Wes’s Life

This is mostly an excuse to show you some awe­some album art, but also this album is awe­some. I’ve only heard a few songs, but I can say that this album will keep a space in my rota­tion for a while. It’s new and clas­sic all at the same time and brings a nice change of pace to my stag­nant library.

I have found the per­fect gate­way drug into the world of psy­chobilly, an inter­est­ing stand­off in the punk world. The psy­chobilly com­mu­nity decided early on that they would avoid all things polit­i­cal to avoid the prob­lems that plagued the polit­i­cally charged punk world. Also, they found one common theme to unite around: cheesy horror movies. The sound of psy­chobilly is also very dif­fer­ent from what you might expect, they include the stand­ing bass from the genre that formed their name: rock­a­billy.

After that little intro­duc­tion to the genre, let me tell you about The Pea­cocks, a Swedish psy­chobilly band. I ran­domly picked up their album when I saw it was get­ting pop­u­lar and quickly found out why. They manage to stay true to the sound of psy­chobilly with­out alien­at­ing new lis­ten­ers to the genre. The sound is pure bliss to my ears and just seems happy and ener­getic. This will def­i­nitely end up in my CD player for the summer as it just has that qual­ity to it that screams summer. They have a few tracks up on their web­site, so I’d give them a listen as the sound isn’t for every­one.

The Pea­cocks

Great­est Hits & Misses

It’s kinda rare that I find a band that makes me jump upon hear­ing one song. I’m so jaded by the con­stant bat­ter­ing unleashed upon me by media con­glom­er­ates and radio sta­tion glit­terati. So I was kind of sur­prised when I saw Tran­si­tions on 3hive. I didn’t know quite what to expect from them, yet at the same time Hell­cat records has a pretty good track record. So, I gave the one song they have up a listen. A few sec­onds through, I knew that this band had some­thing that I am always look­ing for: the sound that makes you happy.

Their music isn’t the same crap you hear on the radio on your drive home. It’s the music that makes you smile and gets your toes tap­ping. So if you are having a bummer of a day, hop on over to the 3hive page and listen to the song they have up, you’ll smile.

So, I think its kinda obvi­ous I have a music prob­lem. I listen to way to much and love lis­ten­ing to ever­thing I can get my hands on, bar­ring rap and emo. Every now and again there comes a song (not an artist or album) that I love so much it gets played over and over again. Hope­fully its not just because the radio plays it or that it has some crazy hooks in it that keep me coming back for the killer guitar riff, even though that has hap­pend.

This time it’s Quantic’s Mishaps Hap­pen­ing. Just wow, the song reminds me of summer, vaca­tion and beaches. A won­der­ful little song when my car is becom­ing cov­ered in ice and I have to wear a wool coat, a scarf (that my sister knit for me, she’s awe­some) and my leather gloves (that my amaz­ing girl­friend bought for me). Maybe, I’ll keep adding songs that remind me of summer, would be nice to think about…

Mishaps Hap­pen­ing

When I first got this album I was pretty unin­ter­ested in any­thing but “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” (which is arguably one of the better songs). How­ever, some­times the mood strikes me to try again. So, I started to listen to the song again and was pleas­antly sur­prised by the qual­ity of the songs on this album. Sure, they have the cur­rent “Alter­na­tive” sound going on, but at the same time, some of the songs have very Beatle-​esque sounds, such as “Bring It On Back”. Grab it and give it another shot.

Shine On