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Lo-fi indie rock from Brasil, in the vein of Guided by Voices or Dinosaur Jr.
Watch the official video for the track “Home”, free download after the jump!<\/p>\n
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For Top Surprise, it\u2019s as if the world began in the 80\u2019s. That\u2019s when the band members were born, and when guitars reached unbearable volumes. Therefore, names like J. Mascis and Thurston Moore somehow represent the big bang that would result in the sound of the four-piece from the boring Juiz de Fora, in Brazil\u2019s southeastern state of Minas Gerais. Another big influence, Guided by Voices\u2019 lo-fi recordings were a stronger D.I.Y. message for the X and Y generations (yes, that\u2019s where we are right now) than the messages that came before. But Top Surprise knows homemade noises, though wonderful, doesn\u2019t float everyone\u2019s boat; so they pack their songs with pop melodies that would certainly leave Phil Spector either proud or deaf.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Everything Must Go, Top Surprise\u2019s debut, was produced by Le Almeida (Colora\u00e7\u00e3o Desbotada) and Paulo Casaes (Fujimo) during two drunken days at brothers Andre and Daniel\u2019s apartment. Vocals were recorded in the bathroom, guitars in the living room and drums in dad\u2019s bedroom, to the neighbors\u2019 despair. The results sound as strong as any recent \u201cshitgaze\u201d record you\u2019ve heard \u2014 but with a subtlety only someone who worked as a telephone operator could conceive. Hysterical guitars and joggly drums explode into the songwriting, with female backing vocals resembling bees inside the speaker. From the obvious admiration of American college rock to hints of post-punk, the EP ends with a folk-tinged incursion into Jeff Mangum\/Elliott Smith territory. Proof that even the syncretic \u201cgeneration Y\u201d is capable of tender moments \u2014 albeit amid chaos.<\/em><\/p>\n free download, courtesy of Pug Records<\/a> Lo-fi indie rock from Brasil, in the vein of Guided by Voices or Dinosaur Jr.Watch the official video for the track “Home”, free download after the jump! For Top Surprise, it\u2019s as if the world began in the 80\u2019s. That\u2019s when the band members were born, and when guitars reached unbearable volumes. Therefore, names like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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