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The Dead C — Armed Courage (2013)

 The Dead C — Armed Courage (2013)

The Dead C — Armed Courage
♦   Some of noise rock's chief architects, featuring primitive experimental rock stylings and cerebral conceptualism.
Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
Album release: September 3, 2013
Record Label: BA DA BING
Duration:     46:24
Tracks:
1. Armed     22:19
2. Courage     24:05
♦   The Dead C, New Zealand’s most legendary rock troopers bowl out an incendiary session on Armed Courage — their first new album proper in three years. Following their split with Randga, Michael Morley, Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats flex some well-detuned muscle over two headstrong side-long sloggers that reaffirms every gush you’ve read in The Wire and justifies their legion of die-hard followers. A-side ‘Armed’ is a combatant 22 minutes of turbulent percussive roil and amorphous feedback sculpture careening, lunging and squeezing every last bit of No Wave energy from their instruments with impeccable intuition.
♦   B-side ‘Courage’ is the polar inverse, far more linear and effectively melodic; from primordial genesis of coaxed feedback and hushed vocal they lock to a mucky kraut momentum seared with bone-ache guitar for the first half before devolving into quieter astral depth projections licked out with plumes of psych-y fuzz and metallic drum zing with a beautifully untrained but august command of their ur-ritual invocation. The seas are deeper and the night skies are brighter in New Zealand.
Recommended. (http://boomkat.com/downloads/795143-the-dead-c-armed-courage)
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Artist Biography by Steve Huey
♦   Forerunners of post-rock and the modern-day revival of space rock, the Dead C are an improvisational, hugely prolific noise rock trio indebted to Sonic Youth (whose Thurston Moore is an avowed fan), as well as Krautrock and psychedelia. Challenging and mostly instrumental, they have been a definite anomaly on the New Zealand scene, which was still known primarily for the jangly collegiate pop associated with the Flying Nun label when the band first emerged in the late ‘80s. Perhaps in part for that reason, the Dead C didn't attract much of a fan base in their home country; their audience was mostly international, developed initially through fanzine culture and word of mouth.
They did, however, help spark a more experimental music scene around their native Dunedin, which was centered around bassist Bruce Russell's Xpressway label and boosted the careers of musicians like Alistair Galbraith and Peter Jefferies. They have also influenced a broad range of bands, from the ambient post-rock of Flying Saucer Attack and Labradford to the neo-psychedelia of Bardo Pond to lo-fi indie rockers like Pavement and Sebadoh. the Dead C's own music holds elements of all those styles, and has remained essentially the same for most of the band's life: murky, hazy, loosely structured drone rock, enveloped in a thick crust of avowedly low-fidelity guitar noise, and often warped with tape manipulations or studio treatments. Consistent almost to a fault, their catalog is generally very much of a piece, with minor variations here and there; this, combined with size and scarcity of their oeuvre, could make finding entry difficult, but experimental rock enthusiasts have often found the rewards worth pursuing.
♦   The Dead C were formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1987, with a lineup of guitarist/occasional vocalist Michael Morley (a one-time member of the evocatively named Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos), bassist and Xpressway label head Bruce Russell, and drummer Robbie Yeats (formerly of the well-liked Kiwi pop band the Verlaines). In keeping with the early format of Xpressway and Morley's own Precious Metal imprint, their earliest releases were only available on limited-run cassettes, but they also hooked up with Flying Nun in 1988 to issue their first LP, DR503 (which was retitled DR503b and DR503c for later reissues). A second Flying Nun LP, Eusa Kills, appeared in 1989 and featured a bizarre cover of T. Rex's "Children of the Revolution."
♦   Eusa Kills/Helen Said Thisthe Dead C next forged a relationship with the Philadelphia-based indie Siltbreeze, which would issue the majority of their output during the ‘90s. The first was 1990's Helen Said This, which was later reissued on CD as part of a two-fer with the formerly cassette-only Trapdoor Fucking Exit (the latter's title was used for the CD). Released in 1992, the double-LP set Harsh ‘70s Reality is regarded by most as a high point -- perhaps the high point — of the band's career, ranging from relatively concise songs to the side-long jam "Driver U.F.O." In its wake, Morley and Russell both launched side projects -- Gate and A Handful of Dust, respectively — that allowed them to pursue even more esoteric avenues. A flood of Dead C material followed between 1993-1994 as well: the improvisational The Operation of the Sonne, the outtakes/archival collection, World Peace Hope Et Al (on the British label Shock), the live album Clyma Est Mort, and a collaborative EP with Sebadoh.
♦   White Housethe Dead C hit another creative high point with 1995's The White House, a fan favorite that brought a touch more structure to the group's usually free-form compositions. The live album Repent followed in 1996, while the next year's Tusk — titled ironically after the Fleetwood Mac album — proved to be their last effort for Siltbreeze. It also marked the end of their most prolific period, as the band subsequently spent an astonishing (for them) three years off record. They weren't inactive, though; when they finally returned in 2000, it was with an eponymously titled double-CD release of sessions conducted from 1995-1999. The Dead C was released on the group's new Language Recordings label, which allowed the bandmembers greater financial control. Their second Language album, 2002's New Electric Music, was the most electronically oriented item in their by-then-large discography to date. Issued in 2003, The Damned found a more widespread American release via the Starlight Furniture label. The band’s next two albums were released by Ba Da Bing: Future Artists in 2007 and Secret Earth in 2008; these were followed by the Clyma Est Mort/Tentative Power collection in 2010, as well as the albums Patience and Plays Mick Harris.
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