Sunday 14 August 2016

Brown Sugar – Luvly - 7″.

Brown Sugar – Luvly - 7″.
Brown Sugar black vinyl limited to 420 copies and a one time press limited to 60 copies only worldwide on maroon/magenta vinyl on the great, long defunct Cowabunga Record label - Available athttp://blitzrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://youtu.be/H3ihelss2T0
From the first moment I heard this band I was a believer. Being truly creative in a horribly uncreative scene is something to be applauded. Then again maybe all you need is to be from Buffalo, New York and it just comes to you naturally? Whether or not it’s in the water isn’t important, what I’m focusing on is that Brown Sugar shreds like no other band. One thing that separates them from their contemporaries is solid talent and their ability to know when to say when. Brown Sugar songs aren’t overly complicated (as if they are trying too hard), but they are more complicated than the average punk song. They don’t appear to be pandering to a specific trendy sound, they just happen to appreciate some of the finer aspects of recording punk music. The Luvly single has surely surpassed the other singles, splits, and the LP, in that they have grown and embraced some more diverse musical elements. I mean there are harmonies for fuck’s sake! And… I don’t even hate them! (I love harmonies, just not in unexpected places -Ed.) Instrumentally things build and plateau then build some more before falling apart. Songs go from intense and driving to suddenly light and airy. It really is a strange thing to hear from the same band who previously wrote straight forward ripper’s like “Brown Eyed Girl / Copper Helicopter.” - thanx to Just A Visual.
A1 Candy
A2 Alpha & Omega
B1 Easy Ridah
B2 Choir Boy

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