Tag: Bill Keough
Bill Keough ‘The Slow Get Up’ review at The Noise
Drone-y and kinda minimal post-punk with an almost Krautrocky tidiness to the beat. It’s pretty audacious to open up with a song as repetitive as “I Know Where You’ve Been,” but Keough actually cracks the mold halfway through for a ripping guitar solo and some snotty, corrosive vox. And that’s the trick, here. You think it’s one thing, and then it’s something else entirely. “Self Doubt” has the ’80s indie-roar of Husker Du, “3:32 AM” is pure Pixies, “Back to Punk Rock” has the ragged beat and space-acid guitar of Chrome, etc. Something new around every corner, anchored by Keough’s mopey, Black Planet sensibility. “Deliver the Goods” is the killer of the bunch, though. It sounds like somebody hit Marc Bolan in the head with a frying pan seconds before T Rex hit the stage but he played the gig anyway, blood dripping through his corkscrew hair. I didn’t expect much, given the cover – it’s a dude’s hand, that’s it – but I got plenty. This dude knows what’s up.
Bill Keough ‘I Know Where You’ve Been’ video
Bill Keough’s ‘The Slow Get Up’ review in Motif Magazine
Longtime local music scene fixture Bill Keough has finally recorded his solo debut album, The Slow Get Up, and it proves to be worth the wait. I can’t even put my figure on why I enjoy it more than his work with Galvanize (which I enjoy as well,) but it’s like Keough just nailed it here. The general vibe of the record is late ’80s – early ’90s underground rock, which is not to be mistaken as saying ‘grunge’. Tunes “Self Doubt” is closer to Nada Surf than Nirvana. “I Know Where You’ve Been” reminds me of early Silkworm. “Tough Physics” reminds me of early Queens of The Stone Age. Throw in a great cover of PJ Harvey’s “Victory,” and The Slow Get Up makes for a hell of a kick ass record.
Bill Keough – The Slow Get Up
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Track Listing
1. I Know Where You’ve Been (video)
2. Self Doubt
3. 3:32 AM
4. Back to the Punk Rock
5. Deliver the Goods
6. Lean
7. Tough Physics
8. This Concerns me
9. Hit and Run Machine
10. Victory
11. Continuous Reasons to Continue
a bastard child of PJ Harvey and Bob Mould…a darker, sketchier Frank Black…inside your head vocals and cross-hatched riffs…angst riddled, heartfelt, a bed of nails sprinkled with flowers…life related via blindfolded kisses and aimless hugs…burrow down deep to the center of the songs and stay awhile…
Credits
Bill Keough – Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards
Dave McCaffrey – Bass
Daniel Ulmschneider – Drums
featuring
Mark Cuter – lead guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
Kate Conroy – violin, backing vocals
Tom Buckland – backing vocals
Kraig Jordan – guitar, keyboards
Produced, engineered, and mastered by Kraig Jordan.
All songs written by Bill Keough except ‘Victory’ by PJ Harvey.