Band : Dananananaykroyd
Album : Hey Everyone!
Release Year : 2009
Genre : Post-Hardcore / Indie / Experimental
Release Year : 2009
Genre : Post-Hardcore / Indie / Experimental
Tracklist :
1. Hey Everyone
2. Watch This
3. The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash
4. Black Wax
5. Totally Bone
6. Pink Sabbath
7. Infinity Milk
8. One Chance
9. Some Dresses
10. 1993
11. Hey James
12. Song One Puzzle
2. Watch This
3. The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash
4. Black Wax
5. Totally Bone
6. Pink Sabbath
7. Infinity Milk
8. One Chance
9. Some Dresses
10. 1993
11. Hey James
12. Song One Puzzle
Dananananaykroyd are a Glasgow six-piece indie band who the music press have labeled 'fight-pop' (no, I’m not sure what that means either) and Hey Everyone! is their debut album. The band feature two drummers – shades of the Fall, anyone? – and this gives them a lot of punch (no pun intended) behind their lively, yet fairly heavy maelstrom.
Indeed, while their surface sound is unscrubbed indie-punk this band have obviously listened to more than their fair share of metal as Watch This! builds into a heavy riffing slice of Scottish Sabbath. The band openly acknowledge this influence on the track Pink Sabbath, although this finds them sounding more like early U2 than Ozzy and Co.
Hey Everyone! is spit 'n' sawdust stuff, music made for the moshpit. It's full of energy and good humour: a real sense of teenage lust and excitement pumps through every song. But beyond that, it's pretty tiring. There's never any letup from the frantic, Red Bull and amphetamine buzz which is reflected in their stuttering (and questionable) moniker.
What Hey Everyone! demonstrates is that Danananaykroyd have a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm while they are yet to develop a truly distinctive sound of their own. They're noisy fun and probably great live – there's a sense of them rushing towards a car crash of sound – but Calum Gunn's thin voice combined with their crash-bang style is too unvaried across twelve songs. In the end they're certain to be popular with fifteen-year olds who value energy over imagination, chaos over craft.
Indeed, while their surface sound is unscrubbed indie-punk this band have obviously listened to more than their fair share of metal as Watch This! builds into a heavy riffing slice of Scottish Sabbath. The band openly acknowledge this influence on the track Pink Sabbath, although this finds them sounding more like early U2 than Ozzy and Co.
Hey Everyone! is spit 'n' sawdust stuff, music made for the moshpit. It's full of energy and good humour: a real sense of teenage lust and excitement pumps through every song. But beyond that, it's pretty tiring. There's never any letup from the frantic, Red Bull and amphetamine buzz which is reflected in their stuttering (and questionable) moniker.
What Hey Everyone! demonstrates is that Danananaykroyd have a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm while they are yet to develop a truly distinctive sound of their own. They're noisy fun and probably great live – there's a sense of them rushing towards a car crash of sound – but Calum Gunn's thin voice combined with their crash-bang style is too unvaried across twelve songs. In the end they're certain to be popular with fifteen-year olds who value energy over imagination, chaos over craft.
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