as well as playing wherever they have been invited to. Their last record, Time for answers, appeared in march of 2006 to a raving welcome both by critics (it was chosen record of the month by the prestigious Spanish rock magazine Ruta 66) and audiences. The music of Biscuit has been compared to the likes of the Jam, Soundtracks of our lives, The Hellacopters, The Prisoners or Australian band The Monarchs, but they prefer to simply label it rocknroll music and to the four biscuits that means everything from the Byrds and the Beatles to the MC5 or the Pretty Things. From power pop to hard rock and freakbeat, never forgetting black R&B as the primal foundation of (almost) everything they love to hear and play. In the last few years, Biscuit have shared the stage with and deserved the praise of several top notch national and international bands including British sixties poppers Bronco Bullfrog, American hard rockers Mother Superior, garage-pop next-big-things the Boss Martians or even the recently gone and already missed Arthur Lee. Already working in new songs for a yet unscheduled new record, Biscuit are concentrating most of their efforts in bringing their current song list (which includes songs from their various records as well as covers of Sam & Dave, The Brigands, AC/DC, the Stooges and Les Fleur de Lys) to audiences all over Spain and (soon, they hope) anywhere in the world where a good high energy rock show is appreciated.************************************************ ************************************************************ ********************Con su anterior disco (Rocks my little world, Rock Indiana 2004) Biscuit dejaron claro que su discurso era algo a tener en cuenta. Sus impecables a la vez que incendirarios conciertos también lo decían a gritos: no estamos ante una banda cualquiera, aquí hay mucho talento, mucha magia. Pero es con este magnífico tercer disco (de nuevo para Rock Indiana, y que No Tomorrow tiene el honor de poner en circulación en su versión vinilo) donde el mensaje se ha hecho inapelable. Biscuit son muy grandes.Partiendo de los ingredientes más nobles del rock, lease beat, garage, folk-rock y psicodelia de raigambre 60s, hard-rock y algo de rocknroll clásico, soul y R&B, Biscuit confeccionan canciones que desafían ser etiquetadas. Canciones exquisitas no solo en la forma, sino también en el fondo, canciones que crecen a cada escucha.Sin aparente esfuerzo, consiguen conjugar melodías muy elaboradas (que van del pop más brumoso y meláncolico al más luminoso y vacilón) y de profundo calado con guitarras que son pura esencia rocanrolera. Arreglos y harmonías vocales son tratados con una exquisitez propia de maestros y la interpretación, elegante, apasionada y llena de matices (igual suenan reflexivos y tiernos como luego juerguistas y lujuriosos, cabreados, desesperados y desorientados pero también esperanzados y agradecidos) acaba por atraparte y sumergirte un disco que acaba siendo más que una (ya de por sí formidable) colección de canciones. Magnífico. Piérdetelo bajo tu propia responsabilidad. [www.notomorrow.com]

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.. Biscuit en directo en el Cultura Pop (Madrid, 19/04/08)