Posted on 28 August 2012 by The Bucket Editorial
Andy McCallum
It’s Sunday morning, and you’re confronted with the morning sun across your face. You can barely muster the energy to roll out of bed, and you’ll be damned if you’re leaving the house. With what little energy you have you throw on a record, and before long you’re dancing and grooving all over the house without a care. If this is you on a Sunday morning, then Saskwatch may just be your new favourite band. The perfect marriage of laid-back vibes, bustling movement and emotional resonance, Leave It All Behind embodies the spirit of the weekend.
A nine-piece ensemble emerging from the local Melbourne scene, Saskwatch are a soul and R&B band taking cues from the classics and reinvigorating the genre with modern sensibilities. Smooth melodies, funky rhythms and a carefree jam atmosphere define their debut LP. While Saskwatch don’t make much headway in innovation of the genre, their song writing is tight and their execution is flawless as they flow through the various facets of their sound.
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Posted on 19 March 2012 by The Bucket Editorial
By: Peter Sergi
Why do I find myself unable to change the CD in my car? How is it that I can listen to something that consists of nothing but bass dropping and ear-bleeding anger and not have the slightest urge to change the compact-disc?I must say that as a lover of music, I find myself in a moral dilemma, in which I can enjoy what sounds like the most frightening acid trip anyone could ever experience. Of course, I am talking about the latest SKRILLEX album Bangarang.
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Posted on 19 March 2012 by The Bucket Editorial
By: Sam Hamza
Far from gold chains, hydraulics on a Chevy and a Jericho stuffed down the front crotch; Wisconsin rapper Milo spurns the rapper archetype. After creating an underground buzz, and a cult following of sorts after his 2011 release I wish my brother Rob was here, the 19 old year old wordsmith has just dropped his sophomore mix tape Milo Takes Baths. The tape features the ambient and lugubrious beats from producer Baths, which Milo seemingly effortlessly raps over in a distinct and peerless way that sees the rapper create a type of beat-poetry.
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Posted on 19 March 2012 by The Bucket Editorial
By: Dave Macindoe
Like many great bands, such as Led Zeppelin, Black Lips have created a new sub-genre to describe their very unique sound. “Flower Punk,” as they put it, sounds like what would happen if the Beach Boys existed in the 21st Century and grew up listening to Judas Priests. Black Lips most recent album, Arabia Mountain, is a quirky mix of short upbeat tunes with a few ballads mixed in for good measure. This album fittingly deals with some subject matter as strange as the band that produced it, including a song about Peter Parker’s troubles with child molestation before he became Spiderman. Another song that showcases the creativity of this group is “Mad Dog”, which is simultaneously about the history of back-tracking (hiding messages in songs that can be heard when they are played backwards) while having the lyrics of Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R” when played in reverse. The band chose one of Ke$ha’s pop songs for reasons so obvious I won’t patronise you by outlining them here.
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It’s Sunday morning, and you’re confronted with the morning sun across your face. You can barely muster the energy to roll out of bed, and you’ll be damned if you’re leaving the house. With what little energy you have you throw on a record, and before long you’re dancing and grooving all over the house without a care. If this is you on a Sunday morning, then Saskwatch may just be your new favourite band. The perfect marriage of laid-back vibes, bustling movement and emotional resonance, Leave It All Behind embodies the spirit of the weekend.
