I reviewed this album for a mates magazine (www.surfinglife.com.au) which should come out in a month or so. I have around several hundred favourite bands, so I have to put them into categories. These kids have long held the title of Favourite Alt-Rock band of all time. Here's the review I wrote (pre-edit) for the mag:
In recent years it has become the wont for surf movies to be drowning in electro and hip hop. I for one have no problem with that,though it is at high risk of becoming played out. So if you need to inject a little rock back into your pre-surf psych up, here's the perfect remedy ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are back with a new EP that rocks as hard as you can possibly rock without being a metal band.
I don't usually like throwing around the term 'genius', but when these four dudes from the musical mine-field that is Austin,TX (responsible for other game-changing bands like Spoon and Okkervil River) pool their grey matter, there's a waterfall of fucking alt-rock brilliance that is unparralleled. When it comes to poetic, volitional lyrics and arrangement, originality and pure intensity of sound, ...Trail of Dead cannot be matched.
When there's music like this kicking around it makes one wonder, what's wrong with the world when there's dead-set retards like Ke$ha and Nickelback getting filthy-rich and while these guys remain relatively unknown.
"Tao Of The Dead: Part I" begins with a intro that's a somewhat slower, more instrumental affair, softening you up before they slug you with ten bruisers that'll thump you back to school. Rounding out the EP with "Tao Of The Dead: Part II", a 5-song combination-knock-out-epic. I believe, nay, guarantee that this will be the best rock album you will hear in for several years to come.
Disclaimer: Listening to tis album may result spontanious brain implosions and cause cranial fluids ooze from your eye sockets.
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