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Thread #122892   Message #2724830
Posted By: Amos
16-Sep-09 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: Occasional Musical News
Subject: RE: Occasional Musical News
I had never realized there WAS a band with such a name, but it seems HOLY F**K played at San Diego's Street Scene earlier this month. Herewith a review:


By DERRIK CHINN
SIGNONSANDIEGO STAFF WRITER




Purists in the sense of pre-Powerbook experimentalism, Toronto's Holy Fuck creates its lo-fi electronic rock using a roster of instruments that's entirely analog. Anything goes, really, as long as it's not a laptop. The goal? Craft modern electronica without using modern equipment. Visually, it translates to yards of chords and wires spilling out of a fleet of knobbed switchboards that most viewers under the age of 18 have probably never seen before. Audibly, it's an instrumental odyssey through (insert favorite 1980s Nintendo adventure game here … Contra, Mega-Man, Metroid). The Canadian foursome has been around since 2004 and has two albums in the bag: the 2005 self-titled debut and 2007's "LP."